Guest speaker Pastor Peter Ochiel speaks of the difference of being in the multitude and being one of the ones willing to leave the crowd. While you may receive good things when you are in the multitude the real experience of blessings and God's greatness happens when we are willing to leave the crowd and follow after Jesus...and sometimes even leaving the boat.

Pastor Jon Shorterez ministering at 2018 Back to School rally.

How do you worthy of something that you have not even contributed to the worthiness, something that you did not even earn? Paul was not asking us to walk with arrogance, but worthy.
Walking worthy requires learning...we must learn how to walk worthy. The walk is one of humility and thankfulness. It’s not based on what one has or does not have, but on our understanding of what God has placed inside of us when He filled us with His Spirit.

Pastor Mel shares with New Life that Jesus defined greatness by showing us how to take the lead in stopping down and washing other people's feet. Kingdom greatness is when Christians are willing to reach out to the disenfranchised in the local congregation and the community and willingly serve them.

Some individuals say they love Jesus, but they are married to the world and I don’t want to be right. Their mannerism and actions say that they have a stronger love for the world. They are spiritually singing the old song, "If loving you is wrong I don't want to be right", but God wants them to devote all of their love to Him.

Bishop Brenda K. Perry spoke from John 15: 9 - 12. Jesus said you have to abide in the love of the Father. God wants to us linger in His love...to stay in the “right here”. When we stay in His love we get His heartbeat. When we stay and hear His voice in the quiet and stillness it satisfies the soul.

You don’t have to be like anyone else. God did not create us an original so that we die a cheap copy. Intentional imitation will forever impede our best self from becoming who God created us to be...we are to original and are stamped with too much purpose to be anyone else.
Be yourself!

A covenant is a pact, an agreement between at least two individuals. Jeremiah 31 tells of the new covenant that God was going to make and that He would place on the heart of His people.