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Knowledge is key to involvement. With an understanding of the needs of the world and what the church is doing to meet those needs, we are more likely to commit to the support of missions through prayer, giving, communication, and personal involvement (going).
Learning takes place in a variety of venues. Experiences, listening to and reading stories, and getting to know missionaries on a personal level enhance mission awareness. Your local NMI president or mission education secretary can tell you of the many exciting opportunities to personally connect with a missionary.
Deputation services, Faith Promise conventions, district-sponsored events with a missionary speaker, and the presence of missionaries-in-residence at youth and children's camps allow for interaction between missionaries and the people who support them through their giving and prayers.
If you would like to find more ways to get involved, click here.
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Every day you head to the office believing that "this will be the day" you break through the fog and really pump out the work. Today I'll tackle that big project, you tell yourself. You're convinced that this time you really will get the inbox to zero or finish that report or clear your call sheet.
But it never happens, does it?
That could be because you're shooting your productivity in the foot with the very things you are convinced will help you achieve more.
If you have one of these seven "productivity" habits, break it immediately!
1. Rolling Over Tasks
It seems as though tackling yesterday's untouched items is the best way to get caught up, but it's not. Because something was urgent yesterday doesn't mean it should top your list today. Start each day by reformulating your priorities.
Talking on the phone while skimming your email while grabbing lunch is a sure way to derail your productivity and destroy your diet. I must add quickly that I'm a struggler on this one!
3. Replying to Messages Immediately
Message notification is a fancy word for interruption. Work offline (including your phone), and respond to messages no more than four times per day. This one is a dichotomy with me because those who ignore calls frustrate everyone.
4. Eating Fast Food Daily
Grabbing a burger and fries may seem like a timesaver-until the carbs hit your system about 1:30 p.m. Being productive depends on having high energy. Fuel your body right.
5. Conferencing
By conferencing I mean going to meetings, but more than that. resist the temptation to check in with everybody before making a decision that is within your power to make. A "quick" email, phone call, or drop-in visit seldom is.
6. News Reading
Flipboard is a great tool, but reading too much news and sports can drain your productivity. Information is the latest form of entertainment in our digital society.
7. Working Too Much
Everyone's rhythm is different, but if you consistently find yourself working too many hours per week, you're probably hurting, not helping, your productivity. When possible, find a sensible schedule, and stick to it.
Often, being more productive is a matter of doing fewer things with greater focus and intensity than doing many things at half speed. Do less, and you may just get more done!
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Asia-Pacific
This week continues our special reports on the earthquakes in Ecuador and Japan. Please watch and then share the video with your churches.
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Asia-Pacific
Your Voice truly does matter and we sincerely want to hear from you! We understand you are busy, but would you be willing to take just 5 minutes and provide your unique insight to four critical questions regarding the Church and Mission?
Our General Church leaders want to hear from you! We will be compiling responses by
April 30th
, so please consider responding soon so that your voice will be heard.
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Asia-Pacific Nazarene Theological Seminary
The training was facilitated by missionary, and APNTS Holistic Child Development (HCD) student, Aisling "Ashling" Zweigle. Participants included an interdenominational representation of leaders from Filipino churches and child outreach ministries. HCD students and local employees of non-governmental organizations (NGOs) were also present.
Find out how APNTS is training for greater impact in ministering to children on the Asia-Pacific Region.
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Southeast Asia Nazarene Bible College
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April is a special month in Thailand because of the Songkran Festival - the country's New Year celebration. This also marks the New Year in most South Asia and Southeast Asian countries. Southeast Asia Nazarene Bible College (SEANBC) decided to celebrate things differently this year.
During the Sonkgran break, the campus buzzed with activity as Professor Peter Lalpek Mawai offered a unique course designed to train and educate lay and bi-vocational pastors in ways to reach the Burmese for Christ in Thailand.
Through the teaching, four of the students came forward to be baptized and shared their desire to reach the immigrant population through planting house churches.
