VIDEO: Sunday, March 8, 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.
Audio: Readings & Sermon for Sunday, March 8, 2026
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.
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Old Testament Reading -- Exodus 17:1–7
All the congregation of the people of Israel moved on from the wilderness of Sin by stages, according to the commandment of the Lord, and camped at Rephidim, but there was no water for the people to drink. Therefore the people quarreled with Moses and said, “Give us water to drink.” And Moses said to them, “Why do you quarrel with me? Why do you test the Lord?” But the people thirsted there for water, and the people grumbled against Moses and said, “Why did you bring us up out of Egypt, to kill us and our children and our livestock with thirst?” So Moses cried to the Lord, “What shall I do with this people? They are almost ready to stone me.” And the Lord said to Moses, “Pass on before the people, taking with you some of the elders of Israel, and take in your hand the staff with which you struck the Nile, and go. Behold, I will stand before you there on the rock at Horeb, and you shall strike the rock, and water shall come out of it, and the people will drink.” And Moses did so, in the sight of the elders of Israel. And he called the name of the place Massah and Meribah, because of the quarreling of the people of Israel, and because they tested the Lord by saying, “Is the Lord among us or not?”
Epistle Reading -- Romans 5:1–8
Therefore, since we have been justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ. Through him we have also obtained access by faith into this grace in which we stand, and we rejoice in hope of the glory of God. More than that, we rejoice in our sufferings, knowing that suffering produces endurance, and endurance produces character, and character produces hope, and hope does not put us to shame, because God’s love has been poured into our hearts through the Holy Spirit who has been given to us.
For while we were still weak, at the right time Christ died for the ungodly. For one will scarcely die for a righteous person—though perhaps for a good person one would dare even to die— but God shows his love for us in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us.
The Holy Gospel according to St. John, the fourth chapter
[Jesus] came to a town of Samaria called Sychar, near the field that Jacob had given to his son Joseph. Jacob’s well was there; so Jesus, wearied as he was from his journey, was sitting beside the well. It was about the sixth hour.
There came a woman of Samaria to draw water. Jesus said to her, “Give me a drink.” 8(For his disciples had gone away into the city to buy food.) The Samaritan woman said to him, “How is it that you, a Jew, ask for a drink from me, a woman of Samaria?” (For Jews have no dealings with Samaritans.) Jesus answered her, “If you knew the gift of God, and who it is that is saying to you, ‘Give me a drink,’ you would have asked him, and he would have given you living water.” The woman said to him, “Sir, you have nothing to draw water with, and the well is deep. Where do you get that living water? Are you greater than our father Jacob? He gave us the well and drank from it himself, as did his sons and his livestock.” Jesus said to her, “Everyone who drinks of this water will be thirsty again, but whoever drinks of the water that I will give him will never be thirsty forever. The water that I will give him will become in him a spring of water welling up to eternal life.” The woman said to him, “Sir, give me this water, so that I will not be thirsty or have to come here to draw water.”
Jesus said to her, “Go, call your husband, and come here.” The woman answered him, “I have no husband.” Jesus said to her, “You are right in saying, ‘I have no husband’; for you have had five husbands, and the one you now have is not your husband. What you have said is true.” The woman said to him, “Sir, I perceive that you are a prophet. Our fathers worshiped on this mountain, but you say that in Jerusalem is the place where people ought to worship.” Jesus said to her, “Woman, believe me, the hour is coming when neither on this mountain nor in Jerusalem will you worship the Father. You worship what you do not know; we worship what we know, for salvation is from the Jews. But the hour is coming, and is now here, when the true worshipers will worship the Father in spirit and truth, for the Father is seeking such people to worship him. God is spirit, and those who worship him must worship in spirit and truth.” The woman said to him, “I know that Messiah is coming (he who is called Christ). When he comes, he will tell us all things.” Jesus said to her, “I who speak to you am he.”
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LWML Upcoming Events
Upcoming Events: LWML/Women’s Ministry
March 18th
Lenten Supper @ 5:30 p.m. in Zion’s Fellowship Hall
April 17th
Bunco @ 6:30 p.m. in Zion’s Fellowship Hall
May 2nd
Spring Zone Rally at St. Luke’s in Cabot, PA
June 12-14th
District Convention in Lancaster, PA
September 18-20th
District Fall Retreat at Pioneer-on-the-Lake
March 18th
Lenten Supper @ 5:30 p.m. in Zion’s Fellowship Hall
April 17th
Bunco @ 6:30 p.m. in Zion’s Fellowship Hall
May 2nd
Spring Zone Rally at St. Luke’s in Cabot, PA
June 12-14th
District Convention in Lancaster, PA
September 18-20th
District Fall Retreat at Pioneer-on-the-Lake
Zion Youth Group Event: March 15th
Join us for a Zion Youth Group Event
Murder Mystery and Bible Study
March 15, 2026
6:00 - 8:00 p.m.
Dinner will also be provided
Join us for a Zion Youth Group Event
Murder Mystery and Bible Study
Sunday, March 15, 2026
6:00 - 8:00 p.m.
