areas of impact
Nazarene Missions International focuses on five strategic areas that every local church anywhere in the world can focus on. These areas maximize the missions impact through the Church of the Nazarene.
Encouraging people to pray for all missions efforts of the Church of the Nazarene.
Engaging children and youth in learning about and participating in the mission of God.
Providing care and connection between missionaries and local churches of the Nazarene.
Informing others of the world’s need and how the Church of the Nazarene is responding through the World Evangelism Fund.
Laying the foundation through Alabaster offerings for places where people worship, heal, and learn.
A Praying People
Encouraging people to pray for all missions efforts of the Church of the Nazarene. Click here to view all of our missionary profile pages.
NMI Central is a weekly email publication focusing on the work of the Church of the Nazarene. Every week prayer needs and praise reports for the global ministries of the Church of the Nazarene and our missionaries will be listed as well as ways you can get involved. It is available in English, Spanish, Portuguese, and French. Click here to subscribe in the language you would like to receive.
Engaging Children & Youth
Engaging children and youth by helping them learn about and participate in God’s mission nurtures them as they seek to respond to God’s call. NMI advocates in every church and district to encourage and engage every generation to share in missions. We collaborate with Nazarene Youth International and Nazarene Discipleship International to best engage all ages.
Care & Connection
NMI provides care and connection to global, sponsored, volunteer, and retired Nazarene missionaries. Care and connection begins when a missionary discerns a call to missions and continues during their service and throughout the adjustment of returning to their home country.
CARE includes the steps where NMI is involved in nurturing, sending, and supporting Nazarene missionaries from Nazarene churches and districts.
CONNECTION consists of ways in which NMI connects with and supports Nazarene missionaries.
Links is part of NMI’s Care and Connection, assisting churches and districts in intentional care and connection to globally deployed Nazarene missionaries who are not from their district.
Is it LINKS or Links?
Originally, LINKS was an acronym that only worked in the English language. Nazarenes worship in over 200 languages each week, and we are a global Church. The acronym was dropped, but the spirit of intentionally linking churches and missionaries remains strong. Links is a mutual relationship between the sending church and missionaries.
How does our church make a Links connection?
How can we best encourage Links missionaries?
By getting to learn and know more about each other, your local church and Links family will feel more connected. Share life together, pray for each other, communicate as often as possible, give as you feel moved by the Holy Spirit, and schedule a time to connect over video on when they are on home assignment.
How do I give a gift to Links missionaries?
By getting to learn and know more about each other, your local church and Links family will feel more connected. Share life together, pray for each other, communicate as often as possible, give as you feel moved by the Holy Spirit, and schedule a time to connect over video on when they are on home assignment.
How can we best encourage Links missionaries?
Generosity is one of the greatest expressions of love. If an individual, church, or district would like to show love to a Links-assigned missionary through giving, please follow these guidelines.
• Sending physical letters or packages are discouraged unless the missionary has a specific need and requests the items be shipped. Districts and churches are encouraged to coordinate with missionaries when they are on home assignment rather than shipping items to their country of service. Physical package can have very expensive duties that the missionary has to pay when receiving your package. Please always ask the missionary before you mail anything.
• When giving a financial gift, there are multiple ways to send it in.
Please do not give a missionary a cash or personal check offering. That is still taxable income for a missionary, and you would need to provide a 1099 tax form to assist the missionary in their end-of-year taxes.
Need more information?
The global NMI office is happy to help. Please contact:
913-577-0500 or connections@nazarene.org.
Why can’t I find our missionaries’ addresses on the web?
To ensure the safety and privacy of missionaries, missionary address and phone information will not be shared by NMI or Global Missions. If you need this information for a missionary, please contact either your district NMI president or your district Links coordinator who will work directly with each Links missionary.
What is Missionary Care?
Missionary care is an important strategy of Nazarene Missions International (NMI) to help provide for personal needs of missionaries. These expressions of care include:
Links: a strategy for “linking” churches with missionaries through prayer and personal contact.
Missionary Christmas Fund: provides a monetary Christmas gift for missionaries.
Missionary Health Care: monies collected through the Memorial Roll and Distinguished Service Award used to subsidize missionary health care costs.
The Memorial Roll: a way to honor deceased friends and loved ones. A certificate is issued in the name of the person memorialized and is often presented to a family member or displayed in the church.
Distinguished Service Award: a certificate presented to an individual to recognize outstanding service to God and the church. The presenter (usually a church or district) contributes $125 to Missionary Health Care.
NMI Central
NMI Central is a weekly email publication, released on Wednesday, focusing on the work of the Church of the Nazarene around the world. Each week focuses on a different country, region, or theme, and calls the Church to prayer and praise. Click here to subscribe and see past issues.
Global Week of Prayer
01 March – 07 March, 2026
This upcoming 2026 Global Week of Prayer will be the 30th year that NMI calls the church to pray for the needs of churches and districts with requests gathered from the regions