MONDAYS: Bible Study at church, 12pm (re-starting January 11, 2010)

TUESDAYS: Volunteer @ Harbor House, 12pm; Yoga @ church, 7pm 

WEDNESDAYS: New Life Hispanic Church meets, 7pm

THURSDAYS: New Life Hispanic Praise Team rehearsal, 7pm

FRIDAYS: New Life Praise Team rehearsal, 7:30pm; Bible Study at the Zingkhai's (Berkeley), 6pm

SATURDAYS: Missions of Compassion meets, 9am – 2pm; New Life Hispanic Youth Worship, 7pm

SUNDAY: NLCF weekly services, 10 am;  New Life Hispanic Church, 4pm

SUNDAY 01/31/10  

• Jonathan Zingkhai teaching
• Youth Praise Team
• Church Annual Meeting following worship (lunch provided)  

FRIDAY 01/01/10 **NEW YEARS DAY**

SUNDAY 01/03/10

• Communion Sunday
• Pastor Katie teaching

SUNDAY 02/07/10

• Yokmi Chiphang teaching
• Communion Sunday

SUNDAY 02/14/10

• Pastor Katie teaching
• Lunar New Year celebration
• Ethnic potluck lunch

WEDNESDAY 02/17/10

• ASH WEDNESDAY Lent begins

SUNDAY 02/21/10 (LENTEN SERIES BEGINS - "NEXT DOOR SAVIOR"

• Pastor Katie teaching

SATURDAY 02/27/10

• Women Growing Together, 6 pm

SUNDAY 02/28/10

• Thuiya Rumthao teaching
• Staff Relations committee meeting after church

MARCH 4-6

• BASS (Bay Area Sunday School)

JULY 23-25

• NLCF Church retreat at Redwood Glen

We want to welcome you to New Life Christian Fellowship this Sunday:  If you are a first time guest, please be sure to obtain a welcome mug and to fill out a guest card.  You may give your guest card to any New Life member.  We invite you to stay for  refreshments after church.

BASS (Bay Area Sunday School):  Considering attending? The theme, Epicenter – Where Ministry Begins is just that – ministry begins with a vision or dream by your church leadership and as your church develops this dream it begins to radiate out from your church and its members, touching hearts and lives in your neighborhood and community. We, at BASS, see our mission as equipping you to have this impact in your community for the glory of God. Our desire is to train, motivate and encourage you toward this ministry impact. http://www.bassconvention.org/

This year’s retreat on July 23-25 will focus on sharing our faith stories and reaching out to others.  Our guest speaker will be Dexter Thomas who is from Trinidad and is blind.  He is an inspirational speaker, an evangelist, and has a ministry to those in need.  Please reserve these dates.  Flyers are now available.

Nagaland: A team will be going to Nagaland with Jonathan this June. if you are interested, please contact Jonathan for more details.

How you can help haiti now:

• Pray
• Give for Haiti relief www.internationalministries.org
• Assemble hygiene kits www.abwministries.org
• Contribut medicine http://imaworldhealth.org
• Encourage certified medical volunteers BIMvolunteers@ abc-usa.org

Benevolent Fund: Thank you for your contributions to the benevolent fund. The benevolent fund is for the church’s use for needs among our members and in our communities.  For example we use this fund to pay for BART for our members from City Team.  This is in addition to your regular  giving to New Life and is usually taken during the first Sunday of every month.  

Missions Contributuions: Thank you for your continued contributions to our missions.  If you would like to contribute to the missions we support, please bring your special offering on Sunday and place in the offering basket or send it to:

New Life Christian Fellowship                                                       22360 Redwood Road Castro Valley, CA 94546.

Please indicate the mission you wish to support with the contribution.  This is in addition to your regular giving to New Life.  

NLCF MISSIONS
- City Team Ministries of Oakland                                  
- Tri-City Homeless Shelter                                               
- Harbor House                                                                      
- JEMS Special Camp                                                           
- Deaf Ministry in Asia                                                        
- Missions to the Younger Generation In Japan             
- American Baptist Missions/ABSW/Caucus                
- Seafarers Ministry of the Golden Gate                          
- Naga School in India     

Church Contributuions: Thank you for your continued contributions to our church.  If you would like to contribute to the work of our church, please bring your special offering on Sunday or send it to us. Some of the areas you can designate your donations are:

- General Fund                                  
- Covenant Youth Group                                               
- Building Fund                                                                      
- Fund for new sanctuary chairs                                            

Please sign up for our volunteer efforts at Abode Services/Tri-City Homeless Shelter in 2009.  Each group, class or family unit, are asked to help at least once in 2009 with preparing lunch for Tri-City Homeless Shelter in Fremont.  Please sign up on the sheet in the kitchen or see Lydia, Sueann or Kevin.  If every group, class or family (or a couple of families joining together), we will fill the year!  Even if you are not sure of your schedule yet, sign up first.  You can trade with another New Life group later.  If you need more information see Lydia.

 Visitation Team:  Anyone interested in being part of a visitation team to visit our number of  “shut-ins” and others, please see Pastor Katie.  This is a unique opportunity to grow in your “caring skills” and share God’s love with those who cannot attend church.  This Easter we would like to visit Adele Steiner who is at Bay Point Nursing Home in Hayward.  If we can have 2-3 of us visit her after church on Easter, this will be great.  Even greater if you are able to sing to her on that day!  Adele has been in the nursing home for months.  We will leave together from church.  It will take only one hour.  Please let Pastor Katie know if you can do this special ministry and bring Christ’s love to Adele.

Staff Schedule
Monday, Noon Bible Study; Tuesday, visitation and Castro Valley; Wednesday, study day; Thursday, Pinole; Friday, off; Saturday, Alameda.