New Life Trails Ministries

01/29/2025

Due to death in the family New Life Trails will be closed til February 11th.
Thank you for everyone’s support!

01/06/2025

We hope you didn’t get any lumps of coal in your stockings at Christmas, and that your New Year is filled with happiness!

Our first meeting of 2025 is coming up! This will be our schedule planning for the 2025 season. We invite EVERYONE to come!

If you have any questions or concerns please reach out. We hope to see some new faces!

12/24/2024

12/23/2024

Our heart with the New Life Trails Ministry is for it to be a debt free ministry base upon the scripture: Owe no man anything but to love one another.
At the end of each year, the Trails has been able to maintain this debt free status.

It has been a difficult year with Conoco and Phillips cutting back on their matching gifts and work grant programs which is a huge part of funding the work at the Trails.
We wanted to give those who follow and participate in God’s work at the Trails the opportunity to help us end the year debt free. If you would like to participate, you can give directly to the veterinary, address above in picture, mail to the Trails at :
New Life Trails
3420 Kingston
Ponca City, Oklahoma 74604
Or
Give on our website: newlifetrails.org
Or
Give on Facebook

11/30/2024

11/04/2024

First Milk

Where is my sustenance for my spiritual and emotional life embraced? Where…., and how….. did I first discover and know of sustenance?

Jesus said to them, “I am the bread of life; whoever comes to me shall not hunger, and whoever believes in me shall never thirst.
John 6:35

Filling the Trails with renewed life, two baby goats entered our family at New Life Trails this week. While we had been expecting them, we were still in awe of the new little arrivals. Seldom do we get to experience the kids right after their birth, but this time, we were allowed into this secret world of discovery. Gazing upon them embracing life for the first time through their little cries, first steps and their first milk was a moment that raptured us away into absolute delight. What force drew them to their mother’s teet and guided them to latch on to its sustenance to nurture them.

In the same way that God instilled into the baby kids that the first milk would provide sustaining life, God’s Word guides us to His spiritual sustenance. In God’s Word, He articulates to us that He created us with eternity in our hearts. We long for it with an aching that can’t be quenched. Even those who have not found the true source of their spiritual nourishment go to relentless lengths to fill that void that was created only for the one and only true God through our precious Jesus.

Dear Precious Heavenly Father, Abba,

As I watched the baby kids searching for the true source of nourishment help me never be satisfied with anything but You……just You.

11/02/2024

Celebrating a day of answered prayer at New Life Trails. Kidder’s 1st ride since he colicked and became so sick. It’s been a long couple of months, but he is back to loving kids and bringing smiles❤️Thank you for ALL your prayers for this very special as horse that’s loved by so many. Special thanks to Dr. Free, and Garry and Debbie Deweese❤️

11/01/2024

We have 2 new baby goats!!!

11/01/2024

New addition to the New Life Trails Ministries!

10/18/2024

Thank you to Marland Roynd Up Club for all they do for the community. This is New Life Trails first year to be able to participate. We’ve been able to take 10 of our kids there to help them overcome fear and develope a life long love of the outdoors and horses. I am amazed at the growth of these kids. The club has been a warm friendly place for these kids to start with baby steps. We went for their event of the year until March. The kids did better than they ever have❤️

10/18/2024

10/18/2024

Update on April❤️ They are saying now that they think it an autoimmune called scleroderma. Still she has to wait until Dec 9 to see a neurologist. God did send an angel to comfort her. Monte found her on Facebook in a support group. She is very knowledgeable and she was a tremendous comfort to April and made herself available to April to call anytime. Praising God for His loving hand.

10/18/2024

Appearance of Pain

What does the depth of pain look like in my life? Where do I find reprieve from those moments where the pain is so intense that I can not breathe?

Psalms 34:18 The Lord is close to the broken hearted and saves those who are crushed in spirit.

Cuddles is the name given to a little filly mini horse at New Life Trails. Life’s circumstances left her without her mother. The grass was green to the fence before she became enmeshed in sadness from the separation. Each step took her feet deeper into the soil as each day took her deeper into her sorrow. Each day as I arrived at the Trails, I hoped today would be the day she found peace and returned to the luscious grass only steps away, but yet she paced. She paced, as if each step would be the one that would set her free from the pain that clenched her heart relentlessly.

In watching Cuddles struggle with her pain, I couldn’t help but wonder what my pain looks like to others. Is there a trench of neglect, addiction, or anger where I have paced back and forth looking for a way to escape the inevitable? A place where I have believed that some leave this world unscaved by death, rejection, abandonment, suffering, and disillusionment? Do others see me as a continued victim of my circumstances, or a conqueror of my destiny?

