Our Table & Font conversation begins here at Zion on Sunday, February 22, 2015 at the 9 am Adult Sunday School, and continues each Sunday during Lent.  Check our Table & Font Resource Page for helpful information and perspective papers. Everyone is welcome to join the conversation!

Table & Font Conversation Begins 2/22/2015

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 2/18/15

Ash Wednesday, February 18, 2015 During the forty days of Lent, we are invited to participate in disciplines of fasting, prayer, and works of love.  Ash Wednesday is the solemn day of prayer that marks the beginning of Lent, when we confess our sin in a litany of repentance (turning […]

Lent at Zion

Dear sisters and brothers in Christ, Please join our sister in Christ, Lee Thor, in mourning the loss of her partner, Otto Hornlein who died on February 3, 2015. Otto’s wake will be held at Pettit-Davis Funeral Home at 371 West Milton St., Rahway, NJ (732-388-0038)   on Sunday, February 8 from […]

Wake and Funeral for Otto Hornlein

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 2/11/15

This month’s issue of the Journal of Lutheran Ethics (JLE) focuses on environmental ethics, which has been a concern of our congregation for many years.  Here is the introduction from James K. Echols, editor of JLE: What is the Christian response to climate change?  For this month’s authors, Christians are called […]

Environmental Ethics

Dear sisters and brothers in Christ, February 18 is Ash Wednesday. Lent ensues. The season of Lent was given its current shape in the 4th century by the Council of Nicea from which we get the Nicean Creed (“Please join me in professing our faith in the words of the […]

An Invitation to the Discipline of Lent