06/01/2026
Yesterday, as we celebrated Trinity’s 30th anniversary, I found myself watching the children—and more than a few adults—running across the lawn with that unselfconscious joy that only comes when a community feels like home. There were games, laughter, shared food, and the kind of fellowship that can only grow over years of praying, serving, and walking with one another. It struck me that what we were witnessing wasn’t just a picnic. It was a living picture of what Paul describes in Romans 4: a people formed by promise, gathered by grace, and sustained by a hope that outlives every season.
This coming Sunday we will reflect on Abraham’s faith—a faith that trusted God to bring life out of barrenness and to call into existence things that were not. What struck me yesterday is how that same pattern has shaped our own parish story. Thirty years ago, Holy Trinity Anglican Church existed only as a hope, a seed of faith planted in the hearts of a few believers. There was no building, no established ministries, no certainty about what the future would hold. And yet, like Abraham, they (and some of you) trusted that God could bring something beautiful into being. And He did just that.
Every bit of laughter at the picnic, every child chasing a ball flying across the grass from a bad volleyball serve, every conversation under the shade of the pavilion was a testimony to God’s faithfulness over these three decades. We are here because God keeps His promises. We are here because grace does what the Law cannot—grace creates, renews, and gathers. We are here because, like Abraham, generations of believers before us chose to hope against hope.
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