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Victory with Christ: the motto for the year 2016 weaves its way through the divine services like a golden thread. It also continues to inspire the thoughts of members—for example, designers. Following is a brief survey in words and images:

March 30, 2016

Africa America

+10

• annual motto
• Asia
• Chief Apostle
• congregation
• District Apostle
• divine service
• doctrine 
• Holy Communion
• New Year
• sacraments

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Mourning and comfort in Brussels

Three days after the terror attacks, Apostle Clément Haeck celebrated the Easter divine service with his brothers and sisters in Brussels: comfort and gratitude inside the church, police sirens outside on the street.

March 29, 2016

Africa

+9

• annual motto
• Asia
• Chief Apostle
• congregation
• divine service
• Easter
• Europe
• grieving
• Pastoral care

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Mourning and comfort in Brussels

Three days after the terror attacks, Apostle Clément Haeck celebrated the Easter divine service with his brothers and sisters in Brussels: comfort and gratitude inside the church, police sirens outside on the street.

March 29, 2016

congregation

+2

• Europe
• grieving

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Three days that changed the world

Good Friday to Easter — eventful days bursting with emotion. And full of active characters. Victims, culprits, observers—they all contribute to this extraordinary chapter in the history of God's salvation.

March 28, 2016

Easter

+3

• Good Friday
• history 
• society

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Good Friday today, Anno Domini 2016

Good Friday is a sad day. Or perhaps not? Jesus died so that man might live. Seen in this light, Good Friday is a celebration of the love of God—particularly as it applies to those who must themselves suffer.

March 25, 2016

Europe

+3

• Good Friday
• Pastoral care
• society

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“What fantastic news!” – Two Chief Apostles in Buchholz

Buchholz? Never heard of it? It is a small town just outside of Hamburg in the north of Germany, where the retired Chief Apostle Wilhelm Leber lives, who led the New Apostolic Church from 2005 to 2013. And Buchholz is where Chief Apostle Schneider will be on Good Friday: the Chief Apostle will visit the Chief Apostle.

March 19, 2016

Chief Apostle congregation

+6

• District Apostle
• divine service
• Easter
• Event
• Good Friday
• Seniors

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Renouncing Satan: the meaning of the confirmation vow

Soon young Christians will step up to the altar to be confirmed. Just before this act of blessing they recite a doctrinal text from the early church that deserves to be given a closer look.

March 12, 2016

acts of blessing

+8

• Confirmation
• congregation
• divine service
• doctrine 
• Easter
• Pastoral care
• Pentecost
• sacraments

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Small congregation – big congregation

The size says nothing. What matters is that there is an atmosphere of joy. That the size of a congregation is not necessarily crucial is proven by many examples around the globe. Our trip takes us from Asia to Brazil and on to Africa and Italy.

March 11, 2016

Africa

+10

• Asia
• Baptism 
• concept of salvation for the departed
• congregation
• District Apostle
• divine service
• doctrine 
• Holy Sealing
• Palm Sunday
• sacraments

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Busy with ongoing projects

19 + 1 is the working model this week in Zurich (Switzerland). The International District Apostle Meeting (DAMI) has convened for the first of two annual sessions. It is the highest executive committee of the New Apostolic Church.

March 10, 2016

acts of blessing

+12

• Africa
• America
• Asia
• Chief Apostle
• Confirmation
• congregation
• District Apostle
• doctrine 
• Europe
• Event
• Organisation
• Youth

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Jacob and the fivefold blessing at dawn

A lesson for every Christian: the story of Jacob’s fight. It demonstrates that God can bless us even in trials—if we fight for it. Chief Apostle Jean-Luc Schneider recently illustrated fivefold blessing in a divine service.

March 9, 2016

Chief Apostle

+4

• concept of salvation for the departed
• congregation
• divine service
• doctrine 

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Spotlight 04/2016: Perseverance pays off

Sometimes the response is amazing when God calls, other times His call goes almost unheard. Victory with Christ? District Apostle Leonard R. Kolb (USA) shows why numbers do not count.

March 7, 2016

annual motto

+3

• District Apostle
• divine service
• New Year

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Liturgy: ritual, ceremony, and much more

What is the actual sequence of a New Apostolic divine service anyway? This question comes up often, especially when guests are present in a divine service for a baptism or confirmation, for example. The liturgical order of the divine services is the same for all divine services, and applies all around the world.

February 29, 2016

acts of blessing

+7

• Confirmation
• congregation
• divine service
• doctrine 
• Easter
• Holy Communion
• sacraments

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Being a help to the dead is an expression of God’s will

In all churches there are memorial ceremonies and services—defined to a greater or lesser extent—for loved ones who have passed away. Some Orthodox denominations celebrate with bread and cake at the grave. Other churches celebrate services of remembrance. The New Apostolic Church celebrates divine services for the departed three times each year.

February 27, 2016

apostolate

+12

• Baptism 
• Chief Apostle
• concept of salvation for the departed
• congregation
• District Apostle
• divine service
• doctrine 
• Easter
• history 
• Holy Communion
• Holy Sealing
• sacraments

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International Mother Language Day: bridging cultures with words

“Come, let Us go down and there confuse their language that they may not understand one another’s speech.” Six thousand languages have developed since then, and everyone speaks at least one of them: their mother tongue.

February 20, 2016

America

+6

• Chief Apostle
• District Apostle
• divine service
• doctrine 
• Organisation
• Pentecost

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Divine service: the mystery of an encounter with God

Like many other Christians we attend divine services. It seems like something completely normal. But why do we go? And what exactly is divine service?

