Sunday August 31, 2014 at Zion

Sunday School will continue in September
Praise and Worship 9:45am

Sunday Service 10:00am

Minister Karina Fontanez-Joe preaching

Scripture:
Jonah: 1:3,17, 2:10
1 ³But Jonah ran away from the LORD and headed for Tarshish. He went down to Joppa, where he found a ship bound for that port. After paying the fare, he went aboard and sailed for Tarshish to flee from the LORD.
¹⁷But the LORD provided a great fish to swallow Jonah, and Jonah was inside the fish three days and three nights.
2 ¹⁰And the LORD commanded the fish, and it vomited Jonah onto dry land.

Sermon Title: "From the Belly of the Fish”

Other opportunities to be transformed by God's Word
Adult Bible Study Tuesday night 6:30- 7:30 PM
Prayer meeting Tuesday night 7:30 PM
Let us worship and celebrate the Lord together.

Sunday August 24, 2014 at Zion

Sunday School will continue in September
Praise and Worship 9:45am

Sunday Service 10:00am

Reverend Dr. Kirk B. Jones preaching

Scripture:
Isaiah 40:28-31
²⁸Do you not know?
Have you not heard?
The LORD is the everlasting God,
the Creator of the ends of the earth.
He will not grow tired or weary,
and his understanding no one can fathom.
²⁹He gives strength to the weary
and increases the power of the weak.
³⁰Even youths grow tired and weary,
and young men stumble and fall;
³¹but those who hope in the LORD
will renew their strength.
They will soar on wings like eagles;
they will run and not grow weary,
they will walk and not be faint.

Sermon Title: "Get On Up” (part 3)
Series: "God's Enduring Strength"

Other opportunities to be transformed by God's Word
Adult Bible Study Tuesday night 6:30- 7:30 PM
Prayer meeting Tuesday night 7:30 PM
Let us worship and celebrate the Lord together.

Sunday August 17, 2014 at Zion

Sunday School will continue in September

Praise and Worship 9:45am

Sunday Service 10:00am

Reverend Dr. Kirk B. Jones preaching

Scripture:
Isaiah 40:28-31
²⁸Do you not know?
Have you not heard?
The LORD is the everlasting God,
the Creator of the ends of the earth.
He will not grow tired or weary,
and his understanding no one can fathom.
²⁹He gives strength to the weary
and increases the power of the weak.
³⁰Even youths grow tired and weary,
and young men stumble and fall;
³¹but those who hope in the LORD
will renew their strength.
They will soar on wings like eagles;
they will run and not grow weary,
they will walk and not be faint.

Sermon Title: "Get On Up” (part 2)

Other opportunities to be transformed by God's Word
Adult Bible Study Tuesday night 6:30- 7:30 PM
Prayer meeting Tuesday night 7:30 PM
Let us worship and celebrate the Lord together.

Sunday August 10, 2014 at Zion

Sunday School will continue in September

Praise and Worship 9:45am

Sunday Service 10:00am

Reverend Dr. Kirk B. Jones preaching

Scripture:
Isaiah 40:28-31
²⁸Do you not know?
Have you not heard?
The LORD is the everlasting God,
the Creator of the ends of the earth.
He will not grow tired or weary,
and his understanding no one can fathom.
²⁹He gives strength to the weary
and increases the power of the weak.
³⁰Even youths grow tired and weary,
and young men stumble and fall;
³¹but those who hope in the LORD
will renew their strength.
They will soar on wings like eagles;
they will run and not grow weary,
they will walk and not be faint.

Sermon Title: "Get On Up”

Other opportunities to be transformed by God's Word
Adult Bible Study Tuesday night 6:30- 7:30 PM
Prayer meeting Tuesday night 7:30 PM
Let us worship and celebrate the Lord together.

