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New Mt. Olivet VOICESpreading the Gospel of Jesus Christ Near and Far!

An Apostolic Publication

Bishop Hopeton W. Mair, Sr., Pastor • Bishop Van Bynum, Sr., Assistant Pastor

Sis. Marlene McNeilIn our last newsletter, we focused on perilous times and what it means for the Church. Now, we need to exercise HOPE which will take us through these times. Hope can be defined as a ‘trustful expectation in God’s word which leads to eternal life. Every single family has gone or is going through a situation that might seem hopeless. Whether it might be financial woes, sickness and diseases, job situations, deaths, emotional problems, or addictions; the sense of hopelessness is very real.

Many people have succumb to the misery of hopelessness and find themselves banish from eternal rest. They have taken their own lives because they are unable to cope with the wretchedness of this world. Some situations might seem trivial to us, but all over the world there are just senseless deaths and anguish. I just read an article

about China having the highest suicide rate among their children population. There are so much pressures and demands that are placed on these kids to succeed academically, that if they are unable to make it, they commit suicide. There are so many people who are hitting the bottle or doing drugs just to get away from their everyday troubles; many have overdosed on these drugs. These staggering statistics prove that many believe there is no hope in this world. People around the world are wrestling with a high degree of hopelessness which lead to homicides and suicides everywhere.

We, the Church have a hope that we cherish not in vain and that is hope in Christ Jesus.

I Corinthians 15:19, tells us that if we only have hope in this world, then we would be men most miserable. Therefore, our hope has to lie somewhere else from this world, and that is in Christ. We should not even entertain the idea of committing suicide or look to the world for any reprieve from our struggles. It doesn’t mean that we are oblivious to our troubles or that we have a reprieve. It simply means that we have an outlet where we can go; we can go to God in prayer.

The world is full of so much craziness and lewdness that we must stay in prayer and fasting and seeking God’s face daily. The very times that we discussed earlier are upon us and unless we stand with Christ, we will fall. 2 Corinthians 4:16- 18, explains that we should not lose heart, though

outwardly we are wasting away but every day we are being renewed. So, the Lord already knows that we are going to have trouble in this world; however, in verse 17, he said that our momentary troubles will achieve for us an eternal glory that far outweighs them all.

We should not be hopeless like the world, but remember the covenant that God made with us. Of course many a times when we are going through our struggles, we feel like giving up because the burden gets too hard to bear. But, Paul admonished us, “It is written: “I believed; therefore I have spoken.” Since we have that same spirit of faith, we also believe and therefore speak, So, we fix our eyes not on what is seen, but on what is unseen, since what is seen is temporary, but what is unseen is eternal. (2 Corinthians 4:13, 18 NIV)

Thus, the bottom line is, we must fix our eyes on Christ Jesus and Him alone and not the temporary illusions of riches, fame, career, family, job or just going to Church. The Hope we look for is embedded in Jesus Christ. So, for anyone who is hopeless and think you are at your end, you must receive Jesus and throw all your burdens on him.

Finally, in Matthews 11, we are encouraged: “Come to me, all you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest. Take my yoke upon you and learn from me, for I am gentle and humble in heart, and you will find rest for your souls. For my yoke is easy and my burden is light.”

VOICE OF THE EDITOR

JUNE 2020 EDITION

New Mt. Olivet Apostolic Church • 5908 Addison Road, Seat Pleasant, MD 20743 301.499.5524 • (fax) 301.499.0063 • Email: [email protected] • Web: newmtolivetapostolic.com

Hope or Hopelessness

The subject of Hope and Hopelessness are very close to me since both words contain half of my first name —Hopeton.

VOICE OF THE BISHOP

Hope andHopelessness

My name is unusual and sometimes people would ask me what my name means. Since I do not know if there is an original

meaning to my name, I came up with my own meaning which is a TON of HOPE.

I do not have a dictionary meaning for the word hope right now, but I believe that Hope is having a “ton” or more of confidence in Almighty God to supply all of your needs and have the patience to sit back, relax and wait for future things to come to you. Permit me to paraphrase one scripture, wait on the Lord and be very courageous for He will give you your heart's desired needs. If I may continue my paraphrasing, God told His people in the book of Chronicles, after they were attacked by many of their enemies that they should relax for the battle was His and all they needed to do was to hope, sing, praise and worship Him and He would take care of their future needs.

Hope sometimes makes you feel like a plant that is desperately in need of rain and sunlight, but the cloud is blocking the sun. However, hope is linked to faith and the positiveness of faith and hope helps one to understand that the cloud is not there to make matters worse, it is simply gathering water molecules together to send down needed rain/water that will cause you to grow and when the clouds are gone the sunlight will come through and build up your spiritual chlorophyll so that you can look green, pretty and healthy. Oh the power of hope.

