NMI (Nazarene Missions International) is a local-church-based mobilization organization focused on global missions, encouraging prayer, education, and giving.
NMI helps local churches be key instruments in spreading the Good News worldwide through information about neds and opportunities, informed prayer, and challenges to sacrificial giving.
This website offers missionary biographies, materials for missions councils or committees, lists of songs with global emphases, PowerPoint presentations, and reflections on the biblical foundations for global mission work.
Boosting missions: Nazarene Missions International is the local-church-based global mobilization and promotional arm of the Church of the Nazarene. NMI is a grass-roots missions committee structure that summons church members to:
Involving children and youth in activities featuring global missions information
Listening for God's call to become go-ers.
NMI is a mobilization organization. Though it promotes the global vision plan of the Church of the Nazarene, NMI does not administer Nazarene world evangelism efforts.
Mission statement
NMI exists to mobilize the church in mission through prayer, education, giving, and interactive experiences
The mission vision of Nazarene Missions International
To encourage the sending church and the missionary team . . .
We will view the local church as the primary instrument to carry the Good News to all nations
A wide variety of missions PowerPoint presentations is available. These can be viewed
individually on the Internet or downloaded for your use in church services.
Check them out!
Nazarene Missions Teams
The very first Nazarene Missions Team (formerly Work & Witness) event: "Miracles in Mexico." plus devotional thoughts on short-term missions teams
"What will it take for Nazarene Missions International to be effective from this point forward?"
Discover God's purpose and will for us as individuals
Re-evaluate our methods
Consciously and purposefully involve the next generation
Determine to be mission-minded and mission-hearted
-- From a message to a Ft. Worh, TX missions conference
Nina Gunter, former Global NMI Director, on "The greatest challenge facing the church"
Video: "Making disciples in all nations" (13 minutes)
-- Howard Culbertson,
"Dr. Culberson's website with NMI resources has a wealth of information our local NMI president regularly uses." -- student course evaluation
Afterword: What's the Purpose of NMI?
Nazarene Missions International (NMI) is an organization within the Church of the
Nazarene, a global evangelical Christian denomination. Its purpose is to mobilize support for the
denomination's efforts in global missions work, NMI serves to educate and inspire members of
the Church of the Nazarene regarding the church's evangelism, discipleship, and humanitarian
aid activities worldwide.
Key purposes of Nazarene Missions International include:
Mobilization: NMI aims to mobilize individuals and congregations to support global
missions work. This involves raising awareness about the importance of world evangelism,
providing resources, and encouraging people to get involved through prayer, giving, and
service.
Global Awareness: NMI provides opportunities to help people understand the
biblical basis for missions, the needs of the world, and the various ways they can contribute to
mission efforts.
Support: NMI raises support for missionaries and world mission projects. This
support may involve raising funds, sending supplies, offering prayer support, and providing
encouragement to those serving cross-culturally in more than 160 world areas.
Overall, Nazarene Missions International plays a vital role in advancing the mission of the Church of the Nazarene to make Christlike disciples in all nations. Through its efforts, NMI plays an important role in helping Christ-followers fulfill the Great Commission of their Lord and Savior (Matthew 28:19-20).