New Life Church Weekly Update

August 16, 2024

Children's Christmas Play

Dive into another SCUBA adventure with us by being part of our SCUBA Christmas play!

If your child is interested jumping into this adventure with us, please email Becca soon: becca@newlifeforall.church.

We are planning to begin practices mid to late September.

Do You Like to Cook?

We are looking for volunteers to help prepare a meal/dessert and serve lunch at Crossroads Hope Academy Davidson Campus on the 3rd Saturday of each month. We would like to have multiple people helping to alternate months. If interested, please call Gail Lagro at (941) 613-1745.

Interim Pastor Update

As many of you have already heard, Mike's "Sell By" date is November 30th. Negotiations with Debbie to extend that have been less than fruitful. 

Pastor Casey's first Sunday at New Life Church will be January 5th, 2025.

Some of you have asked about who will preach or lead us in that "gap time?"

We are blessed to announce that Pastor Jorge Acevedo will be our guest preacher through the Sundays of Advent and at all Christmas Eve services.

Jorge has served faithfully and fruitfully in ministry for nearly 40 years, the last 27 of those as pastor at Grace Church in Cape Coral. And, he is a very good preacher! 

Jorge retired from full-time ministry in 2023. He is speaking and coaching during this season of life and ministry.

Plan on being here to worship the incarnate Christ, to support your church as we move toward 2025, and to be blessed as Pastor Jorge leads us and feeds us in Advent and Christmas.

Building & Grounds Update

Did you know that our Building and Grounds Committee was formerly our Trustee Committee? This Committee handles all of the approvals for the upgrades, improvements and renovations that need done on our church campus. It truly takes a village to keep our church campus maintained and we are so thankful for the servants that we have on this Committee. 

Do you have a servant heart?? Would you like to be part of this great Committee? We are currently looking for 4 people to add to the Building and Grounds Committee. The requirements for this role are to care about our church, care about the condition of our buildings and the safety of our congregation. The Committee meets once a month, normally the first Monday of every month at 3:00 p.m. 

Some of the projects that are currently in the works are the renovation of rooms 8, 9 and 10 from some water damage. This project should be completed within the next week or so. Our new church playground should begin construction soon, we hope. We needed to make a few modifications to the plans due to some requirements from the City of Punta Gorda. The Bargain Boutique will begin an expansion project very shortly. This will give them much needed additional storage space and alleviate issues with flooding during rainy season. 

If you would like to be a part of the Building and Grounds Committee, please reach out to Kathy Butgereit at kathy@newlifeforall.church before Tuesday, August 20th. 

Cub Scout Pack 13

Jim Smith from our congregation has been our Pack 13 liaison for our amazing Cub Scout troop for the past few years. Jim has done an amazing job and we thank him for his service. Due to some personal reasons Jim has to step down from this role. We are looking for a servant to replace Jim as our Pack 13 liaison. Do you have former scouting experience that you would love to share with Cub Scouts? The pack has a fantastic leader and this liaison just attends meetings and events and lets the church know what is happening and all the fun things the troop is doing.  

If you are interested, please reach out to Kathy Butgereit in the church office at kathy@newlifeforall.church. 

Operation Christmas Child

The Operation Christmas Child Shoebox Ministry Team requests your help with the following donations for August & September: School Supplies! Children in most countries receiving shoe boxes cannot attend school unless they bring their own school supplies, so let’s get them to school! Crayons, pencils, ink pens, colored pencils, pencil cases, markers, watercolor sets, small spiral notebooks, notebook paper, scissors, glue sticks, pencil/crayon sharpeners, and coloring books. Watch for sales at the local stores!  Please put your donations in the collection box located in Lenox Hall. Thank you for your help in this important outreach ministry!

Nursery Job Opening

We have a part-time position available in our nursery. The complete job description is available HERE.

Hospital Visitation, Prayer Available

We want to know when you are having surgery or are in the hospital! We are available to pray with you before surgery and visit you in the hospital, rehab, etc.

Contact us through email: prayerteam@newlifeforall.church or call/text Pastor Bob, Minister of Pastoral Care (941) 585-9576.

Church Name Tags

When you come to the church campus, please wear your New Life Church name tag. If you do not have a church name tag, you can order one HERE.