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A Journey to Surrender: Training for God’s Mission (Eric Colton – 12/1/23 – NCS New Canaan)

December 2, 2023 by NCS New Canaan Leave a Comment

With courageous NCS vulnerability, Eric Colton shares the incredible journey that led him to finally surrender his life to God’ plan, seeking only to “be about my Father’s business”. Through the most difficult seasons, God let him know that he was in training.

Eric describes how growing up with a “Clark Gable” father who didn’t know how to express love led to a life of performance and overachievement and a rejection of God.

He shares what it was like to discover the emptiness of early worldly success and how his faith journey began with a purple-haired woman on TV. He also talks about his father’s suicide and the spiritual impact it had on his life until he was finally set free.

Colton describes the idols and religious spirits that got in the way of his pursuit of God and the amazing and sometimes painful ways in which they were removed. He also explains his eventual discovery of the power of the Holy Spirit, and the impact it has had on his life.

Eric also shares the prophecy he received after the Jeffrey Epstein scandal broke–he was meant to do something about sex trafficking. He also describes the miraculous way God showed him the name “untrafficked”, the astonishing technologies that have been revealed and developed to protect children and track traffickers, and the extraordinary favor he has experienced in building Untrafficked.

Eric’s talk is followed by an extended Q&A session that starts at 35:40 in the recording.

Healing and Hope Through Ice Cream: The “Birth-Day” Story (Bob Just – 11/17/23 – NCS New Canaan)

November 17, 2023 by NCS New Canaan Leave a Comment

Bob Just vulnerably shares five stories that explain how “Birth-Day” has become his calling to live out the promise in Isaiah 61 to “bind up the brokenhearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives, and the opening of the prison to those who are bound.”

Bob describes the power of the simplicity of “Birth-Day”–Christian adults going into a school on a single day to serve ice cream sundaes to children they don’t know in celebration of the day they each were born. He explains these adults represent “community fathers” and “community mothers” delivering a message of healing and hope that there has never been, and will never be, another you.

Bob talks about the wounds of having been a “son of divorce” and shares a brief excerpt form a powerful documentary about the life-long impact of divorce on children.

He describes experiences of his youth that prepared his heart for Birth-Day, including his experience as a secular Jewish boy growing up in Manhattan and transferring from the progressive Dalton School to Trinity, a conservative Christian boys school, and immediately knowing it was where he belonged.

Bob ends by showing a short video testimonial of the impact of Birth-Day in one school.

Click HERE to watch the short excerpt from a documentary about the impact of divorce on children.

Click HERE to watch the full 11-minute documentary about the impact of divorce on children.

Click HERE to watch the short video about Birth-Day.

Surrender: The Release of a New Man (Deric Frank – 11/3/23 – NCS New Canaan)

November 3, 2023 by NCS New Canaan Leave a Comment

Deric Frank was a 10-year-old boy when he first cried out to God, and today he preaches Biblical truth on a TikTok channel with 50,000 subscribers called “Deric Delivers” (in between delivering packages for UPS). With amazing NCS vulnerability, Deric shares the painful journey in-between that led him to finally surrender to God’s relentless pursuit.

Deric explains that the painful journey began with growing up in a tough neighborhood and a broken home riddled with violence and led to selling narcotics at 11, being thrown out of his home and living on the streets at 14, being thrown out of school, getting shot at 17, and ending up in prison facing a death sentence.

Deric explains that he continued to get in trouble in prison and even a visitation one evening by an angel in his cell was not enough to turn him from his path of trouble. Deric describes what finally broke him and led to him surrendering his life to Jesus, beginning to chase Jesus with a passion, hearing and resisting a clear call to preach the Gospel, and eventually impacting lives as a minister and teacher in prison.

Finally, Deric shares about being introduced to NCS Inside/Outside shortly following his release (after serving 22 years of his sentence) and the way NCS brothers came around him with love and encouragement. Deric Frank was released as a new man.

Hearing the Call (Danny Palow – 10/20/23 – NCS New Canaan)

October 20, 2023 by NCS New Canaan Leave a Comment

Danny Palow grew up as the son of a pastor, but he did not want to follow in his father’s footsteps. With humor and transparency, Palow shares his remarkable journey of trying to run in another direction to become a filmmaker until he heard the unmistakable voice of God that he too was meant to be a pastor, and then he recounts the circumstances that led him to question the call and try running again, only to encounter God closing all doors except the one he was meant to go through.

Danny describes growing up under a church microscope with an identity tied to his father and then how he eventually found his own identity through a small church in Rhode Island.

He tells the story of God finally getting through to him about his call while on a mission trip to Guatemala. First, the voice came through a pastor. Then it came pointedly through a 95-year-old Guatemalan matriarch. Upon returning home, the call was confirmed a third time through his sister.

Palow then vulnerably describes a period in his life when burn-out led to anxiety and depression, which led to self-doubt–not only questioning whether he was cut out for God’s call as a pastor but questioning the call itself. That self-doubt was then given life by another pastor who told him the call wasn’t real. Danny shares his desperate attempt to run away from the call, looking to find any employment to support a young growing family. He then explains how God closed all other doors–rejection by 196 employers in the course of two months.

Palow tells us how it was his father who God used to open the door back to his calling with a referral to a church in Stamford, CT looking for a youth pastor. Still questioning his call, Palow explains that he walked through the door out of utter desperation to support his family. Through that door, he found the call and passion once again.

Losing Your Mind for God: A Full-Circle Journey to Radio (Steve Lee – 9/22/23 – NCS New Canaan)

September 22, 2023 by NCS New Canaan Leave a Comment

Steve Lee vulnerably shares the amazing faith journey that led to starting Veritas Catholic Network, including the time his wife asked “Have you lost your mind?!”

He talks about his childhood in New Canaan, CT and the impact of growing up in a Christian home watching parents who served others generously but quietly.

Lee explains the years spent as a missionary after college, travelling the United States and the world sharing the Gospel door to door, and how he decided to make the dramatic shift from missionary evangelism to pursuing business school and a Wall Street career.

Steve transparently shares the tensions he felt and some of the difficult situations he faced as a Christian in a Wall Street trading floor environment. He also talks about how it was a period of sharing his faith through actions more than words.

Lee then describes the extraordinary series of events through which God seemed to bring him full-circle back to the evangelistic roots of his youth. They were the incredible steps that led him to make a second dramatic shift from working at a top Wall Street research firm to starting a non-profit Catholic radio station in the NYC area. Steve vulnerably shares how his wife went from wondering if he had lost his mind to being the one to encourage him to step out in faith.

Steve then reminds us of the importance of being prepared to explain and share our Christian faith and the source of our hope–being willing and able courageously to speak up about the reality of Jesus and the truth of the Gospels, always trusting that God is with us. He reminds us that we can all point to Jesus and trust the Holy Spirit to guide us through the next steps.

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