Hey New Life!
As we get closer to 2012, we get closer to something I have been anticipating for several months now!
I want to challenge everyone that makes New Life Community Church their home church to be there on the first Sunday of the New Year – January 1, 2012!!
I will be revealing our 2012 theme and focus for the year and preparing everyone for a 21 day prayer and fasting time that begins the following Sunday, January 8th and ends on January 29th – which is the next 3 block outreach event that we are planning and the first of 5 that are all on the 5th Sundays in 2012.
To get you ready, I encourage you to go to this link below and read a great article that centers on the outreach that we and God’s House have on the neighbors right around our churches.
http://www.iwusojourn.com/2011/11/16/three-blocks-at-a-time/?fb_comment_id=fbc_5006999581794_839442_5007004497794
God is stirring the call in all of our lives to saturate the 3 block radius with God’s love and at the same time I know we will be exposed to God’s amazing love for all people and in turn take this compassion for others everywhere we go!!
Start planning now to be there January 1, 2012 and what you will fast starting January 8th!! As we give God our first month of the year we will see Him bless our church, our lives and those we come in contact with throughout the rest of the year!
In Him,
David Grieve
Saturday, November 19, 2011
Friday, November 4, 2011
Our Dream
I sent this to the leaders of New Life Community Church today, but this is also something I believe others can grasp the heart of for where ever they may live!!
Here is a link to the Catalyst Leadership online magazine.
There are two things I want you to take about 5 minutes to do…read one article and watch one video from this magazine.
http://christianitytoday.imirus.com/Mpowered/book/vcat11/i7/p2
The article is called “the false gospel of impact” and it is an interview with Phil Vischer – the creator of Veggie Tales
The video is of Christine Caine called “passion deficiency”
I believe both come together to get us to think about what is our dream. At the end of the interview Phil says this, “God is now my dream, my deep desire not what I can do for Him.”
As we look at the dream of impacting our 3 Block Radius with an outpouring of love, let us not forget that the real dream is to be Loving God with everything we have!! If we are loving God with everything we have the by product will be Loving People no matter what, or more specifically Loving our 3 Block Radius no matter what! God has a love for all people and our love for Him will birth a love for all people inside of us!
Let me say the words of Isaiah found in his writings (Isaiah 62:1)
Because I love Zion,
I will not keep still.
Because my heart yearns for Jerusalem,
I cannot remain silent.
I will not stop praying for her
until her righteousness shines like the dawn,
and her salvation blazes like a burning torch.
I feel this same passion for our 3 Block Radius that Isaiah had for Jerusalem. Our 3 Block Radius is our Jerusalem for New Life Community Church. Isaiah did not pray his prayers non-stop alone. Instead he gathered others to join him, until God had to act!
Isaiah 62:6-7
O Jerusalem, I have posted watchmen on your walls;
they will pray day and night, continually.
Take no rest, all you who pray to the Lord.
7 Give the Lord no rest until he completes his work,
until he makes Jerusalem the pride of the earth.
I am posting you, leaders, as watchman on the walls! “Take no rest” and pray…pray until He finishes His work in our 3 Block Radius!
Again that article and that video will help us all put our focus on what matters most to God – the saving of souls!
I believe in you!
No matter where you live - what matters most to God stays the same! There are souls waiting for you to share God's love with them!
Here is a link to the Catalyst Leadership online magazine.
There are two things I want you to take about 5 minutes to do…read one article and watch one video from this magazine.
http://christianitytoday.imirus.com/Mpowered/book/vcat11/i7/p2
The article is called “the false gospel of impact” and it is an interview with Phil Vischer – the creator of Veggie Tales
The video is of Christine Caine called “passion deficiency”
I believe both come together to get us to think about what is our dream. At the end of the interview Phil says this, “God is now my dream, my deep desire not what I can do for Him.”
As we look at the dream of impacting our 3 Block Radius with an outpouring of love, let us not forget that the real dream is to be Loving God with everything we have!! If we are loving God with everything we have the by product will be Loving People no matter what, or more specifically Loving our 3 Block Radius no matter what! God has a love for all people and our love for Him will birth a love for all people inside of us!
Let me say the words of Isaiah found in his writings (Isaiah 62:1)
Because I love Zion,
I will not keep still.
Because my heart yearns for Jerusalem,
I cannot remain silent.
I will not stop praying for her
until her righteousness shines like the dawn,
and her salvation blazes like a burning torch.
I feel this same passion for our 3 Block Radius that Isaiah had for Jerusalem. Our 3 Block Radius is our Jerusalem for New Life Community Church. Isaiah did not pray his prayers non-stop alone. Instead he gathered others to join him, until God had to act!
