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New Beginnings A Letter from Pastor Pete June 3, 2012
This year is a special one for New Life Fellowship Church. In September we will celebrate and reflect on twenty-‐five years of bearing fruit for Christ in New York City. In addition, we are entering a new beginning that will deepen and expand our life together.
Prophetic
New Life began in September 1987 after a series of prophetic words that God was calling me to launch a new church in the Corona/Elmhurst section of New York City. “See, I am doing a new thing! Now it springs up; do you not perceive it? I am making a way in the desert and streams in the wasteland” (Isaiah 43:19).
The DNA of this new church plant included a passion for people who did not know Jesus, prayer, the poor, racial reconciliation, worship, indigenous leadership development, authentic community, and love for the peoples of the world who were pouring into Queens.
I had a vision of planting a church out of which other leaders would go forth to plant and serve churches around the world. I never dreamt I would be the senior pastor of a church
New Beginnings A Letter from Pastor Pete June 3, 2012
This year is a special one for New Life Fellowship Church. In September we will celebrate and reflect on twenty-‐five years of bearing fruit for Christ in New York City. In addition, we are entering a new beginning that will deepen and expand our life together.
Prophetic
New Life began in September 1987 after a series of prophetic words that God was calling me to launch a new church in the Corona/Elmhurst section of New York City. “See, I am doing a new thing! Now it springs up; do you not perceive it? I am making a way in the desert and streams in the wasteland” (Isaiah 43:19).
The DNA of this new church plant included a passion for people who did not know Jesus, prayer, the poor, racial reconciliation, worship, indigenous leadership development, authentic community, and love for the peoples of the world who were pouring into Queens.
I had a vision of planting a church out of which other leaders would go forth to plant and serve churches around the world. I never dreamt I would be the senior pastor of a church