More than a summer camp!
Unwind, refresh, and deepen your walk with God while enjoying fellowship with others!

What We Offer:
• Summer Family Camps
• Year Round Retreats
• Service Opportunities
• Outdoor Education
• Agape Camp

Located at: 9324 Lake Shore Road, Angola, NY 14006 (MAP)
Phone: 716-383-6157
PioneerOnTheLake.com

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 youth are going on a Spring Retreat May 15-17, 2026 
Save the date for a fun-filled weekend retreat that your middle/high school aged-child won’t want to end! At Pioneer on the Lake -- a Lutheran Camp and Retreat Center on the shores of beautiful Lake Erie -- weekend retreats are packed with meaningful worship, relevant teaching, devotion time, a hands-on service project, and awesome Christian fellowship with friends, both new and familiar. Add in fun games and camp activities, and it’s a weekend that’s both spiritually impactful and incredibly memorable. 

More details to come !!! 

Children are curious. It is a vital part of who they are as developing humans. At Zion Preschool, a class for 4 and 5 year olds channels students’ innate curiosity toward the discovery of things about the world around them. And, best of all, they’re learning that this amazing world was designed and created by their Lord and Savior! 

I teach this class -- called STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering & Math) -- three days a week, for several sessions each day. I’ve been a Zion preschool teacher and church member for more than 30 years, and I’ve also been an avid STEM explorer myself from childhood. So, when I was considering retirement in 2019, God gave me an idea that would reduce my hours in the classroom and allow me to focus on a subject I love. 

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Men’s Retreat: Lutheran Laymen's League Eastern & Ohio District’s
May 29th - May 31st 2026
Pioneer on the Lake - 9324 Lake Shore Road, Angola, NY 14006

Interested in Attending?
Please call or eMail the Zion church office, as there may be other Zion men interested in forming a group. 

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A Letter to LSF and First Trinity 
By Ross George, Master’s of Public & International Affairs, University of Pittsburgh ‘06 

I thank God every time I remember you. I want to let you all know that I am enrolled in Concordia Theological Seminary, Fort Wayne. I recently completed my first year, and I earned high marks in all my classes, thanks be to God! It is difficult work, and I am giving it my best effort. My decision to attend seminary and, God willing, to be ordained as an undershepherd to the Shepherd’s flock was due in no small part to both the time I spent at First Trinity, and as a participant in its Campus Ministry. 

Attending the University of Pittsburgh was the first time I had left home and my church. My pastors warned me that when young adults leave home for the first time they either fall away from church or fall more into it. Thanks be to God for First Trinity. The Lord provided housing within walking distance and used First Trinity’s divine service and the LSF to minister to my needs. The opportunities to meet outside of class and outside of Sunday services were exactly what I needed. 

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