Pastor Mike Murphy preached this message called “There’s Something In The Water” at our services in Brooklyn, Soho, and Union Square on July 27th, 2014.
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Sunday Services-
Brooklyn – United Artists Cinema 9:30am
Soho – Scholastic Auditorium 11am
Union Square – Union Square Ballroom 5 & 7pm
Liberty Church believes in equipping the saints to do the work of the ministry. On Sunday, July 20th 2014 each one of our New York City communities had a tag team preaching. During the tag time, each community got to hear a 10 minute message on “Growing in God” from leaders in their community. It was an incredible Sunday filled with inspiration, challenges, encouragement and hope. Check out the podcasts!
Chad Rodriguez, Tanya Butterfield and Bryan Jennings preached this message called “Growing In God” at our 9:30 am service in Brooklyn on July 20, 2014.
Dave Guercia, April Crichlow and Dawn Sadler preached this message about “Growing In God” at our 11am service in Soho, on July 20, 2014.
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Jessi Green, Timothy Reese and Shilvy Yee preached at our Union Square Community at 5pm and 7pm.
Sunday Services-
Brooklyn – United Artists Cinema 9:30am
Soho – Scholastic Auditorium 11am
Union Square – Union Square Ballroom 5 & 7pm
Since the onset of Liberty Church in 2010, Pastors Paul & Andi Andrew have had a “2020 Vision” - to impact ten communities in ten years by the year 2020. That vision resulted in Seed Fund, which now exists to plant churches as well as support church planters and to help give them the vital support they need during their first three years.
In January 2014, Liberty Church launched a third community in Brooklyn. Over these past 8 months, we’ve seen incredible things happen - reaching a whole new community of people in Brooklyn, introducing Spanish translation, and the growth of a true church family.
In June came a new milestone with the announcement that pastors Justin & Kristen Tarsiuk would be joining to lead the Liberty Brooklyn community.
Justin and Kristen hail from Oasis Church in Los Angeles. Kristen’s background is as the Marketing and Communications Director for GodChicks (the women’s ministry of Oasis), and Justin led as the Service Teams Director, overseeing Sunday volunteer teams at Oasis. They’re both thrilled to join the Liberty family and be part of what God is doing in NYC and beyond!
After one Sunday experiencing Liberty Church, Kristen and I knew we were home. We are so excited to join Paul, Andi and the Liberty Church team in building the Brooklyn community..we look forward to serving our new city with you.” - Justin Tarsiuk
Welcoming Justin and Kristen as new Community Pastors is an important step towards the long term health and sustainability of our Brooklyn Community. Seed Fund will allow for there to be continued investment into Brooklyn while it’s still in its beginning stages - these next two years that are key for building strength - to grow a community that can continue to flourish from the inside out.
If you’re interested in learning more about Seed Fund and/or ways you can contribute, visit www.SeedFund.org.
Now he who supplies seed to the sower and bread for food will also supply and increase your store of seed and will enlarge the harvest of your righteousness. You will be enrichedin every way so that you can be generous on every occasion, and through us your generosity will result in thanksgiving to God. 2Cor9:9-10 NIV
We’re so excited to have Pastor Michael Murphy join us as our guest speaker on Sunday, July 27th!
In addition to decades of pastoring and missions work, Michael Murphy is the founder of Leaderscape. Leaderscape is a non-profit organization dedicated to supporting leaders of movements, companies and churches in both the developing and developed worlds.
Pastor Mike will be speaking at all three communities - Brooklyn, Soho, and Union Square. This is definitely not a Sunday to be missed!
Not all success is created equal. What is good success, and how can we know what good success looks like in our lives?
Paul Andrew preached this message called “Good Success” at our services in Brooklyn, Soho, and Union Square on July 13, 2014.
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Sunday Services-
Brooklyn – United Artists Cinema 9:30am
Soho – Scholastic Auditorium 11am
Union Square – Union Square Ballroom 5 & 7pm
“I will give you every place where you set your foot, as I promised Moses…” Joshua 1:3
This verse has been resounding in my spirit this week and I just can’t shake the significance of it, especially in regard to what’s happening this weekend. The context of this verse is that God is speaking these words to Joshua as he prepares to lead the Israelites out of the desert and into the land that God had promised them some forty years earlier.
This Saturday and Sunday, Liberty Church is planning to take ground in the spiritual by stepping out in the physical. We’ll be circling our own block in each of our neighborhoods all across this great city of New York (our promised land!). We’ll be praying and believing for God to move in the lives of all who call this place home - whether they know Him or not - and for Him to inhabit these areas where we live, illuminating the darkness with His light. Andrew Murray said, “We must begin to believe that God, in the mystery of prayer, has entrusted us with a force that can move the Heavenly world, and can bring its power down to earth.” We cannot underestimate the power of our unified voices raised in prayer and praise, claiming the streets of NYC for His Kingdom.
Corporately, this will resound in the supernatural realm - that of the unseen - but very much felt. Satan would greatly prefer for the church on the earth to remain silent, apathetic, happy to hide inside the four walls of their church buildings and hold their “feel good” services while never venturing out or making any real impact. When we walk our streets this weekend and cry out for God to change our city, it will make a spiritual statement that cannot be ignored! It will be significant for Liberty, and for the greater church in NYC.
