3/6/2024 A Note From Pastor Jacqui
Dear Friends,Living the Resurrection during Lent is an invitation to search for a deepening faith. Thomas invites us to dialogue with our doubts as a motivation to stay curious and learn more about our faith. He courageously struggles with his questions, and his friends, the disciples, allow him to work through his challenges. Finally, Jesus […]
2/28/2024 A Note From Pastor Jacqui
Dear Friends,As our Lent journey continues, I pray you are well and experiencing God’s grace. This week’s study on Peter in our Third Day Journey with Bishop Berlin reminds us that God permanently restores us even when we mess up, much like when Peter denied Christ three times. Jesus seeks Peter, cooks him a special meal […]
2/21/2024 A Note From Pastor Jacqui
Dear New Horizon Family, Disciples, we walk with Jesus wherever he leads us, pulling our fears, doubts, and longings behind us. Believers, we seek to trust the God who always surprises us, whose promises take on flesh and blood in the good news of Jesus. I pray that your second week of Lent is going well. […]
2/14/2024 A Note From Pastor Jacqui
Dear friends, as we enter this lenten season, we are invited to a deeper wisdom, one that calls us to refocus our lives and find a realigned transformation. Wisdom of a fuller life through facing what needs to die so we can live. May this Lent journey and Ash Wednesday filled with the love of […]
2/7/2024 A Note From Pastor Jacqui
Dear New Horizon Family, I trust and pray today you are well. It’s almost Lent! In a week’s time we will have gathered for our Ash Wednesday meeting as we embrace a season of discovering God’s saving grace and transformation anew.I love that our Christian faith is shaped as the “road we walk”! For us […]
1/31/2024 A Note From Pastor Jacqui
Dear New Horizon Family,Give us this day our daily bread!When Jesus teaches us to pray, we are reminded that all we have is TODAY! Sometimes, so much of our lives are lived in the past, nostalgia or crippling regrets, or the unknown future. Part of our spiritual practice is to live in the NOW!The containment of […]
12/20/2023 A Note From Pastor Jacqui
Dear New Horizon family, In our daily devotional today, we were so aptly reminded…For to us a child is born, to us a son is given; and the government shall be upon his shoulder, and his name shall be called Wonderful Counsellor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace. —ISAIAH 9:6 (ESV) The beautiful and terrible always […]
12/13/2023 A Note From Pastor Jacqui
Dear Friends, As the season of advent marches on, and the excitement of Christmas draws closer I marvel at the many traditions this season offers.I was wondering what tradition brings you the greatest JOY!Mine is the time spent cooking and baking with family. Especially the Gingerbread Cookies! So much so that when I go back […]
12/6/2023 A Note From Pastor Jacqui
Dear Friends, Advent is a season for adventure when we are invited to discuss a shocking hope, an everlasting peace, a deep joy and a world-changing love.When we think of Jesus being born in a manger because there was no room and probably no money for an “INN”, we are reminded that Christmas is a radical proclamation […]
11/29/2023 A Note From Pastor Jacqui
Dear Friends It’s so good to be back home. The welcome of palm trees is an oasis of warmth. Advent has arrived, and we enter the season of Hope, Joy, Love, and Peace.The message of Christmas is that Christ’s Light has come to the world and shines in the places of pain and fear, despair and tragedy, […]