October is Church Worker Appreciation Month (part 1)

Our Lutheran Church -- Missouri Synod takes the entire month of October to kick off a yearlong observance of church worker appreciation, during which we celebrate and recognize the ongoing faithful service of each LCMS congregation’s called worker(s).

Whether you’re a congregation of 40 or 400, and whether your church is 10 years old or a century old, you know and have known the blessing of being fed and cared for by a church worker (or a team of church workers). Their call is to a ministry that subverts the gates of hell itself. Whether it’s writing a sermon, making a midnight hospital visit, teaching a kindergarten class, preparing youth for confirmation, planning Advent chorale music in mid-July, supporting marriages and families, encouraging someone to share his or her faith, or sitting with someone in crisis, our church workers’ service reflects Christ’s love and sacrifice for His people. For that, we owe our greatest thanks and our deepest appreciation.

Ministry is a marathon, not a sprint. For our faithful church workers, the greatest forms of encouragement — and the most heartfelt displays of appreciation — come from the very people God has called them to serve. So, with the help and input of congregations across the country, we have compiled a list of church worker appreciation ideas, varying in degree from simple to elaborate. We hope that these ideas will fuel creativity and reflection and spur each congregation to recognize their own called workers in at least one new way. We truly believe that perseverance in ministry comes from a combination of the work of the Spirit and the encouragement of the saints being served.

Bulletin: Wednesday, October 29, 2025

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Worship Service: 2:00 p.m. with communion
Bible Study: 2:30 p.m. - Book of Haggai with Pastor Grimenstein
All are welcome, bring a friend, neighbor or relative

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Fourteenth Annual "Adopt a Grandparent"

Fourteenth Annual "Adopt a Grandparent" 
During the Holiday season, I enjoy brightening the lives of residents in local assisted living and nursing home facilities in Allegheny County. Many of these people have few, if any, visitors and receive little, if anything, during the Holidays. Last year, through the generosity of local businesses and friends, I helped deliver over 1000 gifts to residents of John J Kane Regional Hospital, Scott Twp and McKeesport, and several other nursing and assisted-living facilities. This year I hope to help deliver 1000 + gifts again. 

By partnering with me, your $15 will provide each of two residents a fragrance-free hand cream and help them have a very Merry Christmas. These items are specifically requested by caregivers for the benefits the residents receive. The lotions will soothe their hands and bring joy, as well, by the simple "touch therapy" of applying them. They will be delivered in early December. 

Please consider what a blessing this is for the men and women in these facilities who once lived and worked in our local communities. Let them know they are remembered! THANK YOU! 

You may contribute with cash, or make your check payable to Ginny GrankeKimberland. 

Ginny Granke-Kimberland , 7082 Clubview Dr., Bridgeville, PA 15017 412-427-9013 

Shout Out to Students

Serenity Migyanko, a fourth grader at Avonworth Elementary, was selected by her principal and school counselor to make a poster for a contest at the Allegheny county courthouse on National Adoption Day. The theme is “what my family means to me.” She came up with this tree idea and all the words on her own and selected the quote. Her poster will be hanging up in the courthouse through the month of November for all to see! 

Janna & Leopold's Birthday Party

Janna & Leopold’s Birthday Party
No gifts are necessary, but, if you would like, you may bring something we can enjoy together at the party (Such as an activity, decoration, or snack).

Saturday, November 8, 2025 @ 3:30 p.m.
Zion Lutheran Church Fellowship Hall
3197 Washington Pike, Bridgeville, PA 15017
RSVP to deaconessjoanna@gmail.com

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First Reading -- Revelation 14:6-7 
Then I saw another angel flying directly overhead, with an eternal gospel to proclaim to those who dwell on earth, to every nation and tribe and language and people. And he said with a loud voice, “Fear God and give him glory, because the hour of his judgment has come, and worship him who made heaven and earth, the sea and the springs of water.” 

Epistle Reading – Romans 3:19–28 
Now we know that whatever the law says it speaks to those who are under the law, so that every mouth may be stopped, and the whole world may be held accountable to God. For by works of the law no human being will be justified in his sight, since through the law comes knowledge of sin. 

But now the righteousness of God has been manifested apart from the law, although the Law and the Prophets bear witness to it— the righteousness of God through faith in Jesus Christ for all who believe. For there is no distinction: for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God, and are justified by his grace as a gift, through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus, whom God put forward as a propitiation by his blood, to be received by faith. This was to show God’s righteousness, because in his divine forbearance he had passed over former sins. It was to show his righteousness at the present time, so that he might be just and the justifier of the one who has faith in Jesus. 

Then what becomes of our boasting? It is excluded. By what kind of law? By a law of works? No, but by the law of faith. For we hold that one is justified by faith apart from works of the law. 

The Holy Gospel according to St. John, the eighth chapter
So Jesus said to the Jews who had believed in him, “If you abide in my word, you are truly my disciples, and you will know the truth, and the truth will set you free.” They answered him, “We are offspring of Abraham and have never been enslaved to anyone. How is it that you say, ‘You will become free’?” 

Jesus answered them, “Truly, truly, I say to you, everyone who commits sin is a slave to sin. The slave does not remain in the house forever; the son remains forever. So if the Son sets you free, you will be free indeed.” 

Quartet -- My Lord, What A Morning (8 am) Choir -- Redeemer, Rock, and Refuge (10:30 am)