Offering November 29, 2020 New Life Christian Church

4701 E CR 462 Wildwood, FL 34785

352-261-5333

November 30, 2020 Number 47 Volume 10

Worship Attendance First Service: 114

Second Service: 100

Total: 214

Streaming Views: 269

Offering November To Date November Budget Building Fund

Lifelines SUNDAY WORSHIP

9am & 10:30am

www.nlchristian.org New Life Facebook Page

Matt Malott, Senior Minister

$ 10,122 $ 78,592 $ 71,500 $ 220

OUR MISSION:

Connecting Seniors with Christ

As I write this it is December 1 and we are in the midst of all things Christmas around here! You can find information about some of the Christmas related activities elsewhere in Lifelines. One of the things we are doing is what we are calling the “Blessings Tree”. Folks are leaving presents that will be distributed to children locally by the Caring Hands ministry. This is the ministry we support each month with our food collection. This Sunday is the last Sunday to contrib-ute to this project. You can do so one of two ways. You can bring an unwrapped gift for a boy or a girl. The people at Caring Hands will

sort the toys and wrap them and then distribute them. The second way you can be a part is to give a financial gift. We have preaddressed envelopes on the counter by the office door. This way you can mail your gift directly to Caring Hands and they will do the shopping for you.

I also want to remind you that we will have our annual Christmas Eve service. It will begin at 6:30pm. I think this is my favorite special service that we do each year. There are a lot of people planning and practicing for what I believe will be an incredibly joyful service. One thing we are adding this year is the lighting of personal candles as we close the service. Be-cause I don’t trust you all with fire we are using electric candles. I found Mary Ann and Marilyn practicing this morning. So, if you are staying in The Villages and the surrounding area over Christmas I hope that you will come and worship with us that evening.

Here are a couple of mission related Christmas items. Many people shop at Amazon. Ama-zon has a program where they will donate a percentage of what you buy to approved chari-ties. The program is called “AmazonSmile,” and our mission, Love INC, is one of the ap-proved charities. You may already be using this offer from Amazon and if so, you might consider designating Love, INC as your charity of choice on your purchases. If you are not an Amazon user click this link. It will take you to the appropriate Amazon page to get start-ed. https://smile.amazon.com/gp/chpf/homepage?orig=%2F

NLCC also supports Johnson University in Kissimmee, FL. This is a Christian college preparing young men and women for Christian service in whatever their chosen career might be. Their Christmas program this year is called, “Simply Christmas” and is 100% online. You can learn more by visiting, https://johnsonu.edu/SimplyChristmas/. If you check this out you will see that David Wheeler is the host of the program. While our David Wheeler would do a great job hosting a program like this, the David Wheeler they are talking about is a member of the staff of the col-lege. Now you know there are at least two of them in this world.

One other thing, thanks for your response to the gas can ministry that we participate in for Love, INC. As I mentioned a couple of Sundays ago, we invite you to leave your change in this can each week. The money collected is used by Love, INC to provide gasoline for their clients in need of fuel for a trip to the doctor or maybe to a job interview. I can tell the can is considerably heavier! Thanks.

Matt Malott

News from New Life Christian Church

Fellowship Six - (Couples & Singles)

Groups of 6 (keeping couples together) will

be organized together along with a host.

Each group will make arrangements to meet as often

as they like during January, February and March. Sign

up in the foyer. If you have questions call Mary

Donohue at 352-661-5202.

Pray for one another,

that you may be healed.

James: 5:16

This is the last Sunday to bring gifts for the Blessings tree! Caring Hands will pick up our gift donations Decem-ber 8th for distribution to local needy families.

If you prefer to give a mone-tary gift, Caring Hands per-sonnel will purchase where they are short. There are pre-

addressed envelopes on the black counter in the foy-er.

May God bless you for your generosity, especially during this difficult time when needs are greater.

Prayer Requests

Buddy Acton, Ocala Hospital, pneumonia

Sharon Acton, Covid

Fred Davis, chemo regimen

Marilyn Freeman, surgery 12/3

Gail Graves, possible ulcer

Marilyn Koogle, Covid recurrence

Jennifer McElraff, upcoming surgery

John Rodier, surgery recovery

Carol Rodier, surgery recovery

Jim Wiggins, ongoing issues

Long Term Care

Michelle Brantley, hospice care

Bob Galster, ongoing health issues

Bob Graves, moving to rehab, Covid, etc.

Kiley Daniels, cancer

Remember - This Sunday is 1st Sun-

day of the month Food Drive. Thanks

for your faithful support of Caring

Hands Food Ministry, an outreach of

First Baptist Church of Wildwood.

A grief support ministry,

Next Meeting:

December 8th, 10:30am

In the Fellowship Center.

Ladies if you enjoy helping others and

socializing we encourage you to join

us the first and third Tuesdays of

each month - 10:30am in the Fellow-

ship Center. Donations of supplies always welcome!.

Hands Helping Hands

Join us at 10:30am, the sec-

ond Tuesday of each month, in

the main building Café, to knit,

crochet, and pray! Led by Deb

Buford, all are welcome!

Meets Tuesdays from

8:30 - 9:30am in the

Fellowship Center

Currently Studying Hebrews

Instrumentalists Needed The NLCC orchestra is now looking for the following instruments: trumpet/

coronet, and electric guitar. Also low brass like tuba or trombone. You don’t have to be a member of the church to play. An intermediate to advanced playing level would be required with at least some experience with a band or orchestra. If you yourself or if you know of someone, have them contact:

Steve Merkum Email: seve747@hotmail.com or Cell: 216.401.6926.

Up date on

The Ladies Christmas Luncheon

December 12th, 11:30am

This year we have been limited to the first 60

participants signed up, due to spacing re-quirements. We do have a waiting list on the counter where you may sign up in case an

opening becomes available.