Bulletin: Sunday December 22, 2024
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View the bulletin for Sunday, December 22, 2024
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THIS WEEK AT ZION
Saturday December 21
No Events Scheduled
Sunday December 22
4th Sunday in Advent
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
(The 8:00 a.m. service streamed on our YouTube channel)
Monday December 23
No Event’s Scheduled
Tuesday December 24
CHRISTMAS EVE
2:00 p.m. - Afternoon Worship (prelude music begins at 1:30 p.m.)
7:00 p.m. - Candlelight Worship (prelude music begins at 6:00 p.m.)
(Either the 2:00 p.m. or 7:00 p.m. service streamed on our YouTube channel)
Wednesday December 25
CHRISTMAS DAY
10:00 a.m. - Christmas Day Worship Service with Communion
(The 10:00 a.m. service streamed on our YouTube channel)
Thursday December 26
No Events Scheduled
Friday December 27
No Events Scheduled
Saturday December 28
No Events Scheduled
Sunday December 29
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
(The 8:00 a.m. service streamed on our YouTube channel)
CLICK THE UPCOMING EVENTS GRAPHIC to go directly to our UPCOMING EVENTS page
2024 Concordia Christmas Video
Please enjoy this year's Christmas video featuring residents and staff counting down the days until Christmas!
Please enjoy this year's Christmas video featuring residents and staff counting down the days until Christmas!
Merry Christmas, Pastor, Deaconess & Staff
Dear Brothers and Sisters of Zion,
Once again we begin a new church year. As we move through the season of Advent, we prepare for the celebration of the birth of Christ, our Savior. It is a joyful season, when we focus on giving to others because we have been given so much, including the forgiveness of sins and salvation.
It is the tradition of Zion to take a collection for Christmas gifts for the Pastor and Staff to show our appreciation for their efforts throughout the year. Enclosed are three envelopes in which you may contribute a free will offering toward their Christmas gifts.
Click the link below to read the complete story ….
Dear Brothers and Sisters of Zion,
Once again we begin a new church year. As we move through the season of Advent, we prepare for the celebration of the birth of Christ, our Savior. It is a joyful season, when we focus on giving to others because we have been given so much, including the forgiveness of sins and salvation.
It is the tradition of Zion to take a collection for Christmas gifts for the Pastor and Staff to show our appreciation for their efforts throughout the year. Enclosed are three envelopes in which you may contribute a free will offering toward their Christmas gifts.
In the envelope marked Pastor insert either cash or a check made out to Pastor Edward Grimenstein.
In the envelope marked Deaconess insert either cash or a check made out to Joanna Lee.
In the envelope marked Staff, please insert cash only. Monies collected will be distributed between six staff members: Susie Bishop (Office Admin), Jim Oelschlager (Custodian), John Migyanko (Treasurer), Mark Killinger (Music Director), Sandra Quinlan (Lead Organist), and Doug Krantz (Asst. Organist).
You may deposit the envelopes in the large collection box in the Narthex up until Dec. 24th.
We also want to gratefully acknowledge our Preschool Staff. Zion members Tracey Harris .(Preschool Director), Kari Gresh (Asst. to the Director) and Barb Oechslein (STEM Curriculum Leader) -- together with 17 additional teachers and aides in the classrooms - diligently share Christ's love with hundreds of children each week. Their efforts are vital to Zion's mission, and they have received a Christmas gift from the operating budget of the preschool, thus are not included in the church staff collection.
On behalf of the congregation, we thank you for your generosity in donating toward the Christmas gift for Pastor, Joanna, and the Staff.
Merry Christmas,
The Board of Elders
Bob Schmidt, Mike Wallace, Roger Diederich, Tom Erbrecht, Mike Sterba, Jim Neill, Sam Gar/off, & Mike Kroeger
Three Opportunities for Christmas Worship
There will be three opportunities for Christmas worship at Zion:
Christmas Eve (Tuesday 12/24) service at 2:00 p.m.
Christmas Eve (Tuesday 12/24) service at 7:00 p.m.
Christmas Day (Wednesday 12/25) service at 10: a.m.
A Prelude of special Christmas music …
Will be played prior to the start of each Christmas Eve Worship Service. The afternoon prelude will begin at 1:30 pm; evening prelude at 6:00 p.m. Come early to enjoy the beautiful sounds of this holy season!
New Year’s Eve (Tuesday 12/31) services at 2:00 & 7:00 p.m.
There will be three opportunities for Christmas worship at Zion:
Christmas Eve (Tuesday 12/24) service at 2:00 p.m.
Christmas Eve (Tuesday 12/24) service at 7:00 p.m.
Christmas Day (Wednesday 12/25) service at 10: a.m.
A Prelude of special Christmas music …
Will be played prior to the start of each Christmas Eve Worship Service. The afternoon prelude will begin at 1:30 pm; evening prelude at 6:00 p.m. Come early to enjoy the beautiful sounds of this holy season!
New Year’s Eve (Tuesday 12/31) services at 2:00 & 7:00 p.m.
