A week or so ago, I was in an e-mail chain with a relatively large group of people. One person in the chain referred to a prominent politician in a demeaning way. I was not following the chain closely and before I could reply, someone else gently and graciously  corrected the person. And then, I heard people complaining about wearing a mask and others disparaging those who won’t wear a mask. And, others speaking unkindly about politicians from a different party. As a nation, we are an angry and anxious people. Often more consumed with being right or getting our way than with thinking through how to love our neighbor.

I see this desire to paint people as caricatures of themselves or to make straw man arguments in myself, too. When so much is out of our control, it can feel good to make everything a black or white issue, a good or bad issue, a simple binary choice: open things up or stay closed, live in fear or recklessly risk the health of others, save lives or destroy the economy, and so on.

This morning as I sat in my office, I was discouraged by the tone I sense in others and feel inside myself. It seems to me that as Christians the very least we can do to submit to those in authority over us is to assume the best of them. They are all doing the best in a difficult time to balance all the competing priorities of health and finances in our state and nation. And that as Christians, the lats we can do in loving our neighbors is to be kind to them and speak kindly of them even when we disagree with each other. But, there I sat discouraged.

And then, I received a letter in the mail from Angie Philipps. I do not know Angie. According to the envelope, she lives in Jenison. She may be young or old. I know nothing about this woman, except, she wrote a letter to encourage me and let me know she is praying for me. In the letter she notes that I am the 70th letter she has written to encourage a pastor in our community since the shut down began. (I suspect she is going through the phone book alphabetically from A to Z.)

I want to be more like Angie today. So, I want you to know I am praying for you. I am proud of you, the people of Zion. Yesterday, I delivered another two car loads of food to Sunrise Ministries in Jenison and I am proud to tell people I am your pastor. I love your generosity. I love the way you have been so quick to adapt and adjust to changes the past few months. I love the stories I hear of you bring people meals and going shopping for a friend and the long calls and neighborhood walks. We may be apart, but many of you are working to stay connected.

Thank you for being the people of God we are called to be even with all our failings and mistakes, stumbles and fitful starts. God bless you!

Connect to God
This Sunday we will once again gather for worship online. You can join the service at:
zionreformed.online.church 
Zion’s Facebook Page
WCET (at noon on Friday and 4pm on Sunday) 
Physical Copy of the Sermon mailed to you (please request from Connie Stegeman at cstegeman@zionreforned.org) 

I would like to thank all the people who participated in our service this week:  Sarah McAnally, Emily Morehouse, Luke Austin, Jim Peterson, Rick VanderWall, Rachel and Ethan Brower, Kendyll Bond, and Olivia Davis.

We continue our sermon series entitled Made for More this week. Many of us have been raised in a church culture that told us, however unintentionally, that our role was to come to worship, volunteer in something, give a little money and then let the professionals do the ministry. But what if we were made for more than holding down a seat or filling a volunteer slot. What if we truly are God’s workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God has prepared in advance for us to do? What if we were made for mission, to both be a disciple and make disciples, as well as filling a unique role in God’s kingdom to show God’s love and care for this world. What if we were made for a life overflowing in the life of Jesus and guided in mission by his Spirit? This week we shift our attention to our unique purpose which flows from the unique ways God has shaped and formed us.

This Sunday, we will celebrate communion, also called The Lord’s Super or the Eucharist. This is the family meal of Christians.  We invite all committed followers of Jesus Christ to partake of this sacrament: those who are baptized members of a congregation that proclaims the gospel, who are at peace with God and with their neighbor, and who seek strength to live more faithfully for Christ.  If you are not a Christian, or if you are not prepared to share in this meal, we encourage you to spend this time in prayer.  We hope that this time is helpful to you as you consider your relationship with Jesus Christ and with His people, the church.

You are also invited to join us for a coffee hour after church via a zoom call. The link will be shared during the service in the chat box. Last week, we had about 8 families join us for a brief talk in response to the sermon and just to catch up. You can learn more about how to use Zoom at this link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9isp3qPeQ0E

Grow in Community
Join us at 9 am for Zion Kids Worship/Sunday School! We will be live streaming directly from the same website where you already watch our worship service. You can find the Kids Worship time at https://zionreformed.online.church.

Connected to our sermon series, we are also engaging in a 30-Day devotional as a congregation. The devotionals will walk us through the book of Ephesians as we together consider  how we are Made for More. The devotionals can be downloaded here.

