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Sunday Services
10:00 Zion United Service In-Person and Livestream (Sanctuary)
11:00 Swahili/Kinyamulenge Service In-Person (Music Room)
1:00 Mizo Service In-Person (Sanctuary)
5:00 Swahili/Kinyamulenge Service In-Person (Music Room)
7:00 Mizo Service In-Person (Sanctuary)
Sunday School at 11:30
Zion Lutheran Church Des Moines
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Greater City Youth Services: (Out for the season)
The Greater City Youth Service is open to everyone. Our special target audience is older STARS kids who have graduated from high school and are lost in the adult world and not attending church. Some sermon themes may overlap or be repeated from Sundays, but most people won't notice. Worship will be led by Mizo and Swahili service youth as we build a new worship team just for this service which we will try to keep on the third Saturday of the month. Pastor Boaz and Pastor John are working on this project. Want to help? Just ask.
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Zion Comfort:
We love you! How are you holding up? Is there anything we can do for you and your loved ones? Please call us at 515-270-8142, if you need anything. We are here for you!
Zion Giving:
Mail: Zion Lutheran Church
4300 Beaver Avenue
Des Moines, IA 50310
Website: www.ziondsm.org
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NEW ANNOUNCEMENTS:
The Street Outreach Ministry needs blankets and sleeping bags to provide the homeless. Please bring what you can to the office.
Pray for Other Churches:
This week we pray for New Life Lutheran Church. Please pray for the Pastor Nathan J. Liedtke, for strength and wisdom provided by the Holy Spirit, and that their congregation is moved to lift, honor, and glorify our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ
YOUTH EDUCATION:
STARS: Stars Happens on Wednesday Nights! Join us! (Out for the season)
Wednesday night STARS begins at 5:45 with worship, followed by a hot meal and then Christian programming. Zion Lutheran Church needs the support of Christian Volunteers to help with these students. Please reach out to us at 515-270-8142 to find out how you can help with the Lord’s Work. Bless you!
MISSION PARTNERS:
ICoach at Zion
Zion has partnered with ICoach to support their after-school programming for 100 children. They will be meeting at Zion every weekday from 10am to 5pm.
VOLUNTEER OPPORTUNITIES:
Be A Second Sunday Volunteer: Help needed with set up, serving and take down after Second Sunday meals. Three teams available.\
A huge thank you to all of those who volunteer around the church, giving of their time and money to help Zion do God’s work in our community.
Clothed By God, the Clothing Closet:
Clothed By God needs a Ministry Leader and volunteers to sort/fold/restock the clothing closet. Please contact Pastor John. The Clothing Closet is open for shoppers most Tuesdays and Wednesdays from 10am to noon. We are accepting donations during office hours. Thank You!
Greater City Youth Services:
This service is open to everyone. Our special target audience is older STARS kids who have graduated from high school and are lost in the adult world and not attending church. This happens the 3rd Saturday of each month, and the service is open to everyone. Our special target audience is older STARS kids who have graduated from high school and are lost in the adult world and not attending church. (Close for the season)
Homeless Outreach:
Our Homeless Outreach Program is in need of blanket and sleeping bag donations to provide those in desperate need this dangerous winter season. Please make donations to the Zion Lutheran Church Office. Our wonderful team of volunteers will do the rest. You can come every third Saturday of the month to come help out and give out food, clothes, blanket, etc. Mark it on your calendar!
STARS Needs You: STARS has a party at the end of the program every year. This year we need your help, funding for the jump houses, activities, and volunteers are needed on that day as well. The program so far has been amazing, the most numbers Zion has ever had. We not only want funding, but Zion needs leaders for our STARS kids. If you can’t aid with the funds that’s alright. Participating every night would more than enough for the KIDS! Zion needs all the help we can get for STARS! Thank you.
Furniture Ministry: Is open for donations. Due to an increase in demand, we are accepting furniture donations. You may drop off donations, M-Th from 9-3.
ADULT EDUCATION:
Classics Reading Group in 2025:
Good books spark the imagination and draw us toward God by helping us think on whatever is true, whatever is noble, whatever is right, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is admirable, whatever is excellent or praiseworthy (Philippians 4:8).
You can come to Zion for in person conversation or tune in on Zoom. Send a request to Pastor John for a Zoom invitation. The invitation will be sent before noon.
