This is the organization responsible for engaging and mobilizing the local church to engage in missions in the Church of the Nazarene and is the denomination’s representative for missions on the district and in the local church.

From its earliest beginnings in 1901 as a pastor’s training class for Christian workers to its modern role as a university, the focus of this Nazarene institution, located in the heart of Nashville, has been to provide higher education within the context of a Christian community.

The Alabaster box idea began during Elizabeth Vennum's dozen years of service on the Nazarene Missions International Global Council. In the late 1940's, the Church of the Nazarene was experiencing a crunch in mission funding. At the 1949 meeting of what is now the General NMI Council, Elizabeth was asked to come up with a promotional idea that could raise funding for land purchases and building construction needs in Nazarene mission areas. As she rode the train home to Florida from that council meeting in Kansas City, Vennum said the Lord gave her the details for the Alabaster offering. "And the rest is now history," said Nina Gunter, former general NMI director. The offering promotion was based on the story of the woman pouring perfume on Jesus from a container carved from soft alabaster stone. Building on that Biblical story, Mrs. Vennum decided to ask Nazarene women to put off buying that new perfume for themselves or postpone getting a new dress and to give that money to world missions instead (in sort of the same way that the woman gave her bottle of perfume to Jesus).

Mrs. Vennum promoted her offering idea with the slogan: "Give up a want to meet a need." Since its inception, that semi-annual Alabaster offering (in February and September) has generated more than $100 million dollars for land purchase and construction at thousands of sites throughout the world.

This program is considered one of the greatest movements in the history of the Church of the Nazarene. It is a ministry that began with a group of concerned laypersons who wanted to meet the needs that they saw around them. As global access became more accessible, so did the opportunity to experience missions firsthand through personal involvement.
This program connects local teams with global needs. Help with construction, medical, technical, and evangelistic needs may be offered by teams of 2 or more people. The team’s willingness to be available for up to 21 days and to pay all of their expenses is a key dynamic of the ministry. This self-funded movement has given Nazarene missions a huge boost into the 21st century.

The largest denomination in the classical Wesleyan-Holiness tradition. The doctrine that distinguishes this organization and other Wesleyan denominations from most other Christian denominations is that of entire sanctification. We believe that God calls Christians to a life of holy living that is marked by an act of God, cleansing the heart from original sin and filling the individual with love for God and humankind.

This centralized method of giving that combines each person’s and church’s gifts to fund ministries everywhere providing the undesignated money and mission network that all Nazarene ministries need. Your gifts create and sustain ministries and make it possible to bring Christ’s transformational message of hope and salvation to the world through the Church of the Nazarene.

One of three locations hosting Nazarene Missionaries at the time the church was organized; located off the coast of Africa.

This annual offering, given in March, has been a denominational tradition for more than 75 years. Thanks to Nazarenes’ strong and steadfast belief in supporting the spread of the gospel, our missionaries, ministers, and laity have made Christ-like disciples in the nations through churches, schools, hospitals, Compassionate Ministry Centers, and countless other ministries.

A global ministry of the Church of the Nazarene which collaborates with other Kingdom ministries to make Christ-like disciples in the nations by supporting, distributing, and providing evangelistic follow-up of the movie about the life of Christ.

Nazarene affiliated, grass-roots. non-profit organizations meeting the needs of the under-resourced and implementing high quality community services on the USA/Canada Region.

As a result of disasters around the world, practical items are needed, providing immediate help when nothing is available to those in crisis. These 2.5 gallon bags containing toiletries, towels, and a plush toy are a cooperative effort between Nazarene Compassionate Ministries Incorporated and Nazarene Missions International.

The primary founder of the Church of the Nazarene, and founding president of Point Loma Nazarene University.

An offering given in November to provide for the

An outreach ministry of the Church of the Nazarene through the Center for Lay Ministry. This ministry provides the opportunity for persons to volunteer their time and skills in meaningful Christian service through Church of the Nazarene related mission agencies, camps, churches, disaster relief, compassionate ministries projects and other designated areas of service. Participants travel and live in their campers.

This program focuses on holistic child-development, encouraging children to grow in all areas of their lives: physical, intellectual, emotional, relational, and spiritual. For just $30 a month, children of pastors in underdeveloped world areas are helped with the cost of school, uniforms, food, and sometimes fees.

Thousands of lives are transformed through the work of the Holy Spirit and this ministry program. It began as the Nazarene Radio League in 1944 and has expanded to a global network of programs contextualized for listeners and viewers around the world.

In 1895, this pastor joined the Association of Pentecostal Churches of America. He was elected Home and Foreign Missionary Secretary two years later. When the Association merged with the Church of the Nazarene to form the Pentecostal Church of the Nazarene in 1907, he was elected general superintendent along with Phineas F. Bresee. Re-elected the following year during the Second General Assembly at Pilot Point, he continued in that office until his retirement in 1932. During most of his superintendency, he also served as Secretary for Foreign Missions and in 1896 began the ambitious program of Christian witness to the Cape Verde Islands.

An offering in memory of a loved one that underwrites The Medical Plan which helps provide for active and retired Nazarene missionaries and their families when medical needs and emergencies arise.

This volunteer ministry exists to seek and deploy people into an extreme expansion of God's Kingdom. This ministry seeks to find unmet, complex needs all around the world and match the need with the talent and resources available through the worldwide Church.
Currently, positions are open for: 2-week field volunteers, 2-year field volunteers, and careers in administration.

A way to recognize that a church has embraced the Five Areas of Impact of Nazarene Missions International: Prayer, WEF, Alabaster, Engaging Children and Youth, and Links.

A network of personal connections between missionaries and Nazarene districts around the world.
Participating missionaries are assigned to districts to help foster a personal connection between missionaries and the local church. This relationship fosters a sense of involvement with Nazarene Missions through regular correspondence from missionaries, updates from their field of service, and presentations by their assigned missionary when they are on home assignment.

Location of the 2nd General Assembly of the Pentecostal Church of the Nazarene which culminated in the uniting of several holiness movements from the northeast and western US into the denomination we now know as The Church of the Nazarene.

Systematic giving for world missions.

This ministry gives people an opportunity to minister cross-culturally for anywhere from 3 months to 1 year. You can participate as an individual, a couple, or a family. These assignments are filled on a needs-basis and are in every region of the world.

An exciting youth missions event for 7th-12th graders