{"id":17057,"date":"2025-02-15T08:00:04","date_gmt":"2025-02-15T14:00:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.naccc.org\/?p=17057"},"modified":"2025-02-14T13:07:39","modified_gmt":"2025-02-14T19:07:39","slug":"february-15-2025-the-messenger","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.naccc.org\/february-15-2025-the-messenger\/","title":{"rendered":"February 15, 2025 &#8211; The Messenger"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"fusion-fullwidth fullwidth-box fusion-builder-row-1 fusion-flex-container nonhundred-percent-fullwidth non-hundred-percent-height-scrolling\" style=\"--awb-border-radius-top-left:0px;--awb-border-radius-top-right:0px;--awb-border-radius-bottom-right:0px;--awb-border-radius-bottom-left:0px;--awb-flex-wrap:wrap;\" ><div class=\"fusion-builder-row fusion-row fusion-flex-align-items-flex-start fusion-flex-content-wrap\" style=\"max-width:1185.6px;margin-left: calc(-4% \/ 2 );margin-right: calc(-4% \/ 2 );\"><div class=\"fusion-layout-column fusion_builder_column fusion-builder-column-0 fusion_builder_column_1_1 1_1 fusion-flex-column\" style=\"--awb-bg-size:cover;--awb-width-large:100%;--awb-margin-top-large:0px;--awb-spacing-right-large:1.92%;--awb-margin-bottom-large:0px;--awb-spacing-left-large:1.92%;--awb-width-medium:100%;--awb-spacing-right-medium:1.92%;--awb-spacing-left-medium:1.92%;--awb-width-small:100%;--awb-spacing-right-small:1.92%;--awb-spacing-left-small:1.92%;\"><div class=\"fusion-column-wrapper fusion-flex-justify-content-flex-start fusion-content-layout-column\"><div class=\"fusion-text fusion-text-1\"><p>In February 15, 2025&#8217;s edition of <em>The Messenger<\/em>, you&#8217;ll find a message of gratitude and encouragement from incoming Executive Director Rev. Dr. Gerry Krupp, a congratulatory note to Rev. Dr. Krupp on his new position from interim Executive Director Rev. Dr. Barry Szymanski, along with a column sharing Barry&#8217;s musings on what visitors to a church are looking for and how we might support them in finding it, and a call for donations, both physical and financial, to NACCC Mission Partner Seafarer&#8217;s Friend from Mission Coordinator Julie Robie.<\/p>\n<p>We encourage you to place your orders for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.naccc.org\/order-advent-and-lent-devotionals-now\/?blm_aid=0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Lent Devotional Booklets<\/a>, as the season will be upon us shortly, to consider submitting a nomination for the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.naccc.org\/seeking-nominees-for-the-2025-charles-rush-award\/?blm_aid=0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Charles Rush Award<\/a>, to check out our <a href=\"https:\/\/bloomerang-bee.s3.amazonaws.com\/images\/clapton_cysx6cjdvalm_us_west_2_rds_amazonaws_com_nationalassociationofcongregationalchristianchurches\/ACCC%20Spotlight%20Feb%202025.pdf?blm_aid=0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">February Mission Partner Spotlight<\/a> on Asociacion Civil Cristiana Congregacional, and to submit an updated <a href=\"https:\/\/www.naccc.org\/church-information-form\/?blm_aid=0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Church Information Form<\/a>, to help the NACCC stay in contact with your congregation.<\/p>\n<p>For information on upcoming NACCC events and webinars, visit our <a href=\"https:\/\/www.naccc.org\/news-events\/events\/#calendar-events\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Event Calendar<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Read the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.naccc.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Feb.-15-E-News.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">February 15th E-News<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":725,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[87,62],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17057","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-naccc-news","category-newsletter"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.naccc.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17057","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.naccc.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.naccc.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.naccc.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/725"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.naccc.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17057"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.naccc.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17057\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17061,"href":"https:\/\/www.naccc.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17057\/revisions\/17061"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.naccc.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17057"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.naccc.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17057"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.naccc.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17057"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}