NHCC Weekly

Special Connection Thursday, May 21, 2020

Greeting to everyone! Please join us as we recognize and celebrate the academic achievements of five who are a part of our New Hope Church Family. The high school graduates are: Colton Dale Adams. Dale is the son of Jesse and Christina Adams and grandson to Danette Baker and LaVonna Ad-ams. He is graduating from Dove High School located in Oklahoma City. His future plans includes beginning a mili-tary career in the armed forces, either Air Force or U.S. Marines, but undecided at this time. Andrew Mitchell Lessmann. Andy is the son of Lori Lessmann. He is graduating from Westmoore High School locat-ed in Oklahoma City. Andy hopes to join the police academy and aspires to become a police officer. Jacy Marie Musshafen. Jacy is the daughter of Jason Muusshafen and Mandy Chambers of Perry Oklahoma. She is grand-daughter of Anita and Phil Musshafen of Perry Oklahoma and Patricia Johnson of Oklahoma City. Jacy is grad-uating from Perry High School and plans to attend Oklahoma State University to pursue a degree in pediatric surgery. Our higher learning graduates are: Gregory Steven Chambers. Greg is the son of Pastor Steve and JoCarolyn Chambers and grandson of Joe and Jan Massi all of Oklahoma City and Marolyn Chambers of San Diego, CA. Greg has completed his course work and has received his Masters of Divinity degree with a certificate in history, theology, and ethics from Brite Divinity School at Texas Christian University. He has also received the Barbara and Curtis L. Keith, Jr. Award this past spring, which was awarded to him for excelling in evangelism and church revitalization while serving as a student minister. He also received the 2018 Faculty Book Award for Pastoral Care. Recently, Greg has gotten married to Kathryn Johnson, the love of his life. In the immediate future, he hopes to take some much needed vacation time. Eventually, he plans to go back to school to achieve a Doctorate of Ministry degree in Transformational Leadership and he looks forward to see-ing what God has in store for their future. Olivia (Driskill) Trout. Olivia is the daughter of Brandon and Heather Driskill of Oklahoma City. She graduated from UCO with a Master of Science in Nutrition, Dietetics and Food Management. She and her husband Jeffrey live in Ed-mond. She will pursue a career that encourages and supports healthy diet and nutrition.

Congratulations to the Graduates of 2020! May God bless you for a job well done!

Dale Jacy Gregory

Olivia Andy

Well Done Class of 2020!

Beulah Ames Virginia Holcomb Vicky Gallas Neil Bond Evelyn Wilcoxon Willie Henderson

Online Worship Information As we continue to practice social distancing as recommended by the Regional and National church, we still come together each Sunday at 11:00a.m. to share in worship and communion together.

You can join the “meeting” by going to the church website: findnewhope.net and clicking on the button that says:

Click here to join our worship service online via Zoom.

If you prefer to join by phone, the dial-in number is there also.

Don’t forget to breathe!

Wednesdays at 7p.m.

Meeting link at findnewhope.net

Your church Staff and Church Officers have been prayer-fully considering the best and safest approach to bring our faith community back together as restrictions are being lift-ed. We have met in virtual meetings for over two and a half hours discussing, considering, and planning for what our “Coming Home to New Hope” experience might look like. We felt it was time to give some definitive dates and proce-dures that will be put in place to safeguard our congregation while enabling us to join in worship and praise of our Lord and Savior. So we invite you to take some time and look at “the Plan” so that everyone will be fully informed and aware of what we are going to do at New Hope.

Our target date to r eturn to worship has been set for JUNE 21st. While we are aware that other con-gregational entities are opening their worship ser-vice up in the near future, your Officers and Staff felt very strongly that we should take a more cau-tious approach and not be too aggressive in our re-turn. Our rationale is based on the overall age of our congregation and the reality that many of our mem-bers do have certain health conditions that would put them at higher risk than the general population. We are and will be monitoring the current situation with community health advisories to watch for changes that might impact this date.

NHCC Reboot

6/21/2020

Free face masks are available at the church if you need one. Just stop by during regular office hours: Monday through Thursday 9a.m.to 3p.m.

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