New Life Church Weekly Update

June 30, 2023

This Sunday: July 2, 2023

10:00 am Combined Worship, Life Center

Followed by our all-church picnic celebration!

Message: "Flyball by Committee"

1 Samuel 14:1-14

Pastor Mike Loomis

Our 10:00 service will be live-streamed on Facebook and YouTube

Bring your Swimsuit!

We will have a waterslide at the picnic, so all children and youth are invited to bring along a swimsuit and towel!!

Picnic Volunteers Needed

Joey DePetro, joey@newlifeforall.church

If you are able to volunteer this Sunday, we will have 3 opportunities: set-up, serving and cleanup. The setup will begin at 8 am Sunday morning, serving from 10 am until all have eaten, and clean up at the end of our celebration. Thank you in advance!

Church Prints Available

We will have 5x7 and 11x14 prints of the church available at the picnic! Suggested donation amounts are $5 for the 5x7, and $20 for the 11x14. Proceeds will be used for hurricane repairs and any future campus improvements.

Please Note: The church office will be closed on Tuesday, July 4

in recognition of Independence Day.

New This Week

Offering Box
Youth Mission Trip Update
Scholarship Thank You's
Pray'n, Stretch'n & Tone'n

Offering Box

Our new offering boxes will be available beginning this Sunday, and will be located in the Life Center by the entrances. The offering boxes are where you can leave your weekly tithes & offerings as well as your Connect 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.

Harmony Class - New Study

Sunday Mornings, 9:15 in Lenox Hall

Next Sunday, July 9th at 9:15 in Lenox Hall, the Harmony Class will begin their new, 8-session study, "Courage To Conquer" by Dr. David Jeremiah. As Dr. Jeremiah looks at some of the Bible's greatest heroes - David, Paul, Joshua, Habakkuk, Isaiah, and three young Hebrew men who stared down one of history's most notorious kings - he explains how they managed to conquer with courage. Everyone will encounter fear, loneliness, frustration, confusion, disappointment, and weakness in this life. But only those with courage from God - the Courage to Conquer - will be victorious. Everyone is welcome to attend. Study materials will be provided.

Music Ministry Updates

Greetings Everyone,

A note about the music for Sunday.

The prelude, “An American Sonata” by Charles Callahan is three movement work for solo instrument and organ based on American hymn tunes: Consolation, He Leadeth Me, Robeson (a giddy little tune), Devotion and Charleston.

The postlude, “Variations on ‘America’” by Charles Ives was written in 1891. In 1948 the eminent American concert organist, E. Power Biggs contacted Ives inquiring if he had composed any organ music that he might perform on his weekly radio program. After E. Power Biggs helped Ives recover this long-forgotten piece, he performed it on his July 4th radio broadcast that year and was finally published in 1949.

Music Ministry Opportunities:

The Chancel Ringers will resume rehearsals on September 6, 2023 at 6:00PM.

The Chancel Choir rehearses on Thursdays at 6:00PM in the Historic Sanctuary and sings Sundays at the 9:15AM Service. The Chancel Choir is open to anyone interested – no audition is necessary.

Please contact me for more information or questions.

david@newlifeforall.church

Soli Deo Gloria!

David Bellows

Director of Music Ministries

The Music for Sunday – July 2, 2023 – 10:00AM

One Combined Service (Life Center)

Prelude: An American Sonata – C. Callahan

Prelude: Sostenuto

Canticle: Meditative

Finale: Joyful

Sandy Forbes, Flute & David Bellows, Organ

Opening Hymn: 283 Mine Eyes Have Seen The Glory

Offertory Anthem: America – M. McDonald

Chancel Choir & David Bellows, Director

Doxology 682

Special Music: Christ Is Enough, Praise Band & Daniel Candia

Closing Song: Nothing But The Blood, Praise Band & Daniel Candia

Postlude: Variations on ‘America’ – C. Ives

A Word from Worship

Greetings New Life Church family --

Happy holiday weekend! Don't forget our all-church picnic on Sunday, July 2nd. There is one combined worship service in the Life Center building at 10am. Everyone is welcome so invite your friends, family and neighbors. There will be a picnic lunch following worship and fun and games for the children. Don't forget the opportunity to get your favorite staff wet in the dunk tank! It will be a great time of faith and fellowship.

I have heard several comments this past week regarding stress and feelings of frustration that things seemed to feel more overwhelming. The prayer request list grows longer all the time with higher numbers of loved ones struggling with cancer, heart disease, accidents etc. I'm not sure that statement is fact, but it sure seems like it. I want to hope that the messages we've been receiving have made us much more aware of the power of prayer. I hear testimony almost every week in Prayer group of people having moments of frustration when problems arise - but then they turn quickly to give the situation to God. I am reminded over and over of times in my life when God breaks through my hopelessness when I try to figure out new roadblocks facing me when scripture and prayer changes everything. These wondrous events are like God breaking through to my awareness like a bright light. When reading through scripture we're reminded that the,"wonders" of the God of yesterday, is the same God of today who gives me strength, patience and endurance to get through any storm. It's natural to feel a sense of hopelessness when facing an impossible situation. Long ago I read something that has stayed with me:

* Look around - and be distressed.

* Look within - and be depressed.

* Look to Jesus - and be at rest.

It's so much easier to look to Jesus and focus on Him when facing situations. Psalm 55:22 says "Cast your cares on the Lord and He will sustain you."

Enjoy your holiday! See you on July 2nd for 10am worship and picnic!

I'm praying for you!

Rosie Young

Worship Coordinator

rosie@newlifeforall.church

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.

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