In May 2010, during our Miracle Series, the NCC family stepped up and raised $15,000 to build an orphanage in the Congo (DRC). 63 orphans are currently living with church member families and are waiting to move into dormitories when water is available. They will begin by moving 30 orphans in and add the others as finances are available.

Champions in Action will provide one-week premier sports camps across Guatemala for underprivileged youth (ages 12-18). Specifically, youth most susceptible to gang participation, drug and alcohol abuse, and violence. Some of the most well known Latin American and American professional athletes, professional coaches, and Christian leaders will teach the fundamentals of their sport and their faith. The youth that attend the camp will be connected with a mentor and a youth pastor from a church close to their place of residence. The goal is to establish a long-term mentoring relationship that will help set the youth on a better path with a brighter future.

Sixty percent of adults in Richards Bay, South Africa are HIV positive, most of whom die within 10 years of their diagnosis. God has called His church to action. As the Farran Family fulfills God’s call to make disciples and love their neighbors, they wait confidently on God to act for His own glory through the salvation of those so close to death. In 2011, Kyle, a Zulu-trained pastor, and Heather, a registered nurse, along with their three daughters, will lead the construction of an HIV/AIDS hospice care center where they can serve Christ by touching those in need.

In July of 2011, we will be sending an A1:8 team to serve and partner with The Farran’s ministry, a missionary family we support.

In the last several months, we all have watched the compounding of misery upon the people of Haiti. Poverty, earthquake, stalled reconstruction and recovery, cholera outbreak and then more flooding. Water Missions International works daily in places like Haiti to bring safe water through long term community projects, as well as being an effective disaster relief organization. They do it all to bring the hope of the Living Water, Jesus Christ.

In the Fall of 2011, NCC will take a trip to Haiti and create a well in partnership with WMI!

The SE Whitehouse is a community house located in SE DC that exists to meet the needs in the surrounding community. Its main function is its full-time and volunteer mentoring program which matches an adult with a child in the neighborhood and tracks with the child during their schooling. They believe that mentoring is the most powerful way to stop generational poverty and help kids in Ward 7 and Ward 8 achieve success.