the new newpointe starting pointe

Does that title make any sense? Let me see if I can clear things up. Some of our staff along with a volunteer writing team have spent the past year writing a brand spankin' new Starting Pointe curriculum for NewPointe. It's been a long and sometimes challenging process. But it's also been fun. The most fun part, however, is seeing it come together. A couple days ago Dave D called me into the team meeting room to take a look at the full color proofs that just arrived from the printer. The project looks awesome.

I took this pic of Kris McVaney (the project designer) as she reviewed the final proof.


The study guide, titled The Journey, goes to press sometime within the next week. If you've been through Starting Pointe, you already know how helpful, informative, and faith-building it is. With the new version, the idea is the same but there are some major changes. Here are a few:

• The first, and most obvious, is that it's all original NewPointe material. For the past few years we've been using study guides and message CDs from North Point Community Church. Beginning this fall, we'll be using the new material that includes message cd's with messages from Dwight, Dave D, and yours truly.
• The new SP course is 10 weeks long (formerly it as 13).
• The new SP "kit" will contain a sweet full-color study guide, a CD case with 10 supporting messages, a SP bookmark, and a brand new NIV Bible.

Stuff that hasn't changed:

• It's still a small group environment that meets on campus on Sunday mornings and Thursday evenings.
• Group size is limited to 12.
• It's one of the very best ways to inform your faith.
• At least one new SP group starts each month (all you have to do is come to the orientation--it's always held on the first Sunday of each month in between Sunday services in the auditorium).

We're already talking about getting this new material translated into Arabic and Spanish. How cool would that be?