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Archive for August, 2007

Creative Recruitment

Thursday, August 30th, 2007

Can I share something that gets me super excited? Leaders who are creative in recruiting people to their small groups. I can’t stand leaders who rely solely on “church welfare” programs to get people to come to their groups. You know what I’m talking about- bulletin announcements, pulpit announcements, maybe even the [...]

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The Zonegathering Vault: Leadership is Lonely

Thursday, August 30th, 2007

During the month of August, we will be bringing you Thursday Leadership Lesson: The Greatest Hits! We’ve been writing these for almost two years, and it’s really amazing to see the wealth of information that our zone leaders have pumped out. Today, we bring you Leadership is Lonely, written by Heather Zempel and first printed [...]

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The Psalm 91 Woman Conference

Wednesday, August 29th, 2007

For all of you women’s groups or women in groups:
Capitol Hill Baptist Church is hosting the “Psalm 91 Woman” Conference with Noel Piper on October 12-13.
You can get more information about the conference here.
And while we are promoting women’s conferences, you might want to check out After Eve at McLean, as well.

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The Zonegathering Vault: Bible Translations

Wednesday, August 29th, 2007

During the month of August, we will be digging into the Zonegathering vaults to bring you some of our Bible Drill Wednesday Greatest Hits. Today, we are reprinting Bible Drill Wednesday: Bible Translations, written by Heather Zempel and first published on Wednesday, September 20, 2006. This Bible Drill will help you understand the differences [...]

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Book Review: Field Guide to Evangelicals

Tuesday, August 28th, 2007

A Field Guide to Evangelicals & their Habitat
By Joel Kilpatrick
Reviewed by Brian Duss
If you have a strong faith and a good sense of humor, you’ll love the new book by Joel Kilpatrick entitled A Field Guide To Evangelicals & Their Habitat.
Kilpatrick is the creator of LarkNews.com, which, much like fake news site theOnion.com, pokes fun [...]

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Weekend Summary - August 25-26, 2007

Monday, August 27th, 2007

This weekend was hot at NCC, and the weather was steamy too.
WORSHIP
(Union Station)

Marvelous Light by Charlie Hall
Evermore by
Jesus Paid It All (Kristian Stanfill version)
Majesty (Here I Am) by Stuart Garrard
Nothing But the Blood (Matt Redman version)

ANNOUNCEMENTS

College Student Move-In Outreach – Saturday, September 1, 9am, GWU - NCC, in partnership with Inter-Varsity Christian Fellowship, will be [...]

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Ok, so I admit I’m a little bit of a YouTube junky. But I came across this video that I can’t stop watching. It’s a highlight video of a 9-year old girl named Carly playing flag football. In short, she is crazy good. And the musical score makes it even better.
Enjoy!

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