The Philadelphia Region

NLFP is located just 15 miles north of Philadelphia's city limits. We are part of the enormous Philadelphia Metropolitan Region. As such we share God's love for the city-the place where human culture has its roots and flourishes. Philadelphia is a city of great historic and cultural treasures. Like other American cities it is also a place of serious social problems, poverty, violence, broken families, social decay. It is a place where the poor have largely been abandoned to fend for themselves. We believe that only the transforming power of Jesus can truly begin to touch these problems and bridge the the racial, ethnic and economic divides between city and suburbs.

New Life Church at Five Points is part of a network of churches in the Philadelphia area called CityNet. Each church in the network contributes financially to plant and support new Gospel-centered churches in neighborhoods throughout Philadelphia. A major component of City Net is Mercy Net, whose goal is to reach out with Christ's compassion in practical service to the poor and needy in the Philadelphia area.