Youth Group: BBQ Fundraiser

Youth Group BBQ Fundraiser

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Sunday June 16th is the last day to order BBQ
Just in time for outdoor barbecues, Zion youth group is selling "ready to heat & eat" pulled pork, baby back ribs, and sauces from South Fayette company Rib Raiser BBQ. A percentage of each sale will help with expenses for our trip to the 2025 LCMS Youth Gathering in New Orleans. 

To order, download the linked order form, or call the church office at 412-221-4776, ext 203
Sale ends Sunday June 16, 2024 ... distribution is June 30th.  

President’s Perspective

Faith Springs Eternal -- Here Comes Summer! 
Let's be thankful to Almighty God for our blessings and welcome the summer months ahead with joy and thanksgiving. Hopefully you are all going to enjoy this summer with your family and loved ones and of course, your family here at Zion. If you attended the Quarterly Voters Meeting in April, you know we're going to soon have a Deaconess onboard at Zion, probably as soon as the month of July. This is a big step in the history of our church, and I hope you are looking forward to welcoming Joanna into our family. On behalf of the Council and Call Committee, let me personally thank the 61 members who attended that meeting so that we could extend the call to Joanna. 

June has five Sundays. On the final Sunday, June 30th, we'll have our Special Voters Meeting to adopt the budget for FY 2024/2025. Please attend that meeting. The operating budget for the next fiscal year should be over one million dollars, (or very close to it...), when the final figures are presented. Your church ministries are certainly operating at full-throttle these days. We are certainly a blessed parish and we will march onward as Christian Soldiers and continue to preach Christ crucified in the coming years. Please take an ownership stake in your church and attend the five Voter Meetings each year. 

If you missed three young ladies being confirmed last month, you really missed a wonderful example of what your church is doing to lay a foundation of Christian truth in the lives of our children. Putting on the armor that is the Word of God is an important defense against the foe. If you're not one of the nearly 60+ regular attendees at Bible Class between the services, you're missing a lot of "armor". Let me encourage you to join your friends each Sunday at Adult/Teen Bible Class. Have a bagel, relax and enjoy Pastor's presentations on various books of the Bible. 

You know, our church is capable of great things, in my opinion. We should try not to limit our potential by thinking purely in terms of our human limitations. Faith should always play a role in how we approach situations and problems. We need to realize we're chosen and not fighting alone either in our personal lives or as a church body. Pastor has posted a wonderful passage on the sign in front of the church. Our God is on our side, and He will watch over us, and pick us up and carry us as necessary. 

Our Catechism teaches, in defining "worship", that our "God wants to be worshiped through faith so that we receive from Him those things He promises and offers"; and that "the highest worship of God is faith that receives all that He promises in His Word." Further, "faith comes by hearing the Word of Christ and faith speaks back to God, using the words He has given." 

Pray for the Christians on earth, our LCMS, our District and circuit churches, and Zion. Amen. 

-- Paul Klemash 

VIDEO: Sunday June 9, 2024 - Complete Service

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AUDIO: Announcements, Readings, Sermon & Bell Choir for Sunday June 9, 2024

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Old Testament Reading -- Genesis 3:8–15 
They heard the sound of the Lord God walking in the garden in the cool of the day, and the man and his wife hid themselves from the presence of the Lord God among the trees of the garden. But the Lord God called to the man and said to him, “Where are you?” And he said, “I heard the sound of you in the garden, and I was afraid, because I was naked, and I hid myself.” He said, “Who told you that you were naked? Have you eaten of the tree of which I commanded you not to eat?” The man said, “The woman whom you gave to be with me, she gave me fruit of the tree, and I ate.” Then the Lord God said to the woman, “What is this that you have done?” The woman said, “The serpent deceived me, and I ate.” 

The Lord God said to the serpent, 

“Because you have done this,
cursed are you above all livestock
and above all beasts of the field;
on your belly you shall go,
and dust you shall eat
all the days of your life.
I will put enmity between you and the woman,
and between your offspring and her offspring;
he shall bruise your head,
and you shall bruise his heel.” 

Epistle Reading -- 2 Corinthians 4:13—5:1 
Since we have the same spirit of faith according to what has been written, “I believed, and so I spoke,” we also believe, and so we also speak, knowing that he who raised the Lord Jesus will raise us also with Jesus and bring us with you into his presence. For it is all for your sake, so that as grace extends to more and more people it may increase thanksgiving, to the glory of God. 

