Nazarenes in the News is a compilation of online news articles featuring Nazarene churches or church members.

Trevecca professor, alumni part of new monastic movement
Nashville, Tennessee

(USA Today/The Tennessean, June 27) They aren't a commune, but they live in community. They are motivated by faith, but they attend different churches. They want to help the homeless, so they bought an apartment complex.

They are new monastics, dedicated to helping the poor, sharing resources and caring for creation. Known as Castanea, meaning chestnut tree in Latin, these young Christians are working to transform a run-down apartment complex into a place of reconciliation.

Castanea's members moved to Chestnut Hill, Tennessee, in South Nashville two years ago, planning to live in close proximity to one another, fulfilling their vision of Christian community and helping others.

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Veteran Nazarene journalist lays down his pen
Hermiston, Oregon

(East Oregonian, June 26) Dean Brickey, who retires this week as an East Oregonian senior reporter, started his journalism career as a high school student cleaning the floor under the Lake County Examiner's linotype machine.

The linotype, once dubbed the Eighth Wonder of the World by Thomas Edison, produced lines of type used to print many subsequent pages. The process was messy.

"I swept up the shavings under the linotype into a bucket and took them to be melted in a smelter," Brickey said.

Brickey and his wife Maggy soon will begin a new adventure, selling their house and setting off in a fifth wheel pulled by a pickup truck. The couple will volunteer with ROAM (RVs on a Mission), a Church of the Nazarene organization. They will travel around the country, helping build and maintain church buildings and campgrounds, helping people in need and in disaster relief.

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Diehl out, Collins in, as Liberty boys soccer coach
Columbus, Ohio

(Columbus Local News, June 29) Josh Diehl has resigned his position as head coach of the Olentangy Liberty boys soccer team to accept an assistant coach role with Mount Vernon Nazarene University's men's program.

"It's one of my professional goals to coach college someday as a head coach," Diehl said. "This is a step towards that. It's a wonderful opportunity and the timing was right."

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Families create village for MNU student from Belarus
Prarie Village, Kansas

(The Johnson County Sun, June 26) Tanya Khvitsko considers herself blessed to have been born without legs.

Otherwise she never would have found her way into the hearts of people she calls Team Tanya.

"If not because of my disability I would not have come to the U.S.," said Khvitsko, who is from Nyasvizh, Belarus. "I'm happy I'm physically handicapped."

Khvitsko, 20, divides her time among three local host families, all members of Hillcrest Covenant Church, Prairie Village, who have been involved in her life for years, managing her health care and making her a part of their families.

Khvitsko says she couldn't be happier. It is where she wants to stay.

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