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 Zion’s annual Fall Fest will be held Sunday, October 7, 11:00 a.m.-1:30 p.m. Bake Sale.  There will be a wide assortment of tasty treats: pickles, pies, cookies, and so much more. Silent Auction.  You can bid on a wide variety of fun items.  Pick out something for yourself or loved ones. Chicken Dinner.  Grilled...

During this time of the year the church is decked with the color green. Green symbolizes the new life and growth God bestows through Word and Sacrament.  As the seasons change, the days grow shorter and things in nature begin to die.  We look forward in confident hope to the...

The name may originally have been “God’s Friday,” but Good Friday is certainly “good” because of the good gifts Christ won for us on this day. Good Friday is not observed as a funeral for Christ.  It is a day of restrained joy and praise for the redemption Christ accomplished for us...

On the night He was betrayed, our Lord gathered with His disciples to eat the final Passover.  He then instituted the Holy Supper for the forgiveness of sins.   The Sacrament of the Altar is the ongoing testament of God’s love in Christ’s body and blood.  On the eve of His crucifixion Jesus also...

The season of Advent represents the Christian life.  Believers of the Old Testament era waited in faith and hope for God to send the Offspring of the woman to redeem them.  We wait for Jesus’ second coming and the fulfillment of our redemption. The Christian Church now lives in the great “Time...

The year that is drawing towards its close, has been filled with the blessings of fruitful fields and healthful skies….I do therefore invite my fellow citizens in every part of the United States, and also those who are at sea and those who are sojourning in foreign lands, to set...

So faith comes from hearing, and hearing through the word of Christ.  Romans 10:17 Rev. Subin Raj, a Lutheran pastor from India will be our guest preacher.  He is a fourth generation Lutheran.  His  great grandfather was the pioneer of Lutheran church in the his state Kerala.  Rev. Raj ministers to a community that was previously called ‘untouchables.’ ...

We celebrate All Saints Day on Sunday, November 5.  From the earliest days of Christian history, it has been the custom to honor the saints. As the church expanded, some of the faithful followers of Jesus in times past were being forgotten.  So the Church established All Saints Day—a fitting time...

Martin Luther’s great hymn, “A Mighty Fortress Is Our God” was not intended to be a religious battle hymn, as some suppose.  It was a hymn of comfort for Luther during a time of his life that was marked with great suffering.  This is what the Reformation was all about–comfort! ...