Vacation Bible School 2024 … Coming Soon!

VBS at Zion Lutheran Church is July 22nd - 26th 9:00 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. 
Get ready, get set … because VBS is almost here! 

We're looking forward to a great week of sharing God's love in Jesus with 65 children!
There's still time to join us for this fantastic week … learn more at zlcb.org/vbs. 

Prayer Service & Prayer Journal Activity

Join us for a Prayer Service & Prayer Journal Activity

WHERE: Zion Lutheran Church, 3197 Washington Pike, Bridgeville, PA 15017
WHEN: July 20, 2024 from 10:30 a.m. until 12 Noon

Refreshments and making prayer journals from 10:30 a.m. - 11:15 a.m. followed by a Prayer Service starting at 11:15 a.m.

At the prayer service we will take time to pray for those in foster care and their families and the families that support them. Offerings at the service will go towards Foster Love Project in Wilkinsburg. They support kids in foster care by offering a space for shopping for clothes and personal items as kids enter care. You can learn more abnout this orginizaiton at FosterLoveProject.org.

This collection was voted on by the LWML Pittsburgh Zone. The 2024 Prayer Service is designed around three gifts that come to us from our gracious Father and our Savior — Grace, Mercy, and Peace. Zion’s LWML would love to see a great attendance from other Pittsburgh Zone LWML members.

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VIDEO: Life Together Digest, with Rev. Dr. Matthew Harrison

VIDEO: Life Together Digest, with Rev. Dr. Matthew Harrison
In this Life Together Digest, the Rev. Dr. Matthew C. Harrison, president of The Lutheran Church—Missouri Synod (LCMS), discusses church worker wellness. Describing the joys and challenges of church work, he notes the importance of bearing one another's burdens as the church. "As the church, we are called to see and to bear the burdens of our brothers and sisters in Christ. Just as your church workers serve and care for you, consider how you can serve and care for them. ... 'Bear one another's burdens and so fulfill the law of Christ' (Gal. 6:2)," says Harrison. Harrison provides updates on LCMS Church Worker Wellness, including an awareness campaign and new resources in development for church workers.

To learn more about Church Worker Wellness, visit lcms.org/wellness. View this month’s Life Together Digest at https://resources.lcms.org/newsletter...

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Old Testament Reading – Lamentations 3:22–33 
The steadfast love of the LORD never ceases;
his mercies never come to an end;
they are new every morning; 
great is your faithfulness.
“The LORD is my portion,” says my soul,
“therefore I will hope in him.”
The LORD is good to those who wait for him,
to the soul who seeks him.
It is good that one should wait quietly
for the salvation of the LORD.
It is good for a man that he bear
the yoke in his youth.
Let him sit alone in silence
when it is laid on him;
let him put his mouth in the dust—
there may yet be hope;
let him give his cheek to the one who strikes,
and let him be filled with insults.
For the Lord will not
cast off forever,
but, though he cause grief, he will have compassion
according to the abundance of his steadfast love;
for he does not willingly afflict
or grieve the children of men. 

Epistle Reading – 2 Corinthians 8:1–9, 13–15 
We want you to know, brothers, about the grace of God that has been given among the churches of Macedonia, for in a severe test of affliction, their abundance of joy and their extreme poverty have overflowed in a wealth of generosity on their part. For they gave according to their means, as I can testify, and beyond their means, of their own free will, begging us earnestly for the favor of taking part in the relief of the saints— and this, not as we expected, but they gave themselves first to the Lord and then by the will of God to us. Accordingly, we urged Titus that as he had started, so he should complete among you this act of grace. But as you excel in everything—in faith, in speech, in knowledge, in all earnestness, and in our love for you—see that you excel in this act of grace also. 

I say this not as a command, but to prove by the earnestness of others that your love also is genuine. For you know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that though he was rich, yet for your sake he became poor, so that you by his poverty might become rich . . . 

I do not mean that others should be eased and you burdened, but that as a matter of fairness your abundance at the present time should supply their need, so that their abundance may supply your need, that there may be fairness. As it is written, “Whoever gathered much had nothing left over, and whoever gathered little had no lack.” 

The Holy Gospel according to St. Mark, the fifth chapter
When Jesus had crossed again in the boat to the other side, a great crowd gathered about him, and he was beside the sea. Then came one of the rulers of the synagogue, Jairus by name, and seeing him, he fell at his feet and implored him earnestly, saying, “My little daughter is at the point of death. Come and lay your hands on her, so that she may be made well and live.” And he went with him. 

And a great crowd followed him and thronged about him. And there was a woman who had had a discharge of blood for twelve years, and who had suffered much under many physicians, and had spent all that she had, and was no better but rather grew worse. She had heard the reports about Jesus and came up behind him in the crowd and touched his garment. For she said, “If I touch even his garments, I will be made well.” And immediately the flow of blood dried up, and she felt in her body that she was healed of her disease. And Jesus, perceiving in himself that power had gone out from him, immediately turned about in the crowd and said, “Who touched my garments?” And his disciples said to him, “You see the crowd pressing around you, and yet you say, ‘Who touched me?’” And he looked around to see who had done it. 33But the woman, knowing what had happened to her, came in fear and trembling and fell down before him and told him the whole truth. And he said to her, “Daughter, your faith has made you well; go in peace, and be healed of your disease.” 

While he was still speaking, there came from the ruler’s house some who said, “Your daughter is dead. Why trouble the Teacher any further?” But overhearing what they said, Jesus said to the ruler of the synagogue, “Do not fear, only believe.” And he allowed no one to follow him except Peter and James and John the brother of James. They came to the house of the ruler of the synagogue, and Jesus saw a commotion, people weeping and wailing loudly. And when he had entered, he said to them, “Why are you making a commotion and weeping? The child is not dead but sleeping.” And they laughed at him. But he put them all outside and took the child’s father and mother and those who were with him and went in where the child was. Taking her by the hand he said to her, “Talitha cumi,” which means, “Little girl, I say to you, arise.” And immediately the girl got up and began walking (for she was twelve years of age), and they were immediately overcome with amazement. And he strictly charged them that no one should know this, and told them to give her something to eat.  

Mark Your Calendars: Pastor’s 25th Anniversary

Join us for an all church potluck celebration on Sunday July 14th after the late service!
We’re Celebrating the 25th Anniversary of Pastor Grimenstein’s Ordination
Potluck sign up in the Narthex for main & sides
Dessert provided