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Nazarene Publishing House (NPH), the publishing arm of the Church of the Nazarene, is the world's largest publisher of Wesleyan-Holiness literature.〔http://www.nazarene.org/ministries/administration/visitorcenter/about/display.aspx〕 and has been located at 2923 Troost Avenue, Kansas City, Missouri since its foundation in 1912. NPH prints more than 25 million pieces of literature each year,〔http://www.flychurch.org/Lists/News%20and%20Announcements/Attachments/23/Naz%20centennial%20highlights.pdf〕 and processes more than 250,000 orders each year from more than 11,000 churches〔http://www.oracle.com/technology/products/ids/customers/nph.html〕 from many denominations. ==History== The Third General Assembly of the Church of the Nazarene held in Nashville, Tennessee in 1911 recommended that the infant denomination’s three publishing companies (then located in Rhode Island, Texas, and Los Angeles, California) each founded by a different Nazarene parent body, consolidate into “one central publishing company” and merge their three papers into one strong paper. The newly created Pentecostal Nazarene Publishing House was sited at 2923 Troost Avenue, Kansas City, Missouri, in 1912, with Clarence J. Kinne, a Nazarene ordained minister, as its first manager.〔http://m7conference.org/Default.aspx?tabid=151〕 The ''Herald of Holiness'', the new weekly paper, edited by B. F. Haynes, appeared for the first time in April 1912. ''The Other Sheep'' (later ''World Mission'') magazine began publication in 1913 under founding editor Charles Allen McConnell (born 19 June 1860 in Valparaiso, Indiana; died c.1950), who was NPH manager from 1916 to 1918.〔http://www.snu.edu/c-a-mcconnell〕 Both magazines were published until 1999, when they were discontinued in favor of ''Holiness Today'', a new publication. In the meantime, Spanish, Portuguese, and French editions of Herald of Holiness appeared over the years.〔http://dentonnazarene.org/Article%20-%20History%20of%20the%20Church%20of%20the%20Nazarene.htm〕 Lillenas Publishing, which was founded in Indianapolis, Indiana in 1925 by Nazarene minister and composer Haldor Lillenas (born 19 November 1885 at Stord Island, Norway; died 18 August 1959 at Aspen, Colorado).〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=HoMY 67: Wonderful Grace of Jesus )〕 Lillenas was purchased by NPH〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=A Hymn of Grace: Wonderful Grace of Jesus )〕 in 1930.〔Stacey Nicholas, "Holiness Churches", in ''The Encyclopedia of Indianapolis'', eds. David J. Bodenhamer, Robert Graham Barrows, and David Gordon Vanderstel (Indiana University Press, 1994):699.〕 Restructure In October, 2014, a preliminary decision was announced by the denomination's Board of General Superintendents to shut down NPH on December 1, 2014, citing “shifting cultural circumstances including changes in the church”.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Beacon Hill Press Closing )〕 However, on November 7, 2014, the Board of General Superintendents announced that rather than closing, NPH would undergo a restructure. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Nazarene Publishing House」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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