June 1st, 2026
ANNOUNCEMENTS
Fellowship Servers needed for the summer! Please sign-up in the Narthex or call the office if you are willing to serve! WE HAVE NO FELLOWSHIP SERVERS FOR THIS SUNDAY OR NEXT SUNDAY!
Summer Office Hours begin this week, so the office is now closed on Friday’s.
Help us pack up the Savers U-Haul on Thursday, June 4th, at 9 am!
Women of Trinity Spring/Summer Gathering this Saturday, June 6th, 9 am. Teresa Pejsa is the guest speaker. All women are invited!
TACO’S FOR KIDS! Starting on July 7th, every Tuesday until August 18th, we are going to be doing Taco’s for Kids! We will be making 25 beef & cheese tacos and 25 beans and rice tacos every Tuesday for the youth of our community, along with some apple slices and cheese sticks, to hand out, as a way to provide some sustenance during summer when many of our youth don’t often have a reliable source of food. These are simple taco’s that provide a delicious snack to help our vulnerable youth. So what can you do? You can sign-up to come help put the taco’s together at 11 am on those Tuesday’s. If you want, you can even provide the Taco meat at home and bring it here for us to use it in the taco’s. Then, come help us hand it out from Noon to 2 pm over on Main Street by the library. Questions? See Pastor Brad or Heidi Kothrade and more importantly sign up in the Narthex!
Women of Trinity will be highlighting baby care kits for the months of May and June. If you are going to garage sales this summer these are some of the items we need: size 6-24 months – sleepers or gowns, cotton t-shirts, light jackets, sweaters or hooded sweatshirts, receiving blankets, dark colored hand towels and baby socks. We can also use Onsies, we cut them off to make t-shirts. You can pick up a list of what is needed in the Narthex. Thank you for helping us help others!
We are looking for donations for the Mission Trip. We are looking for travel size toiletry items, hand sanitiz ers, plastic cutlery, chalk, and food bags. Please bring them to the church by June 10th.
Vacation Bible School July 13th-17th, 9 am till Noon, for all youth 4 years old through 6th grade. Completely free! Run by Luther Park Bible Camp. See the attached registration form. Fill out and return to church so we know how many youth to expect. Looking for snacks and snack helpers. See sign-up in the Narthex.
Looking for mowers! See the sign-up sheet in the Narthex to mow the church lawn this spring and summer!
You can use Venmo to make your gift to Trinity! You can find us using: @TrinityLutheranBoyceville. If it asks you for a phone number, use 1349
MUSINGS FROM PASTOR BRAD
I was thinking about community the other day. I thought about it in a big sense as we stood there on Memorial Day at the cemetery, celebrating the honored dead who gave their lives for our country, coming together as the young and the old, all together to give thanks for their sacrifice for our country. And when we think of community, we often think of it in that larger sense, like in that kind of gathering, or when we gather in our larger church community for a funeral or a celebration like our Raise the Roof fundraiser.
But I also started to think about the little communities that often form in the midst of us, the ones that are just as important. This hit me as I came to give some grief to our card club group this past Thursday or as I watched our quilting group lead middle schoolers as part of their service learning day on Tuesday. Those are smaller communities. They care for each other, check in on each other, bond with each other.
I think of the small community that will form when our kids go to Luther Park Bible Camp next week. This will be an important new community for them. They will leave their electronic devices at home and form their own communities in their cabins. They will get a chance to break out from the way they are perceived in school, learn different things about themselves and each other even when they are with people from their school, and they will get a chance to meet others and be inspired by different leaders like their counselors. They will be challenged by being away from home, away from devices that like to tell them who they should be and what they should be. They will get to instead explore what God has to say, try some new things, and get some seeds of faith planted that may not show fruit till later in life. They will form their own community that will be unique and special in their time together. The same thing will happen the next week with our high school students on their Mission Trip as well.
I think of the sense of community that happens when we serve together. It is one of the reasons we don’t have dishwashers here at Trinity. There is a bond that forms when you wash dishes with someone, a way you can get to know someone as you start talking when making or serving a meal. We want to act as community this summer in providing taco’s for needy kids starting in July. In summer, so many of our youth don’t have food security. School is the place where they can count on getting meals. This is a way for us to provide a little something to them, once a week in the summer. But it also a way for us to not only provide something for our most vulnerable but to foster community amongst us. Are you willing to come join a community ready to help others? Sign-up to serve, put a smile on a child’s face, and maybe meet someone new as you make a taco.
Because in the end, that is one of the cool things about a lot of the things we do at church. Whether it is the Women’s Gathering on Saturday, serving VBS snacks in July, the Taco’s for Kids, or even as I watched a group of adults taking care of Saver’s items on Saturday, small communities were forming. Communities of mutual support, connected by shared faith and purpose. I’m about to enter into another community with Bible Study where we spend 30 minutes talking about life and being there for each other and the other 30 minutes talking about the Bible (mostly). You are welcome to join us at anytime because we all need community.
For community is a gift from God, wherever and however it is. May the Lord bless you in whatever community you find yourself in and I hope you might feel the pull of the Spirit to be part of one of the many here at Trinity. May God bless you today and always!