What a GREAT Sunday last Sunday was! Game Day was a blast, and a fitting end to a great Get in the Game month! Thanks to everyone who played a big part in it all!
This Sunday, don’t forget to set your clocks back and be at church at 10:00! One exciting service!
2 Opportunities to serve our community this weekend:
1) Friday night at NPHS: Concession Stand for Senior Night
We received this message from one of the booster moms:
We are in need of some help! We are looking for volunteers for the concession stand. We’re trying to get 12 volunteers (including 1 grill operator).
2) Saturday afternoon at Abney: Grilling for their Fall Festival
We’ll begin around 11:30 and finish by 1:30 or so. Need lots of help wrapping burgers and dogs!
**REPLY TO THIS EMAIL IF YOU ARE INTERESTED IN EITHER OF THESE OPPORTUNITIES
3 Opportunities to get plugged in at NSD!
1) NEWCOMERS this Sunday (11/6), immediately following the service, join us for a few informal minutes of getting to know our staff, learning about NSD, and asking any questions you may have.
2) MEMBERSHIP class next Sunday (11/13), from 11a-12p, join us to learn all about what it means to become an “official” NorthStar member! There are a lot of people who call NorthStar home, but have not become members yet. Now’s the time!
3) BAPTISM Sunday Dec. 11, immediately following the service, take that all-important next step in your walk with Christ.
**GO TO WWW.NORTHSTARCHURCH.ORG/FIRSTSTEPS TO REGISTER FOR ANY OF THE ABOVE.
Thursday, November 3, 2011
Thursday, October 27, 2011
GAME DAY INFO for 10.30.11!
WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW FOR GAME DAY ON SUNDAY!
10:00 am - Family Worship Service (ages 3+. Younger will be in preschool.). Going to be a fun morning!
11:00 am – Cookout (Burgers and dogs!) - Bring your lawn chairs or blankets.
Inflatable games for the kids
Drawing for the Great Game Day Giveaway (LOTS of GREAT prizes – bring your tickets from this month!)
- If you have volunteered to provide a prize, please get that to me before the service, if possible. Thank you!
Wear your favorite TEAM COLORS!
INVITE! INVITE!! INVITE!!!
10:00 am - Family Worship Service (ages 3+. Younger will be in preschool.). Going to be a fun morning!
11:00 am – Cookout (Burgers and dogs!) - Bring your lawn chairs or blankets.
Inflatable games for the kids
Drawing for the Great Game Day Giveaway (LOTS of GREAT prizes – bring your tickets from this month!)
- If you have volunteered to provide a prize, please get that to me before the service, if possible. Thank you!
Wear your favorite TEAM COLORS!
INVITE! INVITE!! INVITE!!!
Friday, October 21, 2011
GET IN THE GAME + some other important stuff...
GET IN THE GAME!!
We are in the middle of our month-long our month-long GET IN THE GAME promotion! Every week, we will present a different tool for you and your family to get in the game, and help others do the same!
Last Sunday was our BIG GIVE for October. NSD came through – providing a Suburban-full load of diapers and wipes. The good people at Shepherd’s Rest (a Paulding County Women’s Shelter) are extremely grateful. Way to go!
On Saturday (Oct 22), it’s the Great Grand Gas Buy-Down at Grand’s gas station (by Abney)! Join us as we represent NSD from 9:00 a.m. to 11:00 a.m. We’ll buy down the price of gas by 25 cents a gallon for all the lucky customers that morning. And we’ll get to show God’s love and show off our NSD spirit by serving coffee, hot chocolate, and donuts to the families who stop by. Join us as we serve and Get In The Game!
We are also seeking donations for The Great GITG Giveaway, during our Game Day Cookout on Oct 30th (more details below). Anything from items (electronics, gift cards, appliances, etc) to services (yard work, house cleaning, etc) would be great giveaways! Reply if you’d like to donate... Thank you to those who have already jumped on this! Feel free to bring your items this Sunday.
THIS SUNDAY, OCT 23rd: Spiritual Growth Seminar "Where Is God When It Hurts?" 9:30 a.m.
