Just in Time for Easter

Just in Time for Easter

Handmade Wooden Wall Crosses • Pocket New Testaments/Psalms • Bibles
All are available for on a table in the back of the Sanctuary.
They are free to anyone who would like to have them for home use, or to give as gifts!

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HOLY WEEK SCHEDULE

Thursday April 17 - Maundy Thursday
Services with communion at 2:00 p.m. & 7:00 p.m.

Friday April 18 - Good Friday
Tenebrae services at 2:00 p.m. & 7:00 p.m. (no communion)
Prelude music begins at 1:30 p.m. & 6:30 p.m.

Sunday April 20 - Easter Sunday
Services at 8:00 a.m. & 10:30 a.m. with Easter Breakfast at 9:15 a.m. - No Bible Study or Sunday School

Concordia Lutheran Ministries: Spring Fling Fundraiser

COMING UP ROSES
Concordia Lutheran Ministries 2025 Spring Fling Luncheon
Saturday, May 17, 2025 at the Butler Country Club
310 Country Club Lane, Butler, PA 16002 at 10:00 a.m.
$20 per person

Basket Auction, Mystery Bags, Shopping (cloths and accessories)

Lunch Menu
Chicken Romano, Sour Cream and Chive Whipped Potatoes, Glazed Baby Carrots, Triple Layer Lemon Shortcake

Entertainment
Freeport Area High School Music Performance

All proceeds benefit the Concordia Lutheran Ministries Good Samaritan Endowment Fund, providing charitable care to residents and patients in need.

Seating is limited … no tickets will be sold at the door.
RSVP to Tevia Grimenstein at grmnstns@live.com by April 23, 2025

Pay by cash or check … make checks payable to Zion Lutheran Church, with “SLM Spring Fling” in the memo line.

Pastor’s Corner (April 2025)

Go and Tell! 
“Do not be alarmed. You seek Jesus of Nazareth, who was crucified. He has risen; he is not here. See the place where they laid him. But go, tell his disciples . . .” Mark 16:6 

The Season of Lent will soon be over. Before we know it, we will be celebrating Holy Week later this month and finally the greatest celebration of all – Easter! During that first Easter, the angels told the women who came to the tomb, “go, tell his disciples.” Soon, within that very hour, the women would do that very thing. They would be speaking the words we ourselves are still speaking today, “Christ is risen!” 

The angels’ words, “go tell his disciples” are as appropriate for us now as they ever have been and ever will be. As a congregation we “go and tell” every time we gather together for worship. We hear the words of Christ’s resurrection in our sermons, our hymns, our readings and our liturgies. We literally see the resurrection of the living Jesus as He still comes to us physically with His living sacrifice in the Lord’s Supper. 

As a congregation, we also sponsor a preschool. We don’t host a preschool because we like to play with glue, or cut out animal shapes, or because we really love eating goldfish crackers. We sponsor a preschool because every single day we get to “go and tell” 165 children about the death and resurrection of Jesus Christ all done for them! In a world that is growing increasingly opposed towards Christianity and Jesus, our preschool is a shining light showing these children that Jesus died and rose again for them, loves them, and is still coming to them. 

As a baptized Christian, you have been given Jesus’ death and His resurrection (Romans 6). Now, “go and tell” yourself this every single day of your life! Remind yourself every single day what it is Jesus Christ has done for you so that you may be comforted and also able to share that good news with people in your family, your friends, coworkers and neighbors. 

May we as a congregation always be a place, and a people, who “go and tell” the wonderful deeds of our Lord Jesus Christ who died for us to destroy our sin and rose from the dead to bring each of us everlasting life. Amen. 

— Pastor Grimenstein 

Lenten Schedule for 2025

Our Lenten theme is "The Hand of the Lord" from Concordia Publishing House
Whether tightening a bolt, crocheting, or typing on a computer, there is so much that we do with our hands. Our Creator has bestowed on us these amazing instruments, yet all things are the work of the hand of the Lord. Throughout our Lenten mid-week services we will explore the ways in which the hand of the Lord is both Law and Gospel, and how His hand has come to us in Jesus. 

We’ll be reminded that the hand of Jesus has accomplished all that we need. Amazingly, He takes our manipulative, distorted, self-serving hands and restores them into useful hands for His purposes, both to literally use them in service and to make our whole lives into His instruments of witness, service, and praise. 

Thursday April 17 — Maundy Thursday
Services with communion at 2:00 p.m. & 7:00 p.m.

Friday April 18 — Good Friday
Tenebrae services at 2:00 p.m. & 7:00 p.m. (no communion)

Sunday April 20 — Easter Sunday
Services at 8:00 a.m. & 10:30 a.m. with Easter Breakfast at 9:15 a.m. - No Bible Study or Sunday School

Please note that the Wednesday Bible Study at 2:30 p.m. will be on hiatus during Lent.

VIDEO: Sunday April 13, 2025 - Complete Service

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AUDIO: Announcements, Readings & Sermon for Sunday April 13, 2025

AUDIO: Announcements, Readings & Sermon for Sunday April 13, 2025

Rev. Dr. Edward O. Grimenstein

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Old Testament Reading -- Deuteronomy 32:36–39
The Lord will vindicate his people
and have compassion on his servants,
when he sees that their power is gone
and there is none remaining, bond or free.
Then he will say, “Where are their gods,
the rock in which they took refuge,
who ate the fat of their sacrifices
and drank the wine of their drink offering?
Let them rise up and help you;
let them be your protection!

“See now that I, even I, am he,
and there is no god beside me;
I kill and I make alive;
I wound and I heal;
and there is none that can deliver out of my hand.”

Epistle Reading -- Philippians 2:5–11

Have this mind among yourselves, which is yours in Christ Jesus, who, though he was in the form of God, did not count equality with God a thing to be grasped, but made himself nothing, taking the form of a servant, being born in the likeness of men. And being found in human form, he humbled himself by becoming obedient to the point of death, even death on a cross. Therefore God has highly exalted him and bestowed on him the name that is above every name, so that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, in heaven and on earth and under the earth, and every tongue confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father.

The Holy Gospel according to St. John, the twelfth chapter
The next day the large crowd that had come to the feast heard that Jesus was coming to Jerusalem. So they took branches of palm trees and went out to meet him, crying out, “Hosanna! Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord, even the King of Israel!” And Jesus found a young donkey and sat on it, just as it is written,

“Fear not, daughter of Zion;
behold, your king is coming,
sitting on a donkey’s colt!”

His disciples did not understand these things at first, but when Jesus was glorified, then they remembered that these things had been written about him and had been done to him. The crowd that had been with him when he called Lazarus out of the tomb and raised him from the dead continued to bear witness. The reason why the crowd went to meet him was that they heard he had done this sign. So the Pharisees said to one another, “You see that you are gaining nothing. Look, the world has gone after him.”

Easter Sunday Breakfast at Zion!

Join us for the Zion Easter Breakfast!
Easter Sunday, April 20, 2025
Join us in the Fellowship Hall in between services

Where do you fit:
Volunteers are needed to make egg casseroles (recipe & pan provided), help with set up, help with clean up, and help to serve.

RSVP on the sign up at the back of the church, or eMail: meganpasquini@hotmail.com

DOWNLOAD “Overnight Sausage or Bacon and Egg Breakfast Casserole”