Elders 6:30 Butch Miller, Jim Asmus

8:00 Butch Munson

10:30 Marc Gosch

8:30 Bob Matthiesen (March 15, Lent)

5:30 Larry Berner (March 15, Lent) Acolytes 6:30 Brittany Krajicek

8:00 Ashlyn Herrig

10:30 Adalis Boeck

5:30 Matthew Weltz (March 15, Lent) Projector 6:30 LaRee Huisinga

8:00 Gary Baughn

10:30 Lillaina Boeck Greeters 6:30 Kyle & Tammy Brodersen

8:00 Sue Feller, Myrna Meyer

10:30 Lori Wehle, Barb Siemer

Elders 6:30 Butch Miller

8:00 Marc Gosch, Larry Berner

10:30 Kieth Osborn, Mark Feller Acolytes 6:30 Colton Neumann

8:00 Hunter Emery

10:30 Bangech Biliew Projector 6:30 Lexi Neumann

8:00 Jon Segebart

10:30 Omaha Biliew Greeters 6:30 Sue Weltz, Helen Finzen

8:00 Aaron & Deb Gress, Pat Gress

10:30 Joni Slechta, Shelley Starman

Church Statistics March 4 and 5:

Attendance: 454

Communion: 224

Offering: $12,008.87

Sunday School Attendance: 47

Sunday School Offering: $34.25

Hymns:

6:30– 804, 794, 785, 798, 637, 918

8:00 - 804, 794, 785, 918

Divine Service, Setting Two– Pg. 167

Sunday, March 12 (Daylight Saving Time begins)

Adult Confirmation Instruction

Mentor Sunday

Youth Group

9:15 am

9:15 am

6:30 pm

Monday, March 13

Monday Sewing 1:30 pm

Tuesday, March 14

Tuesdays at Two Bible Study Girls’ Volleyball Game @ Ft. Dodge

Board of Education Meeting

2:00 pm

4:00 pm

6:00 pm

Wednesday, March 15

Women’s Bible Class @ Cronks

Lent Service/Chapel

Early School Dismissal

Lent Service

Lent Meal

Youth Confirmation

Choir Rehearsal

6:30 am

8:30 am

1:20 pm

5:30 pm

6:30 pm

6:30 pm

6:45 pm

Thursday, March 16

Bible Class

Nifty Needles

10:00 am

1:00 pm

Friday, March 17

Men’s Bible Class @ Cronks

Prayer Party

6:30 am

7:30 am

Saturday, March 18

Sunday, March 19

Adult Confirmation Instruction

Youth Group

9:15 am

6:30 pm

Ushers Serving in March:

6:30 - Alan & Lexus Weltz, KLynn Slechta

8:00 - Scott & Reed Bowker, Trevor & Spencer Gress,

Dave Gress

10:30 - Matt Gosch, Dane Dammen, Greg Wehle, Bob Starman,

Todd Slechta

1004 First Avenue South

Denison, Iowa 51442 Church: 712-263-2235

School: 712-263-4766 info@ziondenison.org

Fax: 712-263-6010

www.ziondenison.org

Rev. Joshua Keinath

Rev. Kurt Kaiser

Principal Tammy Langfield

Second Sunday in Lent

March 11 and 12, 2017

Weekly Worship Schedule Saturday 6:30 p.m.

Traditional Worship Sunday 8:00 a.m.

Traditional Worship

Sunday 9:15 a.m.

Bible Classes/Sunday School

Sunday 10:30 a.m.

Contemporary Worship Communion March 11, 19, 25

As we gather… Abram, later renamed Abraham by

God, moved his family to see the promised land. God

promised Abram that his offspring would one day

inherit the land. We need to follow Abram’s example,

as he followed God’s command by faith alone. Lent Meal will be served after the 5:30 service on

Wednesday, March 8 by Zion Evening Guild. Serving

casseroles, fruit salad, roll and dessert. Free will

offering. Help Needed LWML is looking for the front pages

of used Christmas cards. There is a marked bin in the

narthex you can drop these in. They will be used to

make books. Thank you for helping with God’s

mission work! Needed The Monday Sewing group is looking for

donations of good material. If you can help, bring to

the Zion office or call Marie Peterson at 263-3360. 30-Hour Famine will take place March 31-April 1.

This is a junior high youth event that raises awareness

of world hunger. The Flamingo Flu epidemic will

spread through Denison soon! If you catch this illness,

your lawn will be covered in pink flamingos. In order

to cure the illness, simply make a donation of any

amount to World Vision. A donation of $30 allows you

to choose who will receive the flu next. You may also

“immunize” yourself by donating $30 (and no

flamingos will show up). All donations may be brought

to the Zion office. Any questions, call Liz Kempfert at

712-898-1361.

For Healing… Gale Reis, Tina Lenz, Walt Miller , Dar lyne Dahleen, Bonnie Harper ,

Lorraine Bral, Norma Petersen, Phyllis Bockelmann, Donna Ahart *Names will be carried

on the list for 3 weeks. Please call the office if you would like a name on for an additional

3 weeks. Happy Birthday to… Lori Brockman, Janelle Johnson, Br ian Struck, Sarah Car lson,

Ryder Malone, Lexie Wiese, Matthew Winey, Kim Gustafson, Roger Peters, Dorothy

Brown, Donna Kahl, Cody Segebart, Ben Green, Sharlene Hansen, Robert Segebart, Peyton

Gress, Andrea Huebner, Duane Vetter, Emma Schurke, Gracie Schurke, Starla Struck,

Nichole Winey, Tim Wingrove Happy Anniversary to… Carolyn & Sher man Bryant, Mer lin & Janice Arnold,

Susan & Dean Danielson For Comfort… The families of Harold Frehse and Sharon Slinger Families and Zion Staff including… Ione Claussen, Garry and Nancy Hottendorf,

Ramona Laubscher, Chelsy Sonnichsen and Karen Kahl

Scrip Last week’s order earned Zion $88.26. There

are many local options available with many kept on

hand in the office. Stop by next time you need to do

your weekly shopping! Needed If you have a good, used microwave you

would like to donate for the Zion kitchen, please talk to

Marcella Schneller. Mercy Meals and Hockey Game Zion Youth will be

packaging Mercy Meals in Sioux City on Friday, March

24. Mercy Meals provides food to areas of the most

need around the world. All ages are invited with a

Sioux City Musketeer hockey game to follow!

