Free Download: Lutherans engage
There will always be a desire to have more workers in the church: more pastors to fill vacancies, more rostered teachers to serve in Lutheran schools, more missionaries to send around the globe. At the same time, we trust that the Lord provides.

The Summer 2026 issue of Lutherans Engage the World highlights a few of the ways that the Lord does just that, as He calls people into His service from secular careers, during times of transition and through formative experiences like time spent at a Lutheran camp. Sometimes, He also sends partners from other countries to join us in His mission. Thanks be to God that He uses all things — even imperfect people like us — to encourage His children and accomplish His purposes.
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Four Hours
And they devoted themselves to the apostles' teaching and the fellowship, to the breaking of bread and the prayers.
– Acts 2:42

Recently I was reading the August edition of the LCMS newspaper, The Reporter. One article discussed a congregation in Kenya, stating? On an ordinary Sunday morning in the Samburu County of Kenya, 10 women rise before the sun to make the four-hour walk to attend church in Wamba.

Did you catch that? Before dawn, ten women rise and walk four hours to church. We don’t do this in the US, do we? We will refuse to drive even forty minutes to get to a church because we deem it “too far away." Yet these women rise early and walk four hours, one way, to church.

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Bible Study for Sunday, August 23, 2026 
Where we discussed John 18:4-11, John 18:12-14, John 18:15-18, John 18:19-24, John 18:25-27, John 18:28-32 and a look at Matthew 26:57-68 along with a map of Jerusalem. 

Our Bible Study is lead by Rev. Dr. Edward O. Grimenstein, Pastor of Zion Lutheran Church, Bridgeville, PA. 

Zion Lutheran Church, Bridgeville, PA is Online at https://www.zlcb.org/

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.

Zion Women’s Ministry Hosting: Divine Design Bible Study
This 8 Week study starts on Saturday, September 26th
Time: 9:00 a.m. - 10:30 a.m.

Format of Study
This study will require reading on your own 5 days a week. We will come together on Saturdays to watch an accompanying video and have discussion. We will start week one already having read the first week. LWML will supply the first 15 participants with the book for free.

About the Book
Imagine that you have participated in a fashion makeover. Oh, yes, it's exciting, but that kind of transformation doesn't last long. Divine Design: 40 Days of Spiritual Makeover will lead you through a different kind of transformatfon: an alteratfon of attitude. Your journey through these pages will, by God's grace, enable you to experience a spiritual makeover that will transform your heart. This renovation of character will not become chipped, scuffed, or passe. Through God's free gift of faith in Jesus, you possess the garment of salvation: the robe of righteousness and eternal life with God. He has begun a spiritual makeover in you!

RSVP to:
Megan Migyanko @ proverbs31meg@yahoo.com | Text or Call: 412-518-2051

Join us Sunday, September 13th at 9:15 a.m. in the Fellowship Hall
A new school year is beginning, and it’s the perfect time for children, and adults, to Rally Back to a Sunday routine centered on the study of God’s Word.

• Coffee, juice, warm cinnamon rolls, bagels and more!

• Each child will receive a Rally Day goodie bag

• After the opening, students will meet their teachers and be dismissed to their Sunday School classroom; adults/teens will stay in the Fellowship Hall for Bible Study

Visit our ARCHIVE OF BIBLE STUDIES page

Artificial intelligence (AI) is crashing into the church.
Should pastors, church workers and Christians in general use it? Is it a phenomenally positive tool, or does it pose a serious threat to humanity and to the church?

These are just two of the pressing questions facing us today. But, first, what are we even talking about when we say “artificial intelligence”? Most people think of ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini or any of the other popular large language models (LLMs)/ chatbots. These bots are the “Hungry, Hungry Hippos™” of the computer programming world. Their creators have essentially placed these hungry hippos in a box filled with mind-bogglingly large amounts of text (books and articles), images (artwork and photos) and videos. These serve as “food” for the bot. The bot devours everything in the box and then regurgitates it in intelligible sentences (or images) according to the rules of probability.

When discussing whether Christians should use AI, we need to specify which type of AI we’re considering. Beyond LLMs, AI is also being used in medical research and diagnosis, security and surveillance, warfare, data processing, customer service, process automation and supply chain optimization, marketing and content creation, image and music generation, financial fraud detection, autonomous vehicles and more. This brief article, then, will be limited to the popular LLMs/chatbots most people interact with regularly. Its goal is to encourage wisdom and initiate a conversation that needs to be taken up across our church body.

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