We will have a reception on May 18 after the evening service for you and the other graduates. Please join us for the celebration!

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• 1 Corinthians, Part 1

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Last Week's Attendance

• Sunday at New Life: 638
• Including daughter works and extensions: 951

Graduates

If you will be graduating from high school, college, trade school, or receiving a certification, please contact the church office.

Home School Co-op

The deadline for the fall registration for the home school co-op is May 15. Please contact Deneen Fowler at dfowler39@austin.rr.com or 576-4842.

Parking Reminder

Please do not park in the fire lanes or under the portico. If no parking spaces are available in the parking lot or on the street, we have permission to park at the day care next to the church and the library across from the church.

Mother’s Day

• See Jeanie Nelson to have your picture taken for the Mother’s Day presentation.
• Tickets are now on sell for the Mother’s Day banquet, May 10.

Ladies-Only Exercise Class

For all women looking to get in shape, tone muscle, and lose weight, please see Marcie Pellegrino for details or contact her at 512-919-9402 or marciepellegrino@yahoo.com

Vacation Bible School 2008

This year’s VBS will be Power Lab. Come be a part of amazing crafts, wacky snacks, mind blowing Bible stories, hyper speed games, and incredible music. Mark your calendars for June 23-27 from 6:30 p.m. to 9:30 p.m. Registration will be May 14-June 1 for children ages 4 (by September 12) to 12. Register by June 1 to get a t-shirt and gift. Registration can also be completed online www.newlifeupc.org.

Join the VBS Team!

VBS volunteer sign-up and orientation, Saturday, May 17, 9 a.m.

Youth camp

South Texas Youth Camp is less than a month away! Cost is $130. Forms are available in the foyer. The deadline is May 31. See Seth Simmons or Daniel Bernard for more information.

Prayer Requests

• Special: Thomas Guzman, Rosalind Duarte, Deborah Watts, Denise Franklin, Roosevelt McTier, Nancy Lehmann, Rose Hatton, Candis Franklin, Angelina Washington, Lisa Ayala, Katie, Lovonia Smith, Rosa Vaca, Brian Garvie
• Healing: Bobby Grier, Eunice Metzger, Jack & Eudell Bierce, Hannah Starks, Connie Copeland, Jimmy Hutson, Ryan Caron, Camryn Gwin, Sydney Simmons, Audrey Diaz, Michael Hill, Laura Heihn, Oleatha Gates, Sally Florez, Maria Vaca, Rachel Bottoms, Steve Green, Tanya Ross, Martha Dobyns, Donna Barnhart, Scott Evans, Roxanne Salinas

Victory Report!

• Aimee Benoit received the Holy Spirit. She attends our Hutto daughter work with her parents.

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• New Life Church: Elevating and Dominating

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• In the Sanctuary

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Next Sunday is Mother’s Day, and it is also Pentecost Sunday. We will feature Mother’s Day in our morning service and Pentecost Sunday in our evening service. Please take this opportunity to invite family members and friends to church.

My trip to Kyrgyzstan in Central Asia was a success. I taught the first seminar in this country on the Apostolic message to about 25 ministers and church leaders. At the conclusion, three pastors and one assistant pastor were baptized in Jesus’ name, and others will be baptized soon. An application has been made to register the United Pentecostal Church in this overwhelmingly Muslim nation.

Please pray for our building program. In the next couple of weeks, we expect to obtain approval for our loan as well as approval for our site plan, but we need your continued prayers for favorable answers and favorable terms. We have sent a down payment of $112,500 for our metal building, and we will finalize our purchase of the additional 1.5 acres soon, so we also need your continued financial support.

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• The Kiss of God

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• Jars of Clay

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Last Week's Attendance

• Sunday at New Life: 743
• Including daughter works and extensions: 1055

Synergy Meeting

The Synergy meeting for this month has been postponed.

Parking Reminder

Please do not park in the fire lanes and please do not park under the portico. If no parking spaces are available in the parking lot or on the street, we have permission to park at the day care next to the church and the library across from the church.

Graduates

If you will be graduating from high school, college, trade school, or receiving a certification, please contact the church office.

Home School Co-op

Fall registration for the home school co-op that meets on Fridays from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. has begun. Please contact Deneen Fowler at dfowler39@austin.rr.com or 576-4842. Deadline for registration is May 15.

Blue Sunday

Blue Sunday is a national day of prayer for abused children. In 2007 Texas confirmed more than 71,344 victims of child abuse and neglect. The Family Ministry class has committed this week to pray for these children. Please join us today in prayer for these children and for the families of New Life who have opened their homes in love to foster abused children.

