NORTHSIDE NOTES - April 4, 2012 |
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Holy Week
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Northside Drive Baptist Church
April 4, 2012: Seder Service
6:45 PM - A Passover Seder
Every Spring, our Jewish brothers and sisters celebrate the Passover feast. It is an eight-day celebration, begun with the Seder, the Passover Meal. Passover is one of the high holidays-the most holy of days-in the Jewish year. It marks the single most important event in Jewish history, the Exodus from Egypt. And Passover is a joyous celebration. In that event, God delivered a people from oppressive slavery, and called them to be the people that would make this God known to the rest of the world. Come be a part of this celebration.
April 5, 2012: Maundy Thursday
6:45 PM - A Service of Tenebrae
The 6:45 PM service of Maundy Thursday in the Sanctuary remembers Jesus' last supper with his disciples. To them he gave the commandment to "love one another." Thus, Maundy Thursday is from the Latin, Dies Mandati, or Day of the Mandate. In this quiet evening service we observe a solemn communion service at the rail and own the darkness within ourselves and our need for grace.
It is a Northside Drive tradition to end the Maundy Thursday service with The Office of Tenebrae (Shadows). There are eight scripture readings. The candles on the menorah on the Communion Table will be snuffed. The service will end in darkness.
April 6, 2012: Good Friday
"Noon Until Three"
The seven last words of Christ.
Homilies presented by NDBC members.
12:05 PM Zach Bay..............................."Father forgive them...."
12:30 PM David Bell................."Today, thou shalt be with me...."
12:55 PM Jillian Farmer......................"Woman, behold thy son!"
1:20 PM Mary Kate Christian............"My God, my God why...?"
1:45 PM Jackie Poole........................................"I am thirsty."
2:10 PM Allen Abbott......................................."It is finished."
2:35 PM Steve Sheeley.............................."Into thy hands...."
This is the most somber of all services. One Gospel writer comments that as Jesus died on the cross, "there was darkness from noon until three." Thus, the sanctuary will be open during this time for any who want to spend the afternoon in worship and reflection.
The Noon Until Three service contains seven rhythms focused on the seven last words of Christ (a composite from the four Gospels). Each rhythm lasts about twenty minutes and includes a tolling bell, a scripture reading, instrumental music, a brief homily, a prayer, and silence. It is "come and go" or feel free to "come and stay".
April 8, 2012: Easter Sunday
12:15 PM - Easter Egg Hunt
What a day of rejoicing it will be! On this day we celebrate the resurrection of Jesus. The choir offers joyous and celebrative music; and before we go, as always, there will be a congregational singing of The Hallelujah Chorus from Handel's Messiah. |
Share Your Time and Talents
The Nominating has begun its task of encouraging and soliciting your assistance in carrying out the work of the many programs of our church. We need your help in two ways. First, eagerly sign up for one or more of the volunteer ministry teams of our church. And, second, make thoughtful nominations for Diaconate, Finance Committee, Personnel Committee and Moderator.
Volunteer Ministry Teams
-- You are encouraged to prayerfully consider where your gifts and interests lie. Then, sign up for the ministry team(s) that can best use what you have to offer, and that best energizes you.
-- The Nominating Committee will be stationed in the Narthex after worship each Sunday, beginning March 25 through April 22 (except April 8), to help you sign up to serve on various committees or make your nominations. You may sign up for volunteer ministry teams at that time. Feel free to remain on your current ministry team(s), or sign up for a new challenge on a different ministry team. You may also sign up via e-mail (renee@northsidedrive.org), or by dropping the attached/enclosed form in one of the nomination boxes placed throughout the church, or by mailing the form to the church office to the attention of the Nominating Committee.
Nominations for Diaconate, Finance Committee, Personnel Committee and Moderator
You are encouraged to prayerfully consider those church members who have demonstrated gifts of leadership, who have been active in the overall life of NDBC, and who have willingly given of their time and gifts in the mission and ministry of the church. Please use the attached/enclosed form to nominate those persons, and feel free to nominate yourself for any of these positions.
