Zion’s “Bridge Builder” Event
South Fayette Township Community Day
Saturday, August 23 • 11:00 a.m.. to 5:00 p.m. at Fairview Park, South Fayette
Come participate in our first Bridge Builders event! Bridge Builders is Zion's initiative to reach out and further connect with our community and preschool families. We will host a booth at community day. There are opportunities to help with set up, clean up, or manning the booth. You can sign up for a time slot through our E-blast or website. This is a great opportunity to connect with our neighbors!
South Fayette Township Community Day
Saturday, August 23 • 11:00 a.m.. to 5:00 p.m. at Fairview Park, South Fayette
Come participate in our first Bridge Builders event! Bridge Builders is Zion's initiative to reach out and further connect with our community and preschool families. We will host a booth at community day. There are opportunities to help with set up, clean up, or manning the booth. You can sign up for a time slot through our E-blast or website. This is a great opportunity to connect with our neighbors!
Member Milestones
Praise God for Bree Iris Wilson, born to Tanner & Nell Wilson on June 5th at 8:33 am. Bree joins older siblings Shea, Wren, Prue and Rhys.
With their five sweet kids in tow, the family moved to Dallas Texas at the end of June. Having completed his surgical residency here at UPMC, Tanner will continue his training with a Surgical Critical Care Fellowship at Baylor University Medical Center in Dallas.
After nearly a decade of Bible Study & Worship and wonderful family memories at Zion, the Wilson family wishes to thank the Zion Family for providing a firm foundation in Christ: Pastor Grimenstein's Sermons and Adult Bible Study classes, Deaconess Joanna Lee, Preschool Director Tracey Harris and her teaching staff, Sunday School Directors Jon and Connie Canale and all the teachers, VBS Director Karen Kress and volunteers, and Women's Ministry Co-Leaders Tevia Grimenstein and Tracey Harris.
"This church community has been vital to our family's ability to thrive in Pittsburgh. Our nine years at Zion have been a blessing full of fellowship and spiritual nourishment. Our last memory of Zion: Bree became a child of God through the Sacrament of Holy Baptism on June 22, 2025."
Love, your sister in Christ, Nell
Praise God for Bree Iris Wilson, born to Tanner & Nell Wilson on June 5th at 8:33 am. Bree joins older siblings Shea, Wren, Prue and Rhys.
With their five sweet kids in tow, the family moved to Dallas Texas at the end of June. Having completed his surgical residency here at UPMC, Tanner will continue his training with a Surgical Critical Care Fellowship at Baylor University Medical Center in Dallas.
After nearly a decade of Bible Study & Worship and wonderful family memories at Zion, the Wilson family wishes to thank the Zion Family for providing a firm foundation in Christ: Pastor Grimenstein's Sermons and Adult Bible Study classes, Deaconess Joanna Lee, Preschool Director Tracey Harris and her teaching staff, Sunday School Directors Jon and Connie Canale and all the teachers, VBS Director Karen Kress and volunteers, and Women's Ministry Co-Leaders Tevia Grimenstein and Tracey Harris.
VIDEO: Sunday, August 3, 2025 - Complete Service
Each service at Zion Lutheran Church (normally the first of our two Sunday services) is streamed LIVE on our YouTube channel. These streams are for 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 Sunday, August 3, 2025
Archive of AUDIO “Readings & Sermons”
Archive of VIDEO “Complete Service”
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PLEASE NOTE: Starting Monday July 14th Pastor will be out of the office for knee surgery. Please contact the Church Administrator at 412-221-4776 for any Pastoral needs
AUDIO: Announcements, Readings & Sermon for Sunday, August 3, 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 Sunday, August 3, 2025
Archive of AUDIO “Readings & Sermons”
Archive of VIDEO “Complete Service”
Archive of Bulletins
PLEASE NOTE: Starting Monday July 14th Pastor will be out of the office for knee surgery. Please contact the Church Administrator at 412-221-4776 for any Pastoral needs
Old Testament Reading -- Ecclesiastes 1:2, 12–14; 2:18–26
Vanity of vanities, says the Preacher,
vanity of vanities! All is vanity. . . .
I the Preacher have been king over Israel in Jerusalem. And I applied my heart to seek and to search out by wisdom all that is done under heaven. It is an unhappy business that God has given to the children of man to be busy with. I have seen everything that is done under the sun, and behold, all is vanity and a striving after wind. . . .
