November 23, 2013 @newhopefulton Praise and Worship Ed Garcia Message Give of Your Heart Pastor Mike Speegle Community Life Pastor Ann Roda (First Service) Christian Moore (Second Service) Closing Thought Pastor Mike Speegle Worship at New Hope Community at Worship 10:30 a.m. & 12:30 p.m. | Kingdom Kids Worship (Rm. 110)-10:30 a.m | Middle School Worship (Room 206) 10:30 a.m. Community Life 2 A Note of Thanks 3 Supporting Children in Mozambique 4 Hope for the Holiday Offering 5 Thanksgiving at Morningside 5 Garden of Hope Update 6 Living out the Vision 7 Family Tools 8 connect. serve. grow. Welcome to Our Festival Hope! Today, we celebrate a special time for giving and share our blessings with those who are struggling and less fortunate. This is one way our church family aims to connect with the community, and our way of giving to our neighbors — and to members in our congregation. W RSHIP
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November 23, 2013
@newhopefulton
Praise and Worship Ed Garcia !
Message Give of Your Heart
Pastor Mike Speegle !Community Life
Pastor Ann Roda (First Service) Christian Moore (Second Service) !
Closing Thought Pastor Mike Speegle
Worship at New Hope Community at Worship 10:30 a.m. & 12:30 p.m. | Kingdom Kids Worship (Rm. 110)-10:30 a.m | Middle School Worship (Room 206) 10:30 a.m.
Community Life 2 A Note of Thanks 3 Supporting Children in Mozambique 4 Hope for the Holiday Offering 5 Thanksgiving at Morningside 5 Garden of Hope Update 6 Living out the Vision 7 Family Tools 8
connect. serve. grow.
Welcome to Our Festival Hope! Today, we celebrate a special time for giving and share our blessings with those who are struggling and less fortunate. This is one way our church family aims to connect with the community, and our way of giving to our neighbors — and to members in our congregation. !!
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community life !Welcome to New Hope! We're here to help you grow in your spiritual journey. This page highlights some exciting ways for you and your family to make meaningful connections and grow your relationship with God. !If there is anything we can do to support you on your journey, let us know. !!Church Office Hours Mon-Thu 9a-5p, Fri 10a-2p !Phone/Text Message 410-541-6394 !Email [email protected]
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23 New Hope Young Adults will be potlucking, Thanksgiving style, at their annual Thanksgiving lunch after second service, followed by Game Night! You’ll find them in Room 206. If you are a young adult, don’t miss it!
27 Ignite your prayer life and deepen your relationship with God, Wednesdays, 7:30-8:30 p.m., in the multipurpose room. Testimonies and Thanksgiving night theme: Jesus is the center of it all.
7 Middle School "Servant for a Day”. Youth will prepare and serve the meal for Sarah's House residents. For more info, pick up a flier in the middle school room or contact Amy Bocala at [email protected].
27 We are serving a free Thanksgiving dinner for the residents of Morningside Park Apartments at 3 p.m. We need your dessert donations, as well as help with food preparation, setting up, serving dinner and cleaning up. To volunteer, contact Angie Bernard at 301-254-0300 by Saturday, Nov. 23.
28 You are invited to join the Gemmell family for a Thanksgivukkah (Thanksgiving + Hanukkah) potluck at 1 p.m. Email Eileen Gemmell at [email protected] by Nov. 24 to RSVP.
13 Restore, a worship gathering for young adults, from 7 p.m. to 9 p.m. at the church. Join us as we fulfill our purpose and mission: to gather and experience Sabbath together and be restored by God and through fellowship.
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Welcome, guests! We’re glad to have you here today. You can find out more about New Hope in Seven Minutes or Less, a brief information session after today’s worship service by coming to the first two rows in the front left of the worship center.
Festival of Hope is today! Please consider sticking around after second service to help us sort and bag all of your generous donations so we can get them to the various area agencies (and the families they serve!) this afternoon.
First reading of transfers in and out: IN: Jared, Nicholas and Kristin Stoia; Eliza Watkins; John Wu. OUT: Bob and Pam Anderson; Cherubin Gaby Dorcil. The reading will take place during first service next Sabbath.
Chadash, a prayer group for women, will meet Dec. 7 at 9:30 am in the Prayer Room.
