Forgive to Live Seminar

Forgive to Live Seminar
Begins Wednesday March 18 at 7:00 pm.
Concludes May 13 (9 weeks)
Taught by Pastor J. David Newman

Many have tried forgiveness before and failed. This is typically due to a lack of understanding and practical tools on how to forgive. This seminar will teach you to:

* Come to a new understanding of what has happened to you
* Discover what forgiveness does and doesn't mean
* Take steps to reframe your grievance story
* Stop giving control to the people and pains of the past
* Get your life - and maybe even your health - back
* Find freedom, peace…and strength you've never had
* Learn the 7 strategies for dealing with anger that DON'T work
* Understand the physiological mechanisms which can cause high blood pressure and
other stress related diseases
* Benefit from forgiveness no matter what the other person's response
* Learn to overcome the 4 barriers to forgiveness
* Find a new way of dealing with anger so it doesn't come out in unhealthy ways
like road rage, yelling at loved ones, or losing one's temper with coworkers
* Discover 5 healthy expressions of anger

YOU WILL MUST BUY THE BOOK AND WORKBOOK.
Forgive to Live textbook $22.99 and the Forgive to Live workbook $13.99. You can buy them at the Potomac ABC or from Amazon.com.

PODCAST WITH PASTOR ANN

Take a deep breath before you listen to this podcast with Pastor Ann Roda. There are a million and one things happening in the children and youth ministries at New Hope. In this interview, she will share her passion and vision for ministry at the church.

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WANNA SERVE GOD

Want to be involved in ministry but pressed for time?

Here are some ways you can be involved that will take no more than 1 hour a month.

-Create Power Point slides of Kids Church songs. Involves cut/paste from Word to Power Point. Can work from home. 1 hour/month

-Write cards to kids. Need 4 people total. Can work from home. 30 mins-1 hour/month

-Serve as Kingdom Kids registration staff. Must like to smile. 1 hour/month

-Organize and maintain the Quiet Bags. Need 2 people to alternate weeks. 10 mins/week

-Like to talk on the phone? Help making reminder calls. Can work from home. 15 mins/week

-Love to clean and organize? Help keep Kids Church room clean and organized. Need 2 people total. 1 hour/month

If you are interested, please contact Pastor Ann, 301-741-1926 or Lynne, 301-854-1866 x11.

UNWANTED BOOKS?

Turn your unwanted books into scholarships. GC Women’s Ministries is collecting books, videos, CDs, DVDs, and puzzles for the department’s next “Scholarshipping Our Sisters” (SOS) book sale in early April. SOS scholarships help Adventist women around the world complete their college educations and secure a stable future for themselves and their families. Call Karen Banner at 301.680.6020 to donate books.

WHAT DO OTHERS THINK OF US?

A student at Columbia Union College wrote an interesting blog about her experience visiting New Hope. Click here to read what she wrote.

NEW HOPE SCHOOL IN MOZAMBIQUE

Americans consider education to be a right that all children are entitled to, but in other countries around the world such as Mozambique, education comes at a cost that countless families are unable to afford. During New Hope’s S.o.S. mission trip to Mozambique in July 2008, we saw what happens to a country whose citizens are uneducated. About 20 years of civil war has left an entire generation illiterate, uneducated and unable to pull themselves out of the extreme poverty and difficulty in which they and their children are now living.

The school that New Hope’s team helped build during the mission trip to Mozambique in July 2008 is now completed and scheduled to open in February 2009! On our last day in Mozambique, we paid one last visit to the school that we helped build. We were disturbed to learn that most of the children in the surrounding neighborhood would not be able to afford the tuition to attend the school that they faithfully watched us build for 2½ weeks. We decided that this could not be! New Hope’s S.o.S. missions board has formed a student scholarship program that will enable us to sponsor students to attend the school.

Click here to read the full story at the New Hope SOS blog.

MORE VOLUNTEERS NEEDED!

IMPORTANT MESSAGE FROM PASTOR KUMAR

I just got back from the first night of Winterhaven. There are 28 guests and a ton of things that we still need. Here are the most pressing:

1. Need 2 night time monitors on Saturday from 10:30pm - 7:30am. Requires males.

2. Breakfast set up around 5am.

3. Extra hands to help for a couple hours during the meals, etc. any night this week from 6:30-9pm.

Please personally call me on my cell phone 301.502.8566 or reply on this message, if you can help in any way. Thanks!

Pastor Kumar