I hated all my toil in which I toil under the sun, seeing that I must leave it to the man who will come after me, and who knows whether he will be wise or a fool? Yet he will be master of all for which I toiled and used my wisdom under the sun. This also is vanity. So I turned about and gave my heart up to despair over all the toil of my labors under the sun, because sometimes a person who has toiled with wisdom and knowledge and skill must leave everything to be enjoyed by someone who did not toil for it. This also is vanity and a great evil. What has a man from all the toil and striving of heart with which he toils beneath the sun? For all his days are full of sorrow, and his work is a vexation. Even in the night his heart does not rest. This also is vanity.
There is nothing better for a person than that he should eat and drink and find enjoyment in his toil. This also, I saw, is from the hand of God, for apart from him who can eat or who can have enjoyment? For to the one who pleases him God has given wisdom and knowledge and joy, but to the sinner he has given the business of gathering and collecting, only to give to one who pleases God. This also is vanity and a striving after wind.
Epistle Reading -- Colossians 3:1–11
If then you have been raised with Christ, seek the things that are above, where Christ is, seated at the right hand of God. Set your minds on things that are above, not on things that are on earth. For you have died, and your life is hidden with Christ in God. When Christ who is your life appears, then you also will appear with him in glory.
Put to death therefore what is earthly in you: sexual immorality, impurity, passion, evil desire, and covetousness, which is idolatry. On account of these the wrath of God is coming. In these you too once walked, when you were living in them. But now you must put them all away: anger, wrath, malice, slander, and obscene talk from your mouth. Do not lie to one another, seeing that you have put off the old self with its practices and have put on the new self, which is being renewed in knowledge after the image of its creator. Here there is not Greek and Jew, circumcised and uncircumcised, barbarian, Scythian, slave, free; but Christ is all, and in all.
The Holy Gospel according to St. Luke, the twelfth chapter
Someone in the crowd said to [Jesus], “Teacher, tell my brother to divide the inheritance with me.” But he said to him, “Man, who made me a judge or arbitrator over you?” And he said to them, “Take care, and be on your guard against all covetousness, for one’s life does not consist in the abundance of his possessions.” And he told them a parable, saying, “The land of a rich man produced plentifully, and he thought to himself, ‘What shall I do, for I have nowhere to store my crops?’ And he said, ‘I will do this: I will tear down my barns and build larger ones, and there I will store all my grain and my goods. And I will say to my soul, Soul, you have ample goods laid up for many years; relax, eat, drink, be merry.’ But God said to him, ‘Fool! This night your soul is required of you, and the things you have prepared, whose will they be?’ So is the one who lays up treasure for himself and is not rich toward God.”
August 2025 Newsletter
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Bulletin: Sunday, August 3, 2025 + This Week at Zion
Download/view the latest bulletin. It’s filled with our hymns, the order of service, all the readings from scripture, prayer requests for family & friends, service participants, communion statement, about our worship, the schedule of events for this coming weeks, along with announcements, news updates, happenings, and more!
View the bulletin for Sunday, August 3, 2025
Archive of AUDIO “Readings & Sermons”
Archive of VIDEO “Complete Service”
Archive of Bulletins
PLEASE NOTE: Starting Monday July 14th Pastor will be out of the office for knee surgery. Please contact the Church Administrator at 412-221-4776 for any Pastoral needs
Also, there are Bibles, Handmade Wooden Wall Crosses and Pocket New Testaments/Psalms on a table in the back of the Sanctuary. They are free to anyone who would like to have them for home use, or to give as gifts!
THIS WEEK AT ZION
Saturday August 2
No Events Scheduled
Sunday August 3
8:00 a.m. — Worship Service with Communion
9:15 a.m. — Adult/Teen Bible Study & Summer Sunday School
10:30 a.m. — Worship Service with Communion
(The 8:00 a.m. service streamed on our YouTube channel)
Monday August 4
No events scheduled
Tuesday August 5
10:00 a.m. - VBS Leadership Wrap-Up Meeting
Wednesday August 6
2:00 p.m. - Midweek Worship with Communion
2:30 p.m. - Bible Study with Pastor Kettner (30 min.)
(Wednesday’s service will be streamed on our YouTube channel)
Thursday August 7
7:00 p.m. - Elders’ Meeting
Friday August 8
No events scheduled
Saturday August 9
No Events Scheduled
Sunday August 10
8:00 a.m. — Worship Service with Communion
9:15 a.m. — Adult/Teen Bible Study & Summer 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
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