Baby Shower for Deaconess Joanna Lee
The Women of Zion are Invited to a Baby Shower honoring Deaconess Joanna Lee
Sunday, August 17, 2025
12:00 p.m. (following the late service) in the Fellowship Hall
The Women of Zion are Invited to a Baby Shower honoring Deaconess Joanna Lee
Sunday, August 17, 2025 at 12 Noon following the late service. Luncheon sandwiches, drinks, and dessert will be provided. Please bring a salad or side to share.
RSVP by Wednesday, August 13th, here: https://evite.me/V7w2gyCz2C
Bridgeville Area Food Bank
The August collection for the Food Bank is Sunday, August 10h.
The “item of the month” is CRACKERS.
Items may be placed in the wicker bin in the narthex near the coat rack.
Thank you for supporting this vital community service!
At the June distribution, 104 families were assisted which included 36 children, 67 adults and 85 of the elderly.
The August collection for the Food Bank is Sunday, August 10h.
The “item of the month” is CRACKERS.
Items may be placed in the wicker bin in the narthex near the coat rack.
Thank you for supporting this vital community service!
At the June distribution, 104 families were assisted which included 36 children, 67 adults and 85 of the elderly.
VIDEO: Life Together Digest with Pres. Harrison
In this Life Together Digest, the Rev. Dr. Matthew C. Harrison, president of The Lutheran Church—Missouri Synod, speaks on the miracle of Pentecost when the Gospel was spread in a multitude of languages to many nations. He also talks about the hardships church workers sometimes endure and how our congregations can help care for them. “When you support your pastors and workers, you bless the whole Body of Christ,” says Harrison, before sharing his special thanks to our Lutheran school teachers as they wrap up another great school year. View this month’s Life Together Digest at https://mailchi.mp/lcms/life-together...
Life Together with Rev. Dr. Matthew Harrison
In this Life Together Digest, the Rev. Dr. Matthew C. Harrison, president of The Lutheran Church—Missouri Synod, speaks on the miracle of Pentecost when the Gospel was spread in a multitude of languages to many nations. He also talks about the hardships church workers sometimes endure and how our congregations can help care for them. “When you support your pastors and workers, you bless the whole Body of Christ,” says Harrison, before sharing his special thanks to our Lutheran school teachers as they wrap up another great school year. View this month’s Life Together Digest at https://mailchi.mp/lcms/life-together...
VIDEO: Wednesday, July 30, 2025 - 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, July 30, 2025
Worship Service: 2:00 p.m. with communion
Bible Study: 2:30 p.m. with Pastor Kettner
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.
Archive of AUDIO “Readings & Sermons”
Archive of VIDEO “Complete Service”
Archive of BULLETINS
AUDIO: Readings & Sermon for Wednesday, July 30, 2025
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 Wednesday, July 30, 2025
Worship Service: 2:00 p.m. with communion
Bible Study: 2:30 p.m. with Pastor Kettner
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.
Archive of AUDIO “Readings & Sermons”
Archive of VIDEO “Complete Service”
Archive of BULLETINS
Genesis 8:20-9:7
Then Noah built an altar to the LORD and took some of every clean animal and some of every clean bird and offered burnt offerings on the altar. And when the LORD smelled the pleasing aroma, the LORD said in his heart, “I will never again curse the ground because of man, for the intention of man's heart is evil from his youth. Neither will I ever again strike down every living creature as I have done. While the earth remains, seedtime and harvest, cold and heat, summer and winter, day and night, shall not cease.”
And God blessed Noah and his sons and said to them, “Be fruitful and multiply and fill the earth. The fear of you and the dread of you shall be upon every beast of the earth and upon every bird of the heavens, upon everything that creeps on the ground and all the fish of the sea. Into your hand they are delivered. Every moving thing that lives shall be food for you. And as I gave you the green plants, I give you everything. But you shall not eat flesh with its life, that is, its blood. And for your lifeblood I will require a reckoning: from every beast I will require it and from man. From his fellow man I will require a reckoning for the life of man.
“Whoever sheds the blood of man,
by man shall his blood be shed,
for God made man in his own image.
And you, be fruitful and multiply, increase greatly on the earth and multiply in it.”
1 John 3:11-24
For this is the message that you have heard from the beginning, that we should love one another. We should not be like Cain, who was of the evil one and murdered his brother. And why did he murder him? Because his own deeds were evil and his brother's righteous. Do not be surprised, brothers, that the world hates you. We know that we have passed out of death into life, because we love the brothers. Whoever does not love abides in death. Everyone who hates his brother is a murderer, and you know that no murderer has eternal life abiding in him.
By this we know love, that he laid down his life for us, and we ought to lay down our lives for the brothers. But if anyone has the world's goods and sees his brother in need, yet closes his heart against him, how does God's love abide in him? Little children, let us not love in word or talk but in deed and in truth.
By this we shall know that we are of the truth and reassure our heart before him; for whenever our heart condemns us, God is greater than our heart, and he knows everything. Beloved, if our heart does not condemn us, we have confidence before God; and whatever we ask we receive from him, because we keep his commandments and do what pleases him. And this is his commandment, that we believe in the name of his Son Jesus Christ and love one another, just as he has commanded us. Whoever keeps his commandments abides in God, and God in him. And by this we know that he abides in us, by the Spirit whom he has given us.
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.
Bulletin: Wednesday July 30, 2025
View the Wednesday Bulletin for July 30, 2025
Click to download the Wednesday Bulletin which includes all of the scripture readings and the Order of Service. Posted later in the day you will find an audio-only recording of the announcements (if there are any), readings and sermon. Also posted later in the day you will be able to view the entire service on our YouTube channel – broadcast live at 2:00 p.m. For an archive of bulletins visit: BULLETINS. For an archive of Sermons, visit SERMONS. For an archive of videos, visit VIDEOS.
View the Bulletin for Wednesday, July 30, 2025
Worship Service: 2:00 p.m. with communion
Bible Study: 2:30 p.m. with Pastor Kettner
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.
Archive of AUDIO “Readings & Sermons”
Archive of VIDEO “Complete Service”
Archive of BULLETINS
Kathy Fretthold on Christian Education
– Excerpted from the newsletter of the Eastern District of the LCMS
Another school year has ended and all of the fun, end-of-year events are now a memory. Preschool and day school graduations, classtrips, field days, school plays and musicals, recognition events and ... final exams! Our Eastern District of the LCMS is home to eight schools and 26 free-standing Early Childhood Centers and Preschools which have once again fed over 2500 students and families with the Word of God. Our almost 400 dedicated teachers, principals, directors and aides have served throughout the year to His Glory! Our congregations with schools have a unique opportunity to reach out to families with a hand extended in care and friendship, and shining with the light of the Gospel.
– Excerpted from the newsletter of the Eastern District of the LCMS
Another school year has ended and all of the fun, end-of-year events are now a memory. Preschool and day school graduations, classtrips, field days, school plays and musicals, recognition events and ... final exams! Our Eastern District of the LCMS is home to eight schools and 26 free-standing Early Childhood Centers and Preschools which have once again fed over 2500 students and families with the Word of God. Our almost 400 dedicated teachers, principals, directors and aides have served throughout the year to His Glory! Our congregations with schools have a unique opportunity to reach out to families with a hand extended in care and friendship, and shining with the light of the Gospel.