We also still have numerous Discipleship Triads meeting. If you would like to learn more about how you can connect with other people at Zion to encourage one another to follow Jesus well, send me an e-mail and I can help get you connected.

Serve the World
We received an update from Jibit Asha (church planting in Nepal) recently. They ask for prayers as many of their planters are working in areas that have been heavily hit by the Corona Virus. In addition, they report 248 people have heard the gospel for the first time, 15 churches are meeting, 24 people have made first time commitments to Christ, and one new fellowship has begun. We give thanks to God for his continuing work in this time of turmoil for many.

We continue accepting donations of personal care items and food on Wednesdays from 1-3 pm at church. We are partnering with Sunrise Ministries in Jenison for a weekly distribution. We also continue our monthly partnership with UCOM through our Personal Care Pantry. For the next few weeks, all Personal Care Items will be shared with Lifeline Community Church for their next distribution in Wyoming. Thank you for your support of these important ministries at this time.

If you need help, either with food, personal care items, help grocery shopping, or with financial needs, please contact Shanda VandePol our chair of deacons and she can help connect you with the appropriate resources at Zion. Her e-mail is shandavandepol@yahoo.com and her phone number is 616-308-0700.

Administration
We continue to thank God for his provision of all of our needs and for the generous support of our congregation with their time, talent, and treasures. We are especially grateful this week for all those who have adjusted their means of giving to give online, through the mail, and via text. Zion’s members continue to strongly support the ministries of Zion during this time of uncertainty.

If you have been following our financial position closely, you will notice our cash on hand jumped significantly this week. This is due entirely to our church receiving a PPP loan from the government to assist in our making payroll. We anticipate this loan being completely forgiven as it will be used to pay our staff and pay for some utilities. We are particularly thankful for this loan at this time as we have had two bigger expenses come up in the last two weeks: a repair to our elevator and updating our video equipment so we can begin live-streaming from the sanctuary when we gather again for worship.

Year to Date Budget: $565,682.82
Year to Date Contribution: $537,788.82
Giving Last Week: $10,252.00
Cash on Hand: $150,314.70

And let us consider how we may spur one another on toward love and good deeds, not giving up meeting together, as some are in the habit of doing, but encouraging one another—and all the more as you see the Day approaching. ~ Hebrews 10:24-25

On Wednesday during our morning prayer time, Hebrews 10:25 kept running through my mind. Do not give up the habit of meeting. During this time of physical distancing, we cannot be physical with one another, but let us not give up the habit of being socially close to each other.

There are people in our community grieving. Grieving the loss of a loved one. Grieving the loss of their Senior year. Grieving the plans they had for a new business. Grieving the loss of weekly game nights and coffee dates. Grieving the loss of mobility. Let us not let each other grieve alone.

There are also people struggling. Struggling with balancing the competing demands of jobs and raising kids and keeping up on school work. Struggling with being overworked as everything seems to take longer when done remotely., Struggling with not having enough work and worrying how to pay the bills. Struggling in relationships that were rocky to begin within but that have fractured even further under the stress of staying home.

There are also people finding an unexpected joy during this time. Activities and slowed and parents have connected with kids in new ways. Jobs that beat them done have been removed for a time. Children have been born and welcomed into the world.

I spent almost an hour talking with one of our missionaries earlier this week and I was reminded of the power of an encouraging phone call. I get to pray each day with people from our church on a Zoom call and am strengthened by our time together. I met with my Discipleship triad online and we shared our burdens and offered each other wisdom. And every week, I look forward to seeing who has checked in to worship online as we gather on Sundays. All these connections feed my soul and encourage me in my relationship with God, but also in my family and in my work.

We were made for relationship. None of us can go through life alone. Let us not give up the habit of meeting with one another. Gather as a small group online. Call a friend. Send a card. Saturate our friends with text messages. Even from a distance, let us go through life together and never give up the habit of meeting together.

Connect to God
This Sunday we will once again gather for worship online. You can join the service at zionreformed.online.church or from the top banner of our website at www.zionreformed.org. You will also be able to watch the live stream via our church’s Facebook page. The stream will begin at 9:15 with a few worship songs prior to the service starting just a couple minutes after 9:30. Beginning this week, our services will once again be shown a week later on WCET at noon on Fridays and at 4 pm on Sundays.

