Inside This Issue:
Welcome
Who is New Beginnings
What’s New-
November 2007 New Beginnings Ministry Challenge
The Church Link
What Have you Been Reading?
Book Recommendations
Book Talk Blog
Women Of Radiant Design Women’s Conference Update
Video Cast on the New Beginnings Website
Upcoming Events
Word of Encouragement
New Beginnings Scripture for November
Our Mission Statement
Welcome to the New Beginnings Holistic Fitness Ministries family. We consider it a privilege to support your fitness efforts. We welcome your suggestions and ideas, so please let us know if there is anything we can do to make your experience with the monthly newsletter, website, weekly messages or message board more beneficial. We can be contacted at contactus@mynewtemple.org. It is our prayer to bring you words of encouragement and inspiration to motivate you to become fit physically, emotionally, spiritually and relationally. This is your New Beginning and we want to make it an awesome experience for you. As you begin this new adventure we are praying for you.
Who are we?
New Beginnings is a fitness ministry established in 2003 to offer a holistic approach to fitness that includes mind, body and spirit. A fitness ministry also serves to help people help themselves through physical and spiritual exercise. At New Beginnings we believe good health is a gift from God and can be obtained by following biblical principles as we lead a balanced life physically, mentally, spiritually and relationally.
What’s New?
November 2007 Challenge-Adopt this Motto-Eat to Live, Don’t Live to Eat.
Okay, for those of you that do not know, this is November. The month when many of us think we have to eat as much turkey, dressing/stuffing, rolls, cranberries and desserts as we can get. We want to challenge you to do something a little different this year. Eat less than you did before and plan for it. Find out what is going to be served and eat smaller portions. Decide in advance what you will eat and what you will pass on. Do not deprive yourself of anything that you want just don’t go overboard.
Depriving yourself will cause you to be dissatisfied and actually may result in your eating more of that or something else to fill the craving. Let’s take control of our eating for Thanksgiving so that we will be ready to handle Christmas next month. It will also help if you increase your workout and continue to watch what you are putting in your mouth the rest of the month. Remember looking good on the outside starts with looking good on the inside, so add prayer and study of the word to your daily diet. http://mynewtemple.org/aMessages.html
The New Beginnings Church Link-
Remember that we are still taking the names of churches that promote holistic fitness and adding their information to our website. Because we are on the web we have the ability to touch people all over the United States, Canada and in other countries. We need your help to develop our ChurchLlink. The ChurchLink is a group of churches that promote holistic fitness within their congregations. Holistic Fitness is a new concept, however, we believe it is the direction that God wants His people to go. It is not about perfection, it is about progression.
Is there a church near you that does an outstanding job of promoting spiritual, relational and physical fitness? If you're looking for a church, check here to see if our members have recommended one near you. If you know of a church that should be on our list, please add it to our list.
If you want to ask for additional information or would like to have some one from our team contact you regarding the churches on our church link contact us at churchlink@mynewtemple.org.
What Have You Been Reading?
Many of you have read some awesome books that have really ministered to you, spiritually, emotionally, relationally or physically. Let us know what you have been reading by writing to us on the message board. Your recommendations might help someone else.
The Ministries’ Monthly Book Recommendation-From The New Beginnings Team
This month we have no recommendations if you can believe that. We have been traveling and working on the website and no one had a book they wanted to recommend to you, so we would love to hear from you. What have you been reading? Let us know by writing to us on the message board http://mynewtemple.org/aMessages.html.
Monthly Book/Bible Study Blog
The Book Talk Blog is up and running @ www.mynewtemple.org. We are still working through our first book “Lord, I Want To Be Whole”, by Stormie Omartian. We think it is important to take this slowly so that you can receive your complete deliverance in this area. The book deals with becoming healed emotionally. So many of us have experienced things that the enemy is using to try to hold us back. You wonder why you can’t lose the weight or stay focused on anything. You wonder why you keep making the same mistakes over and over again, getting involved in the same types of unhealthy relationships? In this book Stormie will help us learn how to release the past, live in obedience to God, recognize and resist the real enemy and more. The book can be purchased at any Christian bookstore or on-line at Amazon.com. Pick up your copy today. You can join the blog at any time because all of the blogs are available under book talk. Check it out and add your comments.
What’s New with The Fitness Angel
Carroll Roberts-The Fitness Angel and founder of New Beginnings recently redesigned The Fitness Angel Website to provide more information to assist those that are attempting to become physically fit. Remember that we are still waiting for him to update his website with more current pictures of Angela our CEO and President. Her signature sermon is “Your Past Is Not Your Future” and she has been attempting to get him to change her image on The Fitness Angel website. Write to him and let him know your concerns and desire to have her image updated before you become a member of his website family. His address is carroll@thefitnessangelshow.com. You have to write because he is not listening to her.
