ZION

SUNDAY – February 5, 2012

9:30 am Worship @ Zion w/ H.C.

10:45 am Family Bible Study

MONDAY – February 6, 2012

5-8 pm Senior Quilts

TUESDAY – February 7, 2012

9:00 – 11:00 am Women’s Bible study @ Zion

7:00 – 9:00 pm Women’s Bible study @ Zion

7:30 pm AA meeting @ Zion

WEDNESDAY – February 8, 2012

12:00 pm Men’s Bible Study @ Zion

5:30 pm Bible on Wednesday & Confirmation

Kickback

THURSDAY – February 9, 2012

7 pm Council Meeting

SUNDAY – February 12, 2012

9:30 am Worship @ Zion

10:45 am Family Bible Study

Welcome our New Pastor and his family

Tom and Laurie have been blessed with an international family. They adopted their children, Jacob and Arianna, from Peru in the early 1990’s. God used their time in Peru to touch their hearts for cross-cultural missions. At the time Tom had been an optometrist for many years and Laurie worked as an opthalmic assistant. After being bit by the “missions bug” they sold their home and packed up for missions training at LBI/Trinity Lutheran College in Seattle. The LBI experience

fueled Tom’s thirst for additional study and so he went on to doctoral studies in a Doctor of Ministry program at Eastern Baptist Seminary in Wynnewood (Philadelphia), PA. This was followed by study at the Nairobi Evangelical Graduate School of Theology in Nairobi, Kenya. Tom then finished his Masters of Divinity at the University of Dubuque Theological Seminary in Dubuque, IA. After completing his Masters he went on to additional doctoral studies in missions at Luther Seminary in St. Paul, MN. Ministry experience has included serving as residence life directors at LBI, student pastoral ministry at St. Mathew Lutheran in Dubuque as well as an ELCA internship while in Bolivia at La Trinidad Church in Cochabamba, Bolviia. Most recently, Tom has been serving in Bolivia training Latin American missionaries as they prepare to serve in Africa, Asia and the Middle East. In addition, he has been working with congregations and pastors throughout Bolivia, mobilizing the Bolivian church for missions. Jacob and Arianna have just finished high school and now Tom and Laurie are on a leave of absence from WMPL while they help Jake and Ari re-adapt to US cultura and begin the next phase of their lives.

Websites to Missions we support

Click on a link below to take a closer look at what our donations are doing to help others

Cherish House

Youth Encounter

World Mission Prayer League

"Hope for Haiti"

Guatemalan Orphanage

Bangladesh Missions

Pray – Worship – Read – Serve – Relate – Give

Marks of Discipleship

“Go therefore and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and the Son, and of the Holy Spirit, and teaching them to obey everything I have commanded you. And remember, I am with you always, to the end of the age.”

Matthew 28:19-20

I will strive to be a passionate follower of Jesus Christ who….

Prays daily

Worships weekly

Reads the Bible daily

Serves at and beyond Zion-Lost Island

Parish

Relates with others to encourage spiritual

growth

Gives generously of my time, talent &

resources

To the glory of God, I believe I am called…

“to the measure of the full stature of Christ” Ephesians 4:13

This “PoWeR SuRGe” resource is adapted from Power Surge – Six Marks of Discipleship for a Changing Church, by Michael W. Foss, Copyright © 2000 Augsburg Fortress Publishers, and used by permission of the author.