MARK YOUR CALENDARS FOR THESE UPCOMING ZONE EVENTS
2026 FALL EVENTS
Greater Egypt Zone:
Lower Kaskaskia Zone:
Spring Renewal-March 26, 2026-8:30 to noon at Immanuel (West Point), Steeleville, IL. RN Deb Mevert will be speaker. She was on the Mercy Ship for 2 weeks which is a floating hospital with surgery capabilities doing most work in Africa.
Metro Central Zone:
FALL RALLY-Theme: Jesus Loves the Little Children, Verse: Matthew 19:14, October 17, 2026-8:30-11:30 am, Holy Cross Lutheran Church, Collinsville. Speaker will be Rev. Dr. Albert Collver about the mission he helped start in Kenya that was a recipient of a LWML Lutheran Women in Mission Grant, 2023-2025, Care for Street Children in Western Africa.
Metro North Zone:
Metro South Zone:
FALL EVENT-The ladies of Zion Belleville will be host this event on November 14th. Registration begins at 8:30 am. Pastor Krenz will be leading the devotion. Our guest speaker will be from Monarch Jewelry on the topic of sex trafficking. They will have a booth set up with jewelry for sale to support their mission. There will be an ingrathering of unwanted or broken jewelry. For more information, please contact Lyla Clark at 304-992-4894 or email lylamaebc@gmail.com.
Mid-State Zone:
Christian Growth Day-February 15, 2026-2 to 4 pm, Speaker will be Amanda from Eve's Restoration.
Spring Rally: Wednesday April 8, 2026.
Upper Kaskaskia Zone:
FALL WORKSHOP-The zone has an exciting fall workshop planned. On Saturday, October 3, the theme will be “I Will Fear No Evil, for You Are with Me.” Pastor Tim Mueller will lead a Bible study based on Psalm 23, focusing on verse 4. Guest speaker Jackson Sprague, representing Phil’s Friends, will tell us about the ways they serve cancer patients. Phil Zielke formed Phil’s Friends in thanksgiving to God for healing him of cancer. Items for care packages, especially blankets, hats, mouth rinse, playing cards, puzzle books, lotions, lip balm and men’s socks will be collected in the ingathering. Jackson will show us how the care packages are assembled. Participants will assist in making fleece blankets and cards for the cancer patients. Please join us at the school located at Bethlehem in Ferrin at 8:45 for a morning of Bible study, service, and snacks. Peace I leave with you, My peace I give to you. Not as the world gives do I give you. Let not your hearts be troubled, neither let them be afraid. (John 14:27)
Zone Rally Memories
GREATER EGYPT ZONE
The Greater Egypt Zone hosted an event at Good Shepherd, Marion on September 12, 2025. The program was a presentation by Rev. Mark Surburg, Good Shepherd's pastor, reviewing his recent trip to South Sudan. While in South Sudan, Rev. Surburg taught the Book of Galatians to 4th year students at the Lutheran Seminary.
LOWER KASKASKIA ZONE PAST EVENTS
METRO SOUTH ZONE
Saturday morning April 15, LWML members from the Metro South Zone met at Christ Our Savior Lutheran Church in Freeburg for their Spring Gathering. Pastor Karl Gregory, from Messiah in Lebanon, conducted the service with Christine Keseman the organist .
Linda Wittbrach, from The Orphan Grain Train in St. Louis, was the guest speaker for the service. She explained that all the articles donated are compacted tightly into mailing boxes so that nothing becomes damaged before they arrive in the country they are sent to.
In the picture above, you can see the result of assembling 80 school kits for the children which were taken to the Orphan Grain Train facility Tuesday, April 25.
UPPER KASKASKIA ZONE EVENT OCTOBER 24, 2025
The Upper Kaskaskia Zone held their fall workshop on October 4, 2025, at Trinity Lutheran Church in Hoyleton. There were about 22 that attended. The theme for the day was Comfort Ye My People. Kim Burgess, from Comforting Transitions, was the speaker. She shared with the group the four different types of dementia. Kim also shared the identifying symptoms of Alzheimer’s and dementia and what to do when communicating with a patient that has it. Kits were made for fidget blankets to be given to people with memory issues. The group cut out fleece lap blankets to be tied, and then members took them home and added zippers, buttons, shoelaces, and other items for residents to occupy their hands and minds. Zone Pastoral Counselor, Rev. Tim Mueller shared with the ladies a Bible study on comfort and about the Holy Spirit, the Comforter. The host Pastor, Rev. Nate Wollenberg gave us some Bible verses and ideas on how to minister to those who are suffering from Alzheimer’s or Dementia. They are not forgotten by God.
METRO CENTRAL ZONE
Metro Central Zone held their Fall Zone Rally on October 25th, 2025; at Good Shepherd in Collinsville. We began the day with a Worship service. Then on to the Presenter of the day: Pastor Schnare of Lutheran Heritage Foundation as he led us through how LHF supplies people of the world with translation of books to enable them to know the Lord. We were schooled on all of the resources available to churches as well as all in the world.
METRO NORTH ZONE
The Metro North Zone LWML had their prayer service on Saturday, March 13, at St Peter in Prairietown.