Ways to Worship in March
The worship schedule
Services are at 8 a.m. and 10:30 a.m.and Sunday School at 9:15 a.m.
There are Wednesday evening Lenten services as well a lunches during
Lent. See the Lenten schedule.
Lenten Schedule
Stained Glass Windows -
During the month of December, Zion received two stained glass windows
given in memory of Gilbert Rosenberg whose funeral service were held in
October of 2008. One window depicts the baptism of Jesus and the second
window is a depiction of the three crosses of Good Friday. The two
windows compliment a previous given window given in memory of Magnie
Peterson and all three are located in the north windows of the upper
Narthex.
A nursery is
available during the 10:30 a.m. service for children 4 and under, but
children are very welcome at worship as well!
Large print and
children's bulletins are available from the ushers.
Individual hearing amplifiers are also available from the
ushers.
Please join us every week
for
the Word and the
Sacraments, for worship and music, and
for
fellowship with the Zion family.
Worship Banners at
Zion - Have you noticed the wonderful banners that grace our
sanctuary? We have a set of white banners to commemorate All Saints
Day, Christmas and Easter. During the season of Advent we have
beautiful blue banners. Green banners will remind us of
the seasons of Epiphany and the time after Pentecost, and the red
banners will hang on Pentecost and Reformation Sunday. There are also
banners specifically for baptisms and weddings. Currently, each of
our banners has been given as a memorial gift.
Evangelical
Lutheran Worship
Twenty-nine years ago we were introduced to the Lutheran Book of
Worship, other wise known
as the “Green Book”. This was the hymnal designated to
replace the “Red Book”, the Service Book and Hymnal.
Well, it is time for a new hymnal, the “Cranberry Book”,
otherwise known as Evangelical Lutheran Worship (ELW). This has been
a project in the making for some time and now it is at Zion. The
ELW is both similar and different. It is similar in that
you will most likely recognize two of the settings found in
the LBW. It is similar in that many of our favorite hymns from both the
LBW and the “Blue Book” (With One Voice, WOV) are included
which means we will be able to eliminate two of our current hymn/song
books and replace it with the one. What is different is that rather
than the three liturgy settings found in the LBW, we will now have ten!
In addition to the two we are familiar with from the LBW and one from
the WOV we will also have a variety of settings some that are
contemporary and even in Spanish for our Latino Lutheran brothers and
sisters. Obviously we are not going to use all the settings,
instead it is the goal of Zion’s Worship and Music committee to
ease us in with the familiar settings and in time, experiment here and
there.