About This Mission Grant
The core of Phil’s Friends mission is based on Matthew 25:36, I was sick and you visited me. In the past 18 years, Phil’s Friends has sent nearly 60,000 care packages and more than one million Cards of Hope. This ministry supports anyone with cancer regardless of age, gender, ethnicity, or income level. 

It costs $100 for one year to support a cancer patient. This total includes the care package, 12 Cards of Hope, and postage. The care packages are hand-decorated, and the contents are customized according to the age and gender of the recipient. They are filled with simple, practical comfort items that cancer patients can use during their treatments. Phil’s Friends is 100% donor supported. 

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Happy Easter! I can say that all through the Easter Season, which, as you probably know, lasts seven full weeks. How important it is that we greet one another often with words of reverent joy: “Alleluia! Christ is Risen! He is Risen indeed! Alleluia!” 

On Easter Sunday I noticed a larger than usual attendance at worship. In fact, there was a couple I didn’t know sitting directly in front of me. I did my best to greet them. I politely asked their names and bid them “welcome.” As I looked around, I noticed other visitors and began to ponder: How well will these fellow travelers on life’s highway be received? I know the pastor will do his best, but who among our members will take the time to welcome them? Will they emerge from church with a favorable impression? Will they be inclined to return? 

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Multiply the Mission is more than a campaign… it’s an opportunity to help a place where faith grows, families connect, and lives are impacted through Christ.

From retreats and camps for all ages to Pioneer Fest and the many exciting things ahead, God is continuing to move through Pioneer on the Lake in incredible ways.

We invite you to watch, share, and help spread the word about what this mission is all about. Every share, every prayer, and every donation helps make these moments possible for so many.

Thank you for being part of what God is doing here at Pioneer. 🙌🏼

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BOCCE: A Men’s Fellowship Event
Join the Men’s Fellowship Group for an afternoon of lawn bocce, food and fellowship on Saturday, June 13th from 3:00 p.m. to 6:00 p.m. on the church grounds. Sign up in the narthex, or use this link to sign up with “Sign Up Genius.”

Questions, call Rich Berardelli at 724-480-5501

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

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...

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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