(Volume 18) July 2007
Inside This Issue:
Welcome
Who is New Beginnings
What’s New
July 2007 New Beginnings Ministry Challenge
Introducing the New Beginnings Shopping Cart
Team Member News
What Have You Been Reading?
Upcoming Events
Generation Next
Podcasts
Special Thanks
New Beginnings Scripture for July
Our Mission Statement
Welcome to the New Beginnings Holistic Fitness Ministries family. We consider it a privilege to support your fitness efforts. We welcome your suggestions and ideas, so please let us know if there is anything we can do to make your experience with the monthly newsletter, website, weekly messages or message board more beneficial. We can be contacted at contactus@mynewtemple.org. It is our prayer to bring you words of encouragement and inspiration to motivate you to become fit physically, emotionally, spiritually and relationally. This is your New Beginning and we want to make it an awesome experience for you. As you begin this new adventure we are praying for you.
Who are we?
New Beginnings is a fitness ministry established in 2003 to offer a holistic approach to fitness that includes mind, body and spirit. A fitness ministry also serves to help people help themselves through physical and spiritual exercise. At New Beginnings we believe good health is a gift from God and can be obtained by following biblical principles as we lead a balanced life physically, mentally, spiritually and relationally.
What’s New?
July 2007 Challenge (continuing the June Challenge)
Our Message Board is live. The New Beginnings Team has put a lot of topics out on the message board and we would like to hear from you. What do you think? The topics fall into the categories of physical, relational, emotional, spiritual fitness, woman to woman, prayer and salvation. Go to the categories, check out the topics that are already there. Read what other family members have written under the specific topics and write to us in response. If what you want to discuss is not listed under any of the other categories, start a new topic in the category it belongs in. If it does not fit anywhere else write about it under “General Discussion!” We need to hear from you. What you think is important to us. Get other people to join our message board so we can get some real conversation started. http://mynewtemple.org/aMessages.html
New Beginnings Shopping Cart
It has been a long time coming but the shopping cart is live. http://mynewtemple.org/aservices3.html You are now able to make donations and order New Beginnings materials and gear via the internet using a credit card or Paypal. This method of making donations, purchasing materials and products on-line is both safe and secure. You no longer have to send a check to our mailing address or try to contact one of the team members. Go to our website under products and services and shop for the bible study guides, the cardio journals, shirts and more.
We have only just begun to provide you with New Beginnings Gear. The team has asked for new gear so watch for the new workout suits, caps, duffle bags, book bags and other gear that is yet to come. We have also set up New Beginnings packages for those who would like to get started in a holistic fitness program and do not know where to start. Check it out, order what you need and let us know if there is something you would like us to add by writing to us at contactus@mynewtemple.org. If our designer can design and provide it we will make it available.
We are developing the new design for the Slogan-“It’s Not About Perfection, It’s About Progression!!!!” We will let you know when it is completed and available for purchase.
Team Member News
Watch for new individuals to join the New Beginnings Team in upcoming months. God has been opening doors and putting individuals with special gifts and talents in our presence so His ministry can become what He wants it to be. Look for information on The Reverend Kimberley McNeil in next months issue.
What Have You Been Reading?
Many of you have read some awesome books that have really ministered to you, spiritually, emotionally, relationally or physically. Let us know what you have been reading by writing to us on the message board. Your recommendations might help someone else.
This month we would like to recommend, “I Told The Mountain To Move”, by Patricia Raybon. In this book Patricia Raybon teaches us to focus our prayers on loving the other person, not changing them. Changing people is God’s job.
Our second recommendation is “Discerning The Voice Of God”, by Priscilla Shirer. If you find yourself at a place where it is difficult to know when God is speaking this book will help you to learn how to listen for the voice of God even amidst all of the busyness of our lives.
Our third recommendation is that you check out author Lisa Bevere. The New Beginnings Team had the awesome opportunity to attend a Women’s Conference in the month of June. We had the blessing of sitting at the feet of Lisa Bevere. She is the author of many books and shared with us that we as women need to learn how to “Fight Like A Girl”. If you have the opportunity to hear her we recommend that you take advantage of it. She took the time to pray for each woman in attendance. She prayed for our boldness as women and for many she prayed that their spiritual hearing and vision would be increased and also that everything the enemy has attempted to steal from us would be restored. We have personally read one of her books “Out of Control and Loving it” and we have in our possession “Be Angry But Don’t Blow It.” She is real and deals with real issues. Check her out. http://www.messengerintl.org/
Upcoming Events
Generation Next — We hope you had the opportunity to check out the new Podcasts. We have added a new board to the message board for Generation Next. Yes, it is for the young adults. It is to provide an opportunity for you to discuss the things that are important to you and for those of us that are older or I should say more seasoned, we have been around a few blocks to share from what we have gone through. Watch for the new podcasts that are geared specifically towards Generation Next and e-mail us with your suggestions.
Podcasts
As of July 1, 2007, there are over 80 podcasts on the website. We encourage you to take some time and listen to them. You can listen to them while you do other things on your computer. Check them out and let us know what you think by writing to us on the message board. If you have something to say, let us hear it. Are we wrong? Are we right? Did we miss something? http://mynewtemple.org/apodcasts2.html
We are endeavoring to share topics that will get you and your friends, family, co-workers and significant others talking. Use the podcast as an excuse to approach the subject. Discussing them will increase your communication with each other and also stir your thinking. In order for our relationships to grow we need to know how the people God has placed in our lives think and feel. After you talk about it write to us and let us know what you learned from each other. Listen to the podcasts and see what our podcast participants are saying. We look forward to hearing from you.
Check out the podcasts and weekly articles to see what God is doing through New Beginnings and then don’t keep it to yourself, please spread the word. www.mynewtemple.org.
Special Thanks
To each of you our New Beginnings Family for walking through our infancy stage with us. We believe that God is moving quickly and this is the time to be ready for whatever God is bringing your way and ours. Thank you for being with us during this time of growth and learning.
To Terry Ertter, our Webmaster and Marion Holmes, our Copy, Print and Design Specialist, you are the best things that could have happened to us and we want you to know that we love and appreciate you more than you know. Blessings to each of you and your families and to Creative License and Equipped Copy. We pray that we will continue to grow together.
To Pastor Frederick L. Fairley and The Berean Church Family. This month we celebrate one year of being together in Faith and Fitness and we pray that God will continue to bless us through your ministry and that we will continue to be a blessing to you
New Beginnings Scriptures for July 2007
Philippians 3:12:
Pressing toward the Goal
12 I don’t mean to say that I have already achieved these things or that I have already reached perfection. But I press on to possess that perfection for which Christ Jesus first possessed me. (NLT)
Our Mission Statement
Our Mission is to draw individuals to Jesus Christ through the Ministry of Holistic Fitness and to see the Body of Christ become fit in all areas by providing tools and information to empower you to succeed. New Beginnings is dedicated to helping you gain personal, spiritual, physical, mental and relational fitness by developing the courage and confidence necessary to set and achieve goals based on biblical principles. Most people encounter difficulty reaching goals, sticking with a diet or completing a task by trying to make an outward change without having made any inward spiritual changes. In other words, all improvements in your life begin with a change in your mind and spirit.
New Beginnings Contact Information-
5130 W. Baseline #117, PMB# 224, Laveen, AZ 85339
Contact us here or on our message board
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