Signup for the 2008 Fall Retreat

The nlcf Fall Retreat is September 19-20 at Camp Christi in Christiansburg.

To signup simply email [email protected] with your name and email address.

The cost is $12.00 if you sign up before midnight on September 14th. After that it’s $15.00.

Divine Design Workshop Details

Divine Design is a workshop that leads you through various assessments, tests, worksheets that help you discover your spiritual gifts, heart & passions, abilities, and personality in order for you to best serve the church as well as the people around you in your day to day life. 
 
The two part class will be September 7th (Part 1) and September 14th (Part 2) from 2 pm to 5.00 pm in the Graduate Life Center (GLC) Room B. 

VERY IMPORTANT: If you are planning on attending, please send an email to staats[dot]jeanette[at]gmail[dot]com so we can prepare enough materials!

Mission Move In 2008

Who says you have to fly over an ocean to go on a mission trip?

Join us August 18 – 21 (Monday through Thursday) for Mission Move-In:08. Sign up today for a insanely intense, really HOT, team-building, muscle defining, vision casting, pizza filled 3-ish day event that could impact your life and the peoples’ lives you serve FOREVER.

  • monday evening: cookout and Pool Party … just to reconnect and have fun! 100% optional
  • tuesday evening: annual pre-fall shin-dig … you won’t want to miss! … we’ve been known to have people drink VINEGAR during this time! are you up for the challenge?
  • wednesday and thursday: how many stairs can you climb?! morning and afternoon is spent helping students move-in with drillfield pizza parties to follow!!

Important

To guarantee a MMI:08 T-shirt in YOUR SIZE … send an email to [email protected] with your t-shirt size by JULY 18th!! T-shirt sizes are NOT guaranteed after that date.

Cost

$10.00 (this includes a T-shirt, pool party Monday, dinner Wednesday and Thursday, a biscuit breakfast Thursday AND surprises throughout the 3 days! what a deal!!)

Will you be ready to climb 12 flights of stairs?

Will you be ready to meet new people?

Will you be ready for a new year?

MMI:08 WILL BE READY FOR YOU!!

Don’t forget to pass the word around (just forward this email to everyone in your INBOX!) and when you do … remember to tell them to email [email protected]!!

Middle-High Youth Back-to-School Kickoff Event: Wii and Piizza

What is it?

A low-key time to meet some people before school starts, eat some food, and rock out to Guitar Hero.

When is it?

Saturday August 16th, 5 – 8pm-ish.

Where is it?

nlcf rents a room above Gillies Restaurant on College Ave. that we call Zach’s Place. Go in the green door to the left of Gillie’s and up the stairs and you’ll definitely hear where we are.

Psalms Meditation – Aug. 9

“When Brothers Dwell in Unity”

Read Psalm 133

Glistening oil running down Aaron’s beard and refreshing dew from the cool northern mountains are two pictures (the first of how it looks, the second of how it feels) of a comunity in which men and women find themselves forgiven by God and open in love to each other.

PRAYER: Father, break down every barrier that my sin builds between me and others: barriers of envy, of pride, of inadequacy, of scorn. Then let me see and feel the pleasures of sharing the inner delights of forgiveness and grace with the others whom you are gathering into your family. In Jesus’ name. Amen.

by Eugene Peterson, “A Year with the Psalms” p. 170

Psalms Meditation – Aug. 8

“I Wait for the Lord”

Read Psalm 130:5-8

The long watches of the night through which soldiers guard cities and shepherds watch over flocks are compared with the wait of the soul before God. It is not the waiting of indolence but of alertness. Waiting is vigilance plus expectation; it is wide awake to God.

PRAYER: You, Lord, commanded disciples to watch and pray, and not long after you found them sleeping. I have similarly failed to stay awake to your commands and alert to your presence. Forgive my sluggishness and help me to make the most of the time. Amen.

by Eugene Peterson, “A Year with the Psalms” p. 167

Psalms Meditation – Aug. 7

“Out of the Depths”

Read Psalm 130:1-4

There is no trouble so severe that it cuts a person off from God; there is no sin so powerful that it removes a person from the greater power of forgiveness. The witness of the troubled, suffering and afflicted who prayed and found their lives changed by a loving God is encyclopedic.

PRAYER: “Lord, from the depths to Thee I cried: my voice, Lord, do Thou hear: unto my supplication’s voice give an attentive ear….I wait for God., my soul doth wait, my hope is in His word. More than they that for the morning watch, my soul waits for the Lord.” Amen.
(Scottish Psalter, “Lord from the Depths”)

by Eugene Peterson, “A Year with the Psalms” p. 167