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Dear Church Family, What a joy it is to see the Holy Spirit working in the life of our church! Jesus Christ is transforming lives before our very eyes! People are being saved, baptized, and following Jesus. Let’s ask God to give us the right spiritual temperature and God will send new believers here to grow! Every adult Life Group is studying Lessons on Assurance in the month of March. There are five Sundays in March and we are studying…

I want to encourage every person who’s a part of our fellowship to get plugged into a Life Group. I am particularly excited because our adult Life Groups are all going to be teaching the same material in the month of March. I have asked our leaders to teach The Five Assurances. These are: The assurance of 1) salvation 2) answered prayer 3) victory 4) forgiveness and 5) guidance. By having these assurances nailed down from God’s Word, think of…

Happy New Year! What a blessing it is to enter a brand new year. We have just celebrated our 90th birthday as a church and I really believe that 2026 will be our greatest year ever reaching people for Christ. We are so grateful and thankful for our host of great leaders, Bible teachers, Deacons, allvolunteers and every member of our church family. We are also thankful for our wonderful staff that is working so hard to equip each member of North Central to…

Dear Church Family, Christmas is the most wonderful time of the year! It’s true. The birth of Jesus is so very special to us. It is what set into motion the plan of God from way back that Jesus would come and die for the sins of the world. We have lots of things happening in the life of our church that is all for the purpose of enhancing the Christmas season. Let’s keep our focus on the Lord Jesus…

Dear Church Family, Jesus said, “I will build my church…” Matthew 16:18. We are gathering on Sunday, November 16 at 10:00 a.m. to celebrate the 90th anniversary of this precious fellowship of believers! We are going to have a wonderful lunch together with smothered chicken, au gratin potatoes, green beans, rolls, and sweet and unsweet tea. Our own Crystal Elixson is making our dessert. It will be a fantastic fellowship meal together! We are excited to worship our Lord at…

Dear Church Family, I am so excited and I know you are excited about celebrating our 90th anniversary on Sunday, November 16 at 10:00 a.m. We will have a worship service all together on this day, and following the worship service we will have lunch together, all provided for you and your family to celebrate our 90th birthday. Imagine this- nine decades of gospel ministry to Gainesville and the world! Here’s what you need to do and this is so…

Dear Church Family, We have gotten off to a great fall season. We are so blessed as we watch children making decisions for Christ, families that are uniting with our church, and folks that are being baptized. I’m also thankful for the huge numbers of college students that have visited with us in their first few weeks of school at the University of Florida and Santa Fe College. Our college ministry continues to have outreach events for college students. Lunch…

Dear Church Family, We have had our most fabulous summer in recent history. We’re so grateful and thankful for hundreds of young people and students that have gathered each Wednesday night. It has been a tremendous blessing to see all that God has done in our children, our youth, and our families this summer. August is going to launch us into a great fall! We will celebrate the Lord’s Supper on August 10. We will also have Promotion Sunday where…

Dear Church Family, I’m writing this on Monday morning, opening day of VBS 2025. Wow! What an awesome start to a fantastic week of Vacation Bible School. Kids are everywhere! We’ve got the best team of workers you can imagine, and God is at work on our campus. Thank you North Central for providing such a wonderful facility to meet the needs of our community and reach people for Christ. Our summer is going great! We’re so grateful for the…

I can’t believe June is here already! The year is flying by! What a blessing! We just had the joy of baptizing eight new believers at our Beach Baptism. The Lord opened up the skies so that we could baptize, and then the rain came. This is always a wonderful highlight for our church.  We honor our graduating high school seniors this coming Sunday morning, June 1. We have had a senior recognition banquet at the church, and this Sunday…

This Sunday is Orange Bucket Sunday, May the 4th! We have worked with Food4Kids for over a decade feeding hungry children in Alachua County. You have been so generous in providing food to help them. Please bring your orange buckets this coming Sunday morning and bring them to the main auditorium. If you do not have an orange bucket, you can just bring a grocery bag full of non-perishable items that can join with our effort. This Sunday night we…

Dear Church Family, We celebrate the glorious resurrection of the Lord Jesus Christ on April 20, Easter Sunday! Please invite your neighbors and friends to join with us on this special day. We have invite cards that are available for you as a part of our outreach to our community. We will have biscuits on that Sunday morning in all of our Life Groups. I encourage our Life Groups to bring some special toppings if you would like and things…