Isaiah 62:6-7
O Jerusalem, I have posted watchmen on your walls;
they will pray day and night, continually.
Take no rest, all you who pray to the Lord.
7 Give the Lord no rest until he completes his work,
until he makes Jerusalem the pride of the earth.
I am posting you, leaders, as watchman on the walls! “Take no rest” and pray…pray until He finishes His work in our 3 Block Radius!
Again that article and that video will help us all put our focus on what matters most to God – the saving of souls!
I believe in you!
No matter where you live - what matters most to God stays the same! There are souls waiting for you to share God's love with them!
Tuesday, November 1, 2011
Deliver 2011
New Life Family,
I am so very proud of all of you! Because of your generosity of Giving to fill Wal-Mart bags with household items, Going to pass them out to our neighbors, and Praying for those that you met this past Sunday during “Deliver 2011” we have stepped out into our 3 Block Radius around the church and begun to re-introduce our community to Jesus! Life change happens best out on the streets of life!
There were countless stories of encounters with people that day as we shared with one another after we had distributed the bags. If you were unable to go, just ask someone who did what took place that day! There are things that have transpired even since Sunday…
- We have had our neighbors across the street say, “thank you.”
- We have already received a thank you card from one neighbor on 10th Street who was not home at the time of our deliveries and she wanted to express her gratitude.
- We also had a young man come into the church today and we were able to meet an additional need of his and pray for his children and family!
Because of your commitment to Give, Go, and Pray we had almost 180 bags passed out to New Life’s community! Now comes the time to continue! To continue to re-introduce Jesus to our 3 block radius and our own neighbors, where ever we live!
You will hear more in the days ahead, but let me finish by preparing you for our 2012 theme, simply stated as “3 Blocks.”
2011 was themed – “Year 51” and that harvest of children and becoming the best at taking care of kids on the Westside of Marion has broken through in many ways for us at New Life.
Now by the end of 2012, our 3 Block Radius of New Life is going to be so saturated by the love of Jesus through our Giving, Going and Praying that they will have no doubt how we feel about them and they will turn to us in their needs instead of us trying to figure out what there needs are.
Why?
Because you and I will have developed such intimate, personal contact with them that there will be no way to avoid the truth that God loves them and cares about every detail of their lives!!
Are you ready?
If you want to be a part of the Creative Team for the 5th Sunday Outreaches into our 3 Block Radius let me know asap so I can schedule an upcoming time to gather with you and get the brainstorming going for our next time of going, giving and praying on January 29, 2012!
By the way, you can go to the homes of those you met and prayed for before January 29th!
I am so very proud of all of you! Because of your generosity of Giving to fill Wal-Mart bags with household items, Going to pass them out to our neighbors, and Praying for those that you met this past Sunday during “Deliver 2011” we have stepped out into our 3 Block Radius around the church and begun to re-introduce our community to Jesus! Life change happens best out on the streets of life!
There were countless stories of encounters with people that day as we shared with one another after we had distributed the bags. If you were unable to go, just ask someone who did what took place that day! There are things that have transpired even since Sunday…
- We have had our neighbors across the street say, “thank you.”
- We have already received a thank you card from one neighbor on 10th Street who was not home at the time of our deliveries and she wanted to express her gratitude.
- We also had a young man come into the church today and we were able to meet an additional need of his and pray for his children and family!
Because of your commitment to Give, Go, and Pray we had almost 180 bags passed out to New Life’s community! Now comes the time to continue! To continue to re-introduce Jesus to our 3 block radius and our own neighbors, where ever we live!
You will hear more in the days ahead, but let me finish by preparing you for our 2012 theme, simply stated as “3 Blocks.”
2011 was themed – “Year 51” and that harvest of children and becoming the best at taking care of kids on the Westside of Marion has broken through in many ways for us at New Life.
Now by the end of 2012, our 3 Block Radius of New Life is going to be so saturated by the love of Jesus through our Giving, Going and Praying that they will have no doubt how we feel about them and they will turn to us in their needs instead of us trying to figure out what there needs are.
Why?
Because you and I will have developed such intimate, personal contact with them that there will be no way to avoid the truth that God loves them and cares about every detail of their lives!!
Are you ready?
If you want to be a part of the Creative Team for the 5th Sunday Outreaches into our 3 Block Radius let me know asap so I can schedule an upcoming time to gather with you and get the brainstorming going for our next time of going, giving and praying on January 29, 2012!
By the way, you can go to the homes of those you met and prayed for before January 29th!
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