Sunday August 3, 2014 at Zion

Sunday School will continue in September

Praise and Worship 9:45am

Sunday Service 10:00am

Reverend Richard M Shprecher preaching

Scripture:
2 Corinthians 5:14-6:2
5:¹⁴For Christ’s love compels us, because we are convinced that one died for all, and therefore all died. ¹⁵And he died for all, that those who live should no longer live for themselves but for him who died for them and was raised again.
¹⁶So from now on we regard no one from a worldly point of view. Though we once regarded Christ in this way, we do so no longer. ¹⁷Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; the old has gone, the new has come! ¹⁸All this is from God, who reconciled us to himself through Christ and gave us the ministry of reconciliation: ¹⁹that God was reconciling the world to himself in Christ, not counting men’s sins against them. And he has committed to us the message of reconciliation. ²⁰We are therefore Christ’s ambassadors, as though God were making his appeal through us. We implore you on Christ’s behalf: Be reconciled to God. ²¹God made him who had no sin to be sin for us, so that in him we might become the righteousness of God.
6: ¹As God’s fellow workers we urge you not to receive God’s grace in vain. ²For he says,
    “In the time of my favor I heard you,
    and in the day of salvation I helped you.”
I tell you, now is the time of God’s favor, now is the day of salvation.

Sermon Title: "Getting There Now”

Other opportunities  to be transformed by God's Word
Adult Bible Study             Tuesday night                  6:30- 7:30 PM
Prayer meeting                      Tuesday night                        7:30 PM

Let us worship and celebrate the Lord together.

Sunday July 27, 2014 at Zion

Sunday School will continue in September

Praise and Worship 9:45am

Sunday Service 10:00am

Reverend Dr. Kirk B. Jones preaching

Scripture:
Matthew 11:28-30
²⁸“Come to me, all you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest. ²⁹Take my yoke upon you and learn from me, for I am gentle and humble in heart, and you will find rest for your souls. ³⁰For my yoke is easy and my burden is light.”

Sermon Title: "Three Great Things That Make Life Lighter”

Other opportunities  to be transformed by God's Word
Adult Bible Study             Tuesday night                  6:30- 7:30 PM
Prayer meeting                      Tuesday night                        7:30 PM

Let us worship and celebrate the Lord together.

Sunday July 20, 2014 at Zion

Sunday School will continue in September

Praise and Worship 9:45am

Sunday Service 10:00am

Reverend Dr. Kirk B. Jones preaching

Scripture:
John 5:1-9
¹Some time later, Jesus went up to Jerusalem for a feast of the Jews. ²Now there is in Jerusalem near the Sheep Gate a pool, which in Aramaic is called Bethesda and which is surrounded by five covered colonnades. ³Here a great number of disabled people used to lie—the blind, the lame, the paralyzed. ⁵One who was there had been an invalid for thirty-eight years. ⁶When Jesus saw him lying there and learned that he had been in this condition for a long time, he asked him, “Do you want to get well?”
⁷“Sir,” the invalid replied, “I have no one to help me into the pool when the water is stirred. While I am trying to get in, someone else goes down ahead of me.”
⁸Then Jesus said to him, “Get up! Pick up your mat and walk.” ⁹At once the man was cured; he picked up his mat and walked.
The day on which this took place was a Sabbath.

Sermon Title: “Being Alert for a Divine Breakthrough”

Other opportunities  to be transformed by God's Word
Adult Bible Study             Tuesday night                  6:30- 7:30 PM
Prayer meeting                      Tuesday night                        7:30 PM

Let us worship and celebrate the Lord together.

Sunday July 13, 2014 at Zion

Sunday School will continue in September

Praise and Worship 9:45am

Sunday Service 10:00am

Minister Ebonie Aghahowa preaching

Scripture:
Acts 28:1-6
¹Once safely on shore, we found out that the island was called Malta. ²The islanders showed us unusual kindness. They built a fire and welcomed us all because it was raining and cold. ³Paul gathered a pile of brushwood and, as he put it on the fire, a viper, driven out by the heat, fastened itself on his hand. ⁴When the islanders saw the snake hanging from his hand, they said to each other, “This man must be a murderer; for though he escaped from the sea, the goddess Justice has not allowed him to live.” ⁵But Paul shook the snake off into the fire and suffered no ill effects. ⁶The people expected him to swell up or suddenly fall dead; but after waiting a long time and seeing nothing unusual happen to him, they changed their minds and said he was a god.

Sermon Title: “Still Standing”

Other opportunities  to be transformed by God's Word
Adult Bible Study             Tuesday night                  6:30- 7:30 PM
Prayer meeting                      Tuesday night                        7:30 PM

Let us worship and celebrate the Lord together.

