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Please follow the instructions provided on this page to access Funding the Mission. If you are the Lead Pastor, Church Secretary, and/or Church Treasurer and you are still not able to log in after trying the shared instructions, please contact us by emailing admin@vanaz.org and let us know that you need access to Funding the Mission. Visit the Funding the Mission Login Page to access the new FTM page. https://ftm.nazarene.org/

It has been almost one month since the launch of the new Funding the Mission website. We hope you have been able to login and explore the new website, and we thank you so much for your generous giving. As we are communicating with our users, we wanted to send some helpful tips to our generous partners. Tip #1 – Remember that if it is your first time logging into the website, although your email username should be the same as the previous site, you will need to reset your password first. For a how-to guide on this process, please visit this link and select “How to Change your Nazarene Account Password.” Tip #2 – All users must use a personal account to enter FTM 3.0. You will not be able to use an account of a previous treasurer or pastor. To set your own account, contact us at stewardship@nazarene.org and provide the information found at this link. Tip #3 – FTM 3.0 has a drop-down menu to select your giving options on the contributions page. Remember to select your giving category first and then select the drop-down menu below that window to send a specific fund gift. Tip #4 – FTM 3.0 does not have a “write-in” option like the previous website. However, under the fund menu, you will find a “Search for Additional Project” option that allows you to search for a specific project (see picture below). If you have difficulty during the login process, please visit our FTM resources page or feel free to email our team at stewardship@nazarene.org. May God continue to bless your ministry as you serve Christ and His Church! Stewardship Development Church of the Nazarene

Find "How-To-Guides" of the new Funding the Mission Platform by visiting https://nazarene.org/funding-the-mission/resources

Location: Virginia Beach First Church of the Nazarene 4413 Wishart Rd, Virginia Beach, VA 23455, USA Time: 9am - 5pm Course: Church Planting Churches Cost: $45 (includes lunch and snacks for all 3 days and all training materials) Check payable to: VA District Church of the Nazarene Registration: Register Online Now District Church Plant Training Coordinator: Reggie Phillips | 804-677-8748 | RPhillips@southsidechurchva.org This is a good time for pastors who feel like they have lost much this year to plan for how to restart and grow during the next year. Training Track Offered This is a parenting course on how to be a good mother church. It covers why a mother church is essential to the planting process, how to identify, train, and equip a church plant leader, and even how to birth a church that can stand on its own two feet after launch. If you feel called to give birth to a church plant from your local church this track is essential to having a healthy live birth. Visit the VA District DCPI Page (www.vanaz.org/dcpi) for more detailed information.

Each Church must report its monthly attendance average on the 2nd of each month. Please report your church's STATS no later than the 2nd of each month at noon. Thank you in advance for your help in reporting the attendance averages as soon as possible. HOW TO REPORT ONLINE Visit: www.vanaz.org/reporting Go to: Monthly Reporting Select: Your Zone Select: Your Church Fill out the report You will receive an email confirmation with a PDF copy of your report. Follow the link https://www.vanaz.org/reporting <<<<<<<<<<<<<< or click the image to go directly to the "Monthly Reporting Page."

January 16, 2023 @ 1:00 pm ​At Charlottesville 1st Church of the Nazarene 3056 Louisa Rd., Keswick, VA 22947 As part of our MLK DIVERSITY CELEBRATION 2023, we are asking individuals to bring either a DESSERT or DRINK from their country of origin to share with everyone at the end of the Service. Please sign-up by Wednesday, January 11, 2023.

Early Bird Registration Deadline: December 23rd We are counting down the days to get to celebrate with students and leaders at Winter Retreat 2023 at the Church of the Nazarene in Harrisonburg from January 13-15! We have a spectacular weekend plan for students, as we gather to worship Jesus and to fellowship. The theme is “The Way,” as we are challenged and invited to focus on how our lives should be molded and framed by the way set by Jesus. Our speaker is Crystal Eddings. Crystal currently serves at Impact Church in Boston, MA. We are so excited for how God will work in and through her as she shares from The Word. Worship through music will be led by Brothers and Sisters, based out of Kentucky. They did a fantastic job last year, and we are so excited to have them back! Registration for Winter Retreat is open! Early-bird pricing has been extended through December 23rd! The cost per student is $120 (after December 23rd, it will be $140). Visit this link for more information, promo graphics, and to register: http://virginianyi.com/events/winter-retreat If you have any questions about the event, please feel free to contact the event director, Rev. Olivia Michael, pastorolivia@cotnaz.org. Retreat Speaker Cristal Eddings Crystal currently serves at Impact Church in Boston, MA. We are so excited for how God will work in and through her as she shares from the Word.

Location: District Resource Center (DRC), 5906 Harbour Park Dr., Midlothian, VA 23112 Time: 9am - 5pm Course: Church Planting Essentials Cost: $45 (includes lunch and snacks for all 3 days and all training materials) Check payable to: VA District Church of the Nazarene Registration: Register Online Now District Church Plant Training Coordinator: Reggie Phillips | 804-677-8748 | RPhillips@southsidechurchva.org This is a good time for pastors who feel like they have lost much this year to plan for how to restart and grow during the next year. Training Track Offered Church Planting Essentials - This is the practical nuts and bolts of church planting from receiving a clear vision, to assembling a team, to how to budget for the sound system. If you are called to be a church planter, are looking to be on a church planting team, or are just curious what it takes to plant a new church, this course will teach you the basic principles and how to apply them in your own local context. Visit the VA District DCPI Page (www.vanaz.org/dcpi) for more detailed information.

