Weekly Schedule August 31, 2011 Upcoming Events
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The Vine
August 31, 2011
“I am the vine; you are the branches. Those who abide in me and I in them bear much fruits, because apart from me you can do nothing.” -John 15:5
Weekly Schedule August 31 September 2
September 4
Summer mission report by Eunice Lee 6:30 PM Game Night at church 7:00 PM Petra Home Group bible study 9:40 AM Prayer meeting 10:00 AM Worship 11:00 AM Fellowship
Pray for peace to come in Libya, Syrea, and the middle east. Praying for our community who are going through lost of loved one, health concerns, and transitions in life. Pray for the search for a new Children Pastor for the Children’s Ministry. Pray for our 2011 Nominating Committee.
Upcoming Events September 4
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New Fall Sermon Series begins
September 9
Home Groups resume!
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Summer Mission Trip Reflection Hey friends! Thank you so much for all your prayers over the last summer and/or being a blessing in my life- I truly appreciate it! I arrived home yesterday (so jetlag!) but I typed up this last email on my plane ride back: So just in to fill in those who might not knowthis summer I went to China for two months for m-work with an organization called daybreak Asia to teach at summer English camps with 40 other people (all believers- mostly college students)- half from the U.S. and half from the U.K.- we also shared about Dad to the studentswhich is the main point of ISEC. ISEC 2011 in China has honestly been the most challenging and amazing experience of my life. God has taught me so much in China through the students, the counselors and especially through my team. So as a quick recap- I arrive in China on July 3 and from there we had a week long orientation in Beijing. Then my team headed off on a 12 hour sleeper train ride to our first camp in Yangzhou, where we stayed in home stays and taught middle school students from migrant worker families for two weeks. We then left for Hangzhou where we taught primary (so cute) and middle school students at a private boarding school with a crazy headmaster. And then we headed off on a 22 hour train ride/ 8 hour boat ride to Dalian (a beautiful touristy city by the sea) for our third and final camp where we taught a mix of middle school and high school students alongside 4 amazing Chinese sisters who organized the camp, which was interrupted for a day because of the typhoon. At every camp, we had a fashion show where kids used paper and news paper to dress someone up as a superhero, an auction where we gave the kids fake money and they were able to bid for fake items such as a trip to Paris, a car, a house etc- we would have news flashes where something would happen in the world and items kids bought would get destroyed and in the end everything was destroyed except for faith, hope, love and forgiveness, a movie- one of the chronicles of Narnia series, a You are Special skit based on a story by Max Lucado which was something I needed to be reminded about so
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many times in China, mini Olympics which is mass chaos but the kids love, the everything skit by life house which is so powerful, and my favorite- foot washing where we washed the kids feet and told them there was once a great teacher who washed the feet of his disciples to express his love to them and told them that to lead is to serve. After all three camps, we were thoroughly exhausted, and then had a week of debrief and hiking in the beautiful mountains of Beijing, which was so good for me. In our first camp two of my students, John and Eric, asked Jesus to come into their life and one of our students Linda said she would start going to church every Sunday! In the second camp, one of my students Billy accepted Jesus- it was incredible because during the first conversation he told me he was Buddhist and didn’t believe in Jesus and something changed in his heart during the camp. He cried during foot washing and told me that He believes in Jesus and wanted to pray to ask Jesus into his life! One our counselors, Andy, after translating the Easter story for me said he thought it was a beautiful story and he started crying during the foot washing and has started to read the bible because he is interested! In the last camp, one of our counselors, Emily, accepted Jesus! Two of our students, Tracy and David, who was Buddhist before, accepted Jesus! In addition, three students from another camp wanted to talk to me because I was Korean so I talked to them with one of the Chinese counselors who was Christian and we stayed up late talking for hours and I brought up Jesus’ love for them. They all accepted Jesus and wanted to pray to ask Jesus into their lives. PTL! Please keep them in your prayers- although many of them wanted to accept Jesus into their lives, I think some were more sincere than others and there might be some element of them wanting to please us as foreigners. So please God would still work through that and for Him to continue to place people in their lives to help them and disciple them. Although our team definitely had our hard times, the thing I am most thankful for this summer is my team- God really taught me to love and taught me more of what love is through them….