So we do not lose heart. Though our outer nature is wasting away, our inner nature is being renewed day by day. For this slight momentary affliction is preparing for us an eternal weight of glory beyond all comparison, as we look not to the things that are seen but to the things that are unseen. For the things that are seen are transient, but the things that are unseen are eternal. 

For we know that if the tent, which is our earthly home, is destroyed, we have a building from God, a house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens. 

The Holy Gospel according to St. Mark, the third chapter
Then [Jesus] went home, and the crowd gathered again, so that they could not even eat. And when his family heard it, they went out to seize him, for they were saying, “He is out of his mind.” 

And the scribes who came down from Jerusalem were saying, “He is possessed by Beelzebul,” and “by the prince of demons he casts out the demons.” And he called them to him and said to them in parables, “How can Satan cast out Satan? If a kingdom is divided against itself, that kingdom cannot stand. And if a house is divided against itself, that house will not be able to stand. And if Satan has risen up against himself and is divided, he cannot stand, but is coming to an end. But no one can enter a strong man’s house and plunder his goods, unless he first binds the strong man. Then indeed he may plunder his house. 

“Truly, I say to you, all sins will be forgiven the children of man, and whatever blasphemies they utter, but whoever blasphemes against the Holy Spirit never has forgiveness, but is guilty of an eternal sin”— for they had said, “He has an unclean spirit.” 

And his mother and his brothers came, and standing outside they sent to him and called him. And a crowd was sitting around him, and they said to him, “Your mother and your brothers are outside, seeking you.” And he answered them, “Who are my mother and my brothers?” And looking about at those who sat around him, he said, “Here are my mother and my brothers! Whoever does the will of God, he is my brother and sister and mother.” 

LWML Eastern District Convention

LWML Eastern District Convention
The LWML Eastern District 40th Biennial Convention will be held June 14-16, 2024 at the DoubleTree by Hilton in Mars, PA.

Keynote Speakers include President John Pingel, CPH author Hedi Goehmann, and many more!
Registration forms available in the Sanctuary

Eastern District Convention Devine Service on Friday, June 14th — All members of Zion are invited to attend.

Please see the Winter 2024 LINK for additional details.
Learn more and find a registration form at Convention Information.

VBS 2023 at Zion! Registration Open

2024 Vacation Bible School - FREE!
Zion Lutheran Church, Bridgeville, PA
Monday July 22 through Friday July 26, 2024
9:00 a.m. - 11:30 a.m.
Ages -- 4 years old (prior to 9/1/24) through 4th grade

REGISTER HERE

In “Celebrate the Savior” Vacation Bible School, students will discover that our loving God has given us so much to celebrate—family, friends, food, and especially forgiveness through faith in Jesus, our Savior. As kids explore five key events in the life of Jesus from the Bible, they will discover how the love of Jesus fills us with joy!

Bulletin: Sunday June 9, 2024

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THIS WEEK AT ZION

Saturday June 8
No Event’s Scheduled

Sunday June 9
8:00 a.m. — Worship Service with Communion
9:15 a.m. — Adult/Teen Bible Study & Children’s Sunday School Year-End Party
10:30 a.m. — Worship Service with Communion & Confirmation
(The 8:00 a.m. service streamed on our YouTube channel)

Monday June 10
6:00 p.m. - Board of Education Meeting
7:00 p.m. - LWML Meeting

Tuesday June 11
10:00 a.m. - VBS Planning Meeting

Wednesday June 12
2:00 p.m. - Mid-Week Worship Service with Communion
2:30 p.m. - 30 min. Bible Study
(The 2:00 p.m. service streamed on our YouTube channel)

Thursday June 13
7:00 p.m. - Council Meeting

Friday June 14
No Event’s Scheduled at Zion
LWML Eastern District Convention @ Cranberry Doubletree

Saturday June 15
No Event’s Scheduled at Zion
LWML Eastern District Convention @ Cranberry Doubletree

Sunday June 16
8:00 a.m. — Worship Service with Communion
9:15 a.m. — Adult/Teen Bible Study & Children’s Summer Sunday School
10:30 a.m. — Worship Service with Communion & Confirmation
(The 8:00 a.m. service streamed on our YouTube channel)
LWML Eastern District Convention @ Cranberry Doubletree