New Beginnings Christian Community, Charlottesville,VA

New Beginnings Christian Community, Charlottesville,VA We are an In*******al church that welcomes everyone including, LGBTQ, addicts and ex-offenders

06/07/2026

FROM THE PASTOR’S DESK, 7 JUNE 2026

Have you ever been in the In-between time? You know, when you can’t go back where you were and you can yet go where you are headed. The in-between time. The in-between place. It’s hard. It’s lonely. It’s unavoidable. It comes more than once in life.

It’s in-between the life you used to live and the life you are going to live. You see, we are meant to change, to grow, evolve. Many try to live as though this fundamental fact doesn’t apply to them. It applies to every living being.

We live on a certain trajectory. Then, we outgrow that trajectory. Without our permission. Often without our knowledge. We change, with or without our own knowledge, and we become someone so different that our former life no longer fits in our skin. When that happens we are ejected emotionally, physically, mentally, spiritually, into the in-between time and space.

In the in-between time, we gather ourselves together and begin to discern where we are to go and who we are becoming. Depending on how self aware we are, this can take a while. It’s a whole season. For, you see, there’s no leaving the in-between time until we discern what the Spirit sent us there to figure out. Soon as we figure it out, we can leave.

When we leave the in-between time and space, we come out armed for a new journey, with the gifts to go where we are supposed to go, and do in this new dispensation, what we were sent to do.

When we have completed that part of our journey, we will head once more, back to the in-between time, to figure out where next GOD has assigned us.

GO WITH GOD, SISTERS AND BROTHERS.

Blessings,
Pastor Brenda

05/31/2026

FROM THE PASTOR’S DESK, 31 MAY 2026

There are many ways to be betrayed in life.
People may betray us. We may betray others and ourselves. Churches who decide to follow a person, a partisan political organization, anyone besides GOD and Jesus Christ, are no longer Houses of GOD. They become social clubs who think what GOD requires of us are merely suggestions, which we can ignore if those “suggestions” interfere with our comfort.

Right now America is being betrayed by elected officials, the person in the White House and the Supreme Court. They have all betrayed the Constitution for fame and fortune. They have betrayed the country to Russia and China. They are openingly stealing our tax dollars, our private information and the social safety nets we need and are owed.

Ebola, measles, COVID haven’t gone anywhere and the CDC has been decimated and it’s scientists are forbidden to speak out about these virulent diseases.

Many are looking for a way to survive such devastating betrayals. They look for heroes. For rich people to share their wealth. For the rich and famous to allow wealth to trickle down to them. Of course, tRump promised them that he cared about them and would make sure they would have everything they needed under his administration. The betrayal is made worse because many took the bait because, they were also promised (and agreed with the purposed cruelty) that their comeuppance would come at the price of others’ human rights and dignity.

The plain truth is that our help comes from the LORD. As Psalm 121:1-2 (KJV) reminds us:
“I will lift up mine eyes unto the hills, from whence cometh my help.
2 My help cometh from the Lord, which made heaven and earth.”

Our help comes from on high. Don’t look anywhere else. Help is not coming from the Calvary. It isn’t coming from the White House, the Congress, the Senate, or the Supreme Court.

Our help is coming from GOD, the Maker of everything and everyone.

GOD will not fail us. Watch closely.

Blessings,
Pastor Brenda

05/24/2026

FROM THE PASTOR’S DESK, 24 APRIL 2026

My brother, Clarence Albert Brown, Jr. was found dead in his room this past Tuesday.
He fought addiction most of his life. However, he was not just an addict.

We called him Baby Boy for the longest. Then Bay Boy, and finally settled on Bruh. He was the only boy, right in the middle of five sisters.

When he was born, we shared a house with this family with two mean sisters. I am six years older (he was born 6 February, barely one month before I turned six, 18 March). My mother had to work, our biological father decided a boy child wasn’t enough to make him stay, so I babysat him.

The mean sisters and their friends wanted to see him. The Spirit told me that they would hurt him. So I hid him in the curtains, behind a chair, on my chest, while he slept soundly. They searched every where, but, they never found us. They never tried again. I would have hurt them if they tried to hurt my baby brother.

He sang like an angel. He was a novelist and a poet. He was wicked smart and could make a rock laugh. And cooked like a chef.

His addiction, which exacerbated his diabetes, had caused him to loose half of both his feet. When he told me he wasn’t going to rehab, but, would rent a room in Baltimore and rehab himself, in his old drug stomping grounds, I knew he wasn’t going to make it. My beautiful Baby Boy wasn’t going to make it. And I couldn’t protect him from his drug addiction. Lord knows I would have, if I could have. He was tired. GOD took him Home.

