Jarabacoa, Dominican Republic Signature
Caribbean Mission Trips
at New Life, Knapp's Corner
Every summer
Annual teams to Jarabacoa, Dominican Republic, working alongside Mission of Hope. New Life has sent teams since 2015.
Signature Ministries & Curated Ministries
Ministries
One church, meeting in a lot of different rooms. Everything here is open to you.
How we think about this
The Lord has provided everything you need.
“His divine power has given us everything we need for a godly life.”
2 Peter 1:3
Everything you need is in Christ, and He usually hands it to you through His people — a Tuesday night group, a food pantry, a table of moms who have been exactly where you are. Some of that happens in our building. A lot of it happens ten minutes from your kitchen table, which is where it ought to be when driving across town is the thing standing in your way.
So everything on this page has a day, a time, and an address. Take whichever one is closest, and just go.
Signature ministries
Our Focus.
Three movements of one life run through all of it.
Encounter God
Host His presence.
Be Transformed
Hear His voice. Obey His assignments.
Change the World
Unite the Church. Reveal Jesus to the city.
Sunday morning at 10 at 2777 Knapp. Corporate prayer. Life Groups meeting weekly in homes across the city. Teams to Jarabacoa every summer since 2015. Unify GR.
These 11 are where our focus goes, and every one of them is open to anyone in the city.
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Corporate Prayer
at New Life, Knapp's Corner
Ongoing
A praying team that gathers to intercede for the church and the city, and prays with people who ask.
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Life Groups
at New Life, Knapp's Corner
Weekly, in homes
Groups that meet in homes through the week. Where people actually get known.
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Sunday Worship
at New Life, Knapp's Corner
Sundays at 10am
Sunday morning worship built around hosting the presence of God, with a team that plays to lead you into it.
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Unify GR
at New Life, Knapp's Corner
Ongoing
A growing movement to knit the churches of Grand Rapids together so the city sees one witness.
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Children's Ministry
at New Life, Knapp's Corner
Sundays at 10am
Nursery through elementary on Sunday mornings, led by a director who has built this for years.
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Hospitality & Connections
at New Life, Knapp's Corner
Sundays
Hosts, ushers, and a connections lead whose whole job is making sure you are not standing alone in a lobby.
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Local Outreach
at New Life, Knapp's Corner
Seasonal
Serving our neighborhood and the city, directed by an ordained minister with deep community outreach experience.
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Pastoral Care
at New Life, Knapp's Corner
As needed
Trusted ministers who will pray with you, visit you when you are sick, and stay with you through a hard season.
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Prayer Chain
at New Life, Knapp's Corner
Always on
Send a request and it goes out to people who will pray the same day.
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The Welcome Path
at New Life, Knapp's Corner
Self-paced
A guided path in the New Life app that walks you from brand new to your next step.
Everything else
The best of this city, opened up for your family.
We went looking for the best of it. The deepest discipleship, the strongest care, the challenge that will actually stretch you, and the group where your daughter will be known by name. We found 36 of them, run by 18 churches and ministries across 7 towns.
Then we built you a way in. Every one of these has a day, a time, an address near somebody's home, and a first step in plain English. We chose each one ourselves and we send our own families to them.
Your family gets all of it, and we are watching to see that every need is met and nothing is missed.
Worship & Prayer
3Hosting His presence. Gathered worship, sustained prayer, and ministry that happens when the Spirit rests on a room.
Corporate Worship · Worship Nights · Prayer Gatherings · +7 3 signature (ours)
Formation & Discipleship
10Learning to hear His voice and obey His assignments. Study, training, and the long work of becoming like Jesus.
Bible Study · Discipleship Groups · Small Groups & Life Groups · +7 2 signature (ours) · 8 curated (hosted)
Kids
7Nursery through 5th grade, plus everything around a family raising young children.
Nursery · Children's Ministry · Midweek Kids Clubs · +7 1 signature (ours) · 6 curated (hosted)
Students & Young Adults
8Middle school through the twenties, the years most people decide what they actually believe.
Middle School · High School · College & Campus Ministry · +5 1 signature (ours) · 7 curated (hosted)
Marriage & Family
2Preparing for marriage, repairing one, raising kids, and surviving the seasons nobody prepares you for.
Premarital & Marriage Prep · Marriage Enrichment · Marriage Crisis & Restoration · +9 2 curated (hosted)
Men & Women
8Where men and women get honest with each other and with God.
Men's Ministry · Women's Ministry · Men's Accountability · +3 8 curated (hosted)
Recovery & Freedom
1Addiction, compulsion, trauma, and grief. The places where people need more than a sermon.
Addiction Recovery · Celebrate Recovery & 12-Step · Residential Recovery · +7 1 signature (ours)
Practical Care
2Food, housing, work, and the emergencies that decide whether a family stays together.
Food Pantries · Hot Meals · Clothing · +11 2 curated (hosted)
Health & Body
1Care for bodies. The clinic, the diagnosis, the disability, the last months of a life.
Free & Low-Cost Clinics · Dental & Vision · Maternal & Infant Health · +7 1 signature (ours)
Justice & Rescue
1Where people are trapped, exploited, locked up, or newly arrived with nothing.
Human Trafficking · Prison & Jail Ministry · Reentry & Returning Citizens · +12 1 curated (hosted)
Mission & Witness
8Bringing the light of heaven into every area of society, here and across the world.
Local Outreach · Street & Neighborhood Ministry · Evangelism Training · +8 4 signature (ours) · 4 curated (hosted)
Church Health & Leaders
1For pastors, staff, and the churches themselves, because a tired leader helps no one.
Pastor Care · Pastors' Spouses · Leadership Development · +7 1 signature (ours)
Seniors
3The generation that built the church, and the ones who can no longer get to it.
Senior Adult Ministry · Homebound Visitation · Widows & Widowers · +3 1 signature (ours) · 2 curated (hosted)What's coming up
The curated calendar.
One calendar for the whole family, wherever a gathering happens to meet. Every date we have chosen for you, in one place.
How a ministry gets on this list
How we choose.
A ministry is here because we would send our own family to it. Then we do the work of finding out when it meets, where it is, and what your first step looks like.
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Close enough to actually go
The best thing you can reach on a weeknight, and we tell you where it meets first.
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A real person on the other end
Someone we can call who knows we are sending you.
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Better at this than we would be
A ministry that has done this for years does it better than our version would.
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A calendar they actually keep
Dates they keep current, so we can carry their calendar here.
Where this stands. 36 ministries are listed and 106 are still waiting on a conversation with someone here, which their cards say plainly. 48 categories have nobody in them yet. If you lead one of these ministries, or know one we are missing, tell us.
Tell us about a ministry