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Building Use Policy

Check out their summer camp promo to get a glimpse of many of the activities we will have access to!

Here is the link to check out the accomodations, activites, etc.: http://www.cranhillranch.com/GroupRetreats/Retreats-by-Design.php#accomodations
Note that we will potentially be getting the Retreat Center and the campsites near there, not the other lodging options.

March 24th: Israel Houghton & New Breed

7 PM at Valley Family Church

Cost: $25

Click here for more info and to purchase tickets!

Israel Houghton is an internationally recognized worship leader, recording artist, songwriter, and producer. He has been in full time worship ministry since 1989. Israel and his wife, Meleasa, founded New Breed Ministries in 1995. Comprised of world class musicians and singers who are all ministers in their respective churches. They travel extensively with a message that crosses cultural, generational, and denominational boundaries. (For full bio visit here.)

May 1st: Kari Jobe Worship Night

6 PM at Radiant Church

Cost: $10 until April 15th, then $15

Click here for more info and to purchase tickets!

Kari Jobe is very well known for writing the powerful “Revelation Song.” She is the worship pastor at Gateway Church in Southlake Texas, and she is passionate about writing “songs that someone could speak to the Lord when they can’t find the words.” (For full bio visit here.)



August 3rd – 5th: Jesus Culture Awakening Conference

Featuring: Jesus Culture, Hillsong UNITED, Bill Johnson and more!

For more information click here!

To register, click here! (This is selling out very fast, so buy as soon as you can!)

Cost: Varies

Letter from Banning Liebscher (Jesus Culture Director):

Jesus Culture is calling youth and young adults from around the Nation to gather at Allstate Arena in Chicago, August 3-5, 2011! We are inviting revivalists from all 50 States of America to converge in ONE place at ONE time – Chicago! This will be Jesus Culture’s first arena gathering and the only conference outside of Redding for 2011. I want to encourage everyone to come, for I believe God is going to release an authority on revivalists that will begin an Awakening in their regions and see something catalytic take place in our nation.

The speakers at Jesus Culture Awakening will include: Reinhard Bonnke, Bill Johnson, Lou Engle, Cindy Jacobs, Sean Smith, myself and others. The Jesus Culture Band with Kim and Chris will be leading worship as well as Jake Hamilton, and Hillsong UNITED!

I believe God is going to release an awakening on a new breed of healing revivalists who will be anointed, activated and sent back into their campuses and cities. And we will see an uncontainable fire once again come out of Chicago only this time it will ‘ignite a generation that will change the world. (For more info, visit here.)

June 23rd-25th: FLAME OF LOVE “A City Ignited”

Featuring: John and Carol Arnott, Ed Piorek, Danny Silk
and worship with Jason Upton, Chris DuPré and Dave Fife

UIC Forum, Chicago

PRICES

Individual: $85 until 6/1, then $100

Married Couple:  $130 until 6/1 $155

Youth  $10

For more information and to register, visit http://www.greaterchicagochurch.com/flameoflove/

Don’t think forgiveness is a big issue with God? Then you need to read FireDance by Joseph Padgal. The following editorial comment is from Amazon.com.

FireDance is an engaging testament to the impact, healing, and redemption available to those who forgive, even when it comes to the sensitive issues of sexual abuse. In his first novel, Joseph Padgal, intuitively weaves the story with a compelling tapestry of threads from family generational issues, forgiveness, sexual abuse and the redemptive love of God. Written to offer hope and achievable steps toward healing, Padgal provides a clear understanding of how important forgiveness is and how essential it is in the healing process.

You can purchase his book on www.amazon.com and www.barnesandnoble.com. Also, when you get the book and read it, please go back to the website you bought it on and rate the book. If you would like a copy from the author himself just ask Bill Padgham–he will personally introduce you!

For another amazing New Day author, check out Stephanie Jones, who wrote the amazing book “The Upside Down Kingdom.” Check it out on Amazon.com!

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Pastor Cameron is doing his series “Prayer” every Sunday in  September, and he has recommended these books that he will be referencing and that helped inspire these messages.

The first is “The Folly of Prayer” by Matt Woodly, and this book is available for purchase in the foyer at New Day for $14.

The second is “The Divine Hours: Prayers for Autumn and Wintertime” by Phyllis Tickle.

You can view the daily reading from a church in Ann Arbor for free here: http://annarborvineyard.org/tdh/tdh.cfm. Or, you can purchase this book online at ChristianBook.com for $14.99 or Amazon.com for $13.57.

Other books recommended during the series:

Prayer: Finding the Heart’s True Home, by Richard Foster. Buy it on Amazon for $16.31:

Too Busy Not To Pray, by Bill Hybels. Buy it on Amazon for $10.20:

Don’t miss out on attending for this series, it is going to be fantastic!

(photo credit Jo Anna Kelly)

• In the center front is Pastor Ken and Lisa Norberg.  Pastor Ken founded New Day Community Church (Then Redemption Center, and later Redemption Christian Assembly [RCA]) in Spring 1981.
• Behind him on the left is Pastor Cameron Wright and his wife, Kathie. They began attending in Fall of 1981.  Pastor Cameron is the current pastor of New Day, MI, and was assistant pastor under Pastor Ken before he became senior pastor in 1999.
• Next to them on the right is Pastor Dennis and Kaku Sager.  Pastor Dennis attended RCA before marrying Kaku and starting our sister church, Hope International Fellowship, in Japan in 1993.
• Behind them is Pastor Scott and Alicia Nelson.  They pastor our sister church, New City Church, in Kalamazoo.
• Behind Pastor Cameron and Kathie is Pastors Ron and Kim Cipcic.  They were in leadership under Pastor Cameron at New Day until being sent out as a church plant to start Grand River Church in Grand Rapids, MI in June, 2003.
• Next to them is Pastors Scott and Stephanie Jones.  They served as assistant pastors at New Day until God sent them to plant New Day Community Church in Summerville, SC in 2008.
• It is interesting to note that by the early ’90s, Ken, Cameron, Scott, Scott, Dennis, Ron and many of their now wives were all friends and attending RCA.

It has been an honor to see how God has used New Day to send out people to bless new communities not just across Michigan, or the U.S., but the whole world. We look forward to seeing Christ’s love continue to spread through these great leaders and each and every member of these churches!

“I do all this to spread the Good News, and in doing so I enjoy its blessings.” 1 Corinthians 9:23

“Finally, dear brothers and sisters, I ask you to pray for us. Pray first that the Lord’s message will spread rapidly and be honored wherever it goes, just as when it came to you.” 2 Thessalonians 3:1

Mark & Amber Morris, members of New Day, put together this fantastic podcast of all things New Day!

Click here to Listen!

Check out the facebook page here!

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Building Use form:

http://tinyurl.com/yeqsxl2

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.