We welcome Pastor Jeremy Page, his wife Lynette, and their son Luke to our FW Westridge congregation. The Pages are cross-cultural servants and come to the West Texas District after serving on the mission field. Pastor Downs will participate in their installation on October 16. 

Dear Pastors and Children’s Ministry Leaders,

The Board of General Superintendents of the Church of the Nazarene has made a formal statement regarding our policy regarding sexual misconduct. “The Church of the Nazarene has adopted a zero-tolerance policy for sexual misconduct and inappropriate behavior with minors. All workers, leaders, and pastoral staff are to be above reproach in their conduct and to act in the best interest of others. This requires not only that they themselves refrain from engaging in any abusive or suspicious behavior involving minors; they will also be required to report without delay to the proper authorities anyone seen engaging in such behavior.” The Board of General Superintendents (statement from M11 conference in Louisville)

The West Texas Children and Youth Ministries partner with MinistrySafe for our online sexual abuse training. MinistrySafe is a tool to help churches begin the process of protecting the children and youth in their ministries. The West Texas Ministry Safe Training Team (MST) will be working with each church on the district that ministers to children to begin (or update) this process at their local church.

We will be taking the following approach.

Step 1 – Every Senior/Lead Pastor communicates with the West Texas Ministry Safe Training Team (MST) a list of pastoral staff, leaders, or volunteers who minister with children or youth (18 years of age or younger). All Senior/Lead Pastors are required to complete the training regardless if they directly minister to children/youth or not.

• Provide First/Last Name, working email, preferred language, and identify if Sexual Abuse Awareness Training (AWT) or Skillful Screening Training (SS) is required.
• Please note, Skillful Screening is required for all senior/lead pastors and anyone who screens/hires/fires staff or volunteers who will be ministering to children/youth.
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Step 2 – The MST will send a training email to each person’s email provided from Step 1. This email will include a link for each individual to complete the training. If there are individuals who do not have a working email, the senior pastor (or delegate) can contact the MST to discuss an alternative approach for training.

Step 3 – Each individual will open the link provided (open the link only once). They are to watch all seven videos and then complete the online quiz. This will take approximately one hour to complete the entire process for Sexual Abuse Awareness Training. (Senior Pastors are provided a separate link to complete the Skillful Screening Training).

Step 4 – The MinistrySafe system will notify the MST that the training is completed. The Team will update records and notify West Texas Kids Treasurer to initiate payment from local churches.

Step 5 – West Texas Kids Treasurer, Candace Clem ([email protected]), will coordinate with each local church to pay for the training. (Training costs $5 per MinistrySafe Awareness Training; $50 for Skillful Screening Training).

The MST is prepared to work with you as you conduct this process on the local level. See team contact information:

Mary Brewer - 817-915-5034 [email protected] Zones: Fort Worth, Lamesa, Metro Mid-Cities, Wichita Falls

Connie Lincecum - 817-240-4474 [email protected] Zones: Abilene, Amarillo, Arrowhead, Denton, High Plains, Lubbock



Jennifer Sommers – 817-919-8078 [email protected]

Regards,

Jennifer Sommers

West Texas District Children’s Director

Our district bookkeeper, Griselda Sierra, has prepared the West Texas District 2022-2023 "Funding The Mission" report as of September 14, 2022. Pastors, please pay close attention to your church's contributions so far this year. Please make every effort to encourage your people to faithfully maintain their giving for others. 

Click here to download the report.

Curso Ministerial: La Teología de Juan Wesley

Fecha: 20 de septiembre - 25 de octubre

Profesor: Rev. Jose Palacios

Para inscribirte al curso o para más información comunícate con el pastor José Palacios - [email protected]

Our West Texas churches have been so faithful to give to the Alabaster Offering over the years.  Thank you for your support of this important ministry!

Although this offering can be taken locally and sent to Global Treasury Services at any time of year, September is a popular month for Alabaster.

The Alabaster Offering provides funds for property and buildings around the world. While we understand the church consists of the people of God and not a building, buildings erected for the purpose of ministry help provide a sense of permanence, functionally enhance ministry efforts, and convey an attitude that the Church of the Nazarene intends to "put down roots."

