Sunday Service
- Adult 1st Service: 9AM
- Adult 2nd Service: 11AM
- Youth Service: 10:45AM
Thank you, New Life!
From the Pastor’s Desk (191)
This year's house church seminar for pastors was special and different for several reasons. First of all, there were a good number of seasoned pastors who are shepherding churches that have hundreds of members. Second, there were people literally from all over the world such as Brazil, South Africa, Turkey, Kazakhstan, Sri Lanka, Thailand, Vietnam, Laos and the US. The pastors from the US were from California, Arizona, Illinois, Tennessee, Georgia, Massachusetts and Texas. And third, the response of the participants in ...
Praying for You at the Praying Altars
In the Bible, we see pastors devoting themselves to God's word, prayer, equipping God's people and providing leadership to church. Therefore, prayer is one of my main responsibilities and I try to take it seriously. It also is one of my great joys in pastoral ministry. I routinely work about 60 hours a week and prayer takes up about 15-20% of my work hours. The rest is approximately divided up 35%, 30% and 15% in the order of God's word, equipping God's people and providing leadership to church.
I use various things to pray for you. Using the prayer request form that I ...
How Many Evenings at Home a Week?
I subscribe to this quarterly journal called "Leadership Journal." In this issue, they are dealing with the topic of "Declutter." Bill Hybels was interviewed by two editors and they addressed the issue of simplifying your life to do all that God has called you to do. They also included an excerpt/story from the book Hybels recently wrote called "Simplify." I made copies of this and put one in each of our team leaders' mailboxes because I wanted them to read it with their wives.
In this short story, Hybels talks about how he had decided to stay home four nights a week ...
Let’s Be Thankful in Seemingly Small Things!
From the Pastor’s Desk (188)
We don't realize what we have until we lose it. For me, it was my eyesight. Even though I have been wearing glasses since college, my vision had been pretty decent at -2.50 in both eyes until I turned 40 when I had to start wearing progressive glasses. Then, in the beginning of 2013, my eyesight has gotten drastically worse when I developed retinal tears and retinal detachments in both eyes. After going through multiple surgeries, five on the left and two on the right eye, to be exact, my vision is not the same as ...
Sydney, Chiang Mai and Surgery
By the time you read this, I will have left from IAH on my way to Sydney, Australia, arriving there on Monday morning. It is a little more than a 20-hour flight including a two-hour layover in LA. I am going there because Pastor Isaac Min, who attended our House Church Seminar for Pastors two years ago, asked me to come and speak at a joint retreat that he is part of. In fact, he had asked me if I could come and speak in the beginning of 2014, but I couldn't go because of the multiple eye surgeries I had in 2013 as well as the process of recovering. Pastor Isaac ...
Some changes in our house church ministry
Several thoughts and ideas were shared during the last Village Leaders' Meeting. And we sensed that it would be great to make some changes in our house church ministry to reflect what was shared. These are the changes we will make starting from January 2015.
House church shepherds' meetings
As of now, our shepherds meet every Wednesday from 7:15 to 9PM except on the first Wednesday when we have House of Prayer and on the last Wednesday of even months when shepherds' wives meet with my wife for a time of sharing, encouragement and prayer. Beginning ...
It’s more blessed to give than to receive
People think they will be happy if they take and possess stuff. But Jesus teaches the opposite. He said, "It's more blessed to give than to receive." (Acts 20: 35) We experienced it once again this past Friday when we gave and served the community through Fall Festival.
As I was working in my office on Friday afternoon, I could hear the New Life members outside who had come early to set up for Fall Festival. When I left my office at about 6:15pm and went to the church parking lot, everything was pretty much ready to host the community. I saw the entire church ...