News Index
October, 2010
Restore & Renew Construction;
The Impact of Trinity's Ministry;
Trinity Members Attend the 19th Annual Interfaith Dinner;
Being A Welcoming Church in the Midst of a Hostile Culture;
Counting Our Blessings: The 2011
Stewardship Gratitude Campaign
September, 2010
Our Relationships with the Children @ Trinity;
Kids' and Youth Service Project: Books for Lesotho;
Celebrating Julie March's Ministry at Trinity;
Mission Statement Draft
August, 2010
Luise Hoffman is an "Emerging Artist";
Confessing Our Faith as Presbyterians: The Belhar Confession;
"Growth Is a Choice" Sermon Series;
Dan Anderson-Little Joins the Covenant Network Board of Trustees;
Celebrating the Ministry of Julie March at Trinity;
An ac-CHOIR-ed Taste?
July, 2010
"Renew And Restore" Campaign Status;
What's Ahead for Trinity News;
Come Join Bread Breakers!;
Summer Concerts: Trinity Picnics;
What to Expect When You're Expecting....Construction
June, 2010
Disability and Inclusion: Now and Beyond;
Calling All Musicians;
Session makes two important mission allocations;
Building Repairs Completed, Underway;
2010 Confirmation Class Affirmation of Faith
May, 2010
Social Justice: Trinity Supports Improvement of Student Anti-Bullying Legislation;
Sweatfree Communities: An Initiative of the Inter-Faith Committee on Latin America;
Rapid Re-housing Clients Can Use More Donations;
Reflections on the Commons
April, 2010
Understanding Islam: An Interfaith Dialogue;
Poetry from Nancy Wagner;
Are You Connected?
March, 2010
Observing Lent;
Care For Kids;
Guidelines For Praying Together;
Moving Ahead with the Capital Campaign;
Welcome Norman as Trinity's Security Guard
February, 2010
Lent As Springtime;
Praying for One Another During Lent;
February Spiritual Growth Class Focuses on Israel;
God's Child Work Team To Leave February 23 - Donations Needed;
Mission Project for Haiti Relief - February 7;
BOUNCEBACK -Help for Those who are Unemployed;
Budget and Annual Report Available;
Join Our Sister in Lesotho;
January, 2010
Mission opportunities in 2010;
Trinity Helps Found SHED: Safe Homes for the Elderly & Disabled;
Trinity Bell Ringers in Mass Ringing Event;
Weekly Parent Group Offers Place to Share & Support;
Birty No Longer Working on Sundays Means Patience & Opportunity;
The next B&B's: A Small Group Ministry for All;
Harry Potter's Coming to Adult Education;
Commissions & Teams are Looking For New Members
December, 2009
Jesus Christ, Light of the World: Advent, Christmas and Epiphany at Trinity;
Welcome, New Members!: the Chens, the Browns, Kim Seip;
Godspeed, Shanthi Philips!;
Called to Ministry: Dave Nelson;
Kids In New Small Group Explore Bonding & Bridging;
Mission Opportunity in Antigua, Guatemala;
The Commons is on Sabbatical
November, 2009
Jane Rand Receives Samuel D. Press Award;
"What I Am Excited About" - Dr. Dan Anderson-Little;
Calling all Environmental Stewards;
Preparing for Advent 2009
October, 2009
Stewardship 2009 - Here I Am, Lord;
Rev. Jane Rand Chosen for the Samuel D. Press Award;
Promises of GOD: A Cantata by Jim Shoemaker;
Who Are Presbyterians Nationally?;
How Did We Get Where We Are?
September, 2009
Sing Out Your Soul! - Choir Returns;
A few of the reasons I wear a nametag at church...;
Thoughts on Discernment and the Radical Call of Jesus Christ;
Stewardship Plans;
Are You Ready to (CROP) Walk?;
You are Invited! New Small Group Sessions;
What's Ahead
August,
2009 Coming This Fall...; Bonding & Bridging - My Small Group Experience;
What Makes a "Good" Vacation?; Trinity's Deacon Liaison Program; Mound Ridge Retreat;
Picnic in the Park - August 16th; T'ai Chi Coming to Trinity; End of Summer and
Beginning of the Fall Semester Music and Art Opportunities; Adults - 20's and early
30's
July, 2009
Spiritual Growth Opportunities; Sharing a Journey; Networking Nook; "Whose Is It?"
- Evan Reid's thoughts on Stewardship; Session Reports to Congregation on Discerning
Process
June, 2009
Coming This Summer...; B&B'S - Small Groups for Fellowship, Study and Service; Joyful
Noise and a Blue Note; Looking Back at Ten Years - Dan Anderson-Little; Welcome,
New Members: Bill Lorenz, Pat Scannell and Confirmands!
