Joyfully Preaches and Sings: Lasting Legacy of District Superintendent Rev. Ako Arua
December 5, 2025
It is with heavy hearts, yet holding firmly to the hope of the Resurrection, that the Asia-Pacific Region joins the Papua New Guinea Field in announcing the passing of Rev. Ako Arua, District Superintendent of PNG – Central...
First Woman Ordained in the Philippines Passes Away
August 23, 2019
Rev. Ricareda “Rica” Verceles Valuenzuela, a retired pastor who was the first woman to be licensed to preach and later to be ordained in the Church of the Nazarene in the Philippines and the first Asian representative to...
Retired Missionary to Philippines - Tillie McCroskey - Passes to Heavenly Reward
March 19, 2014
Tillie McCroskey “slipped the surly bonds of Earth and touched the face of God” on Monday morning, March 17, at 5:49am. She was born in Goessel, Kansas on May 22, 1926. She was the 2nd of 6...