On Wednesday, May 18th, you are invited to an Ice Cream Social from 5:00 pm to 7:00 pm. Stop by the church to have some ice cream and spend some time getting to know your fellow Trinity members and any guests who might also be with us. This will be an informal get-together – come when you are able and as you are able.
Sunday, May 15th at 11:30 am — The annual budget will be reviewed at the voters meeting and we will enjoy fellowship and food at our monthly potluck.
Due to scheduling conflicts, Lutheran Island Camp Sunday at Trinity has been rescheduled for Sunday, May 15th! Stacy Lung, the Executive Director of LIC, will be here with us to share a short word following our service to keep us updated on LIC. Last fall, LIC began an effort to eliminate their debt so that more funding could be devoted to programming. Since last September, over $200,000 has been paid off. There remains about $50,000
From Rev. Dr. Dan and Joan Jastram’s April newsletter, Serving the Lord in Asia: Prayer and Praise: for the transition of our LCMS worship site at Yokohama to a new site near the central part of Tokyo; for the two Taiwanese students attending LCMS Tokyo worship; for the cultural and family challenges of Japanese Christians confronting Buddhist death and funeral rites, that their confession and conscience might remain clean and true; for Japanese Lutheran pastors’
On April 26, 1847, representatives from 14 congregations in New York, Michigan, Indiana, Ohio, Illinois, and, of course, Missouri, met in Chicago to officially form Die Deutsche Evangelisch-Lutherische Synode von Missouri, Ohio, und andern Staaten, or as we know it today, The Lutheran Church – Missouri Synod. There are several interesting articles about the founding of the LCMS in the April 2022 issue of The Lutheran Witness. I’d encourage you to check it out. One of