May, 2009
B&B's: Bonding and Bridging Through Small Groups; New Worship Service is Taking
Shape; Build With Habitat For Humanity; Interfaith Dialogue Groups; View From a
Pink "Throne"; "Just Do It" (Tithing, that is)
April,
2009 Holy Week Schedule; An Invitation to Discerning; Reaching Out: New
Worship Service; Rummage for a Reason; Here I am Lord: Answering the Call to Stewardship
March,
2009 Service of Healing and Wholeness - March 19; Praise The Lord! - The
Psalm 150 Fund; Moving Ahead with Discernment; A Place Apart - the Spirituality
Center; Four Ways to Help the Church Deficit; T'ai Chi at Trinity?
February,
2009 A Place Apart - the Spirituality Center; What is a Minister of Spiritual
Growth?; An Elevator - Now?; Sharing our space with Fair Shares; Mission Trip to
Guatemala 2009; Trinity's Liz's List
January,
2009 Music Search Update; Spring Spiritual Growth Oportunities - Adult Education;
Small Group Dinners - Again!; Fair Trade Market a Success; Church Leadership for
2009
December,
2008 Come Celebrate Advent With Us...; Pastoral Leave of Absence; Let's
Work to Make Our Church Building More Green!; Older Adult Opportunities For Friendship;
Up Up and Away: Elevator Renovation
November,
2008 Stewardship 2008: The Best is Yet to Come; Dawn Fleishman: New Director
of Spiritual Growth; Welcome, New Members!: Lyn Lupo, Virginia McKabney, George
Van Hare
October,
2008 God's Child Benefit; Important Issues Decided at General Assembly;
Fruit Growing in the Building; Elevator Project Moving Forward; Diana Gray's Mission
in Bhutan; Greetings from "Trinity West"
September,
2008 "Saving Jesus" - New Adult Spiritual Growth Series; "Who Is Jesus?"
- Interfaith Exploration; Wild With Words; Envisioning the Future of the Church;
Kids In Worship; Music Ministry Dream Team Report; Sight-Singing Class
August,
2008 Interfaith Event Focuses on Role of the Bible; Mound Ridge Retreat;
CROP Walk; Report of Equipping Ministry Review Team; Senior High Mission Trip Reflections;
Special Communion Service
July, 2008
Let's Talk Turkey About Our Music Ministry; Session Hears Report of Equipping Ministry
Review; Praying For Peace; Still Separate And Unequal; Cancer - A Disease That Affects
A Whole Family; A Place for Outgrown Toys!
June, 2008
Interim Ministers of Music: Vicki Carmichael & Bill Wade; Counting Our Blessings
When Blessings Seem Few and Far Between; Interfaith Exploration at Trinity Begin;
Welcome, New Members (the Twellmans, Richard Hatch) and Confirmands!
May, 2008
Farewell Messages from Paul Vasile and Susan Hayes; Music Ministry Needs Dream Team;
Want to Picnic?; The Future of Equipping at Trinity; Searches Begin in Music and
Spiritual Growth Ministries
April,
2008 Transition Time: Saying Goodbye to Paul Vasile; Spiritual Growth Commission;
Spring Adult Education; Presbyterian Girl; ArtMUSE
March,
2008 Holy Week - Experience God's Story Anew; One Great Hour of Sharing;
Vicki Carmichael Recital; Reverberations Concerts; Carmans to Coordinate Food Pantry;
Threads of Faith and Love - Do Kirk, Mark and Kim Merritt; Celebrating the Gifts
of Women
February,
2008 Our Lenten Journey; Amahl and Anna; Is This Ministry For You?; Independence
Center
January,
2008 Facilities Repair Recommendations; "Family Wellness" Adult Education
series; Welcome, New Members! Brian & Caroline Muegge; A Huge Thank You...;
Photo Directories are in
December,
2007 Advent 2007; Jayne Howard: An Awesome Christian Educator; Turkeys Galore!;
Managing Grief Through the Holidays; CROP Walk: Thanks to the Trinity Trotters!
November,
2007 Spotlight on Trinity in Action; Join the Gospel Choir!; Our Daily Bread:
Stewardship 2007; In Gratitude: Remembering Joan Little
October,
2007 What is Bread?: 2007 Stewardship Drive; World Communion Sunday; Food
Pantry Coordinator Needed; Mindful Eating: Paul Vasile: A Blessing to Others; Community
Music School Partnership; "You're a Healthy Congregation"
September,
2007 New This Fall; Rally Day 2007; God's Child Founder to Speak at Trinity;
Fall Music Events; Welcome New Members: Andy Latimer & Sarah Ledbetter, Matt
Bowman, John Wagner; What the Heck is a Lectionary?
