October 26, 2025
ANNOUNCEMENTS
Mission Madness 2025! Runs from October 5th till November 16th. You can give to a specific mission partner (like Luther Park or WestCAP) or just designate your gift towards Mission Madness. Every time we hit a giving goal, PB will do the following:
$500 PB has to eat five red grapes: Already happened
$1,000 PB has to eat a hard boiled egg: DONE
$1,500 PB has to wear a Packers or Brewers tie every day for one week: DONE
$2,000 PB has to eat cold tuna noodle pasta salad with peas (the meal he hated the most as a child): DONE
$2,500 PB has to drink two ounces of black church coffee. (PB does not drink hot beverages nor coffee of any kind). Happening November 2nd!
Currently we have raised $3,801! We only have $850 left to fulfill all our Mission goals for the year! Let’s close them all out and PB will add some extra stuff. If you have an idea, let him know!
Thank you for your generosity and for supporting our Mission Partners!
Crew Wednesday, October 29th from 3:30-5:00pm, for all 3rd-6th graders!
Men’s Band Worship Sunday, November 2nd, 9am! Join us for a morning of great music and fun!
Potato Pancake Meal, Sunday, November 2nd, 10 am till 11:30 am Two kinds of Potato Pancakes, Kielbasa Sausage, Apple Sauce, Dessert, Beverage. Free-will offering taken to benefit Trinity Missions.
Calling all men! We need your help on Sunday, November 2nd, to serve the Potato Pancake meal. Come at 9 am to help prep and then serve the meal.
Annual Mitten Tree is up! Bring in hats, mittens, scarves, and gloves to decorate the tree. We are also collecting items for the Coat Closet as well, like boots, snowpants, and winter coats, which you can put in the box by the Mitten Tree.
Voices of Praise is back every Wednesday at 7pm, join us for singing and fellowship!
Our Savior’s Lutheran Church in Wheeler will be having its final worship celebration on Saturday, November 1st, at 9:15 am. Fellowship following the service to share refreshments and memories of the past 128 years of ministry. Public is welcome.
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
As I looked over all the stuff that I would have to do for Mission Madness this year, I really thought the worse thing I was going to have to do was the Tuna Noodle Casserole with peas. I mean, I hated this meal as a child, and outside of the noodles, we have done three of those ingredients as Mission Madness things in the past: peas, canned tuna, and mayonnaise. I was dreading it and if there was anything that I might spew, it was going to be that. As a child, I was a master of hiding it in napkins, getting it to the dog to eat, and taking as little as possible to get out of eating it. But I had to eat my portion publicly and it had been a long time since I had eaten it.
I know there is nothing that this congregation loves more (outside of Jesus, of course), than to watch me suffer. It is why you enjoy these eating challenges and such, so I saw the glee on our faces as I prepared to eat this monstrosity, especially since I had already suffered through a hard-boiled egg (why do you people eat things that smell like bad farts?) But the thing was, I had an angel on my side. And that angel was Cheryl Wyss. See, when I first discussed the Mission Madness challenges with my sounding board group, the illustrious quilters, there were very excited about the Tuna Noodle Casserole and Cheryl wanted to make it. And Cheryl is not my mother. I loved my mother dearly. But my Mom was not a great cook. Adequate, but not great. Cheryl is.
Cheryl decided if she was going to make this, she was going to make it as she would make it for herself. So she used something that was foreign in my household growing up outside of salt and Lawry’s seasoning salt: spices and seasoning. And when I opened up the container, it looked nothing like what I remembered as a kid. I could tell there was pepper in it (which was just something on our table that we never used). I could tell there was other things in it outside of mayo, peas, and tuna. And I thought I might have a chance. When I sent a picture of it to Amy, I think she was a little bummed because it wasn’t going to be as bad as possible. And she was right.
Mind you, when I tasted that tuna and those peas, I wanted to spew like a garden hose. But my experience that stuff came into play. But the noodles on their own without that other disgusting crap? Delicious. And that saved me. My guardian angel saved me. So thank you Cheryl and may God bless you always.
But you know what has sucked beyond all measure? Wearing a tie for six days straight. And not even the Packer tie part (thank you Brian & Katie Moll, Bill & Julie Fisher, and Terry & Beth Ford for the ties). I’m used to wearing those disgusting colors. No, it is wearing the tie part. I wear a tie once a year: for prom. That’s it. Part of the joy of being a pastor is I get to wear a clerical and so I don’t have to wear a tie. I hate it. I hate stuff around my neck and tight around my neck. It is why I have never worn necklaces or chains or anything like that. Even worse, this week I had a series of long meetings that went very late at night so I was often wearing a tie till after 9 pm. Ugh. When I finally took the tie off on Saturday night for the last time I felt just like I do when I hear God’s promise of forgiveness in Jesus Christ: pure freedom. Wearing a tie every day might be my version of torture. It makes eating peas seems almost blissful.
But, we must sacrifice for the Lord, and we do, because we have raised almost $4,000 for our Mission Partners, and I hope that we can hit our ultimate goal of covering all our benevolences of the year. Two more weeks to go and I hope that you will join us on November 2nd for the Men’s Band concert and Potato Pancake meal. All the money raised at that meal goes to Mission Madness and you get to see me do the last challenge, drinking coffee. I hate coffee and I don’t drink hot things. Should be fun. Well, not for me but for all of you. But it will be better than wearing a tie.
May God bless you today and always!


Me in the tie on Saturday with Tuna Noodle Casserole with peas
Tracy Danovsky (now Kubala)
after her wedding. Tie supplied by
Katie & Brian Moll




