There was an event at our church that was a bit of a new thing for us. We designed an event for single moms in our region – a free day for them to come with their kids and just get spoiled. We had single moms from our church invite their single mom friends so the whole day was about strengthening and building relationships as well as just blessing these women and their kids.

I was over at the church for about an hour today and I need to tell you that the team that put this thing together hit a homerun!! The place looked fantastic, the energy was awesome, smiles on faces everywhere. I got a quick report on some of the success stories from the day and thought I’d share it with you:

One of our goals for the day was to build relationships with these women. We were thrilled to see this happening throughout the day. We watched women connecting with each other, laughing and sharing together. It was truly a joy to watch phone numbers and emails exchanged and coffee dates arranged as the day progressed. It was definitely the beginning of reaching out into our community with the love of Christ. Many expressed how incredibly encouraged they were that our church would arrange this for them! One mom was so thrilled with her welcome, she immediately called to invite her single-mom-friend right from the church foyer and a volunteer went and picked her and her children up so they could also enjoy the day.

Another fabulous highlight was seeing our church family all come together to meet and exceed our volunteer needs for this day. We had over 200 individuals serve! We had small groups serving together in ‘team’, we had students right through to seniors involved, delicious food, a phenomenal prayer team and individuals that served out of their ‘comfort zone’ but shared what an amazing blessing it was for them afterwards.

Thank you so very much! We look forward to seeing how God will use this in the coming days and weeks!

P.S. Watch for the pictures on the website!

So although that event has nothing to do with my specific role at the church or my job description or anything like that, I’m pumped cause this is a huge win for our church and for our people. I’ve said before that we have a “Transform Our Region, Transform Our World” vision and events like these are a part of that.

UPDATE: I’m adding this to the post. Just because I said it has “nothing to do” with my job doesn’t mean I didn’t care about the event or wasn’t involved. I just wanted to be clear with people who may have thought that this event fell under my “job” portfolio.