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

NSD NEWS 11.3.11

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!

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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

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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.  

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!!!

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.

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          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

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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?

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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!

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

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!