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We give God all the praise for the opportunity to serve our community. For Thanksgiving, our Worship Ministry sponsored five families from West Cary Middle School. I encourage everyone to look for opportunities during the holiday season and beyond to show the love of Christ to others. On Wednesday, 11/30, from 6:00pm to 7:00pm we will be having Elder-led Prayer. Everyone is invited to join us as we focus on specific prayer needs. If you are not able to attend but have prayer requests, you can submit them online . Mark your calendar for 12/17 at 4pm for a joint Christmas Holiday Extravaganza with the churches of my prayer partners. It will be an evening of worship, music, and sacred arts. More details to come.

Last week, I preached about delighting in the Lord and He will give you new desires to know Him better (see "Delight and New Desires" at http://mtzioncary.org/zion-live/ ). False teachers want to twist the Scriptures to preach a false gospel of prosperity. But to delight in the gifts over the Giver is to practice idolatry! And the prosperity gospel is utterly bankrupt when you have to face real difficulties and suffering.   RSS or Email Subscribers click through to see the video What makes God look glorious is when we cling to Christ and know that He is enough for us.  As John Piper said, "God is most glorified in us when we are most satisfied in Him in the midst of loss, not prosperity"! Thanks to all who came out yesterday to help clean the church for our Fall Spruce up on 11/19. 33 people attended  16 from leadership  13 members including 2 youth, 1 child  4 visitors  55 total hours worked  $1,375.00 saved  All areas of the church were cleaned.

Let me address the recent election: God's sovereignty is not something you only claim when things go your way... God is also sovereign when events happen that you don't like or agree with . And I see too many Christians attacking and belittling either Trump or those who support him, claiming they're just returning what people did to Obama. But Christians are not to return evil for evil ! We overcome evil with good . Besides we have too much Kingdom work to do. Living under President Trump is NOT the worst thing that can happen. You know what is? Dying without Jesus! Thanks to all who were able to come out the home-going celebration for Sis. Claudette VanFoote. Please continue to pray for the family. Some of you have heard that Bro. Dominick Downing was involved in a tragic car accident on early Friday morning where he lost both of his legs and his cousin died. Please keep Dominick, Sis. Tracy Dunn (Dominick's mom), and the entire Downing family in your prayers.

For those who have not heard yet, our dear sister, Claudette VanFoote went home to be with our Lord on Thursday. We are sorrowful because we will miss her but yet we are joyful because we know she is in the presence of the Lord Jesus. And in the presence of the Lord, there is fullness of joy! Her home-going celebration will be on Friday, 11/11 at 11am with the viewing starting at 10am. Don't forget to exercise your right to vote on Tuesday if you didn't do early voting. But let me repeat what I've said before...our hope is not in a donkey or elephant but in a lamb...the Lamb of God! You have one more week (until 11/13) to bring your donations for the Supply Drive to help families who have been impacted by the flooding in Eastern NC as well as donating men's suits, dress shirts, socks, and shoes for the Simply Suits Drive. On 11/12, there will be a Cary Unity Walk that we want Mt. Zion to participate in. We're asking everyone to wear their Mt. Zion t-shirts (