New Springs Community Church - Lee's Summit, MO

10/23/2025

Join us this Sunday at New Springs Church

This week’s message, “When the Race Has Teeth,” invites us into the sacred stories of those who wrote from their prisons—Paul, Martin Luther King Jr., Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Rosa Parks, and Etty Hillesum—each discovering that God stands beside us, even when the world walks away.

We’ll explore what it means to keep faith when hope runs thin, and we’ll close with a haunting, layered a ca****la collaboration of “Time After Time.”
A lullaby of endurance. A harmony of divine presence.

Sunday, 10 AM | New Springs Church
Come as you are, with your questions, your weariness, and your courage.

Questions to Reflect On:

What “cells” hold us now—the polite, invisible ones that keep us comfortable but quiet?

Whose voices, especially women’s, have we silenced in our faith stories, and what wisdom have we missed by not listening?

07/08/2025

05/11/2025

“A Prayer for All Women on Mother’s Day” by Amy Young

I want you to know I’m praying for you if you are like Tamar, struggling with infertility, or a miscarriage.
I want you to know that I’m praying for you if you are like Rachel, counting the women among your family and friends who year by year and month by month get pregnant, while you wait.
I want you to know I’m praying for you if you are like Naomi, and have known the bitter sting of a child’s death.
I want you to know I am praying for you if you are like Joseph and Benjamin, and your Mom has died.
I want you to know that I am praying for you if your relationship with your Mom was marked by trauma, abuse, or abandonment, or she just couldn’t parent you the way you needed.
I want you to know I am praying for you if you’ve been like Moses’ mother and put a child up for adoption, trusting another family to love your child into adulthood.
I want you to know I am praying for you if you’ve been like Pharaoh’s daughter, called to love children who are not yours by birth (and thus the mother who brought that child into your life, even if it is complicated).
I want you to know I am praying for you if you, like many, are watching (or have watched) your mother age, and disappear into the long goodbye of dementia.
I want you to know that I am praying for you if you, like Mary, are pregnant for the very first time and waiting breathlessly for the miracle of your first child.
I want you to know that I am praying for you if your children have turned away from you, painfully closing the door on relationship, leaving you holding your broken heart in your hands. And like Hagar, now you are mothering alone.
I want you to know that I am praying for you if motherhood is your greatest joy and toughest struggle all rolled into one.
I want you to know that I am praying for you if you are watching your child battle substance abuse, a public legal situation, mental illness, or another situation which you can merely watch unfold.
I want you to know that I am praying for you if you like so many women before you do not wish to be a mother, are not married, or in so many other ways do not fit into societal norms.
I want you to know that I am praying for you if you see yourself reflected in all, or none of these stories.
This mother’s day, wherever and whoever you are, we walk with you. You are loved. You are seen. You are worthy.
And may you know the deep love without end of our big, wild, beautiful God who is the very best example of a parent that we know.
Amen.

03/26/2025

✨ Blessed are the broken, the hungry, the left out. ✨

That’s what Jesus says in Luke 6—and honestly, it’s a little unsettling. Because we’d rather be the ones who have it together, right? But what if real blessing isn’t about success or certainty, but about showing up exactly as we are—messy, questioning, struggling—and discovering that God is already with us?

This Sunday at New Springs Community, we’re digging into what it really means to be blessed. Spoiler: it’s not what the world tells us. It’s better. It’s deeper. And it’s for you.

Come join us. Bring your doubts, your hopes, your whole self. You belong here.

📍 New Springs Community Church
⏰ 10:00 AM
🔗 www.newspringscommunitychurch.com

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03/20/2025

**🌱 The In-Between: When Growth Feels Impossible 🌱**

Ever feel like you should be further along by now? Like you’re stuck between what was and what’s next—wondering if anything is actually changing?

In Luke 13:6-9, Jesus tells a parable about a fig tree that hasn’t produced fruit for three years. The landowner wants to cut it down. But the gardener? The gardener fights for it. *“Give it another year,”* he says. *“Let me dig around it. Let me add manure.”*

No guarantees. No conditions. Just a stubborn refusal to give up.

And here’s something wild: fig trees in vineyards weren’t random. Winegrowers planted them because they could survive in poor soil—just like vines. They were a test to see if the land had potential. So maybe Jesus isn’t just talking about trees—maybe he’s talking about us. Maybe he’s reminding us that even when we feel like we’re stuck, like nothing is happening, like we aren’t producing anything worth keeping… grace is still at work.

And yeah, sometimes that grace looks like manure. Messy. Unpleasant. Something we’d rather scrape off. But maybe—just maybe—that’s where growth begins.

✨ **Where in your life do you need to hear, “You’re not out of time yet” today?**

✨ **What would it look like to believe that your worth isn’t tied to what you produce?**

The gardener is still tending the soil. You are still worth keeping. And God is not finished with you yet.