Nazarene Missions International focuses on five strategic areas where the local church can have maximum impact on missions in the Church of the Nazarene.
The first is Prayer. NMI gathers believers together for prayer in the local church, linking us to our brothers and sisters in the Christ across the globe. Remember your missionaries throughout the year in prayer. Many are often facing troubled times in the places in which they serve. They seek to be peacemakers and agents of transformation. They need your support through intercession. Click here to view all of our missionary profile pages.
The second is World Evangelism Fund, which fuels the Church of the Nazarene's mission by combining gifts from each person and church to fund ministries everywhere. Every church is asked to share a portion of its total income for the purpose of making Christlike disciples in the nations. When you give, the money comes to the General Treasurer's Office, where the funds are distributed to six world regions, missionaries, and ministries around the globe. The World Evangelism Fund not only provides ministries on the ground with the monies they need, but the money is used to ensure that legal, federal, and support needs are met so that ministries are as safe as possible and can be sustained for years to come.
Through the Alabaster Offering, the third emphasis, ministries around the world receive funds to purchase property and buildings. Alabaster is a special offering collected twice each year - in February and September - during morning worship services. 100% of the offering is used to provide funds for property and buildings around the world. Many save up their change (but people can also write checks!) to donate on these special Sundays. Learn more about Alabaster and review resources to share with your church in Sunday services, via social media, and in other ways.
The fourth is to Engage Children and Youth through education and fostering calls to missions. NMI encourages every church, every district to be intentional and encourage and engage every child, every youth in the mission og God in your community and around the world. NMI continues to encourage churches to involve children and youth in all missions endeavors and to nurture them as they seek to respond to God's call. We encourage collaboration with Nazarene Youth International and Nazarene Discipleship International to best engage all ages of the church. We believe nurturing and leadership development is best done in the local church and individualized to the needs of each person.
Care & Connection is the last area of emphasis, which strategically connects Nazarene missionaries and Nazarene churches through prayer, personal contact, and generous giving. a LINKS relationship cultivates a sense of involvement with Nazarene Missions through regular correspondence to and from missionaries, updates from their field of service, and presentations by LINK missionaries when they are on home assignment. Your prayers, letters, gifts, and connection to our district-assigned missionaries will make a huge different in encouraging them and the people they are reaching in the mission field! We are assigned district LINKS missionaries for a year. This year's missionares are as noted blow.