Archive for November, 2009
Added November 25, 2009 at 2:23 pm · Filed under What's Happening At New Day
Sunday, November 29th
Seth Gerber will be sharing a message with us! Please welcome him, and continue to pray for Pastor Cameron and the mission team as they minister in Japan!! Next Sunday, December 6th, Katie Duke will perform a special dance.
New Day Christmas Party!
Don’t forget, the Christmas party is Saturday, December 12th at 6:00 p.m!!! Thanks to your generous spirit of giving, ALL of the children’s names have been chosen to receive a gift! Please remember to have your gift wrapped and returned to the church by December 6th, with the child’s photo card you received taped to the bottom. Gifts may be given anonymously or you may put your name on the tag. Please keep the cost of the gift under $15 per child. Thank you so much!!!
Welcome New Members!
Please welcome Chrissy Mitchell, Angie, Tom and Colin Moore,
Diane Stephens, and Al Thompson! Take a moment to get to know these new family members, and read their profiles on the bulletin board next to the drinking fountain.
Building Use Policy
If you will be using the building for any reason, you MUST fill out a “Request for Building Use” form, found at the Connection Counter. Check the church calendar online at http://www.newdaycommunity.org/calendar/ to be sure your event is listed. The form may also be found on the New Day website in the “Resources” section.
A Thank You from Cameron Wright
WOW!!!! Words cannot express how deeply you have blessed me and my family with the generous gift of new windows for our home. I had been praying for a long time about this need, but had not shared it specifically with anyone. You all are such a generous, giving Church, I am honored and humbled to serve as your pastor. This gift seems to have impacted me far more than you may ever know. After serving as pastor for 20 years, and as senior pastor of New Day for 10 years, I was in a season of feeling dry and empty. Throughout this year I have prioritized getting filled up spiritually and this has helped a lot. But your gift was the extra push I needed to be lifted up to a new level. It really has blessed me, not only in the natural but also in my spirit. Thank you 6000 times over!!!
Thank You, Children!!
Thanks to the generous gifts of the Kid’s Church and RUSH kids, we have been able to support a child in Haiti through Walt and Darlene Burger’s ministry. To date, we have raised over $380 towards the support of Chrislin, our Haitian child. Thank you for helping your children participate so meaningfully in the Year of Giving!!
Alternatives Pregnancy Care Center
has immediate need for infant and toddler clothing, pajamas, and outerwear, as well as diapers in all sizes. Call Kathy Bowman at 345-1740 ext 18 for more information
Added November 19, 2009 at 2:09 pm · Filed under What's Happening At New Day
Adam Shockley Speaking!
Pastor Cameron is in Japan this week, and in his place our very own Adam Shockley is sharing a message with us on Sunday, November 19th. Please welcome Adam, and continue to keep the Japan Mission team in your prayers!
A Thank You from Cameron Wright
WOW!!!! Words cannot express how deeply you have blessed me and my family with the generous gift of new windows for our home. I had been praying for a long time about this need, but had not shared it specifically with anyone. You all are such a generous, giving Church, I am honored and humbled to serve as your pastor. This gift seems to have impacted me far more than you may ever know. After serving as pastor for 20 years, and as senior pastor of New Day for 10 years, I was in a season of feeling dry and empty. Throughout this year I have prioritized getting filled up spiritually and this has helped a lot. But your gift was the extra push I needed to be lifted up to a new level. It really has blessed me, not only in the natural but also in my spirit. Thank you 6000 times over!!!
Bless the New Day Kids!!
Another surprise for our Year-of-Giving is an opportunity for you to bless a New Day child! Over the next 2 weeks you can choose the name of a child—Nursery age through RUSH—and bless them with a small gift at the Christmas Party. Names are going fast—see Lori Roy after service to sign up!
Thank You, Children!!
Thanks to the generous gifts of the Kid’s Church and RUSH kids, we have been able to support a child in Haiti through Walt and Darlene Burger’s ministry. To date, we have raised over $380 towards the support of Chrislin, our Haitian child. Thank you for helping your children participate so meaningfully in the Year of Giving!!
