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Welcome to New Zion Baptist Church. We are a church family who seeks to be used by God so that lives are transformed through the power of Jesus Christ. We also endeavor to continue to grow spiritually, relationally, and in outreach and missions. New Zion members are guided by God’s Holy Word and His spirit .
We are actively involved in our local community as well as regional and world missions. We further seek to be a more diverse body as God uses us in these times.
Pastor Robert A. Whitehead, Sr.
Spiritual Growth Thoughts of The Week
“Never lose an opportunity of seeing anything beautiful, for beauty is God's handwriting”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Our mantra for 2012
We love God
We love others
We serve humanity
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 Sermon Recap |
“Year 2012: A Time of Opportunity”
Jonah 3:1-9
January 22, 2012
I. GOD CAN GIVE US OPPORTUNITIES (VS 1 & 2)
There can be opportunities in this year to do some things that we should have done last year. It might not be too late to do something that needs to be done. There were opportunities last year that I failed to take advantage of and I am sure that there may have been some opportunities that you may have failed to take advantage of last year or sometime in the past, but the exciting and hopeful news for you and for me is that God can give us opportunities, opportunities to repent, opportunities to forgive, opportunities to do the right thing, in the right way, at the right time. Jonah disobeyed, ran and tried to escape, was thrown overboard, and was consumed by a big fish, but it was God who gave him another opportunity to complete his assignment, to complete his mission, to complete what God wanted him to do. God gives us opportunities and sometimes we blow them. There are times when He offers things that are good, but we reject them.
II. TAKE THE OPPORTUNITIES THAT GOD GIVES (VS 3&4)
Jonah took the opportunity that God gave him. When God spares us, resets us, redeems us, replays us, and chooses to reuse us, then we should let Him do it. If God gives us another day to live, we should take advantage of it by living that day for His glory. If He wants us to go to Nineveh, then we need to go. If He has an assignment for us to do in this community, let’s do it. If He has an assignment in this church, welcome it. If He has assignment in your home, take advantage of it. Let’s take advantage of all opportunities that will increase our faith and bring about positive learning experiences. Let’s take advantage of all opportunities that will enhance our prayer lives. Let’s take advantage of all opportunities that will help promote better physical health, better mental health, and better spiritual health. Let’s take advantage of all opportunities that will make us more Christ like and more God focused. Jonah fulfilled his assignment. He preached to the people.
III. THERE ARE OPPORTUNITIES FOR EVERYONE (VS 4-7)
God does not limit opportunities to certain classes, or either certain genders, or certain body types, or anything that people try to use to control and label people. Everybody was given an opportunity to repent. Even the animals were made to comply. God’s opportunities for us are offered in order that God’s will would be done.
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From The Prayer Ministry: Dear God, thank you for watching over us day after day. Thank you for keeping us in your loving care night after night. Thank you for blessing us to see another day to lift You up and give You praise. We will forever give you all honor, glory and praise. In the precious name of Jesus. Amen. (Sis. Delois Morris)
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Sunday School Lessons For February |
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STUDY THEME: Going Right in a Culture Gone Wrong |
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February 5 |
Colossians 1:9-23 |
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February 12 |
Colossians 1:24-2:7 |
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February 19 |
Colossians 2:8-23 |
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February 26 |
Colossians 3:5-10;14-15,17-21 |
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Notice! The New Zion Scholarship Committee is now accepting scholarship applications. The scholarships are for new Zion Members only. For an application packet follow the link for :
Scholarship Application Packet
Trustee Jerolene Brown was elected to serve as Church Clerk at the 2012 Annual Church Business Meeting in January. Mrs. Brown often filled in as Church Clerk during the illness of our former Clerk, Mrs Geneva Wallace, and has volunteered
Meet Our New
Church CLerk
Trustee Jerolene Brown
to perform the Church Clerk duties since the passing of Mrs. Wallace in December 2011. Trustee Brown became a member of the Trustee Ministry in 2010. We extend our heartfelt thank to Trustee Brown for assuming this vital role in our church leadership.
New Members for 2011 Greeted at Reception
The New Zion Church Family celebrated God’s blessing of its 2011 new members with a reception on Sunday, January 22, 2012. The event was well attended by congregants, family, and friends, who enjoyed an assortment of hors d’oeuvres and desserts. A “Getting to Know You” game included prizes of Christian study materials for adults and youth, who met the most new members.