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 a means of 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 nuissuibs mobilization and awareness-raising 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 global missions mobilization organization. Though it publicizes the global vision and plan of the Church of the Nazarene and raises money, 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.
The three tasks of Nazarene Missions International are:
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 global
mission efforts.
Support: NMI raises support for missionaries and world mission projects. This
support may involve raising funds, sending supplies, mobilizing prayer support, and providing
encouragement to those serving cross-culturally in more than 160 world areas.
What is Nazarene Missions International? It is an organization that gets Christ-followers involved in global Great Commission fulfillment. By doing that, NMI aids the Church of the Nazarene fulfill its stated mission of making Christlike disciples in all nations.
