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Monday Night Prayer: NOW @ 8PM in the Chapel

Monday Night Prayer is now at 8pm instead of 10pm! Two hours earlier! (On the Mondays that nlcf has Leadership Community, it will be at 10pm at Zach’s Place.) We hope this change will allow more people to come!

Bone marrow donor drive

Save a life! Cheek swab only! No needles! 15 minutes! Sat, Jan 26 and Sun, Jan 27 at University Mall, 8a – 4p each day. For more information, go to http://www.nmdp.org. The 15 minutes you give could save a life. If you are not eligible to be tested, you can still help—offer to volunteer during the event or write a check to NMDP for $25 and sponsor someone’s test. Contact Jan McGilliard at 953-1366 or by e-mail: [email protected].

Happy 2008

Along with the new year comes a new congregation at nlcf. The official 100% certified GRAND OPENING of nlcf downtown will take place on January 13th in the Dayspring Academy Gym. Be sure to invite friends, neighbors, colleagues, fellows, mops, pops, and total strangers to try it out.

Dec 30th breakfast and 'church'

Sunday, December 30th at 9:30 AM – Come over to the Chinn’s for a pancake breakfast and devotional/prayer time. Please rsvp if possible to [email protected]. Directions from Main Street to the Chinn’s (502 Owens Street):

  1. Turn North onto Turner Street (going away from Campus) at the Campus Exxon & Blacksburg Baptist.
  2. Go Straight at the four-way stop. (Progress St)
  3. Go up a small hill and then down. Just ahead, turn right at the four way intersection with Owens Street (no stop sign or light).
  4. Our house is the third house on the left. Call David if you get lost (four four nine- nine eight five three). Black mailbox with “Chinn 502”.

Holiday break schedule

Downtown services have been filling up the cafeteria at Dayspring Christian Academy and will be transitioning to the gym, the building just a few yards to the left.

  • Dec 30 – NO SERVICES – nlcf is worshiping at Ignite
  • Jan 06 – 9:30 (gym) – combo service
  • Jan 13 – 9:30 (gym), 11:00 and 7:07 (colonial) – official grand opening sunday of the downtown congregation, everything back to regular schedule from here

Christmas party this Saturday!

Dec 8 @ 8pm at Dayspring Academy gym (map at left). Watch your favorite Christmas specials from the Grinch to Rudolph, decorate sugar cookies, make a Christmas puzzle, take a picture with Santa and an elf for your Christmas Facebook profile, and participate in a Christmas cookie exchange! To bring: 6 cookies to trade & your camera!

Back to the Heart of Worship – Apex This Friday

Friday, Nov 30, 7:30p, Graduate Life Center Auditorium: “When the music fades, and all is stripped away, and I simply come…” These are words Matt Redman uses to describe getting back to the heart of worship. Though I sang this song in high school youth group over 6 years ago, these words have sparked a new passion for worship inside my heart. I’ve realized how easy it is to add so much to what worship really is — the lights, the bands, the singers, the crowd — but it’s really just about us responding to God. For this upcoming Apex, it is our vision to see people come, simply come… not because our friends are there, not because we have nothing better to do, not because we like singing, but simply because God deserves our worship. As the familiar words go, “It’s all about You Jesus.”