I would like to thank all the people who participated in our service this week: Rachel, Kim, and Josh Verbrugge, Sharilyn VanWyhe, Rick VanderWall, Troy Austin, our praise team, and all the kids with a Mother’s Day message for their mom.

We continue our sermon series entitled Made for More this week. Many of us have been raised in a church culture that told us, however unintentionally, that our role was to come to worship, volunteer in something, give a little money and then let the professionals do the ministry. But what if we were made for more than holding down a seat or filling a volunteer slot. What if we truly are God’s workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God has prepared in advance for us to do? What if we were made for mission, to both be a disciple and make disciples, as well as filling a unique role in God’s kingdom to show God’s love and care for this world. What if we were made for a life overflowing in the life of Jesus and guided in mission by his Spirit? This week we shift our attention to our common mission field, not across the world, not at some future time, but right here and right now.

If you are not able to watch online, but still want to read the sermon, please contact Connie Stegeman and she can mail you a hard copy of Pastor Greg’s rough draft. (You may have to endure even more than the average number of typos.)

You are also invited to join us for a coffee hour after church via a zoom call. The link will be shared during the service in the chat box. Last week, we had about 8 families join us for a brief talk in response to the sermon and just to catch up. You can learn more about how to use Zoom at this link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9isp3qPeQ0E

Grow in Community
Join us at 9 am this Sunday for Zion Kids Worship/Sunday School! We will be live streaming directly from the same website where you already watch our worship service. You can find the Kids Worship time at https://zionreformed.online.church.

We also hold Jim and Barb Overweg in our prayers as Jim had eye surgery this morning to replace a lens that had broken loose. Please pray for peace, a lack of discomfort or pain, and a speedy recovery.

The Elders will be meeting next week Tuesday at 7 pm. If you are interested in joining Zion,  having a child baptized, or making profession of faith, please contact Pastor Greg.

Connected to our sermon series, we are also engaging in a 30-Day devotional as a congregation. The devotionals will walk us through the book of Ephesians as we together consider  how we are Made for More. The devotionals can be downloaded here.

We also still have numerous Discipleship Triads meeting. If you would like to learn more about how you can connect with other people at Zion to encourage one another to follow Jesus well, send me an e-mail and I can help get you connected.

Serve the World
We continue accepting donations of personal care items and food on Wednesdays from 1-3 pm at church.

If you need help, either with food, personal care items, help grocery shopping, or with financial needs, please contact Shanda VandePol our chair of deacons and she can help connect you with the appropriate resources at Zion. Her e-mail is shandavandepol@yahoo.com and her phone number is 616-308-0700.

Administration
At our annual Congregational meeting on Sunday, we elected the following people to the office of Elder: Patti Grooters and Arlyn Zoet and to the office of Deacon: Jerrod Holzgen and Brandon Ondersma.

We continue to thank God for his provision of all of our needs and for the generous support of our congregation with their time, talent, and treasures. We are especially grateful this week for all those who have adjusted their means of giving to give online, through the mail, and via text. Zion’s members continue to strongly support the ministries of Zion during this time of uncertainty.

Year to Date Budget: $543,499.18
Year to Date Contribution: $520,963.82
Giving Last Week: $7,055.22
Cash on Hand: $104,646.17

We are used to at least the illusion of control. But we find ourselves in a time when we have very little control. We don’t get to decide when the stay home orders will end. We can’t decide on which stores will open or when they will open. We don’t get a say in hospital policies for visitors. And most of all, we don’t decide when or if this virus will leave our communities. It is hard to come face-to-face with the limits of our control. And yet here we are.

When faced with the limits of our control, there are at least two things we can do to help our mood and emotional response. First, we can focus again on the one who is in control even now. Spend time in worship. Read your Bible. But perhaps even more, be still in prayer and both talk with and listen to God.

Secondly, we can look beyond ourselves to other people in need and look for ways to be a blessing in our community/neighborhood/apartment complex. Following are a few ideas of what we can still do to have a positive impact in this time:
1. Write encouraging messages on the sidewalk using sidewalk chalk.
2. Make a bag of treats, including an encouraging note, and if we are a sew-er maybe a handmade mask. Pass the bags of these items out to your neighbors.
3. Go on a prayer walk through your community and pray for each family. If you run into a neighbor while doing this, ask how you can pray for them.
4. If your job or finances are still secure, set aside your stimulus check to use when a neighbor needs help. Be generous with what God has given you.
5. Be present in your front yard or outside somewhere for 2 hours twice a week. Talk with your neighbors who walk by. Create opportunities to break out of the social isolation caused by our physical distancing.
6. Plan a social distancing coffee time in your front yard with friends or via a video call.