Sunday July 6, 2014 at Zion

Sunday School will continue in September
Note Summer Worship  times

Praise and Worship 9:45am

Sunday Service 10:00am

Reverend Dr. Kirk B. Jones preaching

Other opportunities  to be transformed by God's Word
Adult Bible Study             Tuesday night                  6:30- 7:30 PM
Prayer meeting                      Tuesday night                        7:30 PM

Let us worship and celebrate the Lord together.

Sunday June 29, 2014 at Zion

Sunday School will continue in September

Praise and Worship 10:45am

Sunday Service 11:00am

Reverend Dr. Kirk B. Jones preaching

Other opportunities  to be transformed by God's Word
Adult Bible Study             Tuesday night                  6:30- 7:30 PM
Prayer meeting                      Tuesday night                        7:30 PM

Let us worship and celebrate the Lord together.

Sunday June 22, 2014 at Zion

Sunday School will continue in September

Praise and Worship 10:45am

Sunday Service 11:00am

Minister Andre Bennett preaching

Scripture:
John 8:1-11
¹But Jesus went to the Mount of Olives. ²At dawn he appeared again in the temple courts, where all the people gathered around him, and he sat down to teach them. ³The teachers of the law and the Pharisees brought in a woman caught in adultery. They made her stand before the group ⁴and said to Jesus, “Teacher, this woman was caught in the act of adultery. ⁵In the Law Moses commanded us to stone such women. Now what do you say?” ⁶They were using this question as a trap, in order to have a basis for accusing him.
But Jesus bent down and started to write on the ground with his finger. ⁷When they kept on questioning him, he straightened up and said to them, “If any one of you is without sin, let him be the first to throw a stone at her.” ⁸Again he stooped down and wrote on the ground.
⁹At this, those who heard began to go away one at a time, the older ones first, until only Jesus was left, with the woman still standing there. ¹⁰Jesus straightened up and asked her, “Woman, where are they? Has no one condemned you?”
¹¹“No one, sir,” she said.
“Then neither do I condemn you,” Jesus declared. “Go now and leave your life of sin.”

Sermon Title: "Grace Happens Here "

Other opportunities  to be transformed by God's Word
Adult Bible Study             Tuesday night                  6:30- 7:30 PM
Prayer meeting                      Tuesday night                        7:30 PM

Let us worship and celebrate the Lord together.

Sunday June 15, 2014 at Zion

Father's Day Service

Sunday School will continue in September

Praise and Worship 10:45am

Sunday Service 11:00am

Reverend Dr. Kirk B. Jones preaching

Scripture:
Psalm 46:10
¹⁰ He says, “Be still, and know that I am God;
    I will be exalted among the nations,
    I will be exalted in the earth.”

Sermon Title: "My Morning BREW "

Other opportunities  to be transformed by God's Word
Adult Bible Study             Tuesday night                  6:30- 7:30 PM
Prayer meeting                      Tuesday night                        7:30 PM

Let us worship and celebrate the Lord together.

Sunday June 8, 2014 at Zion

Youth Sunday

Theme: “Remember The Lord When You Are Young”

Sunday School will continue in September.

Today Sunday School Breakfast will be served at 9:30 am.

Praise and Worship 10:45am

Sunday Service 11:00am

Terrence J.  Young, M.I.T
Kingdom Worship Center Church in Philadelphia
preaching

Other opportunities to be transformed by God's Word

6:30-7:30PM   Tuesday night           Joint Adult Bible Study
7:30PM               Tuesday night          Prayer Meeting
6:30PM            Wednesday night     New Members Class

Let us worship and celebrate the Lord together.

Sunday June 1, 2014 at Zion

Sunday School 9:30 am for all ages

(Sunday School Scripture:
Haggai 1:1-11)

Praise and Worship 10:45am

Sunday Service 11:00am

Reverend Dr. Kirk B. Jones preaching

Scripture:
Psalm 23
¹ The Lord is my shepherd; I shall not want.
² He maketh me to lie down in green pastures: he leadeth me beside the still waters.
³ He restoreth my soul: he leadeth me in the paths of righteousness for his name's sake.
⁴ Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil: for thou art with me; thy rod and thy staff they comfort me.
⁵ Thou preparest a table before me in the presence of mine enemies: thou anointest my head with oil; my cup runneth over.
⁶ Surely goodness and mercy shall follow me all the days of my life: and I will dwell in the house of the Lord for ever.

