Bulletin: Sunday September 8, 2024

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RALLY DAY and ALL CHURCH PICNIC
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THIS WEEK AT ZION

Saturday September 7
No Event’s Scheduled

Sunday September 8
RALLY DAY - Picnic! (More Details)
8:00 a.m. — Worship Service with Communion
9:15 a.m. — Rally Day — Adult/Teen Bible Study & Sunday School
10:30 a.m. — Worship Service with Communion
Rally Day Picnic on the Church Lawn/Pavilion
(The 8:00 a.m. service streamed on our YouTube channel)

Monday September 9
6:00 p.m. - Grace Bell Choir Practice
6:00 p.m. - Confirmation Class - 2nd year
7:00 p.m. - Confirmation Class - 1nd year

Tuesday September 10
6:15 p.m. - Faith Bell Choir Practice
7:15 p.m. - Adult Choir Practice

Wednesday September 11
2:00 p.m. - Mid-Week Worship Service with Communion
2:30 p.m. - 30 min. Bible Study - The Book of “Hebrews”
(Each Bible study session starts with a review of the previous Bible Study)
(The 2:00 p.m. service streamed on our YouTube channel)

Thursday September 12
6:00 p.m. - Adult Confirmation Class (additional details)
7:00 p.m. - Council Meeting

Friday September 13
No Event’s Scheduled

Saturday September 14
No Event’s Scheduled

Sunday September 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 Game Night (additional details)
(The 8:00 a.m. service streamed on our YouTube channel)

LCMS Friends Bonfire at Ascension Lutheran Church

LCMS Friends Bonfire - Ascension Lutheran Church
What: A great time of Christian fellowship over a bonfire, smores, campfire songs, playground time and outdoor games.
When: Friday, September 27 6:30 p.m. (no actual end time specified even though it's listed as 9:30 p.m.)
Where: Ascension Lutheran Church, 8225 Peebles Road, Pittsburgh, PA 15237
Questions: 412-364-4463 or secretary@ascensionpgh.com
Please Bring: An outdoor chair and a snack to share. Smores and drinks will be provided.
Special thanks to P.A.L.M. for sponsoring this event

News from the Preschool

It’s just about that time...time for 160 little children to come running through our doors for another fun-filled year of Preschool. We have been hard at work preparing for the upcoming year. Summer was quite busy too. It’s the time when I take all the “pieces of the puzzle” and put them together: assigning students to classes, assigning staff based on current en-rollment, creating the student directory, collecting tuition, tours, countless new parent phone calls and emails, establishing protocols with PEI (Preschool Early Intervention) for students who qualify, connecting with Pittsburgh Area Lutheran Schools (PALS) to ensure scholarship funds for families in need, creation of our new website, changing locations for two of our classrooms, camps, hiring new employees, benchmark meetings with staff...just to name a few. But now, we’re ready to go, and we can’t wait. As always, please stop by the school and see all of Gods blessings at work. 

PS….Check out our new wall mural in the lobby! 

The staff hard is hard at work setting up the classrooms. Check out the familiar faces from church -- Barb Oechslein who has blessed the school for 32 years, and Marian Oelschlager, the newest Zion member to join our school staff. 

Sunday School News

Happy New Year, Sunday School!!! 
Rally Day on Sept. 8 kicks off the '24-'25 Sunday School year. On that Sunday, Students, Parents, Teachers should meet in Fellowship Hall at 9:15 am for warm cinnamon rolls and other breakfast goodies, followed by some discussion of why Sunday School and Bible study is important for Christians of all ages! PreK-K and Grades 1-3 children will be presented with age-appropriate catechisms, and Grades 4-6 with a youth-appropriate devotional book. The hope is that parents will work through the book with their younger children to help them get ready for Confirmation, and with the older children to help them get ready for "life". We plan to periodically incorporate these materials in Sunday School to reinforce their usage at home. 

Once inside the SS classroom, our children will be starting the season with Unit 9 of Concordia Publishing House's Enduring Faith series, "Jesus Sends the Church". 

After the late worship service, the Rally Day festivities continue with a congregational picnic organized by the Events Committee. 

Adult Bible/Teen Bible Study ... Adults and youth 7th grade and older are invited to the Fellowship Hall for Bible study every Sunday at 9:15. All are welcome - bagels, donuts and coffee provided. 

Welcome Dinner for Deaconess Joanna Lee

ALL ZION WOMEN are invited to a Welcome Dinner for Deaconess Joanna Lee
When:  Thursday September 19, 2024
Where: Atria’s Restaurant in Peters Township (MAP)
Time:    6:00 – 8:30 p.m.
Cost:    $30 per person

The Menu includes:

• Chicken Parmesan

• Pork Tenderloin

• Roasted Vegetables

• Penne with Marinara

• Salad

• Fruit and cheese tray

• Soft drinks, coffee, tea

• There will also be a cash bar.

 Please RSVP to Tracey Harris at tharris@zlcb.org by Sunday, Sept 15th.   For payment,  give checks to Tracey Harris, and make them out to Zion Lutheran Church, with "LWML" in the memo line.

