Since September 1, 2009, the Church of the Nazarene’s Global Ministry Center (GMC) proudly flies a flag each week of one of the many nations in which the denomination is present in ministry. Leaders were invited to send a national flag to be flown at the GMC alongside the flag of the United States. The national flags rotate weekly, and photos of them raised are sent to the church leaders of that country.
In this endeavor, however, not all Nazarene churches have been identified by world area. This week’s flag represents those Nazarenes and churches in “Additional World Areas.”
In the 2013 annual statistics, these areas together reported 251 Churches of the Nazarene, 144 of them officially organized, and 16,337 total members.
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