Alabaster funds are used for new churches to:

• Purchase property or a church building
• Purchase or build a church parsonage
• Build a church building
• Convert property into a church gathering space
• Meet initial costs for renting a church meeting space for a limited period of time. 
• Alabaster funds may also be used to: Purchase or build missionary homes
• Purchase or build regional or field mission facilities
• Build or repurpose buildings on Bible college campuses.  

Pastors and NMI Presidents -- Are you looking for videos to show to your congregation about the Alabaster Offering? They are available here in English, Portuguese, Spanish, French, and Korean: 

NMI - Alabaster | Church of the Nazarene

Just a reminder that the Alabaster Offering is one of the TOP FIVE AREAS OF IMPACT for Nazarene Missions International along with Prayer, World Evangelism Fund, Mentoring Children & Youth, and supporting our LINKS Missionaries.

Church treasurers can submit the Alabaster Offering through your church’s Funding The Mission account or by mailing a check made out to “General Treasurer” and designated for “Alabaster Offering” to:

   GLOBAL TREASURY SERVICES

   CHURCH OF THE NAZARENE

   P O BOX 843116

   KANSAS CITY, MO 64184-3116

Hello friends on the West Texas District!

Well, we have arrived back in Amman after our 3 month home assignment in the states and are (mostly) over our jet lag at this point, yay!

We just wanted to reach out and thank you all again for having us back in June. We know it was a bummer that we had to do mostly online services, but our family was so blessed by our time in Texas and your support, encouragement, and generosity! Hopefully we can make it back again in the future and make up for the fellowship (and food!) we missed this time! In the meantime though, if there is anything we can do to help you all in your support of missions at your churches, please don't hesitate to reach out, we are happy to partner however we can!

Blessings to you!

Joel, Kristin and Jackson Burchfiel 

We are gathering coats at Lantana Community Church to be brought up to Cactus. 

You may drop off coats at the church

M-F from 9:00 am -3:00 pm

Contact Kaye Wheatley about weekends drop-offs  

C-972-567-4273 or [email protected]  

Deadline for coat drop-off is Monday, September 26

This November, from the 21st until the 29th, we are joining once again with a number of other organizations in the Panhandle to raise funds through the Panhandle Gives. This campaign is centered around Giving Tuesday which is November 29th. Last year, you, our friends, and a host of your friends, helped CNMC raise nearly $40,000! This year, we would like to reach our goal of $100,000! This amount will enable us to continue the ministries currently offered though the wonderful staff we have and will have but also, help us to grow and expand the CNMC ministry to help meet even more people's needs in 2023.

Another way you can partner with us during the campaign is to become a fundraising hero yourself; you can have your own fundraising page on the Panhandle Gives website with CNMC and direct all of your friends and acquaintances to your page to give to the ministry of CNMC. If you, as a Peer to Peer fundraising hero for CNMC, raise the most money for the campaign there is a special prize from CNMC. If you are interested in in helping CNMC as a fundraising hero, please contact Phil Anderson at [email protected] to get you signed up.

Also, would you consider praying specifically about what God would have you give to CNMC this November and donate through the Panhandle Gives? The more we raise, the more we receive through the Amplification Fund. Money donated to the Panhandle Gives Amplification Fund is distributed to organizations by percentage of total money they raise over $250. Every dollar helps us reach our goal!

The ministry really needs a very good to good midsize 4 door travel car, such as a Hyundai, Kia, Toyota etc. This car would be used for travel back and forth to the bank in Dumas and meetings in Amarillo and the West Texas District. We would also use it to deliver Meals on Wheels have it available for interns, and other in-town ministries in which walking is not an option. Right now, most of us use our own vehicles to run errands and do ministry for CNMC. This car would be a great blessing to help staff not have to use their own vehicles or drive the large 15 passenger vans we have for teams.

If you are willing to donate for a car, just earmark your donation ‘car’. If you have a car that you would like to donate that is reliable and fits our needs, please call Rev. Olbin Visagie through our office number: 806-421-0160.