What was your WIN this weekend?
That was Reggie Joiner's question on the Orange Leaders web site this Monday morning, and what a marvelous opportunity it provided to review God's faithfulness to Zion Church, to my family and me. Let me list a few of the highlights just in regard to Zion Church.

• We are still in the first weeks of having launched ORANGE in our Children's Ministry at Zion Church. God has given us a wonderful staff to lead this ministry, starting with our Director of Children's Ministry. The volunteer staff surrounding her, the teachers and parents have embraced this new method of discipling our children. I know the best is yet to be.
• At last week's end Zion had the opportunity to welcome leaders from Life Tree Cafe to our Church. It was a last minute, surprise visit, but those few minutes will have a lasting impact on our future ministry and the lives of unchurched people in our community. We believe God is opening doors for this ministry and leading us in it. As it is with ORANGE, the lives of people within Zion have been awakened to the new possibilities to reach out to others with this Cafe ministry. God's Spirit is alive and moving people to serve and lead.
• Sunday we had a visitor who was a visible reminder for us why we are here and why we do what we do. It was her first-time in our Church though she lives near by the church. She said she hasn't been in a church for a very long time, but on Saturday she had hit bottom in her life and knew she had to do something. So she came to church. She came not knowing what to expect. She walked in alone for our 8 AM Worship and instantly was spotted by a church member who invited her to sit with her. Moved, touched, impacted by God's Spirit in awesome ways she left worship with a fresh sense of God's love for her; that her life's mess was the result of her poor choices; nevertheless, God had a WAY for her to change and live a new life following Jesus. Post-worship, she went to a Discipleship class and stayed for a second worship service to hear again the same message. God is at work through us making disciples and transforming lives.

These are WINS but only by God's power at work through us. How good it is to know we are living and walking along God's WAY.

I'm looking forward to what God will do next!