New Life News
Worship Night – Feb 26
WORSHIP NIGHT New Life is hosting a Monday night worship event on February 26 at 7 PM. It will be an evening of praise to God and fellowship with him and one another. If there is a song you love and want to sing, you are welcome to submit your suggestion to the worship pastor, Janessa Gritter. Make this part of your week to raise the enthusiasm for exalting our great God.
Switchlife Prayer Night – Feb 1
SWITCHLIFE PRAYER NIGHT On Thursday, Feb 1, Switchlife youth is hosting a prayer night at the church from 7:30-9:00pm. Everyone is invited to come out and seek God together praying for eachother and as directed by the youth through topics that are important to them.
Join a Life Group
LIFE GROUPS is a small groups ministry at New Life that meet during the week to study the Bible together and care for one another through prayer and hospitality. If you’re not already part of a group, we’d love to get you connected! To get connected to a life group, please contact Pastor Shaun.
New Life Missions Give Guide
We are inviting you to serve our community with gifts to our mission partners & missionaries.
Here are seven opportunities for you to give:
- Hope for Korah They have a gift catalogue available online at hopeforkorah.org. You can give a child breakfast, become a sponsor and lots more.
- Joshua House There is a large box near the mail boxes where you can deposit items such as shoes (sizes 11, 12), winter coats (sizes L,XL, XXL), socks & underwear for the men overcoming addiction. Joshua also needs monthly financial donors to cover the costs of men in the program with no financial assistance.
- Brand New Life in Colombia is providing soccer uniforms for children at $30 per uniform. They also need funds for soccer balls, school supplies and a PA system. Donate through New Life and mark it for “Brand New Life”.
- Esperanza is planning summer camps for children but some children will need financial support. $50 – $100 can be given through New Life marked “Esperanza Kids Camp.”
- Youth Unlimited is a faith-based organization that meets vulnerable youth in Abbotsford. They need funds to support their ministry to youth. They are hoping to raise $52,000 by December 31. They also would be blessed by baked goods and hot chocolate.
- Archway Food Bank You can bring food or monetary donations to the church. Food can be placed in the large box near the mailboxes and monetary donations should be made out to New Life Church, but marked as “Archway Food Bank.”
- Donate to one of our missionaries: Fred in the Middle East, Eve Pohl working in Ethiopia, Fernando Trivino in Colombia or the Barnhoorn family who does translation work for Nigeria.
We know there are many ways to give and many things to which we can give. Let us give with thankful hearts in response to the gift God has given us.
Either donate directly to the cause you choose or through New Life by any of our giving methods, but make sure you clearly indicate in the memo who the gift is for. There are also many giving Catalogues made by other non-profits such as World Renew.
Please give all gifts by December 20.
We wish you joy as you reach out to others this Christmas Season.
Merry Christmas!
New Life Live – Dec 6
Our semi-annual congregational meeting is on Wednesday, Dec 6 at 7pm. Packages are available to view below and hard copies are at the info booth in the foyer. In this meeting we will review and approve the financial statements from the past church fiscal year. We are so thankful to God that as congregation we responded to New Life’s financial need and we ended the year with a small surplus. The staff has been busy preparing a video updating the various ministry activities that have been happening this fall. We also will be mixing up the format this year to make the meeting more interactive. We want to have some small table group discussions after the formal financial presentation. A board member will sit at each table and engage with everyone in discussion surrounding our mission and vision. This meeting will be livestreamed, the link is available below.
GEMS Fundscip Fundraiser
Forms & Payment
On Sunday, Nov 12, 19 and 26 there will be Fundscip paper order forms on the info booth if you’d like to pick one up and fill it out to order gift cards in time for Christmas. Alternatively, you can download the form and print it off yourself. All completed forms can be dropped in the info booth on a Sunday morning or brought to the office during office hours. On these forms there is a variety of available giftcards with a variety of amounts. You can select any that you would like to purchase.
Please include payment with your completed order form. The GEMS will accept cash, cheque or e-transfer. Cash should be placed in a envelope and labelled. Cheques will be made out to “New Life Church” with a memo of “Fundscip Order”. E-transfers should be sent to giving@newlifecrc.ca and please include a memo that says “Fundscip order & your name”.
