2025-2026 LOOKBOOK
WITH
From Pastor Mark
“Give and it will be given unto you. A GOOD MEASURE, pressed down, shaken together and running over will be poured into your lap. For with the MEASURE YOU USE, it will be MEASURED TO YOU.”
–Luke 6:38
I was seventeen years old, a junior in high school. My first job was working at Quick Fill gas station in Naperville, Illinois. I was pulling in the big bucks: $5.25 an hour!
Meanwhile, the church we attended–Calvary Church–was in a missions series. That’s when I made my first FAITH PROMISE to missions. It’s a financial pledge, above and beyond the tithe, that’s devoted to spreading the good news of the gospel.
That $1500 faith promise to missions was the first financial step of faith I had ever taken, and God honored it. My only hesitation in making that faith promise was that I was saving for college, but I ended up getting a full-ride scholarship to the University of Chicago so I didn’t pay a dime. Coincidence? I think not. More like providence. That’s when and where this core value was conceived: you cannot out-give God.
Now, God is not a slot machine. If you give for the wrong reasons—if you give to get—it doesn’t even count in the kingdom. And please hear my heart, the primary reward for generosity is not tangible, it’s intangible. Joy is found on the giving side of life!
Can I challenge you to prayerfully consider a faith promise? The little card in the center of this lookbook is for you–yes, you. A FAITH PROMISE is between you and God. What amount is God calling you to commit to kingdom causes? Stretch your faith, and see how God blesses it.
Don’t let what you can’t do keep you from doing what you can.
Pastor Mark Batterson Lead Visionary, National Community Church
From Pastor Steffen
“Therefore go and make disciples of all nations . . . And surely I am WITH you always . . .”
–Matthew 28:19-20
In Jesus’ final words to the disciples, He sends us out with a profound promise: to be WITH us. The concept of WITH threads the narrative of scripture from the garden to the gospels. From the opening scenes to its final words, scripture tells the story of a God who walks with, creates with, dwells with, suffers with, and redeems with His people.
We aren’t just sent from but sent with. We’re co-creators and colaborers in a co-mission with God and with each other.
The invitation into missions is first and foremost an invitation into WITH. With-ness precedes witness. Dallas Willard says it this way, “But if those in the churches really are enjoying fullness of life, evangelism will be unstoppable and largely automatic.”
Everywhere you look in NCC, you’ll see the movement of missionwith. We are a church swept up in God’s mission—in currents of compassion and justice, peacemaking, creativity, marketplace, and gospel proclamation.
These currents have shaped the convictions and missional story of our church.
This year, we’ve organized NCC’s missional efforts into these distinct currents to reveal clear pathways to a missional life with God, together.
Ultimately, the mission of God is rushing forward—all we have to do is go with the flow.
Pastor Steffen Humbert Missions Pastor
MISSIONS GIVING
Missions giving is channeled into these three areas. Prayerfully consider your missions commitment.
MISSION FUND
NCC Missions Portfolio
DREAM FUND
COMMON FUND
Ways to Give
Spend some time in thought and prayer about how God is calling you to give (or increase your existing giving) to an NCC Missions fund, above and beyond your tithe and offering.
1. Onetime or recurring gifts through NCC Central: ncc.re/giving
2. Give on the NCC App
3. Give by text: Text “Give” to (833) 321-7242.
4. Venmo: @NationalCommunityChurch
5. Mail checks to 700 M St SE, Washington, DC 20003
MISSION FUND
Supporting missionaries and missions organizations in our cities and around the world
“Go into all the world and proclaim the gospel to all creation”
Mark 16:15
The true impact of a church is not measured by seating capacity, but by sending capacity. NCC has taken more than 300 mission trips and given more than $25 million to missions. The Mission Fund provides regular support to our missionary family, as well as special gifts for special projects. The sun never sets on our missionary family as they serve the Lord and serve people in our city, across our country, and around the world.
DREAM FUND
Seeding the dreams of church planters, kingdom causes, and creative ventures
“When the Lord restored the fortunes of Zion, we were like those who dreamed.”
Psalm 126:1
Along with funding network churches like Hopeville in Baltimore and Church at the Well in DC, the Dream Fund partners with church planting organizations like the Church Multiplication Network that are training and launching church planters. The Dream Fund also provides seed money for nonprofits that serve a wide variety of kingdom causes. The Dream Fund offers more than a financial blessing. Our Dream Collective—everything we do that doesn’t have our name on it—serves as a dream incubator, giving dreamers a birthright.
COMMON FUND
Meeting the needs of those in poverty or crisis
“They sold property and possessions to give to anyone who had need.”
Acts 2:45
The early church cared for physical and material needs via radical generosity. We do the same. Along with meeting individual needs, the Common Fund enables NCC to partner with a wide variety of gospel-centered organizations like Convoy of Hope, Prison Fellowship, and Congo for Christ Center. These missions partners have the scope and scale to provide relief in times of crisis and also to address longstanding issues like poverty.
Ongoing relationship is at the heart of how we do missions at NCC.
Our desire is for missions to be a journey of transformation for NCCers, for our partner organizations, and for every person involved as we serve and pray together to see God’s kingdom come. We want to see every NCCer live on mission every day.
Our missions strategy is to collaborate with missionaries and organizations both locally and across the globe. We combine the can-do attitude and passion of NCCers with the solid expertise of a missions partner. That’s a pretty powerful combination! These partnerships are an effective and sustainable way to maximize our impact locally and globally.
On site with one of our long-time partners, Chi Alpha, Indonesia.
