What is Faith Promise?
Every Church of the Nazarene is encouraged to share a percentage of their income to Nazarene missions. These funds are essential to spread the gospel and support missionaries. Many churches step out in faith beyond this encouraged percentage, through Faith Promise. Emphasizing the missional work of the local congregation and the global church, Faith Promise is about stepping out in faith and trusting God's promises so that the good news can be shared. We invite you to join in this promise.
How are the funds used?
Recent examples of how we use our funds include local support for the Welcome One Emergency Shelter, supporting missionaries, as well as our Honduras Partnership. With this partnership, we have financially supported the building of four churches in the last four years in the capital city area. Another substantial way our Faith Promise funds are used is to support the endeavors of the broader Church of the Nazarene, who has hundreds of missionaries in over 170 countries around the world.
When is Faith Promise?
We will have our grand celebration on "Faith Promise Sunday" June 5.
Faith Promise Sunday
Join us and celebrate together the great ways God is using us to love like Jesus. Everyone is invited to stay after church and enjoy a potluck picnic down at the pavilion! Families with 3 people and under, please bring a side dish. Family of 4+, bring a main dish and dessert. Drinks and paper products will be provided. Please bring lawn chairs or blankets with you.
About our speaker this year
Monica Boseff has worked in the non-profit sector for some time, working for both medical facilities and for the Church of the Nazarene in Romania. Her husband is the pastor of the Blessings Church of the Nazarene in Bucharest. She began working for the Open Door Foundation in 2003, Ms. Boseff has medical training, as a nurse, and had worked for other medical non-profit organizations prior to joining the Open Door Foundation. In 2011, the Foundation began to get involved with anti-human trafficking work, by engaging in an awareness campaign in partnership with an organization called Men Against the Trafficking of Others (MATTO). After surveying a variety of key people in the community, Ms. Boseff realized that there was one need which was more pressing than any other: a need for an emergency shelter for victims of trafficking.
In response to that need, the Open Door Foundation decided to purchase a house. They did so in December 2012. They now run an 18 month program, some of which is residential, for women survivors of modern-day slavery. Their focus is sex trafficking, and they provide counseling services, medical assistance and consultations, comprehensive legal assistance, job training, and other various services. In 2014, Romania was listed as a Tier 2 country. Romania is a significant source country for many of Europe’s trafficked people. Romanian women are found in prostitution rings all around Europe, and forced labor is also a problem. The main problem, still, is lack of government funding and support for victim services and support. This gap makes shelters and organizations like Monica Boseff’s essential to combatting human trafficking in Romania.
How can I give?
You can pledge your support by picking up a pledge card at the Welcome Center on Sunday's, Online or Email
What organizations are involved this year?
The Dock
About
Devoted to helping kids know how loved they are and how much they matter to their families, their society, to each other and to their community. That they are enough and their unique gifts and talents are just what this world needs
How we support
Coming Soon!
Lighthouse
How we support
Every year we host a winter weekend and summer camp for the teens who are from the city who participated in Nazarene Bible Quizzing. Families from our church host a few teens and we gather as a whole group almost daily. We love on the teens while doing various activities they may never have been exposed to before (country things). Through this ministry, we have been able to connect with the teens in a deeper way and some families are in touch with some teens throughout the year.
Every Church of the Nazarene is encouraged to share a percentage of their income to Nazarene missions. These funds are essential to spread the gospel and support missionaries. Many churches step out in faith beyond this encouraged percentage, through Faith Promise. Emphasizing the missional work of the local congregation and the global church, Faith Promise is about stepping out in faith and trusting God's promises so that the good news can be shared. We invite you to join in this promise.
How are the funds used?
Recent examples of how we use our funds include local support for the Welcome One Emergency Shelter, supporting missionaries, as well as our Honduras Partnership. With this partnership, we have financially supported the building of four churches in the last four years in the capital city area. Another substantial way our Faith Promise funds are used is to support the endeavors of the broader Church of the Nazarene, who has hundreds of missionaries in over 170 countries around the world.
When is Faith Promise?
We will have our grand celebration on "Faith Promise Sunday" June 5.
Faith Promise Sunday
Join us and celebrate together the great ways God is using us to love like Jesus. Everyone is invited to stay after church and enjoy a potluck picnic down at the pavilion! Families with 3 people and under, please bring a side dish. Family of 4+, bring a main dish and dessert. Drinks and paper products will be provided. Please bring lawn chairs or blankets with you.
About our speaker this year
Monica Boseff has worked in the non-profit sector for some time, working for both medical facilities and for the Church of the Nazarene in Romania. Her husband is the pastor of the Blessings Church of the Nazarene in Bucharest. She began working for the Open Door Foundation in 2003, Ms. Boseff has medical training, as a nurse, and had worked for other medical non-profit organizations prior to joining the Open Door Foundation. In 2011, the Foundation began to get involved with anti-human trafficking work, by engaging in an awareness campaign in partnership with an organization called Men Against the Trafficking of Others (MATTO). After surveying a variety of key people in the community, Ms. Boseff realized that there was one need which was more pressing than any other: a need for an emergency shelter for victims of trafficking.
In response to that need, the Open Door Foundation decided to purchase a house. They did so in December 2012. They now run an 18 month program, some of which is residential, for women survivors of modern-day slavery. Their focus is sex trafficking, and they provide counseling services, medical assistance and consultations, comprehensive legal assistance, job training, and other various services. In 2014, Romania was listed as a Tier 2 country. Romania is a significant source country for many of Europe’s trafficked people. Romanian women are found in prostitution rings all around Europe, and forced labor is also a problem. The main problem, still, is lack of government funding and support for victim services and support. This gap makes shelters and organizations like Monica Boseff’s essential to combatting human trafficking in Romania.
How can I give?
You can pledge your support by picking up a pledge card at the Welcome Center on Sunday's, Online or Email
What organizations are involved this year?
The Dock
About
Devoted to helping kids know how loved they are and how much they matter to their families, their society, to each other and to their community. That they are enough and their unique gifts and talents are just what this world needs
How we support
Coming Soon!
Lighthouse
How we support
Every year we host a winter weekend and summer camp for the teens who are from the city who participated in Nazarene Bible Quizzing. Families from our church host a few teens and we gather as a whole group almost daily. We love on the teens while doing various activities they may never have been exposed to before (country things). Through this ministry, we have been able to connect with the teens in a deeper way and some families are in touch with some teens throughout the year.