It’s that time of year! Time to apply for monies from our Touching Tomorrow Endowment Fund. Applications are due by December 1 and can be submitted via email, snail mail, or by placing your application in Jim Gill’s “Endowment” mailbox, located outside the Church Office. More information on how to apply and how these monies can be used is in the application below.

CLICK HERE to download –> 2023 Endowment Application

To give financially, click above, or here. Thank you!

Several years ago, Zion’s learned that many families in the Northern Lebanon School District have limited resources which do not allow them to provide their school-aged children with the necessities to start a new school year.  We have helped to meet this need for the students of our local, Jonestown, elementary school for the past couple of years.

In 2023, we are working with the newly formed Northern Lebanon Ministerium and the Northern Lebanon School District to meet the needs of ALL Northern Lebanon School District students and we need your help.

We are looking for financial sponsors for the 257 students identified by our school district as needing clothing and school supply assistance. With your help, each of these students will receive new jeans, new sneakers, a new back-to-school outfit, new underwear and socks, and a new backpack filled with necessary school supplies at a special Back to School Blessings event in August. By equipping students, physically, with what they need for the school year, we help empower them, mentally, to begin a new year with confidence. Your sponsorship is truly an investment in children’s lives and futures!

It costs about $100 to fully equip an elementary student for the start of the new school year, and about $125 to prepare a middle or high school student. However, financial gifts of any amount are greatly appreciated. When every person gives what they can, we, collectively, can move mountains. Thank you for your support. We truly can’t do this important work without the help of generous people like you.

Contributions can be made online or through checks marked for Back to School and made payable Zion’s Lutheran Church, PO Box 658, Jonestown, PA 17038.  We can also use volunteer help, prior to, and on the day of distribution. If you would like to help or have any questions, please call or email Deb:  adreiner74@gmail.com, or 717.304.8826.

Again, thank you. Your generous support empowers the lives of children and families in our community, and we are most grateful for your help.

A note about the used clothing that has previously been provided: Due to space constraints, this year’s Back to School Event will ONLY include new items (no gently used items will be available). However, the newly formed Northern Lebanon Ministerium is having active conversations about a year-round Clothing Closet for students and families in our district, and we hope to have news to share about this project soon.

It takes many, many pairs of shoes to ensure we have the right size for the 80 students we served in 2022.

The school supplies are ready to go…with specific supplies for each grade level.

This event wouldn’t be possible without our donors, sponsors, and volunteers! Thank you all!