In Psalm 133, it says, “How good and pleasant it is when God’s people live together in unity! For there the Lord bestows his blessing, even life forevermore.” By coming together in unified prayer for our city, we as the church will unleash a greater outpouring of His spirit and manifest presence - His greatest blessing!
We cannot underestimate the power of our unified voices raised in prayer and praise, claiming the streets of NYC for His Kingdom.
Individually, I believe that we will see a marked difference, a shift in the way we view our city after this weekend. The way we walk around a stranger’s home is very different from the way we walk around our own, and the difference lies in ownership. If we truly believe that as we step out and pray that “every place we set our foot will be given to us,” we will find ourselves loving and caring more for our city and her people than we ever thought possible. People will go from nameless faces to individuals who God created for His glory with whom He is madly in love. His children who, though they may not realize it, have been waiting all their lives to hear the amazing news that they have a Father in heaven who has never once taken His eye or His hand off of them. If we are all His children, we are living amongst brothers and sisters, and we will begin to see them and treat them as such.
Our city will be changed when her people are changed, and her people will be changed when we walk down their block and into their lives…seeing them for who they were created to be, and calling them by their true name - “Beloved Son, Beloved Daughter of God”.
So, this weekend… let’s step out! Let’s envision what is happening in the spiritual as we walk forward in the natural. Let’s pray and believe like never before for God’s kingdom to come and His will to be done, in NYC as it is in heaven. Amen.
by Emily Rodriguez
Often as Christians we can focus on salvation without understanding what we have been saved from. Without understanding the penalty of sin and what sin actually deserves, it’s impossible to understand the mercy and great love of God toward us in his provision of salvation from sin and death for who so ever will believe!
Rhema Trayner preached this message, “Heaven Without Hell” at our services in Brooklyn, Soho, and Union Square on July 6, 2014.
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Sunday Services-
Brooklyn – United Artists Cinema 9:30am
Soho – Scholastic Auditorium 11am
Union Square – Union Square Ballroom 5 & 7pm
Baptisms are a public declaration of a private commitment to God. It symbolizes the death of your old self (submerging in the water) and being raised again as a new creation in Christ (rising out of the water). Simply put, water baptism is a key act of obedience, an outward display of one’s inward decision to follow Christ and trust him with one’s eternity.
With our next Baptisms taking place on July 18th, we wanted to share an example of the transformational power of being baptized. Here is Fabienne Pierre’s story about how being baptized played a key role in finding healing and freedom from her past.
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I didn’t have an easy life growing up. Up until recently, I honestly didn’t even know how I made it through. I now realize that I made it through those tough times because God was by my side the entire time.
I’ve always believed in God; I went to church and prayed, but I never had an actual relationship with Him. I never praised God as much as I do now. Yet, He loved me so much - He stayed by my side no matter what, and saw me through the most difficult times.
At age 18, I lost my father. Unfortunately my father was not involved in my life for most of my high school years. I remember being asked about him often and having to respond, “I don’t know, I haven’t spoken to him,” which was always difficult for me to say. Finally late in my senior year of high school, he returned to my life wanting to repair our relationship. He promised to never leave me again, but died just a few months later. I remember feeling angry with him because he did exactly what he said he wouldn’t do. He left me again, but this time for good.
During my senior year, I also learned that my mother was diagnosed with lupus, which would cause her to have kidney failure years later. This was clearly a difficult time as I was forced to mourn my father while dealing with an ill mother, but somehow I went on with my daily activities as if everything was okay. I just knew I had to be strong for my family - especially my mom. There were times where I would bend - I would cry and be sad for a few moments - but I would never break. I would always pick myself up. God has always given me the strength I need to do that.
When the opportunity to get baptized arose, I realized I owed it to God to make that commitment to Him. It was time for me stop living a life with one foot in the door and one foot out. Here I was complaining to God that I would always give 100% in my relationships and get 50% in return, never realizing that I was treating Him the same way. God has always given me 100%, but I never really surrendered and trusted Him with my life. I was giving God half of me.
To me, being baptized meant that I was ready to let everything go and surrender. I was ready to be freed from my past.
I never really forgave those who hurt me (although I thought I did) and never fully let go of the past. I was always worrying and full of fear. To me, being baptized meant that I was ready to let everything go and surrender. I was ready to be freed from my past and any emotional baggage I carried.
I decided to get baptized because it was no longer acceptable to continue giving only 50% of myself to God. I owed it to Him, to my mom, and to my future family. April 4, 2025 will always be known as the day my life changed. When Pastor Paul prayed over me and said “the past is the past” I felt so relieved…so free. I felt a huge weight come off my shoulders. I knew I did the right thing and the best was yet to come.
I am so grateful for everyone I’ve met at Liberty Church. I’ve met the most amazing, supportive, and loving group of people. I am truly blessed and appreciative of everyone that has come into my life. My life has changed tremendously in the best possible way since I began attending Liberty - I know my life will never be the same!
One of my favorite worship songs sums it up so perfectly for me: “Up from the ashes, Your love has bought us out of the darkness and into the light. Lifting our sorrows, bearing our burdens, healing our hearts.”
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If you have never been baptized and would like to, or if you have before but didn’t fully understand it at the time, we invite you to sign up to be baptized on July 18th. Join the dozens in our community who have made this bold declaration! To all who have already been baptized, come ready to support and pray for all those who will be taking that step.
Sign up at the Connections Desk in The Guest Lounge or click here to sign up online.
