Sunday, December 5, 2021
Nursery care for children 0-2 is available all morning. Children’s Church is offered during the 11:00 service for kids age 3-5.
We have Sunday School Classes for All Ages!
We have classes for everyone age 3 - adult and nursery care for infants and toddlers. Classes will be held between the two worship services: 10:15-11:00am. Please plan to stick around if you attend the first service or come early if you attend the second service!
Adorned (women’s class) will be meeting in the Fellowship Hall
Answering the Call to a Man’s Heart (men’s class) will be meeting in Room 209 - near the office entrance
Discipleship 101 will be meeting in Room 201 - across from the nursery
We encourage you to fill out the online Friendship Register when you worship with us online or in person. You can share prayer requests, ask questions about our ministries, or just let us know that you’d like someone to contact you.
Deeper in Relationships
From June 2021 to August 2022 we will go deeper in relationships with people outside and inside the church body to intentionally share the grace and love of Jesus Christ with them and to grow together as his disciples.
The Gospels are full of stories of Jesus intentionally engaging those inside and outside the family of God. We want to know and obey the words of Jesus and we also want to emulate his lifestyle. We will be a people who are willing to get out of our comfort zone and make building relationships a higher priority in our everyday lives. We know that in our post-Christian culture it is a poor strategy to sit back and wait for people to attend our worship services. We challenge every person at New Life to meet, talk to, get to know, and go deeper with at least 1 person within our church family and 1 person outside our church family each month!
In the coming months you can anticipate sermons about reaching out to others with the love of Christ, evangelism training taking place in Life Groups, continued times of prayer, and an overall focus on building relationships with people in the six counties all around us.
Concert of Prayer
Join us for a time of prayer at the church building.
Sunday, December 12, 2021 | 6-7pm
We are updating our Church Family Directory.
Look for a card to fill out as you enter the auditorium the next couple of weeks -OR- you can fill out this form right now on your computer or phone. If you have a photo you’d like us to use, please send it to Rachel (rachels@newlifeefree.org).
Wednesday Gatherings for Kids & Youth are up and running for the school year. It’s never too late to join us!!!
Learn more and register on our website…
Awana Advent Resource for Families
Awana has a FREE family devotional series for Advent, “The Promise of a Savior. This resource will equip you to lead intentional time and conversation with your family around the promise of our savior, Jesus Christ. You’ll find weekly family discussion guides, printable activity sheets, and more.
Here are just a few of the features in the Advent devotional:
Parent Prep: This is a short video to help parents and guardians prepare to have a time of intentional discipleship with their children. Each video is less than two minutes long and will provide background on each week’s lesson.
Family Discussion: This guide will lead families through Scripture passages as they consider Jesus Christ, the promised Savior. Families will find suggestions for prayer, Scripture to memorize, and questions from the story to consider.
Family Fun Guide: This section will reinforce each week’s theme with extra opportunities for FUN! Families can use the optional activities in the family fun guide to intentionally draw their children into this season of watching and waiting for the coming of Christ! They will find coloring pages, printable flashcards, a music playlist, and more for kids of all ages to dig into the theme each week.
We invite you to join us this Christmas season as we gather to rejoice in the hope that Christ brings to our weary world. Friends, family, and neighbors are welcome!
Christmas Worship Services | December 19, 9:00am & 11:00am
Candlelight Christmas Eve | 5:00pm
Services will be livestreamed on our facebook page and our website: www.newlifeefree.org
CERTAINLY YOU HAVE HEARD ABOUT JESUS BEFORE, BUT WHO IS HE REALLY?
Monday nights in the month of January we are going discover who the true Jesus is. You will be fascinated to learn that Jesus broke the status quo of his day and time and was wildly different than most people’s expectations. Whether you have been in church a long time or have never been before, you are invited to join us beginning Monday, January 10 to DISCOVER THE REAL JESUS!
Discipleship Pathway
Are you ready to take the next step? Find out more about how to get involved in a Life Group or a D-Group.
Last Sunday during the worship service, we showed a short video of Jomi & Michaelle talking about their recent missions trip with ReachGlobal Crisis Response. Here is the short version if you missed it…
If you have a little more time, you may want to watch this longer version. It includes stories of their traveling adventures, how the prayer walks impacted the communities, and things they learned that will affect their lives long after the trip.
Missions Prayer Focus
Channel to Brazil for Christ-CBC
Praise report: Schools in Fortaleza were allowed to return to class on September 1st. It has been one year and 9 months since the closing due to Covid.
Prayer requests: We are asking for prayers for our school as they have not been in use during the pandemic. The schools have been empty and the facility is in need of repairs. We are asking volunteers and missions teams for maintenance projects and structural repairs. We are also asking prayers regarding fundraising for these projects.
Next fall, a group of Watertown area pastors will be leading a trip to Israel and you can go along!
We have brochures with more information at the Info Center in the foyer or you can use the button below to look at a digital version.
