South Asia Trip

Exciting things happening at North Church!!!  
January 3-13, we will be sending a team to S. Asia in partnership with Freshwater Church in Bolivar, MO.  The team will consist of 7 individuals (3-NC, 4-FW). 

The goals of the trip will be the following:

• A vision trip to see how NC can further partner and support the believers and churches there
• To encourage and train the national church planter and his guys
• To encourage and disciple believers within the 5 church-plants and 2 widow colonies
• To help break new ground through prayer, evangelism and story-telling

How you can get involved:

1.  PRAY! PRAY! PRAY!

• Team unity with 2 churches going
• Effective team training meetings as we are planning and preparing
• Reception of visas before we leave
• Our national church planing partner and his family - His uncle passed away Sunday and the funeral is Wednesday.  
• Raising funds - $2000 per person

2. EAT AND TELL YOUR FRIENDS TO EAT!

Helfer's Pastries and Deli Cafe - giving 10% of every bill to our team when you mention North Church.   Now until Jan 4.

Helfer’s bakes amazing Christmas cookies, pastries, and cakes that would be perfect for your office or Christmas party. You can also stop into the deli for breakfast, lunch or dinner.  M-F 6am-6:30pm, Sat 6am-6pm.

Helfer's is located on the corner of St. Ferdinand/Graham and Washington/Charbonier in Florissant. (380 St. Ferdinand St.).

Frontenac Grill - giving 15% of every bill to our team on DEC 29 only for lunch or dinner.

The Frontenac Grill is a new fine dining restaurant at S Lindbergh and Conway Road (731 South Lindbergh Blvd), owned by the Talayna family. They serve prime steaks, pasta and Talayna’s famous pizza in four different styles. This would be a perfect time for a client lunch or holiday dinner with your family.

Please make a reservation for lunch or dinner by calling 314-569-4115 and mention India. Print out this ticket to present to your server to ensure your bill will count towards our team.

3. GIVE FINANCIALLY!

Online donations can be made by clicking here.  Or you can make a check out to "North Church" and mail it to 49 Meditation Way Ct. Florissant, MO 63031.  All gifts are tax-deductible and must be received by Dec 26.

Greed, Baseball and Albert Pujols

I put up a tweet today that simply said "Greed..." I am not sure if greed was a factor in Albert's decision to leave St. Louis to go play for the Angels. I suspect that it was at least some sort of factor, but I do not know him personally. I don't want to make a judgment about Albert, at least I do not intend to.

Ultimately greed is bad and it is in everyone of our hearts. This Pujols situation is a platform to expose the greed that is in our culture. Again, I do not intend to label Albert as greedy, there may have been other circumstances in play that I am not aware of. Even if Albert was completely motivated by greed, the conversation of greed in our culture does not start or end with Albert Pujols. It is present with or without a $260,000,000 contract to play baseball.

Many have said, "If someone offered you more money to move, you would move." But that does not make it right. It just means that I might be influenced by greed or pride or the need to be respected through money. If I am influenced by those things then I am wrong and have sin in my life. We all have sin in our lives.

This is present everywhere. According to Forbe's magazine, in a 12 month period Johnny Depp made $75,000,000. Ben Stiller made $53,000,000. Tom Hanks made $45,000,000. That is just silly.

Meanwhile, take a look at the price of a movie ticket. Take a look at the escalation of baseball ticket prices.

What I object to is calling pride and greed, ambition and business. Pride and greed are sins and they are both present in us all and should not be celebrated. They should be identified and rooted out of us.

The whole process and this whole blog post serve to take us to the gospel. Proving once again, that we are filled with sin and in need of redemption. Forgiveness of sin and complete forgiveness and redemption is offered through Jesus Christ.