Missions
Nazarene Missions International -NMI
PRESIDENT - Vicki Jones
NMI Council 2008-2009
Officers Members
President - Vicki Jones Judith Nordlinger
Vice-President - Nancy Scott Larry Dye
Treasurer - Gail Escobar
Secretary - Deb Garrison
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MONTHLY EMPHASIS
January ............................................................... Volunteer Ministries
March ............................................................... Faith Promise Offering
April ......................................................................... Gobal Awareness
May .......................................................................... Health Care Plan
June .............................................................. World Mission Broadcast
July ............................................... Int'l Bible Schools and Seminaries
August ................................................................ LINKS Missionaries
September ............................................................. Alabaster Offering
October .............................................................. Mission Priority One
November ........................................................ Thanksgiving Offering
December ................................................... Compassionate Ministries
Nazarene Missions International
phone - 816-999-7000, ext. 2350
E-mail- nmi@nazarene.org
Web Site - www.nazarenemissions.org
HEALTH CARE PLAN
DID YOU KNOW?....North American helath insurance companies will not insure people living overseas? The Church of the Nazarene must therefore pay ALL the medical expenses related to its missionaries.
Those expenses total aproximatley $2.9 million each year.
The cost of keeping missionaries healthy so they can do their jobs is quite high, and the cost continues to rise. To help defray those costs, the Nazarene Missions International developed the NMI Medical Plan.
The medical plan is an opportunity to help with the helath care costs of Nazarene missionaries. MIssionaries can focus on their work without raising funds to pay for medical care. The money comes from honoring people with Distinguished Service Awards, Memorial Rolls, Gifts from the Heart, or Medical Plan Oferings.
Memorial Roll Certificates are given in honor of deceased friends and lovesones by contributing to the medical needs of our missionaries.
Distinguished Service Awards are given as a tribute to those who areliving and serving the Lord thourgh the church.
Gifts From The Heart may be presented to honor someone on an anniversary, Birthday, promotion, retirement, graduation or arrival of a new baby.
Won't you help our missionaries as they offer help and health to our hurting wourld?
ALABASTER OFFERINGThe Alabaster Offering provides funds for proberty and buidings around the world. It gives a sense of performance, the attitude that the Church of the Nazarene intends to "put down roots." Eighty percent of the money is used in world mission areas, and twenty percent goes to multicultural congregations in teh United States and Canada. Alabaster funds help provide land for most Work & Witness projects. It funds 4 projects each week.
The entire offering goes toward the construction of
churches schools, medical facilities and homes
for missionaries and national workers.
WORLD MISSION BROADCAST
Join us as we take the Gospel to the world through radio, television and internet programs. On the air since 1951, World Mission Broadcast (WMB) reaches even the remotest parts of the world, with words of hope and holiness... and lives are changed.
It cost to support one minute of WMB airtime is $4.00. That's right , $4.00 to air one minute of the Gospel somewhere in the world. How many minutes will you support this year?
As of March 7, 2005, World Mission Broadcast reaching the unreached in:
80 Countries
35 Languages
79 Programs
1,142 Broadcasts
Your participation is needed to reach the unreached through World Mission Broadcast. In addition to the offering, prayer support of individuals and local churches is vital to this broadcast ministry. While NMI promotes the World Mission Broadcast Offering for June of each year, contributions may be made at any time.
COMPASSIONATE MINISTRIES
The first Sunday in December is Compassion Sunday in the Church of the Nazarene. The Nazarene Compassionate Ministries offers encouragement through prayer support, information, Crisis Care Kits, and hands-on opportunities.
Following the example of Jesus, we seek to educate, clothe, shelter, feed, heal, and ultimately empower those who suffer under opperssion, injustice, violence, poverty, hunger, and disease. Because NCM exists in and through the Church, we are able to address spiritual concerns alongside physical needs. Our ministries are holistic - addressing the whole person - and sustainable - addressing immediate needs while securing a hopeful future for individuals and their communities.
Donations to NCM are investments in the hope and future that Jesus offers the poor and suffering in our world. We can dream as big as the church will allow, through its continued prayers and financial support. We depend entirely upon God to meet our financial needs through churches and individuals. Your gifts help weave compassion into the fabric of our church around the world.
LINKS
Loving, Interested, Nazarenes, Knowing and Sharing
The LINKS program of the Church of the Nazarene is a network of personal connections between missionaries and Nazarenes around the world. Missionaries are assigned to districts and, then on the district level, connected to local churches. This gives each church an opportunity to become personally acquainted with the missionary family and thier field of service. Typically, churches send packages, cash gifts, cards, and other remembrances to their LINKS missionaries
In return, the churches feel a sense of involvement with the World Mission Enterprise of the church through regular correspondence from the missionaries, updates from their field, and even through deputation services while the missionaries are on furlough. The missionaries are encouraged knowing people care and pray for them. The relationships built over time personalize names and faces that both the missionaries and their LINKS churches value highly.
Ask your local NMI president who your LINKS missionaries are.
Write your LINKS missionaries and assure them of your prayers,
asking for personal requests.Send remembrances for special days like birthdays, anniversaries, and holidays, but remember, surface
mail takes quite a while to arrive in some locations, so plan accordingly.
Children and youth find it especially meaningful to become personally acquainted with a missionary or a missionary's child. Encourage young people to send cards, small gifts, pictures, videos, and audiocassettes to your church's LINKS missionaries.
Creative Access Area
Our New Links Missionary
If you would like to write to you can contact the Church of the Nazarene
for the address
" The Lord is my rock, and my fortress, and my deliverer;
my God, my strength, in whom I will trust...."
PSALM 18:2