Update!

God is great!
Every week we have welcomed new people, the ladies Bible Study is going well, and God is answering prayer through successful medical procedures and through physical and spiritual provision. New Church is blessed to have a small group of singers working on leading worship
We are preparing to reach out to our communities through Thanksgiving baskets and searching for opportunities to bless others around Christmas time.
Prayer request: Continue to ask God to bring new contacts our way, "vision focus" to not think the "opening" is the end of the journey, God continues to bless financially the ministry as we meet others' needs.

The rest of this update is more for regular attendees....so read on if you want.

I am ever an evaluator. This may be a fault of mine, but I constantly ask "what could be done better or what I missed." This thinking can be useful but can also lead to a "production" mentality where the perfection of the process can become the "end."
There is a lot happening during a church plant and much of it is a learning process. Patience, willing to adapt, flexibility, and just flat out reliance on God all are key. As we navigate this process adjustments need to be made, not for change sake but to enhance effectiveness.
Beginning Sunday we are going to "tweak" things a little:
1. The refreshments will be moved closer to our seats.
2. We will use the front door so the nursery is easily accessed and we will enter the gym closer to the refreshments and seating.
3. We are going to try and use an attendance pad to help us get more information on our visitors for better follow up.

These are just a few of the practical steps we are going to try to hopefully and prayerfully enhance a sense of community and encourage deeper relationships. If you have any ideas please forward them. God does not only speak too and dwell with the pastor, all who have accepted Christ are priest and called to be Spirit filled.

Those who serve in the nursery I encourage you to arrive early and be ready so we can receive graciously those with young ones. Those who are not involved with the nursery, we need help greeting people as they arrive and offer friendly directions to the nursery and gym, we need help setting up starting at 8:30 so everything can be ready to go, and we need continued help tearing down after services.

God is moving and blessing New Church. We all need to remain in prayer and encourage one another to not grow weary in serving.
As the pastor I am blessed to be a part of New Church and appreciate all your efforts as we partner in ministry to follow God together.


Have a blessed Day!
Scott Wolff
(A real-fallible person serving a real-infallible, awesome, and gracious God!)

Don't come to Church too early! Daylight savings time, fallback one hour!

Don't forget that you set you clocks back one hour on Saturday night so you have an extra hour! FALL BACK, Spring ahead!

New Church October 26 - What a blessing!

Another great service with over 40 people! Patti, Cari, and Scott helped lead some very inspiring songs. Prayer at communion time brought us close to our Savior Jesus Christ.
Scott delivered the next in the series on THE PIT.

Face Book Page - Please send your photos!

I am making a Face book page of photos and names. Nothing fancy. Please send me a digital photo that you would like published. I can take your photo if you wish and put it in myself. My email is saintjerome@yahoo.com Thanks! It is always great for community to put names with faces!

Kent

Pit Series - Sunday, October 12

We had 39 people in attendance for New Church. The songs were inspiring. Communion was awesome! Scott delivered the second in the Pit series. The new rear screen projector is great!

Bible Study, October 8, TONIGHT!

Bible study tonight at 7 at my house.

Be there if you can.

God has put a lot before us...a mission.....r we ready....r u ready?

Have a blessed Day!
Scott Wolff
(A real-fallible person serving a real-infallible, awesome, and gracious God!)

What's next?

God is good!

New Church had it's official grand opening last Sunday and we experienced our largest gathering yet! 70 people celebrated God's goodness and grace as our first service drew many new faces as well as many supporters.

Just as our initial message spoke of how to avoid spending life in the pit of despair and betrayal, I am forced to ask "What's next?" The opening of a "New Church" is a grand thing, but there are lots of churches within a 30 mile radius so what is next?

I could pontificate and let you know my hearts feelings and what I would call a church success, but you get plenty of that! So, I am asking those who attend and support New Church to respond and let me know what a church should be and I will post it in our next update along with my comments.

Keep visiting the website. Kent does a great job updating with photos and informing everyone on what is going on around the ministry. www.newchurch4u.com

Prayer:

-That opening Sunday is not the only Sunday we see new faces.

