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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: Third Saturday of the month 7.30pm-8pm:
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
Online: paypal.com
NEW ANNOUNCEMENTS:
The Street Outreach Ministry needs blankets and sleeping bags to provide the homeless. Please bring what you can to the office.
Zion Triva Night: Zion Host an annual trivia night every year, so we can raise money for our summer program. We invite anyone and everyone to come and join us this night to have fun and do something good for Jesus!
Pray for Other Churches:
This week we pray for Gloria Dei Lutheran Church. Please pray for the Pastor Ben Johnson, 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!
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:
Volunteer In Clothes Closet: Tuesdays and or Wednesday, 10am-12pm.
Be A Second Sunday Volunteer: Help needed with set up, serving and take down after Second Sunday meals. Three teams available.\
New business opportunity: Innocent is a young man in our congregation who wants to start a business. He has a certain product. He wishes to import from Africa and sell wholesale here. He is struggling to find a market, I would like some help thinking through a plan and figuring out how to open doors. Do you or anyone in your social network know how to help him? If so, or if you have any ideas, please contact Pastor John.
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.
OTHER ZION OPPORTUNITIES:
Greater City Foundation
Greater City Foundation is a 501(c)3 education non-profit with mission to create a Greater City through assisting immigrant, refugee and urban-core students with their education, food assistance, physical/mental health needs. Three students have completed educational evaluations and we are currently tutoring two young men. We are in need of your prayers, education resources, finances and volunteer tutoring hours. 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:
RightNow Media
Classics Reading Group in 2024:
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.
February: 4 The Illustrated Man by Ray Bradbury
March 4: Walden by Henry David Thoreaux
April 1: Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf
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
Pastor John KlineLead Pastor
Zion Church
"Where nations worship"
Women’s Bible Study
Beginning February 11, join the Women’s Bible Study in Practicing the Way. The course features 8 sessions of teaching, guided conversation, and spiritual practices designed to lay a foundation of lifelong apprenticeship to Jesus. The group meets on the 2nd and 4th Tuesdays, at 6:30pm, at the Urbandale Library. Email julie@juliesmithcoaching.com for more information.
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.
Third Thursday: No meeting; winter break.
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)
Feb 2: Gn 34; Mk 5; Job 1; Ro 5
Feb 3: Gn 35-36; Mk 6; Job 2; ro 6
Feb 4: Gn 37; Mk 7; Job 3; Ro 7
Feb 5: Gn 38; Mk 8; Job 4; Ro 8
Feb 6: Gn 39; Mk 9; Job 5; Ro 9
Feb 7: Gn 40; Mk 10; Job 6; Ro 10
Feb 8: Gn 41; Mk 11; Job 7; Ro 11
Sunday Scripture
Sunday Scriptures
Acts 1:1-8
The Promise of the Holy Spirit
1 In the first book, O Theophilus, I have dealt with all that Jesus began to do and teach, 2 until the day when he was taken up, after he had given commands through the Holy Spirit to the apostles whom he had chosen. 3 He presented himself alive to them after his suffering by many proofs, appearing to them during forty days and speaking about the kingdom of God.
4 And while staying with them he ordered them not to depart from Jerusalem, but to wait for the promise of the Father, which, he said, “you heard from me; 5 for John baptized with water, but you will be baptized with the Holy Spirit not many days from now.”
The Ascension
6 So when they had come together, they asked him, “Lord, will you at this time restore the kingdom to Israel?” 7 He said to them, “It is not for you to know times or seasons that the Father has fixed by his own authority. 8 But you will receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you, and you will be my witnesses in Jerusalem and in all Judea and Samaria, and to the end of the earth.”