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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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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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Upcoming Events:
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 Soteria Church. Please pray for the Pastor Mike Augsburger, 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 (Done for the summer)
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 been rolling along, so as the count of kids. If you have any free times on Wednesday nights, we need you 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!
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!
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 2026:
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 in the library at noon or tune in on Zoom. Send a request to Pastor John for a Zoom invitation. The invitation will be sent before noon.
June 2: Travels with a Donkey in the Cevennes, Robert Lewis Stevenson.
July 7: The Death of Artemio Cruz, Carlos Fuentes.
August 4: A Confederacy of Dunces, John Kennedy Toole.
September 1: Robinson Crusoe, Daniel Defoe.
October 13: The Jungle Book, Rudyard Kipling. (LCMC National Gathering is Oct 6)
November 3: Wuthering Heights, Emily Bronte.
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?. Please email Julie Smith @ julie@juliesmithcoaching.com for the location or more information.
Grace Reading Group:
Join Grace for a deep dive into Mind Of The Maker by Dorothy Sayers. The book is about looking into God as a model for all our creative activities and pattering our lives in the image of the Trinity. Join us every Sunday in the library at 11:30 after 10:00 service, except on second Sunday.
Third Thursday: Come join us for our next Third Thursday meeting on May 21. Mariam Yocum will share with us about Hospice. We’ll start with lunch at noon; the main dish will be provided and you may bring a side dish if you wish. Hope to see you there.
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)
May 17: Nu 26; Ps 69; Is 16; 1 Pe 4
May 18: Nu 27; Ps 70-71; Is 17-18; 1 Pe 5
May 19: Nu 28; Ps 72; Is 19-20; 2 Pe 1
May 20: Nu 29; Ps 73; Is 21; 2 Pe 4
May 22: Nu 31; Ps 75-76; Is 23; 1 Jn 1
May 23: Nu 32; Ps 77; Is 24; 1 Jn 2
May 24: Nu 33; Ps 78:1-37; Is 25; 1 Jn 3
Sunday Scriptures
Acts 18:1-22
Paul in Corinth
18 After this Paul left Athens and went to Corinth. 2 And he found a Jew named Aquila, a native of Pontus, recently come from Italy with his wife Priscilla, because Claudius had commanded all the Jews to leave Rome. And he went to see them, 3 and because he was of the same trade he stayed with them and worked, for they were tentmakers by trade. 4 And he reasoned in the synagogue every Sabbath, and tried to persuade Jews and Greeks.
5 When Silas and Timothy arrived from Macedonia, Paul was occupied with the word, testifying to the Jews that the Christ was Jesus. 6 And when they opposed and reviled him, he shook out his garments and said to them, “Your blood be on your own heads! I am innocent. From now on I will go to the Gentiles.” 7 And he left there and went to the house of a man named Titius Justus, a worshiper of God. His house was next door to the synagogue. 8 Crispus, the ruler of the synagogue, believed in the Lord, together with his entire household. And many of the Corinthians hearing Paul believed and were baptized. 9 And the Lord said to Paul one night in a vision, “Do not be afraid, but go on speaking and do not be silent, 10 for I am with you, and no one will attack you to harm you, for I have many in this city who are my people.” 11 And he stayed a year and six months, teaching the word of God among them.
12 But when Gallio was proconsul of Achaia, the Jews[b] made a united attack on Paul and brought him before the tribunal, 13 saying, “This man is persuading people to worship God contrary to the law.” 14 But when Paul was about to open his mouth, Gallio said to the Jews, “If it were a matter of wrongdoing or vicious crime, O Jews, I would have reason to accept your complaint. 15 But since it is a matter of questions about words and names and your own law, see to it yourselves. I refuse to be a judge of these things.” 16 And he drove them from the tribunal. 17 And they all seized Sosthenes, the ruler of the synagogue, and beat him in front of the tribunal. But Gallio paid no attention to any of this.
Paul Returns to Antioch
18 After this, Paul stayed many days longer and then took leave of the brothers[c] and set sail for Syria, and with him Priscilla and Aquila. At Cenchreae he had cut his hair, for he was under a vow. 19 And they came to Ephesus, and he left them there, but he himself went into the synagogue and reasoned with the Jews. 20 When they asked him to stay for a longer period, he declined. 21 But on taking leave of them he said, “I will return to you if God wills,” and he set sail from Ephesus.
22 When he had landed at Caesarea, he went up and greeted the church, and then went down to Antioch.
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