Happy New Year
At the risk of being branded a chauvinist, I hereby state my vision for 2021 - the empowering of men at Mona Chapel. I will pray for the men, I will encourage them and challenge them. In essence, I will attempt to empower the men.
January 01, 2021Happy New Year!At the risk of being branded a chauvinist, I hereby state my vision for2021 - the empowering of men at Mona Chapel. I will pray for the men, Iwill encourage them and challenge them. In essence, I will attempt toempower the men.An empowered man is a confident man. He exudes godliness, servantleadership and personifies strength in his personal life, in his family andin his church. Everyone benefits when a confident and empowered manis around.Pray for me as I attempt to unleash this vision plan. The plan is notdesigned to exclude women. Rather, it is a strategy to build strongercommunities that include women and children. The vision is tochallenge and empower men to display servant leadership.If this effort is going to succeed, I will need MHC women to wield theirinfluence. Commit to pray specifically for the men in your life and inyour church. Study the life of Abigail (1 Samuel 25) and applaud yourstrengths to make a difference.Some of these strengths you will need during our Week of Atonement.Encourage the men in your sphere of influence to participate – even ifthey do not worship with us. This week provides an opportunity todrastically change each of us and ultimately the MHC culture.The closing exercise for the Week of Atonement is a two-hour session ofprayer – from 6:00 to 8:00 a.m. on Saturday, January 09. Our own MackieMcPherson will share on the topic, Prayers God Answers. This is an onlineseason of prayer that will be different. Please plan to participate.A Mona Chapel website will be launched this weekend. This newdevelopment will allow very many persons to participate in our Week ofAtonement. You can share the web address (www.monachapel.org) withfamily and friends from around the world. We will keep you informedas we continue to build the site within the upcoming weeks.I trust you are as excited as I am to welcome 2021. I believe we willexperience many victories as a community of faith. In February, we havea strong team to guide us through our Family Month. In March we willcelebrate our sixty-first anniversary as a church. Please reserve SaturdayMarch 13 for an online Mona Chapel reunion. Expect great things in 2021.