Northeast Christian Podcast

Relief & Development | Outreach Series

As a church, Northeast is committed to being in the forefront of both relief and development.

"Relief" makes a difference in communities in the short term by helping provide for immediate physical needs. "Development" takes a long term approach by working to reduce the need for future intervention and aid.

Relief and development mobilize Christians locally and globally to express their concern and compassion in practical ways, such as financially supporting projects or volunteering where help is needed.

Sometimes, a simple food box or a Christmas Gift offered in God's name is worth a thousand sermons on love and compassion. Where some look at the needs and pain in the world with despair or disinterest, Northeast sees tremendous opportunity and privilege to serve the poor, marginalized, and forgotten through both relief and development.

All we do in the ministry of relief and development is for God's glory.

Working with Love the 'Ville outreach Partners, you could help a young woman leave a trafficked life. You could help a person experiencing homelessness leave their addiction and be housed and employed. You can help a refugee family integrate into society.

This is tough work, but the rewards are great.

Visit www.necchurch.org/outreach today to find a place to serve.

Holistic Ministry | Outreach Series

Holistic Ministry views people through God’s eyes as complete individuals with both bodies and souls.

This holistic view of ministry changes the way we see individuals and communities. In individuals, we seek to meet both physical and spiritual needs to nourish the body and soul with love and tangible care. In communities, we seek to provide both short term intervention and long term involvement.

This week, we get to hear from a panel of our partners who are passionate about holistic ministry.

Visit www.necchurch.org/outreach to find a place to serve today.

Image Bearers | Outreach Series

Every person is made in the Image of God. Every image bearer has dignity, worth, and capacity.

Being made in the image of God means you have inherent worth. It also means you have inherent capacity- abilities, ideas, assets, and solutions.

In all of our Outreach efforts, we seek to define others by this identity of "image bearer". If we define others by their deficiencies or treat them as passive recipients of someone else’s help, it rejects their dignity as image bearers.

"Dignity " means we involve everyone as participants, as equals. If we change our paradigm for understanding poverty from a resources framework to a relational framework, then we will focus on the practice of reconciliation rather than the distribution of resources.

To get involved with Outreach at Northeast, visit the Outreach page at https://www.necchurch.org/outreach/

We'd love to connect you with one of our partners who are making a difference in our community.

Shalom | Outreach Series

"Shalom" is the biblical concept of wholeness. Shalom is physical, spiritual, emotional, and social harmony everywhere. As followers of Jesus, we seek justice to bring shalom to life. In this series, we're walking through the biblical concepts of justice and shalom, and highlighting partners in our city who are doing the work.

Talk the Talk | Show & Tell

We have a saying at Northeast that we “Always walk the walk, and talk the talk when the time is right.” But how do you know when the “time is right” to share your faith? It’s not as complicated, scary, or weird as you may think.

We believe sincerity always trumps spectacle, and that unleashing the love of Jesus is most effective in the everyday moments with the people closest to you.

How to Share Jesus’ Love Without Making it Weird

We have a saying at Northeast that we "Always walk the walk, and talk the talk when the time is right." But how do you know when the "time is right" to share your faith? It's not as complicated, scary, or weird as you may think.

We believe sincerity always trumps spectacle, and that unleashing the love of Jesus is most effective in the everyday moments with the people closest to you.

Week one of "Show + Tell" will encourage you to both show and tell the love of Jesus in small, daily, world-changing ways.

Intentional Community | Who We Are

In the final week of "Who We Are" we're leaning into the importance of intentional community. At Northeast, we want to be a community where every person can name their pastor and friends within the church.

Unity in Jesus | Who we Are

As we unleash the love of Jesus in our homes, workplaces, city, and church, we want to be the answer to Jesus' prayer in John 17.

"My prayer is not for them alone. I pray also for those who will believe in me through their message, that all of them may be one, Father, just as you are in me and I am in you. May they also be in us so that the world may believe that you have sent me." John 17:20-21

We want to be a church that leads in facilitating unity among diverse churches in the ‘Ville because, as Jesus said, our unity will be attractive to a divided world.

How does a group of people from all different backgrounds, of all different ages, of all different socio-economic situations, come together as one? Jesus is how.

Youth Takeover Weekend

It's Youth Takeover Weekend! We want to be a church that invests in our youth, especially the most committed. You'll hear from our family teams about why we love the next generation of the church and how we want to partner with you to achieve this goal.

Investing in Spiritual Formation | Who we Are

"Spiritual formation is becoming like Jesus for the sake of others". -Robert Mulholland

At Northeast, we want to help you become more like Jesus so you can take his truth, his beauty, and his love into every part of your life. We hope that your investment in your spiritual formation leads you to say, "I have rhythms and restrictions that help me resist popular culture and connect with God." It's our goal to create resources and communities that make spiritual formation a priority for every person who calls Northeast home.

In this message, Tyler shares how we plan to help invest in your spiritual formation in 2023 and beyond.

 

Visit www.necchurch.org/resources to explore the beginning of our Northeast Resource Library.