While our options may be limited to help right now, there are opportunities. Let’s look for ways we can still be a blessing in the place God has put us.

Connect to God
This Sunday we will once again gather for worship online. You can join the service at zionreformed.online.church or from the top banner of our website at www.zionreformed.org. The stream will begin at 9:15 with some worship songs prior to the service starting at 9:30. I would like to thank all the people who participated in our service this week: Rick VanderWall, Ella Bond, Rachel Brower, Matt Eling, Jeremy Zoet, Olivia Zoet, the entire Eriks family, and Ethan Brower.

We continue our sermon series entitled Made for More this week. Many of us have been raised in a church culture that told us, however unintentionally, that our role was to come to worship, volunteer in something, give a little money and then let the professionals do the ministry. But what if we were made for more than holding down a seat or filling a volunteer slot. What if we truly are God’s workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God has prepared in advance for us to do? What if we were made for mission, to both be a disciple and make disciples, as well as filling a unique role in God’s kingdom to show God’s love and care for this world. What if we were made for a life overflowing in the life of Jesus and guided in mission by his Spirit? To embrace this life God offers us, we begin by rooting our identity my fully in Christ.

If you are not able to watch online, but still want to read the sermon, please contact Connie Stegeman and she can mail you a hard copy of Pastor Greg’s rough draft. (You may have to endure even more than an average number of typos.)

You are also invited to join us for a coffee hour after church via a zoom call. The link will be shared during the service in the chat box. Last week, we had about 8 families join us for a brief talk in response to the sermon and just to catch up. You can learn more about how to use Zoom at this link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9isp3qPeQ0E

Grow in Community
Connected to our new sermon series, we are also engaging in a 30-Day devotional as a congregation. The devotionals will walk us through the book of Ephesians as we together consider  how we are Made for More. The devotionals can be downloaded here.

Rachel Brower is sending information out to parents and Children’s Ministry volunteers each week for at-home Sunday school. If you would like to receive these resources, please contact Rachel and she will add you to her distribution list.

If you have a Middle or High School student who has not attended any of the youth meetings this week via Zoom, please contact Pastor Jeremyand he can send you the appropriate links and information.

Serve the World
We continue accepting donations of personal care items and food on Wednesdays from 1-3 pm at church. Kelly Osterink has become a key leading in the food distribution at Sunrise Ministries in Jenison. This week, they served over 500 families before running out of food. If you are able to donate, you can do so directly at Sunrise, or bring your donations to Zion and we will bring them to Sunrise for you. This coming Wednesday, Rachel Brower will be at church. If you have younger kids, consider the potential discipling opportunity of taking them with you to drop off food at church or at Sunrise Ministries.

Administration
Our annual Congregational Meeting is scheduled for May 3 following our morning worship. If we are not able to meet physically by May 3, we will hold our Congregational Meeting via a Zoom conference call. The link for that call follows:
https://zoom.us/j/96721047181?pwd=ZjdFbFZ2VnBIb3hnZkw5Y040OUF1dz09

At this meeting, we will be approving our slate of Elders and Deacons and then selecting our new Elders and Deacons via lot. We will also receive a report on the state of our church and approve the budget for our fiscal year 2020/21 which begins on June 1.

I know many people may not yet be familiar with Zoom or may feel uncomfortable in this type of setting. Recognizing these challenges, we will hold a Zoom orientation meeting on Thursday, April 30 at 8 pm. At this meeting, we will help you learn too some basic tasks like muting and unmuting yourself as well as practicing voting via polls for during our meeting on Sunday. Thank you in advance for your flexibility in trying new things during this time of physical distancing.

If you are still nervous, you can also learn more about how to use Zoom through the YouTube video below:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9isp3qPeQ0E

The proposed budget can be found here.

We continue to thank God for his provision of all of our needs and for the generous support of our congregation with their time, talent, and treasures. We are especially grateful this week for all those who have adjusted their means of giving to give online, through the mail, and via text. Zion’s members continue to strongly support the ministries of Zion during this time of uncertainty.

