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
College Care Package Donations are being accepted today through Sun. 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 22 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!
View the bulletin for Sunday, March 22, 2026
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THIS WEEK AT ZION
Saturday, March 21
No Events Scheduled
Sunday, March 22
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 23
6:00 p.m. - Confirmation Class, 1st Year
7:00 p.m. - Confirmation Class, 2nd Year
Tuesday, March 24
6:15 p.m. - Bell Choir
7:15 p.m. - Adult Choir
Wednesday, March 25
Lent Week 5
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 26
No Events Scheduled
Friday, March 27
5:00 p.m. - Preschool Ice Cream Social
Saturday, March 28
10:00 a.m. - Spring Cleanup hosted by the Board of Trustees (additional details)
Sunday, March 29
PALM 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)
CLICK THE UPCOMING EVENTS GRAPHIC to go directly to our UPCOMING EVENTS page
Spring Cleanup at Zion
Spring Cleanup at Zion
Saturday, March 28th, starting at 10:00 a.m.
Lend a hand at the Spring Cleanup hosted by the Zion Board of Trustees! Your help is needed to clean out flower beds, rake up debris, and spread mulch. Email Head Trustee Mike Debowski at mike.j.debowski@gmail.com if you can help.
Many hands make light work
Spring Cleanup at Zion
Saturday, March 28th, starting at 10:00 a.m.
Lend a hand at the Spring Cleanup hosted by the Zion Board of Trustees! Your help is needed to clean out flower beds, rake up debris, and spread mulch. Email Head Trustee Mike Debowski at mike.j.debowski@gmail.com if you can help.
Many hands make light work
The Perpetual Call for Pastors and Teachers
2025–2027 Mission Grant #4
The Perpetual Call for Pastors and Teachers
LCMS Office of Pastoral Education, U.S. $100,000
Set Apart to Serve (SAS) is a Synod-wide program focused on forming and recruiting full-time church workers. Supplying the church with workers is one of the highest priorities for The Lutheran Church—Missouri Synod (LCMS). SAS is striving to develop a culture where every LCMS congregation, school, and entity intentionally forms and recruits church workers among their youth and adults. They are focusing on youth, second-career, multi-cultural ministry, and international outreach. Moving forward they will continue testing and refining all focus areas, form new partnerships, and expand resources available to congregations, schools, and families. There are three areas of focus. First, there has been an increased interest in full-time church work at the LCMS Youth Gathering, YouthLead, and Higher Things events. Concordia universities and seminaries are reporting increases in enrollment in church work programs, for the first time in 15 years. Second, fostering an intentional culture of recruitment and developing tools to identify second-career candidates is vital to increasing enrollment in the seminaries. Finally, the SAS strategies on multi-cultural and international workers will help bring all to know Jesus Christ. This $100,000 grant will help the Set Apart to Serve program encourage more members to consider church work. It will provide insight, collaboration, and needed resources to spread the saving Gospel message to all people.
2025–2027 Mission Grant #4
The Perpetual Call for Pastors and Teachers
LCMS Office of Pastoral Education, U.S. $100,000
Set Apart to Serve (SAS) is a Synod-wide program focused on forming and recruiting full-time church workers. Supplying the church with workers is one of the highest priorities for The Lutheran Church—Missouri Synod (LCMS). SAS is striving to develop a culture where every LCMS congregation, school, and entity intentionally forms and recruits church workers among their youth and adults. They are focusing on youth, second-career, multi-cultural ministry, and international outreach. Moving forward they will continue testing and refining all focus areas, form new partnerships, and expand resources available to congregations, schools, and families. There are three areas of focus. First, there has been an increased interest in full-time church work at the LCMS Youth Gathering, YouthLead, and Higher Things events. Concordia universities and seminaries are reporting increases in enrollment in church work programs, for the first time in 15 years. Second, fostering an intentional culture of recruitment and developing tools to identify second-career candidates is vital to increasing enrollment in the seminaries. Finally, the SAS strategies on multi-cultural and international workers will help bring all to know Jesus Christ. This $100,000 grant will help the Set Apart to Serve program encourage more members to consider church work. It will provide insight, collaboration, and needed resources to spread the saving Gospel message to all people.
Then he said to his disciples, “The harvest is plentiful, but the laborers are few; therefore pray earnestly to the Lord of the harvest to send out laborers into his harvest” (Matthew 9:37–38).
We Can All Witness & Outreach
We Can All Witness & Outreach
By: Mike Wallace, Congregational Vice President
Witnessing and outreaching outside our church doors involves engaging with people in everyday settings and events . . . activities in our community where we see and meet people. We can volunteer and assist in and around our area, shining our light of love for Christ bright in our actions and sharing our faith, sowing seeds, watering what’s planted, remember God brings the growth we just show His love.
Maybe you would choose to share your faith over coffee or a meal by inviting friends or neighbors who don’t go to church to a local or eatery. Perhaps an outing to a park or outdoor trail is where you and your friend would find a relaxed atmosphere to engage in a spiritual conversation, making it easier to share love of Christ, your faith and beliefs in a non-threatening way.
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We Can All Witness & Outreach
By: Mike Wallace, Congregational Vice President
Witnessing and outreaching outside our church doors involves engaging with people in everyday settings and events . . . activities in our community where we see and meet people. We can volunteer and assist in and around our area, shining our light of love for Christ bright in our actions and sharing our faith, sowing seeds, watering what’s planted, remember God brings the growth we just show His love.
Maybe you would choose to share your faith over coffee or a meal by inviting friends or neighbors who don’t go to church to a local or eatery. Perhaps an outing to a park or outdoor trail is where you and your friend would find a relaxed atmosphere to engage in a spiritual conversation, making it easier to share love of Christ, your faith and beliefs in a non-threatening way.
