Sunday School: 9:30 AM
Worship Service: 10:30 AM
Shepherding Groups, Wednesdays
~Women’s Bible Study: Thursdays, 10:00 AM
Men’s Saturday Breakfast: 7:00 AM
Jail Visits: Saturday 9:00 – 11:00 AM (postponed)
This past week the WMCAH board members met with the City of Show Low personnel in their various capacities to discover what will be required in the layout and construction of our site. They set the bar high, perhaps too high. Now, it's a matter of complying with requirements and formulating a plan. Your prayers are appreciated, and especially pray for the needed finances to complete the project.
Your church leadership is working on a "Master Plan" for the further development of our church ministry. Key to the plan is a new, larger chapel to be added to the north end of our building. The current chapel would become a fellowship hall and classrooms.
What do you think?
We're praying 24/7 for the upcoming election that it will proceed and be completed in a normal fashion. We're praying that God's perfect will be done, and that His kingdom principles will be upheld; and furthermore, that God will protect the process from the devil's deceptions and interference.
This is New Hope Christian Fellowship. We’re a non-denominational body of believers who focus on Jesus, and what Jesus taught. May the Lord bless you here today.
--Pastor Tom
Pulpit Greeter: Fred Parry
"If possible, so far as it depends on you, be at peace with all men" (Rom.12.18).
Pastor Tom Brown
Bob Dylan wrote the song lyrics in 1964, "The times they are a-changing." And yes, they were then, and they are now. Dylan, along with other Americans, had just experienced the assassination of President Kennedy, and his world was being turned up-side-down with the Vietnam war, student rebellions and the space race.
Today, us seniors are trying to hold on to what we've known as normal, while all around us, things are abnormal. In fact, our younger generations are growing complacent with the fact that things will never be the same again.
Yet, while humanity is being jerked around in a circus of change, our planet, life on our planet, and even the universe itself, continues in much the same way as from the beginning. Solomon writes, "Whatever is, has been long ago, and whatever is going to be has been before; God brings to pass again what was in the distant past and disappeared" (Eccles.3.15, LB).
God's creation is enduring. Atoms are the same; the elements keep their places on the periodic table, and the earth continues to rotate and orbit our sun with uncanny precision. So, what was Dylan seeing?
Change is a human malady, and human life on planet earth is about as consistent as soup sandwiches.
When God says, "I do something new...," He's referring to the human state. He's talking about restoring the changeless and holy conditions of Paradise. "Behold, I am making all things new," and especially men, who will be "new creatures in Christ" (Rev. 21.5; 2 Cor.5.17).
Fret not now, believer; God's got it.
Pastor Tom
Attendance: 62
Offering: $1,132.00
Women’s Bible Study: $30.00
Thank you for your faithful support
