Hint: Alabaster funds are focused on one particular need.

Answer: D. Hot lunches

Alabaster funds are designated specifically for the construction of churches, schools, hospitals, and other ministry-related buildings. Of Alabaster funds received, 80 percent goes to world mission fields, and 20 percent goes to multicultural congregations in the United States and Canada.

Hint: He replaced Bill Sullivan, who retired in February.

Answer: B. Tom Nees

In February 2003, Tom Nees was elected by the General Board to serve as director of this department, which oversees development of the church and its pastors in the United States and Canada.

Answer: C. Olathe, Kansas

MidAmerica Nazarene University (MNU) was founded in 1966 with an enrollment of 263. Today, its enrollment has grown to approximately 1,800 students. MNU offers undergraduate academic majors in 39 areas as well as degree-completion and graduate programs.

Hint: It’s in a suburb of Kansas City.

Hint: Members may have to step outside their comfort zones.

Answer: B. Compassionate ministries

The Church of the Nazarene recognizes nearly 1,100 local churches in the United States and Canada as Good Samaritan churches. These churches demonstrate a heart of compassion by reaching out to those in need in their local community. Among their minstries are food pantries, hot lunch programs, job training, free clinics, and clothing distribution.

Hint: Participants earn badges, awards, and citations.

Answer: C. Caravan

Caravan is a Nazarene program committed to the physical, social, mental, and spiritual growth of children from four years of age through sixth grade. Throughout the year, participants work on badges and complete requirements for awards and citations. They are recognized at the year-end Blue and White Banquet.

Hint: Missionaries were working there before the Church of the Nazarene was officially organized.

Answer: A. India

In 1898 the Association of Pentecostal Churches of America (APCA) began a mission work near Bombay with missionaries Rev. and Mrs. M. D. Wood, Lillian Sprague, Carrie Taylor, and Fred Wiley. In 1908 at Pilot Point, Texas, the APCA merged with two other Wesleyan-Holiness denominations to form the present-day Church of the Nazarene.