Pastor Jonathan E. McCottry, Sr.

New Hope for a Troubled World

We who comprise the remnant church understand the clarion call to faithfulness in these last days. The call is one to righteousness to truth and to a belief in The True and Living God amid lawlessness and chaos.

While we know that the wheat and the tares must grow together until the harvest, those of us who believe, assemble each Sabbath in Melrose Park which is a subdivision of Ft. Lauderdale to summons everyone who is looking for something unique and something special. The Great I AM has given a challenge to us to “Go ye therefore, and teach all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost: Teaching them to observe all things whatsoever I have commanded you: and, lo, I am with you alway, even unto the end of the world” Matthew 28:19 - 20.

It has become abundantly clear that leaders in our world have chosen to ignore clear Biblical truths. The principles of uprightness challenge us to represent the virtues of Jehovah and to reach the destitute and the afflicted and to soothe the hearts of the troubled and to expound on the message of hope and peace in the confusion and commotion of a world without God.

Rising from this call, our church finds a genesis for our name. Our Elder Brother John declares in Revelation 21:1 - 2, ¹And I saw a new heaven and a new earth.... ²And I John saw the holy city, new Jerusalem, coming down from God out of heaven, prepared as a bride adorned for her husband.

Thus we the members of New Hope are looking for what John saw, we are looking for a New Heaven and a New Earth and the New Jerusalem. We are tired of the same old issues of life that depress us with the frustrations and the uncertainties that this present world brings. Jesus has promised us so much more and so our church is established on not old ways but NEW HOPE.

We have read in the word about the newness of God:

Lamentations 3:22 - 23
²²It is of the LORD’S mercies that we are not consumed, because his compassions fail not. ²³They are new every morning: great is thy faithfulness.

Psalms 98:1
¹O sing unto the LORD a new song; for he hath done marvellous things: his right hand, and his holy arm, hath gotten him the victory.

Therefore it is from the scripture that we establish our hope:

Titus 1:2
²In hope of eternal life, which God, that cannot lie, promised before the world began;

I Timothy 1:1
¹Paul, an apostle of Jesus Christ by the commandment of God our Saviour, and Lord Jesus Christ, which is our hope;

I Titus 2:13
¹³Looking for that blessed hope, and the glorious appearing of the great God and our Saviour Jesus Christ;

I John 3:3
³And every man that hath this hope in him purifieth himself, even as he is pure.

Thus the name of our church is New Hope. It is a name that challenges us to deliver the same old message which is the everlasting Gospel, but the relevancy of the message and the freshness of the mission and the vastness and magnitude of our scope is to reach the entire world with a message that is new in urgency and will bring hope to those who do not understand the mercy and the grace of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. So we welcome you one and all to experience the New Hope of our church so that when you depart from our walls may you feed the desire that will burn within your heart to yearn with us for that New Hope.

Sincerely,
Elder Jonathan E. McCottry, Sr.
Senior Pastor of the New Hope SDA Church

Office: (954) 791-4440
Home: (305) 653-0778
E-mail: pastormccottry@newhopesda.org