February 15, 2016

congregation

+5

• divine service
• doctrine 
• Holy Communion
• Pentecost
• sacraments

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Early indications in a small village

Already early on there were signs of an impending comeback. Prophecies that were uttered in Karlshuld, a small village in the south of Germany, blazed the trail for something that would happen a few years later in England: the re-establishment of the Apostle ministry.

February 4, 2016

apostolate

+7

• Chief Apostle
• congregation
• divine service
• doctrine 
• Easter
• Europe
• history 

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A period of fasting and penitence in preparation for Easter

Easter is just around the corner. On 27 March 2016 Christianity will observe its most important feast. Since apostolic times a period of fasting and preparation is observed before Easter. Lent provides for a 40-day fast starting on Ash Wednesday. This is one of two annual and extended periods of fasting.

February 3, 2016

Advent Christmas

+7

• congregation
• divine service
• doctrine 
• Easter
• Europe
• sacraments
• society

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A first for Africa: theology course

True to the motto “Educating the leaders” a new training programme has been initiated. This follows a decision by the Chief Apostle who stipulates that the Church leaders need more than firm faith and a good knowledge of the Bible.

February 1, 2016

Africa

+4

• Chief Apostle
• District Apostle
• doctrine 
• Pentecost

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New Year in February and help for food banks

New Year in February? Yes, in China. The Chinese use two calendars, the western calendar and the traditional Chinese calendar. And according to the Chinese lunisolar system the New Year begins on 8 February this year.

January 29, 2016

Christmas

+8

• confessions
• congregation
• District Apostle
• divine service
• Music
• New Year
• Social commitment
• Youth

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Spotlight 01/2016: Victory with Christ means to win eternal life

“Victory with Christ”. It sounds like a battle cry, a fight, a competition. Is that Christ-like? District Apostle Urs Hebeisen from the Philippines is the first contributor to our series on this year’s motto.

January 25, 2016

annual motto

+4

• Chief Apostle
• District Apostle
• divine service
• New Year

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A special Christmas gift for Zambia

Reviews and goals for the future, taking stock and planning … these are the organizational tasks that the leaders of the various District Churches are busy with at the end of a year. It was no different in the past year. And while all this was going on, our brothers and sisters in Zambia received a very special Christmas gift.

January 22, 2016

Africa

+5

• Asia
• Christmas
• District Apostle
• doctrine 
• Pastoral care

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Flooding in Isangi, plans for new churches and an organ tour in Wil

This week we take a look at plans to build new churches in the UK and Ireland, something that has become feasible thanks to a special donation by members of the New Apostolic Church Northern Germany. This and more can be found at nac.today.

January 15, 2016

Buildings congregation

+4

• District Apostle
• Europe
• Music
• Thanksgiving Day

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A well of information

Articles, photos, and videos documenting the life of faith of New Apostolic Christians around the world were viewed at least 38 million times over the past year. That is the assessment of nac.today’s first year. A look behind the scenes.

January 14, 2016

Africa

+12

• Australia / Pacific
• Chief Apostle
• congregation
• District Apostle
• divine service
• doctrine 
• Europe
• investiture
• ministry
• New Year
• Pentecost
• society

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Messages for Pentecost and New Year—a long-standing tradition

Such messages need space! They need an occasion to present themselves: New Year, Christmas, or Pentecost are ideal. Pentecost has long been a popular occasion for a uniform message. Chief Apostle Jean-Luc Schneider is taking a somewhat different approach.

January 11, 2016

acts of blessing

+9

• annual motto
• Chief Apostle
• Christmas
• Confirmation
• congregation
• divine service
• doctrine 
• New Year
• Pentecost

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Hurdles on the way to Kazakhstan

The journey to Kazakhstan had already been scheduled long in advance, but the question as to whether Chief Apostle Jean-Luc Schneider would indeed be allowed to conduct the divine services that had been planned remained open to the very last minute. The reason: strict legal regulations.

January 5, 2016

Asia

+6

• Chief Apostle
• congregation
• District Apostle
• divine service
• Good Friday
• Pastoral care

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2015: Joy in Christ

“Labour in love” was the motto of the New Apostolic Church in the year 2014. Also for the new year Chief Apostle Jean-Luc Schneider will set impulses. In his New Year’s message he puts the focus on a special source of strength: Joy in Christ

December 31, 2015

annual motto

+3

• Chief Apostle
• District Apostle
• New Year

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“Back to Jesus—don’t allow any distance to come up”

The fall session of the International District Apostle Meeting ended with a divine service for the ministers of Europe. The focus of the Chief Apostle’s sermon was our nearness to Jesus Christ.

November 18, 2019

ministry Chief Apostle

+7

• District Apostle
• doctrine 
• divine service
• congregation
• Organisation
• Europe
• Social commitment

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“Community” speaks Arabic

The subtitle of the new magazine of the New Apostolic Church says it all: "The New Apostolic Church around the world". After English, French, and Spanish, additional translations are now ready for distribution. The peculiarities of the Arabic edition are especially interesting.

April 25, 2015

Good Friday divine service

+4

• congregation
• Europe
• America
• Africa

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“Do not hinder me!”

Apostle Albert Güldenpfennig passed away a hundred years ago, on 13 May 1922. He was the 33rd Apostle in the New Apostolic Church and always there for his flock. Join us as we pay tribute to the Apostle by looking at his eventful life.

May 12, 2022

ministry investiture

+8

• retirement
• Chief Apostle
• District Apostle
• doctrine 
• congregation
• Pastoral care
• grieving
• Local news

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