Trinity Sunward Park

17/08/2022

Hi all, it's been a while but we're back. This month is women's month, and as part of our service to women in our community, we are hosting a Women's Conference. This amazing event will be hosted by Trinity Community church on 1st October 2022, starting at 9:30. Our special guest speaker has been speaking at Conferences for over 30 years. Expect to be entertained, challenged and ministered to. Please see our attached poster with all the information. Register and pay by 12 September as seats are limited.

02/03/2022

Fasting from injustice
58 Shout loudly; don’t hold back;
raise your voice like a trumpet!
Announce to my people their crime,
to the house of Jacob their sins.
2 They seek me day after day,
desiring knowledge of my ways
like a nation that acted righteously,
that didn’t abandon their God.
They ask me for righteous judgments,
wanting to be close to God.
3 “Why do we fast and you don’t see;
why afflict ourselves and you don’t notice?”
Yet on your fast day you do whatever you want,
and oppress all your workers.
4 You quarrel and brawl, and then you fast;
you hit each other violently with your fists.
You shouldn’t fast as you are doing today
if you want to make your voice heard on high.
5 Is this the kind of fast I choose,
a day of self-affliction,
of bending one’s head like a reed
and of lying down in mourning clothing and ashes?
Is this what you call a fast,
a day acceptable to the Lord?

6 Isn’t this the fast I choose:
releasing wicked restraints, untying the ropes of a yoke,
setting free the mistreated,
and breaking every yoke?
7 Isn’t it sharing your bread with the hungry
and bringing the homeless poor into your house,
covering the naked when you see them,
and not hiding from your own family?
8 Then your light will break out like the dawn,
and you will be healed quickly.
Your own righteousness will walk before you,
and the Lord’s glory will be your rear guard.
9 Then you will call, and the Lord will answer;
you will cry for help, and God will say, “I’m here.”
If you remove the yoke from among you,
the finger-pointing, the wicked speech;
10 if you open your heart to the hungry,
and provide abundantly for those who are afflicted,
your light will shine in the darkness,
and your gloom will be like the noon.
11 The Lord will guide you continually
and provide for you, even in parched places.
He will rescue your bones.
You will be like a watered garden,
like a spring of water that won’t run dry.
12 They will rebuild ancient ruins on your account;
the foundations of generations past you will restore.
You will be called Mender of Broken Walls,
Restorer of Livable Streets.

02/03/2022

02/03/2022

Psalm 51

1 Have mercy on me, O God,
according to your steadfast love;
according to your abundant mercy
blot out my transgressions.
2 Wash me thoroughly from my iniquity,
and cleanse me from my sin.

3 For I know my transgressions,
and my sin is ever before me.
4 Against you, you alone, have I sinned,
and done what is evil in your sight,
so that you are justified in your sentence
and blameless when you pass judgement.
5 Indeed, I was born guilty,
a sinner when my mother conceived me.

6 You desire truth in the inward being;
therefore teach me wisdom in my secret heart.
7 Purge me with hyssop, and I shall be clean;
wash me, and I shall be whiter than snow.
8 Let me hear joy and gladness;
let the bones that you have crushed rejoice.
9 Hide your face from my sins,
and blot out all my iniquities.

10 Create in me a clean heart, O God,
and put a new and right spirit within me.
11 Do not cast me away from your presence,
and do not take your holy spirit from me.
12 Restore to me the joy of your salvation,
and sustain in me a willing spirit.

13 Then I will teach transgressors your ways,
and sinners will return to you.
14 Deliver me from bloodshed, O God,
O God of my salvation,
and my tongue will sing aloud of your deliverance.

15 O Lord, open my lips,
and my mouth will declare your praise.
16 For you have no delight in sacrifice;
if I were to give a burnt-offering, you would not be pleased.
17 The sacrifice acceptable to God is a broken spirit;
a broken and contrite heart, O God, you will not despise.

18 Do good to Zion in your good pleasure;
rebuild the walls of Jerusalem,
19 then you will delight in right sacrifices,
in burnt-offerings and whole burnt-offerings;
then bulls will be offered on your altar.
(NRSV)

01/03/2022

Our Bible readings for tomorrow are:
Isaiah 58:1-12
Psalm 51
2 Corinthians 5:20b-6:10
Matthew 6:1-6 and 16-21

As both services will include the Isaiah and Psalm readings, we will include the full readings here tomorrow.

01/03/2022

Greetings to all our friends at Trinity and beyond. Tomorrow is the start of Lent as we embark on a journey with one another and God. There will be two Ash Wednesday Services tomorrow here at Trinity; the first one will be at 9:30, and the second one at 18:30. We do hope to see you there.

16/02/2022

Our readings for this week are:
Genesis 45:3-11 & 15
Psalm 37:1-11, 39-40
1 Corinthians 15:35-38, 42-50
Luke 6:27-38

24/01/2022

Today, in history, the following happened:

On today's date, in 1957, the Wham-O toy company rolled out the first batch of what they called "aerodynamic plastic discs." Today, these discs are fondly called Frisbees by fans all over the world.

It also seems as if today belongs to women. At a graduation ceremony at a church in Geneva, New York on January 23, Elizabeth Blackwell, received her Medical Degree, the first U.S. women to receive one. Despite opposition of her fellow students and Medical Professionals, Blackwell pursued her calling with an iron will and dedicated her life to treating the sick and furthering the cause of women in medicine.

And another lady:
On this day, Madeleine Albright was sworn in as America’s first female secretary of state. She was the highest ranking female official in U.S. history, despite the fact that she was born in Czechoslovakia.

24/01/2022

Good morning friends. The readings for our week, and our Sunday ahead are:
Jeremiah 1: 4-10
Psalm 71: 1-6
1 Corinthians 13: 1-13
Luke 4: 21-30

22/01/2022

Our theme for tomorrow morning is "A mission to light our way."
Our reading will be from Luke 4: 14-21. As you prepare for the service, we invite you to read the passage prayerfully.

Then Jesus, in the power of the Spirit, returned to Galilee, and a report about him spread through all the surrounding region. He began to teach in their synagogues and was praised by everyone. When he came to Nazareth, where he had been brought up, he went to the synagogue on the Sabbath day, as was his custom. He stood up to read, and the scroll of the prophet Isaiah was given to him. He unrolled the scroll and found the place where it was written:
“The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because he has anointed me to bring good news to the poor. He has sent me to proclaim release to the captives and recovery of sight to the blind, to set free those who are oppressed, to proclaim the year of the Lord’s favour.”
And he rolled up the scroll, gave it back to the attendant, and sat down. The eyes of all in the synagogue were fixed on him. Then he began to say to them, “Today this scripture has been fulfilled in your hearing.”

21/01/2022

This coming Sunday is the third Sunday in Epiphany. Our readings are: Nehemiah 8: 1-3, 5-6 & 8-10
Psalm 19
1 Corinthians 12: 12-31a
Luke 4: 14-21