Weekend Host Team Ebenezers

What a great day Sunday was! Our annual Weekend Host Team Leaders lunch was a blast. We are blessed with an amazing community of leaders at MBC Loudoun.

At our lunch, we took some time to give God all the credit and honor and glory for all He is doing at MBC Loudoun, in our lives personally, and on our Weekend Host Teams. We looked at 1 Samuel 4-7 – a series of battles between Israel and the Philistines spanning 40 years. Samuel, Israel’s prophet and last judge, led the people to repent of their sins and idols and to purify their worship. {We challenged each other to be a leadership team who does the same – repent of our sins and idols and purify our worship.} Samuel then prayed and sacrificed, and ultimately the Lord defeated the Philistines for them. 1 Samuel 7:12 tells us what Samuel did in response, “Then Samuel took a stone and set it up between Mizpah and Shen. He named it Ebenezer, saying, ‘Thus far the Lord has helped us.’”

The Lord has helped us on Weekend Host Teams in so many ways! With Samuel as an example, we as a leadership team took stones and wrote on them things for which we wanted to give God the glory and credit and thank Him for helping us thus far. Then we added them to our Weekend Host Teams Ebenezer Jar.

Ebenezers included:

• Amazing community that has developed on our serving teams
• How leading has helped some open up and trust God
• Our volunteers’ excitement to serve and participate
• Relationships and friendships that have developed on the teams
• Incredible leaders (both current and past)
• Refreshment and renewal
• Steadfast key volunteers (some named by name!)
• How serving on a team has helped increase their witness and opportunities to share with unbelieving friends

God is doing some amazing things in the lives of our leaders, teams, and at this church. It is a blessing to be a part.