Sermon Title: "Too Blessed to Complain "

Other opportunities  to be transformed by God's Word
Women's Bible Study             Tuesday night                  6:30- 7:30 PM
Men's Bible Study                  Tuesday night                  6:30- 7:30 PM
Prayer meeting                      Tuesday night                        7:30 PM

Let us worship and celebrate the Lord together.

Sunday May 25, 2014 at Zion

Sunday School 9:30 am for all ages

(Sunday School Scripture:
Leviticus 19:18
Deuteronomy 6:4-9
Mark 12:28-34)

Praise and Worship 10:45am

Sunday Service 11:00am

Reverend Richard Shprecher preaching

Scripture
Acts 17:22-31
 ²²Paul then stood up in the meeting of the Areopagus and said: “Men of Athens! I see that in every way you are very religious. ²³For as I walked around and looked carefully at your objects of worship, I even found an altar with this inscription: TO AN UNKNOWN GOD. Now what you worship as something unknown I am going to proclaim to you.
²⁴“The God who made the world and everything in it is the Lord of heaven and earth and does not live in temples built by hands. ²⁵And he is not served by human hands, as if he needed anything, because he himself gives all men life and breath and everything else. ²⁶From one man he made every nation of men, that they should inhabit the whole earth; and he determined the times set for them and the exact places where they should live. ²⁷God did this so that men would seek him and perhaps reach out for him and find him, though he is not far from each one of us. ²⁸‘For in him we live and move and have our being.’ As some of your own poets have said, ‘We are his offspring.’
²⁹“Therefore since we are God’s offspring, we should not think that the divine being is like gold or silver or stone — an image made by man’s design and skill. ³⁰In the past God overlooked such ignorance, but now he commands all people everywhere to repent. ³¹For he has set a day when he will judge the world with justice by the man he has appointed. He has given proof of this to all men by raising him from the dead.”

Sermon Title: "Gone Fishing in the Agora"

Other opportunities  to be transformed by God's Word
Women's Bible Study             Tuesday night                  6:30- 7:30 PM
Men's Bible Study                  Tuesday night                  6:30- 7:30 PM
Prayer meeting                      Tuesday night                        7:30 PM

Let us worship and celebrate the Lord together.

Sunday May 18, 2014 at Zion

Sunday School 9:30 am for all ages

Sunday School Scripture:
(Matthew 15:1-11, 15-20)

Praise and Worship 10:45am

Annual Men’s Day Sunday Service 11:00am

Reverend Dr. Kirk B. Jones preaching

Scripture:
John 20: 21-22
²¹Again Jesus said, “Peace be with you! As the Father has sent me, I am sending you.” ²²And with that he breathed on them and said, “Receive the Holy Spirit."

I John 4:4
⁴You, dear children, are from God and have overcome them, because the one who is in you is greater than the one who is in the world.

Sermon Title: “What’s in You is Greater than What’s Against You”

Sermon Topic:
The sermon will offer encouragement for living more intentionally and joyfully in God's Spirit.

3:30pm Men of Zion Service
Rev Momolue Diggs Guest Preacher
"Putting Love into Action"

Other opportunities  to be transformed by God's Word
Women's Bible Study             Tuesday night                  6:30- 7:30 PM
Men's Bible Study                  Tuesday night                  6:30- 7:30 PM
Prayer meeting                      Tuesday night                        7:30 PM

Let us worship and celebrate the Lord together.

Sunday May 11, 2014 at Zion

Sunday School 9:30 am for all ages

(Sunday School Scripture:
Isaiah 61:1-3
Luke 4:14-21)

Praise and Worship 10:45am

Sunday Service 11:00am

Reverend Dr. Kirk B. Jones and Sister Mary Brown Jones preaching

Scripture:
Isaiah 66:13
¹³As a mother comforts her child,
    so will I comfort you;
    and you will be comforted over Jerusalem.”

Sermon Title: "A Mighty Love "

Other opportunities  to be transformed by God's Word
Women's Bible Study             Tuesday night                  6:30- 7:30 PM
Men's Bible Study                  Tuesday night                  6:30- 7:30 PM
Prayer meeting                      Tuesday night                        7:30 PM

Let us worship and celebrate the Lord together.

