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Rejoice evermore. Pray without ceasing. In every thing give thanks: for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus concerning you. 1 Thessalonians 5:16-18

May 6th was a warm, sunny day here in Kentucky – and it was also the 2010 National Day of Prayer. All NewLife employees were invited to put down their work for a while and gather around the flagpole to pray for our company, our local and national government, our schools, and our churches. Jason, one of our managers, led the event and spoke about the importance of prayer in dealing with everyday life.

We often promote t-shirt designs focused on prayer, including our recent “Pray Without Ceasing” design offered for this event. Many times, the importance of prayer and the difference it makes have been demonstrated both to us as a company and in our personal lives. Participating in this event was an honor, and we look forward to making it an annual tradition for our company.

If you didn’t participate this year, the countdown has already started for May 5, 2011. Mark it on your calendar and join us in praying for our country and our world.

Blessed Children’s Home is an orphanage in Nepal that NewLife has had the pleasure to help over the years. It began in 2002, when we challenged our customers, vendors, and supporters to match funds to finish a new orphanage building. With your help, we were able to raise over $16,000 for this construction so that many orphans would have a home.

Now we have the opportunity to help again. Blessed Children’s Home has relocated and asked for $3,000 to help finish the new children’s compound by adding the housing necessary for adult caretakers to stay with the children on site (they currently must live outside of the compound). This is an opportunity for NewLife once again to help put the “finishing touches” on this orphanage and help spread God’s love to the ever-increasing number of Christians in Nepal.

From now until May 20th, a percent of sales from our featured summer designs will be donated to Blessed Children’s Home, up to the $3,000 needed for this construction project. Our customers have always been a part of our partnership with this orphanage, and we would like to thank each of you for your purchases that make our support of Christian ministry possible.

Read about other ongoing and recent ministry projects.

The group standing on the 80-foot bridge
built in one weekend.

In November 2009, New Hope and Purley Methodist Churches took a weekend mission trip to do repair work at Camp Don Lee on the coast of North Carolina. We had fourteen people, ages 6 to 68, including one helper from the Milton Presbyterian Church. We didn’t know what our job for the weekend would be, just that there would be some “carpentry and painting.”

Saturday morning during breakfast, camp director John Farmer told us he wanted us to build a bridge. We imagined a little ornamental arch bridge over a ditch. He showed us a pile of lumber about the size of a small car, and then walked us fifty yards into the woods and showed us a swampy gully with a collapsed foot bridge. We felt a bit like Noah with a pile of gopher wood and the vague notion of building a really big boat!

But… the Master Carpenter put our hands to work. Our team hand-carried the lumber into the woods and started cutting and nailing and digging post holes. Every time we thought we were about to run out of lumber, we’d find a few more boards. We worshipped Sunday morning and went back to work. By lunchtime we were able to complete an 80-foot walking bridge, four feet wide and deck planked… in just a day and a half! We accomplished far more than the camp expected or we hoped. God is amazing!

This was the most astonishing project most of us have ever worked on. The kids were especially excited about what we accomplished. I want to thank New Life for printing and shipping our mission trip shirts so quickly – we really felt like a team all dressed in red.

– Story and Photo from Park Hunter, Pastor of New Hope-Purley UMC

The mission of Stone Deliverance Evangelical Temple is “To win the Lost, at any Cost”. Recently when the church had an opportunity to outreach to the homeless and low income people of Akron, Ohio, they experienced a huge learning curve about what being homeless in America is all about, and in blessing others, they too were blessed. This is a letter we received about their outreach.
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