Hope promotes positiveness and patience. Hope makes you stay focus on The Hill (JESUS) from whom all that you need will come. The road the Hope Bus travels on is not always smooth, but its sometimes full of Jamaican type ruts, hills, valleys, turns and a lot of stones. The assurance comes in knowing that Jesus is in the Driver’s seat and not only is He the experienced driver, but He will see to it that the bus does not break down, but through faith in Him it is guaranteed to reach the supply of your need depot.

Hope comes from God; hopelessness comes from the devil that brings fear and doubt. Fear brings torment, and torment will make you become angry and start the blame game. Despair will set in and cause you to see the wrong in everybody except yourself.

A life of hopelessness is a life with no future. There is no benefit in blaming others for your life of hopelessness. The blame game will only put you to shame. The fault finding game, the everybody's wrong but you game, the nobody cares game, the nobody listen's game and

the nobody loves me game are signs that the enemy is packing you up into his suitcase for a long journey into the land of hopelessness.

There are two buses that come our way daily: The HOPE BUS and the HOPELESSNESS BUS. Choose which one you want to jump on. What do you do when you feel like just giving up and just yielding to sin? Hope in God and yet praise Him. What do you do when you feel tired of waiting for Mr. Right or Ms. Right? Look to Jesus and hope in Him. Remember not everyone who pities you, really loves you. Don’t take this pity bus; it will drop you off at depression park; doubt and fear will lead to soul destruction.

Faith and hope are unconditional confidence in the Almighty God. Hopelessness is going the wrong direction (way) on one way Hope Avenue. Just turn around. Hopelessness is a self-inflicted wound.

A life without hope is like a plant in good soil, but is getting little or no water and light. Hopelessness produces wrong thoughts and it is dangerous to your physical and spiritual life.

When you are traveling on the Hope Bus of which Jesus is the driver, you don’t worry which route the bus takes, all you care about is getting to the destination of God’s will for your life. He will give you peace in the midst of the storm.

At the terminus joy and peace are waiting for you. 1 must confess that the road the Hope Bus travels on is not always smooth, but sometimes it can get rough and bumpy. However, it will take you to your blessings.

Finally, hopelessness is a choice, but it does not have to be fatal. A famous preacher once said “tough times, don’t last, tough people do”. Don’t look to man for your comfort, the Holy Ghost is your best comforter.

Don’t give up on God, don’t give up on yourself. The Psalmist stated in Psalm 43:5 “Why art thou cast down, O my soul? and why are thou disquieted within me? hope in God: for I shall yet praise Him, who is the health of my countenance, and my God.” God has said in Hebrew 13:5, “I will never leave thee, nor forsake thee”. God always means what He says, so drop the ‘lessness’ and keep “Hope alive”.

God bless you all.

Bishop Hopeton W. Mair, Sr

May – June 2020 Hopelessness breeds and creates the feeling of depression; but there is hope today! • New Mt. Olivet VOICE 2

Newsletter Information

In this issue

1 Message from the Editor

2 Voice of the Bishop

3 Order of Service

3 Tribute to a Mother

4 Voice Q&A

5 Youth Have A Voice

5 Health Corner

6 Announcements

ORDER OF SERVICES

SUNDAYSunday School - 10:00 a.m.

Morning Worship - 11:30 a.m. Afternoon Worship - 3:00 p.m.

MONDAYFast Day

WEDNESDAYPrayer - 7:00 p.m.

Bible Study - 8:00 p.m.

SUNDAY SERVICES1st Sun. - Brothers

2nd Sun. - Missionary3rd Sunday - Joy Fellowship 4th

Sunday - Young People 5th Sunday - Joint Fellowship

& Fellowship at Emmanuel Apostolic at 4:00 p.m.

5209 Georgia Avenue, NW


PRAYER OF HOPE by Missionary Donna Archer

Our father, our creator and our soon coming King. We thank you Lord, for who you are because of you we have hope. Our hope is built on nothing else, but Jesus blood and righteousness. We will continue to look to you for help because hope in you can remove any situation that might face us. Lord we ask that you continue to cover us under your blood where the enemy cannot do us any harm. Thank you for your listening ears, for what you have already done and for what you are about to do. God we give you praise, honor and glory for you alone are worthy. AMEN.

