Christmas Shopping?

There is a new feature to our website... an online store! We have loaded it up with recommended books and albums. We hope that your find these resources helpful and encouraging.

There is another aspect to this online store though. The store is made possible by a program that Amazon.com provides. Everything you purchase through our store is actually purchased through Amazon.com. You get their same low prices and shipping rates... and .... NCC gets a small percentage of the sale. Basically, Amazon.com sees us as an advertisement for them and therefore compensates us accordingly. We are essentially just recommending some resources for you.

Here's the even cooler deal! If you enter into Amazon.com through our website, but decide to move from purchasing a helpful book on marriage and decide to buy a 56 inch flat screen TV, we still get the compensation! As long as you enter into Amazon.com through our website we get credit for it.

So if you plan on doing some Christmas shopping through Amazon.com, why not enter through our site and support the mission?

First Friday!

I can't express how excited I am about the upcoming First Friday which is this Friday night at Central Lutheran 6pm. The bottom line is we have a leadership crisis in our culture. We see this in church, but it's not isolated to just church. It's found in households, cities, the workplace, and in our nation. First Fridays serves as an opportunity for us to come and eat, worship, pray and talk about what it means for us to be leaders. All are welcome, as all are called to lead! We want to feed you and need to know how many of you are coming so please RSVP be emailing me.

Joining the Church

Tomorrow night is Joining the Church! We will gather at Central Lutheran at 6 pm to eat, hear about the church, and give you a chance to ask any question you want to ask. If you haven't been yet to a Joining the Church night, please consider coming. Childcare is available.

Please email me if you can make it... we want to make sure we have enough food!

Exciting NCC Kids News!

What’s New at NCC Kids??

We are excited to announce that our kids’ program here at NCC is expanding to accommodate the steady growth we have seen over the recent months. It has been amazing to see all that God is doing in the lives of our kids! We look forward to watching them grow into all that God has created them to be.

As of Sunday, October 17^th, there are a few changes that will take place regarding the age groups and sign up process. We will now have four age groups which are: Nursery 0-2, Preschool 3-4, Lower elementary 5-6, and Upper elementary 7-12. Each group will be identified by the colors red, orange, yellow, and green, respectively.

The sign up process will be as follows: Nursery (Red) and Preschool (Orange) will have the sign up sheets in their classrooms upstairs. Parents will be able to sign in and drop off their kids in their rooms by 3:45 each Sunday. After the meeting, parents will need to sign their kids out as they pick them up. Our elementary groups (Yellow and Green) will be signed in downstairs at the table in the back of the auditorium. Both groups will remain downstairs for our time of worship and then will be taken upstairs to their classrooms by theirs respective teachers. Parents will then need to pick them up and sign them out upstairs at the end of the meeting.

We believe that these new groups and small changes in the sign in/out process will improve our program and make it easier for parents and teachers. Our goal is to keep making NCC Kids a place where parents, teachers, and kids can work together for the common goal of seeing lives supernaturally changed by God.

Huge thanks to all our volunteers who make all this possible. We truly appreciate all our teachers who have volunteered their time and energy to be a blessing in the lives of everyone at NCC Kids. Thanks for all your hard work!!

Wes and Malena Swarthout

NCC Kids Coordinators

Read2Me at McCarver Elementary

McCarver is looking for people who like kids and like to read. No prepartation is needed for these sessions. Just come ready to read with a child.... Here are the opportunities...

McCarver:

Wednesday

9:30 – 10:15 Smith 3^rd grade

10:45 – 11:30 Miller 2^nd grade (session full)

1:25- 2:10 Sasaki 1^st grade

2:30 – 3:15 Kahn 2^nd grade

Thursday

10:45 – 11:30 Murphy 1^st grade

1:25 – 2:10 Hogan 3^rd grade

2:30 – 3:15 Nelson 2^nd grade

Friday

10:45 – 11:30 Thomas 1^st grade

If you are interested in serving in this way, please contact me.

BBQ/Baptisms/Joint Church Meeting

Join us this Sunday (October 10) at 4 pm as we celebrate what God has done among us! We will be gathering for worship, a short time of teaching, baptisms and BBQ! If you are interested in being baptized, contact Bo Noonan.

We also have the privilege of the Church at Cedar Springs (Graham) joining us for the service. Let's show them our hospitality. Here are some ways you can help:

New Community will provide the meat & buns, plates, drinks, cups & utensils. We're asking everyone to bring a dish based on their last name: Dessert (A-M), Side Dish (N-Z).

We could also use some help in setting up before and serving during the meal.

Questions or interested in serving? Contact Michael Gray

Opportunities to Serve at McCarver Elementary!

Hello NCC,

Thanks for taking an interest in serving McCarver Elementary School. We,the FYT (Frontier Year Team), have been there regularly for the past month, interacting with children who, despite lack of resources, have all been happy, lively and kind hearted. The fact that some of these children go home to impoverished or difficult homes, yet put on brave smiles at school, really makes us want to serve them more!

If you are looking for ways to volunteer, please see the opportunities below:

In October classes will begin after school for children to study and catch up on homework. The lady in charge of these, Nicole, is looking for volunteers from 4-5:30 pm to come to the school and help tutor .

The school is also in need of adults to monitor recess. Recesses run in half hour increments from 11:30 am-1:30 pm, outdoors when the weather is fine. Caleb and Matt have been enjoying themselves greatly playing soccer with the young lads, while Karissa has been supervising playground equipment.

More opportunities will soon be opened! If you want to serve the school and, through McCarver, reach the city of Tacoma please contact us!

The FYT, Caleb, Matt and Karissa