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Eurasia Region’s Literature Ministry has translated two new books in the Books for Pastors program be used by ministers and lay leaders in Albania and Romania. “In the Name of Jesus,” by Henri Nouwen, was translated into Romanian by a team of one translator and one editor, and 500 copies were printed.

South Asia Nazarene Bible College (SANBC) marked multiple graduations in Bangladesh, India, Nepal and Sri Lanka from December through February. The college, which has 87 education centers, serves more than 1,500 students at any time, across 19 districts and in 17 major languages.

For Zee Kleshchar, communications is a ministry of connecting. And in the CIS, a field of large and spread out countries, being able to effectively connect Nazarenes who are hours and days apart is critical to maintain unity and encouragement.

Borgo San Lorenzo, Italy – Forty-four people gathered in a small rental space on December 15th to dedicate and celebrate a church plant’s new permanent location in a community about 50 minutes’ drive from Firenze (Florence), Italy.

"For us the shipment was a huge blessing – for us, for the community, for the church!" Magda Cini explains as we are getting ready to take some Christmas parcels to families in her village. Magda is the pastor of the Nazarene church in Ţigmandru, a small village in the Transylvania region of Romania, and has started a number of projects in the community.

Rev. Ignacio Pesado was installed as the new district superintendent at the Spain District Assembly on November 11, 2012. At age 28, Ignacio is one of the youngest people to fill the role in the denomination, and the first non-missionary to take the role in Spain.

In the last six months distances in Russia have gotten a lot smaller. This is neither because the country has shrunk, nor because someone came up with a faster means of transportation to shorten travel time across the immense and wild Russian territory. Yet European Nazarene College (EuNC) students and teachers in Russia can say that they are a lot closer now than they ever were before. And it's because of the global Nazarene video conference system utilizing a product called Vidyo, which EuNC uses to communicate.

Chernovtsy, Ukraine – The children’s faces light up each time the young volunteers come to visit them at the Aquila Foundation ministry to children with disabilities. In Chernovtsy, in the southwest of Ukraine, half an hour from the border with Romania, is the town where Vera Kushner, a Nazarene whose heart and ministry is for people with disabilities, started the Aquila Foundation nearly nine years ago.