August 20th, 2026
ANNOUNCEMENTS
Annual Lunch & Pie Social on Sunday, August 23! We look forward to seeing you between 10 a.m. and 4 p.m. for hot beef and pulled pork sandwiches, hot dogs, homemade potato salad, baked beans, homemade pickles, homemade pie, and ice cream. Bring your family and friends to join us for lunch and a slice of pie – everyone is welcome!
Looking for workers and donations for the Lunch & Pie Cream Social! See the sign-ups on the table in the Narthex or come help us out on Sunday, August 23rd from 10 am till 4 pm or on Saturday, August 22nd at 9 am. Every little bit helps! You can call the office as well to sign-up at 715-643-3821!
Looking for float riders for the Cucumber Festival Parade Float on Sunday, August 23rd. All ages are welcome. Come to church at Noon by the shed. All youth who ride get their own candy bag.
New Parsonage Open House! Sunday, August 23rd from 10-Noon and Wednesday, August 26th from 6-7 pm. Come check it out!
It’s back to school time!! The WOT will be collecting items for our local schools and for kits to go to Lutheran World Relief. There are two different boxes set out for collection so make sure you put yours in the box you want your items to go to. The bags you take off the pews are the ones that go to Lutheran World Relief and each bag has a printed copy of all items needed to fill that bag. There are copies of items needed for our local schools on the display table by the kitchen. Thank you for helping us help others!
No worship August 26th! Join the Men’s Band at First Lutheran Church in Cumberland at 6 pm for worship. Corn Feed prior starting at 4 pm.
Looking for help to move items into the new parsonage on Thursday, August 27th, at 8:30 am till Noon and Saturday, August 29th, from 8 am till Noon. Need trucks and trailers. Talk to PB or show up at the old parsonage to help.
Parsonage Blessing, Sunday, August 30th, at the end of the 9 am worship service!
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 recently got back from vacation and the last three days of that vacation was spent at the d23 Convention. If you don’t know what that is, it is a huge Disney convention, basically like Christmas for Disney nerds like Amy and myself. It is named after the year that the Disney corporation was founded, 1923, and it involves big announcements across all of Disney (movies, TV, theme parks around the world, cruise line, etc), panels about all sorts of stuff from history, to a convention floor full of booths displaying all sorts of items and promoting all sorts of things, to some major stores selling all sorts of merchandise that is coveted by collectors and casuals alike. It is three days of sensory overload, where one minute you are sitting in front of a stage eating a sandwich and watching the voices of Disney princesses having a trivia contest and seeing the director of the last Star Wars movie (and actor) Jon Favreau walk by to a bit later meeting the producer of the Lion King and Beauty and the Beast to going to a panel where the team who makes Grogu (Baby Yoda) come to life shows you how they do that to the next walking through an exhibit of movie props that includes stuff from the Muppets, Hannah Montana, Mary Poppins, Raiders of the Lost Ark, the Parent Trap and more, to seeing incredible people in full homemade costume of favorite characters, to a thousand other things.
Along the way, you meet all sorts of people. Every day we were in line with a Mom and Son from Israel who stayed in our same hotel and how live part of the year in Florida. It was their first d23 and we spent a lot of time waiting together and it was fun to get to know them. At the same time, you meet people around you as you wait to get in and in other lines and you start conversations, from what stores you got into, what panels you saw or didn’t see, thoughts on news, people you saw on the floor, and compliments on what you are wearing. It is a shared community starting at 5:30 am and going till 8 pm at night and we joked at the end that we should all get a “I survived d23” pin at the end. But that is what d23 ends of being: a community.
We all have different communities. I think about those of you who go to a campground every weekend. That is a type of community. We are celebrating our Boyceville community this weekend with Pickle Fest, a chance to lift up this place we live and care about and welcome back others to this place. I think about our church community, gathered around shared faith and mission, connected by the love of God in Jesus Christ.
And one thing is the same about all these communities: not everyone is the same in them. We all look different, have unique abilities and talents, possible even different perspectives and points of view. But we have a shared passion, whether it be Disney or Boyceville or Jesus or whatever, and that is what connects us together. It is the connection that is important, not that we are all exactly the same. It is our diversity that makes us stronger. It is our uniqueness as individuals, gathered together around common purpose, that makes our community, no matter where it is, special. It is being in community that reminds us that we are not alone in this world.
So give thanks this day for your community, no matter what kind it is. And nurture it and support it in whatever way you can. May God bless you today and always!