Steve Miller understands life in the trenches—losing his career when his wife was diagnosed with cancer, surviving her death, raising his
young boys on his own, and presently trying to figure out his blended family of seven boys. In this seminar, Steve will discuss the Biblical principles for surviving (and even thriving!) when life tumbles in.
To register: www.northstarchurch.org/spiritualgrowthseminars
NEXT SUNDAY, OCT 30th: GAME DAY 10:00AM
This will be such a fun Sunday! Wear your team colors and come to our one FAMILY service (ages 3+) at 10:00, then move on outside to feast on some burgers and dogs, tailgate style! We’ll have inflatable games for the kids, and don’t forget to bring your tickets you’ve been collecting all month! There are some GREAT prizes to be given away!
Who can you introduce to NSD on GAME DAY?
NEW SERVICE TIME, 10:00AM - beginning NOV 6th
We love having everyone in one room at one time for worship, so we’ve decided to move everyone to a 10:00am service! Yes, we’ll still have our great environments for kids and youth! Spread the word!
Thursday, October 6, 2011
3 opportunities for the weekend of 10.7.11
8Wanted to give you 3 opportunities to serve this weekend:
FRIDAY: we have been asked to run the concession stand at North Paulding HS, so their football parents can go watch the homecoming game. This is great fun for older elementary and up! If we have enough people, we can cover the band parents at the other concession stand as well! Will you join us? Reply to brad.parkhurst@northstarchurch.org if so...
SATURDAY: some of you may know Shannon Groover from the Kennesaw Campus. She sent me this request this week:
I wanted to contact you guys for two reasons. My husband and I started the North Paulding Wolfpack Youth League this past spring and are in the middle of our first season. We have 197 kids..wow we weren’t expecting that turn out but it has been great. Anyways this may be a long shot but I wanted to see if the church would have any volunteers that would be interested in helping out at our Homecoming Party Saturday night(this Saturday…6-9) It will be at the fields in Bentwater. We have 3 jumphouses, food vendors and a few games that we are looking for a few extra hands with. We are having a Homecoming walk with our football players and cheerleaders at 7:30. Our board will obviously be working from dusk til dawn but we are trying not to ask other families so they can enjoy the day with their kids. If you guys have any interest, please let me know.
Reply to brad.parkhurst@northstarchurch.org if you’d like to jump in on this one...
SUNDAY: bake 3-5 dozen cookies and bring them divided in baggies by 2’s or 3’s. We’ll attach an invite card and hand them back out to our people to take on a cookie blitz to our neighbors.
FRIDAY: we have been asked to run the concession stand at North Paulding HS, so their football parents can go watch the homecoming game. This is great fun for older elementary and up! If we have enough people, we can cover the band parents at the other concession stand as well! Will you join us? Reply to brad.parkhurst@northstarchurch.org if so...
SATURDAY: some of you may know Shannon Groover from the Kennesaw Campus. She sent me this request this week:
I wanted to contact you guys for two reasons. My husband and I started the North Paulding Wolfpack Youth League this past spring and are in the middle of our first season. We have 197 kids..wow we weren’t expecting that turn out but it has been great. Anyways this may be a long shot but I wanted to see if the church would have any volunteers that would be interested in helping out at our Homecoming Party Saturday night(this Saturday…6-9) It will be at the fields in Bentwater. We have 3 jumphouses, food vendors and a few games that we are looking for a few extra hands with. We are having a Homecoming walk with our football players and cheerleaders at 7:30. Our board will obviously be working from dusk til dawn but we are trying not to ask other families so they can enjoy the day with their kids. If you guys have any interest, please let me know.
Reply to brad.parkhurst@northstarchurch.org if you’d like to jump in on this one...
SUNDAY: bake 3-5 dozen cookies and bring them divided in baggies by 2’s or 3’s. We’ll attach an invite card and hand them back out to our people to take on a cookie blitz to our neighbors.
Thursday, September 29, 2011
NSD Update 9.29.11
This weekend at ol’ NSD, we have several things going on that you MUST know about!
Sunday marks the beginning of October, and thus, the beginning of our month-long GET IN THE GAME promotion! Every week, we will present a different tool for you and your family to get in the game, and help others do the same!
This Sunday, we will be making (very cool and stylish, if I must say...) yard signs available for you to pick up and help spread the word about NSD!
We need some hands and staple guns at 8:30 on Sunday morning to assemble all the signs! Can you help? Reply if so...
We are also seeking donations for The Great GITG Giveaway, during our Game Day Cookout on Oct 30th (more details to come). Anything from items (electronics, gift cards, appliances, etc) to services (yardwork, house cleaning, etc) would be great giveaways! Reply if you’d like to donate...
Husbands and Dads – save the date! Sunday afternoon, Oct 9, we are going to see the new movie from the makers of Facing the Giants and Fireproof! It’s called Courageous and the trailer can be seen here: http://www.courageousthemovie.com/. Hiram theater, time TBA.
Got an old cell phone? Donate it this Sunday and next (in the lobby) to Cell Phones for Soldiers. All proceeds go to helping our overseas military connect with their families at home.
Any further info: brad.parkhurst@northstarchurch.org
Sunday marks the beginning of October, and thus, the beginning of our month-long GET IN THE GAME promotion! Every week, we will present a different tool for you and your family to get in the game, and help others do the same!
This Sunday, we will be making (very cool and stylish, if I must say...) yard signs available for you to pick up and help spread the word about NSD!
We need some hands and staple guns at 8:30 on Sunday morning to assemble all the signs! Can you help? Reply if so...
We are also seeking donations for The Great GITG Giveaway, during our Game Day Cookout on Oct 30th (more details to come). Anything from items (electronics, gift cards, appliances, etc) to services (yardwork, house cleaning, etc) would be great giveaways! Reply if you’d like to donate...
Husbands and Dads – save the date! Sunday afternoon, Oct 9, we are going to see the new movie from the makers of Facing the Giants and Fireproof! It’s called Courageous and the trailer can be seen here: http://www.courageousthemovie.com/. Hiram theater, time TBA.
Got an old cell phone? Donate it this Sunday and next (in the lobby) to Cell Phones for Soldiers. All proceeds go to helping our overseas military connect with their families at home.
Any further info: brad.parkhurst@northstarchurch.org
Saturday, August 6, 2011
Re-Launch is tomorrow, August 7th!
TOMORROW is our big re-launch! Back to two services, 9:30 and 11:00 at Abney Elementary (1186 Colbert Rd, Dallas).
Park in the front (unless you are volunteering and will be there all day – you may park in the back). Auditorium and Elementary are straight ahead, Students to the right, and preschool to the left.
Special preschool procedures:
We will have child check in down the hall to the left of the welcome center. This is a long hallway so if your child is still in a stroller, we recommend bringing them in that. We will have stroller parking near the classrooms.
For the children who are a little older, we will have a bye-bye buggy and 3 wagons for us to take the kids to their classes in after check-in. When you come to pick up your child, you will go to their classroom if the child is under 2. For the 2-4 yr olds, we will bring them to the check-in area and have them waiting there.
There is still time to make that last-minute invite. Call, email, text, Facebook, face-to-face, carrier pigeon, Morse code, smoke signal, searchlight, blimp, biplane banner. Or, to make it simpler, use an evite: www.northstarchurch.org/evites.
ACTION STEP: Come to church tomorrow, and bring someone with you!
Park in the front (unless you are volunteering and will be there all day – you may park in the back). Auditorium and Elementary are straight ahead, Students to the right, and preschool to the left.
Special preschool procedures:
We will have child check in down the hall to the left of the welcome center. This is a long hallway so if your child is still in a stroller, we recommend bringing them in that. We will have stroller parking near the classrooms.
For the children who are a little older, we will have a bye-bye buggy and 3 wagons for us to take the kids to their classes in after check-in. When you come to pick up your child, you will go to their classroom if the child is under 2. For the 2-4 yr olds, we will bring them to the check-in area and have them waiting there.
There is still time to make that last-minute invite. Call, email, text, Facebook, face-to-face, carrier pigeon, Morse code, smoke signal, searchlight, blimp, biplane banner. Or, to make it simpler, use an evite: www.northstarchurch.org/evites.
ACTION STEP: Come to church tomorrow, and bring someone with you!
Wednesday, July 6, 2011
NSD Community Opps!
Hey Guys,
Thank you so much to Liz, Paula, and Robin for helping out with the Helping Hands food sorting this past week!! I wanted to share a line from an e-mail the director of Helping Hands sent to me about the volunteers from NorthStar Dallas.
God Bless you all. I thank God for volunteers from NorthStar.
In His Service,
Andrea
Always remember that although something seems small to us, like moving around a few cans, it is huge to the person that needs the cans moved!
BIG GIVE SUMMER LUNCH PROGRAM EACH SUNDAY 6/5-7/31
We are back on this Sunday! We will be putting the lunches together after service this week in the camp room so feel free to stop by after church and give us hand.
For this week we are still in need of:
6 Volunteers-20 PB & J Sandwiches (pb&j) mixed together and stored in sandwich bags
6 Volunteers-20 individual bags of chips
8 Volunteers-20 individually wrapped brownies
6 Volunteers-20 juice boxes
10 volunteer each week to bring in 20 DECORATED lunch bags
3 volunteers to drive one day a week to deliver the lunches. It only takes about 1 hour from start to finish and seeing the looks on those kids faces is priceless
We are also still in need of books for the older kids to give away on Fridays. Also bibles, especially kid and student bibles. The kids go for any bibles we have before anything else
ADULT LEADER FOR STUDENT MINISTRY
Clay is planning a couple of events during the rest of summer for the middle and high school students and is looking for volunteers. If helping with these great group of kids is something you would be interested in let Clay or myself know.
FIRST ANNUAL BURNT HICKORY BASEBALL ASSOCIATION GOLF TOURNAMENT 7/13
To support Burnt Hickory Youth Baseball Assoc.
If you are interested in playing in the tournament or putting together a team let me know and I will send you the info.
BACK TO SCHOOL BACK PACK AND SCHOOL SUPPLY DRIVE 7/17
We will be collecting money to purchase book bags for less fortunate students in the area. We will also be collecting school supplies to fill the book bags as well. A list of the supplies we are planning to pack in each back pack is below. Please help us fill these book bags by picking up a few extra things when you are out doing your own school shopping.
a pack of pencils
3 packs of paper
crayons or pens (for teens)
glue sticks
2 spiral notebooks
erasers
4 pocket folders
a one inch 3 ring binder
COMMUNITY MAKEOVER WEEKEND 7/23-24
This is going to be an exciting weekend! We will be working with many other churches and volunteers in the community doing different projects. NorthStar Dallas is sponsoring 2 events on Saturday the 23rd. We are going to start bright and early Saturday morning with both projects. You can either help by painting at Abney Elementary School or help clean up and organize the old Helping Hands Building, or you can even do both. Both of these will be going on at the same time so we are going to need A LOT of volunteers for that day. Please feel free to invite friends, family, and co workers to help us out. Then on Sunday night the whole community will gather for a HUGE county wide worship service at SAMS parking lot at 6:00 pm! You will not want to miss this weekend!! So be sure to SAVE THE DATE! Let me know which projects you want to help out with!
HABITAT FOR HUMMANITY HOUSE DEDICATION 8/20
Even if you were not able to come out and help build we would still love for you to come out and represent NSD as we celebrate the new home owners and bless their new house and new beginning! From what I have heard this is a beautiful and moving day where the home owners get the keys to their brand new house and we all get the chance to see exactly what our hard work produced. If you would like to go let me know so that we can figure out the car pooling situation.
NSD COMMUNITY WEB SITE
Don’t forget you can always check out what NorthStar Dallas is doing in the community by going to www.northstarchurch.org/nsdcommunity <http://www.northstarchurch.org/nsdcommunity> . Now there is even a link where you can sign up to volunteer for different things that we have going on. And as always you can e-mail me at nsdcommunity@northstarchurch.org.
