Coming Events:
Parents! Take advantage of this time to Christmas shop, take in a movie, dinner, or a much needed nap! Kids - newborn through grade - five are welcome. Sign up early and tell your friends as space is limited. $10 suggested family donation.
Dec. 18, 3:00pm-6:00pm
Our next Friends Feeding Friends service opportunity will be Saturday, December 17. We meet at 9:30 at Good Shepherd Lutheran Church on Clayton Rd. in Concord and finish at around 1:00 at the North Concord Adult Shelter.
Dec. 17, 9:30am-1:00pm
Meet Our Class Leaders
Great kids are made from many loving relationships with family, friends, and teachers. At New Life we have many wonderful people who volunteer their time with your children every Sunday morning, providing a safe environment for them to grow. So let's meet some of New Life's finest... (read more)
The Parent's Prayer
O, Master, make me a better parent.
“Teach me to understand my children, to listen patiently to what they have to say, and to answer all the questions kindly. Keep me from interrupting them, and contradicting them. Make me as courteous to them as I would have them be to me. Give me the courage to confess my sins against my children and to ask them for forgiveness, when I know I have done them a wrong.
“May I not vainly hurt the feelings of my children. Forbid that I should laugh at their mistakes or resort to shame and ridicule as punishment. Let me not tempt my child to lie and to steal. So guide me hour by hour that I may demonstrate by all I say and do that honesty produces happiness.
“Reduce I pray, the meanness in me. May I cease to nag; and when I am out of sorts, help me hold my tongue.
“Blind me to the little errors of my children and help me to see the good things that they do. Give me a ready word for honest praise.
“Help me to grow up with my children, to treat them as would those of their own age; but let me not exact of them the judgment and conventions of adults. Allow me not to rob them of the opportunity to wait upon themselves, to think, to choose, and to make decisions.
“Forbid that I should ever punish them for my selfish satisfaction. May I grant them all their wishes that are reasonable, and have the courage always to withhold a privilege which I know will do them harm.
“Make me fair and just, so considerate and companionable to my children, that they will have a genuine esteem for me. Fit me to be loved and imitated.
“With all Thy gifts, O great Master, give me calm, poise and self-control.”
Check our calendar for details
See Sharon at church or contact her at Sharon@new-life.org if you have any questions or want to know how you can get involved.