🌟 JUNE THEME - SACRED DISRUPTION 🌟
🌟 Pride Fest at Hampton Station🌟
🏳️🌈 PrideFest is this Saturday!
Join the celebration of queer joy, resilience, and community at Hampton Station in Greenville on June 7 from 11am to 4pm! 🌈✨
PrideFest is free for everyone and packed with music, food, art, and affirmation. Whether you’re out and proud or still finding your way, this is a space where all are welcome, seen, and celebrated.
📍 1320 Hampton Ave Extension, Greenville, SC 29601
Let’s show up with love. Let’s disrupt with joy. Let’s be church in the streets.
#PrideFest2025 #QueerJoyIsHoly #SacredDisruption #LGBTQFaith #GreenvillePride
Dear Beloved Community,
Sacred Disruption: When the Bible Hurts
Someone in our community recently shared that they’re reading the Bible from cover to cover. It’s a bold spiritual commitment—and it’s bringing up more than they expected. While reading the story of Isaac and Rebekah in Genesis, they found themselves troubled. The way women were treated in the text—as property, traded in marriage, unnamed or silenced—landed differently this time. So did the part where Abraham gave everything to Isaac, while the children of concubines were dismissed without inheritance. The passage stirred something in them. Not inspiration—disruption.
And that’s holy.
Sacred disruption doesn’t just happen in the streets or through protest. Sometimes it happens quietly, in our hearts, when a familiar text no longer feels comforting but challenging. Sometimes it unsettles us because we’ve grown—because we’ve come to see injustice more clearly than before.
Jesus understood this. In Matthew 5, during the Sermon on the Mount, he repeatedly says, “You have heard it said… but I say to you…” Each time, he takes a commandment from Scripture—something revered—and reinterprets it. Not to reject the tradition, but to fulfill it in a deeper, more loving way. He doesn’t preserve the letter of the law for its own sake; he presses into the spirit of the law, filtering everything through mercy, justice, and love.
When we wrestle with Scripture—when we acknowledge the harm some texts have caused or the way they reflect broken systems—we’re not abandoning the Bible. We’re following in the footsteps of Jesus.
The Bible holds profound truth. But not every passage is a model to follow. Some are windows into the world as it was. Others are glimpses of the world as it could be. Part of our sacred calling is to discern the difference.
So if you find yourself reading the Bible and feeling unsettled, even angry, know this: You are not doing it wrong. You may be right where the Spirit is moving.
Let us be a community that tells the truth about our sacred texts—and finds God not in certainty, but in the holy work of wrestling.
Blessings, Pastor Brian
New Day continues its mission to become a "church beyond the walls" with a broad range of activities to build community and several ways to grow in your faith and spirituality over the rest of this month.
*Note the location for each event.
Upcoming Events Summary
- Worship Service: Sunday, June 15, 2025, 10:30 a.m. at Other Lands.
- Upstate Pride: Saturday, June 28, 2025.
- Monthly Social Event: Sunday, June 29, 2025. Drag Bingo at Other Lands.
- Bible Study: Sunday, July 6, 2025, 10:30 a.m. at Other Lands.
Other Upstate Pride Events
June 6
• Queerfest 2025: Art Vendors + Exhibits - Good Art Co. | 6:00 PM – 10:00 PM
June 6 - 8
• One Man Show – Unity of Greenville, Greenville | June 6th & 7th at 7pm and June 8th at 3pm
•Out to Shop by the Upstate LGBT+ Chamber - A weekend to support local queer businesses in the Upstate.