Welcome New Members!
Please welcome Chrissy Mitchell, Angie, Tom and Colin Moore,
Diane Stephens, and Al Thompson! Take a moment to get to know these new family members, and read their profiles on the bulletin board next to the drinking fountain.
Building Use Policy
If you will be using the building for any reason, you MUST fill out a “Request for Building Use” form, found at the Connection Counter. Check the church calendar online at http://www.newdaycommunity.org/calendar/ to be sure your event is listed; if it is not, you do not have permission. The form may also be found on the New Day website in the “Resources” section.
Alternatives Pregnancy Care Center
has immediate need for the following:
Diapers: Size 3,4,5 & Pull-ups
Girls Clothing: Infant-3T
Coats/Snowsuits: Infant-3T
Hats/Gloves/Mittens
Blanket Sleepers: Infant-3T
Boots. Call Kathy Bowman at 345-1740 ext 18 for more information.
Added November 19, 2009 at 1:22 pm · Filed under Resources
We welcome the use of our Church building for activities that are a ministry or outreach of New Day. Church members may request to use the building for other activities such as a wedding reception if it does not conflict with a scheduled ministry activity. Please print, carefully read, and fill out the “Request for Building Use” form (link below) to apply for use of the building and to get your event on the New Day calendar.
Building Use form:
Added November 12, 2009 at 5:29 pm · Filed under News
We are taking a package of goodies to bless the Sager family (Pastors of Hope International Fellowship) in Japan in just 9 days! That means this sunday is your last change to buy some of the following items they still need! These are items that they love that they cannot easily purchase in Japan. Let’s continue the Year of Giving and bless these awesome people!
Their Wish List:
- Nestle Toll House semi-sweet chocolate chips and any mint chocolate chips you might be able to find.
- Dental floss waxed
- Hershey’s cocoa -2 cans
- Irish cream coffee
- Starbucks Coffee
- Keebler Grasshopper cookies
- Pop tarts (Frosted Strawbery, Frosted Blueberry, Frosted chocolate fudge, and frosted raspberry)
- Right Guard Sport invisible solid – About 5 would hold us for a while.
- Crisco shortening (3 or 5 cans if you have room)
- Jiffy Blueberry, raspberry, and apple cinnamon miffin mixes (one case each if possible)
- Aunt Jemima original Syrup 12 0z or Log cabin or Mrs. Butter Worth syrup (any of the three, but Mrs. Butter Worth is best!) 3 bottles, smaller plastic ones prefered.
- Ibuprofen Tablets USP 200 mg Pain Reliever, Fever reducer – Compare to Advil – 500 tablets – 4 bottles would be good
- Kraft Miracle whip Dressing – one or 2 bottles only
- 9V batteries for the church
- Sweet Baby Rays Barbecue sauce Hot & Spicy only
- Gatorage powder mix – any flavors but orange (lemon-lime is best!)
- Gobstoppers candy (jaw breakers) and Spree candy
These items are special for them and really bless them–lets see how many we can get with just one Sunday left!
Added November 12, 2009 at 2:37 pm · Filed under What's Happening At New Day
New Day is Multiplying!
New Day has officially begun two Sunday morning services! First Service begins at 9:30, Second at 11:15. Nursery and Kid’s Ministry are available during both services; Prayer and Prophetic ministries will follow each service. Join us in the Family Room (behind the sanctuary) for Intersection—a time of refreshments and fellowship between services!
Please Take Coats Home
This is the week to take things home! Thank you all for so generously sharing your cold weather items with those who need them. The tables are coming down, so please take any leftover items, if there is anyone you know who needs it, and take what is yours home. Anything left after Sunday the 15th will be donated to charity.
Christmas Party—Sign up NOW!
If you haven’t signed up yet for the New Day Christmas Party, Sunday the 15th will be your last opportunity! Sign your family up, let us know about your talent, and plan what food you will sharing with us. RSVP forms are available at the Connection Counter.
Bless the New Day Kids!!
Another surprise being planned for our Year-of-Giving is an opportunity for you to bless a New Day child! Over the next 2 weeks you can choose the name of a child—Nursery age through RUSH—and bless them with a small gift at the Christmas Party. Sign ups begin next week—see Lori Roy for more details.
Japan Team Send-off
Sunday November 15th is the day we are sending off the Japan Mission team. Please remember to keep this group in your prayers as they travel to Japan and minister to our sister church there.
Welcome New Members!
Please welcome Chrissy Mitchell, Angie, Tom and Colin Moore,
Diane Stephens, and Al Thompson! Take a moment to get to know these new family members, and read their profiles on the bulletin board next to the drinking fountain.
Missing Something?
Stray dishes are accumulating in the Kitchen, and they would like to find their way home! Please check the counters and cupboards for lost dish items.
Building Use Policy
If you will be using the building for any reason, you MUST fill out a “Request for Building Use” form, found at the Connection Counter. Check the church calendar online at http://www.newdaycommunity.org/calendar/ to be sure your event is listed; if it is not, you do not have permission.
Added November 6, 2009 at 4:32 pm · Filed under Resources
Is Living Together Really A Big Deal?
By Ed Gungor, From http://www.relevantmagazine.com/life/relationship/features/18873-is-living-together-really-that-big-of-a-deal
We Say Yes. Here’s Why.
Everyone wants to love and to be loved—they are the echoes that still reverberate in us from the Creator. But for whatever reason, it seems like it is getting more and more difficult
to find and keep love. Some think it’s because we hardly talk anymore. With the advent of texting, twittering and Facebooking, it seems we’ve lost the art of holding in-depth, substantive conversations essential for long-term, loving relationships. Instead we have become masters of the pithy, witty, short blurb—the communication of a throwaway world. We throw away everything in our culture—even the things that should never be thrown away, things that are designed to last for a lifetime—like marriages.
Most Christ-followers I know don’t want to buy into the friends-with-benefits casualness about sex. They still believe that the biblical prohibition for fornication (sex outside of marriage) is valid on some level. But they are also afraid of getting married.
And rightly so.
In a culture of disposable love, it seems perfectly natural to try to find ways to beat the odds and make sure you are picking the right person you plan to spend the rest of your life with. Is experimenting to see if you are compatible by living together for a couple of years really such a bad idea? When we buy new cars, we always test-drive them. It certainly seems reasonable to want to take a relationship on a “test-drive.” It’s called cohabitation.
The Test-Drive
Most of us know people who are in love, plan to marry and currently live together. It’s sort of the new premarital counseling program. I visited a church out West that had a “pre-marriage” ceremony for a couple living together. No license. No wedding dress. Just a prayer of blessing to hold them over until the couple walked down the aisle—a kind of marital “appetizer,” I guess. I asked the pastor why they did it. He said, “The couple believes they are married in the eyes of the Lord, and we just wanted them to feel affirmation in our community.”
What did I think about it? I was bummed about it. I actually believe that marriage needs to be public and people need to vow into it in front of those who matter to them—it’s not just a private matter in front of the Lord. Truth is, those who declare they are married “in God’s eyes” seem to reframe their claim when they break up with their live-in partner. Then they claim they were never “really married.” This makes me very dubious about the “married in the eyes of the Lord” doctrine.
The Reason We Don’t Want to Admit
And we have to be honest about the sex here. We live in a sex-crazed culture. And we live in a culture that has a difficult time with communication. This combo platter makes sex the Grand Central Station of most couples who claim to be in love. Sex is a power that seems to “weld” two souls together as one. When a couple engages in physical love, they go out of themselves in a trajectory of ecstasy—to a place where they are no longer in control of themselves. In this act, a couple becomes completely vulnerable, open and yielded to each other. In this act of ecstasy, they lose themselves in each other in a way they would never dare to do in any other setting. And it culminates in an experience that the Bible says is “as strong as death” (Song of Songs 8:6). Theologians have said the sexual act is a kind of little death—it is that powerful. So how could something that feels so right be wrong?
