Epic. Huge. Awesome. Incredible. Par-tay!

I could go on and on, but I think you get the idea. But you really don’t. Not yet. Not until you come celebrate/worship/party with us on August 1 as we celebrate the one year anniversary of the first-ever meeting of anything called Trinity New Life Church.

On August 3, 2009, 14 people gathered in our home to pray and discuss what it would look like to start a new church. A church where the gospel would not only be proclaimed, but lived out. A church where people looked out for the interests of others, not just their own. A church where people love their city and work to serve it, not just exist in it.

This was the beginning of Trinity New Life Church.

And while there were months of small meetings, trials and errors, preview services, room changes, mistakes and successes before our first weekly service took place on March 14, 2010, we want to take a moment to remember all God’s done, and all he’s going to do to see His kingdom come and His will be done through TNLC. So we’re throwing a beach party on August 1 to celebrate!

Instead of meeting at the YMCA that Sunday morning, we’re going to be heading to shelter 9 at Fred Howard Park (don’t worry, there will be signs!) at 10:30 for a shorter service (childcare still provided!), enjoy a big ‘ol BBQ lunch, and then head down to the beach to celebrate life change through water baptisms!

This is going to be legen…wait for it…DARY!

So mark your calendars, get your bathing suit ready, figure out which side or dessert you’re going to bring (sign up here) and come early and eager to celebrate Jesus!

PS- If you’re interested in getting baptized send me an email to let me know.

It’s not if you’re going to be at TNLC this Sunday. We already know the answer’s “YES!”

It’s a question of influence. A question of love. A question of friendship.

A question of eternity.

The question is…

Who are you bringing with you?

Who do you know that needs to meet Jesus?

That needs to be set free?

That needs a RESET on life?

That, my friends, is the question you need to be asking. Someone was asked the same question one, and their answer was you.

Will you return the favor?

But more than anything, churches need PRAYER!

In light of this, I’m throwing down a challenge to have at least one person praying and fasting for TNLC every day from now until April 11th. A list of starting prayer points (please add more as God leads you) can be found here on our TNLC website.

Before you freak out about fasting and what is and how you do it, check out the helpful links below. If you’ve never fasted before, of any kind, this is the perfect opportunity!

1. Prayer and Fasting
2. Types of Fasting
3. 6 Practical Steps for Fasting

Remaining dates

1. March 5
2. April 8
   

Which ones are you crossing off the list?! Need to join with us on a date already taken? No problem! Leave a comment below and we’ll sign you up as well.

Join with us today!

If you’ve never fasted before, here’s a helpful resource of types of fasting

Breakfast: Love Jesus

• Pray we’d be a church passionately in love with Jesus Christ
• Pray we’d be completely motivated to action out of our love for Jesus
• Pray we’d be constant in sharing our love for Jesus, asking God every day to bring people across our path who we can share Jesus with (Philemon 6)
• Pray we’d be intentional about making disciples (Matthew 28:18-20)
• Pray we’d be filled with inexpressible and glorious joy because of our salvation in Christ (1 Peter 1:8, 9)

Lunch: Love People

• Please pray that everyone in TNLC would bear one another’s burdens in love (Galatians 6:2)
• Pray we’d continually work to pay our outstanding debt to love one another (Romans 13:8)
• Pray Jesus would be revealed to those around us by the way we love each other (John 17:20, 21)
• Pray we’d establish New Life Groups where people live out community founded on and shaped by the gospel (Acts 2:42)
• Pray we’d love one other enough to sacrifice for them and meet their needs (Acts 2:45)

Dinner: Serve the City

• Pray that we’d have a heart to seek the peace and prosperity of the city (Jeremiah 29:7)
• Pray we’d know how to meet the specific needs of our community
• Pray we’d be salt to our city (Matthew 5:13)
• Pray we’d be a city of light within the city (Matthew 5:14-16)

Upcoming Services

• Pray for our February 14th service, that over 60 people would attend
• Pray they’d hear God calling them to align their lives with Him first, then align their relationships with Him
• Pray for our strategic planning time February 19-20, that we’d hear God’s plans and will for us
• Pray for our February 28th service and guest speaker Adrian Crawford. Pray people would be called into God’s kingdom, and others would receive a greater heart and love for those who don’t know Jesus.