June 7
• Pridefest by the PrideFest Collaborative – Hampton Station, Greenville | 11:00 AM – 4:00 PM
June 8
• Drag Me to Papis – Papi’s Tacos, Greenville | 11:00 AM – 2:00 PM
June 10
• Greenville Gay Men’s Chorus – Greenville Theatre | 7:00 PM – 9:00 PM
June 12
• Social Night by Free Mom Hugs – Other lands, Greenville | 6:00 PM – 9:00 PM
June 14
• Flow with Pride with PFLAG Spartanburg & Soul Yoga - Camperdown, Greenville, SC | 9:00 AM
Registration: https://clients.mindbodyonline.com/classic/ws?studioid=246302&stype=-7&sTG=24&sView=day&sLoc=1&sTrn=100000243&date=06/14/25
• Queer Mart by The Ladies Room –Carolina Bauernhaus Greenville | 3:00 PM – 7:00 PM
• Call Your Girlfriend! Drag Show & Pride Party, benefit for The Ladies Room Other Lands | Doors 8:00p Show 9:00p
Tickets: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/call-your-girlfriend-drag-show-pride-party-tickets-1264447619869
June 18
• Kickball (open play & registration required) OutLoud Sports Upstate SC – East Side Riverside Park, Greenville | 7:00 PM
Tickets: https://outloudsports.com/upstate
June 21
• Annual Pride Bar Crawl – Greenville | 4:00 PM – 12:00 AM
June 22
• QWC x Orange Theory Pride Class Fundraiser – Downtown Greenville | 11:30 AM – 1:00 PM
• QWC Pride Sunday Funday Party – Traveler’s Tap Room, Greenville | 02:30 PM
• Monthly LGBTQ+ Friends Labyrinth Meditation & Walk with Rebecca H. (Bring a snack to share)– First Baptist Church of Greenville | 05:00 PM – 07:00 PM
June 26
•Speed Friending by Upstate Pride- Better Than Sex, Greenville | 6:00 PM – 8:00 PM
June 27
• ABC DND Fundraiser for Uplift Outreach Center with Glitterous – Swanson’s Warehouse, Greenville | 7:00 PM
• Neon/Glo Dance Party by Upstate Pride – The Cocktail Company, Greenville | 6:00 PM – 8:00 PM
June 28
• Upstate Black Pride – Downtown Greenville | March 11:00 am Festival 12:00 PM – 06:00 PM
• Bella Noche Presents: The Official Upstate Black Pride After Party – Greenville | 9:00 PM – 2:00 AM
June 29
• Pride Forever Drag Brunch by Glitterous – Radio Room, Greenville | 11:30 AM
• Drag Bingo by New Day CCC ft. Hellen Heels – Other Lands, Greenville | 6:00 PM – 8:00 PM
If you'd like to add anything for next weeks' community prayer, please contact Pastor Brian at pastor@newdayccc.com.
- Prayers for Oak who has congestion and is feeling ill.
- Prayers for Sarah's son Daryl.
- Prayers for Andrea with her nerves pain.
- Prayers for Andrea and Sarah and financial stress.
- Prayer for Sarah's severe knee pain.
- Prayers for Cheryl who was just diagnosed with Celiac disease.
- Prayers for our church as we move to a new chapter in our history.
- Prayers for Beth who needs dental work.
- Prayers for Gary as he deals with multiple health issues.
- Prayers for Joe as he deals with an ongoing sleep condition.
- Prayers for Ed who has early signs of dementia.
- Prayers for Brooke's nephew Huntly.
- Prayers for Roger's sister Kelley.
- Prayers for a friend of Michael who has a young child with cancer.
- Prayers for Vanessa and her family.
- Prayers for Brooke's Papa Low.
- Prayers for those who are struggling with physical, mental, and economic challenges.
- Prayers for those who have suffered trauma and those who suffer from anxiety, depression and other mental health issues.
- Prayers for those suffering the effects of war.
- Prayers for our nation as we face local, national, and global challenges.
- Prayers for those of us who are suffering from the blistering attack on our community by the current administration.
- Prayers for Pastor Brian, Brooke, Beth, and others who have unspoken requests this week.
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New Day Christian Community Church
MEETING LOCATION - OTHER LANDS
731 Rutherford Road, Greenville, SC 29609
New Day Christian Community Church exists to provide a diverse, open, and affirming Christian community to all who desire a discipleship walk with Jesus Christ by offering challenging worship experiences, mission-based service opportunities, and Biblical learning so that we are empowered to reach out to others, introduce them to the love and strength of the beloved community, and invite them to join the faith journey of discipleship.