It is precisely the power inherent in sexuality that explains the why behind the many prohibitions given to us about sex in the Bible. Sex must to be kept in the context of marriage in order to be safe—in order for its power to be used to build and not destroy. Sex in the wrong context confuses our souls. God created sex to be a rich, holy, cleansing, love-enriching act that adds joy and fun to life, if it is corralled within the bonds of life-long matrimony. It will destroy when it is not. Paul wrote: “God wants you to be holy, so you should keep clear of all sexual sin. Then each of you will control your body and live in holiness and honor—not in lustful passion as the pagans do, in their ignorance of God and his ways” (1 Thessalonians 4:3-5).
If a Christian couple loves each other enough to jump in the hay, I think they should get married in the eyes of God and the rest of us. Marriage is not a private sacrament; it impacts the whole community of faith. It’s the right thing to do, and disciples do the right thing. They don’t just live on love—emotions, feelings and hormones—they live on principles, beliefs and disciplines that develop character. Pagans (and children) only live for themselves—they live for the “now” and feelings alone.
The best way to prepare for a lifelong commitment is not living together; it’s learning how to deal with relational conflict. But appropriately dealing with conflict and securing the wonderful intimacy that accompanies its resolve takes a huge amount of relational intelligence that is only developed through face-to-face communication. Leaning too heavily on technology (like texting or cell phones) to communicate and resolve conflict is like two people on separate mountaintops trying to use smoke signals to make their points—the modality itself is too limiting to be effective. I think this is one of the main reasons half of those getting married in America end in divorce—no one knows how to engage in the kind of face-to-face fair fighting that resolves conflict. If you want a chance at an intimate, lifelong relationship, get counseling together, not an apartment.
Added November 5, 2009 at 2:46 pm · Filed under What's Happening At New Day
New Day is Multiplying!
New Day has officially begun two Sunday morning services! First Service begins at 9:30, Second at 11:15. Nursery and Kid’s Ministry are available during both services; Prayer and Prophetic ministries will follow each service. Join us in the Family Room (behind the sanctuary) for Intersection—a time of refreshments and fellowship between services!
Kid’s Coat Swap—FINAL WEEK!!
Lots of great winter items have been brought in by families that want to bless YOUR family! Please check out the wonderful selection of boys’ and girls’ coats, boots, and more. Shop during Intersection or after second service and take whatever you need! Contact Carrie Miller if you have questions.
The Japan Team
Is asking for donations to help bring a little piece of America to Dennis and Kaku Sager. A list is available at the back of the sanctuary of items that are not available in Japan that would really bless them. Please place items in the bin no later than November 15th.
Missing Something?
Stray dishes are accumulating in the Kitchen, and they would like to find their way home! Please check the counters and cupboards for lost dish items.
Christmas Party—A Time of Giving!
As the weather is turning colder and October is behind us, it’s time to start getting excited about the New Day Christmas Party! This years event will include a potluck dinner, giving you an opportunity to share your favorite family holiday recipes, and a talent show so you can share your God-given talents!! Mark your calendars for 6:00 December 12th, and sign up by November 15th. Check the bulletin insert for more info.
Building Use Policy
If you will be using the building for any reason, you MUST fill out a “Request for Building Use” form, found at the Connection Counter. Check the church calendar online at Http://www.newdaycommunity.org/calendar/ to be sure your event is listed; if it is not, you do not have permission.
Angel Food Orders
Sunday, November 8th is the last day to order Angel Food packages for November. Orders will be taken during Intersection and from 12:30 to 1:00. Pick up orders on Saturday November 21st between 10:00 – 11:00.
New Day Online
Everything you need to stay updated on New Day’s events is at your
fingertips–from the Calendar to Schedules to the latest Messages.
Don’t miss out! Pop on over to www.newdaycommunity.org this week!