Sunday School: 9:30 AM
Worship Service: 10:30 AM
Women’s Bible Study: Thursday 10:00 AM
Men’s Breakfast: Saturday 7:00 AM
We want to thank all the NHCF members who have been
working on the "Transitional Housing" house in Wagon Wheel. It's nearly
completed, and we look forward to housing clients soon. Please know
that housing on the mountain is very tight. More needful people are
asking for housing help. Keep praying for Victory Village to get past the
hold-ups and to start building tiny houses.
Our NHCF Women's Bible Study will be having a luncheon after
their meeting this Thursday. They are studying the Johannine
letters.
This is an important time in the life of NHCF. We're growing.
It takes all of us to respect and help each other find seating and space
to fellowship. Your leadership is praying and looking into adding space
to our building. As we grow may God be blessed.
This coming Wednesday is the beginning of Lent. It's
called "Ash Wednesday" because traditionally Roman Catholics
go to early morning mass on that day and receive the
mark of the cross on their foreheads. The mark is made from
the ashes, from the burned palm fronds, from the previous
year.
Winter conditions prevail right now. Our church
parking lot and entryways into our building may be icy.
Take care. Watch where you step and don't get in a hurry.
We add ice melt where necessary, but please report any
places needing attention.
Lent
Wednesday is "Ash Wednesday" and the beginning of Lent.
You may be wondering why we, as Protestant Christians, would be interested in Ash Wednesday. Good question. There is much in the Roman Catholic tradition that should interest us. After all, the Christian Church was Catholic for fifteen centuries before the Protestant Reformation erupted in 1517. During that time all of the church fathers were Catholic. The great minds and writings of Clements, Ignatius, Polycarp and Origin, and then later Aquinas and Augustine, are the bedrock of all Christian thought and practice today.
Celebrations, like Lent, enrichen our Christian experience and keep us in touch with our roots. Of course, we do not receive them as "works of righteousness," because Christ is our righteousness, rather we find them helpful in keeping our spiritual focus.
During Lent, we're encouraged to give up worldly faire and concentrate on spiritual things as we approach Easter. Prayer and fasting are pivotal to our Lenten experience. Also, the reading of Scripture, and in particular the Gospels.
It is worthwhile for us to remember Peter's words to the church: "As obedient children, do not be conformed to the former lusts which were yours in your ignorance, but like the Holy One who called you, be holy yourselves also in all your behavior; because it is written, 'You shall be holy, for I am holy'" (1 Pt. 1.14-16).
Pastor Tom
February 27, 2022
Pulpit Greeter : Tami Powell
"(God) desires all men to be saved and to come, to the knowledge of the truth" (1 Tim.2.4).
Pastor Tom Brown
CHURCH PASTORS AND ELDERS
Pastor Tom Brown Pastor Jim Powell, Assoc. Pastor/Worship leader Terry Lowry, Elder
DEACONS & STAFF
Bill Bujnowski, Lee Copeland, Lanny Dameron, Chris Lewis, Roger Brown and Lee Larson
Lora Slater – Secretary
John Greer – Media,
Tami Powell – Nursery, and Kitchen
Cathy Parry– Prayer
