Oliver R. Phillips, director for Mission Strategy USA/Canada, announced the appointment, in consultation with the Board of General Superintendents, of three new mission directors. These directors will join three others who will serve through the next quadrennial on a year-to-year contractual agreement. According to Phillips, these changes were inspired and recommended to develop new leadership within the particular people groups, allow for present mission directors the freedom to explore previous local commitments, and facilitate the re-alignment of the present structure for new strategy options.

The new mission directors include:

Michael Andrews—Native American Ministries
Andrews (Southwest Native American District) is a graduate of Vennard College (Iowa) and Circleville Bible College, as well as a prolific student of the Spanish language. He is a member of the Board of Trustees for the Native Mission Training Center and is the president of the Chaplain's Association at Phoenix, Arizona Indian Medical Center. Presently, Andrews serves as Latin American liaison and assistant to the president with CHIEF (Christian Hope Indian Eskimo Fellowship, headquartered in Phoenix).

Stephen Lee—Korean Ministries
Lee (Anaheim District) is a graduate of Korean Bible College, West Coast Christian College, and the School of Bible Theology. Since 1993, Lee has served as the senior pastor of Garden Grove Korean Church of the Nazarene in California and is currently a member of the Credential Board. In addition, Lee is president of Southwest Region of the Association of North American Koreans and coordinator of Korean Ministry for Anaheim and Southern California Districts. Lee began his ministry as a youth minister and choir director in Seoul, Korea in 1977.

Pascal Permis—Haitian Ministries
Permis (Southern Florida) is a graduate of Hobe Sound Bible College and Nazarene Theological Seminary. He has served as pastor of the Indiantown Evangelical Haitian Church of the Nazarene in South Florida since 1984. A new congregation has been birthed in Port St. Lucy and Permis is the director and producer of a weekly Haitian Christian radio program that reaches the Haitian Diaspora as far away as the Bahamas.
--Mission Strategy