I hereby declare and acknowledge that I was blessed to have the most wonderful and virtuous mother for 76 years. Thank GOD. Mother taught me life surviving skills, spiritually, educationally, and emotionally from my first lesson in Aunt Julie’s pre-school of one student. Being a very sickly child she was my doctor, my nurse, and my physiotherapist. Because of my many misbehaving she was my correctional officer rod applicator, where often my gluteus maximus felt her loving right hand guidance applications. I cried then, but now I can truly say thank you mother for not letting me go down the wrong road of life. I give GOD all the glory and praise for my mother, Aunt Julie. I Love you mother. Rest in Peace.

Bishop Hopeton W. Mair, Sr.

Mother will be laid to rest on July 17, 2020 and video livestream info will be given later.

Tribute to an excellent Mother Julina Brown-Dunstan (aka Aunt Julie)

The New Mt. Olivet VOICE is published quarterly.

Articles and ads are welcome. Submission deadline is: 15th day of February, May, August, and November.

COVID-19 DIRECTIVEIn keeping with the directives from

our President, the Governor of Maryland and the US Department

of Health, we will not be having indoor services at New Mt. Olivet at this time. We encourage you to be prayerful and to read and study the word of God. God is in control and

He will see us through.

How does someone overcome a life of tragic events; such as: abuse (mental/physical), illness, etc.? Are there any necessary steps to follow in pursuit of recovery? It is a tremendous blessing to come into the knowledge of the existence of our Creator and Maker, Almighty God (the Lord Jesus). As we read the


Bible and hear His words through preaching and the testimonies of believers, our faith is increased and strengthened, as we not only hear, but become doers. Job 14:1, says, “Man that is born of a woman is of few days and full of trouble…” May I pause here, and say to you, “trouble has no respect of person; black or white, male or female, rich or poor, educated or illiterate, Christian or non-Christian.” Troubles come to all men/women. Trouble has no season or special day and trouble never comes at a convenient time. How does one overcome life’s tragic events? There is only one-way and that way is JESUS CHRIST. Yes, intellectuals may suggest doctors, therapists, counselors, etc., but their assistance can only go so far. But the Almighty God doeth all things well. The Gospel according to St. Mark 7:36-37 says, “And he charged them that they should tell no man: but the more he charged them, so much the more a great deal they published it; and were beyond measure astonished, saying, He hath done all things well: he maketh both the deaf to hear, and the dumb to speak” (Read St. Mark 7:31-37). Jesus says in Matthew 9:26, “…with God all things are pos-

sible” But in Matthew 6:33, He admonishes the believer to “seek ye first the Kingdom of God and His righteousness; and all these things shall be added unto you” (whatsoever things you have need of).

Are there necessary steps to follow in pursuit of recovery? From a believer's point of view, I must tell you that Almighty God can do all things; Matthew 4:24 “And his fame went throughout all Syria: and they brought unto him all sick people that were taken with divers diseases and torments, and those which were possessed with devils, and those which were lunatics, and those that had the palsy; and he healed them”. But you must first believe that He is and that He is a rewarder of them that diligently seek Him. And as you seek Him, pour out your heart to Him and expect the healing and never stop praising Him. Finally, the Gospel According to Matthew 6:33 “But seek ye first the kingdom of God, and his righteousness; and all these things shall be added unto you”. Be encouraged as you grow in the knowledge of God’s word and your faith in Jesus Christ, believe that you are victorious.

How can someone that may have experienced hurt and pain from within the church strive to overcome the feelings of wanting to separate from the church? Or remaining in the church but developing walls in hopes of preventing further hurt?

May I began by saying the building that is standing on a portion of property (whether it is a 1/ 4 - 1/ 2 or hundreds of acres), that man call church, is not the Church; it’s the building. The Church is the body of Christ which He (JESUS CHRIST) gave His life for. We who believe in Him and walk according to His words are (the Church) the body of Christ. Though sometimes we stumble and fail to do what God is calling us to do. I John 1:9 says, “If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.” The hurt and pain that is experienced as a believer in the body of Christ (the Church) should be for God’s name sake, but sometimes people and Christians are merciless and can say and do some wicked things. II Chronicles 7:14 states, “If my people, which are called by my name, shall humble themselves, and pray, and seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways; then will I hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin, and will heal their land”. Hurt and pain can come from within and without. Jesus said to Peter in St. Luke 22:31 “Simon, Simon, behold, Satan hath desired to have you that he may sift you as wheat, but I have prayed for thee, that thy faith fail not”. When trials (hurts) and tests (pain) come, the natural thing to do is cry and runaway, but I Peter 4:13-14 commands, “But rejoice, inasmuch as ye are partakers of Christ’s sufferings; that, when his glory shall be revealed, ye may be glad also with exceeding joy. If ye be reproached for the name of Christ, happy are ye; for the spirit of glory and of God resteth upon you: on their part he is evil spoken of, but on your part he is glorified.” Separation is not the answer; the answer comes in knowing who you are and whose you are. Paul put it this way in Ephesians 6:13, “having done all, to stand, STAND…”. Trials don’t come to make you weak; they come to make you strong. Remember, he who chooses to live Godly shall suffer persecution.

