IMPACT REPORT 2017
N A Z A R E N E C O M P A S S I O N A T E M I N I S T R I E S
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FOLLOWING THE EXAMPLE OF JESUS, Nazarene Compassionate Ministries partners with local Nazarene congregations around the world to clothe, shelter, feed, heal, educate, and live in solidarity with those who suffer under oppression, injustice, violence, poverty, hunger, and disease. Nazarene Compassionate Ministries exists in and through the Church of the Nazarene to proclaim the gospel to all people in word and deed.
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GOOD NEWS TO THE WORLD In reviewing the impact of our church’s
that offer tangible hope to people
compassionate responses across the
living in the midst of poverty, illness,
globe, it is crucial to draw attention
and natural disasters.
to the congregations behind these incredible efforts. Collectively, the
Behind any numbers of impact are
following numbers of impact represent
people and communities mobilized in
the church working together to spread
the name of Jesus.
the love of Christ across the world. Together, these efforts are our church.
This annual report represents not what Nazarene Compassionate Ministries
Ministry areas such as holistic child
is or does, but what Nazarene
development; emergency relief; and
Compassionate Ministries has been
water supply, sanitation, and hygiene
privileged to facilitate in and through
training would not be possible without
local churches as the hands of feet of
committed Christ-followers seeking to
Christ in their communities. Together,
live out a holistic response to needs
we are the church offering good news
in their communities. These efforts
to the world.
represent countless connection points
NELL BECKER SWEEDEN
Director, Nazarene Compassionate Ministries
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WHO WE ARE THE CHURCH IN ACTION
NAZARENE COMPASSIONATE MINISTRIES IS THE CHURCH IN ACTION.
We are an outflow of the Church of the Nazarene in our world, working to
Holistic Child Development
Emergency Relief
mobilize local congregations to live out Christ’s call to care for those considered
Anti-Human Trafficking
the “least of these” (Matthew 25). Through your partnership, Nazarene Compassionate Ministries walks alongside
Economic Development
local churches when they are looking for ways to meet the needs around them.
Hunger
We use a holistic ministry model that both proclaims and demonstrates the gospel of Christ, resulting in lives that are
Clean Water
transformed through Christ.
Health Care Together, we partner with congregations around the world to provide tangible expressions of Christ’s compassion through church-led community development and emergency relief work. We are seeing lives and communities transformed through these 10 areas of work:
HIV & AIDS Refugee & Immigrant Support
Women & Girls
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HIGHLIGHT
HOLISTIC CHILD DEVELOPMENT We implement a holistic child development model designed to address all aspects of a child’s life—spiritual, physical, intellectual, emotional, and relational. Our child-centered programs happen in partnership with local churches, helping children understand that God loves them, they have value, and they can have a relationship with Jesus. Our programs also help improve the lives of children’s families, knowing that the best child development happens when children grow up in healthy families. Our child sponsorship program is critical to the success of the child development programs. Through child sponsorship, children are enrolled in child development centers, where they receive education, preventive health care, nutritional support, psycho-social support, recreation, and spiritual nurturing.
TALA’S STORY Tala* lives in an urban slum area in Manila, Philippines. She and her five siblings share a tiny, one-room home made of scrap material with their parents. Her father earned money pushing drugs, and her mother, overwhelmed by the burden of poverty and depression, was physically and verbally abusive. Through child sponsorship, Tala and her siblings began attending a holistic child development program at the local Nazarene church, where they learned about Jesus. Slowly, the entire family began to change. God used child sponsorship to transform Tala, her parents, and her siblings. “If the church and the sponsorship program [were] not here … we do not know what kind of life we [would] have,” Tala’s mother shared. *Children’s names are changed for their protection.
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18,000+
vulnerable children received care through child development programs
236
child development centers in 38 countries provided children opportunities to grow
3,349
children of Nazarene pastors received support for education through sponsorship
970
volunteers (in addition to staff members) cared for children enrolled in our programs
8 million+ hours
were invested in the lives of children through child development programs
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HIGHLIGHT
WATER, SANITATION, AND HYGIENE (WASH) Nazarene Compassionate Ministries supports local churches to serve their communities through water, sanitation, and hygiene (WASH) programs. These programs combine safe water resources such as wells with sanitation facilities and hygiene training for a holistic approach to health and clean water.
Over the past three years, we have increased our support of comprehensive programming that combines access to safe water, improved sanitation, and healthy hygiene practices. We have been shifting to a comprehensive approach that goes beyond simply drilling wells. While it is more time-intensive, requiring education, training, and community participation, this approach is more effective in creating long-term health benefits.
