{"id":5889,"date":"2006-03-29T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2006-03-29T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.luthersem.edu\/story\/2006\/03\/29\/one-congregations-vision-for-its-community\/"},"modified":"2006-03-29T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2006-03-29T00:00:00","slug":"one-congregations-vision-for-its-community","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.luthersem.edu\/story\/2006\/03\/29\/one-congregations-vision-for-its-community\/","title":{"rendered":"One Congregation&#8217;s Vision for its Community"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Zion Lutheran Church in Grand Rapids, Minn., lives its mission statement: &#8220;Serve Christ by Sharing God&#8217;s Love.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>When they built a new addition four years ago, they invited the community to use the new facilities at no cost. &#8220;Part of our addition is a gym\/Christian Life Center, so we have basketball practices quite often in there,&#8221; said Pastor Lynn Ronsberg, &#8217;79. Zion also invites the community to come to their weekly Wednesday night meals.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We&#8217;ve had about 50 people each week. Some now want to help with the meals&#8211;running the dishwasher, serving, cleaning,&#8221; Ronsberg said. Zion&#8217;s members keep an eye out for the regulars, expressing concern if they haven&#8217;t shown up in a while.<\/p>\n<p>Zion also keeps a clothes closet that is open on Thursdays with free clothes for those who need them, and has offered its space for the start up of the Grand Rapids Homeless Shelter.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Zion Lutheran Church in Grand Rapids, Minn., lives its mission statement: &#8220;Serve Christ by Sharing God&#8217;s Love.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3477,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"content-type":"","_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-5889","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"issue-first-quarter-2006","8":"entry"},"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.4 - 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