Category: History

• Justice and Mercy After the Baby Boomers.

  July 27, 2013 | Carl Ellis | New City Fellowship, Glenwood | Duration 55:16

  Carl is the originator of the term "jazz theology." He was joined by his wife Karen and they traded solos over the changes.  It was a deep and meaningful conversation about how geneology is affecting our ministry. 

  We recognize that the movement toward cross- and multi-cultural churches will need to be carried on by a new generation of musicians and worship leaders.  Carl and Karen gave us much to think about. 

  

• Planting and Watering: A Sapling Church Becomes a Blooming Tree

  May 15, 2013 | James Ward | New City Fellowship, Glenwood

  When New City was planted by the Reformed Presbyterian Church of Lookout Mountain, many did not consider us to be in a proper site, and although we were healthy, we were not being planted properly. You see, we did not have the requisite number of seed families, and the funding was there but we were always poor.

  

• Strategies for Cross-Cultural Music and Worship

  June 14, 2011 | James Ward | New City Fellowship, Glenwood

  So many changes have taken place in worship in just my lifetime. I was born in 1950 and it was in that decade that Billy Graham came to New York for the Madison Square Garden Crusade....

• African-American Worship

  August 11, 2010 | Joan Nabors | New City Fellowship, Glenwood

  This seminar is desiged to make an attempt at explaining to a majority white audience, the difference between African-American culture and majority White culture in the context of worship.