To learn more about who we are and what we believe, visit our website at: ELCA.org

5th SUNDAY after EPIPHANY
February 9, 2025
To learn more about who we are and what we believe, visit our website at: ELCA.org
5th SUNDAY after EPIPHANY
February 9, 2025
Sunday Worship
9:00 a.m.
Mailing Address
38011 Morrisonville Road
Lovettsville, Va. 2018
Sunday Worship
11:15 a.m.
40588 Tankerville Road
Lovettsville, Va. 20180
Mailing Address
P.O. Box 307
Lovettsville, Va.
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WORSHIP SERVICE
Zion & Bethel Churches
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Minister - Rev. Andreas Armstrong
Pianist - Anne Markert
Thought for Your Day
Stories of Fish & Faith
Two guys go on a fishing trip. They rent all the equipment: the reels, the rods, the wading suits, the rowboat, the car, and even a cabin in the woods. They spend a fortune.
The first day they go fishing they don't catch a thing. The same thing happens on the second day, and on the third day. It goes on like this until finally, on the last day of their vacation, one of the men finally catches a fish. As they drive home, they are both really depressed. One turns to the other and says, "Do you realize that this one lousy fish we caught cost us fifteen hundred dollars?"
"Wow!" says the other, "It's a good thing we didn't catch any more!"
And Jesus said to Simon (Peter):
“Do not be afraid; from now on you will be catching people.” When they had brought their boats to shore, they left everything and followed him. (Luke 5:10-11)
This invitation of Jesus cost them everything they had ... Peter, James and John left their old lives behind, taking a big risk. They were being "CALLED" to a new career, that of catching people instead of fish. They cast their nets behind them and left an incredible catch of fish that had almost sunk both of their boats after having failed the night before. Their obedience to Jesus' call to give it another shot resulted in an astounding catch. We too will come up empty at times when we try and catch people for God on our own. But when we step out in faith, letting him do the catching through the likes of you and me, amazing things can take place. Lives can change, hearts can heal, hope can be born anew, peace can calm, joy can fill, grace can empower, and forgiveness can set free. All things are possible with God. Read again the story from Luke chapter 5 where Jesus finds Peter, James and John sitting and cleaning their nets. Note they didn't find Jesus, Jesus found them. He finds us too! Can we let ourselves be found by God? Will we go with him and share his love and our most valuable commodity, our time, with our neighbors? When God asked the prophet Isaiah: "Whom shall I send and who will go for us?" he replied: "Here am I, send me!" I pray we will say the same!
6th SUNDAY after EPIPHANY
February 16th
FLANNEL SHIRT SUNDAY
Happy Valentine's Day
9:00 a.m. Zion Lutheran Church
11:15 a.m. Bethel Lutheran Church
"Steeple2people"
A ministry of Bethel Lutheran Church
We bring worship to your home!
If you would like an In-Person brief
Home Worship Service just let us know.
Email your request to:
Or call June at 540-822-5215
to schedule a home gathering.
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 703-624-4309
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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