Mother’s Day

• See Jeanie Nelson to have your picture taken for the Mother’s Day presentation.
• Tickets are now on sell for the Mother’s Day banquet, May 10.

Your help is needed!

If you are willing to pick someone up for church, please contact the office. There is a family located in North Austin who needs transportation. Also the van ministry needs more drivers. Please see Josh Grooms for more information.

Prayer Requests

• Special: Kathleen Aguirre Family, Rodney Forbes Family, Joaquin Estrada, Lupita Arce
• Healing: Ryan Caron, J.R. Cook, Ray & Barbara Shelton, Jean Montgomery, Vivian McGranaghan, Joe McFayden, Damien Ward, Eunice Metzger, Rich Riddle, Jimmy Jackson, Bob & Mary Zirpoli

Victory Reports!

• Adam Lord received the Holy Spirit. While seeking a church, he saw one of our vans and followed it to our church.
• Tracy Andrew obtained an affordable apartment and a vehicle for transportation.


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• This Week from Pastor Bernard
• Sermon .mp3s
• Books, CDs, and DVDs
• About Pastor Bernard

• A Tragedy or a Testimony

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• The New Testament Church, Part 6

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• For a complete list of this weeks events, check out our calendar.

Last Week's Attendance

• Sunday at New Life: 681
• Including daughter works and extensions: 1040

Mother’s Day Presentation

See Jeanie Nelson to have your picture taken for the Mother’s Day presentation.

Your Help Is Needed!

If you are willing to pick someone up for church, please contact the office. There is a family located in North Austin who needs transportation. Also the van ministry needs more drivers. Please see Josh Grooms for more information.

Preparing for Marriage Seminar

Plan to attend the Preparing for Marriage seminar, Saturday, April 26, 9 a.m. till noon. The sessions are for engaged couples and newly married couples. For more information, contact the Rod or Jan Madden.

Prayer Requests

• Special: Loretta Peavey, Love Family, Arevalo Family, Edwin Matias, Corey Rooker, Hitchock Family, Pam Tumlinson, Michelle Tanksley, Leonard Ryan, Brown Family, Chaney Family, Ward Family, Brenda Fall, Josephine & Francis Maina
• Healing: Jesse Hernandez, James R. Hamilton, Maria Fruzia, Avery McHenry, Ray Shelton, Sunny Gattis, Jean McCoy, Scott Evans, Hannah Starks, Segura Family, Tommy Mashburn

Victory Reports!

• Three youth from our Hutto daughter work received the Holy Spirit in our recent youth revival, including a cousin of the pastor’s wife, Junah Latham.
• One received the Holy Spirit in our jail service in Taylor, led by Roy Celis.
• Angel Williams, daughter of Alberta Wilson, was renewed in the Holy Spirit.
• Centro de Vida (Life Center) of Gonzalez, LA, pastored by Elton Bernard, started a church in Copetillo, El Salvador, in 2005, and paid for the construction of a building. Elton Bernard, age 77 and father of our pastor, preached the dedication service last week. There were 500 in attendance, including 200 from neighboring United Pentecostal churches, and 8 received the Holy Spirit.

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Historically, three things have helped to establish people in our church: discipleship class, Sunday school, and Wednesday Bible study. We need to reemphasize these important meetings and not take them for granted. We retain 90% of converts who follow these three spiritual disciplines, compared to less than 50% who do not. Thus, if you have recently been baptized or filled with the Holy Spirit, make every effort to attend Life in the Spirit, a 6-week class on Sunday at 10 a.m.

All of us need to attend Sunday school and Wednesday Bible study. Schedules, distances, and gas prices make it difficult for some to attend every Wednesday night, and in those cases God’s grace is sufficient. Some, however, have simply neglected to attend. In such cases, individuals and families suffer spiritually. We should also remember that God will judge unfaithfulness.

Our guest speaker tonight is Gary Erickson. He is the director of the Sunday School Division of the United Pentecostal Church International and a graduate of Urshan Graduate School of Theology.

This week, I will travel to Kyrgyzstan, a former Soviet republic in Central Asia, to teach the first seminar on the Apostolic faith in this predominantly Muslim nation. Please pray for God’s protection and anointing as we walk through this new door of opportunity. In my absence, our associate pastor, Rodney Shaw, will preach next Sunday morning and evening.

Next Sunday night in the fellowship hall, we will conduct our first French service, under the direction of Jerome Williams. We will hold these services periodically for French-speaking immigrants from Africa and other places. A group from our church will attend an African immigrant conference in Dallas in May.

