Bulletin: Wednesday June 19, 2024
View the Wednesday Bulletin for June 12, 2024
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View the Bulletin for Wednesday, June 19, 2024
Worship Service: 2:00 p.m.
Bible Study: 2:30 p.m.
All are welcome, bring a friend, neighbor or relative
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UPDATE: Women’s Summer Book Club
NEW DATE!!!
Wednesday August 14, 2024
Still at 6:30 p.m. - 8:00 p.m.
Still at Tracey Johnson’s
Carpooling is available ... please reach out to Tevia to coordinate! All women in the congregation are welcome to join us! Looking forward to a fun night of fellowship!
Click the link below for complete details …
NEW DATE!!!
Wednesday August 14, 2024
Still at 6:30 p.m. - 8:00 p.m.
Still at Tracey Johnson’s
Carpooling is available ... please reach out to Tevia to coordinate!
All women in the congregation are welcome to join us!
Looking forward to a fun night of fellowship!
The Saints of Whistle Grove, by Katie Schuermann
Link to the Amazon Book Store
(Katie wrote the Anthems of Zion series we read during our first summer book club meetings)
OLD DATE: “Tuesday, July 30, 2024” … NOW WEDNESDAY AUGUST 14th
6:30 - 8:00 p.m. at the home of Tracey Johnson
Bring your thoughts and a snack to share!
Coming in October, For the Glory
Link to the Amazon Book Store
Zion’s Fellowship Hall
Sunday, Octobger 6, 2024
11:30 a.m. - 1:00 p.m.
More details to come
Kudos to our Confirmands!
On Pentecost Sunday, May 19th, a full house of Zion members and guests bore witness to the stellar performance of our 2024 Confirmands at their Questioning & Reception. Congratulations from your Zion Church Family to Callista Chilcott, Claire Schrag, and Emily Trentini! May God bless and keep you strong in your faith!
Special thanks to the Events Committee and Linda Kroeger for her decorating skills in helping to make this a beautiful celebration!
On Pentecost Sunday, May 19th, a full house of Zion members and guests bore witness to the stellar performance of our 2024 Confirmands at their Questioning & Reception. Congratulations from your Zion Church Family to Callista Chilcott, Claire Schrag, and Emily Trentini! May God bless and keep you strong in your faith!
Special thanks to the Events Committee and Linda Kroeger for her decorating skills in helping to make this a beautiful celebration!
Photo Essay: The Lutheran Reformation Brașov, Romania
This photo essay covers the Divine Service at the Confessional Lutheran Church in Romania (Biserica Lutherană Confesională din România) St. Mary’s Lutheran Center in Brașov, Romania.
Photo essay by Erik Lunsford — Photojournalist for LCMS Communications. Managing photojournalist for LCMS Communications, Erik Lunsford documents the Synod's mission and relief work around the world.
Click on the photos to enlarge — each photo is accompanies by informative captions.
This photo essay covers the Divine Service at the Confessional Lutheran Church in Romania (Biserica Lutherană Confesională din România) St. Mary’s Lutheran Center in Brașov, Romania.
Photo essay by Erik Lunsford — Photojournalist for LCMS Communications.
Managing photojournalist for LCMS Communications, Erik Lunsford documents the Synod's mission and relief work around the world.
Click on the photos to enlarge — each photo is accompanies by informative captions.
VIDEO: Sunday June 16, 2024 - Complete Service
Each service at Zion Lutheran Church (normally the first of our two services) is streamed LIVE on our YouTube channel. This includes 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.
AUDIO: Announcements, Readings & Sermon for Sunday June 16, 2024
This audio-only file includes all the readings from scripture, along with the sermon — and when available, the announcements, adult choir, men’s choir, and/or bell choir. Also posted along with the audio file is the text for all the scripture readings, and a link to the current bulletin, and our YouTube channel if you prefer to watch the LIVE Stream.
View the bulletin for Sunday, June 16, 2024
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Old Testament Reading -- Ezekiel 17:22–24
Thus says the Lord God: “I myself will take a sprig from the lofty top of the cedar and will set it out. I will break off from the topmost of its young twigs a tender one, and I myself will plant it on a high and lofty mountain. On the mountain height of Israel will I plant it, that it may bear branches and produce fruit and become a noble cedar. And under it will dwell every kind of bird; in the shade of its branches birds of every sort will nest. And all the trees of the field shall know that I am the Lord; I bring low the high tree, and make high the low tree, dry up the green tree, and make the dry tree flourish. I am the Lord; I have spoken, and I will do it.”
Epistle Reading -- 2 Corinthians 5:1–17
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. For in this tent we groan, longing to put on our heavenly dwelling, if indeed by putting it on we may not be found naked. For while we are still in this tent, we groan, being burdened—not that we would be unclothed, but that we would be further clothed, so that what is mortal may be swallowed up by life. He who has prepared us for this very thing is God, who has given us the Spirit as a guarantee.
So we are always of good courage. We know that while we are at home in the body we are away from the Lord, for we walk by faith, not by sight. Yes, we are of good courage, and we would rather be away from the body and at home with the Lord. So whether we are at home or away, we make it our aim to please him. For we must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ, so that each one may receive what is due for what he has done in the body, whether good or evil.
Therefore, knowing the fear of the Lord, we persuade others. But what we are is known to God, and I hope it is known also to your conscience. We are not commending ourselves to you again but giving you cause to boast about us, so that you may be able to answer those who boast about outward appearance and not about what is in the heart. For if we are beside ourselves, it is for God; if we are in our right mind, it is for you. For the love of Christ controls us, because we have concluded this: that one has died for all, therefore all have died; and he died for all, that those who live might no longer live for themselves but for him who for their sake died and was raised.
From now on, therefore, we regard no one according to the flesh. Even though we once regarded Christ according to the flesh, we regard him thus no longer. Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. The old has passed away; behold, the new has come.
The Holy Gospel according to St. Mark, the fourth chapter
[Jesus] said, “The kingdom of God is as if a man should scatter seed on the ground. He sleeps and rises night and day, and the seed sprouts and grows; he knows not how. The earth produces by itself, first the blade, then the ear, then the full grain in the ear. But when the grain is ripe, at once he puts in the sickle, because the harvest has come.”
And he said, “With what can we compare the kingdom of God, or what parable shall we use for it? It is like a grain of mustard seed, which, when sown on the ground, is the smallest of all the seeds on earth, yet when it is sown it grows up and becomes larger than all the garden plants and puts out large branches, so that the birds of the air can make nests in its shade.”
With many such parables he spoke the word to them, as they were able to hear it. He did not speak to them without a parable, but privately to his own disciples he explained everything.
Shout Out to Students - Part 5 of 5
Jack Bishop graduates from South Fayette High School on June 4th with honors. While in high school, Jack played on the baseball and golf teams, and sang in the SF Vocal Point Choir. He was also a leader in South Fayette Campus Life, a Christian youth fellowship organization. Jack will attend Grove City College in the fall and pursue a degree in Biblical studies.
Godspeed, Jack!
Jack Bishop graduates from South Fayette High School on June 4th with honors. While in high school, Jack played on the baseball and golf teams, and sang in the SF Vocal Point Choir. He was also a leader in South Fayette Campus Life, a Christian youth fellowship organization. Jack will attend Grove City College in the fall and pursue a degree in Biblical studies.
Godspeed, Jack!