New Life Church Weekly Update

July 7, 2023

New This Week

• Kid Zone: Pizza & Painting, August 4
• Church Library Notes
• Today Matters: No event in July
• Hurricane Ian Recovery Update

New Life Kid Zone "Pizza & Painting"

Calling all kids ages 4-12! Join us Friday, August 4 for lunch, create a few painting creations and have fun! Register HERE or by scanning the QR code below by July 28.

Church Library Notes

Inspired by the recent celebration of our country's FREEDOM, here are a few books

that are from our church library shelves:

• "Faith of our Founding Fathers" by Tim La Haye
• "A Time to Stand: Restoring God to His Rightful Place in America" by A. Citizen
• "I Never Thought I'd See the Day" by Dr David Jeremiah
• "The Vanishing Conscience: Drawing the Line in a No-fault, Guilt-free World" by John MacArthur

Recently donated books we have added to our library include:

• "The God I Never Knew: How Real Friendship With the Holy Spirit Can Change Your Life" by Robert Morris
• "AD: the Bible Continues" by Dr. David Jeremiah
• "Basics of Bible Prophecy" by Darryl Nunnelley & David Reagan
• "Twice Pardoned: an Ex-con Talks to Parents and Teens" by Harold Morris

Today Matters

We will be taking a break for the month of July and will resume our speaker series in August!

Hurricane Ian Recovery Update

Joey DePetro, Church Facilities Manager 

Bob Lukes, Building and Grounds Chairman

We continue to make progress repairing our Church Campus after Hurricane lan. Below is a summary. 

The Church office and adjacent garage repairs were completed on March 1, 2023. The roof of the garage next to the classrooms, classroom roof, and sanctuary roof repairs were completed on May 15, 2023. 

The Life Center roof shingle repair is about 80% complete. The South wall masonry has to be repaired before the south roof section can be repaired. Finding matching brick to repair the south wall is the issue right now. 

The two new Life Center ten-ton A/C units to replace the units damaged during lan have been received. One damaged A/C unit was replaced on the northwest side of the Life Center. A bigger crane is needed to replace the A/C unit on the southeast side of the Life Center. Originally, we thought that the three painted glass protective windows on the south side of the Sanctuary needed to be replaced. Actually, the windows are OK, it was an ultraviolet (U/V) film that was torn which will cost much less to replace. 

Concerning insurance cost recovery, we did receive insurance funds for repair of the two garages and the classroom building in December 2022. In April we received another settlement for removal of debris from the ten damaged or lost trees on the Church Campus. We submitted cost recovery to the insurance company on 6/1/23 for the mitigation work that was performed to protect church property until the buildings could be repaired. During the week of 6/19/23 we will be submitting to the insurance company invoices for repairs significantly over the insurance company deductible and depreciation formula. 

After the Life Center masonry and south roof is repaired there are four other critical items that need to be repaired: 

1. Final repair of a Sanctuary beam. 
2. Repair or replacement of the handrails around the Life Center, and the Olympia Street stair handrail. Repair or replacement of the Lenox Hall roof hatch safety rail.
3. Replace the Lenox Hall bathroom vent. 
4. Replace gutters and downspouts. 

There is a list of 21 additional repair items that are not considered critical. Depending on Church Leadership Council and the Finance Committee approval, the Building and Grounds committee may budget for the 21 repairs in the 2024 and 2025 budgets. A sample of the non-critical repairs are. 

• Replace the broken glass in the two exterior lights on Marion Avenue side of the Sanctuary. 
• Start replacing Church Campus trees. 
• Replace the torn sun curtain on the Lenox Hall west stairway. 
• Repair the dumpster fence. 
• Please continue to pray for our Church and community as we slowly recover from Hurricane lan. 

Offering Boxes

Our new offering boxes are available in the Sanctuary and Life Center by the doors. The offering boxes are where you can leave your weekly Tithes & Offerings as well as your Connect and Prayer Cards.

Youth Mission Trip Update

The youth summer mission team would like to thank our New Life Church family for supporting us on our most recent mission trip to Texas. We served in the capital city of Austin from June 15th to the 23rd. 

We had an amazing trip and wanted to thank you for donating the money so we could purchase air mattresses, pillows, and blankets. We used them while staying at our church housing site on our “Week of Hope” as its called. This was the 1st of 7 weeks of mission trips Group Cares Inc. will be hosting in Austin this summer. So we donated to the Group staff our mattresses to be used for the remainder of the summer at the Church Housing facility. At the conclusion of the summer (sometime in early August), the group missions staff will donate them to a local shelter in Austin.

Our teens will update the church during at an upcoming Sunday service on a few of the projects we were involved with this year. 

We will include some pictures (similar to those pictured here in each of the next few additions of the Bridge newsletter so you can get a little glimpse of how we served in Jesus name during this trip.

Thank You!

Our scholarship recipients send their gratitude and appreciation…

Emma Buck says, “As a recipient of the Dieffenwierth-Duffin Scholarship, I wanted to thank you for your support in advancing my education. I hope to go to law school to become an attorney for special needs children and families. Thank you for helping me advance toward my goals.”

Nyssa Christesen writes, “I just want to express my gratitude for the scholarship awarded to me. It will really help me a lot this upcoming school year!”

Jennifer Peters writes that with the help and support from New Life Church scholarships, past and present, she has been able to find housing, buy textbooks, and pay her college tuition enabling her to remain debt free in college!

Pray’n, Stretch’n & Tone’n

Mondays, Wednesday & Fridays - 9am in the Life Center

This exercise class is designed to help seniors exercise their bodies and minds through stretching, flexing, thinking, breathing and praying. Each class begins with prayer, stretching and breathing exercises followed by strengthening all major muscle groups. The goal is to maintain enough strength to remain independent for as long as possible. Come try it, you just might like it! Call 941-661-1175 for more information.

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.