Missions

 

The Church of the Nazarene has been involved in missions from its beginning.  The vision of LVCN and Nazarene Missions International is to mobilize the church in mission through prayer, education, giving, and interactive experiences.  In addition to serving on a Missions Team, other ways to get involved include:  Alabaster, Faith Promise Giving, LINKS, and Work & Witness Trips.  For more information regarding any of these areas, please email our Missions Team Leader, Grace Sheetz.

Alabaster Offering

The Alabaster Offering provides funds for property and buildings around the world.  Alabaster Funds provide land for most Work & Witness projects.  The entire offering goes to construct churches, schools, medical facilities, and homes for missionaries and pastors. 

Faith Promise Giving

The Church of the Nazarene acknowledges that Faith Promise giving is a biblical method used by many local churches for raising financial support for world evangelization. For our denomination, it is dedicated specifically to the mission support of the Church of the Nazarene through various offerings promoted by Nazarene Missions International (NMI).

Faith Promise is separate from a tithe and/or special mission offerings. 

LINKS

LINKS stands for 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 their field of service.  Typically, churches send packages, cash, cards, and other remembrances to their LINKS missionaries.

Our LINKS missionaries are:

Rod & Sarah Reed, Kenya

Rolf & Debbie Kleinfeld, Thailand

Karen Van Gilder, MIssionary Intern, Poland

Kent & Kathleen Pelton, Cambodia

Work & Witness Projects

The Church of the Nazarene offers many opportunities for volunteering. In fact, the Church of the Nazarene is the second-largest of all the volunteer sending agencies in the United States. Thousands of people of all ages volunteer their time and talents for missions around the world. Work & Witness projects are opportunities for all ages to provide construction, evangelism, medical work, office work, or other services needed in a world mission area.  The time commitment is approximately two weeks.