This Sunday, March 7th, is our “Missions Sunday.” For years now we have celebrated “Mission Month” in March. During that month we celebrated the mission work of our church and received an offering that helped serve that work around the world. As you have realized, mission work has become an every Sunday thing here at New Hope. We send groups in the summer to Guatemala, Peru, and Montana. In the winter we send a large group to Mexico. Our youth travel on mission trips each summer. Our Women of Hope work in Northwest Arkansas feeding the homeless and helping the hopeless. We participate in the largest mission organization in the world through the SBC Cooperative Program. We have Summer Mission Wrap-Up Sunday in August to review our work. Soon we will open a Day Center for the Homeless. Our year is now filled with mission opportunities locally, nationally, and globally. All of that, coupled with our tremendous need in giving toward “Our Planting Place” building fund, led us to the decision to go to “Mission Week” in March instead of the usual “Mission Month.” We ask that you use this week to pray for missions and give to missions. Our envelopes have a designated place for you to indicate your mission offering. One hundred percent of what we receive in our mission offering goes directly to missions. Give this Sunday!

Soon you will be seeing a renewed emphasis and programming in the area of prayer. We must continue to seek the wisdom of God as we move forward as a church making disciples. I hope you are praying daily for your Pastor, your Staff, and your Church. Also I would like to ask each of you to pray for our Pastor’s Advisory Council, Pastor’s Advisory Board, Day Center for the Homeless committee, and our 15th Anniversary committee. As I look at what lies ahead in days to come I must remember, “God is able to do exceeding abundantly beyond all that we ask or think, according to the power that works within us.” (Eph. 3:20)  Pray!