MY FAITH PROMISE
2025-2026
A FAITH PROMISE is a gift to missions, above and beyond the tithe. It can be a one-time gift or a recurring gift. You can designate a fund—Mission Fund, Dream Fund, or Common Fund. Together, our giving goal for 2026 is $4 million.
PRAY
Commit to pray regularly for our missionaries and partner organizations.
Pray for a missions movement that flows from this house into our city and across the globe–for a renewal of missional imagination, greater compassion, and gospel saturation
Pray for the next generation of missional calling—for a generation willing to take sacred risks and carry the gospel banner
Commit to give regularly to missions, above and beyond your regular tithe and offering. Give to missions via the Mission Fund, the Dream Fund, or the Common Fund. (See page 7 for details).
Commit to engage locally or globally. What breaks the heart of God and should burden yours? How is He calling you to join with Him on mission? Prayerfully browse this look book for ways to engage. Step into one of our five missional currents.
MISSIONAL CURRENTS
The mission of God is rushing forward—all we have to do is step into the current.
Everywhere you look at National Community Church, you’ll see the movement of mission. We are a church swept up in the mission of God—in currents of compassion + justice, peacemaking, creativity, marketplace, and gospel proclamation.
These five currents have shaped the convictions and missional story of our church. They flow through this house.
This year, we’ve organized NCC’s missional efforts into these distinct currents to reveal clear pathways to a missional life with God, together.
These movements of mission are designed for yearlong exploration—an invitation to not just observe the mission, but to participate WITH God in it.
EVANGELISM
Tear off this card along the perforation and put it somewhere you’ll see it often, to posture your heart toward this missional focus.
COMPASSION
“Let Justice roll down like waters, and righteousness
COMPASSION + JUSTICE
According to Exodus 34:6, the first adjective God uses to describe His own nature is “compassionate.” The word “compassion” comes from the Latin word compati, meaning “to suffer with.” God doesn’t observe or merely explain our suffering, He shares in it. In this house, we believe God’s blessing and goodness is bound up in how we care for and “suffer with” the vulnerable. Here are some of the ways you can participate in the movement of compassion and justice both in our city and around the world.
“Compassion asks us to go where it hurts, to enter into the places of pain.”
HENRI NOUWEN
PRAY
for our partners fighting for justice and caring for the vulnerable with our “Compassion + Justice” prayer guide at ncc.re/praycurrents
ENGAGE what’s happening with our global partner, Congo for Christ, in their work of compassion amidst an ongoing armed conflict | ncc.re/frontlines
GO DEEPER
with global partner Teen challenge Jamaica in their life-changing mission of rehabilitation and gospel care | May 2026 | pg 50 | ncc.re/deeper
GATHER for Friendsgiving and share a Thanksgivingstyle meal with our unhoused friends | Nov 22 | email missions@national.cc to volunteer
JOIN
NCC’s small group, “Until all are Free” focused on the ending modern day slavery in our time | email missions@national.cc for more info
Scan here to explore even more opportunities to engage this missional current.
ncc.re/currents
Tear off this card along the perforation and put it somewhere you’ll see it often, to posture your heart toward this missional focus.
EVANGELISM
“Behold, I give you GOOD NEWS of great joy that will be for ALL people.”
–LUKE 2:10
EVANGELISM
In Genesis 3:15, we’re given the protoevangelium—the “first gospel.” Here God promises that one day, a promised son will crush the head of the serpent and with it the curse of Adam. As followers of Jesus we proclaim His victory over death and invite people into resurrection life. In Jesus’ final words he tells us to “Go and make disciples of all nations.” At NCC, we want to be great at the Great Commandment and the Great Commission. We want Jesus’ final words to be our first concern. Here are some of the ways you can participate in the current of good news shared and resurrection life proclaimed.
“The Great Commission is not an option to be considered; it is a command to be obeyed.”
HUDSON TAYLOR
PRAY
for our partners sharing the gospel of Jesus to unreached people groups with our “Evangelism” prayer guide at ncc.re/praycurrents
WALK
pray and share the good news with neighbors at Second Saturday Serve’s neighborhood prayer walks | pg 30
STAY
near but go far through our virtual partner team with global missionaries Jamie and Tasha Kemp in their work to reach the Muslim world in Indonesia | ncc.re/virtualteams
SHARE
the good news and learn alongside global missionary and long-time NCCer in Lebanon | May 1-11 | pg 47
GO DEEPER
at How to Take God Stories with you
Wherever you Go | Ashley Anderson | Monday, November 17 at the Capital Turnaround | 7pm | ncc.re/deeper
Scan here to explore even more opportunities to engage this missional current.
ncc.re/currents
Tear off this card along the perforation and put it somewhere you’ll see it often, to posture your heart toward this missional focus.
CREATIVE MISSIONS
“In the beginning God CREATED...”
CREATIVE MISSIONS
“In the beginning God CREATED . . .” God reveals Himself as the most generous Creator—not only making humanity, but giving us the very ability to create. God makes people in His image and endows them with the dignity of co-creating. According to Exodus 31:1, the first person described as “fillled with the Spirit” is an artist! At NCC, we dream God-sized dreams and use our Spirit-inspired imaginations to see His kingdom come—on earth as it is in heaven. Here are some of the ways you can step into the current of creative missions at NCC.
“The Christian is the one whose imagination should fly beyond the stars.”