August,
2007 New Sunday Morning Schedule; Faces of Trinity - New Pictorial Directory;
Companions on the Journey; Stories from the Youth Mission Trip to South Dakota
July, 2007
Beat the Heat - Come to Worship!; Join in the Music; Baroque Music Festival; Sunday
Morning Schedule; Scholin-Weems Scholarships; Life-Changing Ministry; Katrina Diaries;
Spiritual Direction Offered at Trinity
June, 2007
Summer Worship at Trinity; Senior High Mission Trip to go to South Dakota; Green
Team Update; Nancy Wagner Joins Trinity Leadership Team; Don Weems Ordination Anniversary;
African Chorus Community Partnership Choir Chicago Trip; Welcome, Confirmands!
May, 2007
Celebrate Our Saints!; Confirmation Sunday and Church Picnic; Psalm 150 Fund; What
it Takes to Be Ordained; The Green Team
April,
2007 Adult Ed: World Religions Forum; Damayanthi Niles Ordination Celebration;
Welcome New Members: theMcKowns, Helen Heimann & Lori Mills; Global Music Workshop;
Covenant Network Update
March,
2007 Singing the Psalms in Lent; Musical Highlights in Lent and Easter;
Introducing Trinity's New Interim Minister of Christian Education; Stories from
the Adult Mission Trip to New Orleans;
February,
2007 Reverberations Concert Series Continues; Family Super Bowl Party; God's
Child Project; Re-Member Ambassador at Trinity; Reports from the Equipping Summit;
"God Sightings" From the Organ Bench
January,
2007 Tuesday Evening Bible Study; Adult Education Book Studies; Confirmation
Class Miracles; Why a Peace Prayer?; Welcome New Members: Anna Gardner-Andrews and
Chriss Moffatt, Nancy Lang, Bonnie McFarland and Brad Roy, Larry and Elaine Pontious;
Rachel Presti
December,
2006 Advent at Trinity; January Mission Trip to New Orleans; Senior High
Mission Trip; Walking in Partnership: the Anderson-Littles; Continuing Our Adventure:
Barb & Tim Rand; Adult Education Book Groups;
November,
2006 Scholin Memorial Organ Rededication; The Privilege of Stewardship;
World Religions Roundtable; Let's Meet Julie March, Minister of Equipping!; Meet
our New Members: Leo and Lois Eason; Katrina One Year Later: Mission
Not
Accomplished; New Space - New Grace
October,
2006 An Inconvenient Truth; Reverberations - Season 2; Our Organ is Returning!
Crystalizing Stewardship; Meet Clarisa Valdivia; Katrina One Year Later: Mission
Not Accomplished; Ann Weems Receives Peaceseeker Award
September,
2006 Exciting Fall Developments; "Circles of Peace; Point/Counterpoint:
Worshipping in the Basement vs. the Sanctuary; X Marks Trinity's One Trip Caring
Spot; A Place Apart: Holden Village; Christian Caregiving: Practical Life Issues
on Aging and Relating; Trinity's Minister of Christian Education: Karen Coletti
August,
2006 Meet Trinity's New Church Administrator;
An Evening of Camaraderie
Hosted by Trinity's MCU Core Team; Musical Notes; Senior High Mission Trip 2006
- Meeting Ground - Earleville, Maryland
July, 2006
Summertime and the Livin' Is... Full of Opportunity: Join in the Music; Financial
Updates; Welcome, Confirmands; Metropolitan Congregations United News; Presbyterian
Moderator Elected
June, 2006
Summer Worship; Senior High Mission Trip; Psalm 150 Fund; Musical Opportunities;
Children's Choir of Benin; Presbyterian Disaster Assistance; Thank You, Organ (Fund)
Donors; Welcome, New Members: Lori Damon, Jayne Howard, Henry Schmidt; Ethan Pfeifer;
Scholin-Weems Scholarship Recipients
May, 2006
Confirmation Day May 21, and Picnic Too; Reverberations Concert - May 8; Eastertide
Worship Highlights; 15th Annual Interfaith Music Festival; Gather with The Gathering;
"Out of Chaos, Hope": Reflections from the Luling, LA Mission Trip Team
April,
2006 The Greatest Story Ever... Lived; Worship After Easter: Trading Spaces;
"The Singing Thing"; One Great Hour of Sharing; Welcome New Members!: Rhonda Dunbar,
Cheryl, Reed, Quinn and Hanna Evans; The View from Christian Education;
special April 1 web-only Trinity News flash
March,
2006 Awakening in Lent; Faith, Business and the Law; Prayer Ministry; Six
Wednesdays in Lent - Tim Rand's fasting experience; Adult Mission Trip: March 26
- April 1; Summer at Ghost Ranch - "Let Our World Change Your World"; Music in Eastertide;
Organ Fundraising Team Update; Welcome, New Members!: Nancy Potter, the Jeters
February,
2006 Elegant Dinner Mission Trip Fundraiser; Equipping Ministry; Reverberations
