Zion’s team of volunteers is next scheduled to help prepare and serve meals on December 6th. Every Saturday, Food For Friends prepares hot meals for hungry residents of the City of Rahway. Individuals, and teams of volunteers from various faith communities in Rahway, help to prepare and serve these meals. […]
Monthly Archives: November 2014
Advent 1 Isaiah 64:1-91 Corinthians 1:3-9Mark 13:24-37 A Series of Advent Devotions from the presiding bishops of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America, the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Canada, The Anglican Church of Canada, and The Episcopal Church +++ God beyond time, help us to live in the tension between […]
Advent 1 Devotions
Dear sisters and brothers in Christ, There is a difference between optimism and hope. Ambrose Bierce, in his Devil’s Dictionary, defines optimism as, “The doctrine, or belief that everything is beautiful, including what is ugly, everything good, especially the bad, and everything right that is wrong… [optimism is] an intellectual […]
On Advent Hope
At this time of year, so many people rush to Christmas in a frenzy of shopping for gifts. But, people of faith have long appreciated Advent as a time of hopeful anticipation. “Now we can see the beautiful logic of Advent. Where the culture (and my heart, too, if I […]
Advent 2014
Jersey Jottings News from around the New Jersey Synod November 26, 2014 Contents: A Thanksgiving Message from Bishop Tracie Bartholomew News and Events Cross Roads Camp & Retreat Center Synod Assembly: Save the Date! Lutheran Theological Seminary at Philadelphia ELCA Global Mission Prayer Concerns Ecumenical Advent Devotions Being the New Jersey […]
Jersey Jottings
Dear sisters and brothers in Christ, On Monday evening a grand jury in Ferguson, MO declined to indict officer Darren Wilson for fatally shooting Michael Brown. Subsequently, in the days that have followed since then, there have been protests, mostly peaceful but some deplorably violent, across the nation. For many, […]
Michael Brown, Officer Wilson, Ferguson, Justice, and Racism
Zion participates in Operation Warm Heart (OWH), a program of the Elizabeth Coalition to House the Homeless, providing temporary shelter in our fellowship hall for homeless men, women, and children during the colder months of the year. We host our guests on Wednesday evenings from December 3, 2014 through March […]
Operation Warm Heart 12/3/14
As Christians, we know that we have much to be thankful for, and that God is the source of all of our blessings. Each year, on the eve of the Thanksgiving holiday, we join our sisters and brothers from the Episcopal Church of the Good Shepherd in Rahway in a […]