Developing a wall can be a weight to your spiritual growth because as time goes by, ill feelings will develop. Know this, that all that claim the name of JESUS CHRIST are not His. Some are wolves dressed in sheeps clothing. Jesus said, "let the wheat and the tares grow together" (Matthew 13:30) and He would do the separating.

Be encouraged, HOLD ON!

THE VOICE Q&A WITH ASSISTANT PASTOR BISHOP BYNUM

Bishop Van Bynum, Sr. responds to questions from Sis. Isolyn Duncan

‘VOICE of a High Schooler on COVID-19’ by Taylor Archer

Youth have a VOICE

May and June Birthdays and Anniversaries

MAY BIRTHDAYSSis. Donna Archer – 4Sis. Shellie Bynum – 8

Bro. Donovan Morris – 13Bro. Tavon Archer – 14

Little Sis. Kerrie Ann Mair – 19Sis. Murline Pusey – 28

MAY ANNIVERSARIESElder & Sis. Colin Drake – 10

Dea. & Sis. Seymour Clarke – 21

JUNE BIRTHDAYSSis. Jenquil Markman – 1Sis. Barbara Williams – 7Sis. Carlene Crosdale – 11

Sis. Audrey Grant – 11Sis. Hillary Wray – 25

JUNE ANNIVERSARIESBro. Everton and Sis. Marlene McNeil – 23


Since the outbreak of COVID-19, schools have been closed all around our country and the world. With me personally, the virus has caused a lot of things to slow down. Learning has been harder but still manageable as everything can be reached through technology. Some subjects were easier than others, and it’s a little sad that I had to end my sophomore year behind screen. God has been good to my family and I throughout the pandemic. We have never lacked supplies, and he has blessed us to go in and out of the house everyday virus free. I thank him for keeping me safe, and continuing to allow my parents to provide for my brother and I.

COVID-19 Health Information

HEALTH CORNER

Could having a healthy blood level of vitamin D help you avoid the intensive care unit and death if you become infected with COVID-19? Several groups of researchers from different countries have found that the sickest patients often have the lowest levels of vitamin D, and that countries with higher death rates had larger numbers of people with vitamin D deficiency than countries with lower death rates. Experts say healthy blood levels of vitamin D may give people with COVID-19 a survival advantage by helping them avoid cytokine storm, when the immune system overreacts and attacks your body’s own cells and tissues. It might be a good idea to take vitamin D supplements to help boost your immune system.

0ur 2019 -2020 College Graduates

Sis. Rochell Matthews Bro. Sammy Mair

Laurel Senior High Thomas Stone High


Congratulations to our High School graduates on their well-deserved success. We are happy to share our good wishes with them and pray that they will continue to strive to even higher heights. We are so very proud of you and pray that you will continue to put

God first in your life.

Congratulations to Sis. Lurline Steele who celebrated her retirement after

working 25 years at the Hebrew Home.

We Celebrate with you!

Congrats Sister Lurline Steele

Moving up fromPre-K to Kindergarten,

Kudos!

THOUGHT FOR THE DAY(daily through text messaging)

If you would like to be on our distribution list for "THOUGHT FOR THE DAY", please call

the church office so that we can add your mobile number to our texting ministry.

OUR THEME

“NONE OF US KNOWS AS MUCHAS ALL OF US KNOW”

Our Wednesday evening Bible Study has been such a blessing under the leadership of Evangelist Annie Mair, assisted by Sis. Florita Bynum. We have been studying the Book of Matthews and have gone through 12 Lessons. We have completed our study of the book of Matthews and we are glad to report that the following persons has successfully passed the Test on the Book of Matthews: Sis. Ellen Bowens; Sis. Joyce Bryant; Sis. Shellie Bynum; Missionary Urcella Drake; Missionary Marlene McNeil; Sis. Ruthlin Mendez; Sis. Rosemarie Muir and Evangelist Jolittee Wray. These persons will be receiving their certificate at an upcoming service when we return to our home church. We give God the glory for blessing our study and we are grateful for the support and encouragement from our Pastor, Bishop Hopeton Mair and our Assistant Pastor, Bishop Van Bynum, Sr.

We are now in the Book of Mark and we invite everyone to join us each Wednesday evening (on our conference line at 1-701-779-9719 (as we “Study to shew thyself approved unto God, a workman that needeth not to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth.” 2 Timothy 2:15

Leo Markman Kerrie-Ann Mair

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