The Zone Gathering

If you’ve having trouble getting ramped up for Christmas, try these links:

Christmas Medley
The Gift Goes On
Sing Gloria
Grand Finale: We Wish You a Merry Christmas

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** This is the conclusion of our four-part study of the Christmas story and reactions to the birth of Jesus Christ.
Last week we fast-forwarded the Christmas story to examine the reactions of King Herod and the wise men to Jesus’ birth.  Today we return to Luke 2 and see how the baby Jesus caused great rejoicing in [...]

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Here’s a quick recap of what happened on this pre-holiday weekend at NCC.
WORSHIP
(9:30am & 11am Union)

Sing to the King by Billy James Foote [CD]
Forever by Chris Tomlin [CD]
O Come, All Ye Faithful by John F. Wade
Joy to the World by Isaac Watts and Lowell Mason

ANNOUNCEMENTS

Find NCC job and internship opportunities at the MyChurch.org classifieds.
Check out [...]

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Today is the end of the Fall 2006 semester, and this is the final Friday scorecard of 2006.  Let’s take some time today to reflect back over the entire year and post the wins from 2006- our wins as a church, as a discipleship ministry, as individual groups, and as individual leaders.

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No, not the theme park (although that’s fun, too).
We’ve got two great new Core Discipleship groups next semester that I want to make sure everyone’s aware of.  I’m really excited about these groups!  I would encourage everyone (leaders included) to prayerfully consider joining one of these groups (and to check out the updated Discipleship Map in [...]

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You’ve got 24 hours to RSVP for the annual leadership retreat. Do it now. You don’t want to miss the Lego table! All you have to do is click here and type “I am coming to the Leadership Retreat!”

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Tomorrow is the deadline for registering for the 2007 Annual Leadership Retreat, so I thought I would spend a few moments today talking about why we retreat.
Pastor Mark developed a simple formula:
Change of Pace + Change of Place = Change in Perspective
Change of Pace
Retreats offer us a change of pace. We need to slow [...]

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