Concert Series; Faith and Science: A Follow-up Discussion; Hurricane Relief Update;
A Journey to Dresden
November,
2005 Circles of Faith; November Adult Education; Blessing of the Animals;
Music Notes; Welcome New Members: Lisa Bernhard and Beth Martin; Katrina Update;
A Journey of Hope: Nancy Wagoner walks for the Komen Foundation; Summer Retreat
and the Poet-Tree
September,
2005 Hurricane Katrina; Coming This Fall at a Presbyterian Church Near You...;
Organ "Fun-Raiser"; Join in the Music This Fall; What Dan Did (and Learned) on His
Summer Vacation; Trinity Bids Janet Chester Farewell; Nursery News
August,
2005 Fellowship Retreat; Stewardship "Circles" Around; MCU Listening Campaign
Begins; Contribution and Book Station in Dining Room; Welcome, Confirmands!; Scholin-Weems
Scholarships; Summer in the Catacombs; Betty Burnett's Summer Reading Recommendations
July, 2005
Mission Trip Memories; Janet Chester Moves to Texas; Habitat for Humanity Opportunity;
Donate Your Cell Phone to RAVEN; Food Pantry Update; Join in the Music!; Keith Fischer
Honored;
June, 2005
Worship As Invitation; Senior High Mission Trip & Montreat Youth Conference; Summer
Musical Opportunities; Organ "Fun Raiser"; Stories from the Adult Mission Trip to
Juarez; Fellowship in the Narthex; Dan at the Bread Company
May, 2005
Confirmation Sunday: Come Celebrate!; Organ Renovation Campaign; "Moral Values"
in Action; Claire Santoro Named Presidential Scholars Semi-Finalist; Support the
Search for a Breast Cancer Cure; Focus on Mission: What are
You Up To?;
April,
2005
Special Musical Events in April; Preaching about Moral Values in the Easter Season;
Trinity Considers Joining Metropolitan Congregations United; "Almost Cinco de Mayo";
Sermon Feedback Sessions; Faith and Science
March,
2005
Holy Week; One Great Hour of Sharing; Poetry by Nancy Wagner; What's Up Downstairs?;
I'm an O.K., You're an O.K.; Welcome New Members: The Stephens-Pfeiffer family &
the Wysessions; Clapping in Church
February,
2005
Lent: Hungering for God; Souper Bowl; Elegant Night Out; A Unique Voice: Organ Renovation
Campaign; Welcome the Biggs Family; The Congregational Community Commission; Thank
You, Ushers!
December,
2004
Celebrate Advent at Trinity; Credo: Words That Challenge And Inspire!; Adult Spring
Mission Trip to Mexico; Care and Counseling Office Re-Opens; CSC Charities For Children;
Jan/Feb 2004 Adult Education
November,
2004
WTPC: "Member-Supported Mission"; Advent Previews; Music-Centered Small Group; Adult
Spring Mission Trip to Mexico; Service Opportunities
the WORD: Montreat and Triennium Youth Trips
October,
2004
The Top Line is the Bottom Line; Spring Mission Trip - For Adults!; Fall Education
Events; All Church Fiesta; Hat Day; Cahoons ride the MS150; October Music; Another
Great Habitat Story
September,
2004
Rally Day; Imaging the Word; Fall Adult Ed, Children's Ed & Worship Highlights;
Welcome Brad Bradbury, the Deitz family, Bill Petty & Jim Atchison; What the
Youth Did This Summer; Mieke Vandersall Ordained
August,
2004
the WORD: 2004 Juarez, Mexico Mission Trip Edition
July, 2004
Church and Community Update; Betty Burnett: A Life With Words; Have You Met Trinity's
Soloists?: Laura Brady, Omen Safavi and Amanda Meinen; Intergenerational Bible School:
August 21-22; Two Poems by Nancy Wagner
June, 2004
Our New Sound System; Presbyterian With a Cause?!; Scholin-Weems Scholarships; Senior
High Mission Trip to Juarez; A Love Story; Summer Music at Trinity; 2004 Confirmation;
Twinkies & Root Beer; Hospice Volunteer Training
May, 2004
Worship Survey Results; Joyful Noises!; Looking at Social Justice Issues; Paul Vasile
in Italy; Barb Rand in Peru; David Rand on Division Street; Restoring Lives at the
Independence Center
April,
2004
Deacons - Helping Hands and Hearts; One Great Hour Of Sharing - A Peru Connection;
New Members: Damayanthi Niles, Colleen Osborn, the Schindlers; Neighbors: welcoming
the Bantus;
We Are Presbytery
March,
2004
Lent - Growing in Faith; Small Group Fair March 7; Youth Services Begin; 2004 Session
Commission and Team Assignments; Help Our Church Grow
February,
2004
Looking Ahead to 2004; Souper Bowl Sunday; The Fabric of Our Faith - The Tapestry
is Finished!; Spring Concerts; Christian Ed / Adult Ed; 50 Years Ago...
