Sunday Service
- Adult 1st Service: 9AM
- Adult 2nd Service: 11AM
- Youth Service: 10:45AM
The 333 Prayer Request For 2003
I want to sincerely thank the "333 Prayer Partners" who prayed during the past year. These are people who committed to praying for a particular request 3 times a day, 33 seconds each time, for a full year.
The prayer request for 2002 was: "Pray that Pastor Chai may feel the pain of those who are suffering and that each House Church may bear fruit in winning souls." It's clear that our prayers for the House Churches have been answered. The 163 people we baptized last year are proof of that. It's a little more difficult to assess the prayers for myself, but I do believe ...
Monday Morning Men’s Prayer Meeting
We had our first Monday Morning Men's Prayer Meeting this past Monday at 6AM in the Trailer House. Amazingly, there were twenty men who came to pray before they went to work. Some came from not too far away places but there were guys who came all the way from Missouri City, Sugar Land and Pearland. I just cannot express in words how I felt about the first prayer meeting. It was like fresh wind after a long drought, like fresh breath of the Spirit of God. Truly awesome!
About three and a half years ago I saw a vision during our Sunday morning intercessory prayer meeting. ...
Why did you cry during worship service?
My younger brother was visiting me in Houston for the first time from Washington state and he asked me this after attending our worship service. He was surprised to see his older brother, a grown man, shamelessly crying in public at the podium.
As a matter of fact, I frequently cry; not only during worship but even when I'm completely alone. When I feel the presence and the love of God in a deep, real way, I often shed tears.
I lost my parents when I was 7 years old. So for most of my life I had a strong longing deep inside for a father. A father who would be there to ...
Going Deeper with God
In the past six and a half years of New Life history, we have emphasized the importance of Sunday corporate worship, weekly house church gathering, intercessory prayer and missions. There are other essential elements of a local church, such as community outreach and Bible studies, that we need to pay attention to and must develop in order for us to become a biblically fully functioning church, and we will do so when the time comes. But there is a reason why I haven't stressed the significance of Bible studies in New Life all these years.
The purpose of studying the ...
Space Expansion Plans
As I mentioned last time, space has become a major problem at our church. In order to continue being an effective church, we must find ways to provide space to accommodate the non-believers that God sends our way. Here are the plans we are currently considering. I'm sharing these to ask for your help with them and to solicit any suggestions you might have.
First, there is the problem of worship space. The current plan is to find ways to maximize the use of our existing facilities. For example, there are still open spaces in the front of the sanctuary during the Sunday ...
Highlights Of Last Year And Tasks For The New Year
Before I believed in Christ, I used to drink excessively on Christmas. The reason being, I felt I had to do something special for Christmas, but I didn't know what to do. So my way of celebrating was drinking until I passed out! After I became a follower of Christ I stopped drinking, but I still had this feeling that I must do something different at Christmas time. And it was bad for me because it was almost an obsession. To escape it, I decided to treat Christmas just like any other day. So now, since I decided not to send Christmas cards, I don't really feel like ...
More Excellent President
The presidential election of Korea is over. During the campaign, I would often read internet bulletin board posts from newspaper readers. It always made me feel uncomfortable. Posters were extremely negative, calling the opposing party's candidate names, that he was a bastard, traitor, commie etc. Regardless of who won, I worried that with such a negative attitude, a big problem was brewing.
Then on December 14, approximately one week before the election, I read an article in the Korean Daily Newspaper by a columnist named Mr. Yuk Kil Won. Reading it was like finding ...