Celebrating the Wins
If you’re in ministry you know how hard it is to look backwards at anything, because next Sunday is always looming large. I know I’ve experienced that, so we have made a change in the way we do our Monday morning Multi Site Staff meeting. Each week we open with prayer, then we start off by letting each staff member take time to celebrate their wins. This often adds an hour to our meeting, and it’s worth every minute of it.
This morning Jason Curlee who is the Pastor at our 5 Points Campus, shared how he had been praying about the scripture that says, “they added to their numbers daily,” and in the last three weekends, seven people per weekend have entered into a relationship with Jesus Christ at his campus. Some say numbers don’t matter, 21 people at 5 Points would beg to differ, and we celebrated, because each of those 21 numbers represents a person who will spend eternity in Heaven.
Pastor Dave shared how they had six new couples show up this weekend because someone from the Padre Island Campus invited them. Six new couples is a win by itself, but the fact that they were invited by Padre Island campus people, means the church is taking ownership, and anyone in ministry knows that’s a win.
Pastor Bil got caught up in weather in Dallas on Saturday and missed his flight to Corpus which meant we did not have a DVD for the campuses for Sunday. Pastor Rudy from our Kingsville Campus talked about how God moved as he preached live directly from the scriptures he just happened to be studying in the last few days. It ended up being a God moment set apart for one man whose wife had been trying to get him to come to church for a very long time, and this happened to be that weekend he finally showed up. The message that Pastor Rudy admittedly felt unprepared to preach, was for this man who doesn’t like to go to church, but will be back next week because the message touched him so deeply.
Joey Davila, our Director of Multi Site Worship, shared how he was playing at our Padre Island Campus this weekend and everyone was so well prepared that they finished practice with over and hour to spare. He decided to sit down and pray over them and was overwhelmed by the struggles each were going through that he may never have known about had practice not gone so well. Praying over these selfless servants was a major win.
I was able to share the win of how God has stepped up to bless us big time at our newest campus location in Alice. I’ll share more on this later, but God stepped up in a huge way and we celebrated it.
Had we not been willing to add an hour to our staff meeting, these amazing wins would have gone uncelebrated, and maybe we wouldn’t have taken time to acknowledge the enormity of who our God is and what He is doing in this ministry. We laughed our brains out, we praised God like crazy, we celebrated the wins, and we had a blast doing it.
Are you celebrating the wins with your teams? If not you might want to give it a try because it’s awesome!
Pastor John
May 4, 2009 at 8:14 pm
God constantly encouraged his people to celebrate the wins and to remember the wins, hence the many altars that were built along the paths they followed. The enemy constantly tells us and wants us to believe it’s all a waste of time and that we are defeated on every turn. As the psalms taught the Israelites to constantly be aware of and to remember the enormity of the God they served and His miracles, so we need to do the same. Thanks John for being the leader that models that and helps us to do the same!
May 4, 2009 at 10:36 pm
That is so awesome! A lesson I’m learning, stop and celebrate the wins. Sometimes we get too focused on the next hill to take, we forget to party. Thanks for the reminder once again.
May 5, 2009 at 10:25 am
WOW! honey, that was great! I LOVE that you do that with your staff! So excited about what God is doing with the Multi-site ministry that ya’ll all have put so much into!
May 5, 2009 at 11:44 pm
Your picture ruined what your post was about, they don’t go together at all.