YOUNG ADULTS www.youngadultsconnect.com !
Connect, a Bible study group just for young adults, meets Sabbaths from 11 a.m. to noon in the trailer. Let’s explore the life-changing teachings of God’s Word together!!
FAMILY MINISTRIES www.newhopelovesfamilies.com!
In today’s lesson, children will learn we can say thank you to God by serving others. They also will learn about gratefulness and giving thanks for all things — and take part in today’s Festival of Hope celebration.!
Support New Hope high school youth by eating! Have dinner at Cheeburger Cheeburger Dec. 5, and the restaurant will donate 20 percent of all sales to the Panama mission trip. More info at the Ask-Me Desk or the mission table in the lobby. !
All children's Sabbath School classes will combine into one family group for a special morning of fun, 9-10:30 a.m. in the upstairs hallway. Fifth Sabbath gives our teachers a well-deserved break and is a wonderful opportunity for families to spend time together doing crafts, games and other activities. Don't miss it!
Coming Next Sabbath (9-10:30 a.m.)
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A big thanks to those who week-in and week-out love and teach our children in our kids’ Sabbath School classes, Kids Church, Middle School Worship, child care and our co-ed Christian scouting groups, Pathfinders and Adventurers. We have no more precious gift to take care of than our kids.
!A big thanks to those who make our worship center a place of engagement and community every week. From our musicians to our singers, our sound people to our visual people, lighting to our online and television creators (cameras and editing), they put in a huge amount of prep time in an effort to provide us a worship time where we can experience and engage with our Father.
!A big thanks to those who each week greet us, seat us, receive from us and connect with us; from our deacons to our greeters, our Seven Minutes or Less folks to our prayer folks, our treasurers to our lay pastors, each week they are here to serve… and they do.
!A big thanks to those who monthly reach out as our hands and presence in our community through feeding and meeting the needs of those who are facing challenges in life. They are our literal presence (as well as God’s) at each of the recurring ministry events; from growing vegetables to preparing meals, from meeting our community at their events to lending a helping hand, they are there.
!A big thanks to our staff who coordinate so much of what happens at and through our church. They provide a presence online as well as through our weekly bulletins and programs, scheduling rooms, juggling schedules and keeping track of information, all in an effort to provide a place for each of us to know God, fall in love Him and follow Jesus.
!A big thanks to those of you who consider New Hope your church home and who share your joy of being part of this community with others: That’s why we are here.
Mike Speegle
Let me give some
thanks to those who are
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Hope Church:
Senior Pastor
A Note of (Many) Thanks
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Supporting Children in
Mozambique Meet Arcelio and Telfa Matimbe. Their father died when they were babies, and their mother later left them to be raised by their grandmother, who sells tomatoes to support her family.
Arcelio, a second-grader, and Telfa, a fourth-grader, are students at the Colegio Adventista Nova Esperanca,
known in English as the New Hope Adventist School, in Mahotas, Mozambique. New Hope has long supported outreach efforts in
Mozambique as part of Sharing Our Strength (SOS) International, our ministry to spread the gospel to the world while also serving the needs
of people for Jesus.
Our SOS International missions team built the school in 2008, and we continue supporting it by raising funds for our Mozambique Scholarship
Fund that helps families by covering the cost of tuition and uniforms, which often stands in the way of their ability to send their kids to school. In the last
couple years, for example, we’ve raised funds to send 13 children to the school and for much-needed new classrooms.
Without some help, a Christian education is out of reach for students like Arcelio and Telfa. For just $25 per month, you can provide tuition, a uniform and lunch for a student, often the only meal they will have all day. As part of this year’s Hope for the Holiday Offering, we aim to cover the cost of attendance for 100 students in the next school year, which begins in January.
Please remember the students at this school which bears our name with your prayers and by donating to the Mozambique Scholarship Fund through our online giving portal or by marking it on your checks and tithe envelope.
For more information, visit www.sharingourstrength.net/mozambique.
Sharing Our Strength is New Hope’s missions arm, which aims to minister to people’s needs, here at home and abroad, for Jesus. We believe we must share the good news of Jesus Christ and prayerfully seek opportunities to invite others into fellowship. We have taken Jesus’ call to “go” (Matthew 28:19-20) to heart and are committed to going into the local, national and international communities before asking them to come to us. The church supports the work in Mozambique as part of its SOS International ministry. Learn more about this and other ministries at sharingourstrength.net.!