FRANCIS SCHAEFFER
PRAY
for our partners creatively advancing the kingdom of God with our “Creative Missions” prayer guide at ncc.re/praycurrents
JOIN “Parallel Society,” a small group focused on creating with kingdom purpose | email missions@national.cc for more info
WRITE
letters with Love Justice to our neighbors behind bars | pg 31
DREAM
God-sized dreams and explore the creative edge of missions at RENEW | September 24-25, 2026
GO DEEPER
with Dream Collective and kingdomminded creatives as we create, connect, and witness God move through beauty and conversation at one of the world’s most influential art events, Art Basel in Miami, FL | December 4-6, 2026 | pg 52
Scan here to explore even more opportunities to engage this missional current.
ncc.re/currents
Tear off this card along the perforation and put it somewhere you’ll see it often, to posture your heart toward this missional focus.
PEACEMAKING
“Blessed are the peacemakers, for they will be called children of God.” –MATTHEW 5:9
PEACEMAKING
According to 2 Corinthians 5:18, God has given us the “ministry of reconciliation.” We are a part of a global current reconciling people to God and to one another. The prophet Isaiah foretells of the day when swords will be beaten in garden tools—where objects used to take life will be reformed into objects that give life! As followers of Jesus, we make peace in places of conflict and cultivate life in places of loss.
Explore the current of peacemaking in our city and around the world below.
“The church is called to be a sign and foretaste of God’s healing of the world’s divisions.”
N.T. WRIGHT
PRAY
for our partners making peace around the world with our “Peacemaking” prayer guide at ncc.re/praycurrents
GO DEEPER
by attending Peacemaking in an Age of Outrage | Ernest Clover | Monday, November 10 at the Capital Turnaround | 7pm | ncc.re/deeper
GO FURTHER
with global partner, Africa New Life, Rwanda. Witness firsthand the power of forgiveness and reconciliation | Aug 12-22 | pg 46
JOIN
“Restore + Reconcile,” a small group focused on the building peace in an age of division | email missions@national.cc
SHARE a table with DC neighbors at the Reconciliation Luncheon | 1st + 3rd Wednesdays at the Southeast Whitehouse
Scan here to explore even more opportunities to engage this missional current.
ncc.re/currents
Tear off this card along the perforation and put it somewhere you’ll see it often, to posture your heart toward this missional focus.
“Whatever you do, do it all
MARKETPLACE MISSIONS
Marketplace missions is the sacred integration of faith and work, where our jobs become platforms for kingdom impact. As co-laborers with Christ, we carry His presence into boardrooms, classrooms, studios, and job sites—transforming ordinary spaces into places of purpose. Our work is not separate from God’s mission. It’s a vital expression of it. In partnering with Christ, we join Him in the renewal of all things—even in the marketplace. Here are some of the ways you can participate in the movement of marketplace missions at NCC.
“Business is a moving force of the love of God in human history when done well and for the common good.”
DALLAS WILLARD
PRAY
for our partners combining business venture and kingdom mission with our “Marketplace” prayer guide at ncc.re/praycurrents
JOIN
“Dreamers + Doers,” a small group for entrepreneurs and marketplace thinkers | email missions@national.cc
STAY
near but go far through our virtual partner team on the US/Mexico border with global partner Frontera de Cristo and learn how coffee is creating migration in reverse | ncc.re/virtualteams to sign up
GO FURTHER
with global missionaries Tony and Jamie Sebastian in Cyprus for a unique mission team supporting kingdom innovators using business and social enterprise for gospel impact | Fall 2026
SHARPEN your kingdom-minded business venture at Missional Labs x Dream Collective | Date TBD
Scan here to explore even more opportunities to engage this missional current.
ncc.re/currents
4 PRINCIPLES OF PEACEMAKING
ASK ANYTHING
Work to cultivate a culture of trust, where challenging questions are not just tolerated, but encouraged. Meet differing perspectives with honest discussion, rather than judgment.
LISTEN WELL
Seek to develop God’s heart as you listen to those who think differently than you. Pause first as you listen to understand, rather than listen to respond.
Peacemakers are not conflict- avoiders. Peacemakers join with others in a quest for truth from a posture of grace. Becoming a peacemaker is a spiritual and a mental discipline. It takes courage, and it takes practice.
We invite you to memorize and adopt these four practices in all your interactions—and be attentive to all the ways the Holy Spirit is using them in your continual transformation.
FREELY DISAGREE
Create an environment that allows for people to disagree freely and still live in unity. Build an understanding that our differences bring strength and beauty to the kingdom of God, rather than division. While challenging, this is the ethos of peacemaking.
LOVE REGARDLESS
Above all, love is not conditional. Let’s commit to loving the way Jesus loved—refusing to hate. We refuse to turn people into issues. We must persist in seeing the image of God in everyone.
