June 8th, 2026
ANNOUNCEMENTS
Fellowship Servers needed for the summer! Please sign-up in the Narthex or call the office if you are willing to serve!
Please pray for our 19 youth and 8 chaperones heading for Denver Saturday for a week on their Mission Trip!
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 or call the church office to sign-up.
Lagers with the Lord, June 22nd, 6 pm at Buckshot’s.
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!
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 or call the church office to sign-up.
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
It looked like it was over. Completely over. And why wouldn’t we think it wasn’t done? Eight straight losses at home, lost nine of our last ten games. Down 6-3 in the 9th inning, my nephew and I looked at each other as we sat in the left field bleachers of Wrigley Field at our annual Cubs game assuming another depressing Cubs loss. We had enjoyed a beautiful night, shared drinks, had laughs, and I had a eaten the Holy Trinty of sausages (hot dog, Italian, Polish), so the night wasn’t a complete waste. But a Cubs win and singing the song (“Go Cubs Go”) didn’t seem to be in the cards. Oh well.
And then a miracle happened. Hit after hit. Suddenly a team that seemed almost afraid to get a hit with runners in scoring position, and with the worst hitters in doing that up at that plate, started to do it. We got some help with an error. And the immortal PCA stepped up, him who had we had literally watched 20 feet from us lose a ball in the lights for a two run inside the park home run, step up to the plate and deliver the winning hit. Suddenly we were jumping up and down like school kids, singing the song at the top of our lungs as the “W” flag was flown at the top of the scoreboard. 7-6, Cubs win! One of the best games I ever seen at Wrigley in all of my years (and I’ve been 49 years).
The game had everything. Incredible mistakes. Redemption. Comeback. Some good luck. It reminded me of life. Baseball does that. Sometimes all seems lost and then the incredible happens. You dust yourself off, you keep going, and things turn around. In one moment, you are getting the booed, then next, cheered. You keep doing your best even in the most difficult of odds. You keep having faith even when faith is at its lowest.
My Dad taught me that you never leave a game early. For one, you never know what great play you might miss. You never know what cool thing you could see. You never know, if your team is losing, what comeback you could see. But also, you don’t get to go to those games to often and you should appreciate and enjoy them. We went to one a year, maybe two if we were lucky. So we soaked in every moment. I go to one a year now, maybe two. I never leave early, ever. I want to appreciate every moment. When I started taking my nephew he was in elementary school. Now he is just finished his first year as a teacher and actually bought ME a drink! Life is full of ups and downs, blessings and woes, but the key is we just keep the faith and we keep going. Because you never know what might come your way, what blessing God might put in your path, what miracle you might witness, what thing you get to experience that will change your life, what thing you think is a loss that turns into a win.
God works in mysterious ways. Right now, maybe in your life things seem like you are losing. That it is the bottom of the 9th and you are down multiple runs and it doesn’t look good. Don’t leave the game early and don’t give up. Keep playing. You never know. At the same time, if things are going great and you are 3-4 with a couple of hits and a homer, appreciate it. Remember that the blessings of this life come from a loving Savior who is with you every day. For whether we feel like we are winning or whether we are losing, we have a Savior in Jesus Christ who is walking with us in every moment and reminding us that we are beloved children of God. And you never know what is going to happen on the next pitch.
May God bless you today and always.