NEW PRAYER MEETING SERIES

Bring your Bibles and explore the book of Ephesians with Pastor David Newman as we learn its meaning for our daily lives today. Every Wednesday at 7pm for a time of meditation, then explore God’s word and then apply it through a time of prayer. For more details contact the church office at 301.854.1866.

November 7 Chosen Last
November 14 Ultimate Security
November 21 Lively Death
November 28 Peaceful Hostility
December 5 Greatest Mystery
December 12 Extreme Love
December 19 United Diversity
December 26 Living Lightly

NEED A RIDE TO CHURCH?

It's finally here--New Hope's FREE Transportation Ministry! If you need
a ride to church, our FREE shuttle runs before/after the 12:15 church
service. Pickup times and locations are as follows:

10:20-10:30 AM Laurel Mall--pickup @ Burlington Coat Factory
10:45-11:00 AM Columbia Union College--pickup @ Wilkinson Hall
11:15-11:30 AM Takoma Metro
12:00-12:10 PM Scaggsville Park & Ride

For more information, or to make your FREE shuttle reservation, click
the link below.

--You can make a reservation up to a month in advance
--You can make a reservation for a group of up to ten people
--You can come back and edit or remove your reservations
--Reservations must be made no later than Thursday

Click here to make a reservation

FAMILY FOOD FRIENDZY

If you have or ever have had small children, you know only too well the joys associated with trying to get out on the town on a Saturday night. As with many social dilemmas, New Hope has a solution to the problem; Family Food Friendzy! Using the long-term success of the young adult food friendzy for inspiration, Families began getting together twice a month during the summer at the homes of various volunteer families. E-mails were sent to numerous families and invitations were given to parents and guardians following Sabbath School classes with directions, menus, and a list of all the fun to be had. Rajinie Dixit, originator and one of New Hope’s leading family fun activists stated, “We wanted to provide a place for families to come and socialize in an atmosphere where they could relax. Not everyone has a kid friendly house and restaurants on a Saturday night can be a nightmare.
The families who opened their homes had toys, wipes, diapers—and especially the kind of understanding and patience needed to welcome new family friends.” The success of the summer Family Food Friendzy has prompted its patron members to continue meeting on a less frequent basis. You can e-mail Rajinie Dixit at rajiniedixit@yahoo.com for more details.

~written by Katina Chappell

NEW FACILITY DIRECTOR

Every growing church has a network of people that spend most of their time behind the scenes focusing on things that get overlooked by the average person. The work of a Facilities Manager is hard but rewarding, and New Hope gladly welcomes Collier Rowe Sr. to this post. Collier has had extensive experience in "making things work" as he served with the Army Corp of engineers for a number of years in Kentucky and the Maryland area. He also served as a facilities manager at John Nevins Andrews Elementary School in Takoma Park, MD.

Collier works faithfully at New Hope Monday through Friday for 4 hours per day. For him "…working for the church is everything. With God I can tackle anything and it feels good to be close to ministry."

Collier Rowe Sr. is a family man and is married to Lorne (LJ), and is a proud parent of Ebony and Collier Jr. (CJ), and grandfather of Destiny.

Rowe started attending New Hope since its grand opening at the current Fulton campus. He enjoys coming to New Hope worship because it allows him to be free to "fully praise God." He also enjoys the family oriented atmosphere of New Hope and believes that members supporting one another will be a key in the continued growth of New Hope.

~Written by Andre Hastick

40 DAYS OF PRAYER | OCTOBER 6 - NOVEMBER 17

Are you ready to jump start your personal prayer life? New Hope will embark on a life changing series. Get ready to see transforming results with your relationship with God. Each Sabbath the pastoral team will share powerful expositions of Scripture on prayer testimonies from New Hope members. We will conclude with a 24-hour prayer session November 16-17. We encourage existing small groups and new small groups to order the book, Love to Pray, and the Love to Pray Study Guide from: http://www.40daysofprayer.net/.

A class on Christian meditation and contemplation will begin on October 9, led by Pastor Dixit. Learn to discover God’s voice through silence an intentional listening.

