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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 Saylorville Church. Please pray for the Pastor Pat Nemmers, 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 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.
April 7: Candide, Voltaire. Also discussion of The Master and Margarita.
May 5: To Live, You Hua.
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: Bring your favorite antique, or just come to see what others have brought, to Third Thursday, April 16th, at noon. You’re all welcome for food, fellowship and an interesting program. Holly Sharp and Sarah Dank from Valley Junction’s Memory Lane Antiques will talk about some of their antiques and yours. You may find you have a real treasure and learn what you can do with it! It’s a potluck with the main dish provided; you can bring a side dish, but it’s not mandatory. To help with a side fund raiser for Zion’s new air conditioner, you’re invited to bring any gold or silver jewelry or other items you may
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)
April 5: Lv 8; Ps 9; Pv 23; 2 Th 2
April 6: Lv 9; Ps 10; Pr 24; 1 Th 3
April 7: Lv 10; Ps 11-12; Pr 25; 1 Th 4
April 8: Lv 11-12; Ps 13-14; Pr 26; 1 Th 5
April 9: Lv 13; Ps 15-16; Pr 27; 2 Th 1
April 10: Lv 14; Ps 17; Pr 28; 2 Th 2
April 11: Lv 15; Ps 18; Pr 29; 2Th 3
Sunday Scriptures
John 20:1-23
The Resurrection
20 Now on the first day of the week Mary Magdalene came to the tomb early, while it was still dark, and saw that the stone had been taken away from the tomb. 2 So she ran and went to Simon Peter and the other disciple, the one whom Jesus loved, and said to them, “They have taken the Lord out of the tomb, and we do not know where they have laid him.” 3 So Peter went out with the other disciple, and they were going toward the tomb. 4 Both of them were running together, but the other disciple outran Peter and reached the tomb first. 5 And stooping to look in, he saw the linen cloths lying there, but he did not go in. 6 Then Simon Peter came, following him, and went into the tomb. He saw the linen cloths lying there, 7 and the face cloth, which had been on Jesus' head, not lying with the linen cloths but folded up in a place by itself. 8 Then the other disciple, who had reached the tomb first, also went in, and he saw and believed; 9 for as yet they did not understand the Scripture, that he must rise from the dead. 10 Then the disciples went back to their homes.
Jesus Appears to Mary Magdalene
11 But Mary stood weeping outside the tomb, and as she wept she stooped to look into the tomb. 12 And she saw two angels in white, sitting where the body of Jesus had lain, one at the head and one at the feet. 13 They said to her, “Woman, why are you weeping?” She said to them, “They have taken away my Lord, and I do not know where they have laid him.” 14 Having said this, she turned around and saw Jesus standing, but she did not know that it was Jesus. 15 Jesus said to her, “Woman, why are you weeping? Whom are you seeking?” Supposing him to be the gardener, she said to him, “Sir, if you have carried him away, tell me where you have laid him, and I will take him away.” 16 Jesus said to her, “Mary.” She turned and said to him in Aramaic, “Rabboni!” (which means Teacher). 17 Jesus said to her, “Do not cling to me, for I have not yet ascended to the Father; but go to my brothers and say to them, ‘I am ascending to my Father and your Father, to my God and your God.’” 18 Mary Magdalene went and announced to the disciples, “I have seen the Lord”—and that he had said these things to her.
Jesus Appears to the Disciples
19 On the evening of that day, the first day of the week, the doors being locked where the disciples were for fear of the Jews, Jesus came and stood among them and said to them, “Peace be with you.” 20 When he had said this, he showed them his hands and his side. Then the disciples were glad when they saw the Lord. 21 Jesus said to them again, “Peace be with you. As the Father has sent me, even so I am sending you.” 22 And when he had said this, he breathed on them and said to them, “Receive the Holy Spirit. 23 If you forgive the sins of any, they are forgiven them; if you withhold forgiveness from any, it is withheld.”