Archive for November, 2009

From my heart, I want to thank you for the generosity of spirit that has been shared with me as I leave Zion.  I so appreciate you sharing so sincerely at this time. As I have said before, this has been a happy and blessed time for me to be your Pastor, to walk together [...]

Adam and Jean kissed mommy good-bye when she left to go spend a week with her parents in California. As Adam and Jean walked down the corridor of the airport, they got into a profound conversation. Adam said to his little sister, “Do you think mommy will ever come back home again?” Jean quickly responded, [...]

Some of Pastor Ted’s thoughts on Zion’s mission statement at the Zionaires breakfast last Wednesday:

Twenty years ago today, as we celebrated the first Sunday in our current church building, the congregation prayed together: We now, the people of this church, surrounded by a great cloud of witnesses, grateful for our heritage, aware of the sacrifices of our mothers and fathers in the faith, and confessing that apart from us [...]

Pastor K. Alvar Persson, who was a pastor at Zion from 1950-1953, died at the age of 94 this past August in his home of Medford Wisconsin. He was born March 28, 1915 in Vesteros, Sweden. He was ordained as a Lutheran minister in 1945, and served at congregations in Vermont, New York, Rhode Island, [...]