LUTHERANS engage - Fall 2024 Issue

In February 2024, historic wildfires ravaged two communities in Chile, destroying homes and killing more than 100 people. (Read more in ‘God Is with Us in Suffering.’) As Chilean Lutherans cared for victims, one pastor noted, “On my own, I don’t have anything good to say to anybody. … [But] I realized … I could say to [the victims], ‘Through the Word of God, you are not alone.’”

This is the message Lutherans carry with them wherever they go — as they care for children who need a home, as they provide a worshiping community for isolated believers in faraway places, or as they proclaim the Gospel over the airwaves. Thank you for reading this issue of Lutherans Engage the World and for caring for those God has placed in your path.

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Bulletin: Sunday November 10, 2024

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THIS WEEK AT ZION

Saturday November 9
No Events Scheduled

Sunday November 10
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
Pack College Care Boxes after 2nd Service (additional details)
(The 8:00 a.m. service streamed on our YouTube channel)

Monday November 11
Veterans Day
6:00 p.m. - Grace Bell Choir Practice
6:00 p.m. - Confirmation Class - 2nd year
7:00 p.m. - Confirmation Class - 1st year

Tuesday November 12
6:15 p.m. - Faith Bell Choir Practice
7:15 p.m. - Adult Choir Practice

Wednesday November 13
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)

Thursday November 14
7:00 p.m. - Council Meeting

Friday November 15
No Events Scheduled

Saturday November 16
No Events Scheduled

Sunday November 17
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
6:00 p.m. - Youth Group (additional details)
(The 8:00 a.m. service streamed on our YouTube channel)

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Spare Change Sunday

Deposit your spare change starting Sunday November 10th through December 1st, in the container in the back of the sanctuary to support our Youth! A little spare change from each of us can go a long way toward helping our youth attend the LCMS Youth Gathering in New Orleans this coming summer. 

Focus on Fellowship

Zion's 4th Annual Refor-Fest was held on Sunday, Oct. 28th. Guests enjoyed a traditional catered meal of pork, haluski, potato pancakes, pierogies, sauerkraut, German sausage, beer, soft drinks, cookies and more. Doug Krantz entertained diners with his accordion, and Pastor officiated his Famous Bingo with fantastic prizes! Young children decorated pumpkins, filled treat bags for the needy (who visit Jubilee Kitchen), and joined other guests at the Guessing Jars table, the Guess the Pumpkin Weight table, and Pastor's Bingo game. “Martin Luther” mingled with the crowd, and all enjoyed the celebration commemorating Luther’s posting of the 95 Theses on the Wittenberg Church door way back in 1517. 

This event is hosted by the Events Committee, co-chaired by Deborah Sterba and Megan Pasquini. Please contact Megan (meganpasquini@hotmail.com) or Deborah Sterba (djsporty1200@gmail.com) if interested in helping with events.

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Zion ladies gathered Friday, Oct. 25th, to play some friendly BOOO-nco and enjoy good fellowship, tasty appetizers and desserts! For information about the Women's Ministry at Zion, please contact Tracey Harris (tharris@zlcb.org) or Tevia Grimenstein 

Zion’s Youth Group for Teens in Grades 8-12

Zion’s Youth Group for teens in grades 8-12 meets the third Sunday of every month! 

Sunday, November 17th, 6:00 - 8:00 p.m. 
We'll have paper crafts and a devotional 

December Servant Activity 
Instead of our usual meeting, we'll come together for a servant event. Look for details later this month. What a great way for youth to share Christ's love in action!