INTERNATIONAL PARTNERS
Africa
Zeb Mengistu, Beza Church Ethiopia
Mark Powers, African Leaders
Mercy Kids Africa
Victory4All, South Africa
Africa New Life, Rwanda
Mango Tree School, Congo for Christ
Aaron & Heather Santmyire, Madagascar Health Ministry
Jamie Friedrich, Global Outreach, Zambia
Abide Family Center Uganda
Asia/Pacific
Cori Whitman, Breakthrough Thailand, Servant Works
Duane Danielson, AGWM Bangladesh
Doug Jacobs, AGWM
Nepal
Jamie Kemp, Chi Alpha Indonesia
Jim & Judy Larson, Antitrafficking, Thailand
Joyce Kitano, Japan
Kaylynn Haliday, JEM, Japan
Sean & Paige Whiting, Restoring Hope India
Eurasia/North Asia
Ashley Anderson, Middle East
Brad & Ariana Scott, Integra, Kyrgyzstan
McKenzie & Joe Buonaiuto, Overland Missions, Middle East
Krystal & Jordan
Thomas, Maps Global, Middle East
Partner in Jordan
Partner in Turkey
Other missions partners serving creative access locations
Europe
Ben & Anna Finfrock, YWAM France
Axel & Jacki Rindler, Germany TC
Bailey & Denise Marks, Cru Europe
Kurt Plagenhoef, AGWM Albania
Michael McNamee, Convoy of Hope Europe
Tony & Jamie Sebastian, Cyprus
Shawn Galyen, Spain
John & Stephanie Hasler, Berlin
Rudolf Balazhinec, Family of Christ Ukraine
Zachary & Misa Harrod, Converge, Prague
Jerry & Deb Chambliss, AGWM, Sweden
Steve Kramer, AGWM, The Netherlands
Latin America/ Caribbean
Norbert Schenhals, Global Teen Challenge
Costa Rica
Bill & Connie McDonald, Ecuador
Joil & Leah Marbut, Ecuador
Brian McArthur, Fundación Aventura, Bolivia
Anthony Richards, Teen Challenge Jamaica
Franceli & Julie Joseph, Haiti’s Compass
Champions in Action, Guatemala
Frontera de Cristo, Mexico
International Ministries
Chris & Nicole Lindley, Epicentre Church
Ben & Jasmin Seidl, New Mission Systems
International
Mike Edwards, EFCA/ ReachGlobal
Robyn & Chris Zickmund, United World Mission
The Telos Group One Hope
Mike & Kay Zello, Global Teen Challenge
International Justice Mission
Dick Brogden, Live Dead
Jolee Paden, Fellowship of Christian Athletes Convoy of Hope
NCC MISSIONS PARTNERS 2025-2026
Use this list as a prayer guide. Pray for our partners. And be attentive to where you can be a part of God’s redemptive work in the world.
Partners in bold are sons and daughters of NCC.
DOMESTIC PARTNERS
Bonnie Schurman, Cru Yale
Susan Vernalis, Cru/ Christian Embassy
Candace Wheeler, Restoration Ministries
Kate Perkins Denson, Intervarsity Christian Fellowship
Natalie Hill, Alpha
Dr. Richard Foth
Wil Stroman, Urban Outreach AG Potomac District Missions
Steve Pike, Church Planting
George Warren, Kingdom Investors
Gerald Mayhan Ministries
Michael Hopkins, AG US Missions: Refugee Response
Brad & Glenda McMath, Network 211
Brad & Kathryn Eads, Be the Church
Brian & Mary Schmidgall, MiddleTree Church
Russ & Rebecca
Sermon, International Friendships, Inc.
Paul Van Der Werf, Go Corps
Nick LeFors, AG US Deaf Ministries
Nick Robertson, AGWM, Univ.Valley Forge
Tipi Raisers, Arizona
We Will Go, Mississippi
Chi Alpha Campus
Ministries:
DC: Blane Young
Georgetown U: Toby & Stacey Amodeo
Chicago: Todd & Lashawndra Lucas
Indiana U: Luke Furr
Richmond: Mike
Godzwa
UVA: Peter & Amy
Bullette
Oregon U: Karen (Keyser) Hillyer
Yale: Sarah & Robert
Malcolm
Stefanie Chappell, Nat’l Director
Sarah Cummings, Every Nation
Christina Fowler, Discipleship Works
Justice Montgomery, Fellowship of Christian Athletes
Brooke & Thann Bennett, A Fearless Life
LOCAL
PARTNERS
Amber & Sterling Marchand, Be the Good
Capitol Hill Pregnancy Resource Center
Casa Chirilagua
DC 127, Foster Care & Adoption
DC Dream Center
Homes Not Borders
Peace of Art DC
Prison Fellowship
Young Life SE DC
Drake Deriemaeker
Charles Williams
Christian Legal Aid DC
HOMEGROWN MISSIONARY
Ashley Anderson
Ashley first got her heart for missions and vision for the Middle East sitting right where you are. She attended NCC for seven years, and was on staff for five of those years. Ashley had been involved in missions work locally and abroad with NCC, but her story was changed in 2016 when, at the height of the Syrian Civil War, she joined an NCC Missions team to Greece and set foot in a refugee camp for the first time. “We sat in the tents of doctors, lawyers, and PhD level academics who lost everything and had to flee their country for their lives, and our lives were changed by theirs,” Ashley says. Ashley and other members of the team came back to help launch NCC’s Refugee Care ministry and now six years later, she is excited to join an NCCer and former Hill staffer in the Middle East to minister to this community full-time.
Ashley Anderson works with a missions organization in the Middle East where her team is a part of a peacemaking movement that is being birthed through a disciple making movement. Their goal is to take the gospel to the hardest to reach people and most marginalized communities and to see the region stabilized one person at a time, through encounters with the tangible presence of Jesus. Her team has worked with a nomadic people group who are linguistic and ethnic minorities in the region and they have seen more than 100 people from this tribe come to Jesus in the last six years.
They have also seen radicalized individuals have an encounter with Jesus and lay down their weapons. They’ve had disciples read the Bible for themselves for the first time and repent for hating their enemies and pledge themselves to the enemy love evidenced in Jesus’ life and teachings.
THREE CIRCLES Practice Sharing the Good News
The “Three Circles” is a simple tool to clearly communicate the gospel in a way anyone can understand. It explains how God designed the world, how it became fractured, how Jesus came to redeem it and how He sends a new humanity back into the world with Him to renew all things. With just a pen and a napkin or as the background of your smart phone, you can simply share gospel hope. The “Three Circles” is often used in world missions because the drawing does not use any words. It’s a tool not just for explanation, but for invitation—empowering everyday believers to confidently share the Good News in any setting. Listen to NCCers using the “Three Circles” and with practice make it your own.
ncc.re/3circles
BLESS THE CITY E NGAGELO YLLAC
Second Saturday Serve
Serve together as a Small Group or as a family!
Join us the second Saturday of every month to serve at the DC Dream Center, Capitol Hill Pregnancy Center and other local partners or through neighborhood prayer walking. We’ll meet and pray together, then disperse to various local service projects. Watch NCC’s newsletter and/or ncc.re/saturday for current opportunities. Come be a part of God’s kingdom come in our city as it is in heaven.
ncc.re/saturday
Neighborhood Prayer Walks
In His final words, Jesus promised in Acts 1:8: “You will receive power when the Holy Spirit comes on you; and you will be my witnesses…” Join us for neighborhood prayer walks at Second Saturday Serve—a simple, powerful way to seek the peace and welfare of our city. Each time begins with light training to help you deepen your prayer life, shape your testimony, and learn how to share the hope of the gospel in a natural way. Then, we’ll walk the neighborhood in prayer and connect with neighbors along the way. This is for everyone—low-pressure, with Jesus, and rooted in love.
Serve with NCC’s Homegrown Compassion Ministries
More information at ncc.re/localmissions
The Living Room
When: Wednesdays, 6:00pm, Ebenezers Coffeehouse
Contact: natalia.guzman@national.cc
We host a small group that brings people together from all walks of life to fellowship and study the Scriptures over a meal. Through the breaking of bread, we have the opportunity to follow the model of Jesus by building relationships with people who are often overlooked. While all are welcome, many individuals in this small group have found themselves living on the streets, in a local shelter, or as part of the working poor. Serve by providing hospitality, friendship, or meal prep and cleanup.
Love Justice
When: Ongoing care and special events
Contact: ncclovejustice@gmail.com
Minister to our brothers and sisters in prison, those re-entering society, and families experiencing the incarceration of a loved one. This ministry is the NCC expression of Prison Fellowship. We coordinate Angel Tree events, visit and write those in prison, welcome returning citizens and much more.
Family Friends
When: Ongoing care and special events
Contact: refugeecaredc@gmail.com
Assist refugee families with doctor appointments, tutoring, language support, job hunting and share meals around the table. The Family Friends team commits to diving deeper into the culture and language of their friends, seeking to learn from them and their community, as well as invite them into their own.
LOCAL MISSIONS
Serve with a Local Mission Partner
More information at ncc.re/localmissions
DC Dream Center dcdreamcenter.com
Serve kids in Wards 7 and 8 with after-school activities, tutoring, or mentoring. Or show up at any Second Saturday Serve at 10am. (see page 30)
Prison Fellowship prisonfellowship.org
Serve with NCC’s Love Justice group or participate in Angel Tree programs. You can also participate in prison, family, or mentoring ministries.
Homes Not Borders homesnotborders.org
Befriend and care for a refugee family in our area. Help set up apartments or provide career mentorship.
Cornerstone
cornerstone-schools.org
Adopt a classroom as a small group or serve in after-school programs, the snack pantry or prayer teams for this Christcentered school in DC.
Be the Good bethegoodproject.org/join
Connecting volunteers with safe and easy ways to help feed our neighbors. Based in Alexandria.
Capitol Hill Pregnancy Center
capitolhillpregnancycenter.org
Longtime NCC Missions partner Capitol Hill Pregnancy
Center supports women, men, and their families who find themselves in an unexpected pregnancy or challenging parenting situation. They provide compassionate care as well as complete, medically accurate information pertaining to pregnancy and pregnancy options.
All their services are free, including pregnancy testing, peer counseling, community resources, childbirth classes, parenting classes, practical baby items, and a post-abortive transformation and healing program (PATH).
Be a part of serving CHPC at Second Saturday Serve (see page 30)
HIGHLIGHT
dc127.org
DC127 was given its name to reflect James 1:27, which mandates believers to care for orphans and widows in their distress. Church communities are uniquely positioned to serve families whose children are at risk of entering foster care. DC127 created a Christian community network to protect and sustain vulnerable children and at-risk families, regardless of faith or background. They partner with DC Child and Family Services Agency (CFSA)—to focus on foster care prevention and foster family recruitment. Wrap around a vulnerable family as a small group to provide ongoing care and support.
BLESS THE GENERATIONS
NCC Kids on Mission
NCC Kids are on mission every day, too! This year, NCC Kids can use their passport activity book to learn about missions and God’s global heart. We’ve designed this activity book as a discipleship tool for families to experience together. Additionally they’ll learn about our local and global partners by getting passport-style stamps for their activity books and enjoying candy from countries around the world!
Missional Greenhouse Initiative
National Community Church has always been a missional greenhouse. As the Holy Spirit prompts NCCers, we help discern and cultivate their missional calling. Then we send them out, locally and globally. Over the decades, we have sent homegrown missionaries and church planters throughout our city, and from Berlin to Baltimore with a few places in between.
Here are three ways we’re cultivating the missional callings of the next generation in our “missional greenhouse.”
Mission Camp
Who: All youth grades 6-12
When: Summer 2026
Mission Camp is a key opportunity for ALL students in grades 6-12 to experience life on mission. This four-day overnight camp is an easy on-ramp for all students to grow in missional mindset and practices. It fuses the fun of summer camp with a heart to serve our community. Scholarships available.
NCC Youth + Global Partner Teams
Apply: nick.montgomery@national.cc
NCC will cover a significant portion of the cost for NCC high school upperclassmen who apply to join a select partner team. We believe in intergenerational missional space—where youthful zeal and timetested missional practice come together. The next generation of missional thinkers, dreamers, and practitioners grow when they join a global partner team.
