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Now hiring Nursery Workers: NPC is seeking friendly, energetic staff to care for children on Sunday mornings and for occasional programs as needed. Experience with early childhood education is always a plus. Access the job description and application below.
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January 23: Lectionary Bible Study @12:30; session meeting @6pm
January 25: Prayer Around the Cross**
January 29: Potluck Luncheon after worship
January 30: Lectionary Bible Study
February 5: Communion Sunday
February 6: Lectionary Bible Study
February 8: Writer’s Workshop for Lenten devotions; brown bag supper 5:30pm/workshop 6pm
February 13: Lectionary Bible Study
February 20: Lectionary Bible Study
February 22: Ash Wednesday Service, 6pm
February 24: Brotherhood/Sisterhood Shabbat with the B’Nai Zion Congregational
February 25: Session Retreat
February 29: Prayer Around the Cross**
March 4: Communion Sunday
March 6: Election Day, NPC is a voting precinct
March 7: Prayer Around the Cross**
March 14: Prayer Around the Cross**
March 16-17: Loaves and Fishes, presbytery educational event, website, brochure
March 21: Prayer Around the Cross**
March 28: Prayer Around the Cross**
April 1: Palm Sunday, Communion
April 4: Prayer Around the Cross**
April 5: Maundy Thursday Service, 6pm
April 6: Good Friday
April 8: Easter Sunday
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Adult Sunday School:
Have you wondered how words like evangelism, judgment, and hell make us nervous and how we might be able to reclaim them as our own? Do you wonder how we can talk about truth and orthodoxy in today’s world? Have you simply wondered what words like asceticism, dogma, or incarnation mean? In the adult Sunday school class this fall, we’ll be exploring Kathleen Norris’ book Amazing Grace: A Vocabulary of Faith, where she explores these words and many more, helping us see them in a different light so that we can find new ways to talk about our faith. This study is led by Kevin Brown.
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Children’s Sunday School
Come join the fun times happening in class. The following themes will be explored during the following months:
January: Jesus, Son of God
February: Jesus and His Ministry
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***Movie Nights
We will watch and discuss a movie. Plan to bring a brown-bag dinner or a snack to the church and join us! We’ll meet in the Frances Room. Child care will be provided in the nursery.
TBA
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**Prayer Around the Cross
Join us at 6:00 pm for a service of prayer. Sit in silence, hear words of scripture and reflection, sing, breathe, and light candles to represent our unspoken prayers. All are welcome.
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*Lectionary Bible Study on Mondays
We will read the four selected texts for the follwoing Sunday, ask questions, read commentaries, make connections, explore themes, etc. These conversations will help inform our worship planning and Laura’s sermon preparation as well, so we will also discuss ideas for worship that any of these texts may inspire.
Anyone who wants to join is welcome. We will gather around a table each Monday from 12:30-1:30 pm. When warm enough we meet on the Chattanooga Riverwalk, at the Robinson Bridge entrance off Amnicola Highway. Other Mondays that are too cool to meet outside, we will meet at NPC. Please bring your own lunch. Come ready to dive in to these sacred stories and see where the Spirit leads us! Call the church office at 894-3773 if you are not sure where to meet due to weather conditions.
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The ‘gifts and requirements’ (ordination standard) portion of the Book of Order has been amended by the presbyteries by the approval of amendment 10-A. Please read the following article to better understand what is the same and what has changed. Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) approves change in ordination standard. click here
