Date
January 2018
Shar ing OURFait h New Hope's M onthly Newsletter
HERE'STOTHENEXT DECADE Rev. St eve Nor den , Sen i or Past or nor den@NewHopeWor ship.com - 614.766.5445 - NewHopeWor ship.com/Pa stor Steve
NEWHOPECHURCH A M inistry of the Reformed Church in America
Rev. St eph en M . Nor den , Sen i or Past or Rev. Sar ah E. Pal sm a, Associ at e Past or
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SUNDAYWORSHIPSCHEDULE 9:00AM Contem por ar y Wor ship Sunday School for ages 3 thr ough 5th Gr ade
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The other after noon I had som e discr etionar y tim e and I decided to look at chur ch new sletter s fr om ten year s ago. As I per used editions of the New Hope New s fr om 2008, I w as both am used and astounded by w hat I r ead. Ear ly in the year w e w er e pr om oting a change in w or ship style and schedule. It w as in Febr uar y of 2008 that w e changed fr om w hat w er e tw o ver y sim ilar styles of w or ship ser vices to w hat w e exper ience today? a m or e contem por ar y Living Water w or ship ser vice and the tr aditional w or ship at 11:15. W hile this w as a seism ic change for New Hope w hen it w as intr oduced, today our w or ship styles and schedule ar e an or dinar y par t of our life together. After ten year s, my assessm ent is that, for the m ost par t, w e?ve w eather ed this change quite w ell. I w as sur pr ised to r em em ber that in ear ly 2008 w e w er e pr om oting a concer t by the A Capella Choir of Nor thw ester n College in Or ange City, IA, one of the colleges of our denom ination the Refor m ed Chur ch in Am er ica. The choir sang her e on M ar ch 3 and that evening a young w om an intr oduced her self to m e. Her m other w as a sem inar y classm ate and her father w as a sem inar y contem por ar y of m ine. I knew of this young w om an but it w as fun m eeting Sar ah Palsm a. Little did I know that, just thr ee year s later , Rev. Sar ah Palsm a w ould becom e New Hope?s Associate Pastor ! Later in 2008 w e w er e infor m ed by our then Associate Pastor , Rev. Steve Pier ce, that he and M onica w ould be m oving to M anhattan w her e M onica had been accepted into a doctor al pr ogr am at For dham Univer sity. As I?ve kept tr ack of the var ious changes in Steve?s m inistr y and in the Pier ce fam ily life over the past ten year s, I?m ver y am azed that m any of New Hope?s pr esent m em ber s and attendees do not have m em or ies of the year s Steve ser ved us so w ell.
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Ten year s seem s such a long tim e ago. At the sam e tim e, it seem s as though it w er e just yester day. God has done w onder ful things dur ing this past decade. I?m also keenly aw ar e that ther e w er e dear fr iends w ho w er e a vital par t of New Hope in 2008 w ho ar e no longer pr esent as they have gone to be in the pr esence of God. Thr ough all of the tw ists and tur ns of this past ten year s, I cannot help but r est in the faithfulness of God. Isaac Watts, in that m ar velous hym n ?O God, Our Help in Ages Past? states it w ell: O God, our help in ages past, Our hope for year s to com e, Be thou our guide w hile life shall last, And our eter nal hom e!