May 20, 2025
ANNOUNCEMENTS
Office Closed Monday, May 26th. No Bible Study
Memorial Day Prayer Service, Monday May 26th, 11:45 am, Tiffany Creek Cemetery
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!
Summer Fellowship Servers needed! Sign-up in the Narthex or call the church office if you are willing to serve fellowship on any Sunday June through August.
Vacation Bible School, July 14-18, 9 am till 2 pm for all 4 year olds through 6th grade youth. Led by Luther Park Bible Camp. No Cost. Games, Crafts, Music, Food, and more! Friends welcome! We appreciate your registering in advance! See the attached form.
VBS Snacks, Snack helpers needed! See the sign-up in the Narthex or call the office if you would like to help!
Trinity Summer Office Hours begin in June! Office will be open Monday – Thursday, 9 am till 1 pm. Closed Fridays.
Baby Care Kits: The Women of Trinity are collecting items for Baby Care Kits through June. We are looking for, in sizes 6-24 months, sleepers or gowns, cotton t-shirts, light jackets, sweaters or hooded sweatshirts. Receive blankets, dark colored hand towels, and baby socks. We can also use onesies. Items can be placed in the bins underneath the altar in the Narthex.
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.
Voices of Praise is taking a break until September We will see you then!
Congregational Meeting, Sunday, July 27th, 10 am to vote on the building of a new parsonage.
MUSINGS FROM PASTOR BRAD
One of my favorite things to be a part of is when our seniors give the sermon in worship. For at least the past 15 years or so now (maybe longer), we have had at least one senior, often two, preach on a Sunday morning, often at our youth service and at our Graduate Recognition Sunday. To be honest, I’m always shocked when they say yes. You know, when I was a senior in high school I was asked to preach at our Graduate Recognition Sunday and I said no, which I regretted. I would preach my first sermon a year later, after my freshmen year in college, and I can tell you right now that many of our seniors have done a much better job than I did then (and probably than what I do now!)
To give you a little insight to what happens, I ask them to preach, and after they say yes, and then give them the assigned scripture for that Sunday, and if they don’t like that scripture, I let them pick their own OR I ask them what they want to talk about and help them find a scripture that can fit the theme they want. Sometimes I give them some scriptures in advance that I think they might like. Often they might even pick the scripture they picked as their confirmation verse back when they were confirmed. I’ll help them with the background of the scripture, but after that, everything they do is completely on their own. Every word they write is their own words. I’m there to help them if they need it, and sometimes, they might ask me for a way to start, and sometimes they need help ending, because a sermon is a little different than a speech they might give in school. But every sermon is completely theirs and I’m always blown away by their faith and the things that they share.
It is a blessing we have that we have students that are willing to share their faith. It is nerve racking and scary to stand before the congregation to give a sermon, plus to do so in front of family and classmates. But I think that is what makes it all the more special. This year was especially fun as when I asked the two senior’s to preach, Delaney and Brooklynn, thinking one would do it at the youth service and one at Graduate Recognition, they came back to me asking if they could do it together. It was especially fun since they go to different schools and the assigned scripture for this past Sunday on Graduate Recognition Sunday set up perfectly for their experiences they have had and they knocked it out of the park. I encourage you, if you weren’t there, to watch it, either by going to our Facebook page or the Trinity Boyceville YouTube channel.
I want to thank all of you for the way that you embrace our youth here at Trinity. I always tell our youth that the church is a place where they can be themselves and that they will be loved for just being them. You allow that to happen and share the love of Jesus Christ with them by embracing them for who they are. They face challenges that we cannot possibly fathom or understand. They are pulled in so many directions and have so many pressures and expectations that it makes my head spin. Yet, when they come in the doors of Trinity, they are embraced. They are welcomed. They are encouraged as people and as children of God. You set that tone and thank you for doing that. My hope is that we will continue to love these young people as they are, remind them that Jesus Christ loves them as they are and is with them always, and that Trinity will always be a place where they can be reminded that they are loved and hear of God’s grace in Jesus Christ for them and lift them up. May the Lord bless our young people and guide them in all that they do, and may the Lord bless you today and always!