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.

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.

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

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.

Celebrate Life Information

• General Information
• Registration Form (pdf)
• Arts and Crafts
• Basketball Tryouts
• Bowling
• Chess
• Co-Ed Soccer Tryouts
• Communications Talent
• District Co-Ed Golf Tryouts
• District Tennis
• Free Throw and Hot Shot Tournament
• Science Trivia/Quizzing Tryout
• Table Tennis
• Video Editing
• Vocal/Instrumental Talent

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.

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.

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 world and in our lives.

And more importantly, learn what God wants to do about them.

Join us at 10:30 am, Sundays, for this special series.

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 American church seems to have a dilemma: Christmas happens to be on a Sunday this year.  How will we ever squeeze time to worship into our Christmas plans?

Ever wonder if maybe we have things a bit backwards?

Now, please, take this in the attitude it was intended.  I understand the need to travel to visit friends and family.  I understand that not all family plans are up to you.  I understand that sometimes being a part of a family means changing your schedule to fit theirs, even as they, on occasion, change to accommodate you.  And I understand that, sometimes, being present and part of a family gathering is the very means by which you are able to share the Good News with your family members.

I understand all of this, and so I’m not, by any means, writing this in an attempt to lay blame or imply guilt if you’re not at Southdale for worship on Sunday morning.  There’s nothing particularly holy about our property on 53rd Street or the building itself.  It’s the Church, not the church building that’s holy.

I would, however, as your pastor, like to ask two things of you:

1) Will you, please, make a priority out of worship this Christmas Sunday?
Wherever, whenever, however you choose, would you make sure that worship is a part of your Christmas celebration?

2) If it is up to you and you are able, would you find a way to invite your family to worship along with you?
Christmas, by it’s very nature, is a perfect opportunity to share the Good News about Jesus with those family members for whom you have been praying.  So invite them to worship with you.

If that means worshiping with us, we’d love to have you join us.  Our Christmas Worship this Sunday will be simple and Christ-centered. We’ll be singing some of your favorite Christmas carols.  I won’t be preaching in the way you’re used to hearing me.  I’ll simply be telling the Christmas story, though part of it you probably don’t think of when you think of the Christmas story.  And we will be
sharing in the Eucharist, taking Holy Communion together at the Lord’s Table.

And best of all? The story of Jesus is, by definition, evangelistic. If you bring your family along with you, they’ll hear the story of Jesus and will be invited to respond to His grace, to find their place together with His disciples at His table.

What better way to celebrate the Birth of Jesus than to witness the new birth of that friend you’ve been praying about?

Our service will begin promptly at 10:30 am Sunday.  We’d love to see you there.