Jolinda, Shelly, me, Gladys
God, thank You for blessing me with so many friends from so many different places all over the U.S. through this wonderful and interesting conference. I'm still getting to know a lot of things and having a hard time matching faces and their names, but I praise You for this great gathering. Help us to do all our best to grlorify Your name high above all other things and people in our lives, for we are so prone to think of ourselves and our popularity when it comes to doing the work for You.
This year's NCCC theme and key verses: (2 Corinthians 5:7)
| 1. | For we know that if the earthly tent which is our house is torn down, we have a building from God, a house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens. |
| 2. | For indeed in this house we groan, longing to be clothed with our dwelling from heaven, |
| 3. | inasmuch as we, having put it on, will not be found naked. |
| 4. | For indeed while we are in this tent, we groan, being burdened, because we do not want to be unclothed but to be clothed, so that what is mortal will be swallowed up by life. |
| 5. | Now He who prepared us for this very purpose is God, who gave to us the Spirit as a pledge. |
| 6. | Therefore, being always of good courage, and knowing that while we are at home in the body we are absent from the Lord-- |
| 7. | for we walk by faith, not by sight-- |
| 8. | we are of good courage, I say, and prefer rather to be absent from the body and to be at home with the Lord. |
| 9. | Therefore we also have as our ambition, whether at home or absent, to be pleasing to Him. |
| 10. | For we must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ, so that each one may be recompensed for his deeds in the body, according to what he has done, whether good or bad. |
