Justin Tarsiuk preached this message titled “You’re Welcome” at our service in Union Square on November 30, 2014.
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Sunday Services-
Brooklyn – United Artists Cinema 9:30am
Soho – Scholastic Auditorium 11am
Union Square – Union Square Ballroom 5 & 7pm
Actionable Ideas to Take Your Career or Business to the Next levelNeed a resume that dazzles? Check. Need social media tips to promote your business? Check. Need to know how to interview well, get promoted, start a blog, or begin a new initiative where you work? Check, check and check. On Dec 4th, we’ll gather five experts in one high energy lightning round of 50 ideas followed by audience Q&A. During the event you will receive a handout with all 50 ideas so you can begin taking action immediately. Bring a friend for an evening that will be jam-packed with ideas to help you promote yourself, your business, or your project in 2015. Thursday, December 4th @ 7.30 p.m.
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Get InspiredHear Testimonies from Other VisionariesThis year we are believing for 100 testimonies from people who attended the retreat and are seeing God work in their career or business. During Thursday’s gathering you will hear powerful testimonies of breakthrough from two Visionaries that attended the retreat. Don’t miss this opportunity to get inspired about what God wants to do in your career or business. Copyright © 2014 Liberty Visionaries, All rights reserved. |
Liberty Live is the ministry that livestreams our Sunday service through our website to people who are unable to come to our services. Liberty Live also serves as a front door for those who are thinking about visiting Liberty Church. It helps people stay connected while traveling away from New York City for work or holiday. It also allows us to include family members and prayer partners who live elsewhere in the world but who want to be involved and support what Liberty Church is doing in our city.
We’d like to introduce you to a few people from our online community.
Liberty Live travels well
Grace is an actress traveling through Europe, the Middle East, and Asia on tour. She has been a part of Liberty Church since the beginning, but while she tours internationally, she tunes in to Liberty Live almost every Sunday. “Being at Liberty in person is the best, but Liberty Live is a close second! The community feeling travels well—the time between worship and the message is always one of my favorite parts.” Seeing people she knows on stage for announcements, prayer, and church news “makes it feel like home.” While she feels that worship does not feel the same when watching it on a computer or mobile device, Grace finds that the message translates similarly to being there in person. “Seeing the whole service makes you feel less like a spectator and more like a participant.”
“I love that Liberty Live allows me to be connected to my church while I travel for work. It’s great to be on the same page with Liberty’s current mission, goals, and growth.”
Liberty Live connects families
Brigid and Craig live in Murrieta, California. They started watching the services when their daughter joined the worship team at Liberty. Brigid says, “This is personal to us because the live stream gives us a peek at our daughter’s life and the people in it, since so many of them have a large impact on her life. In addition to that we truly believe what Liberty is doing is so important specifically in New York where community is so difficult to find. For those who don’t live there, they don’t understand how much a church community can change your life.”
“I personally like the fact that you get to meet the Liberty team, via internet, and seeing the pastors preach makes you feel, in a way, that you are part of the service. A lot goes on visually that you don’t get when listening to the podcast. Also, you are able to see the entire service, which is important to us as well. We do go back and listen to various podcasts on occasion when we want to revisit a sermon.”
Some of Brigid and Craig’s family have started watching Liberty Live as well, even though they don’t regularly attend a church.
Stay tuned for more stories about how Liberty Live helps people stay in touch and find home.
Rhema Tranyer preached this message titled “In the Meantime” at our service in Soho on November 23 9, 2014.
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Sunday Services-
Brooklyn – United Artists Cinema 9:30am
Soho – Scholastic Auditorium 11am
Union Square – Union Square Ballroom 5 & 7pm
Parker Green preached this message titled “The Slave and the Son” at our service in Union Square on November 23, 2014.
