As many of you know, my family recently moved to a new place. The whole process of searching and moving into our new home has been a true testimony of how God provided and orchestrated everything so perfectly. My wife and I are filled with so much gratitude and awe of how God brought different people to help and support throughout the process. It was stressful at times not knowing where we were going to end up, but it certainly has been an amazing time of growth in our faith as well. Thank you for those who have been praying with us! 
We’ve been living with my parents and my sister for the last couple years but my wife and I decided that it was time for us to move out and have a new start to our family. We went from being a just married couple to having two more additions to the family in our previous house over the last 7 years that we lived there. Now that the kids have grown up, the house was getting a little too small for all of us to live together. There are so many good memories that our family will continue to cherish for the rest of our lives. Ryan is actually a little confused now that he’s sleeping at our new house at night and being watched by grandma during the day at our old house. I ask him every morning on our way to the grandparents’ house whether he knows where we are going, and Ryan just says “home!” Isn’t he adorable?! Other than Ryan, everyone else is enjoying the changes we are going through. My parents are very excited about their “new start” on their own. My sister will be moving out and starting her own family in a couple of months. And my older brother’s family is coming back to the States and is expecting a daughter to be born in July. It’s going to be a crazy summer with so many big family events.
Talking about craziness, our house has never been so messy since we got married. My wife always kept the house very clean (thanks to her OCD tendency) and nicely organized (yes, even with the kids). But now that we have just moved and have boxes everywhere, the house is a mess. We’ve got the rooms pretty much sorted out but the main living room area still needs to be painted and organized. Until a couple days ago, my kids were using one of the boxes as their table for their meals. And to add to the craziness, we actually had the gas and electricity service terminated because we forgot to call the utility companies to start the service when we moved in. You can probably imagine how crazy not having gas and electricity must have been with everything else that we had to take care of. Now that everything is back on track, we are slowly catching up on our laundry, cleaning and unpacking.
One thing I am NOT looking forward to is taking care of the house. I never had to worry about fixing and taking care of things around the house because I had my father, a handy man, who always took care of everything. And it worries me that now I am the one to fulfill that need. In fact, it took me a long time to install curtain rods for the kids’ rooms the other day. It’s not that I can’t get the job done; it’s just that having tools in my hand just doesn’t feel right quite yet. Please pray for me that I will overcome this fear of mine and become a handy man. Maybe I need to start watching more “Bob the Builder” or “Handy Manny” with the kids?! =)

From Pastor Brian’s Heart
June 8, 2014

What a great honor and privilege it is to have God’s faithful servant, Loren Cunningham, the founder of Youth With A Mission (YWAM) as well as a world renowned author, pastor, and missionary, visit NCFC and share God’s heart, not only for our church but also for the universal church of Jesus Christ!  I’ve read several of his books, watched him on Youtube, and got to hear him in person at the 2007 New Wave Rally in Silver Spring, MD, alongside the Match Strike worship team, but to have him speak at our own church during both the KC and EC Sunday Service is indeed special.  I am also looking forward to the Sunday evening “Big Wave” Rally with many churches joining together to hear what is on God’s heart, where God is moving, and how to join Him where He is working.  The 2007 New Wave Rally definitely set things in motion, and now we are willing and ready to ride a Big Wave with Jesus Christ! 
On Monday afternoon, there will be a leadership meeting, where the area pastors and other church leaders will get together with our guest ‘up close and personal.’  We pray that God will challenge us through Loren so that we can begin to walk in greater anointing and authority to fulfill God-ordained dreams, both here in the DC area and throughout the world.  I look forward to hearing God’s message to me specifically as well as getting to know Loren better. Hopefully some of his anointing and awesomeness will rub off on me as I spend time with him!
You may not believe this, but I am actually shy when it comes to meeting new people. I am not good at striking up small conversations with people I do not know that well, especially if it’s someone who is famous and important like Loren Cunningham!  But Loren is like a father to my beloved brother and sister in Christ, Chongho and Kris Won, the NCFC-sent missionaries serving at YWAM Kona, and that makes him sort of like my uncle!   When we share Jesus Christ, we indeed become like families no matter what nationality, age group, or socio-economic background we may come from. Jesus Christ indeed is the great equalizer!
Speaking of Chongho and Kris, they didn’t just talk about the cost of following Jesus Christ, the cost of discipleship, but they’ve fully embraced it and are living a life of discipleship through their involvement with YWAM.  The Wons had just purchased a 7000+ sq. feet, 3-car garage mansion when God called them into the mission field.  It’s not like Chongho and Kris were living a selfish life, pursuing worldly dreams, either. They were faithfully serving at NCFC in various ministries and contributing a lot financially as Chongho’s business was really successful at the time.  They could have compromised and settled to be wonderful senders of missionaries, supporting others to go into missions through prayer and financial contributions. However, they sought the Lord earnestly, not settling for what is good but wanting God’s best, and received confirmation that they were to go into the mission field. 
The Wons have been living at the YWAM base in Kona, Hawaii for the past 11 years, but have traveled all over the world, whenever and wherever God called them to go.  They’ve indeed witnessed God work powerfully in and through them during this journey of faith, but that’s not to say the ride has always been smooth and without challenges.  It’s not because God lacks heavenly resources, but it’s because God wants them, having responded to God’s call by faith, to continue to walk by faith.  Someone has said, “Salvation costs you nothing, but discipleship will cost you everything.  Salvation occurs in a moment, but discipleship takes a lifetime,” and Chongho and Kris are a shining example of the truth of this statement.  Yes, a life of discipleship is not easy, but if you ask Chongho and Kris, I bet they will say they’ll do it all over again in a heartbeat because you get to go on amazing rides with Jesus.  Once you experience it, nothing this world can offer come even remotely close.
They say there are only two groups of Christians in this world, those who send and those who are sent.  We have only one life to live. This is not a dress rehearsal. We should not waste our life on things that will fade away.  I pray that you make plans to attend the Big Wave Rally Sunday evening at 6 PM at MD Campus and discover what God has to say about the purpose of your life. See you all at the Rally!

From Pastor Sara’s Heart 
June 1, 2014