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He also showed me the beauty of His grace and redeeming love that works through our failings and brokenness. We are each so different but have the most important thing in common and that is that we are children of God. God really showed me a little of what it looks like to be a body of Christ made up of different part that need each other. How good and pleasant it is when brothers (and sisters) live together in unity! – psalm 133:1. I thank God for all the good times, the joy, the laughter, the breakthroughs, but also for the hard times, the struggles, the tears and the pain. Here are some verses that have carried me through this summer: The Lord your God is with you, he is mighty to save. He will take great delight in you, he will quiet you with his love, he will rejoice over you with singing. -Zephaniah 3:17 Make a tree good and its fruit will be good, or make a tree bad and its fruit will be bad, for a tree is recognized by its fruit. You brood of vipers, how can you who are evil say anything good? For our of the overflow of the heart the mouth speaks. - Matthew 12:32-34 We love because he first loved us. If anyone says, “I love God,” yet hates his brother, he is a liar. For anyone who does not love his brother, whom he has seen, cannot love God, whom he has not seen. And he has given us this command: whoever loves God must also love his brother. -1 John 4:19-21 It is more blessed to give than to receive - Acts 20:35 Deep calls to deep in the roar of your waterfalls; all your waves and breakers have swept over me. By day the Lord directs his love, at night his song is with me- a prayer to the God of my life. -Psalm 42:7-8 O God, you are my God, earnestly I seek you; my soul thirsts for you, my body longs for you, in a dry and weary land where there is no water. I have seen you in the sanctuary and behld your power and your glory. Because your love is better than life, my lips will glorify you. I will praise you as long as I live, and in your name I will lift up my hands. - Psalm 63:1-4 To be honest, I felt in a bit of a dry season and my heart was pretty numb during my time in China- I found it hard many times to pray and sometimes to believe that God loved me as I told the kids that He so loved them- I questioned why I was in China and if I had even learned anything while I was there. But PTL that He is faithful even when we are faithless- I felt everything come full circle during debrief- I felt the numbness of my heart slowly melt away and I realized God had taught me SO MUCH in China especially about his love and his faithfulness! I learned that I shouldn't be passionate about being passionate- but passionate about God- that I should seek Him- to seek His face and not His hand. I feel truly blessed to call God my abba and to have fellowshipped and served alongside such wonderful brothers and sisters in Christ who passionately love God. If you want to hear more please ask and I would love to share more with you one on one- and I would also love to hear about your summer! :) I have four final prayer requests to wrap up my summer: - Please pray for my grandma on my mom’s side who lives in Korea. I spent two weeks staying with her before I went to China and two days after China. She is very Buddhist and goes to temple, watches Buddhist tv, prays every morning, does ancestral worship, has buddhist idols in her home. She is getting very old and I am afraid time is really running out. My mom and I have tried to talk to her about Jesus- but she has gotten really angry at my mom for that. I have tried talking to her about Jesus and I really felt like God has softened her heart enough to let her listen without getting angry and to let me pray for her before meals and when we are together. It saddens me so much to see her continue to lose her memory, and have pain all over her body, struggle with depression, and be lonely as my grandpa passed away when my mom was only 12, but most of all to know that she does not know Jesus and His love and eternal life that He offers. This is the prayer request that I ask most sincerely and urgently and whole-heartedly about. She has so many walls up that only God can breakthrough.
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- Please pray for me as I adjust back to life in America and head back to school this saturday and adjust back to college life- classes start on august 30th! Also please pray for me as I start my final year at Harvard and start to make some important decisions about my career and what I will do after I graduate. Please pray for wisdom and discernment and that I would follow wherever God leads me. Also, I really want to seek and serve God with all my heart this last year at Harvard- I want to give it my all- so please pray as I continue to ask God for his will for Harvard and how to glorify Him and advance his kingdom on that campus. - Please pray for my team: Rachel Wood from UCLA, Erin Kim from Princeton, Jazz Huphires from Cambridge, Jonny Harnett from Oxford, Danny Wong from Dartmouth, Ryan Kang from Princeton, David McCluskey from Queens in Ireland, Sam Chan from Oxford, and Felicity Loudon from Scottland who is heading back home to start a new job! Please pray for them as they adjust back to home life- that they would be able to process everything that they need to from this trip and that they would continue to passionately seek God and serve Him as they return to old friends and the comforts of this world. Please pray that they would be the salt and the light at their schools- that they would really be set apart and marked by a purity and holiness that others can see by the way they live- and that God would really use them for His glory as they share about their experiences this summer to family and friends. -Please pray for all the students and counselors who accepted Jesus into their hearts this past summer- that they would continue to seek God and fall more in love with him more and more everyday. Also pray for all the seeds that were planted during ISEC- that they would have fallen on good soil and that students and counselors would continue to seek and find God. I am so excited for what God will continue to do in China! I pray that this generation would be a generation that seeks God's face- at Harvard, in China, in America, in Europe, and all over the world! Your sister in Christ, Eunice
Fall Sermon Series Begins this Sunday Come and join us as we consider why you are at this community of worship? The bigger question is why are you on this journey called the Christian faith? All of you have been walking on this journey already called faith and New Hope Church, but why, how, and do you know where you are going? Come and “Join the Journey” with us as we explore further and deeper what does that mean.