-We are still looking and waiting for God to provide some musical help. Using videos and Cd's is great and God has provided in that way, but it would be great to have some live production and some music leaders.

-Scott is asking for prayer for his schedule. Balancing the entire scope of life right now leaves him feeling like nothing is getting done with excellence but a lot is getting done o.k.

-God 's protection on families. This goes beyond just those "traditional" families. However the family is made up Satan thrives on chaos and conflict. God may use the chaos to draw people back to him, but it can also throw people into a "pit" as well.

-We have a few people we are trying to help with aid and we are asking God to help multiply our efforts.

Don't forget to praise God!

-Great launch

-Lot's of people have given and sacrificed to see God move in New Church

-Everyone chipped in Sunday and served our guest

-The provision of some technical wants to help our services be smoother

-New local guests

-Praise God for those supporters who were able to come to our first service.

-We have a couple of new Bible Studies in the works

-God has provided a place for the youth to meet in Atlanta

-God provided another computer for us (we had a screen problem with our laptop)

God is alive and on the move!

Don't be caught flat footed....follow!

Have a blessed Day!
Scott Wolff
(A real-fallible person serving a real-infallible, awesome, and gracious God!)

New Church Launch!

A great Launch Day! Seventy people attended our inaugral day. What a great blessing! The songs were inspiring. During communion we reflected and communicated with our Lord. Scott delivered his first in the series about Betrayal, Pit Happens! A truly great start.

Nursery

We do have a room to use that has toys and such. What we will be lacking is changing mat, baby swings, playpen, and that is about it.

A side note...we will need people to help direct people in the parking lot and greet people...showing people where the nursery is....and we will be setting up at 8:30a.m this week so everything will be ready so we can greet people.

This Sunday may not be a great "worship" experience for some. We all need to be working extending hospitality. That does not mean we should not enjoy oursleves, but especially this week we need to focus on others.

Thanks.

Have a blessed Day!
Scott Wolff
(A real-fallible person serving a real-infallible, awesome, and gracious God!)

Ready, Set, Launch!

What a God thing!

Last Sunday night we enjoyed some great fellowship around the fire as we ate and shared what God has been doing in our lives, how we got where we are, why we believe we are were we are, and I was blessed to share some thoughts on where I believe God is leading us to go.

I have said it before, and I hope to say it repeatedly, I am truly blessed to be serving at New Church. God has allowed me to witness some amazing growth steps in many partners as we have taken a huge step of faith.

Sunday evening I was amazed as some of the recent attendees share what God has been doing in their lives on and the encouragement and sanctuary New Church has been for them. One comment that I really loved (trying to remember it word for word): "my family and I are in need of some healing and I feel this a place that will allow or help us do that." WOW! The very thing we are striving for and want to be in a church God is bringing to pass!

Another comment was how simple things are at New Church. Isn't the gospel and love of Christ simple?

We are almost at "opening" Sunday. Many have been personally invited. Please pray that in the coming weeks and months New Church is able to shine the light of love into the darkness of people's hearts and pain as we reflect Christ. Pray that we as a church stay on our knees humbly before God and not take a bit of His glory but return all the praise to Him as he allows us to be a part of seeing people's lives be changed.

Our first six weeks will be focused on addressing "felt needs" as we dive into the life of Joseph and look at how BETRAYAL, although definitely painful and damaging, can be turned into good when we look up to God instead of around at our circumstances.

Announcements:

Keep checking out www.newchurch4u.com as Kent keeps things updated with photos and such.

Bible study still on Wednesday evenings at 7 at Scott's.

New bible study options will be emerging very soon.

God gave us a "want" this week in providing for the purchase of a projector and rear projection screen for our services allowing the children's church to use the other projector and screen.

Thanks to all for your support and prayer support!

God is alive and on the move! I hope we aren't too self involved to miss Him?!

Have a blessed Day!
Scott Wolff
(A real-fallible person serving a real-infallible, awesome, and gracious God!)