Year to Date Budget: $521,315.54
Year to Date Contribution: $505,023.40
Giving Last Week: 11,092.57
Cash on Hand: $133,111.26

There is no better time to invite a non-believing friend or family member to church than this week. The barriers to coming are very low. They can literally come in their PJ’s and have no commute time. In addition, according to a recent article by Ed Stetzer the times when people are most likely to reconsider faith and come to church are: Christmas, Easter, during a national crisis, or a natural disaster. We have hit at least two and arguably three of those times this week. (Check it out here.)

One of the interesting side benefits of streaming church online is that we can see where people were when they watched our services. Last week, we had people attend Zion online from Detroit, Cleveland, Boston, Texas, and Florida. Some of these people are members of our church whoa re out of town, others were invited by members of our church and now are having conversations about Jesus and God with some of you.

I heard a story from a Facebook group I joined recently for support in live-streaming. The story went something like this: a woman came to their church years ago, but then drifted away when she started dating a man who wouldn’t go to church. She came back a year or two later to get married, but then drifted again because he wouldn’t go to church. Six months later, the marriage was on the rocks and she came back to church. But he stayed home. But for the last 3 weeks, he had started coming to their church online, which required driving 20 minutes to find a place with free wifi because they had no internet in their home. This Sunday he decided to give his life to God and follow Jesus. As this person described it, they never would have been online if not for being forced out of their building and this man never would have come to their church building, but God is on the move and now he is learning how to follow Jesus.

I know life is in flux for many of us and we can have our own anxieties and worries right now, but let us not allow our discomfort keep us from going out into the mission field and joining our God in the harvest. Invite a friend or child. Offer to meet up via Face Time or Google Hangouts to answer their questions. Let’s grab hold of this opportunity to reach people who are more curious and open to the gospel than they would have been only a few weeks ago. God has opened some doors, go through them boldly.

Connect to God
Joins us this Sunday as we celebrate Easter. You can join us online at zionreformed.online.church or from the first banner on our website at www.zionreformed.org. Worship will begin at 9:30 am. There will be an opportunity in the service to chat with people who have gathered, help choose our closing song, and also make prayer requests. We look forward to being together online on Sunday. Our scripture will come from Matthew 28:1-10 and the sermon will focus on the hope we have in a time our world is focused on death and disease.

You can also join us for our Maundy Thursday service tonight at 6:30 at either of the links above. The service will start right at 6:30, but there will be a countdown clock starting at 6:25 so you know the video stream is working.

Grow in Community
Please be in prayer for the many people working on the front lines of caring for our community right now. Certainly we want to pray for doctors, nurses, aides and EMTs, and we also want to remember all the people still working in service industries to make sure we get fed like grocery store stockers and clerks, as well as garbage truck drivers, and all the truck drivers delivering our food. We also pray for those worried about losing their job or their business during this time. And, of course, for all those who are sick. May God make his mercy and love known at this time.

Rachel Brower is sending information out to parents and Children’s Ministry volunteers each week for at-home Sunday school. She is also holding a weekly Bible story reading time with younger kids and a on-line game time fro older students. If you would like to receive this information as well, please email Rachel and she will add you to her list. (This week, in Rachel’s introductory video, to be sent Sunday morning, Ethan is hidden somewhere in the video. I will give the first person to find him a candy bar of their choice. I will drop it off at or mail it to your home. So, if you have kids, watch close and see if you can find Ethan hidden in the video.)

If you have a Middle or High School student who has not attended any of the youth meetings this week via Zoom, please contact Pastor Jeremy and he can send you the appropriate links and information.

If you have never read the Bible on your own or established a prat ice of daily Bible reading and prayer, now is a great time to start. I would suggest starting with the book of Philippians as Paul wrote it while under house arrest (maybe you can relate a little more this week than you could a month ago). There is also a couple of great video study of this book on RightNow Media you can access here and here. If you do not already have access to RightNow media you can sign-up here.

Serve the World
We will the accepting donations of Personal Care items and food on Wednesdays from 1-3 pm at church. These donations will one used to assist both H2H and the Personal Care Pantry as well as being available to our members who may need some extra help during this time and for you to share with your neighbors and friends who may need help. Any excess donations will be brought to Love, INC or Sunrise Ministries to support their work in Eastern Ottawa county.

