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President’s Perspective

A Refuge for 125 Years and Counting
Hopefully you all enjoyed the 125th Celebration in some meaningful way. If you couldn't attend the dinner I hope you enjoyed singing and worshipping in the single church service which was followed by the wonderful picnic. Thank you to all who planned and executed that weekend's activities! It was nice to meet our LCMS District President and Vice President. Your church has quite a history and you are part of it. There is a reason you are a member of this parish. God wants you here. Enjoy being a chosen Christian and a member of a church that stands firm in the Word, preaching Christ crucified.

Your trustees have been going full throttle for several years and this month will be no different. Hopefully we'll finish replacing the windows in the church, installing lighting for the large parking lot, and perhaps some additional lighting upgrades for the entrance/sidewalk area of the church. By the time this article is published, hopefully we will also have replaced the sanitary sewage line for the parsonage.

The quarterly Voters' Assembly is October 22nd after the second service, and your Council would like to see you all at that meeting. We're voting for officers and considering other matters important to your church. These meetings are for you, the members of Zion. A light luncheon will be provided, so please mark your calendar.

Hopefully, Sunday mornings at Zion are a place for you to "reset your neutral" and give thanks for a gracious God and put on armor to face the coming week that is filled with the lies, chaos and evil machinations of our secular world that are shredding truth, logic and--like the serpent--tempting and trying to break the willpower of people to capture their souls in the corruption that surrounds our country and the world. We, at Zion, stand apart from such evil madness and remain steadfast in our doctrine, the truth of scripture as written. God is in control. We shall never lose faith in the promises of our Lord God Almighty. The Psalmist writes in chapter 64, "Hide me from the secret plots of the wicked, from the throngs of evildoers...They hold fast to their evil purpose...They search out injustice...But God shoots his arrow at them...They are brought to ruin, with their own tongues turned against them...Let the righteous one rejoice in the Lord and take refuge in Him!" Amen.

Praise almighty God. Let Zion be your refuge each Sunday.

-- Paul Klemash

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AUDIO: Announcements, Readings, Sermon & Choir for Sunday October 8, 2023

View the bulletin for Sunday, October 8, 2023
8:00 a.m. - Worship Service with Communion
9:00 a.m. - Adult/Teem Bible Study, and Sunday School
10:30 a.m. - Worship Service with Communion
(The 8:00 a.m. service streamed on our YouTube channel)
All are welcome

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Archive of VIDEO “Complete Service”
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Old Testament Reading -- Isaiah 5:1–7
Let me sing for my beloved
my love song concerning his vineyard:
My beloved had a vineyard
on a very fertile hill.
He dug it and cleared it of stones,
and planted it with choice vines;
he built a watchtower in the midst of it,
and hewed out a wine vat in it;
and he looked for it to yield grapes,
but it yielded wild grapes.
And now, O inhabitants of Jerusalem
and men of Judah,
judge between me and my vineyard.
What more was there to do for my vineyard,
that I have not done in it?
When I looked for it to yield grapes,
why did it yield wild grapes?
And now I will tell you
what I will do to my vineyard.
I will remove its hedge,
and it shall be devoured;
I will break down its wall,
and it shall be trampled down.
I will make it a waste;
it shall not be pruned or hoed,
and briers and thorns shall grow up;
I will also command the clouds
that they rain no rain upon it.
For the vineyard of the Lord of hosts
is the house of Israel,
and the men of Judah
are his pleasant planting;
and he looked for justice,
but behold, bloodshed;
for righteousness,
but behold, an outcry!

Epistle Reading -- Philippians 3:4b–14
If anyone else thinks he has reason for confidence in the flesh, I have more: circumcised on the eighth day, of the people of Israel, of the tribe of Benjamin, a Hebrew of Hebrews; as to the law, a Pharisee; as to zeal, a persecutor of the church; as to righteousness, under the law blameless. But whatever gain I had, I counted as loss for the sake of Christ. Indeed, I count everything as loss because of the surpassing worth of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord. For his sake I have suffered the loss of all things and count them as rubbish, in order that I may gain Christ and be found in him, not having a righteousness of my own that comes from the law, but that which comes through faith in Christ, the righteousness from God that depends on faith— that I may know him and the power of his resurrection, and may share his sufferings, becoming like him in his death, that by any means possible I may attain the resurrection from the dead.

