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No matter who you are or where you are on life's journey,
you are
welcome at Zion!
Sunday Worship at 10:00am
51 W. Central
Delaware, OH
Habitat for Humanity Soups for Shelter 
Thurs. March 1st 4:30pm-7:30pm St. Mary's http://habitatdelawareco.org |
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This Week at Zion
As we begin this Lenten season together, we think of penance, repentance, almsgiving and self-denial. We also think of prayer. Prayer is about a love relationship with a loving God. It shouldn't be hard work. It should be a labor of love. Lent provides us with an ideal opportunity to investigate and explore what prayer means to each of us in our daily lives. This Sunday at Zion we will begin a three week series on prayer based, loosely, on an important work by Richard J. Foster titled, appropriately, Prayer. "Dear God, I am so grateful for your invitation to enter your heart of love. As best I can I come in. Thank you for receiving me. Amen." This prayer will be our guiding spirit for the next three weeks. Plan to be with us at Zion, where All are Welcome.
Thank you for serving Zion this Sunday:
Liturgist: Jeanette Morris
Ushers/Greeters: Dan & Deb Fuchs
Acolyte: Jason White
Fellowship: Chuck & Nancy Townley
Nursery Care: Marlene Hitchcock & Grace Fuchs
Sunday School: Susan White & Sarah Newcomb
Special Music: Voices of Zion
Office Hours
The week beginning Feb. 27, Carrie will be in the office on Mon, Wed, & Thurs from 10:30am-2:30pm.
Handbell Practice- 11:30am on Sunday
Voices of Zion Rehearsal- 6:00pm on Wednesday
Bible Study- 7:00pm on Wednesday
Spring Book Study- 9:00am on Saturday, March 3
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Outreach
Local Mission Offering This Sunday, February 26
Your donations to this special offering will provide local families with emergency relief for food, med icine, rent, gasoline and other emergency requests as they come to our attention. During the last year, the fund was able to provide assistance to seven local families. Thank you
for supporting this mission!
Family Promise
Zion will be hosting Family Promise this week. Let's show our guests the Zion hospitality that we are known for!
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From t he Pastor's Desk
Prayer  Richard Foster opens his book on prayer by suggesting that God weeps and mourns and aches that we have become so distant and so preoccupied with things that are less than God. God wants us to restore a relationship with God. God wants us to draw closer. God cries out for us. God wants us to come home.
It would be presumptuous of me to tell you how to pray, how often to pray or what to pray for. I will suggest, however, that Foster is right when he suggests that the key to initiating, restoring or deepening a relationship with God comes through prayer. God has shown us a way back. "if the key is prayer, the door is Jesus Christ. How good of God to provide us a way into his heart."
During our Lenten times together we will explore prayer in three sermons titled, respectively, Moving In, Moving Up and Moving Out. Prayer is a pathway by and through which we can change our lives by surrendering to God's love and joy and peace and patience and kindness and gentleness. Together we will investigate prayer as a means by which we can Move In to transform ourselves thereby preparing ourselves to Move Up into God's glory and Move Out into ministry.
Please plan to be with us in worship.
"Prayer - secret, fervent, believing prayer - lies at the root of all personal godliness." - William Cary. In Christ's Service, Pastor Pete
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A great time was had at our
2nd Annual Mardi Gras Potluck!
 
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