From the Field

Ridgeview Church of the Nazarene hails from Bakersfield, CA.  We started working with Pastor Daren and his church while we were serving in the Philippines.  We were so excited when the contacted us about bringing a team to Honduras.  We talked about a couple of options for projects sites, but one project really stood out to me… Boquerón.  Boquerón is a small community in the department (like a State in the US) of Olancho.  Olanch is the largest department in Honduras, but the church of the Nazarene only has a handful of churches in it.
Source: Ridgeview @ Boquerón from Courtneys

Pst. Patricia leads our first church in Nosy BeWe have long had a church building and a congregation in Nosy Be. In recent years, they have expanded to having a second congregation and then a third. Now, as of last week, there is now a 4th congregation in Nosy Be, all led by women!Last week, an evangelism team of over 60 laypeople and pastors traveled by bus to the very north of the island to Nosy Be, which is another small island off of this larger island. The plan was to help the churches in Nosy Be to reach out to their community and to meet people, share the Gospel and then to also utilize the skills of our evangelism teams which are trained in dramas, leading people to Christ, preaching, and sharing the Gospel with their peers. Apparently, this was very effective. Neither Ronald nor myself went along on the trip, but here is a short report back from Pastor Richard and his wife, Therese, Ravelomonantsoa, our District Superintendent:Stephane, holding the poster, is also one of our scholarship recipients “We praise God because He helped us accomplished the Evangelism thrust in Nosy Be. We could start a new church in Daresalama. You will see some of the team were doing. We could avenglize 172 people and 127 received Jesus. It was amazing how Jesus has worked, some people healed, some delivered and a lot saved. At this moment, our last team in south west in Morondava arrived home. Thanks…
Source: Evangelism to Nosy Be from Ronald & Shelly Miller

A school where many street kids goDepending on your hemisphere, it is winter! Here in the south, we are in the middle of winter, and that generally translates into gloriously sunny, warm days (jeans and t-shirt) and very cool nights (wooly pj’s). It’s a lovely time of the year here in Madagascar. It’s dry season, so the dirt and dust blows constantly on the constant wind (think Oklahoma wind), but the temperatures cannot be beat! It was a bit chilly about 2 weeks ago, but now it is truly glorious.We have been busy this winter. In mid-May we had a team from Point Loma Nazarene University here. They do LoveWorks teams to various parts of the world every summer. This year, we received a team. These teams are no strangers to Africa, but this is the first LoveWorks Team that we have had here in Madagascar. They were focusing heavily on the theme of human trafficking, helping us to identify ways we can help here in Madagascar and also visiting one of our high-traffic areas (Nosy Be). The team did a great job while they were here, and I think they had a rather life-altering experience, too :).Two girls at the CenterIn June, we had an audit, which the Church of the Nazarene regularly conducts. For 4 days we hosted Mr. David Allen, the CPA and gentleman who is our finance coordinator for the Africa Region. He has a terrible job–keeping tabs on money and bank accounts and all kinds…
Source: Our Winter Update from Ronald & Shelly Miller