-- The Nominating Committee will be stationed at a table in the Narthex after worship each Sunday, beginning March 25 through April 22 (except April 8). You may return your nominations to one of the nomination boxes placed throughout the church, or by mailing your nominations to the church office to the attention of the Nominating Committee, or by e-mailing your nominations to the church office (renee@northsidedrive.org).
The deadline for receipt of the volunteer/nomination forms is Sunday, April 22.
Thank you for your investment in the life of our church. We look forward to receiving your input as our church family prepares for the opportunities ahead.
Nominating Committee Members:
Beth Laxton, Chair Kenneth Dean Susan Harlan
Rhonda Harris Brian Knight Jim Nicol
Carol Younger
Nominating Forms:
Volunteer Ministry Teams
Nominations for Diaconate, Finance Committee, Personnel Committee and Moderator |
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Agape Community Center
 Through the Missions Budget, Northside Drive contributes to more than 25 agencies and organizations. This is the second in a series of articles that will spotlight some of the groups where our mission dollars are at work.
Celebrating its 15th year of service, Agape Community Center empowers and supports economically disadvantaged families in Northwest Atlanta. Agape's tutoring and mentoring programs serve 120-175 elementary through high school students each day. The lives of senior citizens and disabled adults are enriched through the RagTime Program that provides informative programs, field trips, arts and crafts, and physical fitness activities.
For more information about the activities and volunteer opportunities at Agape, log onto their website www.agapecc.org.
Agape's Extreme Bedroom Makeover!
Agape's Extreme Bedroom Makeover:
A Service Project
Saturday's March 31 & April 28
Do you have one Saturday to help children living in poverty? Agape Community Center is making over children's bedrooms in low income housing in the Bolton Road and Marietta Road communities. Northside Drive is helping two of these families. We need six volunteers for Saturday, March 31, and six volunteers for Saturday, April 28. The main responsibilities of the volunteers will be to paint and decorate the bedrooms. If you would like to sign up for a one of these teams, email Mike Gregg at mike@northsidedrive.org. More detailed information will be communicated to volunteers. |
Donate Easter Eggs for the Easter Egg Hunt
The children of the church and in the community eagerly anticipate the Easter Egg Hunt every year. Please donate 1-2 dozen stuffed plastic eggs to be used for the event. You may drop off the eggs at the church office during the week or in the Children's Sunday School room every Sunday until Easter.
Nursery Help for Easter Sunday, April 8
Easter is one of the best opportunities to welcome guests and their children. In order to keep our nursery safe with an increased number of children during Easter Sunday Worship, the Children's Committee needs you to volunteer to be in a preschool room or the nursery. Please contact Mike Gregg at mike@northsidedrive.org for availability and more information.
Participate in a Passover Seder Service
Wednesday, April 4, at 6:45 PM
Every spring, our Jewish brothers and sisters celebrate the Passover feast. It is an eight day celebration, begun with the Seder, the Passover Meal. Passover is one of the high holidays-the most holy of days-in the Jewish year. It marks the single most important event in Jewish history, the Exodus from Egypt. And Passover is a joyous celebration. In that event, God delivered a people from oppressive slavery, and called them to be the people that would make this God known to the rest of the world.
Celebrate the Passover Seder Service at Northside Drive on Wednesday night, April 4, at 6:45 PM, in the Fellowship Hall. Please make reservations through Renee Gamache at 404-237-8621.
Children's Easter Egg Hunt
Easter Sunday, April 8, at 12:15 PM
Front Lawn of Sanctuary
Invite the children of your friends and relatives to come to Northside Drive's annual Easter Egg Hunt right after morning worship.
