In our “Spotlight” series, District Apostles from around the world share their thoughts on the 2015 motto. This week, District Apostle Shadreck M. Lubasi writes about the joy that can be found in serving Christ.

The "Spotlight" series is intended to shed light on all aspects of our "Joy in Christ". This time it is District Apostle Markus Fehlbaum's turn to take a closer look at our annual motto for 2015. He starts off by asking, "What happens when we share joy with others?"

"Joy in Christ" is the motto for the year—not "Rejoicing in Christ" or "Joy over Christ". So what is the difference here? That is the question District Apostle Wolfgang Nadolny (Berlin-Brandenburg / Russia) explores in this article.

Joy is meant to be shared. This applies first and foremost to our “joy in Christ”. It is for this reason that nac.today has initiated a participation campaign: get creative and share your joy. The first submissions have already arrived.

Sharing joy! – That is the maxim of nac.today’s participation campaign on the motto for the year 2015. Joachim H. Böttcher-Domschat from Frankfurt on the Oder (Germany) has submitted a canon on the Bible text from the New Year’s Day divine service (Habakkuk 3: 18). The notes are available for download here.

To radiate joy in Christ, that is the goal of our 2015 motto. Today District Apostle Leonard Kolb (USA) throws light on this multifaceted theme. He asks: How can we be joyful if we only think of ourselves?

What aids can Priests resort to when making soul care visits? Since 2013, the New Apostolic Church Cape has been publishing a Devotional Journal for its ministers, an 88-page diary with articles based on Bible texts.

From “Labour in love” to “Joy in Christ”: District Apostle Rüdiger Krause from Northern Germany links last year’s motto with this year’s motto. He continues our series on impulses from the District Apostles and sets out on a quest for joy.

“At home worldwide” is the motto set out in the logo of nac.today. This is also the title of our weekly overview, in which we look at the happenings among our brothers and sisters around the world.

We still carry last year’s motto in our hearts. But what else happened throughout the New Apostolic world in 2014? Following is a look at the happenings around the world in the first half of 2014.

To radiate joy in Christ, that is the goal of our 2015 motto. From today on, District Apostles from all over the world will throw light on this multifaceted theme on nac.today. District Apostle Mark Woll from Canada will begin.

“Joy in Christ”, the motto of the New Apostolic Church for 2015, is unfolding more and more from service to service. What does it mean for us, what do we connect with it? Join our interactive project and help us illustrate the 2015 motto!

Some 70,000 people have been left homeless as a result of flash-floods, a District Apostle visits a Sunday School class, an Apostle retires, and members in northern Germany are happy about the demolition of an old fire station.

“Labour in love” was the motto that Chief Apostle Schneider laid into the hearts of the New Apostolic people around the world at the beginning of last year. What have the congregations done with it? nac.today asked the district churches.

Be it in a large circle or small, with a divine service or without, our members around the world have rung in the New Year in very different ways. But there is one thing that unites them all—and it’s more than just fireworks at midnight.

Munich/Zurich. A divine service from Munich transmitted around the world by satellite—millions of New Apostolic Christians on all continents witnessed the Pentecost service conducted by their Church leader, Jean-Luc Schneider. In the Olympia Stadium in the Bavarian capital alone there were 50,000 believers. In his Pentecost message, the Chief Apostle called upon the believers to become even more active in love for God and their neighbour, emphasising that “it is more blessed to give than to receive.”