Zion/Immanuel LYF

04/04/2026

Join Us! We know it will be chilly. We will be outside! Wear coveralls if you want. God doesn't care what you look like anyway! Following the service, we will have Egg casseroles, fruit and pastries as well as HOT HOT COFFEE!

02/07/2026

Yes. You can still order subs!!!!! We will still have order forms at both churches tomorrow Sunday feb 8. We deliver locally. Or you can pick up your order in Zion’s fridge after 2:30. If possible put a phone number and address on forms to help out teenagers who might not know where you live but do have gps. 🙂. Heres a link to the printable order form https://drive.google.com/file/d/1XJTyChKK83iDE1gw42vBccc342rDlz94/view?usp=drivesdk

01/28/2026

Its sub time!!!! Here is a link to the printable order forms. We will also have paper copies at church on Sunday! Thank you for your support! https://drive.google.com/file/d/1XJTyChKK83iDE1gw42vBccc342rDlz94/view?usp=drivesdk

11/09/2025

On behalf of the lyf. Thank you for your support. So many of you attended and supported the harvest meal. The youth were left with only crumbs. Well. Thats probably stretching it. But truthfully we are blessed by you. Each and every year. Also, I would have put up any other picture. But this is all i took the entire day. Sorry brooke. - kate

11/01/2025

Thanks for being patient with us! We promise we will make it up to you in the form of good food. Prepare your waistlines....Harvest meal is NEXT WEEK!!! NOVEMBER 9, 2925

07/24/2025

We are on the ground in kansas city. Funny part after we landed was when our boys are discussing with the boys from another church on the plane whos fart was was floating during the flight. And how it wasnt that bad. :)

07/24/2025

This is Captain Randy with New Orleans Airboat Tours. He took us out on his family’s swamp. It was really cool learning about how they take care of the land. How they deal with invasive water hyacinths and basically farm the eggs from gators like we do cattle. We are still debating whether it is better to be chased by a mama cow or a gator. They harvest the eggs from the wild nests, Mark the tops. Then take the eggs back to hatch and grow the alligators. 80 %of the gators survive that way. They introduce 12% back to the wild at 3 years old. The rest they grow for meat and leather. Only 3% would survive on their own that is how they have brought them back from the endangered list. Last yea their farm harvested 22,000 eggs.

We got to hold digit the baby gator. Gators usually have 5 fingers. I think kyzler wanted to take him home. He was so soft.

We also learned about the invasive “swamp rat” the nutria who were brought here to farm for their warm waterproof fur. They were brought by the owner of the tabasco company. But then got loose in a hurricaine and are now invasive. They are not hunted and sold for their fur anymore but the state does put a bounty on them to keep the population in check. He said historically cajuns used it all , the fur and the meat. We ask what they taste like. He said rabbit. The nutria destroy the swamp as they eat the root systems of the marsh which destroys the grass. When the grass decays it makes a floating mat that works like a sponge which protects the land from storm surge. Thus the need to keep these pests in check

It was a bit warm on our trip. But halfway through we got some cloud cover and the kids learned alot about how the swamp ecosystem works.

07/23/2025

07/23/2025

Gettin ready to load the boat for for swamp tour!

07/23/2025

Worship. Finally a group picture. Finally stopped at rouses grocery.

07/23/2025

Final mass event. 50 yd line seats after a seafood boil Ready for LCMS Youth Gathering