COMMUNITY CARE
Sunday Night Dinners
NWCC has teamed up other area churches to provide hot meals on Sunday evenings to anybody in the community who might need it. We are in partnership with Ballard First Lutheran, Our Redeemers, Trinity UMC, and Sustainable Ballard. NWCC serves meals on the first Sunday of every month (and we team up with Ballard First Lutheran to cover fifth Sundays, too!). Our children’s garden contributes produce to the meals in the summer.
Dinner is served from 5-6pm in the downstairs fellowship hall at Ballard First Lutheran, and we usually start cooking between 2:30-3pm on Sundays when we host. Volunteers and donations to this program are always welcome! We always need folks to help shop, cook, and clean up (it’s a fun way to spend a Sunday, we promise!).
To sign up for a Sunday or to learn more about the program, please contact the church office by emailing office@nwchristianchurch.org. The office will put you in touch with Pastor Ellie or Alea, our amazing program leader!
Serving our Community
At NWCC, we believe that our work as Christians is to be the hands and feet of Christ to everyone we meet. Jesus taught that his followers should love everyone: whether they were friend, neighbor, stranger, or enemy.
We try our best to do that through sharing our time and gifts with our wider community and those who are in need. Besides the Sunday Night Dinner program, many in our congregation participate in Crop Walk, volunteer with the Ballard Food Bank, donate to Aurora Commons, purchase holiday gifts for those served by Mary’s Place. Every year, we tithe as a congregation to local and international service organizations. You are welcome to be a part of these volunteer opportunities. Feel free to contact the church for more details!
Caring for our neighborhood, city, state & beyond…
NWCC supports the work of the Faith Action Network, a statewide, multi-faith partnership striving for just, compassionate, and sustainable communities through courageous advocacy and public action. FAN works with faith communities throughout Washington to educate communities about issues and organize for collective power.
It’s a dangerous thing to think that God wants all the same things you want. And you will never be told at NWCC how the pastor thinks you should vote, or precisely what to think. But we do intentionally remember together the words of Jesus in Luke 4, when he told us why he came: “to bring good news to the poor, and proclaim release to the captives and recovery of sight to the blind, to set free those who are oppressed, to proclaim the year of the Lord’s favor.” Our life together as Christians require that we remember God’s heart for the most vulnerable creatures on the earth: the poor, the migrant, the hungry, the imprisoned, and the lost. We miss something essential about who God is when we neglect to love all the people who teach us the most about God’s ways.
