Zion Episcopal Church

IT’S NOT TOO LATE TO BE THINKING OF VBS (VACATION BIBLE SCHOOL) “BAOBAB BLAST”
JULY 19 – 23, 2010
A planning meeting for volunteers was held on Wednesday, May 5th in the Parlors.
God’s Great Get-Together
Baobab Blast is an open invitation to be a part of God’s Great Get-Together. Set [...]

SATURDAY, MAY 15 AT 4:00 P.M.
Mark you calendar and grab your mother and make plans with your daughter(s) (take hold of an honorary mother or daughter for the evening) and plan to attend this tasty dinner and fine fellowship on Saturday, May 15th at 4:00 p.m., in the Parish House Gymnasium. [...]

The following Graduates will be honored at our Pentecost Celebration on Sunday, May 23rd at the 11:00 a.m. service.
If you know of any other graduates, please call the Parish Office at 304-725-5312.
The Rev. Amy Porterfield, M.Div.
I am less than a month from graduating from Virginia Theological Seminary [...]

April 2010 marked the fifth anniversary of Boy Scout Troop 6 at Zion and Darrin Hardy’s fifth anniversary as Scoutmaster.
At a Court of Honor ceremony on Thursday, April 29th, Darrin officially retired from his role of guiding boys through one of Scouting’s finest programs.
The troop started rather small back in 2005. The overriding [...]

Linda Work
May marks the end of our 9:15 a.m. family services and the end of our regular 10:10 a.m. Sunday school classes at the parish house.
In May, teachers will be finishing their curricula for the year while focusing on the church seasons of Easter and Pentecost. Sunday school stories present descriptions [...]

DATE
LESSON

June 6
King David—The Giant Killer

June 13
King David—Honoring God

June 20
(Fathers’ Day)  The Prodigal Son

June 27
Solomon Asks for Wisdom

July 4
King Solomon—A Temple for God

July 11
The Prophet Daniel—The Fiery Furnace

July 18
Daniel and the Lions’ Den

July 25
God Gives Us Friends

August 1
God Gives Us Jesus

August 8
John the Baptist

August 15
Jesus Walks on [...]

Meets Every Wednesday 10:00 a.m. in the Parlors (Coe Room).
We are beginning a new study “Women of the New Testament”, and eleven-week study designed to introduce us to women in the New Testament. We’ll learn about Elizabeth and Mary—and, if you’ve never heard of Sapphira, Lydia, Euodia, Syntyche or Priscilla, we’ll [...]

Tuesday, May 25, 2010 6:00 p.m.
Place to be announced.
Come and join your neighbors on Tuesday, May 25th for our Community Fellowship Dinner. We look forward to seeing you and celebrating [...]

We need your assistance in our Food Pantry.
If you can help out either with monetary donations (please mark your envelope or check “Zion’s Food Pantry”) or food, that would be great. A few suggestions: canned soups, pork & beans, Chef-Boyardee items, Vienna sausages (all canned items with pop-top lids and small cans), small [...]

It is with great joy and pleasure that the Diocese announces the visitation of the Presiding Bishop Katharine Jeffferts Schori to the Diocese of West Virginia. She will be arriving September 30th and traveling the diocese in order to meet as many of you as possible. [...]

Good Shepherd Interfaith Caregivers will hold our 17th Annual Caregivers’ Golf Classic on May 7 (rain date May 10), at Cress Creek Country Club in Shepherdstown.
We are seeking tee box sponsors and golfers to participate and help us raise funds to support our free, non-medical caregiving services to older and/or disabled Jefferson County [...]

May 28-31 (including Memorial Day)
We have a policy that only those over the age of 18 attend. If you would like to donate funds toward these specific projects, please send checks to the Diocesan House with a specific note in the Memo “For Work Weekend.” There is now a sub-account in the [...]

The differences between a consumer and a steward attitude are:

Attitude towards:
Consumer
Steward

Acquisition of goods
I buy it because I want it
I buy it because I need it

Use of Credit
(Affordability)
If I have the means to buy it, I do (whether I can afford it or not)
I consider whether I can afford it; what the impact will be [...]

—Jim Ruddy
With the first quarter of the year at an end, our financial situation is not at its best. So far, we have had to take $6,500.00 from the fundraising account in order to meet payroll and other church expenses. Additionally, we have not been able to pay any [...]

“If you believe and I believe and we together pray,
the Holy Spirit must come down and set God’s people free,
and set God’s people free,
and set God’s people free;
the Holy Spirit must come down and set God’s people free”.
-Traditional Zimbabwe tune
Dear Friends,
“I believe in the surprises of the Holy Spirit.”
This quote, from Leon Suenes captures [...]