Contact Information
- Phone:
- (559) 636-8733
- Email:
- Send Email
- Location:
- 4400 W. Tulare Avenue
- Visalia, California 93277
- (map)
Weekly Schedule
- Sunday
- 9:00am Worship Gathering
- 9:00am Children's Ministry - KidZone
- 9:00am Road 678
- 6:30pm Youth Community Group
Event Calendar
- Feb 13 Saturday Prayer
- Feb 14 Worship Gathering & KidZone
- Feb 14 Youth Community
- Feb 21 Worship Gathering & KidZone
- Feb 21 Youth Community
- Feb 28 Worship Gathering & KidZone
- Feb 28 Youth Community
- Mar 7 Worship Gathering & KidZone
- Mar 7 Youth Community
Ash Wednesday
Time for Community Worship
Bridge of Hope
New Hope is committed to bridge the gap of hunger in the community among the homeless. If you would like to participate once a month, call the church office or email us for more information.
Without A God-Breathed Vision People Lose Hope and Die
Purpose
We are a community of followers of Jesus Christ, committed to live by faith, to be known by love, and to be a voice of hope.
Equip for Mission
Christ gifts the church with apostles (extend the gospel), prophets (know God's will), evangelists (communicator of the gospel), pastors (nurture and protect), and teachers (understand and explain) with the responsibility to equip (disciple) God's people to do His work (Ephesians 4:11-16).
The Mission of God: The Inward Journey
Our large gathering in community is a time of worship, celebration, stories of God's activity, gifts of the Holy Spirit, encouragement, teaching, giving, Holy Communion, water baptism, Children's and Jr. High (Road 678) Community Groups, etc.
Missional Communities are the central discipleship arm and primary vehicle to accomplish our vision. The essential purpose of smaller communities is the practicing of love and trust and the growing into Christlikeness in a space of intentional grace. Missional Communities help us learn about and experience the incredible love of God, which helps us in turn to love Him and ourselves.
The Mission of God: The Outward Journey
Loving God and ourselves helps us to love our spouse, children, family, neighbors, co-workers, and others around us. God calls us to love others and to go into all the world to make disciples. The mission of God leads us to be good stewards of creation and involved in God's justice (Luke 4:18-19; Isaiah 58; Matthew 25).
Great Quotes by Henri Nouwen
Prayer: "To pray, I think, does not mean to think about God in contrast to thinking about other things, or to spend time with God instead of spending time with other people. Rather, it means to think and live in the presence of God. As soon as we begin to divide our thoughts about God and thoughts about people and events, we remove God from our daily life and put him into a pious little niche where we can think pious thoughts and experience pious feelings. … Although it is important and even indispensable for the spiritual life to set apart time for God and God alone, prayer can only become unceasing prayer when all our thoughts - beautiful or ugly, high or low, proud or shameful, sorrowful or joyful - can be thought in the presence of God. … Thus, converting our unceasing thinking into unceasing prayer moves us from a self-centered monologue to a God-centered dialogue."
Attractional: "Jesus refused to be a stunt man. He did not come to walk on hot coals, swallow fire, or put his hand in the lion's mouth to demonstrate that he had something worthwhile to say."
Leadership: "Christian leaders cannot simply be persons who have well-informed opinions about the burning issues of our time. Their leadership must be rooted in the permanent, intimate relationship with the incarnate Word, Jesus, and they need to find there the source for their words, advice, and guidance."
Power and Control: "It seems easier to be God than to love God, easier to control people than to love people, easier to own life than to love life..." "The temptation of power is greatest when intimacy is a threat. Much Christian leadership is exercised by people who do not know how to develop healthy, intimate relationships and have opted for power and control instead. Many Christian empire-builders have been people unable to give and receive love."
Name-Calling: "Words like 'right-wing,' 'reactionary,' 'conservative,' 'liberal,' and 'left-wing' are used to describe people's opinions, and many discussions then seem more like political battles for power than spiritual searches for the truth."
Interesting!
Worship
Training Center for Love
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