Zion's Homecoming Sunday

Come home beloveds. Today's beautiful community at Zion Reformed United Church of Christ invites back all the families of the community from the 1700s beginning. Come home descendants. If you have been a part of today's community and moved away or wandered off, please come home for this Sunday.

On Homecoming Sunday, we celebrate that rhythm of life that held us and holds us together in community. We celebrate this gathering together again, and we worship the God who always welcomes us home. And... we look forward together to the coming months, the coming year, with hope for the new life we will experience here.

The Psalmist sings of God’s house. “My soul longs – indeed, it faints for the house of God” – where even the sparrow finds her home, and the swallow a nest where she may lay her young.” In a world of chaos and trouble, the people return again and again to the house of God – the place they call home – a steady, sturdy place – a place of protection and shelter. “Blessed are those who live in your house... They go from strength. A day in your house is better than a thousand anywhere else.”