(Volume 22) December 2007
Inside This Issue:
Welcome
Who is New Beginnings
What’s New-
December 2007 New Beginnings Ministry Challenge
New Member of the New Beginnings Family
2008 Physical Fitness Race
The Church Link
What Have you Been Reading?
Book Recommendations
Book Talk Blog
Reminder About The Fitness Angel Site
Upcoming Events
Word of Encouragement
New Beginnings Scripture for November
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?
December 2007 Challenge-Get Ready for 2008 the year of New Beginnings
We want to encourage you to take the rest of December as a time of preparation. Begin to prepare yourself for the new year. We believe that the number eight is the number of New Beginnings. We are expecting great things to happen in 2008 personally and for this ministry. We don’t just mean personally for ourselves, but personally for you also. God has made some promises to many of us and we are expecting a move of God suddenly. Every time we turn on TBN or listen to a preacher preach, the Word of the Lord is being confirmed over, over and over again. Get ready for what God is about to do in your life by letting go of the old and reaching out for the new. Identify the stuff the enemy has repeatedly done to try to stop you and then put those things behind you. Close the door on his tricks and prepare yourself for the future God has in store for you. Seek God now like you never have before. Write to us and let us know what is going on http://mynewtemple.org/aMessages.html.
New Member of the New Beginnings Family-Women’s Faith Stories (WFS)
In October we shared that members of the New Beginnings Team had the opportunity to attend the WORD Conference in CA. (See the November Newsletter.) Dr. Brenda Little said that we should be on alert. There was a Abundance Alert declared at that conference. That was October 18, 2007. On October 26, 2007, we received a message from Lori Arriaga, founder of Women’s Faith Stories www.womensfaithstories.com, offering to transfer ownership of the site to New Beginnings. While a new website means more work, after the conference and in light of what New Beginnings has been purposed to do in the kingdom the response was really already determined for us by God. The New Beginnings team took ownership in November and loaded our first podcast to the site in December of 2007. This site is not being used to teach biblical principles. The goal is to increase our faith, through the shared faith stories of our sisters.
This is a new beginning for this ministry and we are praying that we can continue in excellence the work that God began in Lori, sharing stories that minister to those women who come to us for support from any place that the web reaches. We encourage you to visit the site and listen to the stories. As you listen we encourage you to write on the specific topics and share how they impacted your life.
If you have a story you would like to share please fill out the form on the Women’s Faith Stories website and we will be in contact with you.
You never know who God will bring into your life or what impact they will have. We want you to know that Lori has been a friend of the New Beginnings family for a long time. Lori gave our President and CEO, Angela her first opportunity to do a podcast and taught her everything she knows about podcasting. We recognize the offer from Lori was an honor and a blessing from God. A blessing He had in mind before our paths ever crossed. Lori we want to thank you for entrusting us to continue the good work that God began with you.
We encourage each of you to check out the new site. Lori has other websites focused on family, marriage, home schooling, inspiration and technology, please take the time to visit them also. Lori’s other websites are www.loriaarriaga.com and www.christianwomensresources.com.
New E-mail Program 
We have set up a new E-mail program for the New Beginnings site, so we need each of you to click on this sign up button and complete the information or go to the website www.mynewtemple.org home page and click on the button at the bottom of the page. This will allow us to keep in contact with you in a more efficient manner.
2008 Physical Fitness Focus- New Beginnings is Promoting 10,000 Steps Per Day
Walking for Health in 2008.
We want to give you the preview of the workout plan
we will be promoting for 2008.
New Beginnings 2008 Workout Focus
10,000/steps per day or 70,000/steps per week Walking Program*
This is the fitness opportunity that New Beginnings is promoting for 2008. It is simple and easy and almost everyone can participate at whatever level of fitness they are at. There is no great trick to walking. It does not require any special skills, advanced conditioning, special equipment or clothing. All you need is a good pair of walking shoes, comfortable clothing, a pedometer, and you're all set.
Why Walk?
- Burns almost as many calories as jogging
- Eases back pain
- Slims your waist
- Reduces heart attack risk
- Slows down osteoporosis bone los
You can get prepared for the walking program by checking with your physician now to ensure you are physically able to participate. Go to your local discount store and purchase your pedometer, and a good pair of walking shoes. Watch the fitness page on the website http://mynewtemple.org/aFitness.html for specific instructions on the 2008 program.
ChurchLlink
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 contact you regarding the churches on our church link contact us at churchlink@mynewtemple.org.
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 The New Beginnings Team
This month we have no recommendations if you can believe that. We have been working on the website and no one had a book they wanted to recommend to you. We gave you the opportunity to share with us and no one gave us anything. Does that mean no one is reading? We would love to hear from you. What have you been reading? Let us know by writing to us on the message board http://mynewtemple.org/aMessages.html or sending us a message at contactus@mynewtemple.org.
Monthly Book/Bible Study Blog
The Book Talk Blog on Stormie Omartian’s book “Lord, I Want To Be Whole”, is complete. But it is still not to late for you to go through it yourself and we encourage you to do it. 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. Even though we have completed the book talk you can still read through the book and write your comments on the blog. It will be left on the website indefinitely for you.
Final Reminder About The Fitness Angel Site-
Carroll Roberts-The Fitness Angel and founder of New Beginnings recently redesigned The Fitness Angel Website to provide more information to assist those that are attempting to become physically fit. Remember that we are still waiting for him to update his website with more current pictures of Angela our CEO and President. Her signature sermon is “Your Past Is Not Your Future” and she has been attempting to get him to change her image on The Fitness Angel website. Write to him and let him know your concerns and desire to have her image updated before you become a member of his website family. His address is carroll@thefitnessangelshow.com. You have to write because he is not listening to her.
Remember 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! www.myfitnessangel.com
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 is provided on The Fitness Angel site.
Upcoming Events
Check out the new website and watch for the new videos and audios on both.
Word of Encouragement
We are two weeks away from a brand new year full of new opportunities and all the blessings that go with it. God has promised you some things and you can count on Him to do just what He said. Spend the next few weeks seeking His face and allowing Him to remove anything that hinders you from walking into all that He has for you. He purposed you and your future and He can do it. 2008 is a year of New Beginnings for all of us.
New Beginnings Scripture for December 2007
Isaiah 14:24-27
Who Could Ever Cancel Such Plans?
24 -27 God-of-the-Angel-Armies speaks: "Exactly as I planned, it will happen. Following my blueprints, it will take shape. I will shatter the Assyrian who trespasses my land and stomp him into the dirt on my mountains. I will ban his taking and making of slaves and lift the weight of oppression from all shoulders." This is the plan, planned for the whole earth, And this is the hand that will do it, reaching into every nation. God-of-the-Angel-Armies has planned it. Who could ever cancel such plans? His is the hand that's reached out. Who could brush it aside? The Message (MSG)
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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