LADIES LUNCH
Tuesday, September 27, 11:45 AM
Leanh’s Chinese Restaurant
Nova Road, just north of Big Tree Road
Please let Linda Manners know your plan to attend
by the Sunday prior.


MUSIC AND WORSHIP
We are happy to have Lydia Mulkey as our guest soloist on Sunday, September 4 at the 11:00 AM worship service. She will be singing during the observance of the Lord’s Supper.

A Community Choir is being organized by the Port Orange Ministerial Association and directed by Constance Poitier, Ormond Middle School Choir Director. The choir will sing for a special 9-11 service at 6:00 PM at the Port Orange City Center Amphitheater. There will be two rehearsals: September 6 and 8 at 7 PM at the All Saints Lutheran Church, Port Orange, Florida. The music will include “This Little Light of Mine,’ “Bind Us Together” and a special arrangement of “America the Beautiful.” The soloist will be Harry Burney.
Dennis Bucher
Music for Healing
September 7 Musician: Vita Fortin, piano
September 14 Musician: Rick Shaw, piano
September 21 Musician: Judy Brown, piano
September 29 Musician: Casey Baker, piano
Host: Dennis Bucher

NEW HOPE 101
An introduction to Baptists and New Hope Baptist Church, taught by Dr. Mulkey, will be offered on Sunday afternoon September 18, 5 – 7:30 PM. This is especially for new members, visitors and any current members who wish to support new members.

LADIES BIBLE STUDY
First & Third Tuesdays
7:00 PM in the Sanctuary

BOOK EXCHANGE
We have a waiting list for the following books:
Heaven is for Real; Stand by Me; and The Woman I was Born to Be. Thanks for returning books promptly when you finish reading so that we may get them back in circulation.

NOTE TO NEW MEMBERS
New members, there are a few copies of New Hope’s cookbook, A Taste of New Hope, published in 2009 still available. These sold for $10. It’s a good way to know New Hope’s good cooks, but the books also make nice gifts.

FILM REVIEW
The setting is the early 1960's in Jackson, Mississippi. It is one of the most segregated, dangerous places for blacks (using the terminology of the film) to live among the most terribly prejudiced white people one could imagine. Educated black people are being murdered. People of color who are trying to get educated are being denied that opportunity. It is here that a heroic recent college graduate named Skeeter decides to write an article which ultimately blossoms into a book about the unfair way that wealthy families treat the people they hire to be "the help". She begins by interviewing Abilene, her best friend’s maid, then Minnie and eventually a host of others.

This film portrays the wealthy female socialites who employed poor black women in the early 60's in Mississippi not only as maids but nannies, cooks and governesses for their children. The white women show almost no love or concern for their own children and leave them to be raised by their maids. This seemed unbelievable to me. Then they deny the same women who are loving and taking care of their children's every need the right to even use the bathroom in their home. They treat their help like animals and yet they are the women who are tending to the most intimate details of their children's lives.

This is a film primarily about women, and their interactions with one another. It is about the wealthy white women who humiliated the unfortunate black women who needed the work to support their families. It is mostly about the terrified yet courageous maids who raised their employer's children while they had to neglect their own children just to make a living. It is about the younger generation (Skeeter) who in interviewing the help and wanting to publish their stories knows she is not prejudiced like her parent's generation and is brave enough to risk everything to try to enact change. God bless young people and their courage.

"The Help" to me had a somewhat predictable outcome. The unbelievably mean white women get a little of what they deserve. Unfortunately the black women do not. I thought the movie a bit longer than necessary. But the tenacity and love “the help" were capable of just goes to show what people will endure and still manage to survive with God's help. The main character Abilene, after being fired and forced to abandon her employer's little girl says to herself "Lord, it's really hard to love your enemies". And it really is hard to love your enemies. It would take a supernatural, incredibly loving God to allow us to love our enemies. Wouldn't it? Sandy Kleinschmidt

Missions
Halifax Urban Ministries
Recent news reports stated that 1/3 of Central Florida children are in families which sometimes go hungry. Your donations of canned goods and staple food items help to meet the growing need here in Port Orange and Daytona Beach. Thank you for your continued giving.
Countryside Lakes ALF
New Hope members will greet residents and celebrate birthdays at the Assisted Living facility on Wednesday, September 21. Our Wednesday night kids made birthday cards in August which will be delivered this month by the group led by Bill Batchelor.
Famine in the Horn of Africa
The Love Class, taught by Dr. Mulkey, has recently discussed this crisis and has suggested a special offering to be collected on September 18. Review the following facts of this crisis as you consider giving.
•Thirteen million are in need of emergency assistance, including as many as 35% of children.
•There are at least 3 million people in southern Somalia and parts of Kenya that cannot yet be reached due to ethnic conflict.
•Sixty percent of cattle have died in the drought.

What you can do
•Think of something that you could do without this week, then donate the savings.
•Spread the word via social networks and email.
•Pray for children and families affected by this severe drought and the resulting food crisis.

The Good News: New Hope Baptist Church will give to World Vision, a Christian humanitarian organization dedicated to working with children, families, and their communities worldwide to reach their full potential by tackling the causes of poverty and injustice.

•Thanks to government grants, every dollar donated to World Vision can multiply up to 5 times.
•World Vision not only provides emergency food, they also provide seeds, supplies and training to establish sustainable food sources.
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9/11 OBSERVANCE
September 11, 6:00 PM
Port Orange City Center
Observing the 10th anniversary of the events of 9-11-2001

Missions
Disaster Relief
Tommy Deal of Florida CBF writes, “We put out a plea for donations to help those forgotten in The Bahamas whom Hurricane Irene attacked first. Immediate needs were for ready-to-eat food, water, tarps and nails. Thanks to six churches who collected and delivered these items to Orlando: College Park Baptist, FBC Cocoa, FBC DeLand, Canvas Church, PIB Deltona, and New Hope Port Orange. Many others are giving cash to help with the cost of delivering these items. To ALL: THANK YOU!

“This was truly a ‘cooperative’ effort of many! Dave Ward from Miami was our pilot-extraordinaire! Bob Showalter of Showalter Flight Services in Orlando and all of his staff and crew were such a blessing to help us load the plane and gave a discount on the fuel. The plane's owner from Miami, a very generous Christian man, loaned the use of the plane. Christian Service Center for Central Florida loaned their truck to get the items to the Orlando Executive Airport. We delivered the items on YOUR behalf to Acklins on Tuesday, August 30. Also, cooperating were the churches of CBF of The Bahamas.

“The second half of our trip down was to have an assessment of needs and how we can suggest YOU can continue to help them recover. We are still working on those plans, but it appears the greatest need is on Abaco, at Pastor McIntosh's church. As we get more details together, we will put the call out, but basically, once supplies can be secured, there will be a need for construction/repair volunteers. Please be ready to go. If you would be interested in knowing what the need is and perhaps volunteer when the time comes, please let me know.”

SEPTEMBER SERMONS
Sept. 4 “The Huge Debt of Love You Owe Each Other,” Romans 13:8-14
Sept. 11 “Taking Care of Your Own Life before God,” Romans 14:1-12
Sept. 18 “Life Versus Even More Life! I Can’t Lose” Philippians 1:21-30
Sept. 25 “Think of Yourselves This Way,” Philippians 2:1-13