Farewell Service of Praise & Thanksgiving
The National Evangelical Church of Beirut (NECB) organized a joint farewell service with the International Community Church (ICC) on the Reformation Sunday, October 28, 2018. The ICC will move its place of worship from our church NECB to another location in Ashrafeyyeh, Beirut. Yet the worship service in English will continue in our church at the same time, each Sunday at 10:30 a.m.
Rev. Habib Badr preached in Arabic from Romans 8:24-28 on Cleanliness and Justification, while Dr Karen Shaw, the preacher of the ICC spoke about Salvation by Faith Alone from Jonah 4:1-11.
"Dear brothers and sister in the International Community Church: wherever you are and wherever we are; wherever you go and wherever we go; whatever you do and whatever we do; whatever you say and whatever we say; all things will work out for the good for those who love God. Since we both love God, so things for sure have worked out for the good and now working out for the good and will forever working out for the good.. and God's blessings be on us all", said Rev. Badr.
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International Community Church has moved to Amin Gemayel Street in Sioufi, Beirut. Sunday Worship starts at 11:30 a.m. See their website for more information: www.icc-beirut.org
German Pastors Visiting our Church 2018
As of Friday 21 September 2018 a delegation from the Evangelical Church of Württemberg in southwest Germany headed by bishop Frank July, visited our Church and its various ongoing projects in Schneller, Abey and elsewhere. The delegation also met with Eastern Church leaders and visited a project in Baskinta that Württemberg also supports through the good offices of Rev. Badr.
On Sunday September 23 the delegation participated in our worship service. Bishop July preached the sermon. Rev. Marianne Wagner, the president of EMS and a member of the neighboring Church of the Palatinate, also shared with Rev. Badr in the pastoral prayers. Mrs. Inge Schneider, president of the Württemberg Synod, gave a word of greeting.
Additionally, 6 pastors from Germany and one from Scotland (Susanne Gessuer, Elke Jung, Renate Kath, Annette Hermann, Claudia Ginkel, Volker Bleil, all German and Pamela Strachan from the Presbyterian Church of Scotland) who are spending a 3-month sabbatical at NEST, joined the worship service.
Afterwards, a reception in honor of the delegation was held at Charles Saad Hall. Rev. Dr. Salim Sahiouny, the head of our Evangelical community in Syria and Lebanon, as well as other Evangelical leaders were in attendance.
First Helping Hand Society Meeting 2018
This is the first meeting of the women's association -the Helping Hand- after the summer vacation on Friday 19th of October 2018. We remembered our late sister Souad Amoun Chamsy who was our treasurer for 20 consecutive years. She will be greatly missed but we accept God's will with faith and thanksgiving. Then Mrs. Badr thanked Ms. Najah Magdalani for 10 years of faithful service as secretary of the Helping Hand. As the guest speaker in the meeting Rev. Badr took us on a musical journey through some of our hymns whose musical origins are well known secular tunes.
Sunday School Summer Camp 2018
Our NEC Kids had an amazing time in Schneller school where they had their annual summer camp from 24-28 of August 2018. The theme this year was:
Maker Fun Factory: Created by God, Built for a Purpose.
Worship, games, crafts, snacks, hikes and exciting night games!
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NEC Teenage Summer Camp 2018
In July 20-25, 2018 the teenage group of our church spent their summer camp in Schneller and in Alley Equiclub. The theme was King's Quest: For King, For kingdom, for ever. The teenagers worshiped together, had animated discussions, built a play house for the Schneller kids, and played lots of games! A group of teenagers from the Netherlands joined our camp as well and shared in our discussions and fun.
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