During the 98th Session of the General Board, members approved a new set of bylaws for Sunday School and Discipleship Ministries International (SDMI). The bylaws were created by a global SDMI strategy team with representatives from each of the six world regions. The team sought to identify the principles, practices, and behaviors of a local church that effectively makes Christlike disciples. These results were incorporated into the bylaws as five core principles: fervent prayer, compassionate outreach, comprehensive biblical learning, intentional mentoring and equipping, and authentic relationships. The team also suggested the renaming of Sunday School & Discipleship Ministries International to Nazarene Discipleship International (NDI), which was approved by the General Board’s Local Church Ministries Committee and later the full board. According to NDI Global Director Scott Rainey, the name change more adequately reflects the focus of the denomination’s global discipleship framework, A Journey of Grace. “We remain committed to Sunday School as a fundamental enterprise in our Scriptural mandate to make disciples,” Rainey said. “However, the global strategy team wanted our name to reflect our commitment that making disciples is an ongoing journey encompassing all of life. Additionally, we wanted to be sure our name included the word ‘Nazarene’ to communicate our identity within the denomination.” The change creates continuity between the names of the three local church ministries, Nazarene Missions International, Nazarene Youth International, and now Nazarene Discipleship International. To access the bylaws in English, Spanish, Portuguese, and Korean, from the GMC resources library click here or you can download them from the links below. New Reporting Guidelines Find the complete guidelines and definitions on the NDI Bylaws documents. NDI Accountability Care List (ACL) Each local church should strive to reach all unsaved persons in the community. In order to accomplish this goal, the NDI ministry of the local church shall create and sustain an up-to-date Accountability Care List (ACL). An ACL should include the name and contact/follow-up information for every person who regularly attends any of its NDI ministries and any individual the local church has encountered through outreach ministries or relational discipleship/evangelism. Once a person is added to the ACL, the local church should actively seek to minister to that person in the name of Jesus as he or she is brought into the fellowship of the local church. The ACL should be divided among active NDI ministries across the church to include all those contained on the full list. Teachers/leaders of each ministry shall facilitate regular care and connection between the local congregation and those on the ACL. The ACL shall become an active prayer list for the church through its regular NDI ministries. The ACL should prompt the local church to build Christ centered relationships with all people on the list. The ACL is intended to provide relational accountability for the body of Christ to its responsibility in the community. The total number of all individuals on the ACL is to be reported in the Annual Pastor’s Report. The ACL includes all age groups and all NDI ministries. (For a full description of the varying NDI ministries refer to your regional handbook.) NDI ATTENDANCE The purpose of counting and reporting NDI attendance in the local church is to help measure the effectiveness of that church’s effort to make Christlike disciples, fulfilling the purpose of NDI. All NDI efforts should lead to the lost coming to faith in Jesus, new Christians being established in their faith in Christ, and believers experiencing the fullness of the Spirit, maturing in grace, and becoming disciple-makers. NDI attendance measures, therefore, should reflect this desired purpose. NDI attendance includes all NDI ministries. These ministries shall be counted each week by the local church according to the guidelines listed below and in Article III, Section 1 of the bylaws. SECTION 1. Definitions and Reports The attendance of all Discipleship Ministry groups shall be defined as persons involved in Bible engagement and its application of the biblical principles for Christlikeness. a. NDI attendance should consider: How many individual people is the local church engaging with along their discipleship journey? In this case, every individual is counted only once. This number allows the church to evaluate the effectiveness (growth or decline) of reaching new people from its community. How many discipleship “touches” occur during any given week/month? With NDI’s purpose of walking with every individual into a deeper experience with God toward holiness, believers may attend multiple NDI activities during any given period of time. The purpose of this number is to see the full effect of the discipleship effort of a local church. People, in this category, may be counted more than once as they may attend more than one meeting each week. b. Attendance figures from all discipleship ministries groups shall be reported regularly to the local church board and on the Annual Pastor’s Report. c. The District NDI Board, in consultation with the district superintendent, shall determine the frequency of the reporting (monthly, quarterly, or annually). All reporting will be submitted to the district.

We are two weeks away from the launch of the new and improved Funding the Mission website, version 3.0, which will be available for all users on Monday, November 7! We hope this new site will continue to serve your church and district with excellence. In our efforts to inform all users of the upcoming change, we want to share some more tips on how to use Funding the Mission 3.0 before its launch. FTM 3.0 will include dual authentication for each user. This means the first time you log in, the site will want to confirm your identity by emailing you a code. Once that code is entered and the process is completed, the user will be able to enter the site. If you are currently logging into FTM with someone else’s Nazarene Account, contact stewardship@nazarene.org to set up a user account under your own name. All of the important financial detail information you need, such as your church’s income and World Evangelism, Pensions and Benefits, district, and educational goal summaries, will be conveniently located on the home screen. If your local church prefers to send a gift by paper check, you will be able to print a remittance form to send with your check by clicking on the button “Mail GTS Contribution” on the “Contributions” page. Attention: Although your email address to enter the site will remain the same, each user will need to reset their password the first time they log in to Funding the Mission 3.0. We will keep you informed as the day of the launch grows closer. May God bless you in your work as you continue to serve Christ and His Church! Stewardship Development Church of the Nazarene