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Childhood traumatic experiences hinder spiritual formation. The current alarming increase of trauma in the lives of children necessitates that pastors and lay youth leaders become educated about...

This dissertation presents a close study of the Didache, Church Order Literature, and early church worship liturgies. This research suggests these early documents preserved a means for spiritual...

El tema de este estudio surge de más de cuatro décadas de ministerio dentro de la Iglesia del Nazareno dedicadas a la formación y desarrollo de líderes y pastores, mayormente en América Latina, que...

This research focuses on women in Christian ministry in the U.S. Latinx communities in The Church of the Nazarene. Through the light of Mujerista Theology, it examines the role and contribution of...

Grief is an inevitable reality, and all people will experience grief at some point in their life. Pastors are among those who first respond at the time of a death and are often invited to journey with...

The modern church is facing a crisis of people who do not know how to grow spiritually. Congregants feel their church is not preparing them to grow in their own spiritual life. The Enneagram, with its...

The Restoration Movement (RM), seeking to unify Protestantism through clear patterns of biblical teachings, instead resulted in further divisions caused by differing ways the “clear” teachings were...

The Free Church tradition suffers from a disconnect between theology and practice which allows consumer culture to infiltrate the church. Consumerism often manifests itself through objectification...

This research presents a study of Street Pastors in the United Kingdom (UK). Street Pastors are Christian volunteers who look after vulnerable people in the night-time economy, providing them security...

All Christians have a responsibility to care for each other. However, the practices of care in the church have become centered around the clergy. This not only fails to empower the lay members of a...

Contemporary American society has developed a culture of intensive mothering, which has continued to grow in recent years. This results in women whose primary identity is motherhood and a culture that...

This project was developed to assist the South Weymouth Church of the Nazarene, of Weymouth, Massachusetts, to embody a congregational approach to ministry that nurtures adolescents into a lifelong...

The Church of the Nazarene is an international denomination. Yet, in the United States, the church is mono-ethnic, mainly in membership and mindset. The influence and practice of racism throughout...

The Church of the Nazarene is facing challenges in supplying its rural churches with pastoral leadership. The decline in population and limited access to resources contribute to the lack of interest...

This research analyzes the exodus of millennials and Gen Z from the evangelical church in order to strengthen outreach and discipleship to these generations at CrossRoads Community Church of the...

Approximately forty-five to seventy-five percent of CoTN congregations in the USA/Canada region need contextual educational changes. Why? Many ministry leaders serve in nontraditional roles or as BIVO...

The problem of difference continues to pose a significant challenge within Western society at large and to the local church in particular. With steady population growth through immigration, fear and...

Many Christian congregants are not being adequately formed and shaped as disciples of Christ, because many contemporary churches have a distorted philosophical anthropology, and therefore approach...

The telos of every Christian faith community is to develop faithful followers of Jesus Christ that emulate the character of Christ and impact their communities and the world. Congregations must...

El tema de este estudio surge de más de cuatro décadas de ministerio dentro de la Iglesia del Nazareno dedicadas a la formación y desarrollo de líderes y pastores, mayormente en América Latina, que...

Submitted to the Department of Mathematics and Computer Science in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Bachelor of Science. The Denali Project is a Northwest Nazarene University...