NADCE (National Association of Directors of Christian Education)

The National Association of Directors of Christian Education (NADCE) is pleased to offer this Advent podcast devotion for your encouragement as we prepare for the birth of our Savior at Christmas. 

Our devotions this Advent season center around the theme "Behold!"

NADCE regularly offers podcasts that focus on topics in ministry as practical resources for those serving in the Lutheran church as DCEs. Our hope is that our podcasts will encourage those listening in their calling and equip and strengthen them in their ministry area.

To learn more about NADCE we invite you to go to www.nadce.org to see the benefits of membership which include joining us at the Tent of Meeting and Emmaus Table online community groups, receiving our Quarterly publication, and getting a discount to our Conference that will be happening January 21-23 2026 in Boca Raton, Florida.

The National Association of Directors of Christian Education (NADCE) is pleased to offer this Advent podcast devotion for your encouragement as we prepare for the birth of our Savior at Christmas. 

Our devotions this Advent season center around the theme "Behold!"

NADCE regularly offers podcasts that focus on topics in ministry as practical resources for those serving in the Lutheran church as DCEs. Our hope is that our podcasts will encourage those listening in their calling and equip and strengthen them in their ministry area.

To learn more about NADCE we invite you to go to www.nadce.org to see the benefits of membership which include joining us at the Tent of Meeting and Emmaus Table online community groups, receiving our Quarterly publication, and getting a discount to our Conference that will be happening January 21-23 2026 in Boca Raton, Florida.

The National Association of Directors of Christian Education (NADCE) is pleased to offer this Advent podcast devotion for your encouragement as we prepare for the birth of our Savior at Christmas. 

Our devotions this Advent season center around the theme "Behold!"

NADCE regularly offers podcasts that focus on topics in ministry as practical resources for those serving in the Lutheran church as DCEs. Our hope is that our podcasts will encourage those listening in their calling and equip and strengthen them in their ministry area.

To learn more about NADCE we invite you to go to www.nadce.org to see the benefits of membership which include joining us at the Tent of Meeting and Emmaus Table online community groups, receiving our Quarterly publication, and getting a discount to our Conference that will be happening January 21-23 2026 in Boca Raton, Florida.

The National Association of Directors of Christian Education (NADCE) is pleased to offer this Advent podcast devotion for your encouragement as we prepare for the birth of our Savior at Christmas. 

Our devotions this Advent season center around the theme "Behold!"

NADCE regularly offers podcasts that focus on topics in ministry as practical resources for those serving in the Lutheran church as DCEs. Our hope is that our podcasts will encourage those listening in their calling and equip and strengthen them in their ministry area.

To learn more about NADCE we invite you to go to www.nadce.org to see the benefits of membership which include joining us at the Tent of Meeting and Emmaus Table online community groups, receiving our Quarterly publication, and getting a discount to our Conference that will be happening January 21-23 2026 in Boca Raton, Florida.

The National Association of Directors of Christian Education (NADCE) is pleased to offer this Advent podcast devotion for your encouragement as we prepare for the birth of our Savior at Christmas. 

Our devotions this Advent season center around the theme "Behold!"

NADCE regularly offers podcasts that focus on topics in ministry as practical resources for those serving in the Lutheran church as DCEs. Our hope is that our podcasts will encourage those listening in their calling and equip and strengthen them in their ministry area.

To learn more about NADCE we invite you to go to www.nadce.org to see the benefits of membership which include joining us at the Tent of Meeting and Emmaus Table online community groups, receiving our Quarterly publication, and getting a discount to our Conference that will be happening January 21-23 2026 in Boca Raton, Florida.

The National Association of Directors of Christian Education (NADCE) is pleased to offer this Advent podcast devotion for your encouragement as we prepare for the birth of our Savior at Christmas. 

Our devotions this Advent season center around the theme "Behold!"

NADCE regularly offers podcasts that focus on topics in ministry as practical resources for those serving in the Lutheran church as DCEs. Our hope is that our podcasts will encourage those listening in their calling and equip and strengthen them in their ministry area.

To learn more about NADCE we invite you to go to www.nadce.org to see the benefits of membership which include joining us at the Tent of Meeting and Emmaus Table online community groups, receiving our Quarterly publication, and getting a discount to our Conference that will be happening January 21-23 2026 in Boca Raton, Florida.

The National Association of Directors of Christian Education (NADCE) is pleased to offer this Advent podcast devotion for your encouragement as we prepare for the birth of our Savior at Christmas. 

Our devotions this Advent season center around the theme "Behold!"

NADCE regularly offers podcasts that focus on topics in ministry as practical resources for those serving in the Lutheran church as DCEs. Our hope is that our podcasts will encourage those listening in their calling and equip and strengthen them in their ministry area.

To learn more about NADCE we invite you to go to www.nadce.org to see the benefits of membership which include joining us at the Tent of Meeting and Emmaus Table online community groups, receiving our Quarterly publication, and getting a discount to our Conference that will be happening January 21-23 2026 in Boca Raton, Florida.

In this episode, we’ll hear from Tyler Tollefson, our NADCE Chair Elect, & Jeremy Becker, the 2026 Conference Chair, about the upcoming conference.

NADCE regularly offers podcasts that focus on topics in ministry as practical resources for those serving in the Lutheran church as DCEs. Our hope is that our podcasts will encourage those listening in their calling and equip and strengthen them in their ministry area.

We invite you to go to nadce.org to see the benefits of NADCE membership which include receiving our Quarterly publication and getting a discount to our Conference that will be happening January 21-23 in Boca Raton, Florida.

Our podcast today features Bill Karpenko. Over the years, Bill has been called a congregational DCE, a missionary in Japan and Nigeria, a Chicago taxi cab driver, worked with trouble-prone teens in Chicago, a professor and university administrator, and in these latter years a Founder of KINDLE. He is a Beloved and Baptized Child of God. To see the show notes, head to https://nadce.wildapricot.org/resources/Podcasts/Podcast%20w_%20Bill.docx.pdf

NADCE regularly offers podcasts that focus on topics in ministry as practical resources for those serving in the Lutheran church as DCEs. Our hope is that our podcasts will encourage those listening in their calling and equip and strengthen them in their ministry area.

We invite you to go to nadce.wildapricot.org to see the benefits of NADCE membership which include joining us at the Tent of Meeting and Emmaus Table online community groups, receiving our Quarterly publication, and getting a discount to our Conference that will be happening in late January 2026 in Boca Raton, Florida.

The National Association of Directors of Christian Education (NADCE) is pleased to offer this Lent podcast devotion. We are thankful for Maria Devenport and her willingness to contribute by recording today’s devotion. 

The Lent podcast theme is "Come Ye Sinners, Poor and Needy" based off the hymn titled as such. We receive God's grace freely, no matter how we come to the foot of the cross!

NADCE regularly offers podcasts that focus on topics in ministry as practical resources for those serving in the Lutheran church as DCEs. Our hope is that our podcasts will encourage those listening in their calling and equip and strengthen them in their ministry area.

To learn more about NADCE we invite you to go to nadce.wildapricot.com to see the benefits of membership which include joining us at the Tent of Meeting and Emmaus Table online community groups, receiving our Quarterly publication, and getting a discount to our Conference that will be happening in late January 2026 in Boca Raton, Florida.