VIDEO: Wednesday November 6, 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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AUDIO: Readings & Sermon for Wednesday November 6, 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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Jeremiah 8:18—9:12 
My joy is gone; grief is upon me;
my heart is sick within me.
Behold, the cry of the daughter of my people
from the length and breadth of the land:
“Is the LORD not in Zion?
Is her King not in her?”
“Why have they provoked me to anger with their carved images 
and with their foreign idols?” 
“The harvest is past, the summer is ended, 
and we are not saved.” 
For the wound of the daughter of my people is my heart wounded; 
I mourn, and dismay has taken hold on me. 
Is there no balm in Gilead?
Is there no physician there?
Why then has the health of the daughter of my people
not been restored?
Oh that my head were waters,
and my eyes a fountain of tears,
that I might weep day and night
for the slain of the daughter of my people!
Oh that I had in the desert
a travelers' lodging place,
that I might leave my people
and go away from them!
For they are all adulterers,
a company of treacherous men.
They bend their tongue like a bow;
falsehood and not truth has grown strong in the land;
for they proceed from evil to evil,
and they do not know me, declares the LORD.
Let everyone beware of his neighbor,
and put no trust in any brother,
for every brother is a deceiver,
and every neighbor goes about as a slanderer.
Everyone deceives his neighbor,
and no one speaks the truth;
they have taught their tongue to speak lies;
they weary themselves committing iniquity.
Heaping oppression upon oppression, and deceit upon deceit,
they refuse to know me, declares the LORD. 
Therefore thus says the LORD of hosts:
“Behold, I will refine them and test them,
for what else can I do, because of my people? 
Their tongue is a deadly arrow;
it speaks deceitfully; 
with his mouth each speaks peace to his neighbor, 
but in his heart he plans an ambush for him. 
Shall I not punish them for these things? declares the LORD, 
and shall I not avenge myself 
on a nation such as this?
“I will take up weeping and wailing for the mountains,
and a lamentation for the pastures of the wilderness,
because they are laid waste so that no one passes through,
and the lowing of cattle is not heard;
both the birds of the air and the beasts
have fled and are gone.
I will make Jerusalem a heap of ruins,
a lair of jackals, and I will make the cities of Judah a desolation,
without inhabitant.” 

Who is the man so wise that he can understand this? To whom has the mouth of the LORD spoken, that he may declare it? Why is the land ruined and laid waste like a wilderness, so that no one passes through? 

Matthew 23:13-39 
“But woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you shut the kingdom of heaven in people's faces. For you neither enter yourselves nor allow those who would enter to go in. Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you travel across sea and land to make a single proselyte, and when he becomes a proselyte, you make him twice as much a child of hell as yourselves. 

“Woe to you, blind guides, who say, ‘If anyone swears by the temple, it is nothing, but if anyone swears by the gold of the temple, he is bound by his oath.’ You blind fools! For which is greater, the gold or the temple that has made the gold sacred? And you say, ‘If anyone swears by the altar, it is nothing, but if anyone swears by the gift that is on the altar, he is bound by his oath.’ You blind men! For which is greater, the gift or the altar that makes the gift sacred? So whoever swears by the altar swears by it and by everything on it. And whoever swears by the temple swears by it and by him who dwells in it. And whoever swears by heaven swears by the throne of God and by him who sits upon it. 

“Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you tithe mint and dill and cumin, and have neglected the weightier matters of the law: justice and mercy and faithfulness. These you ought to have done, without neglecting the others. You blind guides, straining out a gnat and swallowing a camel! 

“Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you clean the outside of the cup and the plate, but inside they are full of greed and self-indulgence. You blind Pharisee! First clean the inside of the cup and the plate, that the outside also may be clean. 

“Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you are like whitewashed tombs, which outwardly appear beautiful, but within are full of dead people's bones and all uncleanness. So you also outwardly appear righteous to others, but within you are full of hypocrisy and lawlessness. 

“Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you build the tombs of the prophets and decorate the monuments of the righteous, saying, ‘If we had lived in the days of our fathers, we would not have taken part with them in shedding the blood of the prophets.’ Thus you witness against yourselves that you are sons of those who murdered the prophets. Fill up, then, the measure of your fathers. You serpents, you brood of vipers, how are you to escape being sentenced to hell? Therefore I send you prophets and wise men and scribes, some of whom you will kill and crucify, and some you will flog in your synagogues and persecute from town to town, so that on you may come all the righteous blood shed on earth, from the blood of righteous Abel to the blood of Zechariah the son of Barachiah, whom you murdered between the sanctuary and the altar. Truly, I say to you, all these things will come upon this generation. 

“O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, the city that kills the prophets and stones those who are sent to it! How often would I have gathered your children together as a hen gathers her brood under her wings, and you were not willing! See, your house is left to you desolate. For I tell you, you will not see me again, until you say, ‘Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord.’” 

The Lord’s Prayer - The Introduction 
What is the Introduction to the Lord’s Prayer? 
Our Father who art in heaven. 
What does this mean? 
With these words God tenderly invites us to believe that He is our true Father and that we are His true children, so that with all boldness and confidence we may ask Him as dear children ask their dear father.