December,
2003
Prepare Ye the Way of the Lord; 50th Anniversary Celebration Draws to a Close; Mission
Trip / Montreat Dedication Cards; "Happily Ever After" by Roberta McBride; "Recollections:
Kingshighway, 1950" by Norma Vavra; Learning to be a Team Player; New Members: Daniel
Haeusser, Kim Martin, Lynn and Evan Reid, Colette Scott, Diane Young;
November,
2003
Homecoming; Stewardship is not Fund Raising; Want the Best Job at Church?; Thanksgiving
Opportunity; "The Totally Excellent Chicken Mission"; Celebrations - Featuring Advent
& Christmas
October,
2003
African Music Workshop; World Communion Sunday; Peacemaking Offering; Trinity Homecoming;
50 Years Ago...; Anna's Menagerie; How Does Our Fabric Grow?
September,
2003
Rally Day; DNA: Disciples 'N' Apostles; Shower of Stoles; Melodrama; Our "Life Cloth"
Grows; New Members: Luise Hoffman, Serfass family, Christopher Lutz and Jasman Norman,
The O'Bryan family, Vickie Jareo; Fall Adult Ed; African Music; What's Up Downstairs?
August,
2003
Steve Eulberg Concert; Handbell Day; OASIS Opportunity; Letter from Chuck Attarazdeh
in East Timor; Volunteer to Work with Refugee Settlement Program; DNA: Disciples
'N' Apostles
July, 2003
50th Anniversary Pentecost Worship & Street Fair; Bringing Values and Lifestyle
Together; Scholin/Weems Scholarships; Virginia Storer; Learning From Anna: As the
Underwear Whirls; Deacons' Meals
the WORD: 2003 Charleston, South Carolina Mission Trip Edition
June, 2003
50th Anniversary Kick-Off!: The Fabric of Our Faith; Welcome, Confirmands!; Summer
Musical Opportunities at Trinity; Orvieto and Orfeo: Paul Vasile's Italian Journeys
May, 2003
Transformed Lives
Transforming
the World; The 50th Anniversary Celebration is Coming!; Guess Who's Coming to Dinner
2; Standing On the Promises: Jim Shoemaker; The Ironies of War; Welcome Rachel Bowell,
Kevin Harkins, and Michael Krivonak
April,
2003
Holy Week at Trinity; One Great Hour of Sharing; Calling All Habitat Helpers; Liz
& Willy Childs' Ghost Ranch Adventure; Care And Counseling Benefit
March,
2003
Seasons of Contrast: Bright Joy of Mardi Gras / Somber Reflection of Lent; Deacons:
A Mission for All; Habitat House II; Trinity Joins the Covenant Network; Just Say
Yes: The Paul Devine Story; Vielen Danke!: Dimes for Dresden Goal Reached
February,
2003
Guess Who's Coming to Dinner!; New Member Michael Osborn; Care & Counseling;
Living Faithfully in a Pluralistic World; Discovering Our Spiritual Gifts
January,
2003
Covenant Network Discussion; Caregiver Resources for Elder Care; MLK Celebration
the WORD: The Senior High Youth: TA DA!!!
December,
2002
Letter From the Holy Land; Meet Michael Moran, Stacy Shupe, Jim Person, the Turners
& the Motes
November,
2002
Presbyterians raise voices against Iraq attack; 50 Years of Joy... 50 Years of Promise;
Rob Peglar's 9/11 Story
October,
2002
From Ethiopia With Love; Dresden Update; What's a "Steward" Anyway?; July 2002 Peacemaking
Conference Report