In the Community
Current Needs
Walking School Bus: We need two adult volunteers twice a day to walk about a dozen or so K-5 students to and from Regency Park Apartments and Carl Cozier Elementary.
- Mon-Fri 8:00 am
- Mon, Tues, Thurs, Fri at 3:00 pm
If interested, please email Cari Griffith at 4happypeople@comcast.net or phone her at 393-6726.
Good News Clubs (through Child Evangelism Fellowship): There are two clubs in need of additional assistants.
- Northern Heights Elementary
- Regency Park
Help is needed with games, crafts, sign-in, and providing snacks.
For more information contact Lisa Hall at lisah@northlakeonline.org
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NCC has an active role in our community and that role relies heavily on our congregation. We have a number of areas we invest in for our community.
Working with local non-profits
- The Whatcom Dream
- Working with and in the Roosevelt Neighborhood
- Sponsoring/participating in the Community Toy Store each Christmas
- Hosting the Whatcom Dream Auction
- Love Inc
- Whatcom County Pregnancy Clinic
- Northwest Community Fest and the Season of Service
- Participated in the Graffiti Clean-Up Project
- Hosted the Roosevelt Neighborhood Night Out
- Participating in the Garden Project
Providing help and support for those in need through our own Care Ministries
- Friends and Food Program
- Our own NCC Food Bank
- Counseling Referrals,
- Financial counseling and assistance
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Current Service Opportunities:
- Christmas: Help cook or serve a meal to low income people in Friends and Food.
- Dishwasher for the Friends and Food Christmas lunch.
- Provide gifts for children through the annual Community Toy Store.
- Coordinate or assist with providing a meal for the Toy Store families.
- Work at the annual Toy Store at Roosevelt School for two hours.
- Walk a group of young children from a school to their housing complex before or after school in the “Walking School Bus” program.
- Assist with Wednesday after school Child Evangelism Fellowship (CEF) club in a low income housing complex.
- Assist with the Friday after school CEF club at Roosevelt School.
- Assist with the CEF club at Northern Heights Elementary (near the church) on Wednesdays.
- Provide treats for any of the three CEF clubs.
- Assist in the Whatcom Dream financial classes in the community.
- Be a mentor or tutor for a child in the Rebound program.
- Provide a meal for the children attending a Rebound group.
- Help in the kitchen for the Friends and Food meals or sit and have coffee with the people attending Friends and Food.