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If you’ve spent time with us this year, you’ve likely heard us talking about our Vision of the House for 2026: Born Again.
As with most endeavors this year, we want to consider how we can be Born Again even in the way we participate in Heart for the House, our end of year giving campaign. What we’ve realized is being born again is a deeply personal, formational, and story-driven process so during this campaign, our request is this:
would you consider where you are in your born again journey?
Would you participate in aiding the continuation of the journey for our community?
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VISION OF THE HOUSE 2026
A Road Map
We provide this road map with the hope that each of us may slow down enough to stake our own mile markers in our journey because as we all know, three years can pass by in an instant. Lets not miss what God is birthing in us (or lets not miss the hidden work God has been doing in us)
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Over this last year, we've realized that "Born Again" is so much more than a single moment of salvation. It is a daily invitation to experience spiritual formation - renewing our ways, our thinking, and our perspective. At the start of 2026, we felt a deep resonance that this would be a culturally establishing year for NewSong. We sense an invitation from the Lord and we want to respond to it.
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As we enter this final season of the year (Season III), we revisit our Born Again theme once again more. Pastor Alvin shared a vital piece of the roadmap for this beautiful journey we are on: this year is actually the starting line of a three year formation journey. What began as a simple word of the year has become a theme we will continue building on in the coming years.
- Year I (2026) Being Born Again in our identity
- Year II (2027) Breaking through into our transformed reality.
- Year III (2028) Translating that transformation to the culture around us
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When we consider a woman carrying a growing baby in her womb, we notice some beautiful parallelles to the season we find our community in. New life is forming beneath the surface, hidden from sight. But as the time of labor and delivery nears, this new life and the signs of labor become impossible to miss.
Right now, even with a few months left in 2026, we are already crossing the threshold into Year II. We are entering the breakthrough now. In childbirth, this phase is called Transition. It is often marked by intense pressure, mental fatigue, and the desire to quit- yet it is the ultimate sign to the delivery team that the birth is near at hand.
If you have felt the weight of discomfort or felt swallowed by your circumstances- fear not. You are in transition. Be encouraged -the breakthrough into your transformed reality is beginning.
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Will You Participate In The Breakthrough
into our transformed reality?
In the process of being formed in our born again year, we must acknowledge that our breakthrough may look different than we thought. Have we shed enough this year to see what God desires to breakthrough to us and make himself known? Perhaps we are ending this year focusing on prayer because we must recognize the integral role of prayer for breakthrough. Could it be that the discipline and practice of prayer excavates our cluttered hearts so that the voice of God might not be absorbed in the surrounding but find the way loosed of distraction - and we can become attentive to his beckoning. Is our transformed reality less to do with circumstances and perhaps our posture and purpose. God is breaking through and transforming our reality.
We don’t know what this could look like, but we hold our hearts and our hands open, in the posture demonstrating we are ready. Part of this preparation is looking at how we can sustain our corporate participation in God breaking through and for that, we ask you for your participation for our heart for the house.
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Maybe you’ve been in contexts where “breakthrough” was a popular word, maybe this is the first time you’ve heard it used in community. What is helpful to note is that for NewSong Church, “breakthrough” is being redefined.
Our Next Step: Heart for the House
helping sustain the journey
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As we look ahead to everything God is birthing in our community over this three-year arc, we want to invite you to consider sowing a Heart for the House offering. Your financial support does more than just keep our church doors open and the lights on - it directly funds the staff, ministries, events, and the benevolence used to help people in our community when they find themselves in tough times. Your gift makes this transformational journey possible for all of us.
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The Movement of Mercy…
His Influential Movement - describe the “growth rate” in Greenhouse & Students
His Invitational Movement - the number of events and our heart for hospitality
His Inspirational Movement - making space for new ways He may ask us to move in faith & continued faithfuless in others (health insurance)
His Intentional Movement - impact team/size/needs/updates
We are his inheritance…lets help others find their belonging in Him…
Whether $5, $50, or $5000 - every participation matters as we prepare for God to breaks through and transforms our reality
From our Heart for the House in 2025 we were able to cultivate the following:
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continue healthcare for pastors
building maintenance
host summer sup nights
cover childcare for parents night out
provide 3rd sunday supplies for Greenhouse elementary
continued curriculum investment for Greenhouse
provide breakfast for easter sunrise service
update 10+ year old worship & AV gear
benevolence care
For 2027…. (LIST)
Submit Your Testimony Here
Maybe end with a reflection question? Or something about Heart for the House? Is there an action item?
The invitation is twofold.
Consider your story
Consider …
As we continue following the roadmap the question remains: will you
As Eugene Peterson says about the Israelites “they knew that God had invaded their history” we would like the same to be said about us.
As we prepare ourselves for 2026, we are reminded that becoming a generous people is one of our core intentions in the community. Since we do not take a regular offering during our Sunday service, we partner together at the end of the year through the annual contribution opportunity, Heart for the House.
We have been greatly blessed by participation in previous heart for the house opportunities, the thoughtful spending on events, and the collection of registration fees have helped us to steward spaces of connection for our community
