October 25, 2026
ANNOUNCEMENTS
The Crew is on October 28th for all 3rd-6th grade youth from 3:30 pm till 5 pm! Snack, Game, Faith Time, and Music. All are welcome! Want to help? We appreciate having adults help in the kitchen and provide extra supervision during group time. Just talk to PB if you would like to help!
Men’s Band Worship November 1st, 9 am
Potato Pancake Meal, Sunday, November 1st, 10 am till 11:30 am Potato Pancakes, Apple Sauce, Kielbasa Sausage, Dessert, Beverage. Served by the Trinity Men and benefitting Mission Madness. Calling all Men to help serve the meal! Sign-up in the Narthex to help! We need help Saturday, October 31st at 8 am for prep and then on November 1st starting at 9 am.
Mission Madness: October 25th-December 13th
This year, our Mission Madness is going to go for something difference. With all of our obligations to our benevolences paid, we are going to be supporting our own Mission here at Trinity. For we have a mission to spread the Gospel through our own ministry day-to-day. Your dollars not only will make PB do all sorts of things, but also lift up our internal ministry and help us to be on a stronger financial foundation as we end 2026.
$500: Eat Pickled Beets
$1000: Drink 4 ounces of Pineapple Juice
$1,500: Wear a Packer’s Christmas shirt for the Men’s Band Christmas Concert at Trinity and for the Pastor’s Conference Meeting he hosts at Trinity in December
$2,000: Eat Liver and Onions
$2,500: Pie to the Face
$3,000: Scoop Poop at the Horse Parade at Pickle Fest in 2027
$3,500: Eat Lutefisk
You can give by check (put “Mission Madness” in the memo), though the website, or by Venmo (again, put “Mission Madness” in the tagline)
Mission Trip/Youth Gathering Meeting, Wednesday, October 28th, 7pm.
Confirmation Youth Lock-In, Friday, October 30th, 6 pm till Saturday, October 31st, 7 am HAS BEEN POSTPONED DUE TO THE BOYCEVILLE HOME PLAYOFF GAME. Updates will come in the future.
Meat Raffle, Sunday, November 15th, 10:30 am Join us after church for a meat raffle to support the parsonage fund! Win some great meat products and some surprises. Public welcome!
Get Your Trinity Umbrella! The Women of Trinity are selling Trinity Umbrella’s for $20 with all proceeds going to the Parsonage Fund. Pick them up at the church.
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
Something interesting happened on Thursday night that I have been thinking about. I was watching the Bears-Patriots game and Amy came home from parent teacher conferences. After a little while, she sat down to watch with me (well, not really watch as she was going to read, but it was on the TV), and as she tried to engage me in conversation later she could tell I wasn’t in the best of moods. But this confused her, because as she looked at the TV and the score, the Bears were winning and this normally puts me in a good mood. So she said, “Why are you so grumpy? The Bears are winning.” This is a very valid and reasonable question. And I said the following: “Because we should be winning by more.”
At the time, we should have been, because we squandered some opportunities including giving up an inexplicable TD at the end of the half (I still get mad thinking about it). But as I have thought about it since then, I realized how unreasonable I was being in that moment. I wasn’t happy because we weren’t winning by more. Not that we weren’t winning. It was that we weren’t winning by more. And that thought was stopping me from having good conversation with my wife, who I had not seen since 6:15 that morning, and that thought was putting me in a bad mood, affecting my relationship and the people that were around me. How dumb am I?
We are rarely content with what we have. We want more. (In this moment, I’m thinking of the moment in Star Wars: The Last Jedi, when Kylo Ren screams “More!” as they are firing lasers at Luke Skywalker, who he thinks is there but is really a force projection. It is a meme). We always want more. We are taught by our culture and society to keep wanting more. And there is nothing wrong with wanting to succeed and strive for success. But there is a line there and when that wanting turns into hording or when the wanting becomes all-consuming and makes us neglect the needs of our neighbors, that is when we have a problem. See me, exhibit A.
Because our need for more, and for hording what we have, runs opposite of God’s call to share what we have with others and to be thankful for the blessings we do have. We are to live with generous hearts, trusting in the Lord who provides and to whom all belongs. The need for more can become like another God for us, something we worship, a compulsion that can have destructive consequences. It can be a force for good if the resources we are gathering are used for the sake of the other. But when used to exploit the other or to keep others down, or to fuel only selfish ambition, then it has the opposite effect.
Being content with what we have is hard and being thankful, I think, is even harder. We often don’t see what we have in life as blessings and we often see what we don’t have, or think about what we should have, instead of what is in front of us. We often live in fear of not enough, and that fear keeps us from being generous. Of being grateful. Of being content. It makes us pout on a couch because our football team, despite winning, isn’t winning by more. It makes us hesitant to use our resources of time, talent, and treasure to support God’s mission in the world or care for our neighbor in need. It makes us oppress others or push the other aside for our own gain.
We are about to enter the month of Thanksgiving, and it is a good time to reflect on what we have, who it belongs to, and how we can use what we have for the sake of others. It is also a time to reflect on where our happiness and contentment comes from and why. Does it come from having more or appreciating what we have, or who we have, or who loves us? These are all faith questions and questions to reflect upon. No matter what, remember this promise: you are loved by your Savior Jesus Christ, who provides all things for you, most especially eternal life. May God bless you today and always!