GMC Flags of the Nations: Nigeria

Thursday, March 7, 2013

Global Ministry Center

Since September 1, 2009, the Church of the Nazarene's Global Ministry Center (GMC) proudly flies a flag each week of one of the many nations in which the denomination is present in ministry. Leaders were invited to send a national flag to be flown at the GMC alongside the flag of the United States*. The national flags rotate weekly, and photos of them raised are sent to the church leaders of that country.

This week: Nigeria

The Church of the Nazarene officially entered Nigeria in 1977.

Nigeria had a population of 170,123,740 in 2012. That same year, Nigeria reported 67 Churches of the Nazarene, 48 of which had been officially organized. Nigeria has 7,222 total members.

Nigeria is on the Africa Region. It has two Phase 2 districts.

For more information about the Africa Region, visit africanazarene.org.


Previous flags featured:

Argentina	Equatorial Guinea	Madagascar
Aruba	Ethiopia	Mali
Belize	France	Nicaragua
Benin	Gabon	Niger
Bolivia	Germany	Nigeria
Brazil	Ghana	Paraguay
Burkina Faso	Guam	Peru
Cameroon	Guinea	Senegal
Canada	Guinea-Bissau	Sierra Leone
Cape Verde	Guinea-Conakry	South Africa
Chile	Guyana	Suriname
Colombia	Haiti	Swaziland
Côte d'Ivoire	Ireland	Togo
Cuba	Israel	United Kingdom
Dominican Republic	Italy	Uruguay
Ecuador	Liberia	Venezuela

NOTE: Some countries cannot be represented in this project in order to maintain security of those working there.

* = The weekly highlighted flag is raised on the middle of three poles in compliance with U.S. government protocols. It flies to the left of the GMC host-nation United States flag, which flies above the host-state flag of Kansas. The Christian flag flies on the third pole.

The Global Ministry Center is the mission and service hub of the Church of the Nazarene.

 

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