Remember while there are some features on The Fitness Angel site that are still free, to get the total benefit of the new site The Fitness Angel is encouraging you to Become A Member. There is a monthly fee of $10 per month. Note that if you decide to become a member the Fitness Angel has agreed to donate a portion of your membership fee to the New Beginnings Ministry. There are no obligations or additional requirements of membership and you are free to cancel your membership at any time by sending an e-mail message to the address provided on The Fitness Angel site.
Check it out! www.myfitnessangel.com
As part of our continued commitment to your holistic fitness we will continue to do what we can to provide physical fitness information on the New Beginnings site, however, it will not be as detailed as what is provided on The Fitness Angel site.
WORD Conference Update-
Dollie, Kimberley and Angela went to the WORD (Women Of Radiant Design) Conference sponsored by the Friendship Baptist Church, 17145 Bastanchury Road, Yorba Linda, CA 92886 in October. This years conference was based on the book, “Living the Extraordinary Life”, by Charles Stanley. We were blessed. If you ever have the opportunity to attend the WORD Conference we want to encourage you to do it, you will not be disappointed. The facilitators were all real women.
They were transparent and real in what they shared and they brought it all back to the Word of God. When we left we did not feel like there was something wrong with us because of our struggles or what we were going through at the time. We actually left encouraged to continue pressing through. We want to give you some small nuggets from some of the sessions we attended and encourage you to go to their website or write to the church to get your copies of the CDs or DVDs.
Here are your nuggets:
Minister Marquerita Story taught, “There Are Too Many Jonahs!”
Your Nugget-There are some people and things we need to get out of our boats (lives). Stop trying harder to hold on to them and let them go. Throw them overboard.
Minister DeEtta West taught, “Valley of Waiting!”
Your Nugget-Some of our valleys are God ordained. Stop trying to figure everything out.
Minister Sheila Bailey taught, “Plains of Obedience!”
Your Nugget-God is not just blessing you for you. It will always benefit someone else.
Minister Tanya Pervis taught, “Mountaintop of Trust!”
Your Nugget-We can trust God because He loves us and He sees everything.
Okay, that’s all you get for free. The conference was awesome and we want to encourage you to get copies of the CDs and DVDs by ordering them from the church. It is our understanding that they are even providing the opportunity for you to register now for next year. Their address is listed above and their web address is: http://www.thefriendshipchurch.org/fbchome.htm
New Beginnings Videos
It’s Here Video on the New Beginnings site! The new videos have been posted. Please keep us in prayer as we move to this new media in an effort to meet the needs of our family members. We realize that we are constantly evolving because we sense that God is directing us to do so. Some of the upcoming topics will include video of the transformations of our President and CEO, Angela Willingham. She will be sharing what she has experienced over the last 6 months and how God has used it to turn her life around. God is using the things the enemy intended to destroy her to set her free and she believes that it is not just for her, but it is to be used to help others. Watch out for real people and transparency on the upcoming video casts.
Upcoming Events-
Watch for the new videos and for new websites of interest.
Word of Encouragement
It’s not about perfection! It’s about progression. No matter where you find yourself today, recognize that you will never be a prefect package and work to become the total package God designed you to be.
New Beginnings Scripture for November 2007
Philippians 3:12-14: 12 -14 I'm not saying that I have this all together, that I have it made. But I am well on my way, reaching out for Christ, who has so wondrously reached out for me. Friends, don't get me wrong: By no means do I count myself an expert in all of this, but I've got my eye on the goal, where God is beckoning us onward—to Jesus. I'm off and running, and I'm not turning back. The Message (MSG
Our Mission Statement
Our Mission is to draw individuals to Jesus Christ through the Ministry of Holistic Fitness and to see the Body of Christ become fit in all areas by providing tools and information to empower you to succeed. New Beginnings is dedicated to helping you gain personal, spiritual, physical, mental and relational fitness by developing the courage and confidence necessary to set and achieve goals based on biblical principles. Most people encounter difficulty reaching goals, sticking with a diet or completing a task by trying to make an outward change without having made any inward spiritual changes. In other words, all improvements in your life begin with a change in your mind and spirit.
New Beginnings Contact Information-
5130 W. Baseline #117, PMB# 224, Laveen, AZ 85339
Contact us here or on our message board
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