2020 Impact Report

IMPACT REPORT 2020

NAZARENE COMPASSIONATE MINISTRIES

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FOLLOWING THE EXAMPLE OF JESUS, Nazarene Compassionate Ministries partners with local Nazarene congregations around the world to clothe, shelter, feed, heal, educate, and live in solidarity with those who suffer under oppression, injustice, violence, poverty, hunger, and disease. Nazarene Compassionate Ministries exists in and through the Church of the Nazarene to proclaim the gospel to all people in word and deed.

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GOOD NE WS TO THE WORLD In the midst of the weight of this past

enough to eat. In Africa, five countries are

year, the hope of Christ shines; we

spearheading a community health project

see it in the compassionate action of

to bring health care and sanitation to rural

God’s people. The efforts you will read

areas through the actions of community

about here were only possible through

members.

Nazarene congregations, who this year mobilized and adapted to continue to

This annual report represents not what

meet great needs.

NCM is or does. Rather, it represents what NCM has been privileged to

In this report, Nazarene Compassionate

facilitate through local churches who are

Ministries highlights three areas of work,

responding to God’s call to compassion.

though there are so many other stories

Each set of numbers and each statistic

to tell. Economic development programs

represent people acting in the name of

highlight dignity as people learn new skills

Jesus to bring hope. Together, we are the

and build plans for stronger safety nets.

church offering good news to the world.

Agriculture projects ensure families have

NELL BECKER SWEEDEN Director, Nazarene Compassionate Ministries

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WHO WE ARE THE CHURCH IN ACTION

NAZARENE COMPASSIONATE MINISTRIES (NCM) IS THE CHURCH IN ACTION.

Holistic Child Development

We are an outflow of the Church of the Nazarene in our world, working to mobilize

Emergency Relief

local congregations to live out Christ’s call to care for those considered the “least of these” (Matthew 25). Through your

Anti-Human Trafficking

partnership, NCM walks alongside local churches when they are looking for ways to meet the needs around them. We use a

Economic Development

holistic ministry model that both proclaims and demonstrates the gospel of Christ, resulting in lives that are transformed

Food Security (Access to Food and Sustainable Agriculture)

through Christ.

Clean Water Together, we partner with congregations around the world to provide tangible expressions of Christ’s compassion through

Health Care

church-led community development and emergency relief work. We are seeing lives and communities transformed through these

Refugee and Immigrant Support

nine areas of work:

Women and Girls

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HIGHLIGHT

HOLISTIC CHILD DEVELOPMENT Run through local Nazarene churches, NCM child development programs use a holistic model to address each aspect of a child’s life—spiritual, physical, intellectual, emotional, and relational. Because we believe that the best child development happens in healthy families, the programs also integrate the lives of children’s families. This year, the connection to families enabled child development programs to support families during the pandemic.

Child sponsorship has long been a vital part of our child development programs.

Children who are sponsored are enrolled in child development centers, which provide education, preventative health care, nutritional support, social and psychological support, and spiritual nurturing.

11,000+ children were cared for through child development programs in 60 countries, and many more received care through holistic child development programs. This year, that included ongoing, large-scale food and cash distributions to families in crisis.

257 Nazarene child development centers in 38 countries provided holistic care for children, helping them grow physically, mentally, and spiritually.

3,682 children of Nazarene pastors received educational support through NCM’s child sponsorship program.

Nearly all Nazarene child development centers adapted to continue providing care to children and their families remotely, including educational support and relief aid.

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RAZEL’S STORY “This is the answer to what I was praying for,” Razel Malabanan says.

Malabanan’s children attend a child development program in the Philippines, where strict lockdowns meant that many people had no way to earn their typical wages.

Though the poverty rate in the country has been decreasing, extreme poverty continues to impact much of the population. Those who were the most vulnerable felt the lockdown’s impact the most.

As the Church of the Nazarene in the country grappled with how to help, leaders realized they had strong community connections through child development programs. Since March, NCM has joined local churches to distribute hundreds of packages of food staples. “Since the first day of quarantine, we worried how we could get money for our food since we are many in our home,” Malabanan explains. Now, the family has what they need. Malabanan, an area leader, will help other families connect with the church’s child development program.

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HIGHLIGHT

EMERGENCY RELIEF In 2020, many disasters were compounded by the pandemic. During and after wildfires, storms, floods, and explosions, NCM supported the mobilization of local churches as they developed ministries to address food aid, housing, hygiene distribution, mental health care, and more. Over the past several years, NCM has focused on training in disaster-prone areas. Because of this preparation, churches were better prepared to respond to both the pandemic and other disasters.

This fall, Hurricanes Eta and Iota hit countries in Central America only weeks apart. Hundreds were killed and hundreds of thousands still remain homeless. The Church of the Nazarene organized hot meals and food staples, clothing donations, and the arrival of the region’s mobile medical center.

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Notes from NCM Emergency Relief in 2020:

12 countries received technical assistance and project management for ongoing programs that are both a response to previous disasters and a development of resiliency for future ones.

NCM supported new, non-COVID emergency response projects in

13 countries.