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Deacon Spotlight
Lora Hawk has been a member of NDBC since 2006. She is originally from the metropolis of Social Circle, Georgia, and is the daughter of a cotton and soy bean farmer. She lives in Midtown with her never-dull, gray, tabby cat, Mr. Fitzgerald. She is in the Roger Williams Sunday School class thanks to the late Jim Branch, and can often be found posting the sermon's notes on Facebook on Sunday morning. You can always tell when Lora is around-just listen for the laughter-you've found her!
Lora's Deacon Families are:
Bil & Lindsay Cadaret (Joseph Cadaret)
Chip & Gigi Collins (Liam, Aidan, Grace, & Henry)
David & Marie Cook (Addie & Ava Grace)
Bruce & Sylvia Dick
Allison Dick
JB & Virginia Gilbert
James Gilbert
Howard Green
Jeff & Nicole Harbin (Clara & Michael)
Gene & Jeanne Hill
Eddie & Ali Jerden (Chloe & Sienna)
Steve & Letty Konenkamp (Kendall Konenkamp)
Dean Konenkamp
Wilton & Martha Looney
Andrew & Angeline Wamberg (Mary Hodges) |
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Praying the Psalms*
By Rev. James Lamkin
*The congregation is invited to read A-Psalm-A-Day during 2012.
A-Psalm-A-Day Upcoming Schedule:
April 4 - Psalm 10
Apri 5 - Psalm 11
April 6 - Psalm 12
April 7 - Psalm 13
April 8 - Psalm 14
April 9 - Psalm 15
April 10 - Psalm 16
April 11 - Psalm 17 |
The Intersection of Coaching and Ministry
Tuesday, April 10
11 AM in the Fellowship Hall
Pam Driesell, Senior Minister of Trinity Presbyterian Church, will reflect on life with her father, Lefty Driesell, successful long-time NCAA basketball coach, and the challenges and lessons their two vocations share. Join us to welcome a neighbor and to learn and laugh together.
TRIPLE E meets on the second Tuesday of each month, September-May from 11 AM-1 PM in the Fellowship Hall of Northside Drive Baptist Church. Bring a friend and $5 for a light lunch. |
NDBC Book Club 
A book review of Jayber Crow by Wendell Berry will be Wednesday, April 11, at 1 PM in the Fellowship Hall. Billie Davis will be the facilitator and Mary Chance the hostess. Bring your lunch; dessert and beverages will be furnished. |
A [Baptist] Conference on Sexuality and Covenant
April 19-21, 2012
Atlanta, GA
First Baptist Church of Decatur
Co-sponsored by the Cooperative Baptist Fellowship and Center for Theology and Public Life, Mercer University
Through plenary presentation, small-group interaction and resource breakouts, the conference aims to provide Baptists and other interested Christians an opportunity for honest, compassionate and prayerful dialogue around matters and questions of sexuality.
Concluding a year-long practice of prayerful covenant community, presenters and facilitators (both Baptist and non-Baptist) will offer diverse perspectives that encourage thoughtful reflection and conversation among participants. Above all, participants will be encouraged to consider what it means to live as covenant people the contemporary and emerging situation.
Everyone is welcome.
Additional information will be posted as it becomes available. If you have questions, please contact mshaw@thefellowship.info.