July 1: The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams
September 2: Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
October 7: The Code of the Woosters by P.G. Woodhouse
As always, you may order the books from Beaverdale Books or the bookseller or library of your choice. Beaverdale Books can be reached at info@beaverdalebooks.com or 515.279.5400
Women’s Bible Study
Join the Women’s Bible Study monthly on the 2nd and 4th Tuesdays, at 6:30pm, at the Urbandale Library. This is a friendly, supportive group with a heart to grow in the Word and our daily, spiritual walk. Questions? Contact Julie Smith at julie@juliesmithcoaching.com. We’d love to have you join us!
Men's Breakfast Bible Study
Join this welcoming group of men for Bible Study and breakfast every Tuesday morning at 7am. They meet at Freedom For Youth’s Freedom Blend Coffee, 2301 Hickman road.
Grace Reading Group:
Join Grace for a deep dive into Richard Niebuhr’s book Christ and Culture. Wrestle with how we should relate to the world around us by reading this classic theological look at different models of how traditions have connected with Jesus. Meet Sunday 11:30 in the library for the book discussion group.
Third Thursday: Share a favorite antique at Third Thursday, June 19! Holly Sharp and Sarah Dank from Memory Lane Antiques in Valley Junction will share their knowledge about antiques they bring and about what you have to show. Come for fellowship, and to learn new things and enjoy lunch at noon. Bring a side dish if you wish and bring a friend.
CALL TO PRAYER
First Saturday Prayer
Come every first Saturday from 10-12 and pray for our world and our nation and our church. It is an experience you will not soon forget.
4 CHAPTER GROUP (M’CHEYNE)
June 15: Dt 20; Ps 107; Is 47; Rev 17
June 16: Dt. 21; Ps 108-109; Is 48; Rev 18
June 17: Dt. 22; Ps 110-111; Is 49; Rev 19
June 18: Dt. 23; Ps 112-113; Is 50; Rev 20
June 19: Dt. 24; Ps 114-115; Is 51; Rev 21
June 20: Dt 25; Ps 116; Is 52; Rev 22
June 21: Dt 26; Ps 117-118; is 53; Mt 1
Sunday Scriptures
Genesis 3:6, Philippians 2:5-9, John 4:34, Ephesians 5:25, John 10:11, Matthew 28:19, Deuteronomy 6:1-9, Matthew 6:19-20
6 So when the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was a delight to the eyes, and that the tree was to be desired to make one wise, she took of its fruit and ate, and she also gave some to her husband who was with her, and he ate.
5 Have this mind among yourselves, which is yours in Christ Jesus, 6 who, though he was in the form of God, did not count equality with God a thing to be grasped, 7 but emptied himself, by taking the form of a servant, being born in the likeness of men. 8 And being found in human form, he humbled himself by becoming obedient to the point of death, even death on a cross. 9 Therefore God has highly exalted him and bestowed on him the name that is above every name,
34 Jesus said to them, “My food is to do the will of him who sent me and to accomplish his work.
25 Husbands, love your wives, as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her,
11 I am the good shepherd. The good shepherd lays down his life for the sheep.
19 Go therefore and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in[a] the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit,
The Greatest Commandment
6 “Now this is the commandment—the statutes and the rules—that the Lord your God commanded me to teach you, that you may do them in the land to which you are going over, to possess it, 2 that you may fear the Lord your God, you and your son and your son's son, by keeping all his statutes and his commandments, which I command you, all the days of your life, and that your days may be long. 3 Hear therefore, O Israel, and be careful to do them, that it may go well with you, and that you may multiply greatly, as the Lord, the God of your fathers, has promised you, in a land flowing with milk and honey.
4 “Hear, O Israel: The Lord our God, the Lord is one. 5 You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your might. 6 And these words that I command you today shall be on your heart. 7 You shall teach them diligently to your children, and shall talk of them when you sit in your house, and when you walk by the way, and when you lie down, and when you rise. 8 You shall bind them as a sign on your hand, and they shall be as frontlets between your eyes. 9 You shall write them on the doorposts of your house and on your gates.
Lay Up Treasures in Heaven
19 “Do not lay up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moth and rust[a] destroy and where thieves break in and steal, 20 but lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust destroys and where thieves do not break in and steal.