Pastors | Nazarene Presence in the Arizona Sun Megaregion (1917-2017)

Sticking to the theme of durability on this megaregion, pastors stay for a long time. Notably the five longest tenured pastors are from the Latin American and Native American districts with tenures of 42 years (Latin American - Chandler Primera), 39 years (Native American - Kinlani Church), and three more at 24 to 25 years.

This district also has the fewest churches on a megaregion without an assigned pastor. Interestingly, there is a lay pastor and interim pastor that were not in the data, but had to be identified in the District Journal for Arizona.  Still, one of ten churches do not have an assigned pastor in this snapshot of the megaregion.

The intermingling of cultures, and among very traditional and slow-changing ones, will make clergy development an interesting process. I'll leave that here. -- Okay, I'll say one thing--can someone minister in this area without functional capacity in the Spanish language, at a minimum. An awareness of the cultural history of what Colin Woodard calls El Norte would also be helpful. 

Resources

• Pastors in Cascadia Megaregion
• Pastors in Northeast Megaregion
• Pastors in the Great Lakes Megaregion
• Pastors in the Southern California Megaregion
• Megaregions and the Church of the Nazarene in North America
• Nazarene Presence in the Cascadia Megaregion (1905-2015)
• Nazarene Presence in the Southern California Megaregion (Organized and Closed Churches)​
• Great Lakes Megaregion and the Church of the Nazarene​
• Nazarene Presence in the Northeast Megaregion (1887-2017)