We're a brand new church serving a brand new community. Surprise, Arizona is one of the fastest growing communities in the country with over 1,000 new families moving in each month. In the next ten years the population is expected to grow from the current 100,000 to over 350,000 people. New Song is also growing rapidly and we expect to be a 1,000 member church within the next decade. The fields are ripe for the harvest!
Our Vision Statement -- Making
Disciples & Making a Difference
Our vision is to become a great
church that builds the kingdom of God by making disciples
for Jesus Christ and making a difference in our community.
Our Mission Statement: Centered in
Worship, We Reach, Teach, Tend, and Send
Centered in Worship which unites and
empowers us for ministry,
We Reach out in love to a lost and hurting world and
invite all people to be reconciled to their Creator through a
personal relationship with Jesus Christ.
We Teach the Word of God to people of all ages through
word and deed, by modeling lives of obedience to Christ and by
practicing the tenets of our faith.
We Tend Christ's flock through nurturing ministries that
bring healing and wholeness.
We Send out re-created followers of Jesus Christ to serve
the world as faithful disciples and to witness to the grace of
God.
What Kind of Church Are We?
We Are A United Methodist Church
We are proud to be a part of the rich spiritual and theological traditions that make up the United
Methodist Church. Through our
connection to this 20 million member worldwide denomination, we
are supported in our ministries and in turn support mission
outreach around the world.
We Are An Evangelical Church
While labels can confuse rather than clarify, we proclaim New
Song to be an evangelical church that emphasizes the need to
actively spread the Gospel of Jesus Christ to an unsaved world.
We believe in the Bible as God's inspired Word which contains all
truth necessary for our salvation. We believe that the hope of
the world lies not in technology or human progress, but in a
saving relationship with Jesus Christ. And we believe that it is
the church's task to fulfill the Great Commission of Jesus Christ
to "make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the
name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, and
teaching them to obey everything that I have commanded you"
(Matthew 28:19-20)
We Are A Community Church
We are a church for the entire community. We welcome people of
all faith backgrounds who want to worship God and be nurtured in
their faith. As United Methodists we stand in a tradition of
diversity and inclusiveness, where people are not told what to
believe but are encouraged to seek their own understanding of the
great truths of our faith through scripture, reason, tradition
and experience.
We Are A Family Church
We are a church devoted to families, whether those families be
young or old, single parents or blended families, working or
retired. Above all, we want to help parents raise their children
by providing quality Christian education, moral direction, and
necessary resources to help children and youth grow in Christ.
We Are An Inclusive Church
We are a church that welcomes all people to be a part of our
fellowship. We believe that the church should be that one place
where all are treated equally and loved unconditionally. Those
barriers that divide us as a society -- age, race, language,
sexual preference, or class distinctions -- shall not divide us
as a church. "For we are all one in Christ Jesus" (Gal.
3:28).
We Are A Praying Church
We believe that the church's very life is dependent upon the Holy
Spirit and that we can do nothing without empowerment by the Holy
Spirit. It is through prayer that the Holy Spirit is activated
within us for ministry. Prayer is the foundation upon which New
Song will be built and which will be a top priority in every
aspect of church life. It is our goal that every person and
ministry will be bathed in prayer, that prayer will precede our
every effort, and that prayers of praise and thanksgiving will be
offered for every success. We believe in the power of prayer!
Meet Our Pastor
Rev. Galene J. Boyett grew up in United Methodist Churches from California, to Kansas and Wisconsin and finally Arizona. She was a preacher's Kid as well as a military brat, and was active in the United Methodist Youth Fellowship that helped build the "new church on the hill" of the now defunct Community United Methodist Church of Needles, CA (the 20th oldest church in the Desert Southwest Annual Conference until 2006). She cut her adult Christian teeth at Sunrise UMC in North Phoenix, where she served various positions including lay leader, lay speaker, Disciple Bible Study teacher, head of strategic planning and choir member/choir director.
From 1997 to 2002 she served as part-time student local pastor under appointment to the two-point charge of Bethesda and Jerseyville in Adelphia, NJ. She graduated with honors from the Theological School a Drew University in Madison, NJ also earning the American Bible Society Award for Outstanding Acheivement in Biblical Studies.
Rev. Galene accomplished all this while raising three boys, Jacob, Kit and Gabe, with the help of her husband, Alan. She was the appointed senior pastor to Desert Chapel UMC in Apache Junction, AZ from 2002 until her current appointment to New Song in 2007.
Meet Our Associate
Pastor
Pastor Tom Jelinek was born in Beloit Wisconsin,
and grew up in Ann Arbor Michigan and Tucson. He has degrees in
History and Music from the U. of A., as well as a Master of
Divinity degree and a degree in Youth Ministry from Wesley
Seminary. He has served churches in Flagstaff, Scottsdale, and
Tucson. His hobbies include music, old radios, TV’s, and
sound equipment, and vintage autos. Tom looks forward to getting
acquainted and sharing ministry here at New Song!
Our Brief History
In the fall of 1995 a decision was
made by the Desert Southwest Annual Conference to place a new
church in the planned Del Webb retirement community of Sun City
Grand. Other United Methodist churches begun decades earlier in
Sun City and Sun City West had experienced great success and it
was felt that a church in Sun City Grand had enormous potential.
An eight acre site was negotiated and plans were underway when,
at the urging of church leaders in Sun City and Sun City West, a
decision was made to move the planned church out of the
retirement community and place it in the general community of
Surprise, where it would more effectively serve as an
intergenerational church for people of all ages. This was the
first time that a United Methodist church was not placed in a Del
Webb development in our conference.
In June of 1996, Rev. Steve Marshall was appointed to serve as the founding pastor of the new church, now named New Song United Methodist Church. In September of that year Rev. Marshall began the task of starting a brand new congregation from scratch. He began by personally knocking on over 1000 doors and visiting with hundreds of families in the rapidly growing area of Surprise. On March 16, 1997, New Song celebrated its first worship service with 140 in attendance, many of those friends, well-wishers and representatives from sister churches who brought greetings and words of blessing.
In July of 1997, after months of diligent searching for suitable property, an initial down payment of $10,000 was made on a ten-acre parcel located on Bell Road in the heart of the newly developing community of Surprise. Four United Methodist churches in neighboring Sun City and Sun City West generously raised $360,000 by April, 1998 so we could close escrow and be able to begin building. In June of 1999 we closed escrow on an additional 4 acres. We finally obtained a construction loan and formally broke ground on our first building on January 26, 2002. On July 14, 2002 we held our first worship services in our new building.
New Song chartered as an official United Methodist church with over 100 members on Sunday, January 16, 2000. We currently have 585 members. May God be glorified by our ministry here in Surprise.
How To Find Us
Sunday Mornings
Spirited Traditional Worship:
8:00am & 9:30am
Contemporary Praise Service:
11:00am
Saturday Worship: 5:00pm
Come join us!