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Angel Tree Wins!

Monday, December 11th, 2006

Just wanted to pass along a win from the Angel Tree Project as groups begin to deliver the goods. Thanks again to John Purcell for heading up the effort again this year.
“[We] delivered the gifts to an enthusiastic
crew of kids and their friendly mother yesterday
morning. We chatted with them for a bit as well. [...]

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Thursday Leadership Lesson: Service Review

Thursday, December 7th, 2006

We had a great summer focus on service, and I’m super proud of the way all of our groups have jumped into different service opportunities. I love the creative ways our groups have reached out to serve NCC, the community, and the world. Here is a recap of the Thursday Leadership Lesson series [...]

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Thursday Leadership Lesson: What Good is That?

Thursday, November 30th, 2006

By Joseph Llobrera
Living Out Social Justice
This is Part 12 in our leadership lesson series on Service. Today, Joseph Llobrera gives us an honest but challenging glimpse into own personal journey of understanding and demonstrating God’s heart for the poor. To get involved with Joseph’s work or group Living Out Social Justice, email him [...]

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By Omar Morillo
This is Part 11 in our series on Service. Today, small group leader extraordinaire, Omar Morillo, shares his own remarkable experience with Angel Tree.
Each Christmas, prison chaplains, Prison Fellowship, and Christian churches make available a program called Angel Tree Christmas for prisoners to give gifts to their children.
Last year our group [...]

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This is Part 10 of our series on Service. Today, I want to share some personal reflections on service.
“We are the only Jesus some people ever see.” I used to think that meant that I’d better treat people really well, be really nice, and always be smiling. But the more I read [...]

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This is Part 9 of our Thursday Leadership Lesson series on Service. Today, we will give you some practical ideas for service opportunities for your group.
Alright, let’s bring this service thing down to the most practical level possible. Here are several upcoming and ongoing opportunities that your group could plug into. The beauty [...]

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This is Part 8 of our Thursday Leadership Lesson series on Service. Today, we will give some practical steps for appointing a service/outreach coordinator for your group.

We have different gifts, according to the grace given us…If it is serving, let him serve. (Romans 12:7)

We’ve been talking for the past couple months about the importance [...]

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