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Zion United Church of Christ Weekly Newsletter
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March 22, 2014
In This Issue
Lenten Theme
Easter Flowers
Soups for Shelter
Lenten Bible Study
New Paraments
Central Ohio Symphony
The WOW Wagon
Prayer Concerns
This Week at Zion
Quicklinks
Len and Pastor Pete get ready to deliver Meals on Wheels this week.
 
LENT 
40 Days of Solidarity with the Poor
 
 
EASTER FLOWERS

 
Easter flowers are now being ordered in memory of or to honor your loved ones.  Please look for the order forms within your bulletin.  The cutoff for ordering is next Sunday, March 30.  Please provide cash or check with your order.  Please consider contributing to this wonderful and beautiful tradition at Zion. 
 

 
SOUPS FOR SHELTER

There weren't many of us but we sure had a grand time at this week's Soups for Shelter. Mike went for the Cheeseburger Soup. Pastor Pete opted for the Barley.  Mike walked away with a beautifully handcrafted bowl and Pastor Pete went home with a handsome personalized coffee cup.

Zion continues to support the good work done by Delaware County Habitat for Humanity.  Mike is currently serving on the church relations committee at Habitat.  

LENTEN BIBLE STUDY
ON SUNDAY!!  

Rev. Mr. Matthew Wilson is conducting a Bible study during our lenten season at Zion.  Thank you Matt!

The study is titled Prayers in the Bible, nourishing the hungry spirit and is adapted from The Thoughtful Christian curriculum.

The purpose of the study is to explore prayers of Thanksgiving, Praise, Intercession and Confession in the Bible and relate them to Zion's Lenten emphasis on hunger.

We will meet on the following Sundays during Lent; March 9, 16, 23, (30) and April 6 and 13. We will begin at 8:30 with a light breakfast and fellowship, then meet for class from 8:45-9:45.

All are invited.  Please contact Matthew Wilson if you will need child care or have any questions in regard to our time together.  740.369.3038

 


Purple Paraments
 
We have been so blessed to have had a real artist design and make our new paraments for the Lenten season.  Kit Tossman (daughter of Bob and Betsy Johnson) has presented to us a beautiful set of meaningful adornments for our sanctuary during this season.  The paraments are thematically based upon the beautiful scripture we find at John 15:5.  "I am the vine; you are the branches.  If you remain in me and I in you, you will bear much fruit; apart from me you can do nothing." (NIV)  
 
If you wish to make a modest donation to support the purchase of these paraments for Zion please see Pastor Pete.



 
A JOYOUS CELEBRATION
Saturday and Sunday!!

Ode to Joy?  Yes.  Since its premiere in 1824, Beethoven's 9th Symphony has never truly left the spotlight.  Beethoven capped his last and greatest symphony with a grand chorale finale, a stirring setting of Schiller's original poem, "Ode to Joy."

Come out and enjoy this performance by the Central Ohio Symphony and OWU Choral Art Society in historic Gray Chapel on the campus of Ohio Wesleyan University.  Two performances; March 22 and March 23 at 3:00.  

For tickets: www.centralohiosymphony.org.
 
           
 
 
    Feed Me!


Immediate Prayer Concerns
 
                    
Wendy Bell                           Lillian Landacre
Sandy Nichols                       Pat Pressler 
Jill Glass and Family              Tom Bordner           
Gary Zicht                            Bob and Sherry Bailey       
Lisa Parks                             Katie Cahill                         Missy Fouts-Hooker               Barbara Martin                 
Barbara Patterson                 Ann and Jerry Elliott              
Rusty and Kay                      Matt Fields                             The Jim Moore Family            Teresa Mehnert                     Tina Howard                         Sherrie Williams                
Chet and Marilyn Hammond   Debbie Foster
Bert Gallop                           Debbie Morris
 
                          
 
This Week at Zion

The message on Sunday will be offered by Pastor Pete and is titled Blessings?  Our Old Testament reading is Proverbs 22:1-9.  Our reading from the Gospel is Luke 14:12-23. 
 
 

Pastor Pete                                 Zion Church
740.513.1440                                740.362.6691
pastorpete@uccdelaware.com        zion@uccdelaware.com 
 
 
Mobile Food Market
Monday, March 17, 11:30.  
Location.  Highpoint Church. Pollock Road.
 

   
This Sunday's Worship Service

Liturgist
Jason Abahazi

Greeters
Rose Ann Haynes and Johnnie Hoopes
 
Sunday School
Carrie Abahazi
   
Nursery
Grace Fuchs and Melissa Peterson
 
Fellowship Hour
Nancy Townley