Dear Heavenly Father, Abba,

I know there is a time of mourning and discouragement when we face the darkness of this world. I know that time is part of the healing process. Help me to not stay in that place until I have made a trench that is so deep that I will not be able to step out of it. Grant me the serenity to accept the things that I can not change, the courage to change the things that I can and the wisdom to know the difference. In this peace, help me to step into luscious trust that is only steps away, knowing that all thing will work together for good that are placed and released into Your heart. Therein, You will help me find a purpose for the pain and find peace.

10/12/2024

Please pray for April. She is having stroke like symptoms again. She is in excruciating pain. She keeps having these episodes. This is her 6th episode and 4th trip to the hospital with no answers. I drove her to Sand Springs in excruciating pain so she could go to Tulsa hospital. She was hurting so bad in sand Springs that we called the ambulance. Please pray for her to see the right doctors to help her find out what is going on. A lady came up to me and gave me this little Jesus figurine and said that she was praying for us. I ask Jesus this morning to use me today to show His love to someone. Instead, He used someone to show me His love and care.❤️

10/11/2024

Stumbling Blocks

How do I start my day? Do I prepare for battles that I may face during the day? Do I have strategies in place to counter the enemy?

Daniel 1:8 But Daniel purposed in his heart that he would not defile himself with the portion of the king's delicacy nor with the wine which he drank.

While preparing to feed the goat herd at New Life Trails, it became necessary to develop a strategy for success. While they are so very cute and I love caring and sharing them, they are treacherous when it comes to feeding them. They know how to position and plant themselves right in front of my feet to make passage to the feeder IMPOSSIBLE, and then they will climb me to get into the feed bucket. It is a situation that is guaranteed to fail separate from a very wise strategy being in place.

In almost the exact way, Satan has a strategy for each moment of my day. He plants deception in my path each day to detour my hearts desire to live in and be who I am in Jesus. The Bible says in John 10:10 that he comes to steal, kill, and destroy. The Fruit of the Spirit is the plumb line by which I make myself available for God to work through me in Jesus name to minister to a very lost and hurting world. Satan’s work represents the Fruit of the Flesh(goats) determined to stop and detour me. It’s symbolized by having
A RIGHT to hate, but I love in Jesus’ name,
A RIGHT to despair, but I have joy
A RIGHT to be anxious, but I have peace,
A RIGHT to be impatient, but I am patient for God’s timing,
A RIGHT to be unkind, but I am kind,
A RIGHT to be harsh, but I am gentle,
A RIGHT to be bad, but I choose goodness,
A RIGHt to be unfaithful, but I am faithful
A RIGHT to practice self-will, but I exhibit self-control

My Dear Heavenly Father, Abba,

Help me to start each day by examining my failures the day before, and identifying the strategies that didn’t work. Reveal to me as I search Your Word for scriptures and examples from Your Saints of the strategies that prevailed against the darkness that desires to encapsulate and leave me spiritually immobile. Herein, I will give You the glory, the praise, and the honor.

10/04/2024

Scarlet Red

What is my purpose each day as I face the warmth of the sun's rays caressing my being? Is it to be comfortable? Is it to place myself strategically where God challenges, stretches, and calls for more from me than I could ever find in myself separate from Him?

2 Corinthians 12:9: "And he said unto me, My grace is sufficient for thee: for my strength is made perfect in weakness. Most gladly therefore will I rather glory in my infirmities, that the power of Christ may rest upon me.

Recently, I purchased a perennial to plant at the base of the cross at New Life Trails. What drew me to it was the scarlet red droplets that covered its leaves.
They appeared as blood drops and I envisioned my Jesus’ blood shed and dripping from the cross upon them. His precious blood shed to pay the price for my sin which I desire to visually always be mindful of. While the appearance of the bloodlets drew me to the perennial, what I discovered left me in awe of this little plant. AS I kept the plant in the comfort of the shade
previous to its planting, the bloodlets became lighter and almost faded. However, after planting it in the stress of the full sun, the bloodlets became darker and
more intense.
Upon noticing this effect, I was humbled at the correlation. When I have isolated myself(I’m in the shade)from the conflicts of the world, or the challenges of sharing my faith and living faithfully for my Jesus, the prevalence and power of what Christ did on the cross is diminished. However, when I am in spiritual warfare proclaiming my love and life in Christ, stepping out for my Jesus though I fall over and over, this is when the purpose of my Jesus’ precious shed blood is most evident, vibrant, and darkest scarlet as in the perennial. This is when His purpose has come to fruition.

My Dear Heavenly Father, Abba,
Help me always to mindful that in Your salvation I have life(salvation) and life abundantly. Help me to remember that it is not mine alone, but mine to share. There is a lost world in desperate pain needing Your love, Your life, Your hope, Your peace, and all that they are in You. Help me to be active and activating Your purpose in my life every moment just like the sun activated the scarlet in Your little perennial.

09/28/2024

Update on Kidder❤️, he is still with Dr. Free at Newkirk Veterinary. His labs came back good, but he is still doesn’t have good consistency in his bowel movements.🙏