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Sunday Services-
Brooklyn – United Artists Cinema 9:30am
Soho – Scholastic Auditorium 11am
Union Square – Union Square Ballroom 5 & 7pm
All Team is our quarterly meeting for the teams that together make Sundays great across our three communities. The pastors of Liberty Church are deeply invested in the personal growth and health of our teams, and All Team is a way of celebrating the wins, spreading vision for what’s ahead, and training leaders. If you’re on a team or interested in joining a team, you’ll find a talented group of people at All Team who invest their time in building God’s house.
So come find a place to be involved! All Team is tonight: Friday, November 21, at 7:30 pm at 359 Broadway, Floor 2 (Broadway & Franklin in Tribeca).
“I quit.” Not too many women’s movements have started with those words. But as Andi Andrew told the story of Liberty Sisterhood’s early beginnings, she shared her personal conviction not to do women’s ministry in any way she had seen it done before. She had prayed to God, “I am shutting this down. I am putting this at your feet until you tell me how and why and when to pick it up.”
What came out of her decision was a vision of empowering women to take their place on the earth and to gather them into a community to realize their strength and freedom. This is Sisterhood.
It seems many women in our city run into the same pitfalls that Andi originally struggled with. There is a tendency for churches to paint women with the same brush rather than celebrating their diversity. There is also a tendency for women to carry their feminine identity as being “all put together on the outside, dying on the inside.”
But welcoming women into sisterhood through quarterly gatherings, community groups, and involvement in our church has meant celebrating our differences and moving forward together. “We have work to do!” said Trisha Schrader at the November 5th gathering. “We have to stop disassociating ourselves from other women…You don’t have to wear a flower crown and I will never run a marathon.”
We are women united with purpose. And the mission? To be carriers of truth, freedom, and love to our world.
Stories of Sisterhood
One thing that has always been a part of Liberty Sisterhood are the stories of women from all walks of life and the belief that women pave a way for other women by sharing their journey.
On November 7th, Susan and Nicole together told their story of Sisterhood: training and running the NYC Marathon together through pain and injury. They became friends through a community group, where Nicole had been healed of chronic pain—a physical symptom she believes was rooted in her unforgiveness.
“I lived with pain for thirteen years to the point where I couldn’t walk.” When she was healed, she described feeling “thirty pounds lighter, because I no longer carried the guilt and shame.”
However, running 26.2 miles was an altogether different challenge, one that required the encouragement, prayer, faith, and accountability of a friend.
“I asked her to stay with me because I knew if I were left alone, I would not finish the race.”
Susan replied, “I vowed to her that I would stick with her.”
When Nicole injured her knee, Susan ran beside her, singing songs of praise and victory in her ear as she pressed on to claim her medal.
Sisterhood Gives Freedom
At our September 5th gathering, Andi announced the She is Free conference. On April 23–25, 2014, we are inviting women from all over to join us for three days of seeking God and finding freedom. Andi says, “We want women to walk into the environment of She is Free and LOVE being a woman, and LOVE being the woman God has made you to be free, of stereotypes.”
But She is Free starts with Sisterhood.
“The strength of She is Free will come from the strength of us GATHERING as a Sisterhood and BEING a Sisterhood of women at all times, in our spheres of influence and community. When we work out our ‘stuff’ personally and as a community of women corporately, we are then enabled to give She is Free as a gift from the Liberty Sisterhood to New York City and all who desire to gather For Freedom.”
The November Sisterhood night ended with all the women writing down an area where they wanted to grow in freedom leading up to She is Free. It was a commitment, not just for personal growth, but for taking a stand to spread freedom, to be carriers of truth, freedom, and love.
You can find out more about She is Free and register here. Or read more about Who We Are on Andi’s blog.
“There is great power in a grateful heart.” As Paul Andrew remembered with gratitude the people who had changed his life, he reminded us that a lifestyle of gratitude has the power to influence others.
This month as we continue our series on gratitude, each of our communities has committed to reaching out to their neighborhoods to appreciate the people of our city.
Liberty City is the charity arm of our church that seeks to foster restorative relationships within our communities to help individuals overcome challenging circumstances with no strings attached. If you’re interested in receiving updates about upcoming Liberty City initiatives, email [email protected]. Continue Reading
