Worship
Join Us for Worship!
Sunday at 9:30 a.m.: Join us for worship & weekly holy communion in-person, via Facebook LIVE, or by dialing into our telephone conference line.
Updated Protocol:
Trinity’s Council and church staff thank you for your ongoing support, consideration, and prayers throughout the pandemic. It has taken the input, support, and resolve of all of us to navigate these two years, stepping forward together in new and uncharted ways. It is again time to review protocols and guidelines for how we can safely gather in our building and faith community. Our worship team volunteers with review and approval of Church Council have established the following considerations and expectations for in-person gatherings, effective March 15, 2022.
1. Masks - Masks are optional for those attending worship and indoor activities. We encourage anyone who needs or prefers to wear a mask to do so with the active support of others.
2. Ventilation - Trinity will continue its practices of increased ventilation already underway to facilitate air turnover as much as is possible in our facility. Please contact a staff member if you are hosting an event and need to know how to engage the exhaust fans.
3. Symptoms and testing - Anyone experiencing symptoms should get tested and is asked to NOT attend in-person activities. Please follow the most-updated CDC guidelines for isolation and quarantine. The same is true for anyone that tests positive.
4. Restrooms - The restrooms in the hallway outside the Nave and choir room were fitted with “Vacant/Occupied” indicators at the start of the pandemic. If you prefer to continue to use those indicators for distancing, please do. If you are comfortable sharing the public restroom with another person, the indicator can simply remain on “vacant.” We respectfully ask everyone to follow the indicator when it is used.
This community - our expression of the Body of Christ - is made up of many backgrounds, family makeups, work environments, and health challenges. We remain mindful that others may continue to face health challenges, unique circumstances, and uncertainty. It is our hope that Trinity’s fellowship will bear witness to care, compassion, and support for one another.
Sunday, April 14, 2024
The Third Sunday of Easter
The gospel for the third Sunday of Easter is always one in which the risen Christ shares food with the disciples, meals that are the Easter template for the meal we share each Sunday. In today’s gospel, Jesus both shares the disciples’ food and shows them the meaning of his suffering, death, and resurrection through the scriptures, the two main elements of our Sunday worship.
Sunday, April 7, 2024
The Second Sunday of Easter
The Easter season is a week of weeks, seven Sundays when we play in the mystery of Christ’s presence, mostly through the glorious Gospel of John. Today we gather with the disciples on the first Easter, and Jesus breathes the Spirit on us. With Thomas we ask for a sign, and Jesus offers us his wounded self in the broken bread. From frightened individuals we are transformed into a community of open doors, peace, forgiveness, and material sharing such that no one among us is in need.
Sunday, March 31, 2024
Easter Sunday: The Resurrection of Our Lord
Christ is Risen! Jesus is alive, and God has swallowed up death forever. With Mary Magdalene, Mary the mother of James, and Salome, we may feel astonished and confused, unsure of what to make of the empty tomb. But this is why we gather to proclaim, witness, praise, and affirm the liberating reality of Christ’s death and resurrection. In word and feast, we celebrate God’s unending love, and depart to share this good news with all the world. Alleluia!
Friday, March 29, 2024
Good Friday
Tenebrae worship (Tenebrae means “darkness”) is one of the oldest in Church tradition. This evening we gather to reflect on the sufferings of our Lord and to consider our own shortcomings. In this service we ask for forgiveness and amendment of our ways.
Thursday, March 28, 2024
Maundy Thursday
This evening our Lenten observance comes to an end, and we gather with Christians around the world to celebrate the Three Days of Jesus’ death and resurrection. Tonight we remember Christ’s last meal with his disciples, but the central focus is his commandment that we live out the promise embodied in this meal. As Jesus washed his disciples feet, so we are called to give and receive love in humble service to one another. Formed into a new body in Christ through this holy meal, we are transformed by the mercy we have received and carry it into the world. Departing worship in solemn silence, we anticipate the coming days.
Sunday, March 24, 2024
The Passion of Our Lord
This week, the center of the church’s year, is one of striking contrasts: Jesus rides into Jerusalem surrounded by shouts of glory, only to be left alone to die on the cross, abandoned by even his closest friends. Mark’s gospel presents Jesus in his complete human vulnerability: agitated, grieved, scared, forsaken. Though we lament Christ’s suffering and all human suffering, we also expect God’s salvation: in the wine and bread, Jesus promises that his death will mark a new covenant with all people. We enter this holy week thirsty for the completion of God’s astonishing work.