For the past few months, we have worked diligently on our sound system. Special thanks goes to our sound coordinator, Craig Crowder, who has invested many volunteer hours and has done an excellent job of repairing, upgrading, and fine-tuning our system. Musical instruments and parts can now be heard with much greater clarity. To regulate volume more effectively, we adjusted the position of some of the hanging speakers. It seems that we have found the happy median of greater intelligibility and quality with moderate volume, but there will always be adjustments due to changing room and crowd conditions. The sound varies somewhat across the building, so different spots are optimal for different people. If you have questions or input, see Rodney Shaw.

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• Go the Distance

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• A Second Chance to Make a First Impression

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The classes will be held Sundays at 10:00 a.m. in the main auditorium.

The First Epistle to the Corinthians covers as wide a range of topics as any New Testament book. Due to the problems in the church, Paul wrote about church government, morality, spiritual gifts, and doctrine. As a church situated in a first-century Greco-Roman culture, they struggled with a wide range of issues including prostitutes, the resurrection, incest, spiritual gifts, litigation, divorce, drunkenness, the Lord’s Supper, and internal division.

This class will evaluate 1 Corinthians historically, theologically, and pragmatically.

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Last Week's Attendance

• Sunday at New Life: 706
• Including daughter works and extensions: 938

Outreach

• The Act of Kindness Ministry is seeking donations for care packages for the homeless. Travel-size tooth paste; snacks, e.g. crackers, pudding, etc.; and deodorant are needed. Please give your donations to Jim Hogg, Joann Hogg, or Jerome Williams.
• The Outreach Ministry needs volunteers for the visitation team. The visitation team conducts home visits to visitors who attend our services. If interested see Jerome Williams.

Mother’s Day

Mothers, please see Jeanie Nelson to have your picture taken for the Mother’s Day presentation.

Quiz-a-Thon

Please help our Beginner and Junior Bible quizzing teams by sponsoring them in the upcoming quiz-a-thon. Our children will be quoting between 140 and 200 verses. Sponsors can pledge an amount per verse or make a one-time pledge that will be due in May. Please see Janet Kinney for more details.

Prayer Requests

• Special: Daniel Russell, Brian Yoon, Jose D. Ramos, Nick Luna, Barbara Culp, Berk Love, Arturo Flores, Jesse & Leigh Flores, Julie Love, Joe Isaacs
• Healing: Mike East, Hyemi Yoon, Ray Shelton, Joan McHenry, Cadi & Gabriel Montes, Virginia Ramos, Lara Rhea, Floyd Dentler, Leonard & Diane Gunter, Jimmy Gourley, Eunice Metzger, Maria Fruzia, Sabrina Simmons, Steve & Pamala Green, Anita Longoria, James Hamilton

Victory Reports

• Approximately 1,200 people visited our Springfest, making it our most successful outreach ever.
• Lynne Dickie, a first-time visitor, was baptized and received the Holy Spirit. She heard a radio broadcast by Irvin Baxter and decided to find a Pentecostal church.
• Last Sunday, the following children received the Holy Spirit: Rilyn Fruzia, Chloe Froese, Brianna Montez, and one from our Spanish daughter work.
• We set two new attendance records in March. Average Sunday morning attendance for the month was 613. Average Sunday attendance including daughter works and outreaches was 967.

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Our guest speaker is Shay Mann, the general youth president of the United Pentecostal Church International. You will be blessed by his ministry, so open your heart in faith.

This coming Saturday, we are hosting a seminar for Sunday school and children’s ministry workers, followed by a banquet for our Sunday school staff. Our guest speaker is Gary Erickson, the general director of Sunday School for the United Pentecostal Church International. He is also a graduate of Urshan Graduate School of Theology. I will preach on Sunday morning, and Brother Erickson will preach on Sunday night.

This coming Sunday, after the morning service, we will have our quarterly International Potluck. This is a special event for those who were born in other countries, for those who bring international guests, and for those who are working with this outreach. Please pray for this endeavor and invite someone to attend. For more information, see the coordinators, Ron and Sun Russell.

Quarterly contributions statements have been mailed. Thank you for your support of the kingdom of God. Please take this opportunity to verify our records and to evaluate your stewardship. If there are any questions, you may contact our church treasurer, Regena Dumas. Her office hours are Monday, Tuesday, and Thursday, 9:30 AM to 3:30 PM, and her email address is rsdumas@newlifeupc.org.

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• The New Testament Church, Part 5

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