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Text Box: www.soulharbor.net Contact Info Net Mender Mission PO Box 8012 Rochester, MN 55903 Contact: Dale DePeel Phone: (507)254-7258 daledepeel@charter.net NMM Oversight Team: Victor Robinson Carl Pecinovsky Chris Stout Jim Woods “So everywhere we go, we tell everyone about Christ. We warn them and teach them with all the wisdom God has given us, for we want to present them to God, mature in their relationship to Christ.” Colossians 1:28 Note: Make checks payable to SHCF and write “NMM” in the memo. Donations are tax-deductible.

Celebrate Recovery

Great News! With help from the generous support of Net Mender Mission, we are pleased to announce the creation of a new Christian based recovery ministry called Celebrate Recovery .

Celebrate Recovery is a Christ-centered recovery ministry that uses 8 foundational recovery principles. It has proven its effectiveness across the country. The Bible-based teaching and small group time provide a safe place to share experiences, strengths, and hopes. It is for anyone struggling with “hurts, hang-ups, and habits”.

Celebrate Recovery is a further expansion of Soul Harbor and Net Mender Mission, with outreach to the discouraged, despairing and disconnected individuals of society. This ministry will meet every Saturday evening at 6:00pm , beginning in August. Rochester Assembly of God church at 4240-18 th Ave. NW has generously donated their facility toward this ministry.

We invite you to share with us in this victory as we prepare to enter a new outreach to those people that fall through the cracks of traditional church. Jesus said “But when you give a banquet, invite the poor, the crippled, the lame, and the blind, and you will be blessed.  Although they cannot repay you, you will be repaid at the resurrection of righteousness.” Luke 14:13-14.

Through your support of this ministry, you are helping to set an eternal banquet for people desperately in need of the support of the church.  Our goal is to enable Dale to pursue this ministry full time, and your support is vital and necessary in continuing to expand this mission.  If you have not joined the Net Menders team, we would ask that you prayerfully consider joining us in this ministry.

Text Box: “By working and applying Biblical principles, we begin to grow spiritually. We become free from our addictive, compulsive and dysfunctional behaviors. This freedom creates peace, serenity, joy and most importantly, a stronger personal relationship with God and others. As we progress through the program we discover our personal, loving and forgiving Higher Power - Jesus Christ, the one and only true Higher Power.” Pastor John Baker, founder of Celebrate Recovery

Net Tending Update

Net Tenders are people who contribute toward the facilitating and equipping of Dale DePeel into fulltime ministry through Soul Harbor Christian Fellowship and Celebrate Recovery.

PERSONS RECENTLY DONATING:

Betty Hendrickson
Bob Robb
Carl Pecinovsky
Dennis & Carol Cox
Ken & Betty Lou Hoeft
Ken & Sue Bigelow
Ric h & Elle Stec
Roger & Shirley Schutz
Tom & Debbie Shreve
Victor & Kathy Robinson

Giving Total for April-May: $2035

Net Renders:

*skipping songs of lament

Net Renders are attitudes that make a rip in the nets cast into the sea of the unsaved and discouraged people of society.

A Net Render of worship is to sing only the “feel good” songs and to avoid the songs of lament. Songs of lament are a very biblical thing to sing in worship. They are also very relevant, for we live in a world full of anguish and heartache. As Christians, yes we live in victory, but we also exist as strangers in a foreign land, aching for home, and knowing deep within us that the world we see before is not as it should be.

The song, “Blessed Be Your Name: on the Road Marked with Suffering” by Matt Redman states, “ When the darkness closes in, Lord / Still I will say / Blessed be the name of the Lord…On the road marked with suffering / Though there's pain in the offering / Blessed be your name.” This is the reality that those who are suffering can identify with. Focus your gaze on God, the One whom we are to trust in our suffering, even as our hearts work through the harmony of lament.

Dale

 

My heart’s desire is to be able to give fulltime attention to the ministry of encouraging people with hurts, hang-ups and habits to be conformed to the image of Christ. It does take a “flawed person” to know a “flawed person.” I certainly qualify not only in my humanity, but in my tendencies. My tendency is to look for the way of the least amount of pain and preserve self. Christ offers a cross and bids me come and die to self interest.

My tendency is to want others to see me at my best, and Christ’s humility equips me to not look out for my own interests but to consider others better than myself. I tend to long for days of relaxation and leisure, and Scripture calls me to serve with a labor of love. I serve this community and together we work behind the scenes to promote the discouraged into examples of courage, the disenfranchised into service, and connect people in the process of discipleship with those that also follow Jesus.

Dale

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