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
CHURCH BOARD MEETING, TOMORROW, @ 3:30 pm
We want to thank all the NHCF members who have been working on the "Transitional Housing" house in Wagon Wheel. It’s now complete. And we are housing a woman and her children. 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.
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.
Ash Wednesday
This past Wednesday was 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.
“FINDING NORMAL”
Any "born again and baptized believer" is welcome to take Communion with our body at NHCF. Ultimately, it's between you and the Lord. We do not have a formal membership. If you're faithfully attending and sharing in the life of our body, you are welcome. Jesus instituted "His Supper" to remember Him and His gospel.
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
MARCH 6TH, 2022
Pastor Tom Brown
Attendance: 73
Offering: $ 4,474.00
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
