I want to welcome you to our new blog. As our Aglow motto has been for years "A Network of Caring Women", I felt it was time to get us into the 21st century with all the technological tools we have at our disposal. I am hoping that this forum will be a place to share with you the vision God has given us for our city of Winston Salem and the Triad, and that you will feel free to share what the Holy Spirit has shown you or spoken to you concerning our mission field. Last weekend of July I attended a Presidents Retreat in the VA mountains hosted by Nancy Mcguirk our Mid-Atlantic Regional director. There were probably 40-50 Aglow lighthouse presidents there just as discouraged as me, tired of having public meetings where only a few ladies showed up. Almost all the lighthouses were struggling with only 2-3 officers, some like W-S down to one officer and on the verge of turning off the beacon. Nancy chose as the key scripture for the gathering, Matthew 9:17..."No one puts new wine in old wineskins...". This was fresh breeze of the Spirit to my weary soul. Aglow as an international ministry is part of the new wine, the best wine that Jesus saved for these last days. (re: the Marriage at Cana miracle) And we have been struggling to pour new wine into the same old wineskin that the Lord made for us 40 years ago. Well, He's telling us and the leadership that it is time for a new wineskin. The format of a public meeting with praise & worship, an anointed speaker and powerful, life-changing ministry served us well in the past, but it is a new day, a new out pouring of His Spirit and we are the new wine so we need a new format. That is why Winston Salem Aglow is going to become a "Neighborhood" Lighthouse. Within the current guidelines we can meet as often as we choose, and can use a home or other convenient place (as in "free") and watch a DVD from conference or do a Bible Study or a time of intercession or personal ministry or just follow the leading of the Lord. We can be FLEXIBLE and be led by His Spirit without the pressure of a public meeting to prepare for. He is also speaking to us about coordinating an ARROW (Aglow Rapid Response Outreach and Warfare) prayer team that would include Greensboro Aglow and the High Point area.
So God has been speaking much to us and the things He has said concerning Winston Salem have been confirmed by our Area Team and new President Jana Comer and also Nancy McGuirk our regional director. It is exciting to get new marching orders! In the coming weeks I will be sharing some of the prophetic history of this Lighthouse and how we have been called for such a time as this. I invite you to share on this bogsite as well. We are the Body of Christ and all the members are necessary for the Body to function as intended. We can use this forum to build one another up in the faith, to pray for each other and to strategize the work of the Kingdom that He has called us to do. Our mission, should we accept it, is to use the tools of Aglow and the power of the Holy Spirit to gather and train a band of women in the Triad who will go anywhere to pray and bring the Gospel anytime on any level to anyone; to bring the Kingdom of God into our families, our churches, our jobs, our neighborhoods and our communities. Lord, by Your power that lives in us, we accept the mission!
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