VIDEO: Wednesday September 4, 2024 - Complete Service

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Worship Service: 2:00 p.m.
Bible Study: 2:30 p.m. — The Book of Hebrews
All are welcome, bring a friend, neighbor or relative

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AUDIO: Readings & Sermon for Wednesday September 4, 2024

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Worship Service: 2:00 p.m.
Bible Study: 2:30 p.m. — The Book of Hebrews
All are welcome, bring a friend, neighbor or relative

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2 Kings 2:1-18 
Now when the LORD was about to take Elijah up to heaven by a whirlwind, Elijah and Elisha were on their way from Gilgal. And Elijah said to Elisha, “Please stay here, for the LORD has sent me as far as Bethel.” But Elisha said, “As the LORD lives, and as you yourself live, I will not leave you.” So they went down to Bethel. And the sons of the prophets who were in Bethel came out to Elisha and said to him, “Do you know that today the LORD will take away your master from over you?” And he said, “Yes, I know it; keep quiet.” 

Elijah said to him, “Elisha, please stay here, for the LORD has sent me to Jericho.” But he said, “As the LORD lives, and as you yourself live, I will not leave you.” So they came to Jericho. The sons of the prophets who were at Jericho drew near to Elisha and said to him, “Do you know that today the LORD will take away your master from over you?” And he answered, “Yes, I know it; keep quiet.” 

Then Elijah said to him, “Please stay here, for the LORD has sent me to the Jordan.” But he said, “As the LORD lives, and as you yourself live, I will not leave you.” So the two of them went on. Fifty men of the sons of the prophets also went and stood at some distance from them, as they both were standing by the Jordan. Then Elijah took his cloak and rolled it up and struck the water, and the water was parted to the one side and to the other, till the two of them could go over on dry ground. 

When they had crossed, Elijah said to Elisha, “Ask what I shall do for you, before I am taken from you.” And Elisha said, “Please let there be a double portion of your spirit on me.” And he said, “You have asked a hard thing; yet, if you see me as I am being taken from you, it shall be so for you, but if you do not see me, it shall not be so.” And as they still went on and talked, behold, chariots of fire and horses of fire separated the two of them. And Elijah went up by a whirlwind into heaven. And Elisha saw it and he cried, “My father, my father! The chariots of Israel and its horsemen!” And he saw him no more. 

Then he took hold of his own clothes and tore them in two pieces. And he took up the cloak of Elijah that had fallen from him and went back and stood on the bank of the Jordan. Then he took the cloak of Elijah that had fallen from him and struck the water, saying, “Where is the LORD, the God of Elijah?” And when he had struck the water, the water was parted to the one side and to the other, and Elisha went over. 

Now when the sons of the prophets who were at Jericho saw him opposite them, they said, “The spirit of Elijah rests on Elisha.” And they came to meet him and bowed to the ground before him. And they said to him, “Behold now, there are with your servants fifty strong men. Please let them go and seek your master. It may be that the Spirit of the LORD has caught him up and cast him upon some mountain or into some valley.” And he said, “You shall not send.” But when they urged him till he was ashamed, he said, “Send.” They sent therefore fifty men. And for three days they sought him but did not find him. And they came back to him while he was staying at Jericho, and he said to them, “Did I not say to you, ‘Do not go’?” 

Ephesians 4:1-24 
I therefore, a prisoner for the Lord, urge you to walk in a manner worthy of the calling to which you have been called, with all humility and gentleness, with patience, bearing with one another in love, eager to maintain the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace. There is one body and one Spirit—just as you were called to the one hope that belongs to your call—one Lord, one faith, one baptism, one God and Father of all, who is over all and through all and in all. But grace was given to each one of us according to the measure of Christ's gift. Therefore it says, 

“When he ascended on high he led a host of captives,
and he gave gifts to men.” 

(In saying, “He ascended,” what does it mean but that he had also descended into the lower regions, the earth? He who descended is the one who also ascended far above all the heavens, that he might fill all things.) And he gave the apostles, the prophets, the evangelists, the shepherds and teachers, to equip the saints for the work of ministry, for building up the body of Christ, until we all attain to the unity of the faith and of the knowledge of the Son of God, to mature manhood, to the measure of the stature of the fullness of Christ, so that we may no longer be children, tossed to and fro by the waves and carried about by every wind of doctrine, by human cunning, by craftiness in deceitful schemes. Rather, speaking the truth in love, we are to grow up in every way into him who is the head, into Christ, from whom the whole body, joined and held together by every joint with which it is equipped, when each part is working properly, makes the body grow so that it builds itself up in love. 

Now this I say and testify in the Lord, that you must no longer walk as the Gentiles do, in the futility of their minds. They are darkened in their understanding, alienated from the life of God because of the ignorance that is in them, due to their hardness of heart. They have become callous and have given themselves up to sensuality, greedy to practice every kind of impurity. But that is not the way you learned Christ!— assuming that you have heard about him and were taught in him, as the truth is in Jesus, to put off your old self, which belongs to your former manner of life and is corrupt through deceitful desires, and to be renewed in the spirit of your minds, and to put on the new self, created after the likeness of God in true righteousness and holiness. 

The Ten Commandments 
What is the fifth commandment? 
You shall not murder. 
What does this mean? 
We should fear and love God so that we do not hurt or harm our neighbor in his body, but help and support him in every physical need.