Bible Study Basics

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Bible Study Basics (How To Study The Bible)
This is for those who want to know the basics of how to read and study the Bible; learning what the Bible says, what it means, and then how it applies to us is the necessary approach to proper Bible reading and study. We will be meeting on two Wednesday evenings, April 3, and April 10 at 6:00 pm in the Coffee Shop/Fellowship Hall. All are welcome, bring your Bible. No childcare is provided.

Easter

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Easter Services will take place at North Country Chapel on Sunday, March 31 at 9:00 am and 11:00 am. Join us and invite your friends, family, and neighbors as we come together to celebrate our Risen Savior. Food will be available in the Fellowship Hall before and after each service. Everyone is welcome!

*the Coffee Shop and  Bookstore will be closed this day, we will still have drip coffee, juice and water available.

New Year’s Eve Service

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This year Christmas Eve and New Year’s Eve both land on Sunday evenings. For both Christmas Eve and New Year’s Eve, services will begin at 6:00 pm. We will be meeting at 9:00 am and 11:00 am for our regular Sunday morning services on December 24 and December 31. We will not have services on Monday evening, Christmas Day, and Monday evening, New Year’s Day. Please call the church office at (208) 773-7100 or visit the Info Center if you have any questions. Invite your friends and neighbors to these wonderful services as everyone is welcome!

Candlelight Service

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This year Christmas Eve and New Year’s Eve both land on Sunday evenings. For both Christmas Eve and New Year’s Eve, services will begin at 6:00 pm. We will be meeting at 9:00 am and 11:00 am for our regular Sunday morning services on December 24 and December 31. We will not have services on Monday evening, Christmas Day, and Monday evening, New Year’s Day. Please call the church office at (208) 773-7100 or visit the Info Center if you have any questions. Invite your friends and neighbors to these wonderful services as everyone is welcome!

Global Missions

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On Tuesday, December 5 at 7:00 PM in the Rock Church (on the corner of Seltice and McGuire) Amber Inman will be presenting an update on her work with women and children in Soroti, Uganda. All are welcome to attend.

In addition to this – Amun Ministries will have a donation sale for crafts made in Uganda on Sunday, December 3rd in the Fellowship Hall. Making the crafts gives impoverished single mothers and young people a chance to work towards a goal (such as a small business or education) which can help them to become financially stable and it gives the ministry many hours to build relationships, study the Bible and pray with them.

Thank You

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A heart-felt thank you to all the many volunteers who served one way or another at our Thanksgiving Dinner and Operation Christmas Child Collection week; you were a blessing to many, many people. Thank you!

NCC Craft Show & Dessert Social

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Our Kids’ Christmas Craft Fair and Dessert Social is a chance for kids to make and buy, sell, and trade items, which may include food, ornaments, gifts, handicrafts, stitching, crochet, knitting, painted rocks, wood crafts, paper crafts, salt dough ornaments, etc.

This craft fair also includes a dessert social.

The Kids’ Christmas Craft Fair and Dessert Social will take place on Saturday, December 9 in the Sanctuary and Fellowship Hall from noon to 3:00 p.m.

Help is needed to set up and take down tables, and to restore the Sanctuary for Sunday’s Bible Studies. If you can help or if you would like to reserve a table, please visit the Info Center and sign up. All ages are welcome to attend, bring your friends with you!

Time Change

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Fall back this Saturday evening before heading off to bed!

Thanksgiving Dinner

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Our Annual Thanksgiving Dinner will take place on Sunday, November 19 at 5:00 p.m. in the Jacklin Events Building at the North Idaho State Fairgrounds in Coeur d’Alene, Idaho.

The church will provide the turkey, dressing, mashed potatoes, and gravy. If you could bring a side dish to share that would be much appreciated!

Please visit the Info Center to sign up to help with the cooking of the food, setting up, serving, or clean up – or if you have any questions call the Church Office Tuesday-Friday 9-5pm 208-773-7100.

Hope to see you all there and bring a friend!

Chili Cook-Off

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Please sign up at the Info Center if you would like to be entered into our Annual Chili Cook-Off! You may enter as many times as you like, the more the merrier! Chili will be scored on the Overall Taste, Flavor, and Aroma. The top three winner will be awarded merchandise prizes from our Bookstore. Please bring your entries to the Fellowship Hall between 10:30 and 11AM on Saturday, October 7th the day of the Harvest Festival, to be judged! Thank you.

