March 23, 2025
ANNOUNCEMENTS
Lent worship this Wednesday at 6:30 pm! Holden Evening Prayer service. Come join us!
Lent Meal from 5:30 pm till 6:30 pm. This week the meal is Spaghetti & Garic Bread served by the Trinity Men. Come join us!
Lagers with the Lord, March 24th at 6 pm at Buckshot’s.
We are collecting items for our FREE FOOD, FREE STUFF, FOR ALL. This event will be on May 3rd and will be open to our community to help those in need. We are collecting the following items: soap, toothpaste, toothbrushes, deodorant, dish soap, laundry detergent, underwear (men’s & women’s), socks. Please bring those items to the church and place them in the bins in the Narthex.
Crew is on Wednesday, March 26th, at 3:30 pm till 5 pm for all 3rd-6th grade youth
Butter Braid sales have begun! Purchase Butter Braids to help our youth attend Luther Park Bible Camp this summer! See any confirmation youth or the form on the table in the Narthex or use this link: https://store.myfundraisingplace.com/2136d1a2-8b11-4008-a855-701d9dca29c0
Voices of Praise every Wednesday night at 7 pm! Come join us for a time of song. A great time to sing with others and have some fun!
We are collecting Cereal for the WestCAP food pantry! Bring your boxes and place them by the altar in the Narthex. Please make sure the cereal is not expired.
Order your Easter Lilies! Order deadline is March 30th. See form that is with this email.
New Member Class Sunday, March 30th, 6pm.
SAVERS FUN DRIVE-Bring your household items and clothes to Trinity in May. Every Saturday in May, from 9 am till Noon. We are collecting items as a fundraiser for the Women of Trinity. All items should be clean and in good condition. Place clothes and shoes in white kitchen trash bags and all other items in boxes. Thank you for supporting the Women of Trinity!
MUSINGS FROM PASTOR BRAD
On Saturday, I decided to take our dog Baxter for a walk (I had already taken Daphne for a walk. They can’t be walked together by one person, as you will soon see, especially as Daphne is still learning to take walks). Baxter is really weird. He gets really excited to go, and then gets outside, and he refuses to walk. So I picked him up, walked a little bit, put him down. He doesn’t move. I start to push him a bit with my foot and he might go a few steps, then not move. He is a stubborn little dog. So I picked him up again, took about ten steps. Set him down again. Nothing. Now I’m frustrated. So I decided that maybe this wasn’t going to happen, so I turned us around to head back to the house. And the little jerk starts walking. He walks! And as I come to the corner, instead of crossing the street to go home, I go left and he actually followed me and kept going. We took the route I was going to take, just in reverse, and he only stopped twice, just for a moment, and it only took a nudge to keep him going. He finally got stubborn again and stopped moving right in front of the house! I think he wanted me to carry him in like he was a little prince or something.
I wonder if God sometimes feels like I did on that walk with Baxter. God is leading us, telling us through God’s Word how we are to be in the world. Yet, we just won’t move. We refuse to go where God is leading us, refuse to be the people God is calling us to be. God is prodding us, wondering if we will love our neighbors as ourselves, wondering if we will even follow God and believe and trust in the grace and mercy given us through Jesus Christ. We are stubborn people. We don’t listen very well, even with prodding.
Yet, at the same time, God doesn’t give up on us. And all it can take is a change in perspective, or seeing something in a different way, that can get us to walking the path that God wants us to walk. Sadly, sometimes that is tragedy or difficulty. Sometimes it is hearing of God’s promises in Jesus Christ, hearing again the salvation and hope that comes in Jesus that starts us walking. Sometimes it is the encouragement of others, our fellow disciples of Jesus Christ, that get us moving. But no matter how stubborn we are, God will continue to reach out to us, continue to prod us, continue to be there with us.
May you, as you walk in this life, talk the path that God is calling you to take. May you hear and trust in the promises of Jesus Christ and know that you are loved, forgiven, and saved. And may you not be afraid to go where God is leading you and to be the hands and feet of God in the world. For that we can say, “Thanks be to God!”