Five Hundred Members on Bluebird Lane in Millville
New Life World Outreach, also known as New Life Church, sits on Bluebird Lane in Millville, New Jersey. The fellowship describes itself as a Pentecostal, charismatic, Full Gospel church, and Pastor Richard F. Myers and his wife Helen have led it since its founding in 1986, when it began with seventy members. By 2021 the congregation had grown to more than five hundred. New Life is known across South Jersey for three things in particular: an expressive style of worship in which all the spiritual gifts described in 1 Corinthians 12 are believed to be in operation today, a world missions network touching sixty-three countries through partnerships such as Abundant Life Ministries International and One Heart World Fellowship, and a weekly television broadcast called "His Word of Power" that reaches the Delaware Valley. The mailing address is PO Box 700, Millville, NJ 08332, and the church office can be reached at 856-825-3332 or newlife@prodigy.net.
Sunday Morning and Wednesday Night at New Life
Weekly services follow a steady rhythm. Sunday worship gathers at 11:00 AM and includes Adult Worship along with SuperChurch for kids running alongside in the sanctuary. Wednesday nights begin at 7:15 PM with midweek services and activities that change through the year. The Sounds of New Life worship team leads the music each week, and special soloists or a small musical group often minister just before the preaching of the Word. Communion is observed as an ordinance, and water baptism is offered for those who have repented and believed on Christ as Lord and Savior.
Visitors will find nurseries for infants and dedicated youth and teen buildings on the grounds. A friendly greeters and welcome team meets people at the door, and a Visitor Center staffed by church members is open after every service to answer questions about ministries. CDs and DVDs of the most recent sermons can be purchased through the Audio and Video Store that operates out of the sanctuary immediately after each service.
Why We Do What We Do
New Life teaches that all the gifts of the Holy Spirit, including speaking in tongues, healing, deliverance, prophecy and other manifestations, are for today, and the phrase the church uses for itself, "Full Gospel," is taken seriously in every service. Worship is active and contemporary in style, with guitar, drums, piano, sax and other instruments filling the room, and with dance, flags, lifted hands, clapping, and shouting as part of the regular vocabulary of praise. Children and adults often dance before the Lord during the service.
Pastor Myers is described as a prophet and overseer to churches around the world, and healing, miracles and prophecy are said to follow his ministry. The church's rationale for these expressive forms is rooted in passages the teaching outline cites by name, including Psalm 149:3, Psalm 47:1, Psalm 146:2, II Chronicles 5:12-13, I Corinthians 14:15, and Lamentations 3:41. All prayers are prayed in the name of Jesus, in the belief that the same authority that was present in His earthly ministry is at work today.
The Statement of Faith
The Statement of Faith at New Life begins with the Bible as the inspired, infallible Word of God and moves through the core doctrines of evangelical and Pentecostal Christianity. The one true Godhead is triune, consisting of the Father, Son and Holy Spirit, eternally self-existent and self-revealed. Man was created good but fell by voluntary transgression, and his only hope of redemption is through the shed blood of Jesus Christ, received by faith and confessed with the mouth.
The church practices two ordinances, water baptism and the Lord's Supper, and teaches that believers should be baptized in the Holy Spirit with the evidence of speaking in tongues as the Spirit gives utterance, followed by the manifestation of spiritual power in public testimony and service. The church is described as the body of Christ and the habitation of God through the Spirit, the bride for whom Christ will return. The blessed hope is the personal return of Jesus Christ to gather His saints, followed by His millennial reign with His saints from heaven.
Sixty-Three Nations and the World Missions Network
From its earliest days, when the church was newly founded and still carrying serious debt on its building, New Life has been a missions-giving church. The missions giving paid off the building debt by 2001, and the church has continued to grow through that same commitment. Today the church's missionaries, partners, and short-term teams are working in over sixty nations, including the islands of the Caribbean (Antigua, Barbuda, Barbados, Cuba, Dominica, Guadeloupe, Haiti, Jamaica, Puerto Rico and others), the United States mainland, Mexico, Suriname, Brazil, France, Israel, Pakistan, India, the Philippines, Kenya, and a long list of African and Asian nations stretching from Sierra Leone to Sri Lanka and Sumatra to South Africa.
Through Abundant Life Ministries International, co-founded by Pastor Myers and Dr. Mike Pangio, New Life is connected with more than two thousand churches, over fifty Bible schools, nine Christian schools in Africa and India serving more than fifteen hundred students, a Christian school in Mexico with two hundred seventy children, and nine orphanages in Africa and India that feed, house, clothe, and educate more than six hundred children. In Tenali, India, the network supports a leper home, hospital, and outpatient clinic, with a surgical center now in development. Through One Heart World Fellowship, co-founded by Pastor Myers and Apostle Rosemond Romney, and through Christian Assembly Ministries, now headed by Pastor Jerome Thomas, the same network reaches churches throughout the Caribbean and supports Radio Maranatha, a Christian radio station covering the region. Apostle Romney and Pastor Myers have worked together since 1984.