Not that I have already obtained this or am already perfect, but I press on to make it my own, because Christ Jesus has made me his own. Brothers, I do not consider that I have made it my own. But one thing I do: forgetting what lies behind and straining forward to what lies ahead, I press on toward the goal for the prize of the upward call of God in Christ Jesus.

The Holy Gospel according to St. Matthew, the twenty-first chapter.
[Jesus said:] “Hear another parable. There was a master of a house who planted a vineyard and put a fence around it and dug a winepress in it and built a tower and leased it to tenants, and went into another country. When the season for fruit drew near, he sent his servants to the tenants to get his fruit. And the tenants took his servants and beat one, killed another, and stoned another. Again he sent other servants, more than the first. And they did the same to them. Finally he sent his son to them, saying, ‘They will respect my son.’ But when the tenants saw the son, they said to themselves, ‘This is the heir. Come, let us kill him and have his inheritance.’ And they took him and threw him out of the vineyard and killed him. When therefore the owner of the vineyard comes, what will he do to those tenants?” They said to him, “He will put those wretches to a miserable death and let out the vineyard to other tenants who will give him the fruits in their seasons.”

Jesus said to them, “Have you never read in the Scriptures:

“‘The stone that the builders rejected
has become the cornerstone;
this was the Lord’s doing,
and it is marvelous in our eyes’?

Therefore I tell you, the kingdom of God will be taken away from you and given to a people producing its fruits. And the one who falls on this stone will be broken to pieces; and when it falls on anyone, it will crush him.”

When the chief priests and the Pharisees heard his parables, they perceived that he was speaking about them. And although they were seeking to arrest him, they feared the crowds, because they held him to be a prophet.

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October is Church Worker Appreciation Month

Each October, The Lutheran Church—Missouri Synod celebrates Church Worker Appreciation Month. Congregations and school communities are encouraged to demonstrate special appreciation for their teachers, who teach God’s Word, love the children they teach and live a life of service to Christ and His church. Along with the Synod’s teachers, we recognize pastors, deaconesses, DCEs and all other church workers, who are vital to our life together.

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Bulletin: Sunday October 8, 2023

View the bulletin for Sunday, October 8, 2023
8:00 a.m. - Worship Service with Communion
9:00 a.m. - Adult/Teem Bible Study, and Sunday School
10:30 a.m. - Worship Service with Communion
(The 8:00 a.m. service streamed on our YouTube channel)
All are welcome

Archive of AUDIO “Readings & Sermons”
Archive of VIDEO “Complete Service”
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THIS WEEK AT ZION

Saturday October 7
No events scheduled

Sunday October 8
8:00 a.m. - Worship Service with Communion
9:00 a.m.. - Adult/Teen Bible Study & Sunday School
10:30 a.m. - Worship Service with Communion
(The 8:00 a.m. service streamed on our YouTube channel)

Monday October 9
6:00 p.m. - 1st Year Confirmation
6:30 p.m. - Faith Bell Choir Practice
7:00 p.m. - 2nd Year Confirmation

Tuesday October 10
6:15 p.m. - Grace Bell Choir Practice
7:15 p.m. - Adult Choir Practice

Wednesday October 11
NO MIDWEEK SERVICE
Due to construction in the Sanctuary

Thursday October 12
6:00 p.m. - Adult Confirmation Class
7:00 p.m. - Elders Meeting

Friday October 13
No events scheduled

Saturday October 14
10:00 a.m. - LWML Zone Rally (Zion Lutheran in Lawrenceville)
ADDITIONAL DETAILS

Sunday October 15
8:00 a.m. - Worship Service with Communion
9:15 a.m.. - Adult/Teen Bible Study & Sunday School
10:30 a.m. - Worship Service with Communion
6:00 p.m. - Youth Group Meeting/Pumpkin Carving Game
(The 8:00 a.m. service streamed on our YouTube channel)

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