{"id":18585,"date":"2025-12-12T15:50:17","date_gmt":"2025-12-12T21:50:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.naccc.org\/?p=18585"},"modified":"2025-12-12T15:55:25","modified_gmt":"2025-12-12T21:55:25","slug":"december-15-2025-the-messenger","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.naccc.org\/december-15-2025-the-messenger\/","title":{"rendered":"December 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-blend:overlay;--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 the December 15, 2025, edition of <i>The Messenger<\/i>, Rev. Dr. Krupp&#8217;s shares his thoughts on the nature of change, our Mission and Outreach Ministry Council wishes you a very merry Christmas, and we welcome our new Global Mission Partner, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.naccc.org\/welcome-childvoice\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">ChildVoice<\/a>!<\/p>\n<p>We encourage you to contribute to the March 2026 <em>Thresholds<\/em> edition of <em>The Congregationalist<\/em> by emailing your submission to <a href=\"mailto:mhelmick@naccc.org\">Editor Maggie Helmick<\/a>, support the Intergenerational Mission Project at the 2026 Annual Meeting and Conference by collecting the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.seafarersfriend.org\/give?blm_aid=0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">supplies we&#8217;ll need<\/a> to fill our ditty bags, and to check out the <a href=\"https:\/\/congregationallibrary.org\/fellowships?fbclid=IwY2xjawOpHgRleHRuA2FlbQIxMABicmlkETFUN09kSlJOMk16bFUzWkV4c3J0YwZhcHBfaWQQMjIyMDM5MTc4ODIwMDg5MgABHiNxdybH-r3jpOmjepdP_ReYAQayN9kqZ0AJ6O_rlIIc3_nfhV2UyLA21Qp1_aem_rfCLH-Ne1dR0kPqYKPj1gA&amp;blm_aid=0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">research fellowship opportunities<\/a> that are available through the Congregational Library &amp; Archives.<\/p>\n<p>As always, we hope you&#8217;ll check out this month&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.naccc.org\/mission-partner-updates-seafarers-friend-december-2025\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Mission Partner Spotlight<\/a> on Seafarers&#8217; Friend, explore the <a href=\"https:\/\/simplebooklet.com\/thecongregationalistdecember2025#page=1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">December 2025 edition<\/a> of <em>The Congregationalist<\/em>, view our <a href=\"https:\/\/www.naccc.org\/2025-calls-ordinations-installations\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">recent calls, ordinations, and installations<\/a>, and take a look at our <a href=\"https:\/\/www.naccc.org\/news-events\/events\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">event calendar<\/a> to see what 2026 will have in store.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Read the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.naccc.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/121525-E-News.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">December 15th E-News<\/a>.<\/strong><\/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-18585","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\/18585","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=18585"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.naccc.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18585\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18590,"href":"https:\/\/www.naccc.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18585\/revisions\/18590"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.naccc.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18585"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.naccc.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18585"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.naccc.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18585"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}