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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 Debra Heights Wesleyan Church. Please pray for the Pastor Jeremy Geerdes, 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.
June 3: The Legend of Sleepy Hollow by Washington Irving
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: Next date TBD.
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 25: Nu 34; Ps 78:38-72; Is 26; 1 Jn 4
May 26: Nu 35; Ps 79; Is 27; 1 Jn 5
May 27: Nu 36; Ps 80; Is 28; 2 Jn 1
May 28: Dt 1; Ps 81-82; Is 29; 3 Jn 1
May 29: Dt 2; Ps 83-84; Is 30; Jude
May 30: Dt 3; Ps 85; Is 31; Rev 1
May 31: Dt. 4; Ps 86-87; Is 32; Rev 2
Sunday Scripture
Acts 5:12-42
Seven Chosen to Serve
6 Now in these days when the disciples were increasing in number, a complaint by the Hellenists arose against the Hebrews because their widows were being neglected in the daily distribution. 2 And the twelve summoned the full number of the disciples and said, “It is not right that we should give up preaching the word of God to serve tables. 3 Therefore, brothers, pick out from among you seven men of good repute, full of the Spirit and of wisdom, whom we will appoint to this duty. 4 But we will devote ourselves to prayer and to the ministry of the word.” 5 And what they said pleased the whole gathering, and they chose Stephen, a man full of faith and of the Holy Spirit, and Philip, and Prochorus, and Nicanor, and Timon, and Parmenas, and Nicolaus, a proselyte of Antioch. 6 These they set before the apostles, and they prayed and laid their hands on them.
7 And the word of God continued to increase, and the number of the disciples multiplied greatly in Jerusalem, and a great many of the priests became obedient to the faith.