Prayer Focus for the week of Sept. 25th

New Life Church has a prayer focus each week. Our prayer focus is broken down into three categories of ministry: 1. We pray for another local church that is proclaiming the gospel of Jesus Christ. 2. We pray for a Global Outreach Partner who is proclaiming the gospel of Jesus Christ around the world. 3. We pray for a ministry of New Life Church that is proclaiming the gospel of Jesus Christ locally.

Area Church: GracePointe – Milwaukie, OR, Pastor Mike Fleischman

Global Outreach Partner: Dan and Alice Simmons – World Venture, Rome, Italy

NLC Ministry: Awana

• Praise God, we are beginning the school year with many more children than last year (close to 70).
• Praise God for the GREAT leaders giving their time and love to children at Awana!
• Pray for more volunteers. 
• Pray for children to accept Jesus as their Savior. 
• Pray for the Word to have power in the children's and parent's lives.

In The News

Some of the work of New Life Church was in the news yesterday, both in print and on television. I don't think I know of a day when two different media commented on the work of our church. Some neighbors expressed concern to KPTV12 about the transition houses the church owns in a segment called, West Linn halfway homes concern some neighbors, that ran last night on the news.

And the West Linn Tidings ran an article on the Neighbors Helping Neighbors program that happened last week.

Since those both happened the same day it made me reflect on several things:

• I could have, and should have, communicated with the neighbors and lowered their stress levels considerably, but I didn't think about it.
• When the church begins serving outside the four walls of the church building, the constituency and the number of people affected changes, as does the way they are affected. I didn't account for that.
• I continue to be proud of the men and women in those houses and the changes they are making in their lives.
• There was a day when the church used to fight about so much stupid stuff amongst themselves that they never got outside the walls to make any kind of difference. Those days are long gone and I am thankful for the change in the church.
• The output of the church in service for Jesus' sake is the measure of a church, not the number of people sit in a service on Sunday mornings.
• Neighbors helping Neighbors needs to be a regular activity of the church. Thanks to all of you who made West Linn a better place.
• The outcome Jesus envisions for the church is for people to see the good works of the church and draw conclusions about Jesus from them [1 Peter 2:12; 1 Peter 3:15-16; Matthew 5:16] These good activities indicate that followers of Christ have received genuine grace [Ephesians 2:8-10; Titus 3:4-8].

All this to say, I am very proud of New Life Church. I pray that God will bless the church and pray the city will be glad we are here.

Rome & Moldova Report

Taylor and I returned from Moldova at 1:00 on Sunday morning after 22 1/2 hours of traveling! Thank you for your prayers; we had a rich and full couple weeks. We will give a full report Tuesday night, September 27th at 7:00 in the Fireside Room at New Life Church River Falls.

I apologize for not posting some pictures earlier, but had some technical difficulties and were extremely pressed for time. So, I couldn't figure out the technical problems.

We were privileged to see Dan & Alice Simmons and to be with their church three times. We heard of the impact of Dale & Cris Austen's visit there earlier this year. One of the reasons Dale & Cris had the impact they did was because Michele Gandolfo had such serious health problems while they were there that changed not only their trip, but the church as well.

As you may have heard, I lost my passport in Rome. That provided a little more excitement than we anticipated. Taylor left Rome by himself to start the class. He taught three days by himself before I got there.

Our students loved the Lord and loved the class. Our definition of worship was:

Worship is our God-glorifying, Christ-exalting, Spirit-empowered, Word-saturated, delightful response to the person and work of God which results in adoration and action.

We'll share more on Tuesday. I do want to thank you for your prayers. We needed them.

Prayer Focus for the week of Sept. 18th

New Life Church has a prayer focus each week. Our prayer focus is broken down into three categories of ministry: 1. We pray for another local church that is proclaiming the gospel of Jesus Christ. 2. We pray for a Global Outreach Partner who is proclaiming the gospel of Jesus Christ around the world. 3. We pray for a ministry of New Life Church that is proclaiming the gospel of Jesus Christ locally.

Area Church: Good Roots Community – Milwaukie, OR, Pastor Lenny Bennett

Global Partner: Calvin & Ruth Kim – World Venture, Beirut, Lebanon

• Pray that the Kims will increasingly become more like Christ.
• Pray that God will raise more partners in prayer and finance.
• Pray that they will have a renewed sense of calling.
• Pray that all of our partnering churches will remained united.

NLC Ministry: Alpha Course

• Pray that God would bring the right people to participate.
• Pray that people would believe that Jesus is the Savior of the world through Alpha.
• Pray that for people to provide meals to those participating in Alpha.

Prayer Focus for the week of Sept. 11th

Each week New Life Church has a prayer focus. This week is the 10th anniversary of the 9/11 terrorist attacks. We recognize at this time that there is much brokenness, pain, and strife in the world. Our prayer focus this week is to:

Pray for our country.

• Pray that we will have peace.
• Pray that our leaders in city, state, and national governments will govern justly and will maintain integrity.
• Pray for military personnel who are in dangerous areas.
• Pray for those across the country who have lost homes, jobs, and property due to economic turmoil or natural disasters.
• Pray that people in our country would see Christ as the only hope for peace and security.

Pray for personal evangelism.

• Pray for neighbors, family, and friends who are far from God. Pray that their deepest pains and brokenness would be healed.
• Pray for opportunities to share the good news that Jesus is the Savior of the World.
• Pray that the people of New Life Church will be bold to proclaim this gospel. Pray that they are humble, kind, gentle, and gracious when they do.

Thank you from the Hannifans

Our dear church family:
Thank you for everything! I know God's plan is the best and know Mark is with his heavenly Father, but it is still hard to deal with sometimes. We would not have been able to get through any of this if it were not for our church family. What we find hard, God keeps us strong on His promises. Thank you again!
With much love,
Bonnie, Nicole, and Dustin

Prayer Focus for the week of Sept. 4th

New Life Church has a prayer focus each week. Our prayer focus is broken down into three categories of ministry: 1. We pray for another local church that is proclaiming the gospel of Jesus Christ. 2. We pray for a Global Outreach Partner who is proclaiming the gospel of Jesus Christ around the world. 3. We pray for a ministry of New Life Church that is proclaiming the gospel of Jesus Christ locally.


Area Church: Lake Bible Church – Lake Oswego, OR, Pastor Jim Andrews


Global Partner: CB Northwest


NLC Ministry: Senior Adult Ministry