Posted August 12, 2010 | Category: Disaster Response, Distributed Journeys, Local Sites, Longwood, Mount Dora, Online, Oviedo, West Oaks | Written by: Christina Hazen
Day five was a late start. We had the morning to plan our first worship service for a refugee camp that was setup by Dominican Republic officials. We started the day with a devotional and then spent time in worship and prayer. After our time of worship in the morning, we split up into teams so...
Posted June 14, 2010 | Category: Local Sites, West Oaks, News and Inspiration | Written by: Mary Ann Young
A team of long-time Northlanders are pulling together for the purpose of remaining an expression of Northland in West Orange County. We will continue to worship through the summer in the same location: St. Paul’s Presbyterian in Ocoee at 9 a.m. on Sundays. While you will no longer “see...
Posted June 5, 2010 | Category: Local Sites, West Oaks | Written by: Robert Andrescik
Dear Northland family, Over the past eight months or so, the leadership team of Northland at West Oaks has been passionately seeking God’s heart and plan for our community that worships and serves together in West Orange County. As we have prayed about this together and talked through the many...
Posted April 24, 2009 | Category: West Oaks | Written by: Tommy Novac
Jesus is alive today, and that was reflected last weekend at our Fusion Project that incorporated 12 churches from the West Orange area and beyond. We had 17 projects with over 150 people involved. What was absolutely beautiful was a picture of “The Church” coming together to serve the community....
Posted April 24, 2009 | Category: West Oaks | Written by: Tommy Novac
Over the past few months we have had many infant baptisms and dedications at West Oaks. These babies, every one of them, are as precious as precious can get, ESPECIALLY to the eyes of God! We all agree with and affirm the parents as they say they will raise this child in a home that is focused on...
Posted April 24, 2009 | Category: West Oaks | Written by: Tommy Novac
Can you imagine the faces of the women, early that first Easter morning, as they saw the empty tomb of Jesus? What was the picture you woke up to this morning? Was it the kids sleeping soundly, or the sun coming up over the rooftops, or the sight of the early morning with the dew still on the...
Posted March 16, 2009 | Category: Local Sites, West Oaks | Written by: Tommy Novac
Fill in the blank: SPRING _____________. I say SPRING TRAINING. My daughter Nikki says SPRING FEVER. Patti, my wife says SPRING IN MY STEP. She actually has some flip flops that are made to put a spring in her step! This time of year most students would say SPRING BREAK. What do you say? SPRING IS...
Posted January 29, 2009 | Category: Mount Dora, Oviedo, West Oaks | Written by: Nathan Clark
In preparing Northland’s 2008 Annual Report, we asked various ministry departments to clue us in on some of the statistics related to God’s work last year. What follows are some of the highlights: • Northland’s website had 2.25 million visits from 202 countries. • More than 20,000 people...
Posted August 28, 2008 | Category: West Oaks | Written by: Robert Andrescik
Hello West Oaks family. Just me, Patti, checking in to say “WOW are West Oaks Women great! I had so much fun getting to know you better at the brunch after worship last Sunday. You know, I was paying attention to who’s a “jeans-wearing, alla-naturale going, short-haired wearing, HGTV-watching,...
Posted May 27, 2008 | Category: West Oaks | Written by: Susan Hartnett
[By Rob Ross] Recently Pastor Hunter mentioned in a service that he was traveling to speak and stay at Windsor Castle in the English country side of Berkshire. This brought me back to the summer of 2006 when my wife and I had a chance to visit the castle as tourists. After our commute from London,...