Forty Days of Prayer Calendar of Events:

October 6 : 40 Days of Prayer Begins

October 9 : Meditation & Contemplation Class begins
Led by Pastors Dixit & Hastick

October 10: Wednesday Night Prayer Meeting Meets every week

October 30: Prayer and Meditation at the Labyrinth
Trip to the National Cathedral, led by Pastor Dixit

November 16-17: 24 Hours of Prayze

KINGDOM KIDS LEADERSHIP TEAM EXPANDS

Kingdom Kids has just gained three very talented people as leaders. Read about them and their ministries below:

Debbie Howell is the Kingdom Kids Church Director. She has been helping out and leading in Kids Church for almost a year. Debbie will be responsible for all aspects of Kids Church each week including developing a team of leaders, creative programming, music, training Kids Praise teams and integrating children into the main worship service. As Debbie leads music in front of Kids Church , she loves to see the light of God’s love and grace shining through the faces of the kids. She says, “I never knew that serving God could be this much fun! It’s also been awesome to see God assemble the most amazing team of adults to form our Children’s Worship Team. Yeah God!”

Rajinie Dixit has been a faithful leader in children’s Sabbath School for 3 ½ years. Her past experience as a speech-pathologist has given her the organizational skills and patience to oversee all kids Sabbath Schools as Kingdom Kids Sabbath School Director. Rajinie’s favorite part of leading children’s ministry is watching kids learn their memory verses. Her creative energy and friendly attitude make lessons exciting for kids, as well as creating an encouraging atmosphere for other parents to get involved. Rajinie hopes to revitalize Sabbath School by integrating more art and projects into the classes. She also dreams of streamlining the curriculums so that parents can easily implement the stories and lessons into their worship time at home.

Ruth Francis-Williams is the new Director of child Safety Program. She has been involved in Children’s Ministries since February 2006. Ruth is creating a system and process for comprehensive screening and background checks for all volunteers to assure that New Hope is a safe place for children and youth. She realizes that when parents bring their children to New Hope , they expect the environment to be as safe as home. Ruth welcomes parent input in order to provide the best safety system for New Hope . You can contact her at londellfw@verizon.net.

NEW HOPE KIDS TAKE ON SUMMER MISSION PROJECT

As New Hope Church reaches out in mission projects through Sharing Our Pantry, we will be collecting food for distribution to senior citizens at Morningside Park Apartments on Guilford Road in Jessup. Deliveries of groceries were made on June 16th and July 21st, but more food is needed and being collected each Sabbath to help the seniors in our community. On August 18th, donations of non-perishable groceries will be sorted, bagged and delivered starting at 12:30 p.m to low-income senior citizens who are hungry in our community. Over 40 residents in this building of 60 units have requested groceries.

This project runs all year through Pointers Run Elementary School and New Hope Church is meeting this community need during the summer as a mission project for Kingdom Kidz. A major hunger problem occurs at the end of the month when one social security check runs out and before the new one arrives. Many seniors have transportation and physical limitation issues that make it difficult for them to get to the area food banks.

The cost of low/no salt, low/no sugar, and diabetic food has sky rocketed. Seniors often face the difficult choice whether to buy food or medicine. The purpose of ‘Sharing Our Pantry' is to assemble nutritionally balanced food packages that will be delivered to low-income seniors. Drop of your donations on Sabbath August 4th, 11th and 18th at the drop boxes in the church hallways and entrances. Additional information is available at Kidz Church registration and the Ask Me Desk. Needed donations:

• Canned fruits and vegetables
• Powdered milk & canned soups
• Tuna, peanut butter, tomato sauce
• Packaged pasta/mac and cheese
• Nutritious cereals
• LOW SALT, NO SUGAR and items for DIABETICS
• Gift cards to Weis Market, Safeway and Giant Food to purchase fresh meat/dairy items

Together we can help erase hunger among seniors in Howard County!

For more info about this project contact:

Angie Bernard aabernard@cincere.com

or Kalani Smith kalanismith@verizon.net