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The history of the Church of the Nazarene has been divided into seven overlapping periods by the staff of the Nazarene archives in Lenexa, Kansas: (1) Parent Denominations (1887–1907); (2) Consolidation (1896–1915); (3) Search for Solid Foundations (1911–1928); (4) Persistence Amid Adversity (1928–1945); (5) Mid-Century Crusade for Souls (1945–1960); (6) Toward the Post-War ...
This page is subject to the extended confirmed restriction related to the Arab-Israeli conflict. Place in Israel Nazareth النَّاصِرَة , an-Nāṣira נָצְרַת , Nāṣraṯ View of Nazareth, with the Basilica of the Annunciation at the center Seal Nazareth Location of Nazareth in Northern Israel Show map of Northern Haifa region of Israel Nazareth Location of Nazareth in ...
The 1915 mergers added congregations in the British Isles and work in Cuba, Central America, and South America. There were congregations in Syria and Palestine by 1922. General Superintendent Reynolds advocated "a mission to the world", and support for world evangelization became a distinguishing characteristic of Nazarene life.
With a renewed spirit of purpose, they began sending out missionaries in 1732 and over the years developed a far-flung mission movement that lives on today in Moravian churches, schools, and communities in Europe, the Caribbean, Central America, North America, South America, Nepal, and Africa. [8]
The Moravian denomination continues in America to this day, with congregations in 18 states. The highest concentrations of Moravians exist in Bethlehem and Winston-Salem. The denomination is organized into four provinces in North America: Northern (which includes five Canadian congregations), Southern, Alaska, and Labrador.
The term Nazōraios may have a religious significance instead of denoting a place of origin, while Nazarēnos (Ναζαρηνός) is an adjectival form of the phrase apo Nazaret "from Nazareth." [9] Because of this, the phrases traditionally rendered as "Jesus of Nazareth" can also be translated as "Jesus the Nazarene" or "Jesus the Nazorean."
Jesus [d] (c. 6 to 4 BC – AD 30 or 33), also referred to as Jesus Christ, [e] Jesus of Nazareth, and many other names and titles, was a first-century Jewish preacher and religious leader. [10] He is the central figure of Christianity , the world's largest religion .
Journey of Brother Schnall from Nazareth, PA to Fairfield Canada, in the year 1801 1895: J. M. Levering: Some Notes on the first Missionary Society in America - the Society for the Furtherance of the Gospel, founded August 19, and fully organized November 28th, 1745 1895: J. Taylor Hamilton: Sketch of the Moravian Church in Camden Valley, New ...