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 […]
John Page
Jersey Jottings: News from around the New Jersey Synod December 10, 2014
Jersey Jottings 12/10/14
The Giving Tree As we did last year, Zion Evangelical Lutheran Church is partnering with the Roosevelt School in Rahway to provide much needed gifts to the school’s neediest students and families. The school nurse at the Roosevelt School has shared with us these children’s needs, and we invite you […]
The Giving Tree
Advent 2 Isaiah 40:1-112 Peter 3:8-15aMark 1:1-8 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 of holy patience, help us to offer a compassionate witnessagainst […]
Advent 2 Devotions
Jersey Jottings: News from around the New Jersey Synod December 3, 2014
Jersey Jottings 12/3/14
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 12/10/14
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. […]
Food for Friends 12/6/14
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
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 […]