Sometimes, brothers and sisters, we can’t save our loved ones. Sometimes the cracks are too deep, the traumas too hard. All we can do is love them and pray for them. Love each other anyway. GOD and they will make the decision whether or not it is time to come Home and rest.

Baby Boy, I will always love you. You are finally alright.

Your Brennie.

05/17/2026

FROM THE PASTOR’S DESK, 17 MAY 2026

There is good and evil in the world. We must use our free will to choose which side we are on. The choice must be made over and over again. Each time the choice comes, it is harder to make. The stakes become higher.

It is easy to choose to do the right thing when doing so doesn’t cost too much. It’s not as easy when we want a reputation, money, power. When those variables enter the equation, doing the right thing becomes much harder.

The thing that often takes us unaware is that we don’t expect deciding to do the right thing to be hard— not when we have been choosing right over wrong for a long while. We fool ourselves into thinking the choice is automatic. Nothing spiritual is automatic. GOD is always there to help us with the decision, but, we must ask. We must let GOD in to help us. We must submit to GOD’s will, abandoning our own wills.

The trick of the devil is always to distract—to get us not to do what GOD sent us to earth to accomplish with our lives. This onslaught continues every day we live on this green earth.

Evil continually fights against GOD and the people of GOD. GOD continually protects us and gives us a way to defeat evil.

However, we must know that we must resist evil and be prepared to fight it, with the help of Jesus, who came to help us to do just that.

We can’t do it on our own. But, with the help that GOD has provided us through Jesus Christ, GOD and we can, will, are, tearing Satan’s kingdom, evil, down.

THIS IS THE PROMISE OF GOD. No matter what it looks like, BELIEVE IT. It is so.

Blessings,
Pastor Brenda

05/10/2026

FROM THE PASTOR’S DESK, 10 MAY 2026

When I was a little girl, I wanted to birth ten babies and adopt 25 children. I LOVE BABIES. However, I had PSOD (Polycystic Ovation Disease) and, a little before I was 40, my uterus started dying. For three days and two nights I was in excruciating pain. On the third day I couldn’t take it anymore.

When the doctors discovered what was wrong, they had to operate. They weren’t sure what they would find, and so, wanted me to sign the legal forms in case a hysterectomy was necessary. I would not. It turned out that I was too sick for a second surgery, I hadn’t given consent, and they thought they could give me a little time to get stronger (and become convinced to have the hysterectomy).

I thought it was the next day after my exploratory surgery. It was two days later; my temperature was above 103 and rising, my uterus was dying and killing me as it died. I wanted to die. I was alright with it.

The Lord had Deacon Annie Frances Kimber, Chair of Board of Deacons at Grace Baptist Church, in Mount Vernon, NY to call me ( a miracle because I’d had the phone turned off because even my eyelashes ached). Annie Frances said “B.B., your
uterus has already died. You must not die as well.”

And then, Jesus visited me. It was pitch black, warm, and Jesus was holding
me in His arms. I couldn’t see anything in the velvety blackness, but, I wasn’t afraid. Jesus had me. And then one of the most consequential moments of my life happened. I did not want to live if I could not have children. But, Jesus ASKED ME to
live. He asked me to “please live.” There were things He wanted to accomplish with my life. And He promised, that He would give me children after His own heart. “Just trust Me.”

And so, I trusted Jesus, and lived. I had no idea how He could make good on His promise, but, I trusted Him.

Turns out that pastoring is spiritual parenting. And I have so many children. None of them born of my body, but, they are mine just the same. Just as Jesus promised.

On this Mother’s Day, remember that there are many ways to become a mother. You
may birth children physically. Or, you may, like me, birth them spiritually, by way of the
love of GOD, running through you to offer motherless children, broken adults, lost sheep babies, teenagers, angry, lost broken adults to learn from your love for them, that GOD loves them. You are the proof—GOD sent you to demonstrate that very love.

MY LORO AND SAVIOR DOES NOT
LIE! Trust Him. I did. And I do. HAPPY MOTHER’S DAY, however GOD gives you children.

Blessings,
Pastor Brenda

Address

1130 East Market Street
Charlottesville, VA
22902

Opening Hours

Monday 1pm - 4pm
Tuesday 1pm - 7pm
Thursday 6pm - 8pm
Friday 1pm - 4pm
Saturday 10am - 2:15pm
Sunday 10am - 7pm

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