WHO ARE WE?

“NLC is a diverse family of Christ followers seeking to live out the love, acceptance, healing, and hope of Jesus Christ.”

UNDERSTANDING OUR IDENTITY…

We Are A Diverse Family

Diversity is a demonstration of the awesome creativity and imagination of God. Diversity should look more like a kaleidoscope than a clear glass window. New Life Community is a community of individuals and families that come from many different cultures, ethnic groups, and backgrounds; who have experienced a wide variety of experiences on their life journey. God is at work restoring and rebuilding community as He designed- community without walls. We value this dream of diversity and believe that we are positioned to start tearing down walls that have existed between people for far too long. We offer a place for people who would feel very out of place in most established churches in our community.

We Are Christ followers

We are followers of Jesus who are committed to looking to Jesus, learning from Jesus and leading people to Jesus. We go where Jesus would go, do what Jesus would do, and spend time with the people that Jesus would spend time with. As we follow Jesus we are being constantly transformed.

We Love

We are not just called to love, but to love radically. We listen, serve, give, share, and welcome, not out of obligation or trying to earn God’s love… we love because we are realizing more and more how much God the Father loves us! We want to be a family that demonstrates the genuine love of Jesus to a community that has a messed up understanding of what true love is.

We Live Out Acceptance

Remember the TV show “Cheers”? Well that’s us. NLC is a place where everyone knows your name and accepts you for who you are. We give one another room to grow and don’t expect perfection. You can enter this place and be free of criticism, free of expectation, free to be real before God and embraced by his family. As one person said, “New Life Community is the hardest place for a person to fail.”

Healing

God’s desire is to not only put broken and hurting people back together, but to completely heal and restore them. We are a collection of people who have experienced the pain of broken relationships, addiction, abuse, rejection and loneliness, but who through God’s grace are being made new. We are a place where healing happens because we’ve experienced it first hand.

Hope

Hope gets us out of bed in the morning. Hope says that “we’ll make it”. We don’t claim to have all the answers or try to fix every problem, but we do believe that with God all things are possible. Through Jesus death and resurrection we know that regardless of what happens- God is good and He will provide.