(Volume 20) October 2007
Inside This Issue:
Welcome
Who is New Beginnings
What’s New-
October 2007 New Beginnings Ministry Challenge
The Church Link
What Have you Been Reading?
Book Recommendations
Book Talk Blog
The Fitness Angel
Upcoming Events-
Women Of Radiant Design Women’s Conference
Video Cast on the New Beginnings Website
Word of Encouragement
New Beginnings Scripture for October
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?
October 2007 Challenge-
Increase Your Workout Time and Watch Your Food Intake
This month let's check ourselves and see how we are doing on our workouts and what we are eating. Starting in September I started working out a minimum of four days per week. My appetite has increased and it is my understanding from The Fitness Angel that the more muscle I gain the more my metabolism will speed up. I am now adding the food piece to the project and I assure you that I am on a path to try to get this right this time. I want to challenge you to check out what you are presently doing and let us know what we can do to be of help to you. Remember looking good on the outside starts with looking good on the inside, so add prayer and study of the word to your daily diet. http://mynewtemple.org/aMessages.html
The New Beginnings Church Link-
Because the ministry is on the web it has the ability to touch people all over the United States, Canada and in other countries. We need your help to develop our ChurchLlink. The ChurchLink is a group of churches that promote holistic fitness within their congregations. Holistic Fitness is a new concept, however, we believe it is the direction that God wants His people to go. It is not about perfection, it is about progression.
Is there a church near you that does an outstanding job of promoting spiritual, relational and physical fitness? If you're looking for a church, check here to see if our members have recommended one near you. If you know of a church that should be on our list, please add it to our list.
If you want to ask for additional information or would like to have some one from our team write to you regarding the churches on our church link contact us at churchlink@mynewtemple.org. us at New Beginnings is a holistic fitness ministry that focuses on becoming fit from the inside out, because we understand that no lasting change can take place unless we first make an inner one. We believe that this is another ministry that God is using to draw people unto Himself. He wants us to know that He cares about every part of us inside and out.
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.
The Ministries’ Monthly Book Recommendation-From Angela
This month we are recommending The Blessings Of Brokenness by Charles Stanley.
If you have never read it we recommend it. The book is simple and it only has 158 pages, but it causes you to really think and pray about what God is doing in your life.
In all honesty I began reading it because I sensed someone that I was close to was going through or was going to go through a season of brokenness, where God was going to be using situations and circumstances in their life to prune them and draw them back to Himself. A sister friend that I was discussing this with confirmed what I was sensing, but at the same time advised me that as I began to pray for the friend not to be surprised if God began a work to change me. Isn't that always the way God works? He did in all honesty reveal some things to me about me in the area of pride that He wanted to prune. It was a blessing for me to hear God clearly speak to me about the specifics of the situation and why He wanted to break it. During this time He has also identified the need to share more openly with you our New Beginnings family some of the other things that He has brought me through and is bringing me through as He prepares me to go deeper in ministry to His people through New Beginnings.
Check out this recommendation and let us know what you think by writing to us on the message board http://mynewtemple.org/aMessages.html.
Monthly Book/Bible Study Blog
The Book Talk Blog is up and running @ www.mynewtemple.org. This allows us to read through a Christian book or book of the bible together each month (it may take a little longer) and share our thoughts and the revelations that God gives us through it. You will see what the leader of the monthly study got from it and also be able share what you see. Our first book is “Lord, I Want To Be Whole”, by Stormie Omartian. The book deals with becoming healed emotionally. So many of us have experienced things that the enemy is using to try to hold us back. You wonder why you can’t lose the weight or stay focused on anything. You wonder why you keep making the same mistakes over and over again, getting involved in the same types of unhealthy relationships? In this book Stormie will help us learn how to release the past, live in obedience to God, recognize and resist the real enemy and more. The book can be purchased at any Christian bookstore or on-line at Amazon.com. Pick up your copy today. You can join the blog at any time because all of the blogs are available under book talk. Check it out and add your comments.
What’s New with The Fitness Angel-
Carroll Roberts-The Fitness Angel and founder of New Beginnings has recently redesigned The Fitness Angel Website to provide more information to assist those that are attempting to become physically fit.
The Fitness Angel-Your Online All-The-Time Personal Trainer
The shape of things to come!
Introducing your own on-line Personal Trainer. You have known him as the Founder of New Beginnings Holistic Fitness Ministries, Inc. You have experienced him on The Fitness Angel Show and the focus was on Full Figured Women. His new and improved focus “The shape of things to come!”
Click on the logo above and check out the site.
The site now contains:
- More exercise and nutrition information
- Menus and recipes
- Your own personal profile page to allow you to tell about yourself just like on myspace
- Your own personal trainer
- The ability to receive personal messages and support from your personal trainer and to provide and receive support from others who may be in the same place you are
- Workouts for men and for women from The Fitness Angel himself and his personal trainer friends
- Exercise and Eating Logs to track your progress
- Calorie counters
- Fitness and Nutrition articles and much more
While there are some features on The Fitness Angel site that are still free to get the total benefit of the new site The Fitness Angel is encouraging you to Become A Member. There is a monthly fee of $10 per month. Note that if you decide to become a member the Fitness Angel has agreed to donate a portion of your membership fee to the New Beginnings Ministry. There are no obligations or additional requirements of membership and you are free to cancel your membership at any time by sending an e-mail message to the address provided on The Fitness Angel site.
Check it out!
As part of our continued commitment to your holistic fitness we will continue to do what we can to provide physical fitness information on the New Beginnings site, however, it will not be as detailed as what will be provided on The Fitness Angel site.
Upcoming Events-
WORD Conference-
Dollie, Kimberley and Angela will be attending the WORD (Women Of Radiant Design) Conference sponsored by the Friendship Baptist Church, 17145 Bastanchury Road, Yorba Linda, CA 92886. For those of you in the CA area it is not to late to sign up. The conference begins on Thursday night October 18, 2007. For conference information visit http://www.thefriendshipchurch.org/fbchome.htm We look forward to seeing you there.
Video on the New Beginnings site?
Yeah, that’s right we are in the process of developing our new video casts. Please keep us in prayer as we move to this new media in an effort to meet the needs of our family members. We realize that we are constantly evolving because we sense that God is directing us to do so. Some of the upcoming topics will include video of the transformations of our President and CEO, Angela Willingham. She will be sharing what she has experienced over the last 6 months and how God has used it to turn her life around. God is using the things the enemy intended to destroy her to set her free and she believes that it is not just for her, but it is to be used to help others. Watch out for real people and transparency on the upcoming video casts.
Word of Encouragement-
If you are in the process of working to become holistically fit and you do not see the weight coming off the way you think it should, take the focus off the weight and put the focus on just feeling good about you. As you allow God to change you from the inside out, he will begin to drop some stuff off of you that has been holding you back.
New Beginnings Scripture for October 2007
Jeremiah 30:17a:
17 I will give you back your health
and heal your wounds,” says the Lord.
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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