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Blessed New Year Trinity,
By the time you are reading this we will be almost three weeks into the year 2023. So let me ask you how is it with your soul? What are your hopes and goals for the year 2023? I have spent a lot of time thinking and praying for our church as we head into this new year and what my hope is for us as a church over this year. This year it is my hope that we are the most Christ like we have ever been. I want this year to be a year filled with moments of extending the grace, hope and love that we have been gifted through Christ not only to each other but into our community. I want this year to be steeped in the knowledge that as we have been so freely given we have been called to give. It is my hope that we become so well known for being on fire and blazing with the passion and love of Jesus Christ that people would start sending us fire extinguishers. I want this year to be a year of walking with purpose and trusting that the Lord is ordering our footsteps.
So I ask you again? What are your hopes and dreams for Trinity UMC as we head into this new year of 2023? I want you to share them with me and with your Servant Council Leadership. Maybe you have a passion that is burning deep within you? Share them with us. It only takes one match to strike a flame. What if you are the match God is waiting on? What is holding you back from saying yes? Yes to being used by God in a way that excites you and a way that will get others on board and excited as well.
Do not remember the former things
or consider the things of old.
19 I am about to do a new thing;
now it springs forth; do you not perceive it?
I will make a way in the wilderness
and rivers in the desert. Isaiah 43:18-19
Don’t allow fear to stop you from dreaming because God has called you and will use you if you are faithful to follow. Looking forward to a year filled with possibilities and dreams being fulfilled. While the many are reached with the Love and Hope of Christ. I’m excited are You?!?!?
Enjoying the Journey & Blessed New Year to You All
Pastor Kayla
By the time you are reading this we will be almost three weeks into the year 2023. So let me ask you how is it with your soul? What are your hopes and goals for the year 2023? I have spent a lot of time thinking and praying for our church as we head into this new year and what my hope is for us as a church over this year. This year it is my hope that we are the most Christ like we have ever been. I want this year to be a year filled with moments of extending the grace, hope and love that we have been gifted through Christ not only to each other but into our community. I want this year to be steeped in the knowledge that as we have been so freely given we have been called to give. It is my hope that we become so well known for being on fire and blazing with the passion and love of Jesus Christ that people would start sending us fire extinguishers. I want this year to be a year of walking with purpose and trusting that the Lord is ordering our footsteps.
So I ask you again? What are your hopes and dreams for Trinity UMC as we head into this new year of 2023? I want you to share them with me and with your Servant Council Leadership. Maybe you have a passion that is burning deep within you? Share them with us. It only takes one match to strike a flame. What if you are the match God is waiting on? What is holding you back from saying yes? Yes to being used by God in a way that excites you and a way that will get others on board and excited as well.
Do not remember the former things
or consider the things of old.
19 I am about to do a new thing;
now it springs forth; do you not perceive it?
I will make a way in the wilderness
and rivers in the desert. Isaiah 43:18-19
Don’t allow fear to stop you from dreaming because God has called you and will use you if you are faithful to follow. Looking forward to a year filled with possibilities and dreams being fulfilled. While the many are reached with the Love and Hope of Christ. I’m excited are You?!?!?
Enjoying the Journey & Blessed New Year to You All
Pastor Kayla
Dear Trinity!
I know many have either asked or may be wondering what is the plan for this weekend with the predicted weather we have coming for us. Well at this moment nothing has changed with our worship plans. As Mike Burroughs told the Servant Council last night it's just too early to tell and we don't want to end up looking silly for a premature cancellation. So once again as of this moment nothing has changed in our worship plans. However I do want you to know that we are paying attention and if things change in our worship service plans here is how you will know.
There will be an email sent out to everyone on our weekly email list. If you are not connected to the email updates please call the office 574-936-2519 and give office secretary Krstina your most current email address. The same notice will be posted on our social media Plymouth Trinity UMC on facebook. We will also report our closings to WNDU 16 and WSBT 22. So those are the two channels you can check for closing information.
God willing and the snow don't rise. We will see you tomorrow at 7:30 for our Blue Christmas Service, Christmas Eve at 4 & 9 PM for Christmas Eve Service and Christmas Day at 10 AM.
Enjoying the journey... even when it's cold.
Pastor Kayla
I know many have either asked or may be wondering what is the plan for this weekend with the predicted weather we have coming for us. Well at this moment nothing has changed with our worship plans. As Mike Burroughs told the Servant Council last night it's just too early to tell and we don't want to end up looking silly for a premature cancellation. So once again as of this moment nothing has changed in our worship plans. However I do want you to know that we are paying attention and if things change in our worship service plans here is how you will know.
There will be an email sent out to everyone on our weekly email list. If you are not connected to the email updates please call the office 574-936-2519 and give office secretary Krstina your most current email address. The same notice will be posted on our social media Plymouth Trinity UMC on facebook. We will also report our closings to WNDU 16 and WSBT 22. So those are the two channels you can check for closing information.
God willing and the snow don't rise. We will see you tomorrow at 7:30 for our Blue Christmas Service, Christmas Eve at 4 & 9 PM for Christmas Eve Service and Christmas Day at 10 AM.
Enjoying the journey... even when it's cold.
Pastor Kayla
Greetings Trinity,
On this Veterans Day I want to express my gratitude to each and every veteran who so bravely has served our country. Personally within my own family I always give thanks for my Grandfather Jim who served in the Army during the Vietnam War and my Stepfather Bill who served also in the Army during the Korean war. Hearing their stories and seeing pictures from their time in the service gives me a deep sense of gratitude for them and all of our service men and women. That gratitude also extends to the sacrifices they have made and continue to make for our country.
This year as November 11th approached I bring our attention again to a prayer found within our Book of Worship 542 For Those in Military Service.
Righteous God, you rule the nations.
Guard brave men and women in military service.
Give them compassion for those who confront them as enemies.
Keep our children from hate that hardens,
or from scorekeeping with human lives.
Though for a season they must be people of war,
let them live for peace, as eager for agreement as for victory.
Encourage them as they encourage one another,
and never let hard duty separate them from loyalty to your Son,
our Savior, Jesus Christ. Amen.
(PRESBYTERIAN WORSHIPBOOK, U.S.A., 20TH CENT., ALT)
Within the scriptures and this prayer we are reminded that we are to be a people of peace and while we know our world is not a world of peace it is something we can all strive to be better at becoming. As we honor and thank all of our veterans for their service to our country may we all remember and celebrate the good news of God's grace and the love that manifest in Jesus Christ, Prince of Peace, Lord and Savior of the world, in whom all the creation is redeemed and is to be restored for the glory of God.
O almighty God and most merciful Father, as we remember these your servants, remembering with gratitude their courage and strength, we hold before you those who mourn them. Look upon your bereaved servants with your mercy. As this day brings them memories of those they have lost awhile, may it also bring your consolation and the assurance that their loved ones are alive now and forever in your living presence.
(United Methodist Book of Worship 625)
Grace & Peace & Gratitude
Pastor Kayla