School of Hope Library

Posted January 2018

Zion’s Legacy Funds at Work in Zambia

The School of Hope library will soon be ready for books and library furniture. The walls are up and the roof is on. The inside plastering is almost finished so it can be painted. The floor needs to have the final smooth layer applied and electricity and lights need to be installed. The inside is projected to be done and painted by the middle of January. In mid-January, a U.S. librarian is going to be at the School for six weeks to catalog the books and set up a system for shelving them. A church team of 13 people will be going on January 16 to help put together all the metal shelves on the container and to help shelve the books.

The indoor bathrooms and painting the outside will be the last part to get finished. The school’s resident artist, Felix, may be commissioned to paint a mural on the outside of the library.

Kathleen and Benedict Schwartz, the CEO’s of the Village and School of Hope (All Kids Can Learn International) are very grateful for the funding Zion has provided for building the library and for the books that Zion sent over on the container. More pictures will follow as they complete the interior and add the books.

The Hope College of Education, a new part of All Kids Can Learn International, is now taking applications for the 2018 year. The new library is a key factor in making this opportunity possible for the teachers of Zambia. Hope college will offer education classes to fulfill further government teacher certification requirements. Check out the college website at hopeedu.org.

It is exciting to see and hear about the completion of the library and the preparation for it to be ready to be used.

Please continue to keep this project in your prayers. We know God can use this library as a blessing to all who enter its doors.

9th Grade Lock-in 2022

From the evening hours of October 7, well into the morning hours of October 8, our awesome Zion ninth graders…

Fall 2022 at Zion!

Our mission is to partner with families for faith formation and connection. We are always looking for ways to connect with you and to be helpful to families as they seek to raise their children in the faith. There is nothing like fall in Minnesota! But, there is also nothing like the busyness that accompanies it. Registrations, new schedules, new routines, new forms to fill out and keep track of, new school supplies to find and purchase, and new anxieties to calm. We started asking: what if the church found a way to curb some of that, instead of participating in it?

We started asking parents: “Would it be helpful if we moved the start of Sunday School and Confirmation to October?” And, overwhelmingly, parents told us that would be AWESOME and helpful. So, Sunday School (both at 8:30 & 10:30 this year!) will begin Sunday, October 2nd, and Confirmation will begin Wednesday, October 5th.

September will be focused on connecting your family to the joy of Sabbath. We hope you will be connecting back to worship if you’ve taken some time away. To help you focus on Sabbath and worship this Fall, the 10:30am outdoor worship service is continuing into September. Children love the chance to dance, run, and worship under the trees, and Zion has the perfect set-up. It is casual, low-key, a little bit shorter, and filled with music. Bring chairs or a blanket and worship outside the first two Sundays in September. Then, be ready for Z-Fest on the 18th! Food trucks! Games! Fun!

Each Sunday in September will have extra special ways of connecting with children & youth in worship (beyond our ever-popular children’s sermon time. Enjoy the breather and grace this new start date will provide and connect with friends old and new at worship this September. After all, God has commanded Sabbath rest, because we need it!

Choirs & Bells Sunday School Confirmation