Rally Day Breakfast Come out for great food and fellowship as we kick-off a new season of Educational Ministry!
Following a delicious breakfast prepared by the Men’s Sunday School Class plan to attend your Sunday School Class or visit a class and explore the opportunities available for you to connect more closely with our church family as well as be inspired and encouraged in your faith journey.
New Youth Lunch and Learn ProgramYouth are invited each Sunday to stay after worship service from 12:30 – 1:30 p.m. for a lunch and learn opportunity to enjoy a fellowship lunch provided by youth families and church members and to explore conversations from their experiences from the worship service. Youth will have the opportunity to ask questions and discuss what inspired them from their worship experience.
Lunch Study Come out on Wednesdays, September 7 and 14, from 12:00 – 1:00 p.m. for a lunch time Bible Study entitled, “Appreciating Our Spiritual Gifts” led by Smitty.
Dr. Trawick will be leading a lunch time Bible Study on Race Relations on September 21, 28, October 5, 19, 26, and November 2.
Educational Ministry Training RetreatThe Christian Education Committee is excited to announce an Educational Ministry Training Retreat for Salem Presbytery, sponsored and hosted by NWPC. Teachers and leaders of every age are strongly encouraged to attend this high quality free event. Leaders of children, youth, and adults will not want to miss this great opportunity to share thoughts, ideas, concerns, and encouragements as we strive to provide the best educational ministries for our church.
Keynote Speaker: Beth Hayes
¨ National Educator of the Year: Association of Presbyterian Church Educators
¨ Curriculum and Resource Specialist for Salem Presbytery
¨ Director of Congregational Resources with the Moravian Board of Cooperative Ministries in Old Salem
Breakout Session Speakers:
Children’s Programs – Donna Chase: Director of Christian Education, First Presbyterian Church, Greensboro
Youth Programs – David Smithey: Director of Christian Education, North Wilkesboro Presbyterian Church
Adult Programs – Wendy Duncan: Director of Adult Formation and Discipleship, First Presbyterian Church, Greensboro
Contact Melinda Goforth by August 16 to register at 336-667-1288 or melinda.goforth@nwpres.org.
Registration is now open for this summer’s VBS Registration forms are available at NWPC or by clicking on the pdf link below. Please submit one registration form per child. Register now and invite a friend!
Spring Fling Join us for food, fun, and great fellowship! Food and drinks will be provided. Sponsored by the Fellowship and Christian Education committees.
February Lenten Bible SeriesThis five-session Bible study, The Path to the Cross, by noted teacher and historian, Ray Vander Laan, is volume eleven of the 13-part That the World May Know Faith Lessons filmed-on-location. In The Path to the Cross, God’s story continues with the intense devotion of his people. Discover how their passionate faith prepares the way for Jesus and his ultimate act of obedience and sacrifice at the cross. Then, be challenged in your life to live as they did – by every word that comes from the mouth of God. Filmed on location in Israel, Faith Lessons is a unique video series that brings God’s Word to life with astounding relevance. By weaving together the Bible’s fascinating historical, cultural, religious, and geographical contexts, teacher and historian Ray Vander Laan reveals unique insights into the Scriptures’ significance for modern believers.
This DVD was filmed on location in Qumran, Machaerus, En Gedi, Jerusalem and Gethsemane. These illuminating “faith lessons” afford a new understanding of the Bible that will ground your convictions and transform your life.
Lessons include:
We hope that you will join us for all of these sessions in this year’s Lenten Bible Study and see these wonderful locations and experience Jesus’ passion in a little different way that may open your eyes to hearing the Word in the way that the Jewish people He was speaking to would have heard it! Please plan to join us for all five sessions.
This series will be on Kirk Nights listed above and on the above dates at noon in the Fellowship Hall.
Richard Collier will be the Lenten Bible Series leader.
Barksdale Class Begins New Study You are Invited!On Sunday, January 31, 2016, the Barksdale Class will begin a new DVD based study using Timothy Keller’s Gospel in Life – Grace Changes Everything. In this study, complete with a weekly home study guide, we will join author and pastor Timothy Keller in an eight-part study of the gospel and the ways to live it out in your everyday life.
From exploring the world you live in now to preparing for the world that is to come, you will learn how the gospel can change your heart, your community, and how you live in the world.
Sessions include:
1. City – The World That Is
2. Heart – Three Ways To Live
3. Idolatry – The Sin Beneath The Sin
4. Community – The Context For Change
5. Witness – An Alternate City
6. Work – Cultivating The Garden
7. Justice – A People For Others
8. Eternity – The World That Is To Come
Timothy Keller is the founder and senior pastor of Redeemer Presbyterian Church in New York City, and the New York Times bestselling author of The Reason for God and The Prodigal God. He has also mentored young urban church planters and pastors in New York and other cities through Redeemer City to City, which has helped launch over 200 churches in 35 global cities to date.
Please join us in the Barksdale Classroom at 10:00am as we begin this new journey! New members or visitors are welcome!
Richard Collier, Teacher
Advent CelebrationSponsored by the Fellowship and Christian Education committees
On Sunday, September 13, we will celebrate all the ministries within our church. The Church Ministry Fair will begin at 9:45 am and last until 10:45 am. During this time you will have the opportunity to visit displays and talk with program leaders from our various ministries and hopefully find the ministry that fits your interests.
Expect a full fellowship hall overflowing with lots of fun and excitement as we look forward to a new season of ministry this fall. Don’t miss out on this exciting day as we celebrate the family of NWPC!
Daniel McNeill will be sponsoring a Baked Potato Luncheon on Sunday, September 13, immediately following worship service. This fundraiser will help to assist with funding his Eagle Scout project.