Registration forms available in the Zion office. Birthday Blessings to Duane Vetter as he celebrates

his 85th birthday on March 16! Channel 13 Shown at 4:30 p.m. on Sundays on

local cable channel 121.2 (HD). Cost is $60. Thy Strong Word Listen to KDSN for these 3-4

minute devotions (Monday-Saturday) at 6:25am. This

week’s speaker is Rev. David Loeschen of Our Savior,

Denison and Bethlehem, Dow City. Building Healthy Families: Although they are often

composed of idiotic husbands, smug wives and smart-

aleck children, TV sitcom families can be admired for

one thing: they don’t spend most of their time watching

television. What can you do this week to serve or love

someone in Jesus name? Lutheran Family Service of Iowa -

Lynnette Aschinger (712-276-9000). This Week’s Bible Verses:

Sunday - John 3:1-17

Monday - Genesis 12:1-4

Tuesday - John 7:53-8:11

Wednesday - Romans 4:1-5, 13-17

Thursday - 1 John 4:7-21

Friday - 1 John 5:1-12

Saturday - Psalm 121

Sunday - John 4:5-42

Old Testament Reading Genesis 12:1-9

Now the LORD said to Abram, “Go from your country and

your kindred and your father’s house to the land that I will

show you. And I will make of you a great nation, and I will

bless you and make your name great, so that you will be a

blessing. I will bless those who bless you, and him who dis-

honors you I will curse, and in you all the families of the

earth shall be blessed.” So Abram went, as the LORD had

told him, and Lot went with him. Abram was seventy-five

years old when he departed from Haran. And Abram took

Sarai his wife, and Lot his brother’s son, and all their posses-

sions that they had gathered, and the people that they had

acquired in Haran, and they set out to go to the land of Ca-

naan. When they came to the land of Canaan, Abram passed

through the land to the place at Shechem, to the oak of

Moreh. At that time the Canaanites were in the land. Then the

LORD appeared to Abram and said, “To your offspring I will

give this land.” So he built there an altar to the LORD, who

had appeared to him. From there he moved to the hill country

on the east of Bethel and pitched his tent, with Bethel on the

west and Ai on the east. And there he built an altar to the

LORD and called upon the name of the LORD. And Abram

journeyed on, still going toward the Negeb. Epistle Reading Romans 4:1-8, 13-17

What then shall we say was gained by Abraham, our forefa-

ther according to the flesh? For if Abraham was justified by

works, he has something to boast about, but not before God.

For what does the Scripture say? “Abraham believed God,

and it was counted to him as righteousness.” Now to the one

who works, his wages are not counted as a gift but as his due.

And to the one who does not work but trusts him who justi-

fies the ungodly, his faith is counted as righteousness, just as

David also speaks of the blessing of the one to whom God

counts righteousness apart from works: “Blessed are those

whose lawless deeds are forgiven, and whose sins are cov-

ered; blessed is the man against whom the Lord will not

count his sin.” The promise to Abraham and his offspring

that he would be heir of the world did not come through the

law but through the righteousness of faith. For if it is the

adherents of the law who are to be the heirs, faith is null and

the promise is void. For the law brings wrath, but where there

is no law there is no transgression. That is why it depends on

faith, in order that the promise may rest on grace and be guar-

anteed to all his offspring—not only to the adherent of the

law but also to the one who shares the faith of Abraham, who

is the father of us all, 17as it is written, “I have made you the

father of many nations”—in the presence of the God in whom

he believed, who gives life to the dead and calls into exist-

ence the things that do not exist.

Lent Schedule

(Wednesdays at 8:30 a.m. and 5:30 p.m.):

March 15 Rev. David Loeschen

The 7th Commandment

March 22 Rev. Mark Kluzek

The 6th Commandment

March 29 Pastor Keinath

The 5th Commandment

April 4 Pastor Kaiser

The 4th Commandment

Holy Gospel Reading John 3:1-17

Now there was a man of the Pharisees named Nicode-

mus, a ruler of the Jews. This man came to Jesus by

night and said to him, “Rabbi, we know that you are a

teacher come from God, for no one can do these signs

that you do unless God is with him.” Jesus answered

him, “Truly, truly, I say to you, unless one is born

again he cannot see the kingdom of God.” Nicodemus

said to him, “How can a man be born when he is old?

Can he enter a second time into his mother’s womb

and be born?” Jesus answered, “Truly, truly, I say to

you, unless one is born of water and the Spirit, he

cannot enter the kingdom of God. That which is born

of the flesh is flesh, and that which is born of the

Spirit is spirit. Do not marvel that I said to you, ‘You

must be born again.’ The wind blows where it wishes,

and you hear its sound, but you do not know where it

comes from or where it goes. So it is with everyone

who is born of the Spirit.”