The missing mission team of four women from King’s Park International Church was located, and all are doing fine

Moments ago, Pastor Brent Garrard of In Focus Church contacted someone in the Augusta, Georgia, area who has communications into Port-au-Prince. Connections were made, and Wayne Graham spoke with his wife Linda in Haiti.

Linda reported that she and the other team members — Kellee Metty, Lisa Lewis, and Dr. Julie Zervos — are all “doing great.” They’re ministering in a soccer field and caring for people injured or left homeless by the 7.0 earthquake that rocked the island nation yesterday. Linda even helped to deliver two babies last night!

Thank you for your prayers!

Please continue to pray for healing, love, mercy, provision and God’s grace to be upon everyone in Haiti, and consider donating through any of the avenues that are readily available.

As 2009 comes to a close, many look to make year-end contributions to charitable organizations. We’d like encourage you to make an eternal impact with your finances through the ministry of Trinity New Life Church. Here’s an example of how your finances are used to impact people:

At our recent December 13 service, 20% of the offering collected at the end of service was donated to Metropolitan Ministries, a local service organization, helping them provide for families in need over the holidays.

While this was taking place in our sanctuary, two children in New Life Kids told their teacher how much they loved their first experience, and were so interested in “that Jesus,” because they’d never heard His name before and couldn’t wait to come back. While buying a book or helping to pay rent may not seem significant, it’s the type of giving that creates the environment and opportunity for life change.

Please help us continue to impact the lives of others by contributing all or in part towards the the following items:

• $5,000: Start-up cost (media, sound equipment, etc.)
• $2,000: Community events to serve and love our city
• $1,500: 3 month facility rental fee
• $1,300: Video camera to increase our creative media ability
• $300: 60 Bibles for new believers
• $100: 40 guides for new believers to learn how to share their faith
• $20 per month as a TNLC partner

All contributions to TNLC are income tax deductible. Donations can be made online before January 1 by visiting www.EveryNation.org/Trinity. Checks can be made out to Trinity New Life Church and mailed to 1629 Crossvine Court, Trinity, FL 34655 and must be postmarked by December 31, 2009.

Thank you so much for your partnership in making an eternal impact!

Blessings,
Clayton Bell, Lead Pastor

To 10:30 a.m.!

In the process of updating our rental agreement with the YMCA, we were also able to agree to a new service time! This is a great move for Trinity New Life Church- it makes thing easier on families to get home for naps, you get back more of your afternoon after church, and it’s a lot easier to go have lunch together after.

We’re so excited about the move, and hope to see you on January 10th at 10:30 for our next preview service!

RSS readers click here if you can’t see the video.

We’d like to thank all of you for coming out and making the night so much fun. The event was sponsored by Trinity New Life Church, a brand-new church meeting in the YMCA on Sundays at 11:15 a.m. We’d like to invite you to attend our first service on November 8. Click here to find out more.

We’re also excited to announce our raffle winners!

Amanda Brandenburg

Is the winner of the $25 gift card to Zim Zari!

Chris Roth

Is the winner of the $25 gift card to Lowe’s!

The gift cards will be available at the front desk of the YMCA Monday, November 2. If you have any trouble collecting the gift card, please contact us and we’ll resolve the issue quickly.

The costumes were so creative and well done our judges had a difficult time choosing winners. You can click through to our Flickr page for larger versions and to download any photo of your family. Contact us for the full-sized version of any image.

Thanks again for attending the event, and we look forward to another great one next year. Please feel free to browse around the website, and let us know if you have any questions about the church.

God bless!

These smoke-gray shirts are pre-shrunk, 100% cotton Anvil shirts, and they are dead sexy! With the large symbol on the front, you feel like a superhero when you put it on. Well, at least I do. So here’s how you get them-

• Join the Launch Team- Hey, I’m shameless. Come help us make history!
• Live in the area and agree to wear the shirt out in public and tell people about the church when they ask you where you got such an amazing shirt!
• Help serve during one of our preview services- You don’t have to be local to qualify for this. Anyone who comes to help gets a free shirt! You don’t have to wait for an official team to come down, you can just visit. Let us know if this is you!
• Partner with us for at least $20 per month- Look, it’s going to take at least $30,000 to get this bad boy up and running; can’t you spare $5 a week? $5 a week to change history, change lives? You’re more than welcome to partner with us for more per month, but if you agree to send in $20 a month, one of these bad boys might just show up on your door!

Alright, there are your options! Which one are you taking?