About Us



New Life Center is a Foursquare Church. We are a community of followers of Jesus Christ, committed to live by faith, to be known by love, and to be a voice of hope. Our business is to populate heaven. We welcome people from all walks of life, regardless of where they are in their spiritual journey. We are a community of changed lives. We live to turn the uncommitted and opposed into unashamedly committed, fully devoted followers of Christ. Everything we do is measured by its usefulness, effectiveness, and contribution toward this purpose.
We're devoted to focusing inward: building an engaged, passionate, spiritually healthy community of people here at NLC. We're also devoted to focusing outward, believing that Jesus himself set an example of service and that we've been given the responsibility to follow it.New Life Center exists to take the Whole Gospel to the Whole Person to the Whole World, equipping people to become mature in Christ.
Whole Gospel
The message of the gospel will inevitably be distorted if it is not proclaimed in its entirety. The history of the church is fraught with embarrassing examples of how people have distorted the gospel by emphasizing one aspect of it at the expense of the others. The whole gospel speaks to the whole story of humanity. If one only speaks of the origins of mankind, or only the sin of mankind, or only God’s salvation and grace, then an incomplete gospel is preached, which is really a distorted gospel. NLC seeks to boldly proclaim and live out the gospel of Jesus Christ in its entirety. The Gospel of Jesus Christ encompasses everything about our existence (origin, sin, grace, redemption, salvation, eternal state, etc.). Such an all-encompassing gospel has implications for every part of every human being in every part of the world.
Whole Person
Human beings are more than the sum of their parts. We cannot neatly divide ourselves into spiritual and physical components. Rather, we have emotions, thoughts, habits, cultures, gender, relationships, etc., and all of these aspects of our nature are integrally woven into our physicality and our spirituality. The whole gospel has a great impact on every aspect of the complex human being. The whole gospel brings wholeness and restoration to all aspects of the person. We can see this as Jesus addresses the physical needs of people (Matt 14:15-21), the ethnic diversity and relational separation of people (John 4:5-42), the physical ailments of people (Matt 12:15), and so on. The NLC community is a place where people get to share the holistic healing of Christ together. We get to live it out together and work together to bring it to others who have not yet experienced it.
Whole World
Just as the Father sent the Son (John 5:36-37) and the Son sent the Spirit (John 15:26), so also are the followers of Christ sent into the world to speak of the good news of Jesus (John 20:21; Act 1:8). This is the mission to which the entire church has been commissioned. Yet, in our contemporary society, we find a consumer mentality that elevates the autonomous individual who is to be served by the religious goods and services of the church. This consumer-driven slide into individualism prevents us from seeing our connection to the rest of the world and God’s plan to restore it to himself. For those who follow Christ, the redemption of the world is not a passive spectator sport. Rather, it is something in which we are all intimately involved. Thus, NLC seeks to foster relationships with other believers around the world so that we can link arms together in ministry. As we participate in the connectedness of the body of Christ, we bring glory to its head (Eph 1:10, 22; 4:15; 5:23; Col 1:18). We do not work as individuals who will single-handedly save the world, but rather we work together toward a common vision of seeing the redemptive work of God take place all around the world. As we understand the headship of Christ, we also simultaneously understand the fact that we are his hands, feet, and voice.