New Life Summer Sunday in the Park - May 30, 2010

New Life will be celebrating the Memorial Day weekend with its first Summer Sunday in the Park of 2010. Instead of meeting at Willow Glen Middle School, we will gather at Bramhall Park in Willow Glen for a casual time of worship, prayer and fellowship under the trees.

We will start at 10 and stay until 11:30 or so. Look for the New Life Summer Sunday signs - we'll be at one of the park picnic tables!



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New Day for Children Benefit - May 21, 2010

More than 150 people gathered at the Corinthian Ballroom in downtown San Jose to learn about and support New Day for Children, a school and home for girls who have been rescued from domestic sex slavery (http://www.newdayforchildren.com). For the guests this evening, the topic was difficult to take in. Girls from 11-13 are kidnapped, sold and trafficked in our own community and forced by slaveholders into prostitution. When they are found by law enforcement, there is often little that is done for them. With no structure in place to care for them and no place to go, they end up in Juvenile Hall or worse, back with their captors.

New Day for Children is working closely with law enforcement, including the FBI, to change the lives of some of these children. The girls in their care receive appropriate therapy, education and long-term care to begin the process of rebuilding their lives and finding hope for the future.

New Life Covenant Church learned about the work of New Day through the Covenant Women's "Break the Chains" campaign (http://www.covchurch.org/humantrafficking?ref=women). From a brief video clip shown in church, New Life's FROST Women's Group found themselvews compelled to do something to help. The New Day for Children Benefit was the culmination of their efforts. With much prayer and hard work by a small group of women with little or no event planning experience, they succeeded in selling out the venue and raising more than $10,000 in one night for New Day for Children.

Even more encouraging than what happened this evening is the desire by those in attendance to spread the word about human trafficking and slavery in the Bay Area and San Jose and to commit long-term to helping New Day for Children.