God’s doing great things at Northlake and through our people. Here’s some of the scoop.
2 New Things to Help Accomplish the Vision
Pumpkin Bash
Over 100 Northlaker’s helped out with our very first Pumpkin Bash- an event planned to reach out with Christ-like love into our immediate neighborhood.
Over 475 people attended and 24 families indicated that they would like to have more information about the church. This was such a fun outreach. While so many new people came, the Pumpkin Bash had the side effect of pulling the church together as so many did so much to reach out. Each child received a warm welcome, a gospel tract, and had fun playing games. Dads are still talking about the games. The Fireside room was packed with folks enjoying delicious homemade chili and yummy cornbread. Thanks Dianna Stilts and kitchen crew! Kids and adults were getting faces painted, their pictures taken in costume and doing the cake walk. Way to go Melissa Young and everyone on the Pumpkin Bash team. Oh and by the way, it was fun seeing two of our elders, Dick Gardner and Bill Schwartz really going all out. 
Dick came as clown and greeted kids at the door. Bill Schwartz AKA Elvis, 
strolled up and down the building doing “Hound Dog”. Thank you. Thank you very much. New Prayer Meeting
We’ve started a new all-church prayer meeting. Each Sunday from 8-8:30 a.m. folks are gathering to pray before church in the Fireside room. While the focus of our Wednesday prayer meeting is to pray through the individual requests outlined on the weekly prayer sheet, this group is praying that God would speak to everyone during the worship services and that God’s Spirit would energize the overall outreach of the church. Everyone is welcome to join both prayer meetings. The Wednesday night prayer meeting is at 7.
Upcoming Events:
Our annual Christmas Missionary offering is this Sunday and replaces our regular Koinonia offering just for this month. As you know we have 50 full-time missionaries. This offering is intended to help them have something special at Christmas. We’ll have that offering at the end of the service.
The Thanksgiving Service of Praise is just two weeks away, Lord willing on Sunday Nov. 18th. All our NU, Youth and older children’s classes are cancelled so we can praise and thank the Lord together as family. Once again we’ll have an open microphone where you can briefly tell the Lord, thanks. That Sunday our new 34 voice Northlake Choir sings. People have been telling me about reaching out with the gospel, seeing families put back together. I can’t wait to hear more.
The details of this year’s annual Holiday Food and Gift Drive are being worked out as we speak. We’ll see details in the bulletin soon.
Staff updates
Lisa Hall (virtually fulltime and totally unpaid volunteer) who helped start the Northlake Resource Center is now taking on key new role as our Volunteer Ministry Coordinator. If you want to find a new place to serve in the body of Christ or in the community, give her a call at the office at 671-9500. Lisa knows the church and its ministries very well and having been involved in many local service agencies, she can help you find a spot where you can put your gifts to work serving in the community as well. Welcome Lisa! .JPG)
Ryan Lancaster is our new head custodian. Greg Rice’s shoes are pretty big to fill in more ways than one but if anyone can fill them, Ryan can. Welcome Ryan!
Building UseNew Cry Room for Mom’s
Misty Delgado and team are in the process of turning Pastor Dave’s office into our new cry room exclusively dedicated for moms who need some privacy with their little ones and want to hear the message during the worship services. We’ve run a speaker into the room so moms can hear the message.
Score: Babies 1, Pastor Dave 0.
New Members Class
Interested in learning how to join the church and why that may be a good idea? We’d love for you to come to the Northlake Membership Class offered during the Second Service Time- 10:30 – 11:50 a.m. on Sunday Dec. 2 and 9. John Young, one of our elders will be leading the class.
Thought for the Day: Sometimes we think our best years of serving the Savior are either way ahead of today, or they happened a long time ago. They are nothing more than undefined dreams not yet realized or at best memories lying well folded in a trunk collecting dust up in the attack. And sometimes we think we’ve failed God so badly that we’re now on His “B” team. He only uses us when the good players aren’t available. I would have you know that God isn’t finished with you. As David tells us in Psalm 1,
Blessed is the man who… delights in the law of the LORD,
And on his law he meditates day and night.
He is like a tree planted by streams of water
Which yields its fruit in season
And whose leaf does not wither.
