In Giving

Since the beginning of the summer, Don Stutzman has highlighted a number of ministries we have, ministries we support… Some of these ministries take place in foreign countries. Some take place in Washington or Oregon. Some are super local. They take place right here in Newberg. A few of them even happen right here in our building. These ministries feed people, cloth people, house people, keep lights on and water running. Some of these ministries are heavily focused on spiritual growth and development.

We’ve got ministry leads who coordinate our benevolence, clothing, missions, and worship ministries.

American Heritage Girls, coordinated by Josh Luben (and with the help of many, many volunteers, a dozen of whom are from our own congregation), helps girls grow in faith, leadership, and service.

About a month ago we began our third year of hosting a homeschooling co-op called Classical Conversations on Friday mornings.

Through Kyle and the adult volunteers he’s got supporting him, we encourage the spiritual growth of teens.

Since arriving at Newberg I’ve had the chance to offer biblically based premarital counseling to ten couples, to help encourage them to consider God’s design and desire for their marriages and the children they may have. Our young adult’s group is entering it’s third year of meeting in Lorinda and I’s home. We’ve got 18 young adults who have attend this group in that time.

Over the course of 2023 and 2024, our Children’s program has served between 100 and 120 children through children’s classes, children’s worship, VBS, our Christmas and Easter programs, Trunk-Or-Treat, our annual Christmas party, and many other opportunities Heather has provided. And we’ve likely served that number exponentially over the years through the combined efforts of so many in our congregation.

Our staff facilitate weddings, memorial services, celebrations, prayer nights, sessions at Camp Yamhill, campouts, cookouts, retreats, mission trips, and serve days.

In the 52 weeks of a year members and staff of our congregation teach about 270 classes for adults. In the last 28 days we’ve had 182 unique visitors to our YouTube channel and grown by 4 subscribers.

Matthew 7:7–11 ESV

“Ask, and it will be given to you; seek, and you will find; knock, and it will be opened to you. For everyone who asks receives, and the one who seeks finds, and to the one who knocks it will be opened. Or which one of you, if his son asks him for bread, will give him a stone? Or if he asks for a fish, will give him a serpent? If you then, who are evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your Father who is in heaven give good things to those who ask him!

God gives good gifts. Do we?

Matthew 6:1–4 ESV

“Beware of practicing your righteousness before other people in order to be seen by them, for then you will have no reward from your Father who is in heaven. “Thus, when you give to the needy, sound no trumpet before you, as the hypocrites do in the synagogues and in the streets, that they may be praised by others. Truly, I say to you, they have received their reward. But when you give to the needy, do not let your left hand know what your right hand is doing, so that your giving may be in secret. And your Father who sees in secret will reward you.

Acts 5:3–4 ESV

But Peter said, “Ananias, why has Satan filled your heart to lie to the Holy Spirit and to keep back for yourself part of the proceeds of the land? While it remained unsold, did it not remain your own? And after it was sold, was it not at your disposal? Why is it that you have contrived this deed in your heart? You have not lied to man but to God.”