On the last Sunday in June, Josh Jenkins resigned from the staff of our church announcing that he would enter Regent Law School in Virginia Beach, VA. on August 1st.

Josh has served faithfully at New Hope for 15 years. During the early years of the church, when Josh was in high school, he loaded up all the sound equipment in his 1990 Ford Thunderbird at 6:00am and then set it all up at the Holiday Inn. As the church grew, he bought a small pick-up truck and loaded it every Sunday. Expansion then required his truck pulling a trailer each Sunday. Soon after, the church secured two Step Vans and Josh drove one of them each Sunday morning. In the late 90′s Josh became the Jr. High Student Pastor and took full reign of the Student program in 2004. Through the years he has set up and taken down our worship center every Sunday morning…that’s about 750 Sundays. Josh has led our students to be on mission as they have served in Mexico, Guatemala, Peru, Texas, Oklahoma, Iowa, New Mexico, Louisiana, Tennessee, Colorado, Missouri, Montana, California, and many other places.

We are now receiving a “Love Offering” for Josh as he goes off to Law School. Let’s all be generous and show our love for Josh and all that God has accomplished through him at New Hope. There will be a reception honoring Josh on Sunday evening July 18th at 6:00pm at the Recreation/Activity Center located at Century and Kelly Streets in Springdale. We hope you will make plans to be there.

It ought to be against the law…but we think of it as a blessing!