February 18th, 2026
by Brad Banks
by Brad Banks
Dear Trinity family,
Thank you so very much for all of your prayers over the past week. Today actually marks a week since Bree went into the hospital. Having several friends over the past few years who've been in a similar place with advanced cancer, it seems like hospital stays are a not uncommon part of the journey, but that doesn't make it any easier.
Right now, she is recovering from a procedure to hopefully deal with the fluid issue on her lung once and for all. If you are part of our prayer group (you can join on the app), you know that we are needing to make a decision between leaving the clinical trial and switching to a different medication or sticking with it, the potential being that if the trial isn't working, she'd effectively be going without treatment for a month. With as far as her disease has progressed, that's not ideal. Her doctors here would like her to switch. We are less inclined to want to give up. Please pray for wisdom for all involved.
At the same time, the work of the church continues! We still have small groups that meet during the week. We still meet for worship on Sundays. There are events upcoming such as a VBS planning meeting after worship this Sunday for those interested in being a part. We have the final Chosen screening a week from Friday (adults upstairs, kids downstairs), and our men's spaghetti and corn(hole) is the next night on the 28th.
I do want to draw your attention to our all-church retreat March 13-15. This is the single best event we do all year when it comes to community building. We have what I believe will be a great speaker on a very important topic (apologetics). The 36 hours or so that we're together is just flat-out fun, but what I can say with confidence is that you will leave knowing people better than when you came and that's worth everything. If you haven't yet, please consider signing up. Bree and I are still planning to be there and we hope to see you there as well. God bless.
In Christ
Pastor Brad
Thank you so very much for all of your prayers over the past week. Today actually marks a week since Bree went into the hospital. Having several friends over the past few years who've been in a similar place with advanced cancer, it seems like hospital stays are a not uncommon part of the journey, but that doesn't make it any easier.
Right now, she is recovering from a procedure to hopefully deal with the fluid issue on her lung once and for all. If you are part of our prayer group (you can join on the app), you know that we are needing to make a decision between leaving the clinical trial and switching to a different medication or sticking with it, the potential being that if the trial isn't working, she'd effectively be going without treatment for a month. With as far as her disease has progressed, that's not ideal. Her doctors here would like her to switch. We are less inclined to want to give up. Please pray for wisdom for all involved.
At the same time, the work of the church continues! We still have small groups that meet during the week. We still meet for worship on Sundays. There are events upcoming such as a VBS planning meeting after worship this Sunday for those interested in being a part. We have the final Chosen screening a week from Friday (adults upstairs, kids downstairs), and our men's spaghetti and corn(hole) is the next night on the 28th.
I do want to draw your attention to our all-church retreat March 13-15. This is the single best event we do all year when it comes to community building. We have what I believe will be a great speaker on a very important topic (apologetics). The 36 hours or so that we're together is just flat-out fun, but what I can say with confidence is that you will leave knowing people better than when you came and that's worth everything. If you haven't yet, please consider signing up. Bree and I are still planning to be there and we hope to see you there as well. God bless.
In Christ
Pastor Brad
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