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By Chrissy Kind Many of you may know that our next Red Cross Blood Drive is this Friday, November 7, from 1:30 pm-6:30 pm. Of course, I’m hoping that anyone reading this will donate. There’s a link at the bottom to make it even easier. So why is this “blood” thing such a passion of...

By Jon Eide, Christian Worker assigned to Ukraine There are as many reasons people give to persecute Christians as there are countries where they are persecuted. In the conflicted region in eastern Ukraine, the current reason of choice for persecution is that Christianity is a Western religion. It should be kicked out along with the...

By Jacob Lee What happens when you take away the junior high students’ favorite retreat place and replace it with a completely new one? What happens when you take away the big, shaggy dog that everyone loves to pet on their way to the familiar chapel? What happens when you break the news to your...

By Joshua Earman Why become a member of the local church? A few implications to consider: Membership is how you officially become part of a Christ-centered community. When you become a member, you are entering into a new community formed by the life, death, and resurrection of Jesus. We enter a family of faith where...

By Laurel Kehl 200 million. That’s the number of believers presently facing persecution. 60% of those are children. There are stories coming out of Iraq of children who are refusing to give up their faith in Jesus when asked to do so by their ISIS captors. When they refuse…they are killed in front of their...

By Ward Shope While some of us have well over a thousand “friends” on Facebook, researchers tell us that each of us – even if we’re good at them – can handle only 150 meaningful relationships at one time. Most of us have far less. Since New Life has about 575 members and regular attenders,...

By Brad Currie James 1:14-15: “..but each person is tempted when they are dragged away by their own evil desire and enticed. Then, after desire has conceived, it gives birth to sin; and sin, when it is full-grown, gives birth to death.” At Life Line, we are a group of courageous men who are authentically...

By Laurel Kehl “I am Sunni, they are Shia. We study English together. We say Allah together and we say Jesus!” – Halima, ESL student Regardless of what Halima meant by her last sentence, I caught the sentiment, and it made my day! I don’t know about you, but I can get very overwhelmed as...

By Joshua Earman I experience joy when I come to New Life on Sundays. This stems not only from my encounter with Our Father, but also from my encounters with our church family. We focus, rightfully, on preparing to encounter God. But how much do we prepare to encounter others? Each week there are endless...

By Joyce Johnson A favorite hymn of mine is “Come Thou Fount of Many Blessings”. I like the line “Tune my heart to sing thy grace” because my heart needs a LOT of tuning! Another line in this hymn that I resonate with is at the start of verse two: “Here I raise my Ebenezer”....

By Janae Robinson We serve a God who is ever in the process of reshaping our understanding of reality. I boldly proclaim, “Blessed are those who get it all right,” but Jesus responds, “Blessed are the poor in spirit.” I shout from the rooftops, “Blessed are those who are holy and righteous and perfect,” but...

By Jane Evans “Equipping, training, and mobilizing” for ministry to our community: These three verbs are used in our vision statement to explain what each one of us in the congregation needs to do. Just as an athlete cannot hope to do her best; an auto mechanic cannot fix a car; a new parent cannot...