Bulletin: Sunday October 13, 2024

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THIS WEEK AT ZION

Saturday October 12
10:00 a.m. - LWML Pittsburgh Zone Rally at Zion (additional details)

Sunday October 13
8:00 a.m. — Worship Service with Communion
9:15 a.m. — Adult/Teen Bible Study & Sunday School
10:30 a.m. — Worship Service with Communion
(The 8:00 a.m. service streamed on our YouTube channel)

Monday October 14
6:00 p.m. - Grace Bell Choir Practice
6:00 p.m. - Confirmation Class - 2nd year
7:00 p.m. - Confirmation Class - 1nd year

Tuesday October 15
6:15 p.m. - Faith Bell Choir Practice
7:15 p.m. - Adult Choir Practice

Wednesday October 16
2:00 p.m. - Mid-Week Worship Service with Communion
2:30 p.m. - 30 min. Bible Study - The Book of “Hebrews”
(The 2:00 p.m. service streamed on our YouTube channel)
6:30 p.m. - Women’s Book Club @ Parsonage

Thursday October 17
No Events Scheduled

Friday October 18
No Events Scheduled

Saturday October 19
No Events Scheduled

Sunday October 20
8:00 a.m. — Worship Service with Communion
9:15 a.m. — Adult/Teen Bible Study & Sunday School
10:30 a.m. — Worship Service with Communion
11:30 a.m. — Voter’s Meeting, lunch served
6:00 p.m. — Youth Group Event - Pumpkin Carving (additional details)
(The 8:00 a.m. service streamed on our YouTube channel)

Upcoming Events at Zion!

Zion’s Congregational Art Show
Submit your artwork using the SUBMISSION FORM. 
Or, complete a hardcopy form available in the Narthex.

Want to share your musical talents?
We are seeking student and adult musicians to help provide ambiance music during the art show. Sign up in 15-minute increments using this MUSIC FORM.

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Just in time for Fall!
Youth Group Gourmet Apples & Fudge Fundraiser

With less than a year to go until the LCMS Youth Gathering in New Orleans, Zion youth are offering a SWEET fundraiser to help us get there! 

From now until October 14th, you can order a variety of gourmet caramel apples and fudge flavors. The treats are made by My Favorite Sweet Shoppe, a local, family-owned small business. 

Lots of flavors to choose from! 
See order forms on the Youth table as you leave church 

DOWNLOAD ORDER FORM

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More events are being added on a regular basis!

Sunday School News (Part 2 of 2)

Thank You Teachers!
Carrie Lemonovich, Connie Canale (both PreK-K), and Augie Bishop (Grades 1-3) have joined the SS teaching staff this year! Thank you to Megan Migyanko and Christine Chilcott -- who needed to take a break this session due to family priorities -- for their past service. We also have a couple new substitutes, Katie Gielarowski and Judy Bridges, to round out the teaching staff. Thank you all! 

Sunday School Christmas Video/Song Performance/Party
Once again Tess Carter will begin working on the Sunday School Christmas video in October - children will be "borrowed" from their classes to do the recording. In early November, Mark Killinger will begin working with the children on a Christmas song they will perform during worship. 

Please Mark Your Calendars! 

Sunday Dec. 15th 

Sunday School Christmas Party at 9:15 with "Happy Birthday Jesus" cake in the Fellowship Hall prior to class. 

• Christmas Video shown after both services

• Christmas Song Performance during Late Service 

Sunday School News (Part 1 of 2)

Rally on, Sunday School!
We kicked off our new SS year on Sept 8th with Rally Day. It was a wonderful event, topped off by the congregational picnic after late service. Thank you to the people who helped with decorations and special refreshments in the fellowship hall (Susie, Linda, and others), and the Events Committee for the afternoon picnic. Visiting Pastor Oester also delivered some words to parents regarding the importance of Sunday School to the children’s spiritual growth. 

Christian Education Books for SS Kids
On Rally Day, PreK-K and Grades 1-3 children were presented with age appropriate catechisms, and Grades 4-6 with a devotional book. The hope is that during the year, parents will work through the book with the younger children to help them get ready for Confirmation, and with the older children to help them get ready for the tween/teen years. We plan to periodically use these materials in Sunday School to reinforce their themes. 

