September 28, 2025
ANNOUNCEMENTS
Crew this Wednesday, October 1st from 3:30-5, for all 3rd-6th graders!
Join us as we pack up Lutheran World Relief Kits this Wednesday, October 1st,
at 9 am
Reminder to 9th grade confirmands that your confirmation folders are due on Wednesday, October 1st!
Fall Family Fest and WestCAP Fundraiser: Sunday, October 5, 4pm till 7pm. Inflatables, Games, and fun for the whole family starting at 4 pm. Spaghetti meal at 5 pm. Men’s Band concert at 6 pm. Free-will offering taken to benefit WestCAP food pantry here in Boyceville.
Voices of Praise is back every Wednesday at 7pm, join us for singing and fellowship!
Mission Trip registration forms are due on Sunday, October 5th!
Mission Madness 2025! Runs from October 5th till November 16th. You can give to a specific mission partner (like Luther Park or WestCAP) or just designate your gift towards Mission Madness. Every time we hit a giving goal, PB will do the following:
$500 PB has to eat five red grapes
$1,000 PB has to eat a hard boiled egg
$1,500 PB has to wear a Packers or Brewers tie every day for one week
$2,000 PB has to eat cold tuna noodle pasta salad with peas (the meal he hated the most as a child)
$2,500 PB has to drink two ounces of black church coffee. (PB does not drink hot beverages nor coffee of any kind).
Thank you for your generosity and for supporting our Mission Partners!
There is a new way to give at Trinity: Venmo! You can find us using: @TrinityLutheranBoyceville. If it asks you for a confirmation number, use 1349
MUSINGS FROM PASTOR BRAD
Yesterday, we hosted our first Neighbor to Neighbor Health Fair here at Trinity. Neighbor to Neighbor, for those that don’t remember, is a ministry of our Synod that reaches out to the Latino population, and one of the things that they do is hold Health Fairs to bring needed resources to a population that often has a hard time accessing such resources. We had all sort of providers and organizations here, such as Hearing and Vision Screening, Mayo Clinic, Dunn County Health Department, as well as places like Arbor Place, The Bridge to Hope, Stepping Stones, WestCap, and others, like Luther Park, Chippewa Valley Voters, and JONAH. We had a Mexican Food Truck here to provide food truck, our local one from right here in Boyceville that you see at Pickle Fest, and one thing that we did that many don’t do is we did a personal care item distribution of things like toothpaste, toothbrushes, deodorant, shampoo, detergent, soap, and more. We had a wonderful turnout on a beautiful day and I was really pleased with how it all turned out, even with a little more wind than we wanted and some pesky bees!
But what I was really pleased with was our incredible group of volunteers that came to help. We had people that came to help set-up, those that came to work the event, and those that came to tear down, which was really great for me, because I had to leave a half hour after the event to go to the Twin Cities to perform a wedding! Even better, our volunteers ran the gambit, from some of our oldest members to confirmation and high school students. Parents served with their children, which is a great example of modeling faith and service. Helping at this kind of event can be very difficult and put us outside of our comfort zone as interact with people that we don’t know and can’t communicate easily with, especially a little short on interpreters. But what came through was our volunteer’s joy and welcoming smiles. This is what it means to be the church. To open ourselves up in love to others and to try a make a difference in their lives. To lift up others. To really embody what it means to love our neighbors as ourselves.
I want to thank all of you that also dropped donations over the past couple of weeks as well that helped make our distribution a success. Your generosity is appreciated. My vision is for us to continue to be a church that reaches out in our community. I love the fact that so many of you give of your time to our ministry partners, whether it be to WestCAP or Stepping Stones or many others. This upcoming Sunday, October 5th, we are going to be helping out WestCAP with our Fall Fest fundraiser for them and I hope that you will join us for the Spaghetti Meal at 5 pm and the Men’s Band Concert at 6 pm. They need our help and they do so much. Bring the kids at 4 pm to have fun with the inflatables, then stay for the meal and concert. Be generous as Mission Madness starts because the funds we send to our partners in ministry makes a direct impact on the lives of other people.
We are church together and as the church, we look outward toward our neighbor, as Jesus has called us to. A church not in action is a dead church. A church only worried about itself is a dying church. A church standing still is sinking slowly into irrelevance and complacency. But a church focused on pushing outward, on serving, on meeting the needs of others, that is a vibrant church. That is a growing church. That is a church that is answering God’s call in Jesus Christ to love. That is who I want us to be. That is who I think we are. May we continue to be that and more and never lose sight of it.
May God bless you this week and always!