Update for our annual Holiday Fair/White Elephant Sale 2024
THANK YOU ALL!
Many thanks for those who came through our doors for companionship, food and bargains. Without your support this wouldn't have been nearly as much fun!
Many, many thanks to everyone who baked, brought items for the raffle baskets, went to get the Cabot Cheese wheel out of state, cut, packaged and priced it, who shopped for supplies and cooked, set up and cleaned up, especially for the White Elephant, and to our Dickens' Quartet and our Santa and his elf! All of your efforts led to a very successful Holiday Fair this year. Through everyone's efforts, close to $4,000 was made! A tithe and supplement donation has been made to The Food Pantry of North Branford.
Special, special thanks to Debbie Anderson for leading the way with the White Elephant, to Pat Lovelace for all of her efforts with organizing the Fair upstairs (crafts, raffle, snack bar, baked goods and candies).
The success of the fair just proves that Zion may be small, but we are mighty!!
Swords into Plowshares
Retired CT Bishop, The Rt. Rev. Jim Curry came to Zion on Sunday, April 23rd to preach and to bring his forge to make garden tools from gun parts.
Retired CT Bishop, The Rt. Rev. Jim Curry came to Zion on Sunday, April 23rd to preach and to make garden tools from gun parts. We were joined by our neighbors from St. Andrew's, Northford. We gave thanks for a break in the rain which allowed participants to hammer gun parts into trowels and gun barrels into heart necklaces.
Our worship service can still be seen on our Facebook page. Bishop Curry's powerful sermon can be heard at 15:02. Video of the forging can also be seen on Zion's Facebook page.
"The word that Isaiah son of Amoz saw concerning Judah and Jerusalem. For out of Zion shall go forth instruction and the word of the Lord from Jerusalem. He shall judge between the nations and shall arbitrate for many peoples; they shall beat their swords into plowshares and their spears into pruning hooks; nation shall not lift up sword against nation; neither shall they learn war any more."
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Donations of deposit bottles
Faithful Zion parishioners Hugh Morris and Ralph Colter started graciously accepting donations of deposit bottles and cans in 1980 when the program began in Connecticut. This fundraising program continues, even after the passing of these two wonderful stewards of Zion. We ask that you please leave the RINSED deposit bottles and cans in the space under the back stairs before any go upstairs in the recycling can on the deck.
These funds have been used for many repairs for our 200+ year old building over the years. Replacing all the windows and doors (other than the stained glass and the original red church doors).