Missional Fellowships
Apply: greenhouse@national.cc
In collaboration with NCC’s Dream Collective, we offer internships focused on missional development. Missions Fellows are given a front-row seat to missions, with strategic exposure to different gospel expressions across NCC. They’ll take a deep dive into the rich history and influence of NCC missions theology, practice, and ideation. We’ll provide a mixture of structured and hands-on learning to enliven missional imagination and create healthy pathways into meaningful long-term missions.
Church Planting
Through the Dream Collective, we partner with many church-planting organizations and networks. We are proud to collaborate in supporting pastors alongside the Urban Church Planting Network, Crete Collective (serving black and brown churches in underserved areas), Association of Related Churches (ARC), Auxilio, Stadia Church Planting, Church Ministry Network, and many others.
NCC Network Churches
New City Church
Chicago, IL
Steve & Jessi Andres
Bridges Nashville
Nashville, TN
Adonis & Heather Lenzy
Hopeville
Baltimore, MD
Joshua & Ericka Symonette
New Season Community Church
Gainesville, VA
Rick & Nia Sarmiento
NoVA Community Church
Springfield, VA
Marion & Tamika Mason
The Hope Community
Sacramento, CA
Caleb & Michelle Crenshaw
Church at the Well
Washington, DC
Jimeka Jones Setzer & Gene Setzer
Rise Church
Chattanooga, TN
David & Missy Russell
Genesis Church
Bladensburg, MD
Sam & Lu Akin
We were proud and excited to launch our NoVA campus out as an independent church this past September. NoVA Community Church will continue to serve and worship as they make disciples across the Northern Virginia area. They continue to hold their original NCC DNA, emphasizing small groups, serving with local and global partners, and celebrating creativity.
Pictured: Launch Sunday, September 7, 2025
CHAMPIONS IN ACTION
PARTNER PROFILE
Champions in Action
Champions in Action is not a soccer program, it’s the Great Commission dressed in cleats and jerseys.
In Guatemala City’s most vulnerable neighborhoods, often called “red zones,” where poverty, violence, and fear shape daily life, Champions in Action, a longtime NCC partner, is igniting hope and transformation. Through the simple yet powerful combination of soccer, mentorship, and faith, they are helping young people rewrite their stories.
Local mentors, many of whom have overcome the same challenges, walk alongside youth not only as coaches on the field, but as trusted guides off it. Week after week, they pour into these young lives, nurturing character, deepening faith, and awakening purpose. Champions in Action also meets urgent needs through food bags, school supplies, and emergency aid, offering stability in the midst of hardship.
But perhaps the most powerful part of their work is this: they build lasting relationships in forgotten places. Through sport and mentorship, they create sacred spaces where young people don’t just find safety. They find belonging, courage, and a future filled with possibility.
LEARN MORE championsinaction.org PRAY
• For lasting transformation through the Gospel
• For deep healing in the hearts of children who have experienced trauma or abandonment
GO
Join NCC’s 2026 Guatemala team. See page 50.
Selamta Family Project
Every child deserves the love of a family
In a country where the orphan crisis continues to impact millions of children, Selamta Family Project offers a powerful, faith-rooted alternative to institutional care. Located in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, Selamta restores hope and dignity by creating forever families for children who have lost theirs.
Rather than placing children in orphanages, Selamta unites them into permanent families, each one led by trained, nurturing women who serve as lifelong moms. These families live in local neighborhoods, attend school, go to church, and grow up in loving homes where they are known, valued, and deeply loved.
In 2006, Mama Zenebech welcomed 10 orphaned children into her home. With Selamta’s support, love turned strangers into family. Today, her home includes grandchildren—a living legacy of healing. “I used to care for them,” she says. “Now they care for me.” God truly sets the lonely in families (Ps 68:6).
Selamta goes beyond meeting basic needs. Through holistic support including education, healthcare, trauma-informed counseling, life skills training, and spiritual formation they equip each child to thrive and pursue their God-given potential.
The name “Selamta” means peace in Amharic, and that’s exactly what this ministry brings: peace to broken stories, peace to hearts marked by loss and peace rooted in the love of Christ.
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Fundación Aventura
Strengthening people through adventure
In the heart of Bolivia, where the Andes rise against the sky and Cochabamba’s valleys pulse with life, the beauty of the land contrasts sharply with the struggles many youth face. For too many young Bolivians, this landscape is the backdrop to lives marked by poverty, violence, and trauma.
But in the midst of this reality, Fundación Aventura offers a lifeline–a chance to heal, to hope, and to rise again. Since 2003, NCCer and founder Brian McArthur has used adventure therapy to guide young hearts through their darkest times. Through hiking, climbing, and team challenges, they don’t just push the body, they help the spirit soar.
These outdoor experiences go beyond the physical. They offer emotional renewal, a space to rebuild trust, discover inner strength and begin healing from deep wounds. By creating a safe environment where boys can try, fail, and try again, Fundación Aventura helps youth overcome trauma, build confidence and form lasting friendships with gospel hope.
This work isn’t just about adventure—it’s about transformation. It’s about turning fear and pain into courage and resilience.
LEARN MORE theadventurefoundation.org PRAY
• That each young person would encounter Christ’s ultimate love
• For broken family cycles to be redeemed GO Join NCC’s 2026 Bolivia team. See page 49.
NCCers are serving our city and around the world
Did you know that National Community Church has sent out and supports nearly 50 missionaries who are sons and daughters of this house?
These NCCers discerned a missional calling on their lives and OBEYED. When NCCers receive a call to missions and GO, we release them—with joyful, prophetic expectation of how God will use their unique gifts to transform communities and nations for the sake of the gospel. And we continue to partner with them through ongoing prayer, love, and financial support.
Serve Globally
Where is God calling you to go?