New Hope Church of Michigan 27075 West Nine Mile Road, Southfield MI, 48033 248-356-4488 [email protected] www.thenewhopechurch.com
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The Vine
August 31, 2011
“I am the vine; you are the branches. Those who abide in me and I in them bear much fruits, because apart from me you can do nothing.” -John 15:5
Weekly Schedule August 31 September 2
September 4
Summer mission report by Eunice Lee 6:30 PM Game Night at church 7:00 PM Petra Home Group bible study 9:40 AM Prayer meeting 10:00 AM Worship 11:00 AM Fellowship
Pray for peace to come in Libya, Syrea, and the middle east. Praying for our community who are going through lost of loved one, health concerns, and transitions in life. Pray for the search for a new Children Pastor for the Children’s Ministry. Pray for our 2011 Nominating Committee.
Upcoming Events September 4
cv
New Fall Sermon Series begins
September 9
Home Groups resume!
V-2-6
Summer Mission Trip Reflection Hey friends! Thank you so much for all your prayers over the last summer and/or being a blessing in my life- I truly appreciate it! I arrived home yesterday (so jetlag!) but I typed up this last email on my plane ride back: So just in to fill in those who might not knowthis summer I went to China for two months for m-work with an organization called daybreak Asia to teach at summer English camps with 40 other people (all believers- mostly college students)- half from the U.S. and half from the U.K.- we also shared about Dad to the studentswhich is the main point of ISEC. ISEC 2011 in China has honestly been the most challenging and amazing experience of my life. God has taught me so much in China through the students, the counselors and especially through my team. So as a quick recap- I arrive in China on July 3 and from there we had a week long orientation in Beijing. Then my team headed off on a 12 hour sleeper train ride to our first camp in Yangzhou, where we stayed in home stays and taught middle school students from migrant worker families for two weeks. We then left for Hangzhou where we taught primary (so cute) and middle school students at a private boarding school with a crazy headmaster. And then we headed off on a 22 hour train ride/ 8 hour boat ride to Dalian (a beautiful touristy city by the sea) for our third and final camp where we taught a mix of middle school and high school students alongside 4 amazing Chinese sisters who organized the camp, which was interrupted for a day because of the typhoon. At every camp, we had a fashion show where kids used paper and news paper to dress someone up as a superhero, an auction where we gave the kids fake money and they were able to bid for fake items such as a trip to Paris, a car, a house etc- we would have news flashes where something would happen in the world and items kids bought would get destroyed and in the end everything was destroyed except for faith, hope, love and forgiveness, a movie- one of the chronicles of Narnia series, a You are Special skit based on a story by Max Lucado which was something I needed to be reminded about so
Eunice Lee
many times in China, mini Olympics which is mass chaos but the kids love, the everything skit by life house which is so powerful, and my favorite- foot washing where we washed the kids feet and told them there was once a great teacher who washed the feet of his disciples to express his love to them and told them that to lead is to serve. After all three camps, we were thoroughly exhausted, and then had a week of debrief and hiking in the beautiful mountains of Beijing, which was so good for me. In our first camp two of my students, John and Eric, asked Jesus to come into their life and one of our students Linda said she would start going to church every Sunday! In the second camp, one of my students Billy accepted Jesus- it was incredible because during the first conversation he told me he was Buddhist and didn’t believe in Jesus and something changed in his heart during the camp. He cried during foot washing and told me that He believes in Jesus and wanted to pray to ask Jesus into his life! One our counselors, Andy, after translating the Easter story for me said he thought it was a beautiful story and he started crying during the foot washing and has started to read the bible because he is interested! In the last camp, one of our counselors, Emily, accepted Jesus! Two of our students, Tracy and David, who was Buddhist before, accepted Jesus! In addition, three students from another camp wanted to talk to me because I was Korean so I talked to them with one of the Chinese counselors who was Christian and we stayed up late talking for hours and I brought up Jesus’ love for them. They all accepted Jesus and wanted to pray to ask Jesus into their lives. PTL! Please keep them in your prayers- although many of them wanted to accept Jesus into their lives, I think some were more sincere than others and there might be some element of them wanting to please us as foreigners. So please God would still work through that and for Him to continue to place people in their lives to help them and disciple them. Although our team definitely had our hard times, the thing I am most thankful for this summer is my team- God really taught me to love and taught me more of what love is through them….
