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WRDW, New Passion, and Cross Point


Interview by WRDW News Channel 12’s reporter Blayne Alexander:

Whew!

What started as an idea to get New Passion Church involved in supporting Cross Point Church has turned into a city-wide call to rise up and help a city(Nashville) rebuild! I love Social Media!

WRDW News Channel 12 interviewed me today about what role New Passion hopes to play in that effort. They focused strongly on our desire to collect supplies, but we also are pushing heavily to collect financial donations as well. Money is one of the biggest needs right now, so we are happy to do both. Your donations are 100% tax-deductible and will go directly to Cross Point for their relief efforts in and around their community.

You can check out our supply list HERE and you can donate online HERE or HERE. On Sunday, for those who will be at our worship service, we will collect a special offering for Cross Point. CSRA & New Passion, Billy and I are hoping to fill a cargo van with supplies. Can you help us do that? We will deliver those supplies first thing Monday morning. Help us get the word out. Be willing to allow God to use you through your sacrificial giving. If you do not attend New Passion and just want to drop a donation off, you can do so at Cedar Ridge Elementary School in Grovetown, GA from
8 am – 12:15 pm

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Showing A Little Turkey Love Update

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Don’t underestimate God!

On Friday I posted about how New Passion is “Showing A Little Turkey Love” this Thanksgiving in the city of Grovetown by providing complete Thanksgiving meals (Turkey & all of the fixin’s) for families who are in need during the Holidays.

Our ministry partner, United We Care, received 35 applications for assistance, so we set a goal of 15 complete meals for our church, we then raised it to 30 to challenge ourselves to embrace a faith that’s bigger than ourselves. As of Friday our brand new (little) church bought 20 complete meals, today we added 5 more!!! Our deadline to collect the money has passed, so total New Passion bought 25 complete Thanksgiving meals for 25 families in Grovetown, who otherwise would have had nothing. What if we would have settled for the 15? 🙂

New Passion…you all rock and I am extremely proud of you for helping create revolutionary change in our city!

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Showing A Little Turkey Love

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Hey New Passion peeps…just a quick note to say that you Rock!

For those who may be wondering what ONE:27 is, especially with a Turkey head attached, I’ll explain! We call our monthly service initiatives ONE:27, from James 1:27 that says, “Pure and genuine religion in the sight of God the Father means caring for orphans and widows in their distress…” – our heartbeat is to care for those who are in distress, regardless of what their needs are. I believe that  through the various gifts, talents, and resources of the church there is no issue that can go unresolved if we’ll just put Jesus’ teachings into action.

New Passion is going into our 10th week this Sunday. Our attendance has been very sporadic. We’ve had very low weeks in attendance and then better weeks in attendance. Our November initiative was to provide complete Thanksgiving meals for families who are in desperate financial need in Grovetown. I initially set a goal with some of our team to provide 15 complete turkey dinners, but then decided to shoot for a higher number, so we challenged our people to provide 30 meals. The local organization, United We Care, that we’ve partnered with only received 35 applications from families seeking assistance. As of this past Sunday, our brand new church (through the little we have in missions funds and through the gifts of our people) provided 20 of those 35 meals. Other churches in the area who have also partnered with UWC will help provide the remaining meals (I secretly was hoping we wouldn’t leave them any 🙂 ). New Passion, I truly believe we are the Little Engine that Could…and I believe God is going to do some amazing things through this church.

What’s Next?

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Theres An App For That

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We kicked off our new series today at New Passion Church called “There’s An App for That.” During the series we will be exploring how the Bible has an app(lication) for some of the tough issues we deal with in life. Today we kicked off with “Hope in Distress.” Below is the schedule for the remaining 5 weeks:

November 8 – Healing for Broken Relationships
November 15 – Healthy Finances
November 22 – Harmony at Home
November 29 – Guest Preacher Tim Carnes
December 6 – Honor in our Uniqueness


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New Passion Launches

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I’m a little late on this, but wanted to blog about New Passion’s launch last Sunday, September 13. I wanted to get a post up last week, but I am quickly finding out that serving in the role of “Bi-Vocational” pastor is not that time friendly, so we’ll see how it affects my blogging in the near future.

Here are some of my thoughts and highlights from our first week as a new church:

  • We kicked off with a series entitled “Re-Discover Church” with the idea that whether people had been in church before or whether New Passion is their first experience, everyone has preconceived ideas about “church.” We don’t want preconceived ideas to be a barrier for people to check us out at New Passion, so we are laying the foundation of who we are as a church.
  • We pointed out that we want to be about a Life Altering Message and a Focus Altering Movement. Our Vision is to lead people to a passionate relationship with Jesus, that starts with a Life Altering Message, and He will lead them to a Focus Altering Movement. We used Paul as an example…immediately after his conversion, his focus changed.
  • We had 1 person put their faith in Jesus Christ at the launch service.
  • We experienced some challenges on the first week: Technical difficulties with our video monitors and no A/C in the hallways (where our birth – K4 meet), but it shows from the beginning we are not perfect and have some stuff to work on!
  • We have an amazing team. It is awesome how God led our team together. We are a small launch team of 23 people, but I could not ask for a better group to launch a church with.
  • Sunday are a lot of work, a lot of stress, and long. But putting it into perspective of Hebrews 11:35-37, the 4 hours of sacrifice and hard work are nothing compared to what God called some to (being killed by the sword, stoned to death, imprisoned, sawed in half, etc.) – The life change that we will see happen in Grovetown is all worth the sweat, the sore muscles from setting up, breaking down, and reloading the trailer every week, and anything else that comes with it.
  • We are proud to be friends with and serving along side a Kingdom minded church in Stevens Creek Church. They launched a new campus  in Grovetown on the other side of the city on September 13th as well. Their pastor Marty Baker stopped by on our launch Sunday and gave us a card and a gift to our church. Very classy!
  • We kicked off our first service with 108 people in attendance, 15 of which we knew would not be back. This week we had 97, several of which were brand new faces and the others returned from our launch week. I am so proud of our team, because we started with Nicki; my wife, Gavin, Tristan, and Hailey; my kids. God took us from 5 people to a first service of 108, I am blown away and amazed.
  • Now the work begins. Satan hates us, especially since he knows we will unashamedly preach the Gospel of Jesus to the world. I can’t wait to see what God does with New Passion Church in Grovetown and around the world!