Zion Evangelical Lutheran Church
Zion Evangelical Lutheran Church is a Lutheran church in NE 68328.
The purpose of the church is to be a “forgiveness house.”
Zion Evangelical Lutheran Church is a Christ-centered, compassionate and confessional, loving and liturgical congregation of the Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod located in the heart of Kearney, NE.
Part of Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod
NE, 68328Service times
- Sunday 9am
- Sunday 5pm
Website: http://www.stjohnszion.org
Zion Evangelical Lutheran Church is part of the Lutheran family of churches in The American Church Story. 546 congregations of the Lutheran family gather across Nebraska — 15,905 across the United States on The Church Map.
Lutherans put the gospel back into ordinary hands — Scripture in the language people actually spoke, and hymns the congregation itself was allowed to sing. That the church is saved by grace through faith, and that the whole assembly sings, are now the inheritance of nearly every Protestant church in America.
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Latest from Zion Lutheran Kearney's YouTube channel: The Sixteenth Sunday after Pentecost ~ Sunday, September 13, 2026 (all videos).
The community around Zion Evangelical Lutheran Church
It takes 6.2 miles in every direction to gather two thousand neighbors around this church. Among the people scattered across those miles, more than 3 in 10 adults live with obesity, and nearly a quarter of adults say they are socially isolated. A scattered parish is still a parish.
Pray for the families driving a long way to everything — to work, to a hospital, to this door on a Sunday morning.
- Obesity: 39.4%
- Social Isolation: 29.2%
Source: CDC PLACES (2023), aggregated across 3 census tracts near this church.
Churches near Zion Evangelical Lutheran Church
- Saint Pauls Church — 4.4 mi away in De Witt, NE
- St. Paul's Lutheran Church — 4.4 mi away in De Witt, NE
- United Methodist Church — 4.7 mi away in Wilber, NE
- Saint Wenceslas Catholic Church — 4.8 mi away in Wilber, NE
- First Evangelical Lutheran Church — 4.8 mi away in Wilber, NE
- United Methodist Church — 5.4 mi away in De Witt, NE
- Trinity Lutheran Church — 5.4 mi away in De Witt, NE
- Saint Augustine Episcopal Church — 5.4 mi away in De Witt, NE
- Congregational United Church of Christ — 6.8 mi away in Hallam, NE
- Hallam United Methodist Church — 6.8 mi away in Hallam, NE
More Lutheran churches nearby
- St. Paul's Lutheran Church — 4.4 mi away in De Witt, NE
- First Evangelical Lutheran Church — 4.8 mi away in Wilber, NE
- Trinity Lutheran Church — 5.4 mi away in De Witt, NE
- Saint Johns Lutheran Church — 9.1 mi away in Crete, NE
- St John Lutheran Church — 9.4 mi away in Cortland, NE