NCC Global Partner Teams are small groups of individuals committed to learn together, serve together, and spread the gospel together to see God’s kingdom come in a designated part of the world.
Here’s how it works.
1. Prayerfully consider the teams on the following pages.
2. Go to ncc.re/partnerteams to learn more and sign up.
3. Find the team(s) you want to explore and email that team leader to determine if this is the right fit for you.
4. Once you’re approved to join the team, you’ll meet with your team in the months before the trip to learn about your partner and about the region you’ll be serving. You’ll spend focused time together preparing and praying.
NCC’s Managed Missions system provides a streamlined way to help you raise your support for the trip.
2026-2027 Global Partner Teams
AFRICA
Ethiopia • March 3-13, 2026
Cost: $2,800
Focus: Child Advocacy, Poverty, Good for first timers, Youth encouraged
In Ethiopia, over 5 million children are orphaned or abandoned. Our partner, Selamta, has given themselves to the vision that “Every child deserves the love of a family.” Experience Selamta’s innovative, family-based care model, committed to bringing children out of institutions and into loving families.
South Africa • April 11-20, 2026
Cost: TBD Focus: Peacemaking
Telos is committed to the hard work of forming peacemakers and transforming conflict. Grounded in the Biblical vision of mutual flourishing, this NCC team will join Telos in immersive peacemaking education, moving towards a deeper understanding of complex conflict narratives and the ministry of reconciliation.
Rwanda • August 12-22, 2026
Cost: $3,800
Focus: Peacemaking, Community Development, Good for first timers, Youth encouraged
Faith deepens as you encounter Rwanda’s inspirational story of hope and forgiveness. Walking alongside Africa New Life’s Christ-centered and Rwandan-led ministry gives witness to the life-changing impact of education, discipleship, and community development. Conviction for peace and reconciliation expands through your engagement in cultural learning and connection with the people of Rwanda.
Central Africa
Cost: $3,700
Focus: Child Advocacy, Education, Community Development, Business as Mission
Experience Level: 1 2 3 4 5
For over 13 years, NCC has forged a mutually enriching partnership with Congo for Christ. Even amidst ongoing conflict, Congo for Christ remains a beacon of hope in Uvira. Congo for Christ has opened schools, improved community infrastructure, created jobs as they work towards economic independence and advanced the gospel through it all. In 2026, we are dedicated to creatively serving our beloved partner in a safe way. More information to follow.
ASIA/PACIFIC
Lebanon • May 1-11, 2026
Cost: $3,500
Focus: Evangelism, Disciple-making, Peacemaking
Experience Level: 1 2 3 4 5
In Lebanon, we’ll partner with a long-time NCCer in a peacemaking movement through a disciple-making movement. We’ll engage in evangelism, prayer, and partnership with the local church in a Muslim-majority context. God is moving—lives are being transformed, weapons laid down, and hearts turned to Christ.
India • June 2026
Cost: $2,800
Focus: Prophetic imagination, Prayer, Business as Mission
Experience Level: 1 2 3 4 5
Over three billion people remain unreached, without access to the hope of the gospel. In partnership with Live Dead and missionary Jeremy Aaron, this unique NCC team will focus on intercession, prophetic imagination and prayer walking, listening for spirit-inspired action steps and vision. Jeremy and his family minister to the people of Varanasi in the spiritual hub of India.
Indonesia • Fall 2026
Cost: $3,000
Focus: Disciple-making, Education
Experience Level: 1 2 3 4 5
In Indonesia, the world’s largest Muslim country, Chi Alpha is dedicated to reaching the unreached through the International English Center. This NCC team offers a unique opportunity to explore Java, while building lasting relationships and contributing to meaningful kingdom work.
Philippines • Summer 2027
Cost: $3,500
Focus: Anti-trafficking, Poverty
Experience Level: 1 2 3 4 5
Today, millions of people live unprotected from modern slavery and abuse. International Justice Mission is dedicated to strengthening justice systems to protect the global poor. Join IJM in the Philippines to learn about their robust work in opposition to online sexual abuse and exploitation of children (OSAEC) and their collective fight to end slavery in our lifetime.
EUROPE
Germany • October 2026
Cost: $2,800
Focus: Business as Mission, Urban Ministry
Experience Level: 1 2 3 4 5
Berlin has been named the ‘Atheist capital of Europe.’ This NCC team in partnership with New International, will focus on urban ministry and business as mission, providing a unique opportunity to witness how the Church in Europe is reaching the unreached in a post-Christian context.
Cyprus • Fall 2026
Cost: $3,750
Focus: Business as Mission
Experience Level: 1 2 3 4 5
Join us in Cyprus with Dream Collective partners Tony and Jamie Sebastian of iHeart Coffee Roasters for a unique mission team supporting Kingdom innovators. We’ll host a conference for missionaries using business and social enterprise for Gospel impact. This is a chance to encourage, equip, and inspire leaders while witnessing firsthand how business can powerfully serve mission.
Eastern Europe
Cost: $3,800
Focus: Relief, Child Advocacy, Business as mission
As the ongoing conflict continues in Eastern Europe, our dedicated partner, Family of Christ, is committed to empowering communities across the region by addressing critical needs and fostering hope and resilience. In this challenging environment, our NCC team, in collaboration with FOC, will focus on relief along with the deep spiritual and emotional needs that have emerged in the wake of significant loss.
LATIN AMERICA/CARIBBEAN
Bolivia • February 12-19, 2026
Cost: $2,300
Focus: Child advocacy, Adventure therapy Experience Level: 1
Longtime NCC partner Fundación Aventura exists to break and prevent cycles of abuse and abandonment through adventure therapy activities by promoting psychological healing, socio-emotional skills, and spiritual/community development in at-risk youth. This team centers around a 4-5 day backpacking excursion in the Andes mountains.
