February 22nd, 2026
ANNOUNCEMENTS
THE YOUTH SERVICE HAS MOVED FROM MARCH 8TH TO APRIL 12TH
Lagers with the Lord February 23 at 6 pm at Buckshot’s.
Lent Worship with Holden Evening Prayer this Wednesday 6:30 pm. Our verse is John3:16. Meal prior at 5:30 pm till 6:30 pm. Meal is Soup and Stews served by the Women of Trinity. Our Lent Theme this year is “Your Favorite Bible Verse.”
The Crew is Wednesday, February 25th 3:30 pm till 5 pm for all 3rd-6th graders.
The United Lutheran Church of Prairie Farm Youth in Christ will be here on Sunday, March 8th to lead us in worship.
As part of our Lent theme, PB is looking for your favorite scriptures to be part of our Facebook devotions! Email him your favorite scripture readings to pastorbradtrinity@gmail.com
Have you made your Foundation gift yet? Help start our Parsonage project with a strong foundation with an initial gift. Letters have been mailed out and you should receive one in the mail. You can give through check, online, or using Venmo. Put “Foundation” or “Parsonage” on your gift and help us to start to build our parsonage project to a great start.
Raise the Roof Fundraiser Saturday, April 11th, 11 am till 4pm, Boyceville Fire Hall. This fundraiser for our new parsonage will feature a silent auction, raffles, games, “flip-flop” chicken, and more. If you would like to donate items, you can drop them off at the church. Contact the church office for more information.
There is a new way to give at Trinity: Venmo! You can find us using: @TrinityLutheranBoyceville. If it asks you for a phone number, use 1349
MUSINGS FROM PASTOR BRAD
Today is the last day of the Winter Olympics and as I have written before, I love the Olympics. Though the Summer Olympics are my favorite, I have a soft spot for the Winter Olympics because there are so many strange and weird sports. I have written before of my joy of watching curling, which is mesmerizing to watch and something I feel like I could do and just absolutely fail at. Plus, they have stuff like the new sport of ski mountaineering which looks like a sport made to torture people. Did you watch this? It is so cool and so painful at the same time and I couldn’t look away. They were literally running up steps in ski boots and someone lost a medal because they couldn’t transition from one type of ski’s to another type of ski’s. It was nuts and glorious at the same time. And, as someone pointed out, the Winter Olympics are filled with a majority of sports that could literally kill you, which the Summer Olympics can’t really say, which gives it another layer of wonderment. Yes, let’s fly through the air on ski’s with no poles and see if we can land safely. Sounds like a GREAT idea!
But what I love about the Olympics is just the story of people doing this absolutely crazy sports because they love it. They will never really win a medal or gain any money from these sports but they love them and just getting there, to participate in the Olympics, is the dream. I saw an American skier who finished like 12th in a race and it was going to be his last race. He was just so happy that he felt like he raced his best and then he broke down talking about what it meant to race in front of his wife and young son and to feel like he did his best. It wasn’t about the medal or any glory, just doing his best on the biggest stage in front of the people he loved the most and who loved him. I loved seeing the sportsmanship between a lot of the athletes (see the female figure skaters as an example or anyone who does the cross-country skiing) and am reminded what pure sport looks like. I love the open honesty of the athletes on a whole range of topics, especially mental health, and also how sometimes the joy of just being there is victory enough.
We can be real cynical about sports these days, even Olympic sports. I understand and sometimes share in that cynicism. But sports can also still be a place where people can come together and be united in joy, where barriers can be broken down. We can sometimes just enjoy seeing people doing amazing things and give thanks for watching it and experiencing it. We can marvel at a Norwegian cross-country skier winning six gold medals and an American figure skater coming out of retirement winning gold and her teammate who didn’t but showed amazing resilience in the attempt. We can rejoice in the bobsled Mom with deaf kids winning gold and the biathlete who finished way outside the medals but it was the best finish ever for their country. Now, if I could only figure out how to be a world class skeleton slider without dying, that would be great, because that looks super fun!
May God bless you today and always!