The LWML Summer 2026 Newsletter
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Each service at Zion Lutheran Church (normally the first of our two Sunday services) is streamed LIVE on our YouTube channel. These streams are for Sunday’s, Wednesday’s, Lenten, Advent, and special services. The entire service is streamed from beginning-to-end. Weddings and Funerals can also be streamed, if requested in advance.

Pastor Grimenstein will be starting an Adult Instruction Class on Thursday, July 9th at 7:30 p.m. for those interested in learning more about the Lutheran faith. The class is also open to current members interested in a "refresher" on the basics of the faith. The class will meet every Thursday from 7:30-8:15 for six weeks and will cover topics ranging from Baptism to the Ten Commandments.

Please email Zion secretary Susie Bishop secretary@zlcb.org to let her know you’re interested in joining the class.

The July collection for the Bridgeville Area Food Bank is Sunday, July 12th. The “item of the month” for July is COOKIES. The August collection for the Food Bank is Sunday, August 9th. The “item of the month” is CRACKERS. Items may be placed in the wicker bin in the narthex near the coat rack. Thank you for supporting this vital community service! 

At the June distribution, 109 families were assisted which included 28 children, 68 adults and 91 of the elderly. 

The article below was written by Rev. Matt Harrison, President of the LCMS, in 2015 and published in The Lutheran Witness. I thought it an excellent piece to share with you as we celebrate the 250th anniversary of our nation’s founding. I hope you enjoy it.
– Pastor Grimenstein 

Late in 1821, Rev. Frederick Schaeffer presided over the cornerstone laying of a new building for the Evangelical Lutheran Church of St. Matthew in New York City. Afterward, he sent his homily to James Madison, the “Father of the U.S. Constitution,” and chief author of the Bill of Rights. Madison replied: 

Montpellier, Dec. 3rd ,1821 
Revd Sir,–I have received, with your letter of November 19th, the copy of your address at the ceremonial of laying the corner-stone of St Matthew’s Church in New York. 

It is a pleasing and persuasive example of pious zeal, united with pure benevolence and of a cordial attachment to a particular creed, untinctured with sectarian illiberality. It illustrates the excellence of a system which, by a due distinction, to which the genius and courage of Luther led the way, between what is due to Caesar and what is due God, best promotes the discharge of both obligations. The experience of the United States is a happy disproof of the error so long rooted in the unenlightened minds of well-meaning Christians, as well as in the corrupt hearts of persecuting usurpers, that without a legal incorporation of religious and civil polity, neither could be supported. A mutual independence is found most friendly to practical Religion, to social harmony, and to political prosperity. 

In return for your kind sentiments, I tender assurances of my esteem and my best wishes.
– James Madison 

This week’s Bible Study focuses on:
John 12:44-50, John 3:16-17, John 13:1-5, John 13:6-11, John 13:12-15, John 13:16-20, and John 13:21-26.
This week’s Bible Study was lead by Rev. Dr. Edward O. Grimenstein, Pastor of Zion Lutheran Church, Bridgeville, PA. Zion Lutheran Church, Bridgeville, PA is Online at https://www.zlcb.org/

Each service at Zion Lutheran Church (normally the first of our two Sunday services) is streamed LIVE on our YouTube channel. These streams are for Sunday’s, Wednesday’s, Lenten, Advent, and special services. The entire service is streamed from beginning-to-end. Weddings and Funerals can also be streamed, if requested in advance.