Jamaica • May 2026
Cost: $1,800
Focus: Emotional and Mental Wellness, Disciple-making, Good for first-timers
Experience Level: 1 2 3 4 5
Join our esteemed partners at Teen Challenge Jamaica and be a part of their life-changing mission in Ocho Rios. Together, we can empower men and women to attain mental clarity, emotional strength, social harmony, physical well-being and spiritual fulfillment. During our time with TCJ, we will support their vision of becoming a self-sustaining ministry by participating in various physical labor projects.
Guatemala • July 17-26, 2026
Cost: $2,200
Focus: Child advocacy, Disciple-making, Good for firsttimers, Youth encouraged
Experience Level: 1 2 3 4 5
In partnership with Champions in Action, we’re hosting a five-day premier soccer camp with the goal of empowering at-risk youth through the hope of the gospel, mentorship and the beloved game of soccer. Whether you’re an athlete or just eager to make a meaningful impact, there’s a place for everyone to serve.
Mexico / Arizona Border • September 2026
Cost: $2,300
Focus: Peacemaking, Business as Mission, Good for firsttimers, Youth encouraged
Experience Level: 1 2 3 4 5
Frontera De Cristo is committed to building understanding across borders and works to provide creative solutions to the root causes of migration. In partnership with FDC, our NCC team will be immersed in ministry life in a part of the world where walls clearly divide. FDC has galvanized community partners and the Church in a unified effort to holistically care for those suffering along the border.
NORTH AMERICA
Orange County, California • June 2026
Cost: TBD
Focus: Church planting, Good for first-timers Experience Level: 1 2 3 4 5
Dream Collective is sending a team to Orange County to partner with REVIVE, a new church plant passionate about redemption and renewal through Jesus. We’ll support their launch team by praying, serving, and blessing the city. If you’re passionate about church planting, creativity, and kingdom impact, join us to help bring hope and beauty to Orange County.
Jackson, Mississippi • July 11-18, 2026
Cost: $700
Focus: Youth encouraged, Child advocacy, Poverty
NCC Youth will partner with We Will Go in their enduring commitment to the city and the people of Jackson, MS. In a place facing unique socioeconomic and cultural challenges, We Will Go embodies the spirit of good neighbors and what it truly means to live “on mission everyday”, meeting both practical and spiritual needs with compassion.
Convoy of Hope • August 1-8, 2026
Cost: $1,200
Focus: Community development, Poverty, Good for firsttimers, Youth encouraged
Our longtime partner Convoy of Hope is committed to “bringing hope to every area of need.” This domestic NCC team, in collaboration with Convoy of Hope, will focus on acute community needs through hands-on projects and caring for the vulnerable. Location TBD.
Navajo/Hopi Reservation, Arizona • September 2026
Cost: $1,200
Focus: Housing, Poverty, Peacemaking
Experience Level: 1 2 3 4 5
Tipi Raisers works to alleviate poverty, honor Indigenous wisdom, and reconcile our shared history with the Peoples of the First Nations. Our NCC team will primarily work to improve and repair housing on the Hopi and Navajo reservations in Northern Arizona. Through our service, we build meaningful relationships and restore trust with the people of the First Nations.
Washington, DC • September 2026
Cost: $200
Focus: Community Development, Discipleship, Good for first-timers
Experience Level: 1 2 3 4 5
You don’t have to go far to get on mission! We’ll support the vision of the DC Dream Center—where hope becomes habit—through hands-on projects and community care. This unique experience blends spiritual formation and service, creating space to go deeper in faith while putting love into action.
Miami, Florida • December 4-6, 2026
Cost: TBD
Focus: Creative missions, Prayer, Evangelism
Experience Level: 1 2 3 4 5
We’re gathering a team of kingdom-minded creatives to engage one of the world’s most influential art events, Art Basel, with the light and love of Jesus. Through art, prayer, and presence, we’ll share the gospel authentically. Whether you’re an artist or simply passionate about culture and mission, join us in Miami as we create, connect, and witness God move through beauty and conversation.
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Join a Virtual Partner Team
Not everyone can hop on a plane—but that doesn’t mean you can’t be part of what God is doing around the world.
Our Virtual Missions Teams connect you with our global partners and the work they’re doing. Through a series of online gatherings, you’ll get a front-row seat to their ministry, hear real stories, ask questions, and discover how you can pray, support, and advocate for the work happening on the ground.
Our hope is that these virtual teams help stir passion, spark purpose, and maybe even inspire you to visit one day.
Each virtual team focuses on a different region and partner— so choose one (or more!) and join us.
ncc.re/virtualteams
WITHNESS precedes witness.
The ultimate expression of God’s “withness” is Jesus. Matthew, echoing the prophet Isaiah, calls Him Emmanuel, “God with us” (Matthew 1:23). In Jesus, God does not shout instructions from heaven—He enters into our world, takes on our pain, and walks among us. He eats with sinners, touches lepers, and weeps with the grieving. In Christ, God is no longer just near, but embodied with.
The cross reveals the depths of God’s commitment to being with us. Jesus doesn’t just sympathize—He suffers with us and for us. The resurrection is not just the defeat of death, but the beginning of a new kind of life: one where the risen Christ says, “Surely I am with you always” (Matthew 28:20).
PRAY • GIVE • GO
Then Jesus came to them and said, “All authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me. Therefore go and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, and teaching them to obey everything I have commanded you. And surely I am with you always, to the very end of the age.”
MATTHEW 28:18-20
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