NORTHSIDE NOTES - December 16, 2009 |
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ADVENT COMBINED ADULT CHURCH SCHOOL
December 20
9:30AM, Room 206
Whether it's memories of caroling, Christmas pageants, or Christmas Eve services, the hymns of Christmas are some of the most evocative parts of the season for many of us. They refocus our spirits and remind us of the holiness and mystery of God's incarnation.
Dr. Karen Massey will be teaching the last of a three part series explaining the history behind some of our favorite carols: O Come, O Come; Emmanuel; Silent Night, Holy Night; Hark! The Herald Angels Sing. Focusing on the ways in which words and music can speak to the core of our experiences, the Combined Adult Church School will spend time in reflection, conversation, and simple enjoyment of these beloved hymns. |
*ADVENT/CHRISTMAS/EPIPHANY 2009
4th WEEK of ADVENT - Sunday, December 20
9:30 AM - Adult Advent Church School:
Hark! The Herald Angels Sing
11:00 AM - Worship - Called to Sing: Advent as Musician
Christmas Eve, Thursday, December 24
4:00 PM - Family Vespers
10:30 PM - Lessons, Carols, and Communion
1st SUNDAY of CHRISTMAS - Sunday, December 27
9:30 AM - Church School Christmas Brunch
11:00 AM - Worship - Called to Testify: Christmas as Lamp-Lighter
EPIPHANY SUNDAY - Sunday, January 3, 2010
11:00 AM - Worship - Called to Question: Epiphany as Pilgrims *Chrismons pamphlets are available at www@northsidedrive.org, also in the Narthex. |
During the Christmas season, Northside Drive Baptist Church provides many ways for members to brighten the holidays for those in need. Through gifts of clothing, toys, food, time, and money, we share Christ's love in our community and around the world.
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Winter Missions Offering
Cooperative Baptist Fellowship
Offering for Global Missions
CBF Global Missions field personnel share God's love as they minister to the emotional, physical, and spiritual needs of the world's most neglected people. From the Mississippi Delta to the Roma people of Albania to China's Sichuan province, field personnel are fulfilling CBF's vision of being the presence of Christ in the world.
Northside Drive's goal is $2,000.
Contact: Barbara Atchley 770-436-0709
Mark your check or envelope CBF Global Missions.
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| LIFESPAN DAY CLUB
Weekly: Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday, 9:30-4:30
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HANDBELLS ANYONE?
 The beginning adult handbell ensemble will be reconvening in January 2010. This ensemble is offered for adults who have never rung a handbell but would like to learn how. The group will meet on Sunday evenings at 6:30PM, beginning on January 17, 2010. For more information, or to register your interest, please contact music director Paul Fletcher at paul@northsidedrive.org. |
YOUTH WINTER SKI FELLOWSHIP RETREAT 
We are planning our annual youth winter ski retreat for the weekend of February 5-7, 2010. Go ahead and put this on your calendar and plan to join us. Expect more details to come in the next week about this retreat to the mountains of North Carolina. We will be skiing, participating in spiritual retreat events, enjoying the outdoors, and having lots of fun!
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THANK YOU JANE JONES!
We are grateful for the 25 years of "flower delivery" to Northside Drivers who have been ill or homebound. As you retire from this ministry, know that we of Northside Drive Baptist Church are thankful for your consistent caregiving. |
THE MANY WAYS TO PLEDGE
You can submit your 2010 pledge to the Church in any one of the following four ways: (1) complete and sign a pledge card and mail it to the church, (2) call Carolyn Scott, the Church's Business Manager, at 404-237-8621 and give her your pledge over the phone, (3) send an e-mail to Carolyn Scott at carolyn@northsidedrive.org containing the amount of your pledge and stating whether you will be fulfilling your pledge in weekly, monthly, quarterly, or annual payments, or (4) submit your pledge over the internet by using the form at http://www.northsidedrive.org/form_liveform.asp?FormID=9. |
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 PASTORAL REFLECTIONS
By James Lamkin
"Waiting for Aunt Dorcas"
Christmas was heralded at our house, not by the coming of Santa Claus, but by the arrival of Aunt Dorcas.
Uncle Paul and Aunt Dorcas came from far away, exotic places. For awhile, they lived in Las Vegas, then Puerto Rico, and finally Florida. (Uncle Paul was a nuclear engineer during the cold war.)
When they drove, they would depart Florida early and arrive in Louisiana late; and we would wait at Memama's house for them. In the 50's and 60's no phone calls were made in-route. Travel was like a spaceship on the dark side of the moon. You just had to count on radio silence and pray that reentry would go well.
While Ed Sullivan spun on his heels, announcing the acts on his "really big sheew," we waited. Often we would run through a whole evening's TV's line-up: Wagon Train, Have Gun Will Travel, and Sing Along with Mitch.
All of the lights inside the house were dimmed so that we could see a car's headlights turning into the driveway. There always were false alarms. My sister and I jumped up many a time only to drag ourselves back to the couch. Often, we retraced our estimates on the travel time, remembering to factor-in that everybody loses an hour in Alabama.
Then, finally a shout, "They're here!" The bright headlights, the slamming car doors, a trunk full of presents, plus smiles and hugs and handshakes and comments about how much we had grown---all signaled that not only had Aunt Dorcas arrived, but so had Christmas.
To this day, I have a need to press my nose at night against a cold winter's window and watch for Florida tags.
