By Jacob Lee What happens when you take away the junior high students’ favorite retreat place and replace it with...
New Life Notes
The Meaning of Membership
By Joshua Earman Why become a member of the local church? A few implications to consider: Membership is how you...
Persecution
By Laurel Kehl 200 million. That’s the number of believers presently facing persecution. 60% of those are children. There are...
Connections: Key to Pastoral Care – A Session Update
By Ward Shope While some of us have well over a thousand “friends” on Facebook, researchers tell us that each...
Life Line
By Brad Currie James 1:14-15: “..but each person is tempted when they are dragged away by their own evil desire...
English as a Second Language Program
By Laurel Kehl “I am Sunni, they are Shia. We study English together. We say Allah together and we say...
Encountering More Than God
By Joshua Earman I experience joy when I come to New Life on Sundays. This stems not only from my...
Here I Raise My … What?
By Joyce Johnson A favorite hymn of mine is “Come Thou Fount of Many Blessings”. I like the line “Tune...
Beach Ministry to the Counselor
By Janae Robinson We serve a God who is ever in the process of reshaping our understanding of reality. I...
Adult School of Discipleship
By Jane Evans “Equipping, training, and mobilizing” for ministry to our community: These three verbs are used in our vision...
Food Cupboard
By Dyan Fischer Being raised in a frugal Dutch household, I learned to hate waste and to find ways to...
Session Retreat: Identifying New Life’s Compatibility Dimensions
By Ward Shope Dr. Neil Clark Warren, founder of eHarmony.com, tells us there are 29 dimensions of compatibility worth looking...