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This August we’ll be taking family pictures for an upcoming family directory.  And you’re a part of our family!

Signing up for your family’s setting is quick and easy.  Just click on the photo below and sign up today.

Appointments are available for Monday, August 20; Tuesday August 21 and Thursday, August 23, from 3:00-9:00 pm each day.

We pray the prayer all the time…

Our Father who art in heaven, hallowed be Thy Name. Thy Kingdom come, Thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven.

But what would it look like if God’s Kingdom really did come to our community?

What would be different if God’s will really was done in our neighborhood, even as it is done in heaven?

That’s what God of this City is all about: purposefully, persistently, prayerfully seeking to sense God’s heart for our community.

Would you join us on this journey of discovery?

Find out more on the Get Involved pages of our site.

Paul’s Journey, a quartet based out of Magnolia, Texas, will be joining us at Southdale Church of the Nazarene on June 24, 2012 as musical guests in the evening service. Singers Rod Treme, Ryan Napier, Chad Stephenson and Randall Garland will share God’s great message of salvation through the gift of music.

No strangers to the world of radio, Paul’s Journey has produced many top 80 hits including “Washed in the Blood,” “There’s Still A Cross,” “He Called Me Out,” and “Lead Me To The Rock.” You will no doubt be breath-taken by their fine-tuned harmony and even more shocked by their profound humility. Come join us for this exciting event!

There is no charge to attend the concert. Instead, a love offering to benefit the group’s ministry will be taken. The concert is set to begin at 6:00 p.m.

If you would like to find out more about Paul’s Journey or where else their tour will take them, click here.

Summer’s almost here, and that means it’s time to start thinking about attending one of the North East Indiana District’s youth camps at Shiloh Park in Marion, Indiana! Get ready for a week of fun with all your friends from around the district! Each camp offers age-specific lessons and activities and that everyone will enjoy. The camps are directed by pastors from around the district who have been preparing over the past year to bring students the best camp experience possible. Each camp has booked speakers from around the country to share God’s word and to help students grow stronger in their faith. Register today!

Camp Dates and Registration Forms

Children’s Camps Registration Form 2012

• Rookie KidzBlitz (May 18-19, 2012)
• Rookie Camp (July 17-20, 2012)
• Pre-Teen Girls Camp (July 23-27, 2012)
• Pre-Teen Boys Camp (July 30- August 3, 2012)

Jr. High Camp Registration Form 2012

• Junior High Camp (June 25-29, 2012)

Sr. High Camp Registration Form 2012

• Senior High Camp (July 9-13, 2012)

Featuring Special Guest Speaker: Rev. Laura High

On Saturday, May 5, the ladies’ ministries at Southdale will be hosting a special retreat for all ladies.  Join us for a time of celebration, encouragement and instruction.  Brunch will be served, and every participant will receive a special gift to take home.

The cost for the retreat will be $10 and includes brunch.

The retreat begins at 9:00 am and will conclude at 12:30 pm.

Click on “Read More” to register online.

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On Sunday, March 4, 2012 Southdale will host Dove Award Nominee Beyond the Ashes for a special live concert at 6:00 pm.

Fresh on the heels of their nominations for the Dove awards for New Artist of the Year and Contemporary Gospel Song of the Year, Beyond the Ashes will be bringing their unique contemporary Southern Gospel sound to Southdale for a concert.

The concert is free and open to the public.  A love offering will be taken to support the ministry of Beyond the Ashes.

Ever get the feeling that God isn’t done with you yet?

He’s not.

There is a deeper, life transforming work that God wants to do in your life, to conform you ever more closely to the character of his Son Jesus Christ.  Having saved you, He desires to sanctify you; having forgiven you, he wants to make you holy, that you may be holy, even as He is holy.

This Lenten season, we will be investigating the essential fundamentals of the doctrine of holiness.  Join us as we explore the central aspects of our distinctive doctrine.

• March 4: A Second Work
• March 11: A Work of Grace
• March 18: Set Free from Sin
• March 25: A Present Possibility
• April 1: Immersed in the Spirit

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 University in Huntington, IN.

Registration and entry fees must be postmarked by March 6, and must be sent by the church.  Participants should turn registration forms and fees (make checks payable to Southdale Nazarene) by Sunday, March 4th so we can make the registration deadline.

Be sure to indicate not only what events you are entering on the registration form, but also pre-order your lunch and pay accordingly.

For more information, check out the “General Information” link below.  Registration forms and individual category rules are also available through the links below.

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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 says “speaks to the head and the heart, stretching both mind and faith.”  We’re confident Dr. Benson’s ministry at Southdale will similarly stretch our faith and deepen our relationship with God.

Services will be 10:30 am and 6:00 pm on Sunday, February 26 and 7:00 pm nightly Monday through Wednesday (Feb 27-29).  Dinner will be served before the weeknight services at 5:30 pm.

You can download a revival poster to print and share with others here.

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 southwestern Ohio to Indianapolis.  They spoke to hotel officials, providing bars of soap labeled with the phone number for the National Human Trafficking Hotline to put into the hotel rooms, and informing desk clerks about how to recognize suspicious activity and whom to contact.

Young men and women forced into prostitution are under constant supervision.  Sometimes the only opportunity they have unsupervised is while using the restroom.  Putting information about how to get help on bars of soap gives them a way out.  After the Super Bowl last year in Dallas, 61 women called the hotline.  Volunteers hope this year even more will be reached.

Not only were 16,000 bars of soap distributed to rooms in 90 Indianapolis hotels, volunteers spoke with desk clerks.  One of them recognized a picture of a missing teenage girl.  After authorities were contacted, not only was she rescued, but she led them to two other adolescents who were also rescued.

Learn More About S.O.A.P. and their efforts to stop human trafficking:

• Read the press release from the Nazarene Communications Network.
• Watch WISH-TV’s coverage of the S.O.A.P. project.
• Learn more about S.O.A.P. and how you can get involved.
• Learn more about the National Human Trafficking Hotline.
• Read Traffic, this year’s missionary book about human trafficking, available in the church foyer.