What is the purpose of Nazarene Missions International?
NMI Mission Statement:
To mobilize the church in mission through praying, discipling, giving, and educating.
NMI Objectives:
To encourage people to pray for all efforts of world evangelization
To inform people of the world's needs and what the church is doing to meet those needs
To challenge children and youth to learn about and participate in the mission of the church
To raise funds for mission outreach
Link to the Nazarene Missions International web site:
http://www.nazarenemissions.org/
Other Links:
Mission Connection 2010 - http://www.nazarenemissions.org/10243/story.aspx
HAITI NEWS
Nazarenes React to Haiti Crisis
When a 7.0 earthquake slammed Haiti on January 12, 2010, many district leaders for Nazarene Missions International (NMI) and other Nazarene ministries were meeting in Louisville, Kentucky. Glued to television newscasts during the early evening break, the leaders’ first action upon meeting an hour later was to go to prayer and to ask if they could give right then.
Nazarene Compassionate Ministries personnel onsite went to work, writing press releases and planning how funds would be processed and what were the most immediate needs.
Central Florida District NMI President Tawanda Mills was on her cell phone constantly, working with contacts she and the district have developed for just such emergencies. She contacted a cruise line that travels to and from Haiti, and the line offered to take Crisis Care Kits in the next ship going that direction. She contacted other organizations, asking for any video footage that might be helpful in getting the word out until Nazarene videographers could arrive.
Departments in Sunday School and Discipleship Ministries International (SDMI) worked with Nazarene Publishing House to write age-appropriate Sunday School lessons that responded directly to the Haiti disaster. The lessons were made available electronically for the following Sunday.
Meanwhile in churches around the world, church leaders went to work immediately. Time was of the essence, and Nazarenes are not ones to hesitate.
In the weeks since the quake, reports have poured into the global NMI office as to what churches and individuals have done to help their Haitian brothers and sisters. Here are some of the first ones to roll in.