 The purpose of founding ANU was an effort to train local pastors and church leaders for the ever-increasing reach of the Nazarene Church in Africa.Schmelzenbach is third in a line of four generations of missionaries of the Nazarene church.His son, Harmon R. Schmelzenbach works in the South Pacific area as the Field Strategy Coordinator for the Melanesian and South Pacific Fields for the Church of the Nazarene.