Church of the Nazarene in the Philippines

“It’s Fun!”  “It’s nice to translate.”  “I really like translating” were phrases bouncing around the inside of Nazareth Hall with the noise of laughter, clicking cups of coffee and clicking keyboards.    Nearly 20 people had gathered to translate the Manual of the Church of the Nazarene into four and hopefully five different languages.    Using a new web based tool designed by World Mission Communications, the groups were quickly working through the material.   Laptops and projectors helped with the collaboration.

The Morning swarmed with technical people getting things set up.  Cables, cords and routers were installed.   Initial training was done and soon the teams were hard at work.   A few more technical glitches smoothed out and the words began to fly onto the website.

Hopefully we will have the translations completed by this Friday.  Pray for us!

Talisay Church of the Nazarene in Balangkayan Eastern Samar has recently been granted by the General Church through Alabaster Fund a One hundred and thirty thousand pesos as 50% counterpart of their church building total cost.

(Left) The old church building during their last year’s church anniversary. Church members helped build this temporary building for the said event (more…)

ORMOC CITY July, 2008 – Ormoc City Church of the Nazarene sent the most number of college students to the Visayan Nazarene Bible College, as compared with the other local churches on the East Visayas District.

Five new graduates from Valencia National high school are now Freshmen at Visayan Nazarene Bible College. (more…)

In November of 2006, fourteen pastors traveled from the Eastern Visayas District (EVD, Leyte-Samar Islands) on their way to Davao, Mindanao, Philippines to conduct an Encounter with God seminar in cooperation with Korean National District.   Rev. Timothy Kim, Rev. Jun Suyat and Pastor Jun Semilla from the Metro Manila District also went to team teach with the team coming from EVD.

Rev. Erene Pastor, Mindanao East District Superintendent, said as he gave his closing remark, “the just concluded activities are indeed a prototype of the Macedonian Call in the book of Acts when Paul and his team come over to Macedonia to help. (more…)

“Even if I fail in my class because of my absences due to coming here to attend the Centennial celebration, it will be alright because the school and my classes will always be there for me but to celebrate the 100 years of the church will pass only once in my life time”

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