evAngelism

Since most visitors come to a new church because they were invited by a friend or neighbor, the Evangelism committee is asking for your help. In addition to giving you invitations for special events to hand out to friends and neighbors throughout the year, we will also make Zion “business cards” available to you. Look for them soon in the rear of the sanctuary and pick up a few to carry with you. You never know when an opportunity may arise to evangelize and extend an invitation.

In conjunction with that thought, I felt it appropriate to reprint an excerpt from last year’s Jan/Feb/Mar edition of The Word In Season Daily Devotions that stood out in my mind enough to save it. Here it is:

Those who go out weeping, bearing the seeds for sowing, shall come home with shouts of joy, carrying their sheaves. Psalm 126:6
The title that my Bible gives for this psalm is “A Harvest of Joy.” Rarely do we think about harvesting joy. What would those seeds and then sheaves look like for you? There is a peculiar thing that happens in harvesting joy. In order to harvest joy for ourselves, we need to sow the plant of joy in others. Think about it. You spend a day smiling and saying “Hello” to people and you will brighten their day, and in return you feel great about your day.
We need more joy in our world today. It is our challenge to go out and find ways to plant the seeds and harvest the sheaves.