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Hope for the Holiday Offering Each year, we ask you to join us in raising money that allows us, as a church community, to do something above and beyond the normal. Our school in Mozambique is just one of several areas of focus for this year’s holiday offering. We’re also asking for you to partner with us in:
• supporting our own high school students in experiencing what it’s like to serve God by serving others on a short mission trip to Panama next summer;
• creating an evangelistic touch point that meets people where they are in tackling life’s big questions; and
• developing two big events at Christmas and Easter, when our community can experience for themselves the greatest story ever told: the birth and death of Jesus.
Our goal: $50,000.
Consider joining us as we strive to look out for others in our community and world!
Help Needed: Thanksgiving Dinner at Morningside As part of our Sharing Our Strength Local Ministry, we are providing a FREE Thanksgiving dinner Wednesday, Nov. 27, to residents at Morningside Park Apartments in Jessup, Md. Please consider lending a hand to help prepare and serve this meal by doing one of the following: !
• Donate a dessert.!
• Prepare food at New Hope at 12 p.m. (Nov. 27).!
• Set up at 2 p.m.!
• Serve dinner at 3 p.m.!
• Clean up at 4:30 p.m!!Contact Angie Bernard TODAY at 301-254-0300 to sign up for one of these activities. !
The Little Hawks Adventurers, our co-ed scouting group, created special placemats for the Morningside residents' Thanksgiving dinner next week. A big thank you to master craft teacher Denise Miller for her help with this activity!
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Another successful year is winding to a close for New Hope’s garden.
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Tucked away on a plot of land behind the portable building here on campus, the garden, now in its second year, is tended by New Hope’s Lindsay Kerr, Nathan Taylor and Carl Harris.
Kerr thought of the garden as a way to provide fresh vegetables for our local ministry efforts. Her idea has borne fruit: Garden-grown fare regularly makes it into the meals we prepare and serve monthly for individuals at Grassroots Crisis Intervention Center, a walk-in crisis shelter in Columbia, Md. (see “Grassroots: Connecting With Others Over a Meal” for more).
Among this year’s harvest: tomatoes, onions, green beans, squash, cucumbers, peppers, cabbage, broccoli and flowers. In addition to these crops, some new ones entered the mix, including blueberries, cherry tomatoes, watermelon, cantaloupe and pumpkins. Kerr says they were most proud of their blueberry and cherry tomato harvest — as well as the zinnia flowers they planted.
Though the harvest is behind us, there are still opportunities to pitch in this year, in the form of an upcoming cleanup and rebuild, which will involve building more garden beds, putting down weed-block material and remulching. And as we prepare for another spring, we welcome individuals and families who are interested in helping to tend the garden for the season, doing everything from planting and harvesting to watering, weeding and maintenance.
Do you enjoy getting your hands dirty and seeing things grow and bloom? To learn more about New Hope’s garden and how you can get involved, email [email protected].
Garden !of Hope Update!
Nathan Taylor
leads New Hope’s ministry to
Grassroots Crisis Intervention Center, a
homeless shelter here in Howard County.
Once a month, Taylor and others from our
church take food (some from the garden!) to the
shelter and prepare and share a meal with local
homeless individuals. This show of respect and
concern for others is just one more way New
Hope can reach the community.
!Discover how you can help with our
Grassroots ministry by contacting
Taylor at 478-737-4224.
Grassroots: Connecting With Others Over a Meal
“Train children in the way they should go; when they grow old, they won't depart from it.” — Proverbs 22:6 !
Seven-year-old Alex, a young boy from Liberia, was struggling to survive in a war-torn country where he suffered from drug addiction and struggled to find his next meal. He was kicked out of his home and had no one to rely on until he
joined an organization called Life and Change Experienced thru Sports, or L.A.C.E.S. !New Hope’s Seren Fryatt created the nonprofit, which works with children in Liberia and uses sports as a tool for developing youth, helping to create young Christian leaders in the West African nation. LA.C.E.S. uses biblical approaches to teach teamwork,
mentorship and sports, and to combat the
various negative situations and challenges children may face in their daily lives. !
