Trinity Evangelical Lutheran Church

05/31/2026

Come hear God's word. It's in you.

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05/29/2026

Last Sunday, on Pentecost Sunday, we got to celebrate Kaz's confirmation. After graduating from confirmation class, Kaz stood up in front of the congregation and affirmed the faith given to him by the Holy Spirit, which is the same Spirit Jesus breathed on the disciples when they were hiding from the world in a locked room. What a day to be a witness to the Spirit working in his life!🕊✨

05/25/2026

Remember, give thanks, and ask for forgiveness.

Join us in remembrance and prayer this Memorial Day.

Remember, mourn and give thanks for those in the military who gave their lives for justice, peace and the freedom of our country and all nations. Pray for the safety of those currently serving in the military and for the well-being of their families. —Prayer Ventures

05/24/2026

Come celebrate the Holy Spirit.

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05/17/2026

Come to the One who prays for your wellbeing,

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05/15/2026

Need a refresh before Monday hits?

Join us this Sunday evening for 30 minutes of prayer, music, and Holy Communion. Come as you are, and leave ready for the week ahead. ✨️🙏

05/14/2026

Today is Ascension Day. The day in which the church commentates the risen Jesus leaving our earth and returning back to God. We know that goodbyes can be tough. Let Jan Richardson’s words and art accompany you on your journey.

On this Ascension Day, I am struck all over again by how, in Luke’s account of the Ascension, he tells us that as Jesus is leaving the disciples—and the earthly life (and death, and life) he has known with them—he blesses them. With this last gesture, this final word, Jesus acknowledges that blessing and leaving are deeply bound together, and that love somehow endures within every aching distance that happens in this life.

This is a wondrous and difficult grace.

Jesus is not trying to sugarcoat his leaving. He is not giving his beloved disciples a blessing as a consolation prize for having come through these wild years with him, only to see him go. Instead, with this blessing, Jesus shows that the substance of grief is also the substance of love. They are made of the same stuff. If we can stay with both the grief and the love, the love will become more clear, and more clarifying. In time, it will show us the way to go.

BLESSING THE DISTANCE

It is a mystery to me
how as the distance
between us grows,
the larger this blessing
becomes,

as if the shape of it
depends on absence,
as if it finds its form
not by what
it can cling to
but by the space
that arcs
between us.

As this blessing
makes its way,
first it will cease
to measure itself
by time.

Then it will release
how attached it has become
to this place
where we have lived,
where we have learned
to know one another
in proximity and
presence.

Next this blessing
will abandon
the patterns
in which it moved,
the habits that helped it
recognize itself,
the familiar pathways
it traced.

Finally this blessing
will touch its fingers
to your brow,
your eyes,
your mouth;
it will hold
your beloved face
in both its hands,

and then
it will let you go;
it will loose you
into your life;
it will leave
each hindering thing

until all that breathes
between us
is blessing
and all that beats
between us
is grace.

—Jan Richardson
from Circle of Grace: A Book of Blessings for the Seasons
janrichardson.com/books

Image: "Ascension II"
© Jan Richardson
janrichardsonimages.com

(Blessing & image inspired by Luke 24:44-53.)

05/11/2026

A Mother's Day message from Vicar Tanja for every heart, wherever it is today ✨

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