New Life Church!

 

Below is a brief description of our staff and leadership team.  We're proud of our staff and team, and if you make New Life your church home, we hope you will take the time to get to know them. 

Our Staff

Doc Johnson, lead pastor

Bethany Price, worship team leader

Chris Price, assistant to Doc Johnson and the team leader in Doc's absence; also an M.Div. student at Ashland Theological Seminary

Deshon Kamwesa, playing the Djembe

Our Leadership Team

In addition to Chris and Bethany above, our current leadership team consists of...

Santino Cordero-Carter, corporate computer network engineer, and our church treasurer

Mackenzie Smith, educator working with gifted students in Canton City Schools 

R.T. Smith III, educator with Canton City Schools

 

 

 

Everyone has their own opinions of what it means to be mature. It's not just a product of aging, but rather a mindset that is found in different people—some old and some young.

Maturity...

… is the ability to control anger and settle differences without violence or destruction.

… is the patience, the willingness to pass up immediate pleasure in favor of the long term gain.

… is unselfishness—responding to the needs of others, often at the expense of one's own desires or wishes.

… is the capacity to fare unpleasantness and frustration, discomfort and defeat, without complaint and collapse.

… is humility. It is being big enough to say, "I was wrong", and when right, the mature person need not say, "I told you so".

… is the ability to make a decision and stand by it. The immature spend their lives exploring endless possibilities then do nothing.

… means dependability, keeping one's word, coming through in a crisis.

… is the art of living in peace with that which we cannot change.

 

Young Adult Resources

  • Sexual Purity - Challenge, Choice, Cherish

    As single adults, we face numerous challenges and temptations in choosing sexual purity for our lives.  For most of us, we are regularly faced with the difficulty of making choices that align with God’s design for us. 

  • What If We Love Each Other?
    Is it really wrong to have sex outside of marriage? What if it would actually make the relationship stronger? Professor Theophilus tackles this question in his latest column.
  • Six Principles for a Strong Marriage
    John Wesley was one of the world’s greatest revivalists, with a ministry that literally changed the course of history. But in his dismal marriage he failed to apply biblical principles that will strengthen any Christian union.
  • Eight Healthy Habits of Marriage

    Little things like laughter often make the biggest difference in marriage.

  • Thoughts on Maturity

    What is maturity?  We all have our own ideas...