Rev. Lewicki will preach this Sunday on Acts chapter 10, which culminates in the line “God plays no favorites!” It’s the foundational biblical story for an inclusive theology.

Join us for Christian Education at 9:30am and worship at 11. All ages and backgrounds are welcome here… for truly, God plays no favorites! Everyone has a place.

Parched Earth, Alberta, Canada, 2011

The combined adult Sunday School class, meeting during Maymester in Fellowship Hall, will look at positions and responses of our own denomination, the PCUSA, and other faiths to climate change. Are Presbyterians helping lead the charge against ruination of the planet? Join us for a discussion led by Alexis Chase of Georgia Interfaith Power and Light. Read up on the issues here.

The Rev. Dr. Jennifer Ayres will preach at NDPC this Sunday, May 13th. Dr. Ayres is Assistant Professor of Religious Education and Director of the Religious Education Program at Emory’s Candler School of Theology.

Ayres is the author of Waiting for a Glacier to Move: Practicing Social Witness. She currently is researching issues of faith formation through religious practices of food justice. Other research interests include faith formation in the context of popular culture; pedagogical theory and practice; feminist practical theology; social activism and religious/moral formation; and eco-theology and the global food system. She also has written for the Feasting on the Word commentary series and the Being Reformed adult study series.

Jennifer is a clergy affiliate at North Decatur and an active member in the life of our congregation.

If this is your first time coming to worship with us, we are excited to have you join us. Church school begins with our Maymester course on Climate Change at 9:30am and worship begins at 11am.

The auction could not have been more successful! Good food, lively conversations, friendly bidding, incredible deals, and festive entertainment by the youth and our auctioneer extraordinaire all made for a lively time this past Sunday. Your generous and creative donations of services and treasures as well as your magnanimous bidding not only built the Mayan pyramid, bringing us to our goal – we surpassed it! In total we raised a little over $14,000, which will fully fund the youth mission trip to Guatemala. We’ll also be able to buy more desks and supplies for the school we will be working with. That’s as impressive as the Mayan pyramids themselves!

Thank you for showing up, for contributing donations, and for generously supporting the youth with your giving. That’s some good stuff!

As the mission trip approaches, here’s a look at what’s yet to come:

• Commissioning Service June 3
• Mission Trip June 8 – 17
• Worship Led by Mission Team July 8

What does this video of crazy Welsh sheep herders have to do with Jesus? Come to “Sheep Sunday” and find out. You’ll never read Psalm 23 the same way again.

Church school at 9:30am, worship at 11am. Remember our potluck and youth mission fundraiser after church. First-time visitors are especially welcome!