VIDEO: Wednesday December 18, 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.
View the Bulletin for Wednesday, December 18, 2024
Advent Worship Service: 2:00 p.m. & 7:00 p.m.
During Advent, there will be no Wednesday Bible Study, it will resume Wednesday January 8, 2025
All are welcome, bring a friend, neighbor or relative
Visit our YouTube channel — Click the red “subscribe” box, and then click on the “bell” next to that box to receive Live Streaming notifications. You must be logged into YouTube to activate these features.
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Zion Lutheran Church, Bridgeville, PA
Sunday Services at 8:00 a.m. and 10:30 a.m.
Bible Study and Children’s Sunday School at 9:15 a.m.
MISSION STATEMENT:
Zion equips, educates, and encourages believers in Christ, sending them into the world to share the Gospel.
Share the “Good News” with Friend and Family
Zion Lutheran Church, Bridgeville, PA
Sunday Services at 8:00 a.m. and 10:30 a.m.
Bible Study and Children’s Sunday School at 9:15 a.m.
MISSION STATEMENT:
Zion equips, educates, and encourages believers in Christ, sending them into the world to share the Gospel.
Special “Bonhoeffer” Lecture Thursday December 19, 2024
Beatrice Institute Winter Salon:
"Thou Shalt Not Kill? Dietrich Bonhoeffer’s Conflicted Pacifism"
Thursday December 19th at 6:30p.m. at the Pittsburgh Theological Seminary 616 North Highland Avenue Pittsburgh, PA, 15206 United States (map)
German pastor and theologian Dietrich Bonhoeffer was greatly attracted to pacifism but eventually felt called to participate in a plot on Hitler’s life. Inspired by the release of the new movie on Bonhoeffer's life, Bonhoeffer: Pastor. Spy. Assassin., Beatrice Institute—in collaboration with the Bruderhof community—invites you to join the conversation this semester as we interrogate the tension in Christian ethics between a preference for non-violence and the responsibility to protect the innocent. (Seeing the movie is not necessary to attending the Salon.)
Read the complete story at the link below …
Beatrice Institute Winter Salon:
"Thou Shalt Not Kill? Dietrich Bonhoeffer’s Conflicted Pacifism"
Thursday December 19th at 6:30p.m. at the Pittsburgh Theological Seminary 616 North Highland Avenue Pittsburgh, PA, 15206 United States (map)
German pastor and theologian Dietrich Bonhoeffer was greatly attracted to pacifism but eventually felt called to participate in a plot on Hitler’s life. Inspired by the release of the new movie on Bonhoeffer's life, Bonhoeffer: Pastor. Spy. Assassin., Beatrice Institute—in collaboration with the Bruderhof community—invites you to join the conversation this semester as we interrogate the tension in Christian ethics between a preference for non-violence and the responsibility to protect the innocent. (Seeing the movie is not necessary to attending the Salon)
Our annual Winter Salon invites four panelists with a range of viewpoints to speak about Bonhoeffer's historical context and the theological commitments that swayed both pacifist and activist responses to Hitler's regime:
Pastor Eric Andrae is the Campus Pastor and Outreach Minister at First Trinity Lutheran Church in Oakland. He earned a B.A. degree in 1993 from Valparaiso University and a Master of Divinity Degree in 1997 from Concordia Seminary in St. Louis, MO. He has traveled extensively and earned a Master of Sacred Theology in pastoral care from Concordia Seminary in 2003. Eric is also a published Bonhoeffer scholar.
Amber Hindley worked for several years as a Bruderhof archivist and now lives in the Woodcrest Bruderhof community. She brings a perspective on the Bruderhof church experience in Nazi Germany (until the expulsion in 1937), insight on some of the similarities and differences between different church responses to the rise of the Third Reich, and thoughts on the theme of non-violent pacifist resistance.
Patrick Jones is a PhD in Theology from Catholic University of America and currently teaches at St. Vincent College in Latrobe. His studies focus on the intersection of political philosophy and moral theology, with a special focus on 19th and 20th century Catholic political thought. His dissertation was entitled, “The Nation-State and Global Governance: A Question in Modern Catholic Social Doctrine.”
Ben Burkholder is a PhD in Systematic Theology from Duquesne University, an Associate Pastor, and an adjunct professor at La Roche University. Ben has a particular interest in questions regarding how certain accounts of the atonement might encourage people—in the face of oppression—toward either violence or passivity. He has a passion for the integration of Christian worldview, theology, and higher education and has always been interested in how Bonhoeffer’s ethics and theology inform a Christ-centered approach to nature.
Drinks and heavy hors d’oeuvres provided!
The Bruderhof
Founded over a century ago in the wake of World War I in the small German village of Sannerz, the Bruderhof has been shaped and propelled in part by the political and social events of the Western world. Despite inter-continental migrations due to religious persecution during World War II, and many challenges and changes, God’s protection, guidance, and blessing have been evident over the decades since the hardscrabble beginnings in 1920.