Trinity Lutheran Church of Manhattan/Iglesia Luterana Trinidad

Trinity Lutheran Church of Manhattan/Iglesia Luterana Trinidad Sundays: 11am English Worship, and some English/Spanish bilingual services Welcome! We’re glad you found us!

Trinity is a growing, diverse, imaginative, justice-seeking community of faith on Manhattan’s Upper West Side. We are delighted to welcome you, wherever you are in your spiritual journey. Our worship embraces the varied voices that make up our congregation from the very youngest to the oldest and everyone in between. We gather to welcome all as Christ has welcomed us, without reserve or judgment.

We are a Reconciling in Christ congregation which means that LGBTQ persons are fully welcome in all aspects of our life and work. We enjoy great music of many styles, wonderful preaching, delicious food and caring companionship. We invite you to join us in the wild belief that with God and one another we can make a difference. Join us on the sacred journey towards a better church and a better world!

The World Cup has officially kicked off across North America, and soccer fever is taking over the city. We put together ...
06/14/2026

The World Cup has officially kicked off across North America, and soccer fever is taking over the city. We put together a few trivia facts of our own, that may or may not be true, you be the judge:

• Most WC Titles: Brazil, with a staggering 5 World Cup trophies.

• Most WC Individual Goals: Germany’s Miroslav Klose, with 16 career tournament goals.

• Highest Scoring WC Game: A wild 12-goal thriller in 1954 where Austria beat Switzerland 7-5.

• Most Talented Roster in History: That would be Jesus and the 12 apostles in 30 AD. He recruited a full side and 1 substitute, and coached them to the ultimate victory over death: Eternal Life.

The moral of the story? The beautiful game is great, but the ultimate roster is already set—and your name is on it. See you at 11:00 AM in our West 100th Street seats or live right from your living room sofa!

GOOOOOOOOOOOOOAAAAAALLLLLLLLLL!


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https://www.facebook.com/TLCofNYC/
YOUTUBE:
http://tinyurl.com/TLCofNYCYouTube

The Summer Day Camp Countdown is ON!! 73 days and counting :) Join us for our first Day Camp fundraiser tomorrow morning...
06/13/2026

The Summer Day Camp Countdown is ON!! 73 days and counting :)

Join us for our first Day Camp fundraiser tomorrow morning!

A church building is just a shell. The real church is a living, breathing ecosystem. Just like a forest depends on new s...
06/12/2026

A church building is just a shell. The real church is a living, breathing ecosystem. Just like a forest depends on new saplings to thrive, or a field relies on seasonal crops to stay fertile, a community only stays alive by constantly renewing.

To wit: a few weeks ago, Trinity welcomed the three beloveds you see below: Tim Bergeland, Daniel Wilson, and Joanne Ahola. We’ve been running so fast keeping up with the busy calendar that we are just now getting a chance to give them their proper digital standing ovation! So welcome, bienvenido, wilkommen!

Trinity doesn’t invite people in so we can prune them into matching topiaries. They are exactly who God made them to be—vibrant, unique, and necessary. By welcoming one and all just as they are, the collective “we” breathes with diversity, and expands as far as our shared experiences can take us. By bringing their authentic selves, we can be the true body of believers that God intended us to be.

Whether you’ve been sitting in our pews since we opened in 1912, or you are looking for a place to finally take root, our welcome mats always have your name on it. Come find your village or your voice this Sunday at 11:00 AM in our West 100th Street seats or your living room sofa.



FACEBOOK:
https://www.facebook.com/TLCofNYC/
YOUTUBE:
http://tinyurl.com/TLCofNYCYouTube

Funny enough, if you type “BECKY SHAW’ into google, all these prompts show up. The top one being “How does Becky Shaw En...
06/08/2026

Funny enough, if you type “BECKY SHAW’ into google, all these prompts show up. The top one being “How does Becky Shaw End?” So please, allow me to AI answer that:

“…Becky Shaw ends with Alden Ehrenreich clutching a Tony Award for Best Featured Actor, the play Becky Shaw being a living breathing THRIVING Broadway moment, and our own (the two and only) Gina Gionfriddo and Ava being all NY cool on the Red Carpet last night."

There’s something special about these people, there’s something special about this place. There’s something special about you. So let’s just all get together and figure special out.

SUNDAY FUN FACTS: Today, sports bars across New York are praying for a Knicks victory tomorrow night, the Knicks being u...
06/07/2026

SUNDAY FUN FACTS: Today, sports bars across New York are praying for a Knicks victory tomorrow night, the Knicks being up 2 games to NIL and the game coming back to the Temple Of Basketball, MSG. But did you know the scriptures actually predicted the NY Knickerbockers (look it up, newbie, that’s their official name) 2026 NBA Finals win thousands of years ago?