See you Sunday!
Serving for Him,
Crystal Denman NorthStar Community Outreach
NSDCommunity@northstarchurch.org
Thank you so much to Liz, Paula, and Robin for helping out with the Helping Hands food sorting this past week!! I wanted to share a line from an e-mail the director of Helping Hands sent to me about the volunteers from NorthStar Dallas.
God Bless you all. I thank God for volunteers from NorthStar.
In His Service,
Andrea
Always remember that although something seems small to us, like moving around a few cans, it is huge to the person that needs the cans moved!
BIG GIVE SUMMER LUNCH PROGRAM EACH SUNDAY 6/5-7/31
We are back on this Sunday! We will be putting the lunches together after service this week in the camp room so feel free to stop by after church and give us hand.
For this week we are still in need of:
6 Volunteers-20 PB & J Sandwiches (pb&j) mixed together and stored in sandwich bags
6 Volunteers-20 individual bags of chips
8 Volunteers-20 individually wrapped brownies
6 Volunteers-20 juice boxes
10 volunteer each week to bring in 20 DECORATED lunch bags
3 volunteers to drive one day a week to deliver the lunches. It only takes about 1 hour from start to finish and seeing the looks on those kids faces is priceless
We are also still in need of books for the older kids to give away on Fridays. Also bibles, especially kid and student bibles. The kids go for any bibles we have before anything else
ADULT LEADER FOR STUDENT MINISTRY
Clay is planning a couple of events during the rest of summer for the middle and high school students and is looking for volunteers. If helping with these great group of kids is something you would be interested in let Clay or myself know.
FIRST ANNUAL BURNT HICKORY BASEBALL ASSOCIATION GOLF TOURNAMENT 7/13
To support Burnt Hickory Youth Baseball Assoc.
If you are interested in playing in the tournament or putting together a team let me know and I will send you the info.
BACK TO SCHOOL BACK PACK AND SCHOOL SUPPLY DRIVE 7/17
We will be collecting money to purchase book bags for less fortunate students in the area. We will also be collecting school supplies to fill the book bags as well. A list of the supplies we are planning to pack in each back pack is below. Please help us fill these book bags by picking up a few extra things when you are out doing your own school shopping.
a pack of pencils
3 packs of paper
crayons or pens (for teens)
glue sticks
2 spiral notebooks
erasers
4 pocket folders
a one inch 3 ring binder
COMMUNITY MAKEOVER WEEKEND 7/23-24
This is going to be an exciting weekend! We will be working with many other churches and volunteers in the community doing different projects. NorthStar Dallas is sponsoring 2 events on Saturday the 23rd. We are going to start bright and early Saturday morning with both projects. You can either help by painting at Abney Elementary School or help clean up and organize the old Helping Hands Building, or you can even do both. Both of these will be going on at the same time so we are going to need A LOT of volunteers for that day. Please feel free to invite friends, family, and co workers to help us out. Then on Sunday night the whole community will gather for a HUGE county wide worship service at SAMS parking lot at 6:00 pm! You will not want to miss this weekend!! So be sure to SAVE THE DATE! Let me know which projects you want to help out with!
HABITAT FOR HUMMANITY HOUSE DEDICATION 8/20
Even if you were not able to come out and help build we would still love for you to come out and represent NSD as we celebrate the new home owners and bless their new house and new beginning! From what I have heard this is a beautiful and moving day where the home owners get the keys to their brand new house and we all get the chance to see exactly what our hard work produced. If you would like to go let me know so that we can figure out the car pooling situation.
NSD COMMUNITY WEB SITE
Don’t forget you can always check out what NorthStar Dallas is doing in the community by going to www.northstarchurch.org/nsdcommunity <http://www.northstarchurch.org/nsdcommunity> . Now there is even a link where you can sign up to volunteer for different things that we have going on. And as always you can e-mail me at nsdcommunity@northstarchurch.org.
See you Sunday!
Serving for Him,
Crystal Denman NorthStar Community Outreach
NSDCommunity@northstarchurch.org
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