No matter the location or whatever the activity, actively listening to them and their beliefs, while honestly answering their questions, is vital. Of course, providing clear information about your beliefs and faith is also important. Our friends and neighbors must see us as we are -- faithful Christians who are also sinners, saved by the grace of God because of Christ.
As for Zion, we will continue to reach out to the community with ministries and events like Vacation Bible School, community days, children’s events, etc. Our Bridge Builders team is just getting started, and all members are invited to be a part of the outreach efforts to show care and love to our neighbors.
Pray: O Lord, You desire that all people be baptized and saved from eternal death. You do not desire the death of one lost sheep, but that sinners should turn from evil and live with You for eternity. We humbly ask You to remember in mercy and love the unbelievers in our land. Remember those who have never heard the Word, or do not understand the way of Salvation. Lead them to the knowledge of the truth of Jesus Christ. Grant that your Christian family may reach many and bring them to the sweet tidings of Your redeeming grace and love. Let the Spirit of Truth work through the Holy Scriptures to bring the forgiveness of sins to all the lost. We ask for Your heavenly protection, and we pray You to make powerful the Word we proclaim. Help us to gather the lost, bringing them into the fold of Your Christian family as brothers and sisters in Jesus Christ our Savior. For all this we praise You Lord, Your Son Jesus Christ and the Holy Spirit now and forever. Amen
VIDEO: Wednesday, March 18, 2026 - 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 Wednesday, March 18, 2026
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2:00 p.m. - Worship Service
2:30 p.m. - Bible Study: Nurturing Your Faith, Patient Urgency
7:00 p.m. - Worship Service
Audio: Readings & Sermon for Wednesday, March 18, 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.
View the bulletin for Wednesday, March 18, 2026
Archive of AUDIO “Readings & Sermons”
Archive of VIDEO “Complete Service”
Archive of Bulletins
2:00 p.m. - Worship Service
2:30 p.m. - Bible Study: Nurturing Your Faith, Patient Urgency
7:00 p.m. - Worship Service
First Reading -- Romans 8:9–11
You, however, are not in the flesh but in the Spirit, if in fact the Spirit of God dwells in you. Anyone who does not have the Spirit of Christ does not belong to Him. But if Christ is in you, although the body is dead because of sin, the Spirit is life because of righteousness. If the Spirit of Him who raised Jesus from the dead dwells in you, He who raised Christ Jesus from the dead will also give life to your mortal bodies through His Spirit who dwells in you.
Second Reading -- Mark 5:1–13
They came to the other side of the sea, to the country of the Gerasenes. And when Jesus had stepped out of the boat, immediately there met Him out of the tombs a man with an unclean spirit. He lived among the tombs. And no one could bind him anymore, not even with a chain, for he had often been bound with shackles and chains, but he wrenched the chains apart, and he broke the shackles in pieces. No one had the strength to subdue him. Night and day among the tombs and on the mountains he was always crying out and bruising himself with stones. And when he saw Jesus from afar, he ran and fell down before Him. And crying out with a loud voice, he said, “What have You to do with me, Jesus, Son of the Most High God? I adjure You by God, do not torment me.” For He was saying to him, “Come out of the man, you unclean spirit!” And Jesus asked him, “What is your name?” He replied, “My name is Legion, for we are many.” And he begged Him earnestly not to send them out of the country. Now a great herd of pigs was feeding there on the hillside, and they begged Him, saying, “Send us to the pigs; let us enter them.” So He gave them permission. And the unclean spirits came out, and entered the pigs, and the herd, numbering about two thousand, rushed down the steep bank into the sea and were drowned in the sea.
Third Reading -- Mark 15:6–32
Now at the feast he used to release for them one prisoner for whom they asked. And among the rebels in prison, who had committed murder in the insurrection, there was a man called Barabbas. And the crowd came up and began to ask Pilate to do as he usually did for them. And he answered them, saying, “Do you want me to release for you the King of the Jews?” For he perceived that it was out of envy that the chief priests had delivered Him up. But the chief priests stirred up the crowd to have him release for them Barabbas instead. And Pilate again said to them, “Then what shall I do with the man you call the King of the Jews?” And they cried out again, “Crucify Him.” And Pilate said to them, “Why, what evil has He done?” But they shouted all the more, “Crucify Him.” So Pilate, wishing to satisfy the crowd, released for them Barabbas, and having scourged Jesus, he delivered Him to be crucified. And the soldiers led Him away inside the palace (that is, the governor’s headquarters), and they called together the whole battalion. And they clothed Him in a purple cloak, and twisting together a crown of thorns, they put it on Him. And they began to salute Him, “Hail, King of the Jews!” And they were striking His head with a reed and spitting on Him and kneeling down in homage to Him. And when they had mocked Him, they stripped Him of the purple cloak and put His own clothes on Him. And they led Him out to crucify Him.
And they compelled a passerby, Simon of Cyrene, who was coming in from the country, the father of Alexander and Rufus, to carry His cross. And they brought Him to the place called Golgotha (which means Place of a Skull). And they offered Him wine mixed with myrrh, but He did not take it. And they crucified Him and divided His garments among them, casting lots for them, to decide what each should take. And it was the third hour when they crucified Him. And the inscription of the charge against Him read, “The King of the Jews.” And with Him they crucified two robbers, one on His right and one on His left.
And those who passed by derided Him, wagging their heads and saying, “Aha! You who would destroy the temple and rebuild it in three days, save Yourself, and come down from the cross!” So also the chief priests with the scribes mocked Him to one another, saying, “He saved others; He cannot save Himself. Let the Christ, the King of Israel, come down now from the cross that we may see and believe.” Those who were crucified with Him also reviled Him.