Youth Group Curling Night
Youth Group Curling Night
Sunday, April 19th from 6:00 - 8:00 p.m.
At the Pittsburgh Curling Club
491 McCoy Rd, McKees Rocks, PA 15136
$20 per person
Contact Deaconess Joanna to reserve your spot
deaconess@zlcb.org
Please eat before you come, as dinner will not be provided
Youth Group Curling Night
Sunday, April 19th from 6:00 - 8:00 p.m.
At the Pittsburgh Curling Club
491 McCoy Rd, McKees Rocks, PA 15136
$20 per person
Contact Deaconess Joanna to reserve your spot
deaconess@zlcb.org
Please eat before you come, as dinner will not be provided
Spiritual Conversations
Spiritual Conversations … Challenge Question
Instructions:
Use this question to spark a conversation with someone this month. Talk with your family at dinner, your friend over coffee, your classmate before the bell rings, or whoever you find an opportunity to speak with this week/
The Question:
If you could be any person in the Bible, who would you choose and why?
Spiritual Conversations … Challenge Question
Instructions:
Use this question to spark a conversation with someone this month. Talk with your family at dinner, your friend over coffee, your classmate before the bell rings, or whoever you find an opportunity to speak with this week/
The Question:
If you could be any person in the Bible, who would you choose and why?
“It’s Got Fingers and Toes and Everything”!
“It’s Got Fingers and Toes and Everything”!
by Barbara Lane Geistfeld, LFL Regional Director
LifeDate, Winter 2025
All over the world, men and women labor to uphold the value of God’s gift of life to mankind. They believe that God’s gift of life starts with fertilization and ends with natural death. They believe that all babies are conceived because God created that child on purpose—for a purpose. They believe with all their hearts that Psalm 139:13-14 is true:
“For you formed my inward parts; you knitted me together in my mother’s womb. I praise you, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made. Wonderful are your works; my soul knows it very well.”
One of the places where men and women support this gift of life is at their local Pregnancy Resource Center (PRC). One of these special women, Arlene Hamlin, attends Trinity Lutheran Church in Blanco, Texas, where she is a member of the Life Team of which I am the Life Team Leader. She is a compassionate voice For Life and has shared her story with all of us as an encouragement and blessing.
Click the link below to read the complete story …
“It’s Got Fingers and Toes and Everything”!
by Barbara Lane Geistfeld, LFL Regional Director
LifeDate, Winter 2025
All over the world, men and women labor to uphold the value of God’s gift of life to mankind. They believe that God’s gift of life starts with fertilization and ends with natural death. They believe that all babies are conceived because God created that child on purpose—for a purpose. They believe with all their hearts that Psalm 139:13-14 is true:
“For you formed my inward parts; you knitted me together in my mother’s womb. I praise you, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made. Wonderful are your works; my soul knows it very well.”
One of the places where men and women support this gift of life is at their local Pregnancy Resource Center (PRC). One of these special women, Arlene Hamlin, attends Trinity Lutheran Church in Blanco, Texas, where she is a member of the Life Team of which I am the Life Team Leader. She is a compassionate voice For Life and has shared her story with all of us as an encouragement and blessing.
“I have volunteered for over ten years at a pregnancy resource center. As a Client Advocate, I have the opportunity to listen to the fears and concerns of women who are faced with an unplanned pregnancy. Many are being influenced by their family, friends, and the father of the expected child to abort their ‘problem.’ They are told that all will then be fine! But will it? Many have no idea what is involved in a chemical or surgical abortion. They come to us to find out how far along they are so they will know the cost of an abortion. In their minds, this is the only option they see. Fortunately, some, especially the young girls, are confused and seeking answers. I can, in a loving atmosphere, educate them about the process and the dangers of different types of abortions.
“More importantly, I have the opportunity to question them about their reasons for wanting an abortion. When they hear themselves state their reasons for seeking an abortion, I often see them start to question if this is really what they want. I can suggest options that address their real concerns. Our center is there to provide material support for their baby if they choose to parent and to help them find emotional and spiritual support for years to come.
“This is when I put a life-sized model of a seven-week-old baby in the palm of their hand. They see a tiny baby with a head, a body, and fingers and toes. One young woman gazed at the model in awe and said, ‘It’s got fingers and toes and everything!’ I explain that the baby has a heart that is beating and a very active brain. It is an individual with its own DNA and is not part of her body. Her body is supplying a safe place for the baby to grow into the child that is part of God’s plan for her life. If the girl is a teenager, I share with her that I was a teenage mother. I don’t sugar coat the changes it will make in her life. It’s not easy, but things worth having are not always easy, and the son I gave birth to was, and is, the greatest of rewards.
