Hi Newport Church Family,
We trust that you are doing well and in good health and spirit.
It’s Father’s Day tomorrow and we want to wish all the Dad’s and spiritual fathers in our church a big Happy Father’s Day!
We also want to give big congratulations to all those graduating in what has been a very difficult and challenging year. Well done!!
Father’s Day Services
We will be taking time to honor all of our Dads tomorrow, along with some special messages from the kids in our English service at 10am and our Spanish service at 11.30am. We hope that you can join us and we encourage you to invite your family and friends.
Conversation on Race, Hope and Healing
If you did not get to watch our “Conversation on Race, Hope and Healing”, which we screened on our Newport Church YouTube Channel last Sunday night, you can watch it by clicking here. We have had very positive response to the conversation, which you can also send as a link to your family and friends, or they can find it on our YouTube channel also.
Reopening our Building
As you all know the situation with COVID-19 and risk management protocols continue to change rapidly and we are monitoring the guidelines regarding resuming meetings in our building very closely. As soon as we are able to meet in both a safe and less restricted way we will resume services in our building.
We will be sending you a survey soon, in order to help us navigate the timing and process of reopening our building in the best possible way. We look forward to your response once you have received it and to the day when we can gather in our building once again!
Food with Love for our Community
This week we were once again able to provide much needed food for close to 100 families through our Food with Love ministry.
As this is “Dads and Grads” season, we also want to bless our foster youth community. Yesterday, our team visited Orangewood Children’s Home and OC Children and Family Services to deliver 300 homemade cookies for kids to enjoy on Father’s Day and Grad’s to enjoy for their day of celebration.
Thank you for your Generosity
A big thank you to all of you who faithfully give your donations, tithes and offerings every week and make all that we do both in our church and community possible. Let’s continue to be a storehouse of hope and provision for the people in our world.
I love the fact that God encourages us to remind Him of His promises. So as we give, let’s remind God that He has said, “he or she that sows generously will also reap generously, and that God Himself will give seed to the sower and bread for food.” So we can confidently believe that He will do what He has promised to do!
Prayer
In these uncertain and troubled times let’s never forget the power of prayer as we continue to pray that God will turn back the tide of COVID-19 and bring healing, spiritual awakening and unity to our nation and world.
We encourage you to take some time to pray at 7:14 every morning and evening, twice a day with one voice, wherever you may be.
We will be joining together at that time not only as a church but with multiplied thousands of other believers around the world who are a part of the UNITE714 prayer initiative.
We look forward to you joining us on Sunday at 10 am and 11:30am and connecting through the many Zoom meeting opportunities we have available during the week.
We love and appreciate you all greatly,
Jonathan & Dianne Wilson
Senior Pastors