New Trails Ministry
11455 Elliot Road
Custer, SD 57730
Custer, SD 57730
Phone: 605-760-3633
Email: info@newtrailsministry.org
Email: info@newtrailsministry.org
New Trails offers three, five or ten day sabbaticals that are customized to your needs, are designed to help you reconnect with God who has called you to service and can assist you in recovering that joy. As a long term ministry couple, we know firsthand the joys and challenges of full time service, and combined with our wilderness locations we provide the place, space and direction to assist you in creating the space to recover your passion for ministry.
Three Prayers and the Stirring at Asbury
/in General /by Rod VeldhuizenI am not sure where my “creative juices” have gone lately, but I read this post this morning and knew it needed a wider audience. I echo what Eric has to say and it a message I am hearing with more and more frequency. I invite you to join me, and others in joining to… | Read More
Sanctified Subversion
/in General /by Rod VeldhuizenIt has been a while since I posted here. Been a little crazy with the pandemic and trying to know how to serve in the midst of chaos. I was looking through old files today and found this blog I had written some time ago. However, it still rings true with me and who I… | Read More
HOW THE VIRUS STOLE EASTER
/in General /by Rod VeldhuizenIt isn’t often that I post things like this, but I saw this when I opened my email this morning and realized what we need more than another sermon or blog on holding firm is a reason to celebrate! Enjoy this little poem, but I hope that more than enjoyment you will begin to think… | Read More
Not By Might, nor by Power….
/in General /by Rod VeldhuizenI was reading an article in “Psychology Today”, May/June 2020 issue. (I know I am behind in my reading). The article was about burnout among the medical profession. The author documented how health care practices over the recent past have changed the way the doctors address our medical needs. What used to be a simple… | Read More
Resources, Websites & Tools for Managing Your Health & Fitness at Home
/in General /by Rod VeldhuizenPhoto Credit: Pexels Today I have an opportunity to welcome a guest to my Blog. Stephanie Haywood, was gracious enough to write up some information on staying fit during this Pandemic. If you would like to contact her directly here is here email. shaywood@mylifeboost.com Resources, Websites & Tools for Managing Your Health & Fitness… | Read More
What if Nothing Changes in 2021?
/in General /by Rod VeldhuizenI wonder if we should not dub 2020 the year of the virus. I know if is simplistic and maybe overworked. It might also be a way to dodge the problems that many of us face. I wonder, if we could just face up to the reality that things have changed in ways we never… | Read More
The Church Leader’s Stress Tetrahedron
/in General /by Rod VeldhuizenI don’t know about your part of the world, but out here in the Dakota’s it seems that the only news these days is “Bad News”. The Corona Virus we figured would dissipate with the morning mist with the heat of summer seems to have rebounded with a vengeance. Just about the time many were… | Read More
Taking Time for Wondering
/in General /by Rod VeldhuizenI wonder if as the world, rushes back to the task of commerce and we all attempt to find our footing again in a world that is turned upside down, if we will miss some important lessons God desires to teach us. I use the word wonder, as I have no word from God, I… | Read More
Lets Not Waste a Perfectly Good Crisis!
/in General /by Rod VeldhuizenBack in the day, I remember Elvis singing the song “Only Fools Rush In”. The opening line is this “wise men say; only fools rush in…” Then the song continues about the singer’s inability to resist falling in love. I would like to use those lyrics in this “Corona Virus” season and to suggest it… | Read More
Reflections When Times are Uncertain
/in General /by Rod VeldhuizenI wonder when the last time you opened your Bible to read Psalm 75. OK, let me be honest this Psalm is not on my top ten list of passages to read either. Today, this passage came up in my morning devotions this morning so allow me to repeat part the part that caught my… | Read More