My Testimony
I responded to an altar call at 15 when I met and fell in love with the presence of Jesus at a very small church in Kentucky and made plans to walk with Him and honor Him with my gifts as I went off to undergrad in Southern California.
I can’t pinpoint the single ‘no’ that led to me wanting nothing to do with Christians or religion or my view of Christianity in my freshman and sophomore year, but suddenly I was ‘just spiritual’ and thought I could just talk to God on my own and be away from His people. My whole life changed sitting at a table in one of my college classes when I had a personal encounter with the heart of God through a friend that prophetically spoke over my life and asked me to go with her to a worship night (what I now know was a Monday Night with Circuit Riders).
I stood in a room with people my age that were passionately worshipping and adoring Jesus and very active in displaying His heart to other people. I had never experienced such a pure expression of zeal and activation in the fullness of the Gospel, especially amongst people that looked like me. It was at this worship night that I repented and fully surrendered my life to Jesus and was filled with the Holy Spirit. Overnight, my life was forever changed and I was radically delivered from diagnosed anxiety and depression that I had struggled with throughout most, if not all, of my teenage years. The Holy Spirit met me in such a special way in a setting that I least expected yet has always been important to my life: at school. And now I get to facilitate the very encounters that changed my life and see other young people ignited and burning for the presence of God in their lives and for those around them.
Who am I? What mission will I be supporting/ be part of?
My name is Ziona, and I will be serving as a missionary with Circuit Riders bringing the Gospel to high schools, college campuses, and the nations during my 4- month discipleship school called CRX (Circuit Riders Experience).
Circuit Riders is a missions movement reaching the next generation where they already are—high schools and universities. At Circuit Riders Experience, students are discipled, trained, and sent to lead outreaches and gatherings that spark lasting movements of faith on their campuses, in their cities, and beyond.​ Over the last decade, this movement has reached 1,800+ campuses, gathered 240,000+ students, and led 24,000+ young people to Christ—multiplying impact through every generation of students sent.​
How You Can Partner With Me To Reach My Generation with the Gospel
It is the sacrificial generosity of people like you that help fuel the mission. My tuition costs and personal expenses will be support- raised and my goal is to raise $10,000 in one-time gifts towards tuition, groceries, transportation, flight costs, and emergency savings during my CRX. I am building a team of investors who will support me through prayer, monthly financial support for this program and in full- time missionary partnership, and in recommending other believers that they may know that resonate with the work I am a part of doing with Circuit Riders and in the mission field.
By sowing into me, you’re sowing directly into our mission to see Jesus adored, prayer restored, and lives transformed forever. Every gift is tax-deductible, and every seed sown is contributing to an eternal impact. Whether you’re local to Southern California bringing the Kingdom of God to your marketplace or to another local area, you can partner with me in bringing the Gospel to the lost in the US and in the nations and be a part of this move in such an important way.
Thank you for believing in this mission and taking time to prayerfully consider how you can support!
Blessings,
Ziona
Want to contact me and hear more about what God’s been doing?
+1 757-912-3317