Purchasing food for Hand2Hand has been a challenge as some of the stores are limiting the quantity you can purchase of some items,. If you are able to purchase items for Hand2Hand to donate it would be great;y appreciated. The specific items needed are listed below:

Cans of chicken
Pudding cups
Fruit cups
Individual sized non-refrigerated milk (Yoo-hoo chocolate drink)
100% juice boxes or pouches
Sleeves of crackers (saltines, ritz, etc)

If you need help, either with food, personal care items, help grocery shopping, or with financial needs, please contact Shanda VandePol our chair of deacons and she can help connect you with the appropriate resources at Zion. Her e-mail is shandavandepol@yahoo.com and her phone number is 616-308-0700.

Administration
We continue to thank God for his provision of all of our needs and for the generous support of our congregation with their time, talent, and treasures. We are especially grateful this week for all those who have adjusted their means of giving to give online, through the mail, and via text. Zion’s members continue to strongly support the ministries of Zion during this time of uncertainty.

Fiscal Year to date budget:  $499,131.90
Fiscal Year to date contributions: $463,926.45
Giving Last Week: $ 6,618.28
Cash on Hand: $104,689.28

Sunday Worship
We had some significant problems with our streaming provider on Sunday. Their system crashed right as our service was supposed to start. Even 4 days later, we cannot retrieve the video of our service from their system. Yesterday, we signed up with a new provider and hope this will resolve our streaming issues. You can still join the service at zionreformed.online.church or from the top banner of our website at www.zionreformed.org. We will have a prerecorded service available on Sunday in case we have streaming issues again. This week, you re also invited to join us for a coffee hour after church via a zoom call. The link will be shared during the service in the chat box.

You can learn more about how to use Zoom at this link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9isp3qPeQ0E

Youth Groups
Youth groups continue to meet each week via Zoom. High school meets from 4:00 to 5:30 and Middle school from 5:45 to 7:15 on Sundays. In addition, they both also meet during the week and are doing devotions together via the Bible app. If you have a student who would like to attend, please contact Jeremy Zoet for more information.

Zion Kids
Our kids ministries continue as well. Rachel Brower and Heidi Ondersma are each sending an e-mail to parents each week to assist them in holding at-home Sunday school. You can contact either of them to be added to their distribution list.

In addition, Rachel Brower is hosting two events for children on Wednesdays via Zoom. Pre-schoolers through 1st grade will be meeting at 10:00 am for a Bible story with Miss Rachel. 2nd through 5th graders will be meeting at 10:30 am for games with Miss Rachel.

Prayer Meeting
We are holding a prayer meeting Monday through Friday at 8 am via Zoom. We meet for about a half an hour to share concerns and pray together. You can find the appropriate Zoom link on at our website here.

Hand2Hand and Personal Care Pantry
We will the accepting donations of Personal Care items and food on Wednesdays from 1-3 pm at church. These donations will one used to assist both H2H and the Personal Care Pantry as well as being available to our members who may need some extra help during this time and for you to share with your neighbors and friends who may need help. Any excess donations will be brought to Love, INC or Sunrise Ministries to support their work in Eastern Ottawa county.

We are creating a list of people who are willing to pickl up groceries or medicines for those who are quarantined or need to stay isolated because they are at particular risk. You can sign-up to be a driver/shopper through this google form.

If you need help, either with food, personal care items, help grocery shopping, or with financial needs, please contact Shanda VandePol our chair of deacons and she can help connect you with the appropriate resources at Zion. Her e-mail is shandavandepol@yahoo.com and her phone number is 616-308-0700.

Camp Zion
We have decided to cancel Camp Zion for this summer. Local schools have been informed as well as all the students who applied to work as our summer staff. While Camp Zion will be on hiatus this summer, we look forward to renewing this ministry in the summer of 2021.

Administration
We continue to thank God for his provision of all of our needs and for the generous support of our congregation with their time, talent, and treasures. We are especially grateful this week for all those who have adjusted their means of giving to give online, through the mail, and via text. Zion’s members continue to strongly support the ministries of Zion during this time of uncertainty. Our P&A Committee is meeting every 2 weeks to monitor our financial situation. Some key numbers are shared below.

Fiscal Year to date budget: $488,040.08
Fiscal Year to date contributions: $457,663.17
Giving Last Week: $1,342.00
Cash on Hand: $103,384.95