Zion United Church of Christ Weekly Newsletter
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August 16, 2013
In This Issue
We Need Photos!!
Coffee, Church and Chatter
Apostle Build III
From the Pastor's Desk
Feed the WOW Wagon!
Prayer Concerns
Birthdays and Anniversary
This Week at Zion
Quicklinks
Share Your Summer!!

We Need Your Summer Photos!

Please share some of your summer photos with us for a Zion Summer Slideshow.  Please send your favorite photos of family members which share your particular memories of this summer.

One photo per family member (e.g. a family of five may submit up to five photos.)  Please send your "jpegs" to pastorpete@uccdelaware.com.

Above, our header this week provides you with a sample.  This is one of the Peterson photos going into the slideshow.  This is Pastor Pete's favorite photo of Melissa from this summer which shows her beaming after she caught her first salmon in Ketchikan, Alaska. 

Send your best photos to share with other members of Zion during an upcoming worship service.  

 

Coffee, Church and Chatter
 
New Members Class

We are so pleased attendance has increased dramatically at Zion over the past three years. Conversations with those new to Zion have indicated many new attendees would like to become members of Zion.

Good news!  Our Saturday morning new members class for 2013 will begin on September 7 at 9:30 in the morning. We will meet up on Saturdays until Founders Day (October 13) when new members will be welcomed into the church at Zion. Please let Pastor Pete know if you are interested in participating in the class and becoming a member of Zion.  

Come and enjoy a cup of coffee, some church chatter and wonderful fellowship with your friends.  We might even throw in some bagels!!

 
                              Apostle Build III

The Apostle Build III groundbreaking is scheduled for August 24 (Saturday) at 10:00 a.m. (47 High Street in Delaware).  We hope you will attend.  We are so excited to expand our ministries at Zion to include this Habitat project which will partner Zion with other area churches. 

We are now accepting donations for Apostle Build III. We have already raised $2,000 of the $3,000 Zion has committed to the project.  Our final Local Missions Special Offering (August 25) will support Apostle Build III.

Not only are we raising funds to support this important project. We also hope members are excited about working on the site.  There are volunteer orientations already being scheduled for those who would like to work on the site.  See our Ministers of Mission for details.

 
From the Pastor's Desk
 
Anyone who knows me well knows that I am a huge fan of reggae music. I am drawn to its rhythmic beat and I am drawn to its call for equal rights and social justice.  I am often found listening to my favorite reggae tunes.  In fact, I am listening to Bob Marley as I write this column.

Here is a favorite lyric of mine from Peter Tosh.
 
                 Everyone is crying out for peace, yes
                 None is crying out for justice
                 Everyone is crying out for peace, yes

                 None is crying out for justice

                 I don't want no peace

                 I need equal rights and justice

 

Could that sentiment be what Jesus had in mind in this week's text? "Do you think I came to bring peace on earth?  No, I tell you, but division"  (Luke 12:51 NRSV).  We might think that all is well when we are at peace.  Maybe not.  As the lyric above and our text suggests, maybe, sometimes, there is a choice we must make between peace or justice.

 

We will explore this notion in greater depth on Sunday.  I hope you will be with us.

 

Peace in Christ

 

Pastor Pete

 

 

 
      Feed the WOW Wagon! 
              It's Hungry!

 
                        (It is particularly hungry, this 
                           month, for canned fruit.)
 
 
Immediate Prayer Concerns
 
Pat Pressler                          Sandy Nichols                    
Wendy Bell                           Ray Royster                      Jill Glass and Family              Tom Bordner           
Gary Zicht                            Bob and Sherry Bailey       
Lisa Parks                            Caroline Walker                 Katie Cahill                           Missy Fouts-Hooker        
Barbara Martin                      Barbara Patterson
Ann and Jerry Elliott              Rusty and Kay Lundy
Elaina Richardson                 
                           
 

 

 
Happy Birthday
 
August 21- Mary Lou Smith
 
 
 


This Week at Zion

On Sunday, the message from Pastor Pete will be Peace or Justice?  Our Old Testament reading is Jeremiah 23: 23-29 and our Gospel Lesson this week is Luke 12: 49-56.
  
   
Pastor Pete                                 Zion Church
740.513.1440                                740.362.6691
pastorpete@uccdelaware.com          zion@uccdelaware.com 
 
             
Apostle Build III Groundbreaking
Saturday August 24.  10:00 a.m. 47 High Street in Delaware

Mobile Food Market
Monday August 19.  11:30 a.m.  Eagles Parking Lot.  

 
This Sunday's Worship Service

Acolyte 
Rachel White 
 
Liturgist
Jeanette Morris                                  
Greeters  
Harold & Sandy Nichols   
 
Nursery
Sarah Newcomb and Melissa Peterson
 

Fellowship Hour will resume Sunday, September 1.