SERVICE CANCELED: Wednesday, May 13, 2026

SERVICE CANCELED: Wednesday, May 13, 2026.
Pastor is sick.

CANCELED: Ladies Bunco Night - Friday May 15th

CANCLED:
Ladies Bunco Night
Friday May 15, 2026 at 6:30 p.m. in Zion’s Fellowship Hall
RSVP to Tracey Harris tharris@zlcb.org by May 13th
Bring an appetizer or dessert to share

So what’s Bunco?
Bunco is a dice game with twelve or more players, divided into groups of four, trying to score points while taking turns rolling three dice in a series of six rounds. A bunco is achieved when a person rolls three-of-a-kind and all three numbers match the round number which is decided at the beginning of the round. Video of how Bunco is played — view below
No experience necessary!

Life Together Digest: How Does Baptism Justify?

In this Life Together Digest, the Rev. Dr. Matthew C. Harrison, president of The Lutheran Church—Missouri Synod, connects Christ’s glorious resurrection to your Baptism. “Through the resurrection, Baptism justifies,” says Harrison, emphasizing that “[Jesus’] resurrection is the promise of eternal life for you.” Indeed, we confess that “we were buried therefore with Him by Baptism into death, in order that, just as Christ was raised from the dead by the glory of the Father, we too might walk in newness of life” (Rom. 6:4).

View this month’s Life Together Digest at https://mailchi.mp/lcms/life-together...

Is Your Contact Information Out of Date?

Please reach out to Susie in the Church Office with any changes to contact information for you, your family, or adult children no longer in your household (phone numbers, mailing and email addresses, etc). The office email address is secretary@zlcb.org. 

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Zion’s Communion Statement

Communion Statement 
We believe that in the Lord’s Supper, Christ’s physical body and blood are present in the bread and wine (1 Cor. 11:23-25). We also believe receiving the Lord’s Supper is an act of church fellowship. Scripture cautions that those who receive without recognizing Christ’s body and blood will bring judgment upon themselves (1 Cor. 11:27-29). Therefore, out of love to our guests, we invite to our altar to receive the Lord’s Supper those who are baptized, confirmed, repentant members of Lutheran Church – Missouri Synod congregations or sister congregations. If you are visiting us today from another Christian denomination, we welcome you to come to the altar to receive a baptismal blessing. Please signify by crossing your arms over your chest upon kneeling. 

In preparation to receive the Lord’s Supper in a worthy manner please consider reading “Christian Questions with their Answers” on Page 329-330. If you are interested in exploring membership, please talk with Pastor Grimenstein or call the church office. 

Our Worship 
Our worship services are based on traditional church liturgies in which God speaks to us in His Word and we respond to Him. These liturgies were used by the early church almost 2000 years ago and are rich in biblical meaning, connecting us to our past -- and future -- in Christ Jesus. There is a depth to Lutheran worship that can take time to appreciate, thus you may find that you don’t understand everything that is happening the first week you visit. That’s OK, we encourage you to keep visiting! 

Pastor’s Corner

A Grave? or . . . a Gate! 

… and the grave that shuts us in
shall but prove the gate to heaven.
Jesus, here with You I die,
there to live with You on high. 

Let Us Ever Walk with Jesus LSB #685 st. 3 

Sometimes, I am struck by something I hear in church. We hear fascinating things in our readings, our liturgy, but especially in our hymns. The stanza from the above hymn caused me to pause a few Sundays ago. The words gave a striking image that I don’t know if I’ve thought about before: “. . . and the grave that shuts us in, shall but prove the gate to heaven.” 

We’ve all been to funerals. If there is a viewing, our loved ones will be laid to rest in a casket. They will usually wear their Sunday best. The casket is lined with fabric; there is even a pillow for the head. We pay little attention to the lid. But we should. The same thing goes for a loved one who is cremated. We admire the nice case in which our loved one’s remains are resting, we pay little attention to the lid. How do we view the lid of a casket or an urn? Is it our enemy? Are we angry because that piece of metal is separating us from our loved ones? Either way, I doubt we view the lid of a casket or urn favorably. But we could. We should. 

I said earlier that I was captivated by this hymn stanza. Here is why: from our perspective, the lid is a barrier between us and our loved ones. But think about it from the deceased’s perspective. What will the lid of that casket look like to them on the day Jesus returns? Because I tell you the truth, a day will come when our loved ones awaken from the dead, and the lids of their caskets and urns will be cracked open with an unbelievably warm light shining in. And our loved one will see a crucified hand pry that lid open and there, in that moment, he or she will see Jesus Himself face to face and eye to eye. 

So, as Christians, how should we view the lid of a casket or an urn? We could look at it as the “grave that shuts us in.” But we can also see that lid as the “gate to heaven!” We can see it that way. I think we should see it that way. And thanks be to Christ, all of us will see it that way one day. 

-- Pastor Grimenstein 

CANCELED: Ladies Bunco Night - Friday May 15th

CANCLED:
Ladies Bunco Night
Friday May 15, 2026 at 6:30 p.m. in Zion’s Fellowship Hall
RSVP to Tracey Harris tharris@zlcb.org by May 13th
Bring an appetizer or dessert to share

So what’s Bunco?
Bunco is a dice game with twelve or more players, divided into groups of four, trying to score points while taking turns rolling three dice in a series of six rounds. A bunco is achieved when a person rolls three-of-a-kind and all three numbers match the round number which is decided at the beginning of the round. Video of how Bunco is played — view below
No experience necessary!