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He also showed me the beauty of His grace and redeeming love that works through our failings and brokenness. We are each so different but have the most important thing in common and that is that we are children of God. God really showed me a little of what it looks like to be a body of Christ made up of different part that need each other. How good and pleasant it is when brothers (and sisters) live together in unity! – psalm 133:1. I thank God for all the good times, the joy, the laughter, the breakthroughs, but also for the hard times, the struggles, the tears and the pain. Here are some verses that have carried me through this summer: The Lord your God is with you, he is mighty to save. He will take great delight in you, he will quiet you with his love, he will rejoice over you with singing. -Zephaniah 3:17 Make a tree good and its fruit will be good, or make a tree bad and its fruit will be bad, for a tree is recognized by its fruit. You brood of vipers, how can you who are evil say anything good? For our of the overflow of the heart the mouth speaks. - Matthew 12:32-34 We love because he first loved us. If anyone says, “I love God,” yet hates his brother, he is a liar. For anyone who does not love his brother, whom he has seen, cannot love God, whom he has not seen. And he has given us this command: whoever loves God must also love his brother. -1 John 4:19-21 It is more blessed to give than to receive - Acts 20:35 Deep calls to deep in the roar of your waterfalls; all your waves and breakers have swept over me. By day the Lord directs his love, at night his song is with me- a prayer to the God of my life. -Psalm 42:7-8 O God, you are my God, earnestly I seek you; my soul thirsts for you, my body longs for you, in a dry and weary land where there is no water. I have seen you in the sanctuary and behld your power and your glory. Because your love is better than life, my lips will glorify you. I will praise you as long as I live, and in your name I will lift up my hands. - Psalm 63:1-4 To be honest, I felt in a bit of a dry season and my heart was pretty numb during my time in China- I found it hard many times to pray and sometimes to believe that God loved me as I told the kids that He so loved them- I questioned why I was in China and if I had even learned anything while I was there. But PTL that He is faithful even when we are faithless- I felt everything come full circle during debrief- I felt the numbness of my heart slowly melt away and I realized God had taught me SO MUCH in China especially about his love and his faithfulness! I learned that I shouldn't be passionate about being passionate- but passionate about God- that I should seek Him- to seek His face and not His hand. I feel truly blessed to call God my abba and to have fellowshipped and served alongside such wonderful brothers and sisters in Christ who passionately love God. If you want to hear more please ask and I would love to share more with you one on one- and I would also love to hear about your summer! :) I have four final prayer requests to wrap up my summer: - Please pray for my grandma on my mom’s side who lives in Korea. I spent two weeks staying with her before I went to China and two days after China. She is very Buddhist and goes to temple, watches Buddhist tv, prays every morning, does ancestral worship, has buddhist idols in her home. She is getting very old and I am afraid time is really running out. My mom and I have tried to talk to her about Jesus- but she has gotten really angry at my mom for that. I have tried talking to her about Jesus and I really felt like God has softened her heart enough to let her listen without getting angry and to let me pray for her before meals and when we are together. It saddens me so much to see her continue to lose her memory, and have pain all over her body, struggle with depression, and be lonely as my grandpa passed away when my mom was only 12, but most of all to know that she does not know Jesus and His love and eternal life that He offers. This is the prayer request that I ask most sincerely and urgently and whole-heartedly about. She has so many walls up that only God can breakthrough.
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- Please pray for me as I adjust back to life in America and head back to school this saturday and adjust back to college life- classes start on august 30th! Also please pray for me as I start my final year at Harvard and start to make some important decisions about my career and what I will do after I graduate. Please pray for wisdom and discernment and that I would follow wherever God leads me. Also, I really want to seek and serve God with all my heart this last year at Harvard- I want to give it my all- so please pray as I continue to ask God for his will for Harvard and how to glorify Him and advance his kingdom on that campus. - Please pray for my team: Rachel Wood from UCLA, Erin Kim from Princeton, Jazz Huphires from Cambridge, Jonny Harnett from Oxford, Danny Wong from Dartmouth, Ryan Kang from Princeton, David McCluskey from Queens in Ireland, Sam Chan from Oxford, and Felicity Loudon from Scottland who is heading back home to start a new job! Please pray for them as they adjust back to home life- that they would be able to process everything that they need to from this trip and that they would continue to passionately seek God and serve Him as they return to old friends and the comforts of this world. Please pray that they would be the salt and the light at their schools- that they would really be set apart and marked by a purity and holiness that others can see by the way they live- and that God would really use them for His glory as they share about their experiences this summer to family and friends. -Please pray for all the students and counselors who accepted Jesus into their hearts this past summer- that they would continue to seek God and fall more in love with him more and more everyday. Also pray for all the seeds that were planted during ISEC- that they would have fallen on good soil and that students and counselors would continue to seek and find God. I am so excited for what God will continue to do in China! I pray that this generation would be a generation that seeks God's face- at Harvard, in China, in America, in Europe, and all over the world! Your sister in Christ, Eunice
Fall Sermon Series Begins this Sunday Come and join us as we consider why you are at this community of worship? The bigger question is why are you on this journey called the Christian faith? All of you have been walking on this journey already called faith and New Hope Church, but why, how, and do you know where you are going? Come and “Join the Journey” with us as we explore further and deeper what does that mean.
New Hope Church of Michigan 27075 West Nine Mile Road, Southfield MI, 48033 248-356-4488 [email protected] www.thenewhopechurch.com
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