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Rev. Lewicki, preaching. In June, we began a fun summer preaching series: The Best. Story. Ever! When we are children, we learn about the Bible through its biggest, brightest, most wonderful stories: wild animals, miraculous deeds, and s/heroes of every shape and size. This summer, NDPC is going back to re-visit the Biblical stories that captured our imaginations as children to discover how their meaning deepens as we “grow up” and how they speak into the social crises of this age.
Strange things happen to us in the middle of the night. Something truly strange happened to Jacob. On the eve before Jacob was to meet his estranged brother, Esau, Jacob finds himself in a wrestling match with a mysterious stranger. All night long they struggle in the dirt. Finally, as dawn breaks, the stranger demands that Jacob let him go. Jacob will, on one condition: That the man bless him. The stranger blesses Jacob and gives him a new name: Israel–“the one who struggles with God.” Who is this stranger–Esau? An angel? God? What does this story tell you about your own existential wrestling?
Join us on Facebook at this link at 10:00 a.m. as we gather together virtually as a worshiping community. We will view the pre-recorded video together, comment, “sign” the welcome register and chat with each other, even during the sermon.
Fellowship Time
Want to connect with other members? We have a tradition of enjoying lemonade outside after worship in the summers. We can’t gather in person yet but we can gather virtually to catch up, break the ice if you are new, and stay cool together through summer fellowship.
Join our host for a virtual “lemonade time” from 11:00 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. after our Sunday service watch party. The host will convene us with a warm greeting and ice breaker question. If there are a bunch of us, the host will even open up Zoom rooms for smaller groups and rotate us around to mingle and make the most of this super fantastic social set-up. Join us for our Lemonade and Zoom hour. Details are in the Communicator and the Sunday morning email.