Fryatt started the organization in 2007, after
spending time in Liberia as a volunteer on a
floating hospital ship and, later, a
member of the country’s professional women’s soccer league. !
“Liberia had just come out of a brutal 14-year
civil war, and the scars the war left
on people were devastating,” she said. “As I spent time with the women on my team, I began to see how sports provided a glimpse of relief from
their often-difficult lives. As a collegiate athlete, I viewed sports as winning or losing, but what God showed me while I was in Liberia is that sports was an avenue for restoration.”!To recruit kids, L.A.C.E.S. works with community leaders who identify the children with the greatest needs — physical and spiritual — between ages 10 and 11. The typical child who participates in the program’s sports league practices and games lives on the street or is engaged in criminal activities, Fryatt said. Many kids want to be in the program because they have the opportunity to play soccer, receive a meal and be shown the love of Jesus. “Often, children in Liberia are lacking all three of these things, so when given to them, children flock,” she said.!
More than 600 children’s lives have been impacted by the organization’s
programs, which are run by local staff in Liberia who train
coaches and mentors to work with the kids. Fryatt is the only full-time staff member in the United States, relying on volunteers to help fundraise and raise awareness of the
organization so they can serve even more children.
Six months after getting involved with L.A.C.E.S., Alex’s
life was changed. He stopped using drugs and is off the streets. !
He now has two coaches with a strong faith who invest in his life and is learning values of self-esteem, discipline, respect, teamwork and honesty, all using examples from the life of Jesus Christ.
!L.A.C.E.S. uses sports to connect children in Liberia with positive role models — and God
Living Out the Vision By Stella Oliveras
To learn more about L.A.C.E.S. and how it’s changing lives in Liberia, visit www.lacesport.org, or contact Seren Fryatt at [email protected] or 765-729-0568.
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Seren Fryatt with kids in Liberia.
Alex
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!The Back Page follows the Bible lessons that children and youth are studying and serves to help kids and adults continue the spiritual discussion at home and establish patterns of a devotional life.
“Maggie, what’s wrong?” said the volunteer, putting an arm around her. Maggie let out a muffled shriek as she sank to the floor, weeping uncontrollably. I quickly rushed to the woman’s side, fearing some kind of medical emergency. Maggie was on her knees, her head on the volunteer's shoulder. In one hand, she clutched a beautiful pink silk blouse; she pressed an angora wool sweater against her chest. “It’s okay, honey. It’s okay,” the volunteer said gently.
“What is going on?” I whispered to the volunteer coordinator. “It’s gratefulness,” she replied. “We see this often, the reality of a new start — it’s overwhelming for them. Sometimes, gratefulness so deep can only be expressed in weeping.”
I was volunteering at an organization that provides business attire, fashion advice and interview counseling to men and women trying to get back into the workforce. The clothes serve to help them not only get the interview and the job but also provide enough clothing for their first few days at work. People are referred by local social agencies, and their reasons for coming vary from homelessness or a recent release from prison to fleeing an abusive relationship or situations where long-term unemployment created despair and hopelessness. For some women, like Maggie, it is the end of a long journey out of the welfare system and an opportunity for a first-time job.
Maggie had never had a 100-percent-silk
blouse and fine-wool sweater. She had never had underclothes that really fit well; she had never had a leather purse, a stylish business suit or brand new pumps. She had never had someone spend time showing her the right clothes to wear and helping her choose her wardrobe. She had never been treated with dignity and respect, never been told she was beautiful, never had anyone care. Until now.
If it weren’t for Jesus, I too would not have many things. I would not have hope, confidence, purpose and the sureness of being loved more than anything else. I would not have joy, peace, courage, the assurance of forgiveness and the experience of grace. If it weren’t for Jesus, I would not have.
“Let them praise the LORD for his great love and for the wonderful things he has done for them” (Psalm 107:15).
When was the last time you experienced gratefulness so deep that it could only be expressed in weeping?
Thought for the Week !God’s Daily Word Use these passages to explore more perspectives on gratefulness.
Weekly Challenge Each day this week, identify one thing you are really grateful for. Take time to reflect on your gratefulness. Ask God to reveal to you a deeper experience of gratitude.!
For the Family As a family, memorize Psalm 100. Recite it together on Thanksgiving Day. Make it a family tradition to recite this psalm every Thanksgiving.
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