Throughout the school year, New Hope's Patch the Pirate and Pee Wee clubs provide fun and growth for pre-school and school-age children. The clubs use song, verse memorization, skits, and Bible studies to start members in a lifetime of learning about the Lord Jesus Christ. The Patch ministry was founded by Ron Hamilton in response to the attention his eye patch, which he wears after losing an eye to cancer, garnered among the children in his home church.

Each week, club members learn songs and Bible lessons designed to build godly character traits and worship the Lord. Each quarter, the clubs present what they have learned to the church in a Sunday performance where they share songs, Bible verses, and skits.

Registration will be Sunday, August 31, at 1:00 PM.  Both clubs meet each Wednesday at 7:00 PM. If you are interesting in finding out more about our children's ministries or would like to register your child for one of the clubs, feel free to contact the church.

What Can Be Known About Hell

Part 2

Hell's Surprised Residents

The path to Heaven is Narrow, bu tthe road to Hell is Broad (Matthew 7:13-14).

"The safest road to Hell is the gradual one--the gentle slope, soft underfoot, without sudden turnings, without milestones, without signposts" (C.S. Lewis).

"The path to Hell is paved with man's good intentions" (anonymous).

Not all who belong to a church belong to Christ

• Parable of the Tares and Wheat (Matthew 13:24-30, 36-43)
• Parable of the Net (Matthew 13:47-50)

"The dragnet of God's judgement moves silently through the sea of mankind and draws all men to the shores of eternity for final separation to their ultimate destiny--believers to eternal life and unbelievers to eternal damnation.  Men move above within that net as if they were forever free.   It may touch them from time to time, as it were, startling them.  But they quickly swim away, thinking they have escaped, not realizing they are completely and inescapably encompassed in God's sovereign plan.  The invisible web of God's judgement encroaches on every human being just as that of the dragnet encroaches on the fish.  Most men do not perceive the kingdom, and they do not see God working in the world.  They may be briefly moved by the grace of the gospel or frightened by the threat of judgement; but they soon return to their old ways of thinking and living, oblivious to the things of eternity.  But when man's day is over and Christ returns to set up His glorious kingdom, then judgement will come" (McArthur).

Who are you counting on to get to Heaven, yourself or Christ?