Preparing for a New Move….Pray Effectually and Fervently

To the Fellowship Family and our Friends,

It has been nearly six years since that hot and humid Sunday, July 2006, which found the New Renaissance Fellowship Church family, engaged in its first service of worship.  We were fortunate, through a very dear friend of the ministry, to identify a ministry space at the North Yonkers Community Church, Hastings-on-Hudson, New York.  From that time till the present “the Fellowship” has found a home for worship, celebration and more.  Indeed, North Yonkers has been home to several other congregations as well.  Unfortunately, the Board of Trustees for the North Yonkers Community Church has informed us of their intention to sell the property to parties unknown.  Accordingly, the Fellowship and other remaining congregations will be forced to move in the near future.  Although no date has been set, we have been advised that negotiations are well underway.

We are saddened to leave the home where we have been established since our very beginning.  Nevertheless, we believe God is opening a new door even as this one begins to close.  As such, we have begun to pray that God will guide us to greater works going forward.  We’re asking your prayers for this ministry and the four others present that a new highway for our God will come into view!

Finally, if you feel led, please share a generous donation with our ministry toward identifying a new location.  Our mailing information is available by clicking on the “Contact Us” tab on this website.

Thank you for your expression of love and care.  Be blessed.  God be with you till we meet again…

The Reverend Everett L. Kilgo, Pastor

 

 

 

Join the

New Renaissance Fellowship Family

“WatchNight Services”

Saturday, December 31, 2011

beginning at 10:30pm.

A new season is afoot!  Come and worship as we look forward to the dawn of the New Year 2012.

THE HISTORY

The Watch Night Services in Black communities that we celebrate today can be traced back to gatherings on December 31, 1862, also known as “Freedom’s Eve.”  On that night, Blacks came together in churches and private homes all across the nation, anxiously awaiting news that the Emancipation Proclamation actually had become law. Then, at the stroke of  midnight, it was January 1, 1863, and all slaves in the Confederate States were declared legally free.  When the news was received, there were prayers, shouts and songs of joy as people fell to their knees and thanked God. Black folks have gathered in churches annually on New Year’s Eve ever since, praising God for bringing us safely through another year.

It’s been 146 years since that first Freedom’s Eve and many of us were never taught the African American history of Watch Night, but tradition still brings us together at this time every year to celebrate “how we got over.”

Greetings to You and Yours!

For Christian believers, now is the time to recognize and remember He who came into the world for the world’s sake.  The Gospel bears witness to the same in the following manner:  ”…for God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son; that whosoever believes on him should not perish but have everlasting life.  For God sent not his Son into the world to condemn the world, but that the world through him might be saved.” John 3:16,17  Accompanying this word is the sacrifice on the cross, yet it all began with God’s desire to reconcile humanity to God’s self through the one and only true oblation for the sins of humankind.  God would send a part of God’s self to first bring the message:  ”Repent, for the kingdom of heaven is at hand!”  And then to bring the gospel and the tenets of practical living laying against the tradition of Judaism.  And though He was of God, he would be born in less than humble surroundings, with dubious origins relevant to his conception, yet move through his life with a mission informed my unimaginable power.  Though all of this is at the base of Christian belief, this time of year is set aside by others who may not even embrace Christian tenets with respect to their Jesus connection.  That notwithstanding, this is a time to rest from our opposition and the more difficult things of life, and share tender moments with friends, family, churchmen and others.  In like manner, I wish the very best for you and yours as you celebrate the true spirit of Christmas, rooted in God’s love for a generation and those who were afar off, that “we might have life and that more abundantly.”  Enjoy your holiday, the peace of the Lord be with you!

The Reverend Everett L. Kilgo, Pastor – New Renaissance Fellowship

It’s a New Season!

Hey People!  It is indeed a new season!  Summer breezes have ended, giving way to the magical colors of Fall, the shedding of the old awaiting the coming of the new.  Meanwhile, school, political season, church and so many other activities burst forth with renewed energy.  It is the latter to which I now speak.  Here’s what’s coming.  The New Renaissance Fellowship is looking forward to its Fall Bible Study beginning Wednesday, October 5, 2011, 7:00p in the Lounge.  It’s beginning is preceded by Sunday’s First Fall Communion 2011 (10/02/11) in the Main Sanctuary with worship beginning at 2:30pm.

We look forward to great times in worship.  We’re looking for you.  Invite your friends and family to come and share with us.  Till then, be safe and be blessed!