{"id":494,"date":"2026-09-26T21:20:06","date_gmt":"2026-09-26T21:20:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newcovenantokc.org\/index.html\/church-update-09-26-26\/"},"modified":"2026-09-26T21:22:10","modified_gmt":"2026-09-26T21:22:10","slug":"church-update-09-26-26","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newcovenantokc.org\/index.html\/church-update-09-26-26\/","title":{"rendered":"Church Update 09\/26\/26"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Good afternoon church family,<br \/><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I am very much looking forward to our Lord&#8217;s Day gathering tomorrow morning! Join us for Fellowship Groups at 9:30 and for Worship Service at 10:45. Our Fellowship Groups will be back in their normal places after two weeks of meeting together.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><br \/>Our focus passage for tomorrow is Acts 5:12\u201316 as we discuss the power of holy reverence. Church marketing strategies often tell us to appeal to the crowds to grow our church, but God&#8217;s Word tells us that when we become a habitation for His glory, He will draw people into His body. I believe the Lord has much to show us in this text, and I encourage everyone to be in prayer as we prepare for our gathering.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><br>I would also like to remind everyone that we are working to build up our food pantry. If you would like to bring non-perishable items to help us serve those in need, you can place them in the shopping cart by the main entrance tomorrow morning. If you prefer to give a special cash or check donation toward this cause, you can place it in the offering plate\u2014just put it in an envelope marked &#8220;food pantry&#8221; so we know where to direct it.<br>May the grace and peace of the Lord be with each one of you.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">One other thing, tomorrow evening at 6:00 p.m. our theology group will be meeting at Serve. All are welcome to join us. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">May you rest today in His goodness and mercy, and I look forward to being with you in the morning.<br \/>In His steps,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Pastor Nick<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><br \/>&#8220;And more than ever believers were added to the Lord, multitudes of both men and women.&#8221;<br \/>\u2014 Acts 5:14<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">P.S. We maintain a Church events calendar which can be accessed from this webpage. Just hover over the &#8220;about&#8221; tab and click on &#8220;Calendar.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Good afternoon church family, I am very much looking forward to our Lord&#8217;s Day gathering tomorrow morning! Join us for Fellowship Groups at 9:30 and for Worship Service at 10:45.&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[16],"tags":[22],"class_list":["post-494","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-church-emails","tag-church-update"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newcovenantokc.org\/index.html\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/494","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newcovenantokc.org\/index.html\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newcovenantokc.org\/index.html\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newcovenantokc.org\/index.html\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newcovenantokc.org\/index.html\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=494"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.newcovenantokc.org\/index.html\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/494\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":495,"href":"https:\/\/www.newcovenantokc.org\/index.html\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/494\/revisions\/495"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newcovenantokc.org\/index.html\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=494"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newcovenantokc.org\/index.html\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=494"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newcovenantokc.org\/index.html\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=494"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}