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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
Zion United Where All Nations Worshi
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 Pathway Church. Please pray for the Dan Hudson, 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! 5:30pm - 7:30pm
Wednesday night STARS begins at 5:30 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.
Need Stars for STARS: STARS begins back up Sept 10th! If you have any free times on Wednesday nights, we need here at Zion. We need help serving food, teachers, some role models for the young ones. We need the kids that have been here long enough to step up and be the change. Hope to see you there!
Bus Drivers or Van Drivers: If you are interested in getting your bus license or In the progress of getting it and want to help us drive the bus or van for the kids please report to Pastor Robert.
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
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? The group is taking a study break until September 23 but will meet for community and social time on Tuesday, August 12, at 6:30pm. Please email Julie Smith @ julie@juliesmithcoaching.com for the location or more information.
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: How many of you have been to Thailand? Maybe just two. You’ll have a chance to learn about this country of temporary refuge to thousands of Asian emigrants from Pastor John who recently visited there with Grace. Come to Third Thursday on September 18 at noon for lunch, fellowship, and the chance to learn about Thailand. This would be a good opportunity to 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)
Sept 7: 2Sa 1; 1 Co 12; Eze 10; Ps 49
Sept 8: 2Sa 2; 1 Co 13; Eze 12; Ps 50
Sept 9: 2Sa 3; 1Co 14; Eze 12; Ps 51
Sept 10: 2Sa4-5; 1Co 15; Eze 13; Ps 52-54
Sept 11: 2Sa 6; 1Co 16; Eze 14 Ps 55
Sept 12: 2 Sa 7; 2 Co 1; Eze 15; Ps 56-57
Sept 13: 2Sa 8-9; 2Co 2; Eze 16; Ps 58-59
Sunday Scriptures Acts 10:1-33
Peter and Cornelius
10 At Caesarea there was a man named Cornelius, a centurion of what was known as the Italian Cohort, 2 a devout man who feared God with all his household, gave alms generously to the people, and prayed continually to God. 3 About the ninth hour of the day he saw clearly in a vision an angel of God come in and say to him, “Cornelius.” 4 And he stared at him in terror and said, “What is it, Lord?” And he said to him, “Your prayers and your alms have ascended as a memorial before God. 5 And now send men to Joppa and bring one Simon who is called Peter. 6 He is lodging with one Simon, a tanner, whose house is by the sea.” 7 When the angel who spoke to him had departed, he called two of his servants and a devout soldier from among those who attended him, 8 and having related everything to them, he sent them to Joppa.
Peter's Vision
9 The next day, as they were on their journey and approaching the city, Peter went up on the housetop about the sixth hour to pray. 10 And he became hungry and wanted something to eat, but while they were preparing it, he fell into a trance 11 and saw the heavens opened and something like a great sheet descending, being let down by its four corners upon the earth. 12 In it were all kinds of animals and reptiles and birds of the air. 13 And there came a voice to him: “Rise, Peter; kill and eat.” 14 But Peter said, “By no means, Lord; for I have never eaten anything that is common or unclean.” 15 And the voice came to him again a second time, “What God has made clean, do not call common.” 16 This happened three times, and the thing was taken up at once to heaven.
17 Now while Peter was inwardly perplexed as to what the vision that he had seen might mean, behold, the men who were sent by Cornelius, having made inquiry for Simon's house, stood at the gate 18 and called out to ask whether Simon who was called Peter was lodging there. 19 And while Peter was pondering the vision, the Spirit said to him, “Behold, three men are looking for you. 20 Rise and go down and accompany them without hesitation, for I have sent them.” 21 And Peter went down to the men and said, “I am the one you are looking for. What is the reason for your coming?” 22 And they said, “Cornelius, a centurion, an upright and God-fearing man, who is well spoken of by the whole Jewish nation, was directed by a holy angel to send for you to come to his house and to hear what you have to say.” 23 So he invited them in to be his guests.
The next day he rose and went away with them, and some of the brothers from Joppa accompanied him. 24 And on the following day they entered Caesarea. Cornelius was expecting them and had called together his relatives and close friends. 25 When Peter entered, Cornelius met him and fell down at his feet and worshiped him. 26 But Peter lifted him up, saying, “Stand up; I too am a man.” 27 And as he talked with him, he went in and found many persons gathered. 28 And he said to them, “You yourselves know how unlawful it is for a Jew to associate with or to visit anyone of another nation, but God has shown me that I should not call any person common or unclean. 29 So when I was sent for, I came without objection. I ask then why you sent for me.”
30 And Cornelius said, “Four days ago, about this hour, I was praying in my house at the ninth hour, and behold, a man stood before me in bright clothing 31 and said, ‘Cornelius, your prayer has been heard and your alms have been remembered before God. 32 Send therefore to Joppa and ask for Simon who is called Peter. He is lodging in the house of Simon, a tanner, by the sea.’ 33 So I sent for you at once, and you have been kind enough to come. Now therefore we are all here in the presence of God to hear all that you have been commanded by the Lord.”