A Covenant With Israel and the Golani Battalion
New Life maintains a covenant partnership with Israel grounded in Genesis 18:18, Numbers 24:9, and Romans 11. The church gives directly to the families of the Golani Battalion, to IDF soldiers, and to families in need throughout Israel. The on-the-ground partner is Doobie Sabbo, who monitors every gift and outreach and supplies weekly reports from Israel that are shared with the congregation. Gifts to Israel are receipted through New Life, with eighteen percent of the funds used to cover fees, accounting, the partner's expenses, and New Life's own ministry work, while the remaining eighty-two percent goes directly to front-line soldiers, their families, and those affected by the ongoing conflict.
His Word of Power, Livestream, and the Family Life Center
New Life's television ministry produces a weekly, one-hour program called "His Word of Power" that airs Saturday nights at 11:00 PM across the Delaware Valley, on Comcast Channel 25 in the New Jersey market, RCN Channels 15 and 51, Service Electric 22, and Comcast Channels 24 and 25 in Delaware, plus broader reach through Dish, DirecTV, and other independent stations. The program reaches an estimated three million households in the Philadelphia market and is built using a production suite capable of animation, special effects, and more than one hundred fifty dissolves and wipes.
The same ministry runs the livestream for every Sunday morning and Wednesday night service, viewable on Facebook, YouTube, and Instagram, with a video archive of past streams available for catch-up viewing. Pastor Myers' sermons are posted in full on the New Life YouTube channel. On the physical campus, the main sanctuary seats one thousand, and a new 21,250-square-foot Family Life Center with a theater, a basketball court, and classrooms is in process, designed to support the next generation and the wider community.
Cross-Cultural Music at New Life
Worship at New Life is produced by four overlapping teams. The Sounds of New Life leads the weekly congregational worship, with a rotating group of special soloists singing and playing just before the sermon. The New Life Mass Choir offers a cross-cultural ministry rooted in the heritage of the Afro-American, Hispanic, and Caucasian families of the church, blending black gospel, contemporary, gospel, Hispanic, and other styles of music to take the church "into a cross cultural experience designed to break down the division of the races." Chosen, the young people's singing group, rounds out the worship with the next generation. Music Pastor Steve Burton, Jr. leads this whole expression as a singer, musician, songwriter, and producer of the church's broadcasts.
A separate New Life Anointed Dancers group offers expression through dance for specials, outreaches, and the church's full-evening musical dramas, which are produced at most major holidays and special events.
Champions of Hope, the Food Closet, and Pastoral Care
A range of internal and external Helps ministries share one name on the church's ministry chart. Champions of Hope is the breast-cancer outreach, run by Diana McDonald and staffed by survivors who offer spiritual counsel and prayer to women who have received a diagnosis. A Food Closet Ministry supports church families in temporary need. Greeters and ushers keep order and welcome guests. The Intercessory Prayer Ministry under Marguerite Parker watches in prayer for the church and the pastoral staff, and hostesses minister at the altar during times of prayer and ministry.
Pastoral care reaches beyond the building. Pastor Bill Loatman makes hospital visitations, calls on shut-ins with communion, and visits families. Several staff pastors also serve as Millville police chaplains. The church performs weddings from pre-marriage counseling through the ceremony itself, and the wedding ministry provides all the things needed to start a couple out. Visitors can also join Sunday morning Bible studies, and the church posts a fresh written Bible study on its site each month.
Pastor Myers and the Pastoral Team
Richard F. Myers, the senior pastor, has been in ministry for over forty-five years, the first eight as an international evangelist with his family and the last thirty-eight at New Life. He and Helen have been married for fifty-seven years and have one daughter, Kristin, who is married to Matt Wnorowski, the Associate Pastor. The pastoral team includes Pastor Ron McDonald, on staff for more than thirty-eight years, whose preaching emphasizes careful study of the Word; Pastor John Parker, Pastor Myers' traveling partner and a prophetic minister; Pastor Steve Burton, Jr., music pastor for over twenty years; Pastor Toni Atkins, a thirty-four-year veteran teacher of the Word; Pastor Tito Zamot, the family pastor responsible for the growth, development, and fellowship of families; Pastor Bill Loatman, responsible for pastoral visitations; and Pastor Frank Reaves, who has returned to the pastoral staff after a season of pastoring elsewhere.
Across that team, New Life is led as a church that strives to develop its people into servants of God equipped to reach the world for Jesus through its worship, its missions work, its television ministry, and its covenant with Israel. The Senior Pastor's sermons are posted in full on the New Life YouTube channel, and a fresh written Bible study is added to the church's site each month for ongoing study at home.