Hint: The Alabaster Offering is a love offering for missions.

Answer: D. February and September

The Alabaster Offering, named for the love gift described in Matthew 26:6-13, is used to build churches, homes for missionaries and national workers, medical care facilities, and schools on mission fields around the world. Eighty percent of the offering goes to world mission areas, while 20 percent goes to multicultural congregations in the United States and Canada.

Hint: A leading phounding phather

Answer: B. Phineas F. Bresee Award

Caravan is a weekly kid’s club with an active, hands-on approach to learning. Children study the Articles of Faith of the Church of the Nazarene, examine the lives of prominent figures in Nazarene church history, and gain valuable developmental skills. Caravan’s highest award is the Phineas F. Bresee Award, named for one of the denomination’s founders.

Answer: D. 184

Every day, thousands of people receive food, clothing, housing, and health care through Nazarene compassionate ministry centers throughout the United States and Canada. As physical needs are met, doors are opened to minister to spiritual needs as well.

Hint: There are enough to have at least two in each state, province, and territory.

Hint: He also founded the Pentecostal Mission, an early Holiness group.

Answer: A. J. O. McClurkan

Founded in Nashville in 1901 as the Literary and Bible Training School for Christian Workers, Trevecca is now a four-year liberal arts university with a total enrollment of more than 1,800 students. The school offers both undergraduate and graduate programs in traditional and nontraditional settings.

Hint: If you need to “phone a friend” for the answer, call Deirdre Brower.

Answer: B. General NYI president

Deirdre Brower presently serves as global president of Nazarene Youth International (NYI). With nearly 320,000 members worldwide, NYI seeks opportunities to offer hope in Christ to young people throughout the world.

Hint: Each home was a center of care and compassion.

Answer: B. Home for unwed mothers

Social action movements such as The Salvation Army greatly influenced the early Holiness Movement. By 1915 the Church of the Nazarene operated homes for “unfortunate girls” and orphanages in four states and endorsed others in Massachusetts, Tennessee, and Texas.