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IN DOOR WORSHIP SERVICES SUSPENDED
Sunday Morning Worship Time
8 AM, Parking Lot, livestreamed or recorded online only
broadcast into the parking lot on 107.3 FM
This service will also still be broadcast Sunday at 11AM
on CASH 95.9 FM in the Brainerd Lakes area
Sunday 10:30 AM and Monday 6PM Services are Suspended
as are
Sunday School & Adult Bible Class
Church office is open 8 AM - Noon
New Online Giving Options
Greetings Sisters and Brothers in Christ, Members and Friends of Zion in Brainerd,
COVID19 numbers in our county are skyrocketing. These numbers are figured by the Minnesota Department of Health collecting a 14-day new case rate per 10,000 people per county. According to State guidelines, if the numbers in a county would reach 50 new cases per 10,000 people in a 14-day time period, all schools in that county would go to full distance learning. The new numbers that were released last Friday, Nov. 27 for Crow Wing County was 201 new cases, which is 151 cases above the number needed to close schools.
COVID19 has reached our congregation. In the past 2 weeks we have had a substantial number of members who have been diagnosed with COVID19, at least 3 members who were in the ICU, many members who have been exposed and are in quarantine and in those 2 weeks 1 member has passed away. Pastor Steve is currently finishing up his 14 days of quarantine after being exposed to someone who has tested positive for COVID19.
With all this information, there was an emergency Church Council meeting last Friday afternoon. It is the decision of the Church Council, for the safety of our congregation members and staff, to pause in-person worship services and church events for a time beginning on Dec. 1, 2020.
A general number of 100 new cases per 10,000 people in Crow Wing County was adopted by the church council as Zion’s guideline. If the weekly announced number is above 100, the in-person activities will be stopped. When that number goes under 100, in-person activities will resume.
For the current time this would mean no in-person midweek Advent service this week or worship next Sunday. Our goal is to still livestream an 8am worship service on Sunday which will be recorded to Facebook and YouTube, broadcast into the parking lot only at 8am and still broadcast on CASH 95.9FM at 11am, with Pastor leading worship in an empty sanctuary. We are also hoping to have a Midweek Advent service recorded and put online and on the radio Wednesday night at 6pm. As of now, our plans for Christmas have not changed (Dec. 24 at Noon, 3, 5, 7 & 11PM and Dec. 25 at 9AM). These services will be by reservation only. All of these services will be broadcast into the parking lot as we still try to iron out plans for livestreaming and radio timeslots.
This also means that youth events, young adults and confirmation classes will be on hold until the numbers fall back into a safer range or until we can come up with new virtual plans.
This is also throwing a wrench Zion’s “Vision Re-casting” meetings for a while. The goal was to have the meetings scheduled and completed by Dec. 10 with the goal of revisioning and collecting commitment cards by Dec. 13. The meetings scheduled for this week will be postponed until a later date and the others might all be done on Zoom until we can again safely meet together.
The church office will still be open from 8am until noon.
Thank you for your understanding and prayers through this difficult time.
COVID19 numbers in our county are skyrocketing. These numbers are figured by the Minnesota Department of Health collecting a 14-day new case rate per 10,000 people per county. According to State guidelines, if the numbers in a county would reach 50 new cases per 10,000 people in a 14-day time period, all schools in that county would go to full distance learning. The new numbers that were released last Friday, Nov. 27 for Crow Wing County was 201 new cases, which is 151 cases above the number needed to close schools.
COVID19 has reached our congregation. In the past 2 weeks we have had a substantial number of members who have been diagnosed with COVID19, at least 3 members who were in the ICU, many members who have been exposed and are in quarantine and in those 2 weeks 1 member has passed away. Pastor Steve is currently finishing up his 14 days of quarantine after being exposed to someone who has tested positive for COVID19.
With all this information, there was an emergency Church Council meeting last Friday afternoon. It is the decision of the Church Council, for the safety of our congregation members and staff, to pause in-person worship services and church events for a time beginning on Dec. 1, 2020.
A general number of 100 new cases per 10,000 people in Crow Wing County was adopted by the church council as Zion’s guideline. If the weekly announced number is above 100, the in-person activities will be stopped. When that number goes under 100, in-person activities will resume.
For the current time this would mean no in-person midweek Advent service this week or worship next Sunday. Our goal is to still livestream an 8am worship service on Sunday which will be recorded to Facebook and YouTube, broadcast into the parking lot only at 8am and still broadcast on CASH 95.9FM at 11am, with Pastor leading worship in an empty sanctuary. We are also hoping to have a Midweek Advent service recorded and put online and on the radio Wednesday night at 6pm. As of now, our plans for Christmas have not changed (Dec. 24 at Noon, 3, 5, 7 & 11PM and Dec. 25 at 9AM). These services will be by reservation only. All of these services will be broadcast into the parking lot as we still try to iron out plans for livestreaming and radio timeslots.
This also means that youth events, young adults and confirmation classes will be on hold until the numbers fall back into a safer range or until we can come up with new virtual plans.
This is also throwing a wrench Zion’s “Vision Re-casting” meetings for a while. The goal was to have the meetings scheduled and completed by Dec. 10 with the goal of revisioning and collecting commitment cards by Dec. 13. The meetings scheduled for this week will be postponed until a later date and the others might all be done on Zoom until we can again safely meet together.
The church office will still be open from 8am until noon.
Thank you for your understanding and prayers through this difficult time.
Zion’s Mission:
To Know Christ… and to Make Him Known
Zion's Vision:
By the power of the Holy Spirit, Zion Lutheran Church
will be a congregation of forgiven people
who are LIVING and GROWING
in Christ’s Word and
BRINGING Christ to our community and world
all through the W.O.R. D.
Worship
Outreach
Relationships
&
Discipleship.
Today’s Light Devotional Bible Readings:
Everyone is invited to join in a read through the Bible in 2 years church plan. Each week we will list the daily passages to read. There are no readings assigned for Sunday, it is a day of rest and worship. Next week’s readings are:
Monday, November 30: Psalms 119:1-176
Tuesday, December 1: Psalms 120:1-125:5
Wednesday, December 2: Psalms 126:1-134:3
Thursday, December 3: Psalms 135:1-137:9
Friday, December 4: Psalms 138:1-143:12
Saturday, December 5: Psalms 144:1-150:6
Sunday Worship 8 & 10:30 am in person, Online or Radio Church CASH 95.9FM @ 11am
Monday, December 7: Proverbs 1:1-3:35
Tuesday, December 8: Proverbs 4:1-27
Wednesday, December 9: Proverbs 5:1-6:35
Thursday, December 10: Proverbs 7:1-27
Friday, December 11: Proverbs 8:1-36
Saturday, December 12: Proverbs 9:1-18
Sunday Worship 8 & 10:30 am in person, Online or Radio Church CASH 95.9FM @ 11am
Monday, December 14: Proverbs 10:1-11:31
Tuesday, December 15: Proverbs 12:1-13:25
Wednesday, December 16: Proverbs 14:1-15:33
Thursday, December 17: Proverbs 16:1-17:28
Friday, December 18: Proverbs 18:1-19:29
Saturday, December 19: Proverbs 20:1-21:31
Sunday Worship 8 & 10:30 am in person, Online or Radio Church CASH 95.9FM @ 11am
Zion Lutheran Church, LCMS
220 North 8th Street Brainerd, MN 56401
218-829-4317
Pastor Steve Benson
DCE Jonathon Bailey
220 North 8th Street Brainerd, MN 56401
218-829-4317
Pastor Steve Benson
DCE Jonathon Bailey
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