2025 : A year dedicated to doing good

All around the globe, our 2025 motto has unfolded its potential: inspiring commitment, love in action, fellowship, and a living faith. Here is a look back.

December 31, 2025

Annual motto Chief Apostle

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• Congregation
• District Apostle
• New Year
• Social commitment

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2025: the photos of the year

Lively, diverse, and reflecting local traditions: that is how the congregations of the New Apostolic Church can be described. The photos of the year on nac.today testify to this. 

December 30, 2025

Africa

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• America
• Charity work
• Chief Apostle
• Children
• Congregation
• District Apostle
• History 
• Media
• Music
• New Year
• Pentecost
• Social commitment

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2025: Farewells and new beginnings

Three new District Apostles in the same year? Nothing like that has happened in quite a while. More on this and other things that occurred on the international leadership level during the year 2025. 

December 29, 2025

Chief Apostle

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• District Apostle
• Investiture
• Organisation

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2025 in review: the top videos of the year

Music is very popular in the New Apostolic Church. But in 2025, a particular announcement from the altar made it into the top three most frequently viewed videos on nac.today.

December 27, 2025

Chief Apostle

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• Divine service
• Investiture
• Media
• Music
• Pentecost

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2025: Pentecost. Mirror. Decision. 

This past Pentecost, Chief Apostle Schneider made the promise to be a helper, namely to the very man he went on to appoint as his own Helper—and thereby designate as his successor. A closer look at the biggest news of the year 2025.

December 26, 2025

Chief Apostle

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• Investiture
• Pentecost

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Not your typical Christmas article

Star, stable, shepherds, angels—and a crying baby in the living room. This year, Christmas will not just be explained, but experienced. A Christmas article of a different kind.

December 24, 2025

Advent Christmas

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Growing up and learning patience 

“It’s time to do good!” This year’s motto is especially relevant for our children.  This time the question is: How can children learn to wait?

December 24, 2025

Children

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• Congregation

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Doing good makes people happy! (4) Steep paths, a second life, and caring for others

“It’s time to do good!” Our 2025 motto inspired brothers and sisters around the world. Stories from Peru, Zambia, the DR Congo, and Switzerland demonstrate what love in action means.

December 23, 2025

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Together with God and the many helpers

What do the faithful need from their District Apostle? The Chief Apostle answered this question when he appointed David Heynes as the new District Apostle for Northern and Eastern Germany.

December 22, 2025

District Apostle

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• Investiture
• Ministry

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Christmas unlimited

“Sing Noel!”  Again? Yes, and how! A medley of new and traditional carols from Europe, America, and Africa. The piece is taken from the second suite of the choral work “Sing Christmas!”

December 20, 2025

Advent

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• Africa
• Christmas
• Music

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Working with courage 

Faithful, hard-working, selfless: this is the testimony given to District Apostle Rüdiger Krause (Northern and Eastern Germany) by the Chief Apostle. Here is the video of his retirement.

December 19, 2025

District Apostle

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• Investiture
• Ministry

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nac.academy: digital and international

Ongoing training of ministers everywhere: this is the idea behind a new programme offered by the New Apostolic Church International, which is primarily aimed at ministers.

December 18, 2025

Doctrine 

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• Ministry
• Organisation

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High time to wake up! 

Advent admonishes us that God’s plan is moving forward, and that we must not sleep in faith. It is time to check on our spiritual development! 

December 17, 2025

Advent

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• Africa
• Chief Apostle
• Divine service

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Doing good makes people happy! (3) A smile that creates a bright future

“It’s time to do good!” Our 2025 motto inspired brothers and sisters around the world. True goodness is a continuous practice, not an isolated action. An association in Togo is setting an example.

December 16, 2025

Annual motto

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Like a pro

The Chief Apostle is almost cheerful as he faces the camera, delivering his New Year’s address. He is on his home stretch, and this is his last address. Observations from twelve years.

December 15, 2025

Chief Apostle

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• Media
• New Year

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Choir, rhythm, Christmas

“Yesu Nafyalwa Ilelo.” This is how Christmas sounds in Bemba, one of the seven major languages among Zambia’s seventy. The carol celebrates the birth of Christ and draws listeners into the warmth and cheer of the season.

December 13, 2025

Advent

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• Christmas
• Congregation
• Music

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From Hamburg into the great wide world and back

Between north German clarity and quiet warmth, Rüdiger Krause developed a style all his own for reaching people. This Sunday he will retire as District Apostle of around twenty countries. 

December 12, 2025

District Apostle Europe

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• Retirement

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Homiletics (10): Understanding the Bible text

Once the minister has read the Divine Service Guide article and considered its main message and how it might relate to the congregation, it is time to explore the Bible text. 

December 11, 2025

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The call to self-purification

True hope purifies, provides guidance, and leads us closer to Christ. With step-by-step instructions, the Chief Apostle explains how sanctification works.

December 10, 2025

America

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• Chief Apostle
• Divine service

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Doing good makes people happy! (2) Music, heroes, and small gestures 

“It’s time to do good!” Our 2025 motto inspired brothers and sisters around the world. Three stories tell how much of an impact a trombone, a song, or a chocolate truffle can have. 

December 9, 2025

Annual motto

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A farewell tribute uniting diverse traditions 

The New Apostolic Church Northern and Eastern Germany is bidding a musical farewell to its former District Apostle. The concert will be broadcast live. 

December 8, 2025

Advent

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• Europe
• Music

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Advent a capella 

Traditional lyrics rearranged … This is what Christmas sounds like barbershop style. The carol was presented at the 2019 Advent concert by the Canadian choir Soul Purpose.

December 6, 2025

Advent America

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• Christmas
• Music

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Flowers, flags, questions: learning about a dark day

Flowers, photos, and flags on the wall of a building—and in front of it, children with hymnals. What’s going on at this Paris restaurant? A picture and its story.

December 5, 2025

Congregation

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• History 
• Society

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A “yes” that changed everything 

Mothers do not have it easy, especially this one: her life was a complex mix of joy and sorrow, worry and hope. The journey from the bier to the cradle symbolises a new beginning and hope. 

December 4, 2025

Bible study

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• History 

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When love dispels fear

Those who take an interest in the gospel discover the love of Jesus, which carries us through all challenges. If we follow Him, His love will free us from fear and unite us.

December 3, 2025

Apostolate

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• Chief Apostle
• District Apostle
• Divine service
• Europe

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Advent: steps that lead out of darkness

From darkness into light—thanks to the Son of Man, and for all of humankind. This is the string lights that runa through the divine services in December 2025.

December 2, 2025

Advent

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• Christmas
• Divine service

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