By Jacob Lee What happens when you take away the junior high students’ favorite retreat place and replace it with...
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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...