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Sierra Leone and Liberia: 26,700 people improving their lives through WASH programs 20 primary school and 12 secondary schools are benefitting 8 health clinics are also benefitting
Sri Lanka:
Haiti:
5,200 people
100+ wells,
affected by civil war are improving their health through trainings, awareness campaigns, and the construction of toilets and water points.
bio-sand filters, and cisterns have been installed
67 volunteers
have been trained to provide WASH education in their communities
Mozambique: 6,000 people will benefit from a new WASH program across 10 communities
100 volunteers have been trained to provide WASH education in their communities
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HIGHLIGHT
EMERGENCY RELIEF The year 2017 was marked by disasters and crises that impacted hundreds of thousands of people. All over the world, the church mobilized in response to storms, flooding, earthquakes, mudslides, famine, disease outbreak, and more. Nazarenes provided—and continue to provide—shelter, food, water, medical aid, and critical supplies. During disasters and emergency situations, Nazarene Compassionate Ministries partners with local churches as they work to assist people in meeting short-term and long-term needs—both physical and spiritual— regardless of economic status, ethnicity, or religious background.
After Hurricane Maria, a group of Nazarene volunteers delivered food packages to families affected by the storm. As they were leaving, a little girl said, “Look, Mom! Now we have something to eat.”
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150,000+ people received aid through global Nazarene
Nazarene disaster response disaster efforts response efforts
1,600 Nazarene volunteers served people affected by
disasters
60,000 people in Bangladesh and India received food aid after catastrophic flooding
8,000 people in Mexico received daily meals for weeks
after devastating earthquakes
3,000 individuals in Mexico received medical care after
the earthquakes
22,000 people in Texas, USA, received help after
Hurricane Harvey
300 families in St. Martin received assistance after
Hurricane Irma
4,000 people in Puerto Rico received aid after Hurricane
Hurricane Maria Maria
3,500 people in Sierra Leone received care after losing
their homes to mudslides
8,325 people in Sri Lanka benefitted from prevention
activities during a dengue fever outbreak
5,750 individuals in East Africa received food during a
deadly food crisis
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NAZARENE GIRLS FOR JUSTICE HOW CHURCHES SUPPORTED A DREAM In rural Ghana, where Sumprecia Yaro
Justice Club. Now, nine years later,
grew up, educating girls is typically
the club has more than 750 members
frowned on. But she knew it should
across 11 communities. Not only have
be a priority, and she found support
they helped hundreds of girls finish
through her church to make it a reality
high school or learn a vocational
for herself and hundreds more girls.
skill, but they have seen the teenage pregnancy and child marriage rate
Although Sumprecia worked hard to
drop from 90 percent to 20 percent in
pay school fees, she had no funds for
the areas they serve. All told, they’ve
high school. In her area, it was common
supported the empowerment of more
for men to help girls pay for school, but
than 1,700 girls.
they asked for sexual favors in return. Sumprecia chose to leave school
“I had a lot of encouragement to
instead. After spending three years
dream of living and doing anything
out of school, Sumprecia approached
that men could do because I am not
her church leadership about helping
a lesser human being,” Sumprecia
her finish. They decided to cover her
says. “I always find ways to share this
fees and give her pigs to start a small
same dream with other girls and to
business.
encourage them.”
Sumprecia wanted other girls’ stories
This dream has been birthed through
to end like hers, not in child marriage
and supported by local Nazarene
or pregnancy. So she and a few other
churches. This is the church in action.
girls created the Nazarene Girls for
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FINANCIAL SUMMARY FY 2017 REVENUE Revenue
2017
2016
2015
Undesignated (Greatest Needs)
$1,993,661
$1,906,855
$1,847,491
Designated & Restricted
$3,766,790
$3,479,461
$3,986,364
Child Sponsorship
$3,858,518
$3,630,807
$3,528,078
Total
$9,618,969
$9,017,124
$9,361,932
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Programs 87%
Spending
Administration 5% Donor Engagement 8%
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“For I was hungry and you gave me something to eat, I was thirsty and you gave me something to drink, I was a stranger and you invited me in, I needed clothes and you clothed me, I was sick and you looked after me, I was in prison and you came to visit me. … Truly I tell you, whatever you did for one of the least of these brothers and sisters of mine, you did for me.” Matthew 25:35-36,40, NIV
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