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Philippines
In a Travel Warning issued by the US Department of State on April 21, US citizens are warned to
avoid all non-essential travel to the Sulu Archipelago and through the southern Sulu Sea, and to exercise extreme caution when traveling to the island of Mindanao, due to continued terrorist threats, insurgent activities and kidnappings.
 Aside from the Sulu Archipelago, the citizens are also advised to put off their travel through the southern Sulu Sea region from the southern tip of Palawan, along the coast of Sabah, Malaysia and the islands of the Sulu Archipelago, up to Zamboanga City, Mindanao.
Although no incidents have been reported involving US government officials traveling to Mindanao, the Embassy has already implemented strict conditions on necessary travel to the area.
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Board of General Superintendents
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Dr. J.K. Warrick
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Much is being said today about leaders and leadership development; this is a priority in the Church of the Nazarene. The question is being asked: "How do we develop effective leaders?"
While our churches, districts, and regions are intentional in planning special events for leadership development, I would highlight the impact of those being led-those who follow.
Looking back over nearly 49 years of ministry (38 as a pastor and almost 11 in my present assignment), I have come to realize the powerful influence of those who follow...
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Engage Magazine
In March, a
Work & Witness
team from the Gateway Church of the Nazarene in Murrieta, California came to Illescas, outside Madrid, to put on a sports camp for the children of our community. We were unexpectedly blessed to be invited into one of the local primary schools to teach baseball in some of the physical education classes.
This was a big deal, because Spanish schools are very closed off to visitors. Parents don't even have easy access to the classroom or teachers. The fact that we were invited to interact and play baseball with children every day inside the school was amazing. We had approximately 120 children a day playing baseball at the school.
It's not every day that you hear baseball and bullfighting in the same sentence. Read on to discover how these two became connected through the efforts of two missionaries in Spain, with the help of a Work & Witness team from the U.S.
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Discipleship Place
DiscipleshipPlace.org will hold a webinar on Pre-Marital Counseling and Marital Health on May 4, 2016, 1:00AM- 2:00AM (CST).
In this seminar you will hear from one of the leading marriage experts, Dr. Les Parrott, and learn the facts about the importance of premarital counseling and why it makes a significant difference in securing healthy and lifelong marriages. Dr. Parrot will also introduce you to a new marriage assessment tool that helps make the premarital counseling process fun and empowering.
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Member Care
Grief /ɡrēf (noun): keen mental suffering or distress over loss; sharp sorrow.
What is it?
Grief is what we experience when we lose something we value. Sounds kind of clinical doesn't it? How about this:
Grief is that sharp, stabbing, disorienting pain that comes in overwhelming waves when we know something that was very very precious to us... is gone.
Because the term is typically associated with a loss due to death, we can miss the impact of understanding that grief is a part of what we feel
anytime
we experience the loss of something we hold as valuable. Dr. Brene' Brown describes the three most foundational elements of grief that have been identified in her research: loss, longing, and feeling lost (Brown, Rising Strong, 2015).
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Manila, Philippines
Please follow the below link to see the listing of qualifications that the BOT is seeking for the applicants.
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Asia-Pacific Nazarene Theological Seminary Highlights
The Graduate Certificate in Intercultural Studies (15 credits) is intended both for those preparing for cross-cultural service and for those already in cross-cultural ministry who would be helped by continuing education.
All subjects are offered for 3-hours graduate credit that may be transferred to other APNTS programs.
Don't delay in finding out more information!
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Asia-Pacific
Do you remember seeing a particular story in one of our weekly newsletters?
Are you wishing you could send a copy of a previous newsletter to a friend? Be sure to check out the
Around The Region Weekly Newsletter Archive.
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This newsletter is a ministry of your Asia-Pacific Regional Communications Office. Please submit questions or comments to: Regional Communications Coordinator
Connie Aebischer - Editor - Around the Region News
Writers: Laurice Maggay, Rebecca Moisio
World Mission Communications Asia-Pacific
Ortigas Avenue Extension
Taytay, Rizal, Philippines
Around the Region is released each week on Saturday. If you have news to share, please forward to our office by Friday at noon (PHT).
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