by Joshua Drobena | Aug 24, 2017 | News Releases
TORRINGTON, CONN (SZS) — Our Synod, in partnership with the leadership of the Lutheran Theological Seminary of Comenius University in Bratislava, Slovakia (Evanjelická Bohoslovecká Fakulta, Univerzita Komenského), is hosting four seminary students as this...
by Joshua Drobena | Jun 25, 2017 | News Releases
TORRINGTON, CONN (SZS) — On Pentecost Sunday, June 4th, Bishop Wilma S. Kucharek of the Slovak Zion Synod–ELCA preached at a gathering of the Považský Seniorát of the Evangelical Church of the Augsburg Confession in Slovakia [a seniorát is analogous to a...
by Joshua Drobena | May 22, 2017 | News Releases
TORRINGTON, CONN (SZS) — On Sunday, June 4, the church will observe Pentecost Sunday. On that day, which occurs on the fiftieth day of Easter, we celebrate the day the Holy Spirit descended from heaven upon the disciples. The Biblical account in the book of Acts...
by Bishop Wilma Kucharek | Apr 15, 2017 | Messages from Bishop Kucharek, News Releases
Blessed Eastertide! Christ is Risen! For Christians, Easter is celebrated for more than one day. Eastertide is a season which begins on Easter and lasts for fifty days until Pentecost. It is a time of joy during which we celebrate the Resurrection of Jesus Christ and...
by Joshua Drobena | Apr 2, 2017 | News Releases
TORRINGTON, CONN (SZS) — Our Slovak Zion Synod family rejoices with our congregation, Dr. Martin Luther Evangelical Lutheran Church, Muskegon, Michigan as they begin a new chapter in ministry and mission and welcome their new pastor, the Rev. Michael E. Johnson....
by Joshua Drobena | Mar 11, 2017 | News Releases
TORRINGTON, CONN (SZS) — Ash Wednesday, which was on March 1st this year, began the church season of Lent, the forty day period of fasting and spiritual preparation before Easter. In the early church, Lent was also a time of spiritual preparation for those new...
by Joshua Drobena | Jan 29, 2017 | News Releases
ALLENTOWN, PENN (SZS) — On Saturday, January 28, 2017, Bishop Wilma S. Kucharek represented the Slovak Zion Synod at the Annual Scholarship Luncheon at Muhlenberg College, Allentown, PA. Bishop Kucharek was present for the winter meeting of the Muhlenberg...
by Bishop Wilma Kucharek | Dec 24, 2016 | Messages from Bishop Kucharek
In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. He was in the beginning with God. All things came into being through him, and without him not one thing came into being. What has come into being in him was life, and the life was the...
by Joshua Drobena | Dec 4, 2016 | News Releases
TORRINGTON, CONN (SZS) — On the first Sunday of Advent, as we observed the beginning of the Church Year, Holy Trinity Evangelical Lutheran Church, Alverda, Pennsylvania observed the beginning of a new pastorate as they officially welcomed their new pastor, the...
by Joshua Drobena | Nov 6, 2016 | News Releases
TORRINGTON, CONN (SZS) — As nature in these days of fall unfolds in gorgeous colors of orange, red, yellow, and brown, so too, ministry and life in our congregations unfolds with those activities so characteristic of this time of year. Rally days for Sunday...
