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New Life Church Weekly Update | |
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This Sunday: January 19, 2025
9:15 Traditional Worship, Sanctuary
10:45 Contemporary Worship, Life Center
Message: "Grace"
Scripture: Romans 5:1-8
Pastor Casey Taylor
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The church office will be closed Monday, January 20th
in honor of Martin Luther King, Jr. Day.
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New this Week:
- 2024 Contribution Statements have been emailed
- Library News
- Beware of Email and Text Scams
- Children's Ministry Planning, January 19
- Blood Drive Sunday, January 26
- Intentional Christian Grandparenting, begins February 3
- Jesus Loves You Ministry - Walk for Them 2025, February 15
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2024 Contribution Statements
2024 Contribution Statements have been emailed. The link in the email to download and print your statement is active until January 31st at 10am. If you need assistance with printing your statement, please contact Denise in the church office, denise@newlifeforall.church.
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Today Matters, January 18
Pastor Casey Taylor will be our guest this Saturday, January 18 at 4pm in the Life Center. Come out to support Today Matters and get to know our new pastor a little better.
See you there!
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Beware of Text and Email Scams
This is just a reminder that Pastor Casey will never ask for gift cards via text or email. If you receive a suspicious text or email, never respond—simply delete it. All emails coming from the church will have "@newlifeforall.church" as the sender's email address.
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Children's Ministry Planning,
January 19
Sunday School staff and volunteers will meet this Sunday following the 10:45 service at 12:15 pm, Sunday upstairs in Lenox Hall. Join us as we plan for expanding and providing new opportunities for our Children's Ministry! Join our team! Our Children's Ministry is not just Sunday School, it includes Good News Club, Connect, VBS and many special activities... including Easter, Mother's Day Tea, Father's Day, Blessing of the Backpacks, and Christmas! Our children are our future church...
If you are interested in learning more about our Children's Ministry, and opportunities to serve please join us!
Hope to see you there!
Contact AJ Rilat
Ajrilat1@gmail.com
281-910-8594
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Sunday Morning Opportunity
Are you looking for a place to serve in 2025? We are looking for volunteers to run ProPresenter on Sunday Mornings in the Tech Booth (slides, worship lyrics, scripture etc. on the screens). If you are interested in learning more, please contact Kathy in the church office, kathy@newlifeforall.church.
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Library News
Since the recent hurricane months, our church library space has been needed for various meetings and storage. We currently do not have room in this multipurpose room for any extra donated books. We kindly request that our congregation please Hold ALL donations until further notice. Questions? Contact shelbydecapite@yahoo.com
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Cuban Mission in Three Weeks
Our church's first mission to Cuba will leave on January 31 for four days at our sister church in Taguasco. In the last year this church has established eight missions in the surrounding towns and our team will visit as many as possible. Going on this trip is Shirley DeJean, Phil Iorio, and John Bielecki. We are in need of three suitcases to carry medicines. The suitcases combined dimensions cannot exceed 62 inches. They will be left in Cuba. If you have one, contact Tom Little, at 941-769-0002, 21unity25@gmail.com.
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Operation Christmas Child
Debbie Harrington
Ho! Ho! Ho! You thought Christmas was over on the 25th of December, but not so fast! The elves for Samaritan’s Purse Operation Christmas Child are still working hard building shoeboxes online. Please help us Share the Good News of Jesus Christ by participating in our New Life Church’s Goal Page "Build a Shoebox Online" from the comfort of your home! Enjoy the amazing experience by hand selecting special shoebox gifts for Girls and Boys. Spread the word, pray, and watch the goal tracker! Our New Life Church Goal page currently has 39 shoeboxes ‘built’ out of our goal of 75. Our Goal Page ends January 31, 2025. Simply Click on the link below to connect with New Life Church’s Goal Page. Let’s make sure 75 MORE children have access to The Good News of the Gospel of Jesus Christ to start 2025 off right! Click Here: Build A Shoebox Online (samaritanspurse.org). This is the ONLY direct link to the New Life Church Goal Page. This is the ONLY link that will count toward our Goal of 75 shoeboxes online. Thank you & Happy New Year!
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Intentional Christian Grandparenting
Intentional Christian Grandparenting is a series of classes focused on equipping grandparents in their biblical role to be intentional in influencing and impacting future generations to know, love, and serve Jesus Christ. The series of classes will begin on Monday, February 3, from 1:00-3:00 pm and will be held in Room 13, on New Life in Christ Church campus.
The series of topics to be covered include the following:
Feb. 3 The Amazing Influence of a Grandparent
Feb. 10 What the Bible Says about Grandparenting
Feb. 17 Reaching the Heart of Your Grandchild
Feb. 24 Overcoming the Barriers of Distance (Geographical, Relational, Spiritual)
March 3 The 8 Best Practices of Christian Grandparents
March 10 Becoming an Intentional Christian Grandparent
To register for the class, email: grandparentingmatters@newlifeforall.church
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A Word from Worship
Greetings New Life Family and Friends,
My question today is: how can January be half over already? Am I the only one who sometimes feels like I'm spinning my wheels and getting nowhere? Honestly, for a period of my life I did feel like that. It was so frustrating for me but I couldn't seem to make any progress. I had a great nursing job and a wonderful family and yet I felt like something big was missing. That was many years ago when serious medical problems were hitting me from all sides. I had great doctors who made sure I had only the best of treatments and surgeons and yet I felt like I had little hope. I had a lot of reasons to get better and until my sister in law's pastor talked to me about prayer i didn't really have hope. I beg to read scripture like: Colosssians 3:23 - "Whatever you do, work at it with all your heart, as working for the Lord, not for human masters." I soon was aware that no matter how discouraged we may feel because of the worries of our daily challenges or a lack of appreciation for hard work, we should never forget that Jesus is always with us. If we are ever tempted to give up, we need only to turn to our Savior with our needs. When we stay close to the Lord, and put all our trust in Him, He will give us inspiration to keep doing our best in spite of any obstacles. I have shared much of my medical history in the past and before I developed and expanded my prayer practice it would have been easy to have an attitude of hopelessness. Now, even though I continue to have health issues which result in new and sometimes greater problems, I know I am never alone. Romans 12:12 tells us "Be joyful in hope, patient in affliction, faithful in prayer." When you develop a positive prayer life I've found that you can't help but sharing about it with others. What a wonderful blessing to have the privilege of being in a close and loving relationship with God personally through prayer. As you know, we have been going through a challenging journey with cancer for both Don and me since May and have been blessed by God's grace and love through the power of prayer, not only by us but all of you who have been praying for us. Here's our latest update: Don continues to feel well, though tired. Prayer has given him hope and we give glory to God each and every day. He remains off Hospice care. I had a biopsy last week of the lesion in my abdominal area and praise God that there is no malignancy. However, what they found is that there is suture (stitches) material from a long ago surgery that was left and never dissolved. It has caused the tissue in that area to grow around it as a foreign body and is now causing serious issues. So next step is a referral to a surgeon. I will again ask for prayer help from you but I know the Lord has this. I will keep you posted! Thank you for your love, the meals, gift cards, and of course your prayers.
I'm praying for you!
Rosie Young
Worship Coordinator
rosie@newlifeforall.church
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Dates to Remember - Mark your Calendars! | |
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JANUARY
Pastor Mike's Retirement Party, January 17
Today Matters, January 18
Blood Drive, January 26
FEBRUARY
Coming Soon! Sign Up for a Lent Life Group
Men's Breakfast, February 8
Today Matters, February 15
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Meal Train for Don & Rosie Young
Click HERE to sign up.
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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.
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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 or by calling the church office.
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