About the New Life Church Men's MAFIA Ministries:

“…but among you it should be quite different. Whoever wants to be a leader among you must be your servant, and whoever wants to be first must become your slave. For even I, the Son of Man, came here not to be served but to serve others, and to give my life as a ransom for many." Matthew 20:26-28 (NLT)

The New Life Church Men's MAFIA (Men After Faith, Integrity & Action) is a Christian fellowship of brothers-in-Christ dedicated to supporting each another, the NLC congregation and the community-at-large through service outreach (H.I.T.S. – Helping in the Spirit) , masculine accountability & encouragement, discipleship and prayer ministries.

Tuesday, September 22, 2009

Attention Hitmen: Help Ms. Andrea Move this weekend and enjoy great fellowship in the process!

Greetings Hitmen,

I hope this message finds you all well and in good spirits.  I am emailing you today to solicit you assistance in helping one of our beloved single ladies move this weekend.  We’re going to have a great time as we help one of our favorite greeters in the process.

Andrea Schinker is moving from her first floor apartment in Little Rock at 15511 Capitol Hill Blvd. #518, to her new home at 14 Page Cove in Maumelle.

We will be starting at 9:00 AM and are in need of 6 Hitmen to help out in what is estimated to take no more than two hours.

Andrea has already rented a truck for the move and is getting really anxious to move into Maumelle and closer to so many of her NLC family.  So thanks to all of you who have a couple extra hours to help this great woman of God.

If you are interested in lending a hand, please call Mr. David Martindale and let him know that you will be there.  Call David on his cell at 501/681-0584 .

In HIS service,

Luke Ribich

Tuesday, September 15, 2009

Remember Pete Hollingsworth Today

Good afternoon Hitmen,

I just wanted to take a brief moment to send a message to our membership asking all our Hitmen to keep Pete in your prayers today.  Pete is having a medical procedure today and we have been asked to keep him in in our thoughts and prayers.

As many of you know Pete is a tremendous leader both at NLC and in our community at large.

In His service,

Luke Ribich

Monday, September 14, 2009

NLC MAFIA & Life In Drive Support CityFest 2009

Greetings Hitmen,

The NLC Mafia has been asked to team with the Life In Drive to partner in affiliation with CityFest 2009 to support our community and gain some recognition in our church and our community. We are also in need of a generator, golf carts or two to pull small trailers of cleared brush, small trailers to be pulled, good power tools (drills/circular saws/gas powered trimmers), any paint supplies (especially extension rods to do ceilings).

The project date is Saturday, September 19, from 0800-1300. Please let me know what level of assistance we can expect from all you Hitmen. Also, if any of you have a connection with the Kroger manager, would you mind introducing us so we can ask for them to partner with us as well? I would like to see them donate water for our crew if possible.

Here is alist of project NLC MAFIA and Life In Drive will be supporting:

  • Rebuild the deck of a fishing pier at Lake Willastein
  • Repaint the interior of the open bunker near the stage at Lake Willastein
  • Light brush clearing from wooded area near bunkers by stage area at Lake Willastein
  • Brush clearing at end of lake near Veterans' Memorial at Lake Willastein
  • General lakeshore clean-up of Lake Willastein

NLC has partnered with the city of Maumelle to reach the people of our town in a civic-minded fashion to demonstrate Christ's presence.  The City will be providing the materials for the pier project, all we will need is some good MAN-POWER!

Thanks so much, brothers...you guys are all such a blessing to our church and community.

In His service,

Luke Ribich

Friday, September 4, 2009

NLC MAFIA Fantasy Football League Update

Hitmen,

The Draft is scheduled for Sunday @ 8pm.  If you want to participate in the online draft login a few minutes prior to 8pm to make sure you are ready for the start of the draft.

Just a quick reminder…

ARE YOU READY FOR SOME FOOTBALL?

Greetings Hitmen,

Well it’s here, our beloved favorite pastime – football!  I know, many of you are now thinking, “But Luke, Baseball is America’s pastime.”  My response to that is short and direct, Baseball = Girls Sport!  Don’t believe me, just ask Matt Rush, she likes baseball (oops Freudian slip, sorry Matt).  Anyway, as we prepare to receive a great message from one of the all-time best NCAA coaches, Ken Hatfield, we’re all getting into full swing for a season of fellowship, great catches and super hits, and possibly not all of them on the field!

Actually, Matt, Brian and the crew have done a great job getting us all ready for the first annual NLC Men’s MAFIA Fantasy Football League.  There are still a few of you who signed up that have not yet signed in and created your team.  Please do this ASAP.

We originally planned to have the league set for Auto-Draft, but a few of you asked to do an online-draft.  So, I will schedule on online-draft for this Sunday afternoon/evening.  I will let everyone know tomorrow when the scheduled draft time will be.  If you do not want to do the online-draft, don't worry your team will still be auto-drafted (just like we originally planned).  Those of you who would like to, can login from home and draft your own team at the scheduled draft time.

If you have not joined the league yet, please do so soon.  Here is the link...

http://football.fantasysports.yahoo.com/f1/register/tos?league_id=833863&password=mafia

password: mafia

Good luck to each of you, you’re probably going to need it!

In His service,

Luke Ribich