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District Celebrate Life 2012 »

District Celebrate Life (DCL) is an athletics and talent competition for students in grades 6-12.  Students can demonstrate their talents in a variety of categories and, if they do well enough, qualify to represent the Northeastern Indiana District at Regional Celebrate Life at Olivet Nazarene Univeristy in May. DCL will be Saturday, March 17th at Huntington [...]

Spring Revival with Dr. Michael Benson »

Southdale Nazarene will be hosting special revival services February 26-29 with Dr. Michael Benson. Dr. Benson most recently served, first as University Chaplain and then Church Relations Officer for Olivet Nazarene University.  Together with his late father, Bob Benson, he is also the author of Disciplines for the Inner Life which pastor and author Max Lucado [...]

Nazarenes Help Promote Human Trafficking at the Super Bowl »

During the Super Bowl earlier this month, some Nazarene’s weren’t just watching the big game; they were working to put an end to human trafficking so prevalent during such large events. Working with the group S.O.A.P. or Save Our Adolescents from Prostitution, Pastor Chad Current led a group of 109 volunteers from Nazarene churches around [...]

Seven Deadly Sins »

Pride. Envy. Greed. Gluttony. Sloth. Lust. Wrath. More than just seven sins.  Seven sinful attitudes that give rise to a whole host of evil. Sunday, January 8th we will begin a seven part series on the Seven Deadly Sins.  Start the new year learning to recognize the root causes that lie behind the evil in our [...]

Put The Holy Back In the Holidays »

An open letter to my congregation: It’s strange. For centuries, almost even millennia, Christians would gather for worship on Christmas Day, regardless of on what day of the week it happened to fall that year.  It was a Feast Day, and that was, in itself, a reason to come to worship. Somehow now, however, the [...]

Bob Evans Community Day »

On Thursday, December 8th, SDNC will be hosting a community day at Bob Evans in Anderson.  Come out to eat and 15% of what you spend will be donated to the 2012 SDNC Mission Trip to Eastern Kentucky. Need directions to Bob Evans? Click here. It’s a fundraiser that costs you nothing extra.  Just spend [...]

Illuminate Advent Experience »

Advent is the beginning of the Christian year — a time for hopeful anticipation.  A search for hope, love, joy, and peace. Beginning four weeks before Christmas, the season of Advent is supposed to be a special time of waiting and preparing, a time when Christians get ready to experience again the story of God’s [...]

Baptism: Outward Sign, Inward Grace »

Join us next Sunday morning, November 6 as we conclude our two part series on the Sacraments with a message about Baptism.  Learn what the Church of the Nazarene believes about this sacred celebration of our citizenship in the covenant people of God. Sunday School starts at 9:30 am, and our morning worship begins at 10:30 [...]

Trunk Or Treat At SDNC »

PARENTS: Looking for a safe, family friendly environment to take your kids trick-or-treating? On Monday, October 31, 6:00-7:30 pm SDNC will be hosting a Trunk or Treat event at the church rain or shine.  Assuming the weather is good, we will have cars parked in our lighted lot, and the children from our Children’s Ministries will be [...]

Anderson Zone Revival; Oct 9-12 »

From Sunday, October 9 through Wednesday, October 12, the Anderson Zone Churches of the Nazarene will be hosting revival services with Dr. David W. Graves, General Superintendent with the Church of the Nazarene. Dr. Graves is a graduate of Olivet Nazarene University and was Senior Pastor of the College Church of the Nazarene in Olathe, KS when [...]