“I then take the girl or woman to the nurse where she receives an ultrasound. This determines the exact weeks of pregnancy and allows her to see the movement of the baby in her womb. Most times she can hear her baby’s heartbeat. This is a critical time when we trust that the Holy Spirit will open her heart and mind to the wondrous event she is experiencing.
“Working at a Christian-based organization gives me the privilege of sharing the Gospel with those who do not know Jesus Christ. I share with them the truth about God’s love for both mother and child. Except in rare cases, they accept me praying for them. Most days I leave the center with joy in my heart, having had the opportunity to advocate for life.
“But some days I leave not knowing what the woman will decide to do. It’s especially sad now with the widespread availability of abortion pills, even in Texas where abortion is illegal. These drugs are dangerous for the mother, and I warn her of the dangers to both herself and her baby. Then I must let her go, trusting in my heart that she and her baby are in God’s hands.”
Thank you, Arlene, for sharing your heart’s ministry. It gives us encouragement as we continue to be Gospel-motivated voices For Life. Sharing with others that we are all “fearfully and wonderfully made” and then trusting in God to hold them and us in His hands is a ministry worth living for.
Bible Study: Sunday, March 22, 2026
Bible Study for Sunday, March 22, 2026
For our study of the Gospel of John, we covered the following passages:
John 7:32-36, John 7:37-39, John 7:40-44, John 7:45-52, John 8:1-6, John 8:7-11, John 8:12-16, and John 8:17-20.
The March 29th Bible Study will be published on Sunday, April 12th.
Bible Study for Sunday, March 22, 2026
For our study of the Gospel of John, we covered the following passages:
John 7:32-36, John 7:37-39, John 7:40-44, John 7:45-52, John 8:1-6, John 8:7-11, John 8:12-16, and John 8:17-20.
The March 29th Bible Study will be published on Sunday, April 12th.
VIDEO: Sunday, March 29, 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 29, 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 Sunday, March 29, 2026
Archive of AUDIO “Readings & Sermons”
Archive of VIDEO “Complete Service”
Archive of Bulletins
Old Testament Reading -- Isaiah 50:4–9a
The Lord God has given me
the tongue of those who are taught,
that I may know how to sustain with a word
him who is weary.
Morning by morning he awakens;
he awakens my ear
to hear as those who are taught.
The Lord God has opened my ear,
and I was not rebellious;
I turned not backward.
I gave my back to those who strike,
and my cheeks to those who pull out the beard;
I hid not my face
from disgrace and spitting.
But the Lord God helps me;
therefore I have not been disgraced;
therefore I have set my face like a flint,
and I know that I shall not be put to shame.
He who vindicates me is near.
Who will contend with me?
Let us stand up together.
Who is my adversary?
Let him come near to me.
Behold, the Lord God helps me;
who will declare me guilty?
Epistle Reading -- Philippians 2:5–11
Have this mind among yourselves, which is yours in Christ Jesus, who, though he was in the form of God, did not count equality with God a thing to be grasped, but made himself nothing, taking the form of a servant, being born in the likeness of men. And being found in human form, he humbled himself by becoming obedient to the point of death, even death on a cross. Therefore God has highly exalted him and bestowed on him the name that is above every name, so that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, in heaven and on earth and under the earth, and every tongue confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father.
The Holy Gospel according to St. John, the twelfth chapter
The next day the large crowd that had come to the feast heard that Jesus was coming to Jerusalem. So they took branches of palm trees and went out to meet him, crying out, “Hosanna! Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord, even the King of Israel!” And Jesus found a young donkey and sat on it, just as it is written,
“Fear not, daughter of Zion;
behold, your king is coming,
sitting on a donkey's colt!”
His disciples did not understand these things at first, but when Jesus was glorified, then they remembered that these things had been written about him and had been done to him. The crowd that had been with him when he called Lazarus out of the tomb and raised him from the dead continued to bear witness. The reason why the crowd went to meet him was that they heard he had done this sign. So the Pharisees said to one another, “You see that you are gaining nothing. Look, the world has gone after him.”
Bell Choir -- Hosanna (8:00 a.m.)