Dinner will also be provided
College Care Packages
COLLEGE CARE PACKAGE DONATIONS are being accepted now through Sunday April 12th for our nine Zion college students. Take an item from the Care Package Donation Request Board on the table in the back of the sanctuary, then place your donation in the basket. Cash and check donations are also gladly accepted!
COLLEGE CARE PACKAGE DONATIONS are being accepted now through Sunday April 12th for our nine Zion college students. Take an item from the Care Package Donation Request Board on the table in the back of the sanctuary, then place your donation in the basket. Cash and check donations are also gladly accepted!
Bulletin: Sunday, March 8, 2026 + 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!
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THIS WEEK AT ZION
Friday, March 6
No Events Scheduled
Saturday, March 7
No Events Scheduled
Sunday, March 8
Food Bank Sunday
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, March 9
6:00 p.m. - 1st Year Confirmation Class
7:00 p.m. - 2nd Year Confirmation Class
7:00 p.m. - Board of Education Meeting
Tuesday, March 10
6:15 p.m. - Bell Choir
7:15 p.m. - Adult Choir
Wednesday, March 11
Lent Week 3
2:00 p.m. - Lent Worship Service
2:30 p.m. - Bible Study Nurturing Your Faith: Patient Urgency
7:00 p.m. - Lent Worship Service
(Service streamed on our YouTube channel)
Thursday, March 12
6:00 p.m. - Events Committee Meeting
7:00 p.m. - Council Meeting
Friday, March 13
No Events Scheduled
Saturday, March 14
No Events Scheduled
Sunday, March 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 Meeting (additional information)
(The 8:00 a.m. service streamed on our YouTube channel)
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News from Pastor Wokoma
Beloved Sponsors of St. Barnabas West Africa Lutheran Mission; Have A Blessed New Month of March, 2026, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ who for us all and for our salvation came down from heaven fasting forty days and forty nights in the wilderness. Amen.
As you join in this year's Lenten walk and meditate on the suffering of our Lord, please include in your prayers the safety of the Christians in Africa who are suffering from persecution especially the Confessional Lutherans of JEM Lutheran Seminary. The Seminary cannot afford to experience any more insecurity this time that she is financially scrambling/struggling to survive, among others, the increased number of new students, and new faculty on campus as required by the Accreditation Board of the National University Commission.
In all, we thank the Lord who continue to protect and sustain the students and the faculty as the Seminary was able to observe its usual combined Ash Wednesday Service of the Seminarians, the Lutheran High School students, the Lutheran Nursery School pupils, and LCN Synod staff. God Be Praised!
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A Blessed Ash Wednesday and Beginning of Lent!
Oh Lord, throughout these forty days You prayed and kept the fast;
Inspire repentance for our sin, And free us from our past.
You strove with Satan and You won; Your faithfulness endured;
Lend us Your nerve, Your skill and trust In God's eternal Word.
Through parched and hungry, yet You prayed And fixed Your mind above;
So teach us to deny ourselves, Since we have know God's love.
Be with us through this season, Lord, And all our earthy days,
That when the final Easter dawns, We join in heaven's praise.
(LSB 418)
Beloved Sponsors of St. Barnabas West Africa Lutheran Mission; Have A Blessed New Month of March, 2026, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ who for us all and for our salvation came down from heaven fasting forty days and forty nights in the wilderness. Amen.
As you join in this year's Lenten walk and meditate on the suffering of our Lord, please include in your prayers the safety of the Christians in Africa who are suffering from persecution especially the Confessional Lutherans of JEM Lutheran Seminary. The Seminary cannot afford to experience any more insecurity this time that she is financially scrambling/struggling to survive, among others, the increased number of new students, and new faculty on campus as required by the Accreditation Board of the National University Commission.
In all, we thank the Lord who continue to protect and sustain the students and the faculty as the Seminary was able to observe its usual combined Ash Wednesday Service of the Seminarians, the Lutheran High School students, the Lutheran Nursery School pupils, and LCN Synod staff. God Be Praised!
Below are a few pictures of the Ash Wednesday Service at the Synod Headquarters
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Easter Break will begin on Monday of Easter, known as “Easter Monday” in some parts of Africa and the world. The reason is to enable the Seminarians to have hands-on-deck experience of the Trieduim.
PRAYER REQUEST(S)
Yet again, please continue to pray for my safety, and the safety of all the persecuted Christians in Africa especially this season of the church year as we are about to celebrate our Lord’s resurrection.
Almighty and everlasting God, You despise nothing You have made and forgive the sins of all who are penitent. Create in us new and contrite hearts that lamenting our sins and acknowledging our wretchedness we may receive from You full pardon and forgiveness; through Jesus Christ, our Lord, who lives and reigns with You and the Holy Spirit, one God, now and forever. Amen.
Sincerely in-Christ,
Fr. Wokoma
The saying is trustworthy and deserving of full acceptance, that Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners, of whom I am the foremost. – 1 Tim. 1:15