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Hymn Sing April 30

NCC Family, Welcome to our fifth virtual hymn-sing! Music and lyrics are below. Don’t be shy–sing out loud and strong from your home computer! Ephesians 5:19 – “Speaking to one another with psalms, hymns and songs from the Spirit. Sing and make music from you heart to the Lord.” Keep sending me your requests and keep…

Hymn Sing Week 4

NCC Family, Welcome to our fourth virtual hymn-sing! Music and lyrics are below. Don’t be shy–sing out loud and strong from your home computer! Psalm 98: 4-6 – Shout for joy to the Lord, all the earth burst into jubilant song with music; make music to the Lord with the harp and the sound of singing,…

Hymn Sing – Week 3

NCC Family, Welcome to our third virtual hymn-sing! Music and lyrics are below. Don’t be shy–sing out loud and strong from your home computer! “Sing to him, sing praise to him; tell of all his wonderful acts.” – Psalm 105:2 Keep sending me your requests and keep singing! Blessings, – Kim Ward Let the Whole…

Easter 2019 – Virtual Lilies

In Honor of… The amazing Somali Women we are privileged to work with and help! – Larry and Doris Cose Our Grandchildren  – Mark and Betsy Durham Ann Coe – Charlotte Forsyth Our Wonderful Church Family – Peggy Johnston My Grandchildren – Suzy Lear Our Children and Grandchildren – Brenda and Chris Ludlow NCC Youth Program – Bill and…

Congregational Meeting on Sunday

Our 2015 Annual Congregational Meeting will be this Sunday, following a joint 9:30 worship service. Below is the agenda for the meeting, including the list of 2016 Board Member Nominees. Vote for 2016 Board Members: Nominee List: Chair: Lance Randolph Vice-chair: Sarah Schuller Treasurer: Kate Raun Board Secretary: Kathy Rinard Financial Secretary: Doug Reed At-Large…

Faithful Women of NCC

Pastor Travis’ newsletter article from June 2015 Beautiful People, You may not know, but in our church files we have handwritten Sunday school attendance records, financial records and board minutes going back all the way to the late 1800s when our congregation was still a new church. They’re a little dusty, but they’re fun to…

Sunday’s Coming…

This Sunday, we will honor our High School graduates with a reception after the 10:30 service, provided by the Jenny MacAfee Circle. Pastor Travis will share a sermon entitled “Get Out” from John 17:6-21. We are excited to announce that in just two weeks of fundraising, we are over halfway to our fundraising goal to…

May We Not Be Cool

Beautiful People, In a recent Vision Team meeting, we discussed this Washington Post article from Rachel Held Evans about why Millennials are choosing not to participate in church. Rachel says that Millennials aren’t looking for churches that are cool, but churches that are authentic. She writes, “If young people are looking for congregations that authentically…

A Communion Meditation for Palm Sunday

Our choir has led us through a musical journey of the final week of Jesus’ life. They sang: “Hosanna! He comes in the name of the Lord! For the kingdom of David is now at hand! Spread the news throughout the land!” But they also sang: “Crucify him! Crucify him! A schemer, blasphemer, this man must die!” When Jesus…