Men's Ministry

We started a new Men’s Ministry on Saturday March 15th. We had breakfast together and great conversation. We hope this will be the start of a monthly opportunity for the men of New Life to get together and encourage each other to greater faith and service to Christ. 

Winter Sports

We spent January preparing for the Winter Olympics by praying for the athletes, support personnel, and the people of Russia in Sochi. We also prayed for IMB volunteers in Sochi who were sharing the gospel and attempting to plant churches in Russia. Download a prayer guide from http://www.engagesochi.org/pray.

February 2nd at 5pm at New Life we had our annual Super (Pro Football Championship) Bowl Party. We watched it on the big screen together and of course we had a pot luck with prizes!

New Life was host to two indoor soccer foot skills training sessions for kids in our community on Mondays from 5-6pm (U9) and 6-7 (U8 and younger). We have since relocated our training to the gym at Heritage Elementary School in Medina from 5-6:30pm on Mondays. The sessions were led by Ohio Fusion coaches.

We are getting ready for our Annual Jack Hutton Memorial Chili Cook-off on Saturday March 22nd at 5pm. Bring your best pot of chili! Come hungry and prepared to vote. Prizes will be awarded! We'll have Basketball on the tube.

Sunday School Reboot

In January Philip Decker helped to lead our teachers to kick-off our “Generations of Grace“ curriculum for our Sunday School and Children’s Church Classes. With this change, we've simplified our curriculum for our kids' program on Sundays. We were previously using two different sets of curriculum. Now, our Sunday School and Children's Church classes are spreading the teaching, projects, and activities over the span of the entire Sunday morning so that kids that go to both classes will receive a simplified,. unified, coherent teaching that they can apply to their lives throughout the week. 

Our Middle & High School students are continuing in their study of “Systematic Theology”. We are over 600 pages into our study. Only about 600 pages to go!

Advent Season and Christmas 2013

As a church this year we encouraged each other to work through John Piper's daily devotional "Good News of Great Joy"

You can download this free Advent daily devotional for Christmas 2013 written by John Piper and provided by the people at Desiring God from here:

http://www.desiringgod.org/resource-library/books/good-news-of-great-joy

The ladies of New Life celebrated a trip “Around the World” at their annual Women's Christmas Celebration. It happened Saturday December 7^thfrom 3-6pm at Brenda Bolenski’s home.

Our Community Groups held a combined Christmas Party on Wednesday December 18th from 6:30-8:30pm.

Our family and friends celebrated Christmas Eve at 7pm during our annual Christmas Eve Candlelight Service. 

Serving the Poor and Homeless in Rural Appalachia

We sent team to Athens, Ohio to help with Good Works Community of Hope the weekend of November 15-17th. Good Works is an organization that serves the poor and homeless in rural Appalachia.  It is the only homeless shelter in a 9 county radius in Southeast Ohio.

We had our annual Thanksgiving Dinner on Sunday November 24th. This is a great annual tradition of fellowship at New Life where everyone brings their favorite traditional dish to share. 

Operation Christmas Child 2013

A note from Samaritan's Purse: 
Thank you for all your partnership with Operation Christmas Child last year. We are very grateful for the opportunity to join with you to spread the love of Christ through the power of simple shoebox gifts.

Your service was critical in the collection of more than 7.5 million gift-filled shoeboxes in the United States that will create avenues for local churches to share the Gospel and begin Operation Christmas Child’s discipleship program called The Greatest Journey with millions of children. Together, we are seeing God work to impact the lives of children and families all over the world. We could not have done it without faithful partners like you!