https://www.thefellowship.info/conference |
CHURCH WEEK
EASTER SUNDAY, April 8, 2012
9:30 AM - Church School
10:25 AM - Children's Choir
11:00 AM - Morning Worship
12:15 PM - Easter Egg Hunt
12:30 PM - Young Adult Easter Lunch
EASTER MONDAY, April 9, 2012
Church/Preschool Offices Closed
TUESDAY, April 10, 2012
11:00 AM - Triple E
WEDNESDAY, April 11, 2012
10:00 AM - Preschool Chapel
1:00 PM - NDBC Book Club
5:45 PM - Northside Yoga
7:30 PM - Sanctuary Choir Rehearsal
THURSDAY, April 12, 2012
7:00 PM - TNT |
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EASTER MONDAY
the Church & Preschool
offices will be closed. |
| CHURCH FAMILY CONCERNS
Mary Dutton
Don DaLee |
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PASTOR'S
CHURCH GROWTH
TIP OF THE WEEK
Bring a friend to a special worship service,
like Easter Sunday. |
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APRIL BIRTHDAYS
Chance Cooper - 1
LeAnna Anantaraman - 3
Anne Hunt - 4
Linda Fletcher - 4
Allen Abbott - 5
Dot Clark - 5
Greg Colson - 6
Kay Braswell - 6
Eric Cain - 6
Allison Dick - 6
Alice Ledbetter - 7
Jonathan Kerch - 7
Letty Konenkamp - 8
Jennifer Sardone - 10
Mary Schwartz - 12
Brian Knight - 12
Zach Stines - 13
Suzanne Clark - 13
Robbye Taylor - 13
Tim Whiffen - 14
Marjorie Rives - 14
Ken Brant - 16
Liam Collins - 16
Glenn Allen - 16
Daniel Moore - 16
Dick Houston - 17
Hardy Pickering - 17
Wilton Looney - 18
Claire Maust - 19
Jada Getsay - 20
Heather Bongers - 20
Theresa Goriczynski - 20
Dave Wooten - 21
Patti Clark - 21
Floyd Carroll - 23
Noah Davis - 23
Gerry Humphries - 30
Elise McCrea - 30 |
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(Retired Older Men
Eating Out) Every 3rd Tuesday of the month from 11:30 AM-1 PM. A time to visit with friends, tell stories and eat good food (bring your lunch money)!
Piccadilly Cafeteria |
NORTHSIDE YOGA 
Wednesdays at 6 PM on the 2nd floor (Room #202) with registered Yoga Teacher, Amanda Gregg. Bring a mat, water, and the $10 fee. To make a reservation for a Wednesday's class, email Amanda at mandayoga@gmail.com or for more information, visit www.northsidedrive.org. |
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"TNT"
Thursday Nights Together
People of all ages from NDBC meet at 7 PM every Thursday night for dinner.
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YOUNG ADULT
UNPLUGGED EVENTS
Young adult Unplugged evenings. These are casual dinners at our homes where Mike will bring the main course and everyone else brings a side item. They are on Friday nights once a month at 7 PM.
If you are interested in attending an Unplugged event contact Zach Bay for more details.
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Wednesday Nights!
The cost: $40 PER CHILD for the whole 10 weeks. Usual cost is $157.
The place: Music Together is on the first floor down from the Preschool hallway near the handicap accessible door (Rm 109).
The days: Wednesday's, Jan 11-Mar 14, @ 6 PM.
Please register ONLINE to confirm your space as soon as possible. |
Come join us on the 3rd Wednesday of each month beginning October 19, at 7 PM, in the church Parlor to knit or crochet a prayer shawl. If you are not sure how, no problem, there will be plenty of people to help you get started. This group is open to anyone who would like to join! For more information call Susan Harlan at 770-377-3869. |
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YOUTH
Encore! is a once a month youth event on either Sunday afternoon or Sunday evening. We focus this time on fellowship, discussion, and/or mission service.
Contact Zach Bay with questions. |
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YOUNG ADULT: SMALL GROUP SUNDAYS
The young adult small group will be reading and discussing
The Sacredness of Questioning Everything by David Dark. We meet once a month at 6:30 PM and then go off campus for dinner together. The small group meets in the Undercroft.
NEXT MEETING:
April 22, 2012
to sign up.
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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 will begin at 9:45 AM. |
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THE PAPERLESS PINNACLE
The Pinnacle is emailed as a link 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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NORTHSIDE NOTES
ARCHIVES
Did you miss an issue of our Northside Notes?
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THE STAINED GLASS WINDOWS BOOK
A copy of the book is in the Narthex for previewing and the cost is only $30. To get your copy, call us at 404-237-8621 or email the church. |
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. |
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