Sunday May 4, 2014 at Zion

Sunday School 9:30 am for all ages

(Sunday School Scripture:
Deuteronomy 6:13-16
Matthew 4:1-12)

Praise and Worship 10:45am

Sunday Service 11:00am

Reverend Dr. Kirk B. Jones preaching

Scripture

John 21:1-14
¹Afterward Jesus appeared again to his disciples, by the Sea of Tiberias.£ It happened this way: ²Simon Peter, Thomas (called Didymus), Nathanael from Cana in Galilee, the sons of Zebedee, and two other disciples were together. ³“I’m going out to fish,” Simon Peter told them, and they said, “We’ll go with you.” So they went out and got into the boat, but that night they caught nothing.
⁴Early in the morning, Jesus stood on the shore, but the disciples did not realize that it was Jesus.
⁵He called out to them, “Friends, haven’t you any fish?”
“No,” they answered.
⁶He said, “Throw your net on the right side of the boat and you will find some.” When they did, they were unable to haul the net in because of the large number of fish.
⁷Then the disciple whom Jesus loved said to Peter, “It is the Lord!” As soon as Simon Peter heard him say, “It is the Lord,” he wrapped his outer garment around him (for he had taken it off) and jumped into the water. ⁸The other disciples followed in the boat, towing the net full of fish, for they were not far from shore, about a hundred yards. ⁹When they landed, they saw a fire of burning coals there with fish on it, and some bread.
¹⁰Jesus said to them, “Bring some of the fish you have just caught.”
¹¹Simon Peter climbed aboard and dragged the net ashore. It was full of large fish, 153, but even with so many the net was not torn. ¹²Jesus said to them, “Come and have breakfast.” None of the disciples dared ask him, “Who are you?” They knew it was the Lord. ¹³Jesus came, took the bread and gave it to them, and did the same with the fish. ¹⁴This was now the third time Jesus appeared to his disciples after he was raised from the dead.

Sermon Title: "The Resurrection of Community "

Other opportunities  to be transformed by God's Word
Women's Bible Study             Tuesday night                  6:30- 7:30 PM
Men's Bible Study                  Tuesday night                  6:30- 7:30 PM
Prayer meeting                      Tuesday night                        7:30 PM

Let us worship and celebrate the Lord together.

From the Interim Pastor

GRACE CHANGE: Enjoying the Challenge of Transformation

How Jesus came back to life matters almost as much as the fact that he did.

When Jesus came back to life, he took his time to lovingly greet Mary, casually walk with two persons who thought he was a stranger on the Emmaus Road, gracefully address Thomas's doubts, and gently encourage and reassure Peter. There is excitement in his return, but no hurry or strain. His resurrection is dripping with grace as much as it is with glorious new possibility.

The patient grace with which Jesus lived his transformation is a model for how we may live ours. In a culture characterized by doing as much as we can as fast as we can, to the point of stressing out ourselves and those around us, how soul-easing it is to know that personal transformation can have as much patience and grace in it as challenge. Change filled with grace is in the spirit of the words attributed to Jesus in Matthew 11:28-29:

Come to me, all you that are carrying heavy burdens, and I will give you rest. Take my yoke upon you and learn from me, for I am gentle and humble in heart, and you will find rest in your souls.

Paul reflects this notion of change at the pace of grace when he encourages us in Romans 6:4 not to sprint or strive in the newness of life, but to "walk in the newness of life.” As we walk in the newness of life, we are more likely to stick to our transformation, to be less demanding and judgmental of ourselves and others, and to savor and enjoy the change process as much as the change result. 

If we are willing, God is willing to transform us at the pace of grace.

Prayer: God,  As I suspect leaves and flowers enjoy their budding before full bloom, inspire me to more fully notice, embrace, and enjoy Your unrushed sacred grace change in me. Amen.

Rev Dr Kirk B Jones

Sunday April 27, 2014 at Zion

Sunday School 9:30 am for all ages

Praise and Worship 10:45am

Sunday Service 11:00am

Reverend Dr. Kirk B. Jones preaching

Scripture

Romans  6:4
⁴We were therefore buried with him through baptism into death in order that, just as Christ was raised from the dead through the glory of the Father, we too may live a new life.

Sermon Title: "Daring to Live a New Life"

Other opportunities  to be transformed by God's Word
Women's Bible Study             Tuesday night                  6:30- 7:30 PM
Men's Bible Study                  Tuesday night                  6:30- 7:30 PM
Prayer meeting                      Tuesday night                        7:30 PM

Let us worship and celebrate the Lord together.