Our Last Sunday at Grace Lutheran

Sunday November 25th will be our last Sunday at Grace Lutheran.  Worship at 10:45.  No Sunday School or AFC’s. 

We are grateful to the Grace Lutheran people for their generosity and help during our four months with them.

Sunday December 2 we will meet at Zion Church, 5511 South 27th, with Sunday School and AFC’s at 9:30 and Worship at 11:00.  There will be some move-in and cleaning work to do, so watch for anouncements concerning times and places to volunteer.

Posted on November 19, 2007 in Building Updates.

Proposed Room Assignments

The classroom committee has proposed some room assignments for our move to 5511.  You can look at the proposal here:
5511floorplan4.pdf
Please direct all questions, comments, and suggestions to the committee through keith [at] zionpca [dot] com, 570-5717.

Posted on November 2, 2007 in Building Updates.

5511 Purchase Complete

Give thanks.

All the papers were duly signed at 4:15 today. The property purchase is complete. Zion now owns the property at 5511 South 27th Street.

Thanks to Dennis Mann, who handled the realtor functions, and Gary Young, who did some lawyering.

The current tenant, Middlecross Church, is working on moving their offices to 29th and O, and has plans to move their worship services to Southwest High School. No timetable has been set.

Give thanks.

Posted on October 17, 2007 in Building Updates.

Building Purchase Update

Dear Zion,

I wanted to give you an update on our purchase of the Church Building at 5511 South 27th street. We were scheduled to close sometime last week, but the title search revealed a contractor’s lien against Southwood Lutheran. This should be cleared this week and we will close as soon as that happens.

Southwood Lutheran Church met as a congregation and overwhelmingly approved our purchase of their building. MiddleCross (the tenants at SLC) also voted unanimously to forfeit their first option to purchase the property. All parties are ready to close.

I know that both churches are praying for us, and again we are blessed by God and by his people in other congregations. Be encouraged, and continue to pray for these congregations and for the spreading of the Gospel throughout Lincoln and beyond.

In Christ,
Dennis Mann

Posted on October 10, 2007 in Building Updates.

5511 Vote

The Southwood Lutheran congregational vote approved the proposed sale of the 5511 property to Zion.  Closing is delayed, however, since an outstanding construction lien encumbers the transaction.  We expect the lien will be resolved quickly.

Posted on October 1, 2007 in Building Updates.

Purchase Approved

Dear Zion Family,

Following months of examination and prayer for God’s guidance, the congregation approved a recommendation to purchase the former Southwood Lutheran facility at 5511 S. 27th Street.  We believe that this purchase will allow Zion to continue to proclaim the transformational power of God’s grace as well as fulfill our mission to be a resource church for Lincoln and the greater Kingdom of God—pouring ourselves out for others.

We have not abandoned the 9th and D neighborhood.  Our mission there has simply changed.  Rather than being the location of the mother/resource church, 9th and D will be the location of the next daughter church of Zion.  As a resource/mothering church, we will have an opportunity from our new location to support, equip, and commission church planting efforts—the first of which will be headed by Pastors Tobey Brockman and Adam Odell back to the 9th and D neighborhood.

We hope to finalize the purchase of 5511 S. 27th by October 1, 2007.  However, the church is obligated to honor an existing lease to MiddleCross Church until March of 2008.  We will be working with MiddleCross Church—who is currently renting the facility—on a transition plan.  MiddleCross has been very gracious during this period of decision, allowing us access into the facility for inspection on many occasions and praying for us.  Please pray for their future as well.  We are pleased to be partners in the gospel with MiddleCross and other gospel-preaching churches.

As time progresses there will be some improvement projects at 5511 S. 27th.  Stay tuned for opportunities to spruce up the grounds and facility.

Please continue to pray that we would be a grateful, Kingdom-minded, gospel-living people.  The facility is a helpful tool in ministry, but people are always God’s primary tool. 

Yours in Christ,

Stu Kerns
Senior Pastor

Posted on September 24, 2007 in Building Updates.

Zion Story on 10/11

http://www.kolnkgin.com/

You can view the Thursday’s feature about Zion on the 10/11 KOLN-TV website.  Select the Zion story (about the third one over) from the thumbnail menu below the video window in the right column.  Their “Current Stories” change daily, so this is a limited-time offer.

Posted on September 14, 2007 in Building Updates.