NorthStar Dallas 2011 Report

2011 was obviously a big year for NSD and NorthStar Church in general.

Here are some things God accomplished through NSD this year:

We successfully launched, moved, and re-launched!  We set up and tore down each more than 40 times!

Our family ministries (preschool, children, and youth) accomplished their purposes of giving our kids a safe, fun place to grow in Christ, and gave our people a chance to serve Christ! 

We made connections with these schools:

Abney Elementary (served at Christmas store and fall festival, donated a ton of toys at Christmas, cooked for their teachers, painted all their teacher bathrooms)

Shelton Elementary (served at Christmas Extravaganza)

North Paulding High School (worked with Men's basketball team, led a coaches Bible Study, ran concessions for football and basketball, assisted a needy teacher at Christmas)

We did a lot of work with community organizations as well: Helping Hands of Paulding County, Habitat for Humanity, Shepherd's Rest (domestic violence shelter), Paulding Christmas, and MUST ministries, to name a few.

We bought down gas for our neighbors, and served them hot chocolate and donuts!  We delivered cookies and invite cards to our neighbors as well.

In the fall, our giving grew to average a little more than $3000 a week - getting us close to "paying for ourselves" (which is about $4,000/wk)

We baptized about 15 people!

These are great highlights, but they are just the beginning!  God has BIG plans for NSD this year, impacting YOUR community!

May we all be challenged this year to "step it up" in every area: your personal journey, serving, giving, etc...)  

If you were not at church on Jan 1st, I shared a challenge for this year.  It's called "Stand Alone" and you can listen to it here: http://www.northstarchurch.org/pages/page.asp?page_id=59188

Hope to see you on Sunday at 10:00am!  Invite someone to come with you!

Brad Parkhurst

Campus Pastor, NorthStar Church Dallas

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.

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...

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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...

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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.

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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

NSD Community Update!

Hi everyone – our summer community ministry continues:  go to http://www.northstarchurch.org/nsdcommunity to sign up for any of the opportunities below:

BIG GIVE SUMMER LUNCH PROGRAM EACH SUNDAY 6/5-7/31
NO SUMMER LUNCH THIS SUNDAY!

We will not be doing lunches this Sunday.  Another church has offered to take the whole week as their summer project so we get a week off.  If you had planned on bringing in either brownies (no home made this week), chips, or drinks we can still use them to get a head start on next week.  But we will not be needing any sandwiches this week.

I am still in need of:
10 volunteer each week to bring in 20 DECORATED lunch bags
5 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.  Last week I actually had 2 kids arguing over the last bible we had and although I don’t condone fighting I couldn’t help but love what they were fighting over.  In the end they agreed to not argue any more about who gets it and decided they would share it together.  AWESOME!!!

HELPING HANDS CAN SORTING 6/25
We need 5 volunteers to help sort cans for Helping Hands food pantry.  We will be meeting at 240 Professional court, Dallas at 10:00 am.  Please let me know if you have a couple of hours to spare that morning and can help us out.

ENGAGE ATLANTA GOLF TOURNAMENT 6/24
This is to raise money for the upcoming Community Makeover Weekend that we will be participating in.  If you are interested in putting together a team let me know and I will send you the info.  OR you can join Brads NSD team.  If you would like to join his team shoot him an e-mail and he will get you set up. The tournament will be held at Creekside Country Club in Hiram.

LEAP ADULT LEADER 6/27-30
Our middle and high school pastor Clay Davis is planning an amazing summer for our NSD students and would love for you to get involved.  The first event that he needs help with is LEAP.  This is an AWESOME mini ministry day camp for the older students.  The kids go out and do daily service and community projects during the week while also having a lot of fun and learning how to live more like Jesus did. If you are interested in helping Clay out and being a leader that week please let one of us know and we will give you more info.  He is also planning 3-4 other events during the summer and is looking for volunteers to help with those as well so if you want to help but can’t make it LEAP week still let us know we will make sure you have any opportunity to serve with the student ministry.

FIRST ANNUAL BURNT HICKORY BASEBALL ASSOCIATION GOLF TOURNAMENT 7/13
To support Burnt Hickory Youth Baseball Assoc.
If you are interested in putting together a team let me know and I will send you the info.  OR you can join Brads NSD team.  If you would like to join his team shoot him an e-mail and he will get you set up. Bentwater Golf Course

COMMUNITY MAKEOVER WEEKEND 7/21-24
This is going to be an exciting weekend!  We will be working all weekend with lots of other churches in the area doing many different projects around the community. Ending Sunday night with a HUGE county wide worship service! You will not want to miss this weekend!!  So be sure to SAVE THE DATE!

NORTHSTAR DALLAS AND HELPING HANDS CLOTHES CLOSET
Many of you have asked me where you can donate your used clothing in Paulding since there really isn’t a place that provides clothes for the needy in the area.  Starting in the fall NorthStar Dallas and Helping Hands are partnering up to provide a monthly clothes closet for people in need in Paulding County.  All the recipients will be prescreened and most will already be clients of Helping Hands so you can be assured that your clothes are going to people who really need them.  So find some time to clean out those closets because starting this Sunday we will be taking donations of gently used clothes, belts, purses, shoes, etc. in all sizes from baby to adult.

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.

We hope ya’ll have a great week!  See you Sunday!

Serving for Him,
Crystal Denman
NorthStar Community Outreach


Brad Parkhurst
Campus Pastor
NorthStar Church, Dallas, GA
www.northstarchurch.org
Twitter: @BradParkhurst, @NSCDallas