Occupy The City

In January 2010 we the Nations Ford Community Church, launched a three-year initiative to impact the city of Charlotte in positive life-changing ways.  We called that initiative Occupy!  We reached a milestone in 2010 as the members of NFCC volunteered and served out in the community and within the Church for a total of 25,000 hours.  This met our first year's goal.

In 2011, we again set out to give 25,000 hours of service to our community and thus be a visible witness of God's love.  Once again the members of Nations Ford Community Church reach their collective goal of 25,000 volunteer hours of service.
 

Now at the beginning of 2012, we once more seek to reach out and Occupy The City, by giving and serving and sharing the compassionate love of Jesus with those who are lost, hurting and confused. 

We believe that God has blessed us to be a blessing to others and that the more we give the more we received so that we have even more to give. 

This is a year in which we must get radical about our calling…to Occupy The City! The problems of our city; our communities; our families; and in our schools;

The problems in government; in media; in education and in business…are too crucial and critical; for God’s people, to simply go about business as usual.

We must get radical…about representing Jesus and radical about serving the poor; radical about reaching and teaching our young Black boys and mentoring our young girls…



We must get radical in our stand to protect the traditional family unit and rise to support the North Carolina Marriage Amendment this coming May in the primary elections.

We be radical in our belief that Jesus calls us to "be the salt of the earth and the light of the world."

Radical is a word that simply means: different, drastic, unusual, extreme and fanatic --- it is a change of lifestyle that Christ is calling His Church to.

This is the lifestyle that Jesus called us to…and to which He sends us into the city!  It is a radical departure from what we see in American Churches today. In American Churches today …we have watered down the calling of Christ to be His disciples!  We have watered down the call to follow Christ and to exchange our comfort for a commitment to give our all to Him!

I believe that 2012 will be a year for radical living and that we, the Church, God's people will rise to the occasion, serving, giving, sharing, and leading people to a life-changing relationship with Christ.