Redeemer Center For Life Thanks

Posted January 2022

Zion continues to reach out and support our Mission Partners in various ways. For years Zion has been providing quarterly payments to Redeemer Lutheran Church in North Minneapolis and to All Kids Can Learn International (Village of Hope) in Zambia. Both of these Mission partners along with Mission Jamaica are three global mission partners that we at Zion support. For the past few years our annual Zion golf outing proceeds have been distributed to these mission partners. In 2021 the proceeds were earmarked for Redeemer Center for Life (RCFL)’s Attainable Housing Program. Specifically for a new water heater for an apartment building. Through Zion and the Buffalo Community we were able to send RCFL a check for $5007 to help purchase the water heater. We received the following thank you from them:

Thank you so much for your extremely generous donation to RCFL from the proceeds of your golf tournament. We are so grateful to be the recipient of this fundraising effort and it seems like the event was a huge success- CONGRATS!

We really appreciate Zion’s commitment to our partnership and this donation is a particularly impressive example of stewardship and investment in RCFL and your dedication to us. Thank You!

We are thrilled to be able to use these funds to continue updating and renovating our affordable housing. Thank you so much for your ongoing investment in our work and mission in North Minneapolis!
Sincerely, Bex Klafter, Director of Donor Development, Redeemer Center for Life

The Global Mission Committee thanks everyone for your continued support of our mission to reach out and support our partners in their efforts to improve their lives. God has blessed us by providing us with the opportunity to share our gifts with others.

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