Dear Mt. Zion Family & Friends,

In every generation, God raises up people whose lives carry the influence of grace into the world. These men and women didn't set out to be famous, but their faithfulness left a mark on the world that time couldn't erase or ignore.

We live in a culture obsessed with influence. Followers, algorithms, platforms, reach, we've built entire industries around the idea that visibility equals significance. But the kind of influence that actually changes things looks nothing like that. It looks like courage in the face of injustice. It looks like a life poured out in service. It looks like ordinary people who said yes to God and let the Spirit do the rest.

Over the next four Sundays, we're going to meet four Methodists whose names you may not know as well as you should. They weren't perfect. They weren't always celebrated in their own time. But their faith helped shape our church, our nation, and the very idea of what it means to follow Jesus in the world.

As we journey through their stories together, we'll be asking ourselves some honest questions: Whose influence is actually shaping our faith? What are we building that will outlast us? And what would it look like to live so close to the Spirit that our ordinary lives become extraordinary witnesses to God's grace?

The original Methodist influencers didn't go viral. They went deep.

Join us for the next four weeks and let their lives challenge and inspire your own.

Yours In Christ, Pastor Daniel Mejia