Impact report 2017

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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Impact Report 2017

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.

Impact Report 2017

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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