Please join us for a deputation service on Sunday, May 14th, at 10:30 a.m. Lucas & Caroline Neves, missionaries from Brazil, will be sharing their hearts with us.
Want to get to know our missionaries better? We are looking for a home to host them for Sunday supper. Interested, see Glenda Laney or call the church office.
Our local Nazarene Missions International council is teaming up with Ani’s Pantry, which is an independent ministry started by a local couple who felt lead by the Lord to minister to the homeless people of Galveston County. We will be sharing more with you soon about how YOU can be involved in this important ministry.
Each Christmas, we partner with Angel Tree Ministries to give gifts to children of prisoners.
We’re a satellite of an organization called Kids Against Hunger and we’re preparing, funding and shipping thousands of meals to be used by people who are starving all over the world.
We’ve worked with Houston’s Star of Hope and the Houston Food Bank and are working with other local ministries and organizations all the time!
And we’re just really getting started! Look here for more exciting opportunities to do big things for the Kingdom in the Houston area.
The Half Million Mobilization
Who–What–When–Why of the Half–Million Mobilization
Who: Short answer is Everyone! The entire Nazarene Church, 500,000 people in the United States and Canada will rally together in prayer for our churches hope and our future (Jeremiah 29:11)
What: A Call to Pray and a Call to Speak for the future of our denomination and our local churches in
Canada and the United States. Pray for the protection, direction, and revelation of the Spirit on our
ministries together. Our prayer is to see renewal and a resurgence of the Nazarene Church and holiness
message in our people. The Call to Speak is a prayer response/survey to gather feedback on what the Spirit says to the church during this time of prayer.
When: There is a designated day of prayer each month beginning in January and continuing through Sunday, May 1st where the entire church will pray together in our morning services.
January 11th – 50 senior most regional leaders
February 1st – 500 leaders across every District
March 1st – 5,000 local church lead pastors
April Board Meetings – 50,000 local church boards and ministry leaders
May 1st – the entire Church of the Nazarene, 500,000 people praying together in USA/Canada. From May 1st through Pentecost (June 5th ) there will be a daily time of prayer using a Praying Our Way to Pentecost prayer journal. The prayer journal is available online and in print. Plan to follow along and anticipate a great out pouring of the Spirit during this season.
Why: We need God’s plan, God’s purpose to be fulfilled in our lives and in our churches.
The disunity in our culture and the decline in our Nazarene ministries must be abated. We must turn to God for His leading, we must seek His will in prayer together. This time of prayer will be unifying for us as a region. God says when we seek after Him with all our hearts, He will be found. (Jeremiah 29:13) The dream with Half–Million Mobilization is that we will experience unity as a region, we will hear from the Spirit in our times of prayer, we will share with each other what the Spirit is saying, and that we will discover His plans for our hope and future.
Prayer Response / Survey
The Call to Speak is a prayer response / survey meant to be taken one or more times after you hear from the Spirit in your time of prayer. This can be from a designated day of prayer or anytime the Lord calls you to prayer and speaks to you about the future of the church. The prayer response is short and can be completed in 5 minutes. There is one open–ended question where you can respond with what the Spirit is saying to you. There are two closed–ended questions where you can rank and prioritize our ministry focus areas. Prayer response survey.
NCM Ukraine Crisis
Churches and individuals around the world can provide support through the NCM Ukraine Crisis Response Fund – Eurasia Region. Donations will go toward emergency support associated with transportation, shelter, food, water, and essential supplies. To support churches as they care for people within Ukraine and those traveling from Ukraine to neighboring countries, give today: ncm.org/Ukraine.
To send donations by mail:
In the U.S., make checks payable to “General Treasurer” and send them to:
Global Treasury Services
Church of the Nazarene
P.O. Box 843116
Kansas City, MO 64184-3116
Be sure to put 137043 in the Memo area.
Local Missions Policy:
The Clear Lake Church of the Nazarene Facilities Committee Members and other CLCN church members who enjoy working on home improvement projects may from time to time take on local missions work to support and help local CLCN members who need help to maintain their quality of living in their home by working on home-maintenance projects.
(Ephesians 2:10 – For we are God’s handiwork, created in Christ Jesus to do good works, which God prepared in advance for us to do.)
(James 1:27 – Religion that God our Father accepts as pure and faultless is this: to look after orphans and widows in their distress and to keep oneself from being polluted by the world.)
This policy is established to regulate the use of the NMI Missions budget for Local Missions to assure it is utilized as intended and that the projects undertaken are within the limits set by this policy. Expenditures from the NMI budget must be pre-approved by the NMI President.
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The work to be undertaken must be limited to persons who own the home to be worked on.
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CLCN local missions volunteers are not in the contracting business and accept no liability and provide no warranty or guarantees for the work performed.
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Persons eligible for local missions services are limited to those who
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Have limitations of experience in performing the work needed or
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Have health limitations that prevent them from performing the work themselves or
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Have financial limitations that prevent them from getting the work done or
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Have physical limitations that prevent them from performing the work safely themselves.
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The work needs to be more than just a cosmetic improvement. It needs to be important for the health or safety of the occupant(s), to maintain the quality of life of the occupant(s), or for the preservation of the property.
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If possible, the owner is to purchase and select supplies.
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CLCN local missions supply time and labor at no cost to the persons being served.
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Donations for services are accepted at CLCN and should be noted NMI – Local Missions, but help is not dependent upon giving.
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Concerning fences, they must currently exist and written agreement between property owners must be provided to CLCN before any work can be undertaken on a fence.
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It is the responsibility of the homeowner to pull any required City Permits or Homeowner’s Association approvals
World Mission Broadcast.
Join us as we take the gospel to the world through radio, television, and Internet programs. On the air since 1944, World Mission Broadcast (WMB) reaches even the most remote parts of the world, with words of hope and holiness … and lives are changed.
One of the greatest joys of being a Nazarene is knowing that the Nazarene Missions program is one of the best missionary programs in the world… and we support it whole-heartedly through giving money and time, praying, writing, reading and sending (people). Here are some impressive facts about Nazarene World Missions:
World areas / countries with Nazarene work | 162 |
Number of missionaries Includes Mission Corps volunteers and 22 tent makers These cross-cultural missionaries come from 26 different countries |
742 |
Missionaries’ children | 274 |
Number of members worldwide | 2,471,553 |
Organized churches | 30,574 |
Districts | 465 |
Languages in which literature was published in 2006 | 67 |
Languages in which radio broadcasts are produced | 30 |
Cost for one minute of air time | $2.19 |
Countries reached by radio broadcasts Cost of one minute of air time: $4 |
77 |
Undergraduate and graduate educational institutions in 35 countries on six continents. | 52 |
Extension centers training church leaders | 31 |
Students in colleges, seminaries and extension centers | 13,750 |
Vocational and training colleges | 3 |
Enrollment in these 3 career training schools | 227 |
Children sponsored by Nazarene Child Development programs In addition, nutritional assistance is given in about 80 countries |
9,348 |
Medical facilities | 65 |
Nazarene compassionate ministry centers in US and Canada | 163 |
Retired missionaries receiving pensions | 292 |
Work & Witness teams last year | 1,119 |
Crisis Care Kits sent in recent year | 41,000 |
School Pal-Paks sent in recent year | 6,000 |
Cost per minute to operate Nazarene world mission program | $74 |
The number of colleges and universities. | 51 |
Child Development Centers | 234 |
Number of students in 1,318 pre-school, primary, and secondary schools. | 147,581 |