Salutations! We're the interns, Derek Auffenorde and Lacey Painter. You've probably seen us around making noise and hurting your ears. And if you haven't seen us, we're probably cleaning the toilets....just kidding (maybe ;)).
The NB staff has asked us as interns to highlight some of the ministries that we have the incredible opportunity to serve this summer. This week we want to focus on the worship service and how it is an integral part of NB Family ministries.
NB Family ministries made its debut long before we gave it a name. As we discussed what the contents of this blog were going to be, we realized that our idea of family is not limited to the walls of our home or our genes. Since first attending New Beginnings as young students in the youth program, the church has become our family. You may have seen us leading worship once or twice around here, and that didn't start because of a random idea we had while daydreaming in Algebra. We were encouraged not only by peers our age and older, but by the leaders in this church, both staff and volunteers, who helped us define our gifts and cultivate our leadership skills. For example, the Church (the people...not the walls) never gave up on us even when we were blowing speakers in the children's room with out-of-tune guitars, a Lacey singing way off key, and a Derek who thought he was the next John Bonham, creating the next Hillsong United masterpiece.
What happened, though, is that people stepped in to be our cheerleaders, to give us constructive advice on how we could be better, but most of all to just love on some scraggly high schoolers. Family, at that point, became defined not just by bloodline but by a group of people who loved us as their own, welcoming us with open arms no matter how terrible we sounded.
This is why we love NB Family ministry. Worship service plays a huge role in what we do here at New Beginnings. From our vantage point as worship leaders it's beautiful to see the church come together as one. It's a great representation of what we do here at this church and what NB Families is all about. Though there are several ministries that make up this family, the worship service is where we all come together as one, just as Paul writes in 1 Corinthians 12:12 (ESV) "For just as the body is one and has many members, and all the members of the body, though many, are one body, so it is with Christ." Whether you're a student, a young adult, a parent, a worship leader, or just a member of this body, your part is important in unity and may even be important in raising up some crazy high school kids who just want to play music all the time. What you do is vital here, and it's appreciated. New Beginnings family ministries is designed to encourage the development of a healthy family in the home, which in turn overflows into a healthy family within the Church.
The NB staff has asked us as interns to highlight some of the ministries that we have the incredible opportunity to serve this summer. This week we want to focus on the worship service and how it is an integral part of NB Family ministries.
NB Family ministries made its debut long before we gave it a name. As we discussed what the contents of this blog were going to be, we realized that our idea of family is not limited to the walls of our home or our genes. Since first attending New Beginnings as young students in the youth program, the church has become our family. You may have seen us leading worship once or twice around here, and that didn't start because of a random idea we had while daydreaming in Algebra. We were encouraged not only by peers our age and older, but by the leaders in this church, both staff and volunteers, who helped us define our gifts and cultivate our leadership skills. For example, the Church (the people...not the walls) never gave up on us even when we were blowing speakers in the children's room with out-of-tune guitars, a Lacey singing way off key, and a Derek who thought he was the next John Bonham, creating the next Hillsong United masterpiece.
This is why we love NB Family ministry. Worship service plays a huge role in what we do here at New Beginnings. From our vantage point as worship leaders it's beautiful to see the church come together as one. It's a great representation of what we do here at this church and what NB Families is all about. Though there are several ministries that make up this family, the worship service is where we all come together as one, just as Paul writes in 1 Corinthians 12:12 (ESV) "For just as the body is one and has many members, and all the members of the body, though many, are one body, so it is with Christ." Whether you're a student, a young adult, a parent, a worship leader, or just a member of this body, your part is important in unity and may even be important in raising up some crazy high school kids who just want to play music all the time. What you do is vital here, and it's appreciated. New Beginnings family ministries is designed to encourage the development of a healthy family in the home, which in turn overflows into a healthy family within the Church.
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