Sunday School: 9:30 AM
Worship Service: 10:30 AM
Shepherding Groups: Wednesday evenings
Women’s Bible Study: 10:00 AM
Men’s Saturday Breakfast: 7:00 AM TOMORROW, NHCF BOARD MEETING, 3:30 AT OUR CHURCH
You're invited to the Salvation Army's annual "Volunteer Appreciation Dinner," and fundraiser on Saturday, August 14th at the Show Low City Gym from 4 to 7 pm. Tickets are available for a suggested $10. See Lee and Kathy Copeland or Pastor Tom. There will be a silent auction, cake raffle, and great food.
Our security team is requesting any of our congregation that may have medical issues that we need to be aware of for emergency purposes please fill out a medical card to be put on file and kept confidential with our medical personnel. Thank you.
New Hope Christian Fellowship has prayer rooms on either side of the stage platform. If anyone has a need for prayer, we have couples in our congregation Ron and Rondi Vinnedge or Steve and Lora Slater or Bill and Andrea Bujnowski, who can pray with you and for you and your family.
Our women have been invited to attend FBC Pinetop's "Becoming a Woman of Simplicity" with Cynthia Heald on Saturday, August 14th from 8 am - 12:30 pm. Admission is $5. RSVP.
Easier said than done. Right? I'm sure that most who are encouraged to "just have faith" are in no state to exercise their faith. More probably, they are just hanging on to survive.
We are misdirected to believe that we generate faith by persevering under trial. No, faith is not gritting your teeth and bending your back to physically jerk your life circumstances around. Faith is both a gift, "for each has been given a measure of faith," and is an action to trust in God
(Rom.12.3c; 1 Cor.12.9; Prov.3.5,6; James 4.8).
To have faith in the NT sense, means that the believer is "continuing to believe." No matter what happens, we "walk in faith" (2 Cor.5.7). This means that our ambition is "to be pleasing to Him (Jesus)(5.9b).
It's not about us; it's about Him.
Our "life of faith" is really life in Him, "who for the joy set before Him endured the cross, despising the shame...enduring such hostility by sinners against Himself, so that you may not grow weary and lose heart" (Heb.12.2,3).
For "I have been crucified with Christ; and it is no longer I who live, but Christ lives in me; and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me, and delivered Himself up for me"
(Gal.2.20).
Pastor Tom
Pulpit Greeter: Phil Sanders
Pastor Tom Brown
CHURCH PASTORS AND ELDERS
Pastor Tom Brown
Pastor Jim Powell, Assoc. Pastor/Worship leader
Terry Lowry, Elder
DEACONS & STAFF
Bill Bujnowski, Lee Copeland, Lanny Dameron, Chris Lewis,
Roger Brown and Lee Larson
Lora Slater – Secretary
John Greer – Media,
Tammy Powell – Custodian, Nursery, and Kitchen
Loretta Stumbaugh – Prayer and Finances
