Voting Members

Posted October 2022

We love seeing Zion members around the building as well as in the community and hope you are finding ways to engage at Zion this fall.

As we approach our annual meeting on Sunday, December 4, we want to make sure every eligible member can vote and make their voice heard.

Voting membership offers you the opportunity to cast your vote for things like the budget, changes to ZLC’s constitution, voting on the call for the new senior pastor, and other important matters.

The constitution states that in order to be a voting member at Zion, you need to be a confirmed member, receive Holy Communion (at least once), and invest in Zion financially (with any amount) in the current or preceding calendar year.

You may have already done both of those things in 2021 and/or 2022 and we just don’t have a record of it. How do you make a record of it? Visit ZionBuffalo.org/voting-member, or call the church office at 763.682.1245 and we’ll be happy to help you!

Please know that you are a valued part of our Zion family, whether you are a voting member or not.

We are here to support you in any way we can, not only concerning this matter, but in all things. Together, let us continue to trust in Jesus, Live for Jesus, and serve with Jesus!

Thank you, Your Zion Council

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