Women’s Bible Study: Thursday 10:00 AM
Men’s Breakfast: Saturday 7:00 AM
Shepherding groups: Wednesday nights
Church Board Meeting on Tuesday, Sept. 6th at our Church,
Thanks church for affirming our church addition plans. Your prayers and support are greatly appreciated.
Much thanks to those wo have been helping with the construction.
We are currently building a shed in the back to house a nursery and youth room. When it is completed we will open the back wall of our chapel into the old nursery and the commons to accommodate more seating. Plans have been submitted to Timber Mesa Fire Department and NavCo for our addition to be added to south end of our building. Please consider helping. Talk to Rick Koberna.
Date: Saturday, September 10, 2022
Time: 10 am to 2pm
At: New Hope Christian Fellowship Church
Special Speaker: Sunny Englebeck
There will be lots of food Games and Crafts Spiritual Growth, Fellowship and Tons of Fun
If you have not signed up please contact Darla Gerner
You can sign up to help with the NHCF Ministry on several clip-boards: Greeters, Refreshments, Bible Studies, etc..
You will find these clipboards on table in the entry way.
Labor
There's labor and there's honest labor. The difference? One is drudgery work that one hates, and the other is work done with moral integrity. Honest labor views work as a privilege and something to rejoice in with thanksgiving.
Unfortunately, the current generation sees work as a punishment. So, they prefer not to work.
What happened? Why has work become a pariah now? Well, any believing Christian knows why. Our culture has taken God out of the equation, and that follows for every other human effort that's failing at the moment.
The Bible says, "Whatever you do in word and deed, do all in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks through Him to God the Father" (Col.3.17). This is the gold standard for human behavior, but the godless, pagan culture doesn't get it. They especially don't get "giving thanks."
In a conversation with a city road foreman recently he told me that he can't get workers, and if he does get an interested person, they want high pay or no deal. That's why we have people flipping hamburgers for $14 an hour.
I'm not just being critical here; I'm being seriously concerned. We've got a "thankless" and "ungrateful" culture right now, who don't want to work, but are more than willing to live off of others' labor, and the present government is not helping the situation.
The Bible also says, "In everything give thanks; for this is God's will for you in Christ Jesus" (1 Thess.5.18). The believer understands that being in Christ means that we have "the mind (attitude) of Christ." "Who for the joy set before Him endured the cross, despising the shame, and has sat down at the right hand of the throne of God...so that you may not grow weary and lose heart" (Heb.12.2,3).
Honest labor is a privilege. It's a privilege as God's in it with us that we may "prove what the will of God is, that which is good and acceptable and perfect" (Rom.12.2).
Pastor Tom
Pastor Tom Brown
Pastor Tom Brown
Pastor Jim Powell, Assoc. Pastor/Worship leader Elder Terry Lowry & Elder Lee Copeland
DEACONS & STAFF
Bill Bujnowski, Lanny Dameron, Chris Lewis, Roger Brown, Lee Larson and Matt Greenwood
Lora Slater – Secretary ♥
John Greer – Media
Karen Brown & Candy Greenwood – Bookkeeping
Tami Powell – Nursery/Kitchen
Jenny Brundage – Custodian
Cathy Parry– Prayer
