New City Christmas Party at Our Home

We were able to fit more than 70 people at our home for the New City Christmas Party! We had a great time of fellowship--eating together, singing carols under candlelight and just hanging out together.



We kept to our Korean tradition of taking off our shoes. This is one of the piles of shoes we had.


Jesus always ate and partied so we are trying to be like Jesus!

Singing carols under candlelights

Some people just hung out outside around the firepit. It was too crowded in the inside.

For more pictures from the party, click here for the picasa web album.

A Special Christmas Sunday Service at New City

Please join us for our special Christmas Sunday service at New City this coming Sunday, December 21, 2008, at 10 am at the Los Angeles Theatre Center (the New LATC). For more info, go to New City's website.

Also, the church is invited to our home for the New City Christmas Party. We will have dinner, dim the lights, turn the candles on, and sing Christmas carols together. Please let RSVP with Grace.

If you want to laugh out loud, click this video:

New City Winter Retreat 2008

We had a great time at the retreat. The theme of the retreat was unity in diversity.

Here is a picture. Click here for more pictures.

I Love Dunking!!! Baptisms at New City--Dying to Self and Living to Christ

Edgar Augustin

Sandra Sykes

Derrick Sprouse

For a video of the baptism, click here.

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New City Church Moving to New LATC
By Pamela Rouse Published: Thursday, November 20, 2008, at 10:57AM

DOWNTOWN LOS ANGELES — New City Church is on the move again. The "come as you are" Downtown church is soon to be in its fourth home, moving just a few blocks up Spring street.
Pastor Kevin Haah made the announcement yesterday on his blog. Haah, responding to the ever-growing and changing needs of his congregation, has inked a deal that will have the New City Church holding services in the spacious New LATC -- which Haah calls his "dream venue" -- starting December 7.

For the past few months the New City Church has made its home in the Globe Theatre's Club 740. Pastor Haah has said that the venue was meant to be a temporary location until more suitable space came available. Haah said that while the unconventional Club 740 location worked for the adults, it didn't quite meet the ministering needs of the congregation's families.

The congregation has grown considerably since it had made the move from the Arts District in August. The community-minded church had an intense marketing campaign that reached out to several thousand people around Downtown. With a mission statement of outreach across race and religious affiliations, New City intends to bring the gospel to the community, as well to the city as a whole through activism and volunteering.

On his blog, Haah says that he had tried to secure the New LATC previously, before the church made its last move. Arrangements couldn't be made then, but a recent followup conversation with the New LATC's General Manager, Paul Graham, resulted in a deal.

Graham has spear-headed many of the cutting-edge changes that are happening with the New LATC such as hosting the "Face of the World" festival (which runs through mid-December) that presents a wide variety of multi-media plays and dramatic readings that allow their audience to explore the multi-cultural identities of LA.

The expanded location will not only for the Sunday services, but also a more open space for the NewCityKidz (the childrens ministry program for kids up to sixth grade). Services will begin in the new location at 514 S. Spring on Sunday, December 7th.

New City Church is Moving to Los Angeles Theatre Center, Our Dream Venue!

When we moved into Club 740 in August, we said that it would be a temporary location until we found something more suitable for us. Club 740 works well for adults but it is somewhat challenging for children. So, we have been praying for a new venue for several months.

God is good! From December 7, 2008, New City Church of LA will be meeting at Los Angeles Theatre Center (which is called The New LATC) for our Sunday worship gathering. It's only about 2 blocks away from Club 740 and it is a fantastic facility. It's been my dream venue. It is the only multi-plex playhouse in downtown. There are four performance theaters in there. They have a great room for kids ministry there as well. And, it is clean! The facility is operated by Latino Theater Company and owned by City of Los Angeles.

The first time I approached this facility a year ago, they didn't know how to respond to me. I remember praying for the space then. They didn't have a clear price sheet for non-profits and it was unclear who I was even supposed to talk to. We checked with them again around August of this year before we moved to Club 740 just in case they were open to us coming. They told us they could not accommodate us.

A couple of weeks ago, I thought I'd check again; they can only say no, I thought. For some reason, this time, they were open to the possibility of us meeting there, and at a reasonable price. I think Paul Graham, the relatively new General Manager, decided to bring us in because he saw that our church's vision of bringing diverse people of downtown together is similar to the vision of Latino Theater Company. Today, I inked the deal for New City to meet there starting from December 7. Praise God!

Here are some pictures of the New LATC: