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Back to basics

Being in Tanzania back in December reminded me yet again what is important to us as a church.

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NCLC New Year’s day message 2012

A New Year's Day video message from Pastor Jon.

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Seasons of change

It's safe to say this is an 'interesting' season we're in at the moment. When pressure is applied to something whatever is inside comes out (sounds a bit yucky) Thinking about it this way, if you squeeze an orange the juice comes out. Over the last few months we have been going through some difficult pressures, both in our family and in our church family. Amongst other things we've negotiated some interesting venue issues and one of our beautiful young girls in church graduated to heaven.

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A life that was lived.

Last week NCLC lost someone who had touched many lives during her short time being part of our community. She wasn't part of the worship team or one of the speakers, she wasn't one of the recognised leaders of the church. She was "just" Lizzie. But for those people who knew her there was no "just" about Lizzie. She radiated warmth, enthusiasm and life. One of my friends Craig has been deeply touched by her death. He wrote about the effect that she had on him. I will leave the rest to Craig Nelson.

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Enemies with faces

This week has been a busy week for us. We have been attending lots of meetings and using time to prepare for the move to our new venue in two weeks. So to be called into a meeting at 24 hours notice with the venue management was not something we were expecting or had scheduled into our already busy diaries...

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Releasing Leaders

For those of you that know me and are part of my life, I hope you will be able to say that I am passionate about seeing something in people that they maybe don't always see in themselves. I don't want it to stop there though. I want to release people into their God-given potential. That can involve pushing other people forward when my insecurities would cause me to want to hold the limelight...

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What is rising up?

None of us can say that we have not been affected by recent events in our beloved country. We have seen the news reports, watched the videos and followed the twitter comments. I would like to try and add some wisdom to the situation if I can.

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Hillsong Conference thoughts

This year I have had the privilege of attending 2 Hillsong conferences, one in Sydney and the other in London. This is a significant expense for us and therefore I need to make sure that it impacts the wider church in a major way.

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Hope when it seems hopeless

Dee Cook writes about her experiences on her visit to the Watoto church in Uganda and talks about how Hope helps us to believe in God's eternal plan. Hope is rising around the world.

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From the pastor’s desk

There are many spiritual lessons that I want us to learn from the Word of God as well as theology & lessons from the life of Christ. But if I could sit down with each person in or connected to our community what would I tell you?

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