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2nd SUNDAY after PENTECOST
June 22, 2025
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Zion Lutheran Church
Sunday Worship
9:00 a.m.
Mailing Address
38011 Morrisonville Road
Lovettsville, Va. 2018
Bethel Lutheran Church
Sunday Worship
11:15 a.m.
40588 Tankerville Road
Lovettsville, Va. 20180
Mailing Address
P.O. Box 307
Lovettsville, Va.
Steeple to People
Bethel Lutheran Church
The “Steeple to People” initiative began in 2021, by taking worship out of the church building and directly to a few of their members who couldn’t attend regular service. A need was seen, and an initiative was formed. Since then, the program has worked to, “...share God’s love with hugs, words of encouragement, prayers, stories, humor and laughter meeting in living rooms, basements, garages [and even] greenhouses.” The change allowed people to continue their personal relationship with God regardless of their mobility and circumstances. If you or others you know would like a chance to partake in some “off-site” worship with our Steeple to People, please reach out by calling Pastor Armstrong at 703-938-9444 or emailing Steeple2people@aol.com. They’re happy to meet you where you are on a Sunday for a 30-minute gathering around 11:30 am. Friends and family welcome! They’d love for you to know that “God loves you, and so do we!”.
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Minister – Pastor Andreas Armstrong
Pianists – Anne Markert & Paula Kinney
THOUGHT FOR THE DAY
The Church throughout the centuries has been divided over many things. From the beginning the Jewish Christians insisted that the new Gentile converts to Christianity needed to uphold the Jewish rites and rituals in order to be a part of the church. During the Crusades, Muslims who would not convert to Christianity were headed. Martin Luther sought shelter behind the walls of the Wartburg Castle (imprisoning himself) after the pope put out a bounty for his arrest; either dead or alive. With God’s grace and the guidance of the Holy Spirit we have made great strides in our Catholic / Lutheran and interfaith dialogues and commitments to serve Christ first and foremost, working side by side for the Good of the Gospel. We still need to seek the forgiveness of God and others for those times when we have hurt rather than healed the people whom God created in His image. God help us! God guide us! God give us Your wisdom! Are there still more challenges? Always! The words to this song remind me that we have a long road ahead of us as the body of Christ in the world.
“Build a Longer Table” - David Bjorlin
1. Build a longer table, not a higher wall,
feeding those who hunger, making room for all.
Feasting together, stranger turns to friend,
Christ breaks walls to pieces; false divisions end.
2. Build a safer refuge, not a larger jail;
where the weak find shelter, mercy will not fail.
For any place where justice is denied,
Christ will breach the jail wall, freeing all inside.
3. Build a broader doorway, not a longer fence.
Love protects all people, sparing no expense.
When we embrace compassion more than fear,
Christ tears down our fences: all are welcome here.
4. When we lived as exiles, refugees abroad,
Christ became our doorway to the reign of God.
So must our tables welcome those who roam.
None can be excluded; all must find a home.
God help us to be faithful to our calling to love others as You have first loved us, setting us free from the bondage to sin and death and raising us up to new life in Jesus Christ. We are alive in Christ! May we Live Christ in all we do!
Next Sunday
3rd SUNDAY after PENTECOST
June 28, 2025
9:00 a.m. Worship – Zion Church
11:15 a.m. Worship – Bethel Church
God loves you and so do I!
In Christ's Love,
Pastor Andreas Armstrong
Going <'////><'ing with Jesus!
May God bless and remind you
once again, this week
that you are His!
And He truly Loves YOU!!!
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"Zion & Bethel Lutheran Churches, Lovettsville VA"
In Christ's Love,
Pastor Andreas Armstrong
Going <'////><'ing with Jesus!
Serving Zion & Bethel Lutheran Churches
Lovettsville, Virginia
Home/Office 703-938-9444
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About our Pastor
Welcome from Pastor G. Andreas Armstrong
I am presently serving the people of Zion and Bethel Churches and what a blessing it has been! God has also blessed me with a wonderful wife and two grown children, our daughter who lives and teaches school with her husband in Costa Rica and who have brought into our lives two wonderful grandchildren, and a son who works as a bartender in California (serving others like his dad?). I have had the pleasure of serving churches in Texas, North Carolina and Virginia since 1982 as part of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America before coming here. God is indeed good.
There is so much more we can do when we serve together. That blessing becomes a reality when I, the only one at Church who is designated in writing as a part-time minister, am joined by everyone else here as full-time ministers. We take that calling seriously. I pray you will too if you consider joining this wonderfully blessed team of ministers to live out your faith, hope and love through Zion and Bethel Lutheran Churches. We are called in Christ Jesus our Lord to share the love of Christ from one generation to the next. Let’s do it!
God loves you and so do I!
Email: Coolrev4jc@aol.com
Home/Office: 703-938-9444