Dr. Nancy Palmer, former NAB missionary to Cameroon, went home to be with the Lord ealier this week while surrounded by her family. Alongside her husband of fifty-nine years, Dr. Dennis Palmer, she ministered off and on in Cameroon for nearly three decades since 1979. The following reflection comes from NAB Executive Director, Dr. Harry Kelm:
When I heard the news, my heart grieved for Dennis and her dear family and grieved for her friends in North America and all across the globe. It was soon after I took the role of Executive Director that I and a number of others from the NAB had a chance to travel to Cameroon. While there, we spent time with Dennis and Nancy. It was abundantly clear that they were a team and had great love for each other. We experienced their gracious hospitality, and we saw the deep love and respect the Cameroonians and fellow missionaries had for them.
Nancy’s impact is significant. She was tremendously competent and gifted in her ability to teach and come alongside others. She invested in the lives of many who are now taking that influence and multiplying it. Nancy was also incredibly kind and gracious. She lived the love of Jesus to her friends and family. I know Nancy is rejoicing in heaven with her Savior and greeting friends and others who have left this Earth for their eternal home. Let us pray: for Dennis and her family, and that her legacy would continue to make a difference and turn hearts and lives to Jesus.
Nancy’s celebration of life will take place Saturday, September 12, 2026, at 11:00 a.m. (Central) at Christ Community Church – Brookside Campus in Kansas City, Missouri. In leiu of flowers, the family suggests memorial contributions to the Mbingo Cancer Center in Cameroon.
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Reframe is a four-week, online training for pastors and leaders to help you assess your congregation’s evangelism readiness. This training will provide an evaluative framework to help you to recognize gaps you may need to fill and distortions you will want to correct, and it will provide a clearer path forward toward helping your church become more evangelistically faithful.
Reframe is not a training that will focus on how to better do evangelism but instead will focus on how to be evangelistic.
- How well equipped is your congregation for the ministry of evangelism?
- How do you evaluate your church’s health in that regard?
- How would you identify equipping gaps in your congregation’s evangelistic faithfulness?
Each training consists of an online, 90-minute session that will take place across four consecutive Wednesdays, September 16 through October 7.
Those who are interested can sign up at the link below. The first week of training begins this Wednesday, September 16. Training is free for NAB ministry leaders.
With this year’s Advent, we are trying something new. For the first time ever, we will be printing the Advent devotionals in a booklet, making it easier for you to take part in the devotionals together as a congregation, Bible study, or small group.
For those who have signed up to receive the devotional emails, we will still be sending them as usual, as well as posting them on the NAB website, but the physical booklet will allow you to go to that special place of connection with the Lord with no screens to distract you.
If you are interested in receiving a physical copy of the devotionals, the best way to get one is to make sure you are on the list to receive the NAB’s free, bi-annual magazine, Onward; a free copy of this year’s Advent devotionals will be bundled with every copy.
Want to sign up? Fill out the form at the link below before October 1, making sure you include your address.
You can also download slides and bulletin inserts to promote this year’s Advent at your church. Use the link below to find the resources that fit your need, or reach out to us as communications@nabconf.org.