New Life is affliated with "Elim Fellowship", an informal group of churches and ministers. Elim is a Christ centered, worldwide revival fellowship, serving pastors, churches and missionaries. The Fellowship had it's beginnings in upstate New York in 1924 and today is based in Lima, New York, just south of Rochester. Pastor Mike Rizzo is an ordained minister with "Elim fellowship" New Life Christian Fellowship is a local church with its' own leadership, but the church also maintains an accountability to the leadership of "Elim Fellowship"