Northfield Methodist Church

Dear Friends

We continue on our Lenten journey today by learning to be obedient to Jesus' teaching to take up our Cross each day. This is a call to a lifestyle of servant hood and service.

This journey takes us to Palm Sunday (16 March), Holy Week (17-22 March) and Easter Sunday (23 March) and is aimed at enabling us to live Easter lives.

To help us deepen our experience of Christ during this journey, special events are being planned to help us pray more expectantly, worship more richly and share more deeply with others. Please read the bulletin carefully for details on these special events. We warmly invite you to share with us.

In particular, we want to introduce you to our Year-of-your-lifers today. These ten young people completed school last year and have joined our staff for one year in order to learn and grow, experience church community and serve.

We are very pleased to have them on campus. Please pray for them and bless them.

Dear Friends,

We want to wish you a blessed 2008 and trust that the unfolding year will lead you in paths of peace and joy.

Easter is very early this year (23 March) and therefore we need to begin with the unfolding of our calendar. The first event is our annual Covenant Services which will take place on Sunday 3 February 2008.

These special services provide an opportunity for us to renew our personal covenant with God, by enabling us to renew our commitment to Him.

Since God can be described as the God-of-new-beginnings, we are blessed to be able to begin-again with Him as we seek to live abundant lives.

In order to help us prepare for renewing our covenant, we will use the next three Sundays by focusing on the theme"PREPARING FOR THE COVENANT SERVICE". Please use these services to prepare your heart.

We pray that this will be of help to you in your journey through life.

Much love to you

The Ministry Team