Midweek Advent Services
Wednesday Nov., 30th 11am & 6pm Advent Midweek Services will be starting Nov.30th of this month. Please be sure to note the updated services times of 11am & 6pm.
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From the Pastor’s Desk- November
Dear friends in Christ, You are almost certainly familiar with the Fergus Falls Cyclone of 1919. An event like that leaves a long, lasting memory on a place, even after all those who were there are gone. On June 22, 1919, the cyclone struck Fergus Falls and killed 57 people, making it the second deadliest tornado in Minnesota history. The tornado destroyed large parts of Fergus Falls. At the time, Trinity was located at the
From the Pastor’s Desk- October 2022
In this 150th anniversary year here at Trinity I want to share with you another interesting story I unearthed from the Trinity archives (that is to say, random nooks and crannies around the church). It is a story told through letters I found in a file dating to 1958. In 1958, it may be that the most well-known LCMS Lutheran was Rev. Oswald Hoffman. He had served as the director of the LCMS Department of Public
From the Pastor’s Desk- September 2022
Dear friends in Christ, Trinity has entered her 150th year of ministry here in Fergus Falls. The congregation was founded on August 10, 1873. Throughout the next year we will be marking this anniversary, leading toward our chief celebration, scheduled for next summer on August 13, 2023. Through this anniversary year, I will tell a few stories of the congregation’s history, as I discover them. You may have noticed in the narthex that recently we hung a
From the Pastor’s Desk- August 2022
Dear friends in Christ, As I am writing this, this past Sunday we held a “Multigenerational Bible Treasure Hunt” here at Trinity. Adrianne Bolland put in a lot of effort to set it up – you should thank her! Thank you Adrianne! I mostly just observed and tried to keep up with Sophia so that my wife and other children could participate. But it is difficult for me to find the right words to express