Humans are an incarnate lot. That is, we don't just think about ideas, we think of people who are those ideas. When you think of love, a person comes to mind who loves you. When you think of belonging, you recall a person who has welcomed and included you. Truth being, when you think of Christmas, you probably don't first think of Jesus; rather your mind goes to a person whose presence taught you the meaning of Christmas.
Even as you've read these words, you have been thinking of your mother or father, uncle or aunt. You've thought of those persons whose love for you, patience with you, hope in spite of you, and arms about you said Merry Christmas without words needed.
For them, we give thanks; and in their memory, we pass along Christmas to someone else.
*This article was taken from previous publication. |
WHEN SEVERE WEATHER COMES
ON SUNDAY MORNING
As a rule of thumb, we will not cancel worship services on Sunday morning except under the most extreme weather conditions. Members are urged to use their own good judgment as to whether they should attempt to make the trip. Should inclement winter weather cause the cancellation of a service, here is the plan:
1) The pastor and the moderator will make the decision.
2) The moderator will notify the Chair of the Diaconate.
3) The deacons will use the "phone tree" to notify the congregation.
4) One of the ministers will send an email to all those on the church's email list (electricity permitting) and place a notification on the church's voice mail.
5) One of the ministers will notify the media.
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The Stained Glass Windows book of Northside Drive is back!
More "Stained Glass Windows at Northside Drive Baptist Church" have been ordered and will be here in time for Christmas. This gorgeously designed hard-backed book captures the beauty of the stained glass windows while describing their history and design and will make a perfect gift for someone this Christmas. The cost is $30. To reserve your copy, please email the church at info@northsidedrive.org or call us at 404-237-8621. A copy of the book is in the Narthex for previewing. |
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CHURCH CALENDAR
SUNDAY, December 20
9:30 AM - Advent Church School
11:00 AM - Morning Worship
TUESDAY, December 22
1:00 PM - Staff Meeting
WEDNESDAY, December 23
Church Offices Close at Noon
7:00 PM - Sanctuary Choir Rehearsal
THURSDAY, December 24
4:00 PM - Christmas Eve Family Vespers
10:30 PM - Christmas Eve Lessons, Carols and Communion
THURS-FRI, December 24-25
Church/Preschool Offices Closed
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From time-to-time the church office is in need of volunteers to answer phones, monitor the doors, address envelopes or other small tasks. If you would like to help out, please give me a call at 404-237-8621 or get on my volunteers email list by emailing me. Your time and talents are appreciated! Renee Gamache, Administrative Assistant | |
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PLEASE NOTE
The church offices will be closed Thursday-Friday, December 24-25, for the Christmas Holidays
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Thursday-Friday, December 31-January 1, for
New Years Eve/Day. |
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CHURCH FAMILY CONCERNS
Cecil Turner
Helen Callaway
Mary Dutton |
The youth café, UNDERGROUNDS, will be open for a light breakfast at 9:30 AM each Sunday. Youth Church School will meet in the newly renovated youth space and begins at 9:45 AM.
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SYD'S SYNOPSIS
Do you receive the Sunday email update from Syd Janney?
Want to receive a Sunday morning church email update on Sunday afternoons?
Syd Janney's Synopsis is a beautiful description of the "special experience of Church School and Worship at NDBC."
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THE PAPERLESS PINNACLE
The Pinnacle is emailed as an attachment to the congregation and is available on the church website at www.northsidedrive.org.
If you would prefer not to receive the Pinnacle by U.S. mail, please call 404-237-8621 or email us at info@northsidedrive.org to let us know. |
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Wi-Fi is now available in the Educational building as well as the Fellowship Hall and Youth Area.
The network is: ndbcwireless.
The password is: northsidedrive. |
LOST: heirloom ring---gold band with two stones with smaller stones around the band.
FOUND: camera case "Case Logic".
Call the church office and ask for Renee if you lost or found an item at the church. |
Join the NDBC Facebook group
Follow NDBC on Twitter |
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DECEMBER BIRTHDAYS
Ali Jerden - 4
Mary Lester - 5
Hans-Luca Davis - 6
Jeannie Hearn - 7
Syd Janney - 7
Victoria Tunon - 7
Laura Butts - 7
Lisa Barksdale - 8
Andrew Hardin - 9
Hunter Adams - 12
Elaine Eassa - 13
Cristy Ray - 19
Charlotte Dalke - 20
Brian Hendrix - 21
Mike McIntyre - 22
Kelly Broyles - 23
Joan McIntyre - 24
Emma Chandler - 27
Bill Jones - 28
Mary Chance - 28
Amanda Gregg - 28
Ruth Trager - 28
Jeanne Goodwill - 30
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JANUARY BIRTHDAYS
Chelsea Clarke - 1
Jim Williams - 2
Len Shelton - 2
Barbara Schroeder - 2
Dene Maltbie - 3
Jon Bell - 4
John Davis - 6
Bev Hall - 7
William High - 7
Joyce Wilson - 7
Ruth Kramedjian - 7
Don Janney - 9
Cynthia Tunon - 9
Pam Wamberg - 9
John Buice - 11
Charlton Roberts - 14
Jeanne Hill - 16
Jane Jerden - 16
Anne Ledbetter - 16
Zach Bay - 17
Donna McLarty - 17
Vanita Morgan - 17
Gene Bridges - 19
Gail Hermance - 22
Harry Mathis - 22
Nancy Hall - 23
Mary Williams - 24
Will Egan - 25
Jackson Singleton - 25
Stephanie Jones - 25
Michael Hermance - 26
Lanier Meeks - 28
Betty Almeida - 29
Karen Perry - 29
Riley Isakson - 31
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