Saturday's blood drive and food pantry collection have been canceled due to weather conditions.
New Joy Lutheran Church is a member of the ELCA (Evangelical Lutheran Church in America). For additional information on the ELCA, please click their link on our "Recommended Links" page.
Welcome!
New Joy is a great congregation, with plenty of room for you! Whether you are looking for meaningful relationships, ways to serve and make a difference, a dynamic worship experience, or just to learn more about the God who has led you to this place in your life, you are welcome at New Joy.
You'll find fellowship, learning, service and worship opportunities for people of all ages. And you'll find many other folks who are real, down-to-earth, and looking to bring life and faith together. Check out our website, come worship with us any Sunday morning at 8:00 or 9:45, leave your prayer requests here on our Prayer Pages, or give us a call. We're glad you stopped by!
Pastor Connie Thomson
Announcements
Worship Schedule
New Joy has two worship services on Sundays. The early service begins at 8:00 am and the second service begins at 9:45.
Our 9:45 service offers loving childcare in the nursery as well as Sunday's Cool during the service for children ages 3 years through 6th grade.
We also offer a meditative and meaningful worship service on Wednesday evenings. WOW (Worship on Wednesday) starts at 6:30 and ends around 7:15.
Circle of Joy - Women's Ministry
The Synod needs our help! Liz Michael, the VP of the Indiana-Kentucky Synod has asked our "Circle of Joy" women's ministry to assist with a project for the synod. She would like us to knit prayer shawls for the delegates to the I-K Synod Assembly next June. The assembly will be electing a new bishop and our prayer shawls will help by acting as reminders for the delegates to be in prayer during this election process. What an honor and exciting opportunity for us to be directly tied into the Synod and the election of the new bishop!
Our current Circle of Joy group is great, but there are a couple of ways that you could help to fulfill this project:
1) If you can knit or crochet (or can't yet, but are interested in learning), please join us on Monday evenings. We meet anytime after 6:30 at Neva Hall's house, 36 E Stargrass Drive, Westfield (in the Springdale Farms subdivision).
2) Donate fun yarns and charms (angels, prayer boxes, crosses, ribbons, etc.).
If you have any questions, need directions or additional information contact Neva at neva2k@prodigy.net or by phone at 867-1875.
Family Nights
Every 1st & 3rd Wednesday of the month, we are inviting you and your family to a meal and after the meal the kids get to go to a cool learning and fellowship class called "Live BIG (Believe In God)" and the adults can go to our WOW service. Details and sign up sheets in the narthex.
Open Doors
Open Doors is planning to have a new Survival Skills Class. This is a 10 session class to help women with topics like money management, employment and child care. A trained teacher conducts the class but a coordinator is needed. This person arranges for the use of the church, babysitting, snacks, and incentive gifts. Ann Godby has done this in the past and is willing to help the new person. Please think about volunteering for this position. Two people could share this responsibility. Contact Ann at 758-4970 or jagodby59@aol.com for additional information.
Open Doors is in need of canned chicken and dumplings, boxed potatoes, canned fruits, snacks, applesauce, dry cereals, spaghetti sauce, pancake mix, handled paper grocery bags, and other non-perishables. They are also in need of gently used children's books and bicycles. You can also start bringing in school supplies. Just leave any donations in the red box in the narthex labeled "Open Doors." Contact Arlene Shodrock for questions at 569-2837, shodrock@gmail.com.
Scrip Sundays
New Joy is making the Scrip Program even more available! Every first Sunday of the month will be "Scrip Sunday" where we'll take and place orders for Scrip Gift cards, Marsh grocery cards and Kroger grocery cards. The reason for the effectiveness of scrip is simple: families generate revenue through purchases they would make anyway. Groceries, clothing, toys, gifts, even gasoline can be purchased with scrip. An organization with 150 families easily spends between one and two million dollars per year on food, clothing and other essentials. If these families use scrip for these purchases, they can raise as much as $40,000 to $80,000 per year for their organization - without spending an additional penny!
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