New Life Christian Center

THE VISION
NEW LIFE CHRISTIAN CENTER
“Behold, I Am the Lord, the God of all flesh. Is there anything too hard for Me?” Jeremiah 32:27
To establish a House where the unadulterated Word of God is preached, taught and lived.
To be located in the City of New Haven – reaching out to a fifteen mile radius from the Downtown area.
Bible Study - providing a weeknight service
Sunday services both morning and evening
Praise and Worship to bring people into the presence of the Lord and to teach them how to live daily in His presence.
Children’s church/ministry
Serving the Community – find a need and meet that need
Bus Ministry
Begin with one bus and add a bus each time one becomes half full
After School Programs to reach the youth and their families
Tutoring, sports, music lessons and bible studies
Out Reaches to reach the Lost for Jesus Christ
Senior events
Youth events
Famly events
A Day Care Center
Affordable, Low, and No Cost child care depending on ability to pay

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Intercessory Prayer Ministry
Praying for Church Family, Evangelistic Outreach’s, Services,
Prayer for the sick during services
Street walking prayer team
War Room
Men’s Ministry
Women’s Ministry
Single Mom’s Ministry
Day Care
Diapers, baby clothing, food pantry
Youth Ministry
Age appropriate programing during mid-week service
Age appropriate teaching during Sunday Service 5th grade through 9th grade, K-4th grade Children’s church, grades 9 and up in regular service
Young adults (13-20) meeting on Friday nights weekly for Special services and programs
Single Adults
School
K-12 beginning with grades K-1 and adding a year each year up to 12
Bible school/college
Teen Challenge
To come into a partnership with local Teen Challenge


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Homes
Purchase run down homes from the City of New Haven restore for use in the ministry. Homeless families, Homeless community, add rooms for teen challenge
Chaplain Ministry
To provide Chaplains to local Hospitals, Nursing Homes.
To provide Chaplains for the prison and jails
Evangelistic Outreach’s
Use of the City green for family events
Use of the City green for evangelistic services if permitted
Use of the Yale Bowl stadium for evangelistic services
Food and Clothing Pantries
Host food drives and seek help from local grocers
Host clothing drives and work with other ministries that do the same for those in need within our community
Small Group Ministries
Another way to reach the lost for Jesus Christ through home groups
To instruct and teach new believers how to walk out their Salvation
Out Reach Groups
To reach Muslims in our community for Jesus Christ
To reach the LBGT community in our area for Jesus Christ
Yale University Campus to bring Jesus Christ to them


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Apologetics Conferences
With guest speakers for the sole purpose of reaching the lost for Jesus Christ
Out reaches to Yale University


Vision Statement
To bring Jesus Christ to the City of New Haven and surrounding towns as the Lord Himself will send us to

Mission Statement
With Heart to God and Hand to Man serving our community



On we march with the blood and the fire,
to the ends of the earth we will go;
and the Saviour’s love will be the theme of our song
because we love him so.





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My Prayer:
The Saviour of men came to seek and to save
the souls who were lost to the good;
His Spirit was moved for the world which he loved
with the boundless compassion of God.
And still there are fields where the laborers are few,
and still there are souls without bread,
and still eyes that weep where the darkness is deep,
And still straying sheep to be led.

Chorus
Except I am moved with compassion,
How dwelleth thy Spirit in me?
In word and in deed
Burning love is my need;
I know I can find this in thee.
2.
O is not the Christ ‘midst the crowd of today
Whose questioning cries do not cease?
And will he not show to the hearts that would know
The things that belong to their peace?
But how shall they hear if the preacher forbear
Or lack in compassionate zeal?
Or how shall hearts move with the Master’s own love,
Without his anointing and seal?
3.
It is not with might to establish the right,
Nor yet with the wise to give rest;
The mind cannot show what the heart longs to know
Nor comfort a people distressed.
O Saviour of men, touch my spirit again,
And grant that thy servant may be
Intense every day, as I labor and pray,
Both instant and constant for thee.



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Statement of Faith
1. We believe that the Scriptures of the Old and New Testaments were given by inspiration of God, and that they only constitute the Divine rule of Christian faith and practice. II Timothy 3:16

2. We believe that there is only one God, who is infinitely perfect, the Creator, Preserver, and Governor of all things, and who is the only proper object of religious worship.

3. We believe that there are three persons in the Godhead - the Father, the Son, and the Holy Ghost, undivided in essence and co-equal in power and glory.

4. We believe that in the person of Jesus Christ the Divine and human natures are united, so that He is truly and properly God and truly and properly man.

5. We believe that our first parents were created in a state of innocence, but by their disobedience, they lost their purity and happiness, and that in consequence of their fall, all men have become sinners, totally depraved, and as such are justly exposed to the wrath of God.

6. We believe that the Lord Jesus Christ has by His suffering and death made an atonement for the whole world so that whosoever will may be saved.

7. We believe that repentance toward God, faith in our Lord Jesus Christ and regeneration by the Holy Spirit are necessary to salvation.

8. We believe that we are justified by grace through faith in our Lord Jesus Christ and that he that believeth hath the witness in himself.

9. We believe that continuance in a state of salvation depends upon continued obedient faith in Christ.

10. We believe that it is the privilege of all believers to be wholly sanctified, and that their whole spirit and soul and body may be preserved blameless unto the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ.


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11. We believe in the immortality of the soul, the resurrection of the body, in the general judgment at the end of the world, in the eternal happiness of the righteous, and in the endless punishment of the wicked.


12. We believe Marriage to be between One man and One woman. Genesis 2:24, Matthew 19:5

13. We believe the ordinance of baptism by immersion is commanded by the Scriptures. All who repent and believe on Christ as Saviour and Lord are to be baptized. Thus they declare to the world that they have died with Christ and that they also have been raised with Him to walk in newness of life. Matthew 28:19

14. We believe, The Lord's Supper, consisting of the elements --bread and the fruit of the vine-- is the symbol expressing our sharing the divine nature of our Lord Jesus Christ (2 Peter 1:4 [KJV/NIV]), a memorial of his suffering and death (1 Corinthians 11:26 [KJV/NIV]), and a prophecy of His second coming (1 Corinthians 11:26 [KJV/NIV]), and is enjoined on all believers "till He come!"

15. We believe, All believers are entitled to and should ardently expect and earnestly seek the promise of the Father, the baptism in the Holy Spirit and fire, according to the command of our Lord Jesus Christ. This was the normal experience of all in the early Christian Church. With it comes the enduement of power for life and service, the bestowment of the gifts and their uses in the work of the ministry. Acts 2:39


16. Divine healing is an integral part of the gospel. Deliverance from sickness is provided for in the atonement, and is the privilege of all believers. Isaiah 53:4,5 Matthew 18:16,17