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Ten Turkey Thursday

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Update: We raised all of the money to feed 30 families this Thanksgiving! Thank you all for your support and compassion for the people of Grovetown!

If you can read this, you can help! New Passion is working with United We Care for our annual ONE:27 Turkey Project to provide 30 complete Thanksgiving meals for families who are in desperate financial need in the city of Grovetown. The bottom line is this, without our help, these families will not enjoy a Thanksgiving meal this year. For $20, you provide an entire family a whole turkey and all of the fixin’s. So far, New Passion has raised enough support for 20 25 of the 30 meals, and we are only providing a portion of the need. So far United We Care has approved 44 families for assistance. Can we just knock this out today?!

Ten Turkey Thursday. Will you donate a tax-deductible $20 to provide a meal for a family in need? (If you can’t give $20, give what you can, it will all go towards the meals) Will you also help spread the word through your family and friends and through your social media networks? Please don’t just post the link…ask your friends to get involved and give!

Can we wrap up these final 10 5 meals? I don’t know, you tell me by giving below…. 🙂

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Be Radical, Make War

radicalHey New Passion Family and Friends!

I started reading a book called Radical by David Platt this week. I just started in Chapter 2 and I already regret that I did not start reading it before we began our Make War Series this past weekend. This is a MUST read, it is already confirming that we are on the right track with the Make War series and it’s helping solidify that we have to have a different perspective as a church (Yes, all of that in a chapter and a half).

The best news is…Amazon has the book right now for $5.50!!! [Go Order] The cheapest I’ve found it outside of Amazon is $11+ at Wal-Mart. I highly recommend ordering this book and making it a study companion during our make war series!

Check out the book’s video below:

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Welcome to Oddville

greg-drinking-coffeeI was going to tweet this but it’s too long:

I think I died and woke up in an alternate universe, you know the kind where all the people are the same, but everything is different?

We had our first New Passion Leadership Meeting where all four of our key leaders (Billy Wilson, Jonothan Powell, Gregory Hansel, and Myself) were together tonight.

I found it funny and strangely odd that #1 I was the only one out of the group NOT tweeting and #2 the two newbies to twitter, who by the way, swore they would never tweet were having an in-depth discussion with each other about why they weren’t following each other.

By the way, if you are the wife to one of these guys, my goal was to end by 8:30, it was 8:33 when I was finished with what I had to cover, but it also took me an extra five minutes to get them to put their phones down 🙂

Oh how things change!

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Step by Step

Today, New Passion Church turned one year old. It’s been fun to think back on what we as a church looked like one year ago today. The issues we dealt with, the worries, the questions. A lot has happened in one year. It’s easy to get bogged down in the busyness of life and the demands of what sits in front of us, but I think its a good thing to pause and remember the memories of the past. It’s a little weird, but they were good times and good memories. Check out these pictures of how just our worship band and environment have changed in one year! We went from Jonothan and a vocalist (Cyndie), down to just Jonothan, eventually Christa his wife joined him, and now it appears God is developing a full band for us (Read the Captions):

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I asked for some “backlighting” to help with the video quality, so I got “backlighting”
We progressed QUICKLY and within a week, we had two different colors for our backlighting. We were a happening church!
We progressed QUICKLY and within a week, we had two different colors for our backlighting. We were a happening church!
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And then there was Jonothan…and his acoustic guitar.
The whole set-up cannot be seen, but we finally worked our way up to some LED lights, a drummer (sometimes) two vocalists, and a bass player, oh yeah and a hazer.
The whole set-up cannot be seen, but we finally worked our way up to some LED lights, a drummer (sometimes) two vocalists, and a bass player, oh yeah and a hazer.
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Our newest set-up at Patriots Park and so far my favorite. The whole band cannot be seen, but it appears we have a full time drummer, bass player, vocalists, oh yeah, and amazingly I still have my worship leader. He has literally built this from the ground up!

It’s really an understatement to say that God has been good to us. He would still be good to us if we had our green and purple light and Jonothan on his acoustic guitar.

Take a few minutes and check out our recap video of how God has used New Passion over this past year:

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The Space Between

Check out this video from Pete Wilson, lead pastor at Cross Point Church, in Nashville, TN.

This message (Relentlessly Dedicated) is from Cross Point’s 3D DNA series.

If you are a Christ Follower and it doesn’t inspire you…I truly don’t know what to say. Watch it. Be inspired. Do something!

I pray God would use our community of faith at New Passion to make the kind of impact Cross Point has locally and globally in our area.

Reflections from the message:

  • The reference Pete made about 6 pennies, are you okay with that?
  • Pete referenced the average missions giving from the church was 2% and the average from individuals to the church was 2% – Are you okay with that?
  • Are you bored?
  • Do you buy into the consumerism approach to church? It’s got to fit within your mileage, its got to fit within your schedule, all of the programs, the style, the music has to fit you like a glove? Has church become about you?
  • How do you look at missions? Is it a program of the church? A great idea? Something you do when it fits your schedule and your budget? Or is it a part of your DNA?
  • How would your opinion about your problems change if you knew God would use it for his glory in the life of another person? (I.E. God used shadrach meshach and abednego in the fiery furnace to open the eyes of Nebuchadnezzar)