1,300+

After a historic Atlantic Hurricane season, volunteers actively served those impacted by nonCOVID disasters.

These include (but aren’t limited to) responses to refugee crises in several regions, hurricanes across Central America, typhoons in the Philippines, and wildfires in the United States.

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CRISIS IN LEBANON When a large explosion tore through the port of Beirut in Lebanon on August 4, hundreds were killed and thousands were injured.

Nazarene families were among those impacted, and Nazarene buildings sustained damage.

The community surrounding these buildings was in great need; the blast came in the midst of existing health and economic crises. Local Nazarene churches partnered with NCM to address the triple impact of the explosion, the economic crisis, and the pandemic.

Below, read highlights from the work the Nazarene church did through the support of NCM:

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Organized repairs for homes and three Nazarene school buildings that were damaged

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Distributed about hot meals

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Helped students with school essentials and back-toschool packs

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Supplied students, many of whom are living in the country as refugees, with tablets for online learning

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4,000 food packages and 1,000

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Treated

314 people at a Nazarene medical facility, providing

medical and mental health care for those coping with the explosion, financial crisis, pandemic, and other ongoing needs •

Assisted with rent

30 families, who would otherwise be homeless,

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THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC The COVID-19 pandemic presented a public health crisis, but it also created a huge need for dignity-affirming projects as people struggled economically, mentally, and spiritually. Because the Church of the Nazarene is a global church, NCM’s model made us well-positioned to respond from the earliest days of the pandemic.

Through local churches, strong connections were established in every world region to ensure people had a community of hope and support.

During the pandemic, •

500,000+ people were served by the first wave of nearly 200 COVID-specific projects,

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7,000 churches in 88 countries hosted these projects,

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13,000+ volunteers mobilized to actively live compassion in their communities, and

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New and adapted ministries addressed food insecurity, hygiene supplies, awareness and education, prevention, mental health, agriculture, income replacement, and spiritual support.

In one area in Guatemala, families normally make a living recycling, but the landfills have been closed. Cash assistance means families can shop for and purchase their own food as well as stimulate the local economy. One woman says, “[It] is a blessing that they remembered us, because the truth is almost nobody does this.”

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LIBERIA : BECOMING SOMEBODY In several churches in Liberia,

support her family or make their

women gather, laughing as they

future better? After graduating, she

prepare for the day’s classes. Some

has become an advocate for the

will carefully slide long pillars of

program. “I want to encourage women

soap through a machine to cut them

out there who are just sitting, feeling

down to size. Others will carefully

like life has just failed them,” she

measure ingredients into large,

says. “I want to encourage them—to

colorful bowls or watch thread pull

tell them that they can still make it.”

together pattern pieces as they sew.

Though vocational training classes These are the women who participate

were put on hold when the pandemic

in the Empowering Women With

started, participants used their skills

Dignity project, where they learn

to reduce the impact of COVID-19

vocational skills to start small

in their communities. Students and

businesses. The classes, which are

instructors from the soap-making

hosted in Nazarene churches, were

class distributed hygiene products to

started by a group of women; they

more than 150 households, including

wanted to become somebody in a

those who had no means to buy the

country marked by gender-inequality.

products. Women who learned tailoring made face masks. Sao says she kept

Sao PoNyai, who graduated in

her family afloat with the skills she

February 2020, participated in a

learned, selling out of her baked goods

catering course. Before the classes,

every day. “Had it not been for the

she says, “I thought I was never going

vocational skills, my family and myself

to be happy again.” How could she

would have died of hunger,” she says.

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FINANCIAL SUMMARY FY 2020 REVENUE

Revenue

2020

2019

2018

Undesignated (Greatest Needs)

$1,905,054

$1,825,925

$2,098,103

Designated & Restricted

$2,729,119

$2,383,299

$3,757,736

Child Sponsorship

$3,649,863

$3,800,996

$4,130,991

Total

$8,284,036

$8,010,221

$9,986,830

10M 9M 8M 7M 6M 5M 4M 3M 2M 1M 0 2020

2019

2018

Undesignated (Greatest Needs) Designated & Restricted

Child Sponsorship

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Refugee & Immigrant Support 1%

Food Security 2% Women & Girls 3%

Economic Development 1%

Anti-Human TrafďŹ cking 3% Clean Water 3% Health 7%

Emergency Relief 9%

Child Development 48%

Revenue

Greater Compassion 24%

Refugee & Immigrant Support 1% Food Security 1% Health 3%

Economic Development 1% Anti-Human TrafďŹ cking 1% Women & Girls .5%

Clean Water 4%

Child Development 34%

Admin/Donor Engagement 12%

Spending Greater Compassion 16%

Emergency Relief 27%

“For I was hungry and you gave me something to eat, I was thirsty and you gave me something to drink, I was a stranger and you invited me in, I needed clothes and you clothed me, I was sick and you looked after me, I was in prison and you came to visit me. … Truly I tell you, whatever you did for one of the least of these brothers and sisters of mine, you did for me.”

Matthew 25:35-36, 40 NIV

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