VIDEO: Wednesday October 9, 2024 - Complete Service

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Worship Service: 2:00 p.m.
Bible Study: 2:30 p.m. — The Book of Hebrews
All are welcome, bring a friend, neighbor or relative

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AUDIO: Announcements, Readings & Sermon for Wednesday October 9, 2024

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Worship Service: 2:00 p.m.
Bible Study: 2:30 p.m. — The Book of Hebrews
All are welcome, bring a friend, neighbor or relative

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Deuteronomy 8:1-20 

“The whole commandment that I command you today you shall be careful to do, that you may live and multiply, and go in and possess the land that the LORD swore to give to your fathers. And you shall remember the whole way that the LORD your God has led you these forty years in the wilderness, that he might humble you, testing you to know what was in your heart, whether you would keep his commandments or not. And he humbled you and let you hunger and fed you with manna, which you did not know, nor did your fathers know, that he might make you know that man does not live by bread alone, but man lives by every word that comes from the mouth of the LORD. Your clothing did not wear out on you and your foot did not swell these forty years. Know then in your heart that, as a man disciplines his son, the LORD your God disciplines you. So you shall keep the commandments of the LORD your God by walking in his ways and by fearing him. For the LORD your God is bringing you into a good land, a land of brooks of water, of fountains and springs, flowing out in the valleys and hills, a land of wheat and barley, of vines and fig trees and pomegranates, a land of olive trees and honey, a land in which you will eat bread without scarcity, in which you will lack nothing, a land whose stones are iron, and out of whose hills you can dig copper. And you shall eat and be full, and you shall bless the LORD your God for the good land he has given you. 

“Take care lest you forget the LORD your God by not keeping his commandments and his rules and his statutes, which I command you today, lest, when you have eaten and are full and have built good houses and live in them, and when your herds and flocks multiply and your silver and gold is multiplied and all that you have is multiplied, then your heart be lifted up, and you forget the LORD your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of slavery, who led you through the great and terrifying wilderness, with its fiery serpents and scorpions and thirsty ground where there was no water, who brought you water out of the flinty rock, who fed you in the wilderness with manna that your fathers did not know, that he might humble you and test you, to do you good in the end. Beware lest you say in your heart, ‘My power and the might of my hand have gotten me this wealth.’ You shall remember the LORD your God, for it is he who gives you power to get wealth, that he may confirm his covenant that he swore to your fathers, as it is this day. And if you forget the LORD your God and go after other gods and serve them and worship them, I solemnly warn you today that you shall surely perish. Like the nations that the LORD makes to perish before you, so shall you perish, because you would not obey the voice of the LORD your God. 

Matthew 10:24-42 
“A disciple is not above his teacher, nor a servant above his master. It is enough for the disciple to be like his teacher, and the servant like his master. If they have called the master of the house Beelzebul, how much more will they malign those of his household. 

“So have no fear of them, for nothing is covered that will not be revealed, or hidden that will not be known. What I tell you in the dark, say in the light, and what you hear whispered, proclaim on the housetops. And do not fear those who kill the body but cannot kill the soul. Rather fear him who can destroy both soul and body in hell. Are not two sparrows sold for a penny? And not one of them will fall to the ground apart from your Father. But even the hairs of your head are all numbered. Fear not, therefore; you are of more value than many sparrows. So everyone who acknowledges me before men, I also will acknowledge before my Father who is in heaven, but whoever denies me before men, I also will deny before my Father who is in heaven. 

“Do not think that I have come to bring peace to the earth. I have not come to bring peace, but a sword. For I have come to set a man against his father, and a daughter against her mother, and a daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law. And a person's enemies will be those of his own household. Whoever loves father or mother more than me is not worthy of me, and whoever loves son or daughter more than me is not worthy of me. And whoever does not take his cross and follow me is not worthy of me. Whoever finds his life will lose it, and whoever loses his life for my sake will find it. 

“Whoever receives you receives me, and whoever receives me receives him who sent me. The one who receives a prophet because he is a prophet will receive a prophet's reward, and the one who receives a righteous person because he is a righteous person will receive a righteous person's reward. And whoever gives one of these little ones even a cup of cold water because he is a disciple, truly, I say to you, he will by no means lose his reward.” 

The Ten Commandments 
What is the tenth commandment? 
You shall not covet your neighbor’s wife, or his manservant or maidservant, his ox or donkey, or anything that belongs to your neighbor. 
What does this mean? 
We should fear and love God so that we do not entice or force away our neighbor’s wife, workers, or animals, or turn them against him, but urge them to stay and do their duty. 

Bulletin: Wednesday October 9, 2024

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Worship Service: 2:00 p.m.
Bible Study: 2:30 p.m. — The Book of Hebrews
All are welcome, bring a friend, neighbor or relative

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