SCAM ALERT: International Lutheran Council

Dear Friends of the International Lutheran Council (ILC),

We are writing to warn you about fake emails being sent in the ILC's name.

A criminal is sending scam emails that pretend to come from our Board Chairman, Bishop Juhana Pohjola, or from the International Lutheran Council. These emails ask for money or donations.

Please know: Bishop Pohjola and the ILC did NOT send these emails. They are a scam.

How to protect yourself:

1. Do NOT reply to emails asking for money, gift cards, or bank transfers — even if they appear to come from Bishop Pohjola or another ILC leader.

2. Do NOT click links or open attachments in suspicious emails.

3. Check the sender's email address carefully. Official ILC emails come only from addresses ending in @ilcouncil.org.

4. When in doubt, contact us first. Write to admin@ilcouncil.org or call/WhatsApp +1 (260) 402-2250 before responding to any request. 

The ILC will never email you with urgent or personal requests for money, gift cards, or bank transfers. Legitimate donations to the ILC are made only through our official website, www.ilcouncil.org, or by mail to our office in Fort Wayne, Indiana.

Thank you for your faithful support of the ILC and for helping us protect each other. 

In Christ,
Mrs. Alison Blodgett
Treasurer, International Lutheran Council

Voters’ Meeting: Sun., June 21st

Please join us for an all-member voters’ meeting when we will present our ‘26-’27 Fiscal Budget will be held Sun, 6/21 at 9:15 in the Fellowship Hall. Coffee, bagels, donuts will be served. Please join us for this important meeting! 

Register Today: VBS Students & Volunteers

With a little over a month to go until VBS, we have almost 80 children registered and we need a few more volunteer hands!
Please go to zlcb.org/vbs 

Volunteer all five days, or less to fit your schedule. 

VIDEO: Wednesday, June 10, 2026 - Complete Service

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Rev. Dr. Edward O. Grimenstein

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First Reading – Proverbs 8:22-36 
“The LORD possessed me at the beginning of his work,
the first of his acts of old.
Ages ago I was set up,
at the first, before the beginning of the earth.
When there were no depths I was brought forth,
when there were no springs abounding with water.
Before the mountains had been shaped,
before the hills, I was brought forth,
before he had made the earth with its fields, 
or the first of the dust of the world.
When he established the heavens, I was there;
when he drew a circle on the face of the deep,
when he made firm the skies above,
when he established the fountains of the deep,
when he assigned to the sea its limit,
so that the waters might not transgress his command,
when he marked out the foundations of the earth,
then I was beside him, like a master workman,
and I was daily his delight,
rejoicing before him always,
rejoicing in his inhabited world
and delighting in the children of man. 

“And now, O sons, listen to me:
blessed are those who keep my ways.
Hear instruction and be wise,
and do not neglect it.
Blessed is the one who listens to me,
watching daily at my gates,
waiting beside my doors.
For whoever finds me finds life
and obtains favor from the LORD,
but he who fails to find me injures himself;
all who hate me love death.” 

Gospel Reading – John 13:1-20 
Now before the Feast of the Passover, when Jesus knew that his hour had come to depart out of this world to the Father, having loved his own who were in the world, he loved them to the end. During supper, when the devil had already put it into the heart of Judas Iscariot, Simon’s son, to betray him, Jesus, knowing that the Father had given all things into his hands, and that he had come from God and was going back to God, rose from supper. He laid aside his outer garments, and taking a towel, tied it around his waist. Then he poured water into a basin and began to wash the disciples’ feet and to wipe them with the towel that was wrapped around him. He came to Simon Peter, who said to him, “Lord, do you wash my feet?” Jesus answered him, “What I am doing you do not understand now, but afterward you will understand.” Peter said to him, “You shall never wash my feet.” Jesus answered him, “If I do not wash you, you have no share with me.” Simon Peter said to him, “Lord, not my feet only but also my hands and my head!” Jesus said to him, “The one who has bathed does not need to wash, except for his feet, but is completely clean. And you are clean, but not every one of you.” For he knew who was to betray him; that was why he said, “Not all of you are clean.” 

When he had washed their feet and put on his outer garments and resumed his place, he said to them, “Do you understand what I have done to you? You call me Teacher and Lord, and you are right, for so I am. If I then, your Lord and Teacher, have washed your feet, you also ought to wash one another’s feet. For I have given you an example, that you also should do just as I have done to you. Truly, truly, I say to you, a servant is not greater than his master, nor is a messenger greater than the one who sent him. If you know these things, blessed are you if you do them. I am not speaking of all of you; I know whom I have chosen. But the Scripture will be fulfilled, ‘He who ate my bread has lifted his heel against me.’ I am telling you this now, before it takes place, that when it does take place you may believe that I am he. Truly, truly, I say to you, whoever receives the one I send receives me, and whoever receives me receives the one who sent me.” 

Sacrament of the Altar 
What is the benefit of this eating and drinking? 
These words, “Given and shed for you for the forgiveness of sins,” show us that in the Sacrament forgiveness of sins, life, and salvation are given us through these words. For where there is forgiveness of sins, there is also life and salvation. 
How can bodily eating and drinking do such great things? 
Certainly not just eating and drinking do these things, but the words written here: “Given and shed for you for the forgiveness of sins.” These words, along with the bodily eating and drinking, are the main thing in the Sacrament. Whoever believes these words has exactly what they say: “forgiveness of sins.” 

A Care Package Thank You

Dear Zion Friends, 

Thank you once again for the care package you all sent to me at college! I appreciate the generosity very much. It was very useful as I headed into finals week! Thank you again and God's peace be with you as I look forward to seeing you all soon,

– Luke Lemonovich

Bulletin: Wednesday June 10, 2026

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2:00 p.m. - Worship Service
2:30 p.m. - Bible Study: The Book of Galatians
This service will be LIVE STREAMED on our YouTube Channel