Family Promise is selling brick pavers to raise money for the final stage of renovating the new Family Promise home located two blocks from Zion. The pavers will decorate the walkway surrounding the home.  Zion Church is a covenant partner with Family Promise which provides emergency services to homeless families in the Delaware area.  Each paver is $100.  

 

The church is purchasing pavers which will read In Memory of Dick Ellis.  Dick Ellis was a strong and passionate voice for Family Promise at Zion in the earliest days of our connection with these efforts. His sudden passing was a great sadness to the Zion family. Contributions for the bricks can be made to Zion UCC with brick mentioned in the memo space.

 

Members and friends will remember that, shortly after Dick's passing, collections were made to replace tables in the fellowship hall (Dick wanted this done!).  The tables we use today are a testament to Dick's love and caring attitude for his brothers and sisters.  The Memorial Service at Zion for Dick remains, to this day, a lasting and fitting tribute and testimonial to what God's love can and will do in the world. These gifts in his memory will provide another memorial to the time he spent with us sharing his gifts to God's glory.

 

PIN Food Pantry "CAN"paign

People In Need (PIN) begins its 2013 Food Panty "CAN"paign on March 18.  We have set our goal at 1,000 pounds for this year which, when attained, will exceed our highest previous year's result, 820 pounds in 2011.  We can do it!

Our newest addition to the PIN family, the WOW (Wheels of Warmth) Wagon, awaits your donation at the rear of the sanctuary.

A list of the most needed food and taxable items are posted on the sanctuary bulletin board. Most needed food items include canned meats, canned fish, and the, always popular, peanut butter.  Most needed taxable items include toothpaste, shampoo, laundry detergent, bar soap and diapers.

It was suggested by a friend that for our Maundy Thursday meal this year we replace our staple of onion soup with Stone Soup.  We are going to honor his request.

Stone Soup is an old folk story in which hungry strangers persuade local people of a town to give them food. It is usually told as a lesson in cooperation, especially amid scarcity.  Some travellers come to a village, carrying

nothing more than an empty cooking pot. Upon their arrival, the villagers are unwilling to share any of their food stores with the hungry travellers. Then the travellers go to a stream and fill the pot with water, drop a large stone in it, and place it over a fire. 

One of the villagers becomes curious and asks what they are doing. The travellers answer that they are making "stone soup", which tastes wonderful, although it still needs a little bit of garnish to improve the flavor, which they are missing. The villager does not mind parting with a few carrots to help them out, so that gets added to the soup. Another villager walks by, inquiring about the pot, and the travelers again mention their stone soup which has not reached its full potential yet. The villager hands them a little bit of seasoning to help them out. More and more villagers walk by, each adding another ingredient. Finally, a delicious and nourishing pot of soup is enjoyed by all.

The Endowment Board at Zion is seeking an interested church member who will be willing to share his or her gift of financial acumen. With Amy Fields' recent move to North Carolina, our Endowment Board is seeking to fill a vacancy.  The Endowment Board is responsible for managing church funds which have been set aside as an endowment for future emergency capital needs.  The Endowment Fund was initially established in the early 1900's through gifts from estates of generous members and their families.  Please contact Chad Allen or Jason Abahazi if you have any interest in this position. 

 

Please join the Delaware Community Chorus on Sunday, May 5 at St. Peter Episcopal Church. The DCC will perform their spring concernt, Camelot, Psalms and Haydn.  The concert will be performed at 3:00 and again at 5:00.  

The chorus will sing a medley from Camelot, the Broadway musical; unique arrangements of Psalms poetry; and Haydn's masterpiece, Te Deum.  Tickets 

 

  Kay Lundy                             Jeff Burkam

  Lowell Allen                           Donna Jarrell

      Tom Bordner                          Gary Zicht 

      Tim Flahive                            The Family of Eldon Wigton