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

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

Starting June 8, this 9-day mission trip will lead Bible schools, engage in work projects, and volunteer in schools in this Central American country. This young mission team follows along a trail of Christian service blazed by NDPC member Rev. Anne Sayre, who helped found a birthing center in Cahabon, Guatemala, that now bears her name.

Please RSVP for lunch to amanda@ndpc.org.

Try cycling to church April 22.

How do you normally get to church? On Sunday, April 22, we invite you to try something different, as you are able, to reduce your impact on Creation.

Do you drive alone? We will help you find a carpool partner. If your family already makes up a carpool, are you able to walk or bike all or part of the way? Is public transit an option for you? Maybe you could hit the sidewalks and walk to church. Using public transit (especially on a Sunday, when buses and trains are infrequent) may help you better understand the situation of transit-dependent neighbors, as well as avoid the impacts associated with your car trip.

• Participate in a weekly car-free day. Take one day, or part of one day, each week to reduce your number of car trips. Are any of your regular errand destinations accessible on foot or via bicycle? Get creative: could you find that sixty minutes in your schedule by swapping it with a trip to the gym?

• Find a New Local Vendor: Transportation impacts on Creation come not only from how we get around, but also from how far all the stuff we consume travels to get to us. You probably already know that the average American meal travels 1500 miles to reach your table, which is part of what inspired the NPDC garden and the new Community Supported Agriculture program. Look for ways you or your family can shop closer to home at stores which stock local.

• Click here to find more details about Alternative Transportation Sunday at NDPC!

We welcome you to visit us at North Decatur Presbyterian Church today for education at 9:30 and worship at 11am. The sermon by Rev. Lewicki will focus on the tragic death of Trayvon Martin. Hoodies welcome.

• We begin the evening with a full meal in the Fellowship Hall. We sing, hear words of Scripture, share Communion, and all who are willing will have their feet washed and wash those of another person. After the meal, we move to the sanctuary, where we hear the story of Jesus’ final days read in candlelight and shadows.
• Children are welcome for the meal, but free childcare is provided from 7-9 pm.
• Visitors are always welcome!

• A reading of the story of the death of Jesus from the Gospel of Mark, prayer, and penitence. A lunchtime service lasting 30 minutes.
• Visitors are welcome.

• 9:30am the children and families gather for the egg hunt! Coffee and freshly-made beignets will be on hand for everyone.
• Bring a few flowers from your garden to place in the flower cross!
• At 11am, we worship the Risen One! Families will stay together for the worship service, which will last an hour. There will be a theatrical “showing” of the resurrection story and a short homily from Rev. Lewicki. We share Holy Communion together and sing the Hallelujah chorus.
• First-time visitors are especially welcome for Easter day!