Harvest Festival

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You are invited to our Harvest Festival on Saturday, October 7 from noon to 3:00 pm. We’ll enjoy hamburgers and hot dogs as well as a variety of family activities, great fellowship, bouncy houses, and games, as well as a caramel apple dipping station. Please bring something to share for the buffet if you can. If you can help, please sign up at the Info Center to help with setting up and take down as well as food servants.

Chili must be delivered between 10:30 and 11am.

Love Thy Neighbor Outreach

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We are planning to host an outreach day at the Q’emiln Park, Saturday, August 5th! The festivities will begin at Noon and conclude at 5:00 pm. But, we need your help! To pray, help set up, tear down, and just love thy neighbors and serve them while there. If you can, please sign up at the Info Center. There will be hot dogs and things for the children to do. Let’s show people Jesus!

*They charge for parking unless you get a permit from the Parks and Recreation Dept. for Post Falls residents.

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Christmas Eve Candlelight Service

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Invite your friends and family and join us on Christmas Eve.

Our service begins at at 6:00PM as we fellowship and worship the Lord together for a short time, to allow you to get off the roads and back home to your loved ones.
There will be no childcare provided but children are welcome to join us in the Sanctuary.

There will be no service on Sunday, Christmas day.

Why won’t the Verse by Verse Through the Bible USB work with my car stereo?

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TL;DR: In order to fit all the studies on one USB, the USB is formatted with exFAT. Older car stereos use FAT32 and cannot read exFAT formatted disks.

Q: Is there a work around?
A: Yes. There are a couple options if you have a computer.

  1. Using a known working USB
    • Plug a USB you know works with your car stereo into your computer.
    • Plug in your Verse by Verse through the Bible USB to the computer.
    • Open both USBs up. Drag some files from the Verse by Verse USB to your known-working USB.
    • You will not be able to fit all the files on the known-working USB
  2. Reformat the Verse by Verse USB
    • Save the files on the Verse by Verse USB to your computer. Do not proceed until you are sure they are all saved on your computer!
    • Reformat the Verse by Verse USB drive with FAT32 Format program. (Softronic will try to trick you into installing another program, tell it No and proceed with the download).  This article has details on how to reformat the drive.
    • Your drive will now only hold 32GB of files.
    • Save some files onto the newly reformatted USB.
    • You will not be able to fit all the files on the USB.

Details for those who are interested:

FAT32 is a old and very cross-compatible format which is why car stereos used it for so long. But FAT32 limits the USB drive size to 32GB. There is no way around this issue. Therefore, newer, larger drives are generally formatted as exFAT.

Since there are approximately 36GB of audio files on the Verse by Verse USB, they have to be formatted as exFAT to fit all the files on one USB drive. Older car stereos cannot understand exFAT format and therefore do not recognize exFAT USBs.

Additional reading:

FAT32 vs exFAT

What is disk formatting?

Ladies Fall Bible Study

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Our Ladies Fall Bible Study will begin on Friday, September 26 at 9:30am in the Sanctuary. Vicky Bentley will be our guest speaker on this morning. Childcare for ages 5 and younger.

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Ladies Fellowship Dinner and Study
Vicky Bentley of Far Reaching Ministries will be here on Saturday , September 27. All ladies are invited for soup and salad at 5:30pm in the Fellowship Hall, followed by a special message from Vicky at 6:30pm in the Sanctuary. Childcare will not be provided. If you would like to help by bringing soup, salad, bread or dessert; or with set up, serving or clean up, please visit the table in the lobby to sign up.

Thanksgiving Dinner 2013

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Join us for our Thanksgiving Dinner at the Kootenai County Fairgrounds, November 24th @ 5:00pm. This year our dinner will take place in a new location at the fairgrounds, the Jacklin Events Building which can be accessed off of Kathleen Avenue through Gate C; maps are available at the Info Center.

Turkey, stuffing, potatoes and gravy are provided, feel free to bring a side dish or dessert. If you would like to help with setup, serving, or cleanup; signups are in the lobby.

Map to Kootenai County Fairgrounds:

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