If you have any questions about this please email Sam Postma.
All forms and orders are due by November 24.
What is GEMS?
GEMS is a New Life program for girls in grades 3-7. The heart of this ministry is to help disciple young girls in their faith and teach them how they can develop an intimate and personal relationship with their Saviour, Jesus Christ, that they will hopefully walk in the rest of their lives. In order to help make this program more affordable for the parents and to help foster some ownership and responsibility from the GEMS, they run a couple fundraisers through the year to support the ministry.
What is Fundscip?
Through the fundscrip program, we will be selling gift cards for everyday purchases from a wide array of retail categories such as groceries, gas, home improvement, department stores, restaurants, coffee shops, clothing stores and many more. With the purchase of every gift card, a percentage of that amount is automatically donated towards the GEMS program.
Christmas Services – Dec 24 & 25
Come one, come all to our Christmas services this year! We are so excited to celebrate Christmas with you. You’re invited to Christmas Eve on Sunday morning at 10AM for a story telling service with New Life Kids. We will explore what it means that the light has come and with that have a candle lighting. There will be no evening service on Dec 24. On Monday morning, Christmas Day, at 10AM, celebrate with us Jesus’ birth. We have a big choir and we’ll spend the morning singing and celebrating together. Both these services are wonderful times to invite a neighbor, a friend, or family. We hope you see there!
Celebrate with us this Christmas.
Christmas Eve Candlelight Service – Sunday, Dec 24 at 10am
Christmas Day Service – Monday, Dec 25 at 10am
At Your Table Potluck – Nov 19
As we seek to be a hospitable community in response to the current sermon series, we are now challenging you to put this into action! On Sunday, Nov 19, at 12:30pm we want you to be a HOST or a GUEST at a potluck. Everyone will be responsible to contribute to the meal whether you are the host or guest. The goal is to have 10, 20, or even 30 potlucks happening at the same time in Abbotsford, Chilliwack, Mission, etc. If you want to be a HOST or a GUEST, you will have the opportunity to sign up after the service on Sunday Nov 5 and Nov 12. Or you can email the office.
Christmas Craft Fair
New Life Women’s Connections is hosting a Christmas Craft Fair on Nov 3 & 4 to fundraise for their upcoming women’s retreat. They have many different vendors from the New Life congregation coming to sell their own hand made crafts like candles, wood signs, art, pottery etc. It will be hosted at New Life Church from 5pm-9pm on Friday, Nov 3 and 9am-1pm on Saturday, Nov 4. Come out to support our women’s ministry and get some Christmas shopping done.
When:
Friday, November 3 at 5pm-9pm
Saturday, November 4 at 9am-1pm
Where:
New Life Church – 35270 Delair Road, Abbotsford, BC
Who:
If you want to learn more about the vendors coming follow @chrismas_art_market on Instagram for regular updates.
Women’s Retreat – Nov 24-26
Registration is open for our 2023 Women’s Retreat!
On November 24-26 we are having another women’s retreat at Stillwood Camp and Conference Centre. We are scheduled to arrive at 7pm on Friday, November 24 and leave at 1pm on Sunday, November 26.
Our theme for the weekend is Immeasurably More. We will be exploring Ephesians 3:20-21 together and learning what it means live in and ask for the “more” that we are promised in Scripture and how to understand when God doesn’t deliver the way we expected Him to.
We will be led in three sessions by Melissa McVety. Melissa and her husband have a marriage and family counselling ministry together and received her Masters in Marriage and Family Therapy through Trinity Western University. She is a gifted speaker and is excited to explore God’s promise of immeasurably more with us over the weekend!
All women are welcome, no matter what church you attend. The cost will be $200. This includes two nights at Stillwood, all the meals and some goodies that we are preparing for you! Single rooms are available for an extra fee, if needed.
You can pay with cash or cheque in person, or etransfer to giving@newlifecrc.ca and write Women’s Retreat in the memo line.
If finances are a factor for you in whether you can attend or not, please do no hesitate to reach out as we do not want that to be the reason you can’t come.
Registration closes October 31, 2023.