I’ll leave the irrefutable, completely-not-manipulated biblical scouting report down below. And then I hope to see you in person or online at 11 a.m. today to celebrate the real GOAT:

• The Orange and Blue Mandate (Exodus 27:16): The text explicitly orders the very first holy tabernacle court to be styled in "fine twined linen, and blue, and scarlet." Mix scarlet with divine light, and what do you get? Orange. Blue and Orange. Patrick Ewing says Amen.

• The Lightning from the East (Matthew 24:27): "For as the lightning comes from the east and shines as far as the west..." This is a direct prophetic shot at the Western Conference and their insufferable, backwater representative- the Spurs. Yahweh CLEARLY states that the true, striking power of the league resides strictly in the Eastern Conference, 32nd and 7th Ave, thank you very much.

• The Three-Point Rainmaker (Psalm 11:6): King David accurately visualized the current postseason when he wrote, "He will rain down burning coals... a scorching wind will be their lot." This is an obvious ancient description of Miles "Deuce" McBride coming off the bench to rain down uncontested, nothing-but-net three-pointers until the opposing defense is completely scorched, wilted and useless.

Whether you're praying for a Brunson buzzer-beater or just need a little extra grace to get through the week, we’ve got a court-side seat saved for you. See you at 11 a.m., online or in person. And always remember, it’s a fine, fine, never better week to be a New Yorker.

FACEBOOK:
https://www.facebook.com/TLCofNYC/
YOUTUBE:
http://tinyurl.com/TLCofNYCYouTube

We need to see your Shayna Punim in person or online this Sunday (every Sunday!) at 11 a.m. And normally we spend this t...
06/05/2026

We need to see your Shayna Punim in person or online this Sunday (every Sunday!) at 11 a.m. And normally we spend this time and space talking about this week’s readings. But bear with us for a second, because this week we are turning our focus to some extra special prayers for one of Trinity Lutheran’s beloveds: the absurdly talented Gina Gionfriddo.

Gina is the brilliant playwright behind the hit Broadway show "Becky Shaw," at the Hayes Theater. The production is up for 2 Tonys, including Best Revival of a Play. The New York Stage Review called her script a "marvelous piece of writing" that is both "perceptive" and "brutally funny." We couldn't be more proud, she couldn’t be more deserving.

But we aren’t supposed to pray for a specific result—like a Tony statue—according to the venerable Msgr. Aloysius Schwartz: "When you pray…You should ask for the light to see the will of God, and you have to ask for the courage to be able to do the will of God." I guess that’s why I haven’t hit the lottery yet, but I digress.

So instead of praying for a trophy, we’re going to turn to a prayer of thanksgiving as a modest way of influencing the Tony voting:

“Dear God, fan of stage and screen that You are, we give thanks that Gina writes intriguing, fluid dialogue. We give thanks that she creates complex characters that can be hesitantly endearing or attractively despicable. We give thanks that her actors made the characters very real, sometimes frighteningly so. Very importantly, Lord, we give thanks upon thanks that Nathan Lane doesn’t need another Tony Award, and really, there’s been four iterations of Death of a Salesman over the last decade anyway. How many times must we mourn W***y Loman already? Anyway, the end result seems obvious to us (wink wink), but we’ll leave that in your all-knowing hands. Amen.”

We are so proud of Gina and her daughter Ava, and celebrate the fact that she is one of our many souls in this unique, beautiful, talented, and gracious community. Bring home the hardware, Gina, we’ll build the book shelves.

See you Sunday at 11 a.m., 70 minute running time, no intermission, bread and wine are always free:

FACEBOOK:
https://www.facebook.com/TLCofNYC/
YOUTUBE:
http://tinyurl.com/TLCofNYCYouTube

SUNDAY FUN FACTS: New York history looms large on May 31. Check out this curated list—the most important, of course, bei...
05/31/2026

SUNDAY FUN FACTS: New York history looms large on May 31. Check out this curated list—the most important, of course, being the last:

- 1911: The RMS Titanic is launched in Belfast. It was eventually scheduled to dock at Pier 59 on the Hudson. We're still waiting on that arrival.

- 1819: Poet and inveterate Brooklynite Walt Whitman is born. Go step on some grass today to honor the man who taught us to celebrate our own bodies and souls.

- 1990: The first episode of Seinfeld airs, formally cementing the myth that New Yorkers live a life "about nothing" to everyone who has never actually visited the five boroughs

- .2026: We get to see your beautiful faces (or digital avatars) at our 11:00 AM service. Whether online or in person, you reinforce the fact that we are all part of a truly Magnificent Humanity .Can’t wait to see you! Join us:

FACEBOOK: https://www.facebook.com/TLCofNYC/
YOUTUBE: http://tinyurl.com/TLCofNYCYouTube

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