New City Church

Making disciples. Period.

214 Spencer Street NE, Grand Rapids, MI  49505
Sunday mornings at 10:00
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      • Historic Creeds and Confessions
    • Core Values
    • Leadership
      • Council of Elders
      • Deacons
  • Experience New City
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    • New City Sisterhood
    • Serving the Body
      • Spiritual Gifts
    • Childrens’ Ministries
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  • Resources
    • Sermons
      • Miscellaneous (various topical sermons)
      • From Garden to Garden: the Story of the Bible (a topical sermon series)
      • Real Jesus. Real Followers. (a sermon series in Mark)
      • A Brief Study of Spiritual Gifts (a topical sermon series)
      • Church Calendar (an on-going topical sermon series)
      • What Is the Church? (a topical sermon series)
      • Cosmic Christ: Divine Truth For Our Earthly Reality (a sermon series in Colossians)
      • Genesis: the Origins of [Re]Creation (a sermon series in Genesis)
      • Acts of Jesus (sermon series in Acts)
      • Spiritual Disciplines (a topical sermon series)
      • Jude (a sermon series in Jude)
      • A Cruciform Life: Being Shaped by the Cross into the Shape of Jesus (a sermon series in 1 Corinthians)
      • Christian Community (a topical sermon series)
      • Let’s… (a topical sermon series)
      • A Slaughtered Lamb Reigns (a sermon series in Revelation)
      • Together (a topical sermon series)
      • YHWH: Missionary to the Nations (a sermon series in Exodus)
      • Sexual Ethics and the New City (a topical sermon series)
      • In Christ: There Is No Other Gospel (a sermon series in Galatians)
      • What On Earth Is the Church? (a topical sermon series)
      • Come and Believe: the Gospel According to John (a sermon series in John)
      • Politics and Christian Unity (a topical sermon series)
      • Life As the Body of Christ (a topical sermon series)
      • Covenant God: the Foundation of Our Faith (a sermon series in Joshua)
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    • The Gospel Coalition
    • Desiring God
    • Urban Transformation Ministries
    • North End Community Ministry
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Deacons

Here are our Deacons.

Ryan Misenhimer (Building and Facilities)

“My journey to Christ has been long and adventurous. Through my parents divorce, and moving more times than I can count, it took a friend at the age of 18 to get me to church and start my relationship with Christ. Since then God has done wondrous things in my life. Christ has blessed me so many times, most recently with the most wonderful Christian wife a man could ever pray for. This journey to deaconship is just the start of what God has in store for me. Through the support and prayer of New City Church my walk and faith in the Lord will grow and help transform me to be the disciple of Christ we are all meant to be.”

Ryan is married to his new bride, Lisa. They are the proud caretakers of their Goldendoodle, Better. Ryan is in charge of the cleaning and maintenance of the building that God provided New City Church to meet in.

Sharilyn Shaffer (Benevolence)

My husband, Joel, and I live and minister on the North side of Grand Rapids to urban youth and their families. God has blessed us with four wonderful children. I am a para-pro at Northpointe Christian High School and am doing my Counseling Internship at Cornerstone University this fall, with a focus on Trauma. I minister as the Benevolence Person at New City Church.

Sharilyn is married to Joel and they have four children. They have been involved in urban ministry for 20+ years in Grand Rapids, MI.

Beth Vermilye (Financial)

Beth is married to Dave and they have two adult sons and 5 grandkids which they dote on.

Rachael Passarelli (Nursery)

I am honored to serve the church by coordinating nursery care and ministering to young children.  I strive to ensure that nursery is a place where young children can be exposed to the love of Jesus and where parents can expect their children to be tended to in a safe environment.

Rachael has been married to Tim for 2 ½ years and they have been attending New City Church for 6 years. In her free time you will find her enjoying the company of  family and exploring the city with her husband and their dog.

Diana Barstow (Prayer)

I love stories. As a child I contracted Polio and had to spend time in an Iron Lung. It was a lonely childhood. Yet, God was there. I spent hours reading stories of true tales of action and adventure in the lives of missionaries and their families. Reliving the harrowing anecdotes of their faith being tested and their prayers being answered is what God used to form a deep faith and belief in the power of prayer because we can trust the one we are praying to!*

Diana has been married to her husband Ron for 20+ years. They share an avid compulsion to live in nature~camp!

Dawnae Richards (Administrative)

I am not morbid but do admit to finding enjoyment in reading the obituaries. The thing about obituaries is that each one is a stand alone story. You read where they are born, die, and the things they valued, whether it was family, or sports teams, boats, nature, work, hobbies, etc. They are small reminders that our lives matter. That what we do in the here and now and our motives and desires for doing them impact others. I love that! I love the fact whether it is typing a bulletin, updating a website, or buying diapers for the nursery—it matters! Revelation 14:12-13 echoes these sentiments. The fact I get to spend part of my day, week, life serving the church in small matters—Matters!

Dawnae loves being a wife to J-T, mother, and dog caretaker. Dawnae and J-T have 3 children and planted New City in 2011.

*Caveat: Some creative liberty has been taken by  the author due to bio not being submitted. “Names, characters, places and incidents either are products of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual events or locales or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.”

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Location

Sundays at 10:00AM 214 Spencer St NE, Grand Rapids (on the corner of Plainfield Ave & Spencer St., just north of Leonard St.)

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214 Spencer St NE
Grand Rapids, MI 49505

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