Read the Bible in 2011

It's hard to put into words the value of the Bible. The best advice I can give you when it comes to the Bible is... read it. Here is a link to a plan that will help you read the Bible in a year. I like this plan as it gives room for that occasional day off. Give it a shot, you won't regret it!

http://www.navpress.com/uploadedFiles/15074%20BRP.dj.pdf

Happy New Year!

Christmas Party

Don't forget to purchase a ticket for the NCC Christmas Party on Saturday, December 18th! You can purchase the ticket this Sunday at our gathering, or by contacting the office. We are asking for a minimum donation of $10 per ticket. Kids are free! The evening will consist of live music, games, an impromptu Christmas pageant (you just may be the lead!), and a wonderful dinner. All proceeds from the evening will go to McCarver Elementary School. The party is open to everyone, so invite your friends, neighbors, family and workmates!

We will start at 6 pm and end about 8 pm. Even if you can't make it, please consider making a donation.

Frist Friday! - Part 2

I'm so excited about the upcoming First Friday which is this Friday, December 3rd at 6 pm. Lee Yarborough will be with us. He's been pioneering and leading for decades in Mexico and beyond. He will share his wisdom on what it takes to be a leader in the church, and beyond. Please consider coming along!

Dinner will be served right at 6 pm. Childcare will be available.

We will gather at Central Lutheran in the Fireside Room (the one that is usually off limits, just past the bathrooms on the basement level).

For food sake, please RSVP by emailing me.

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