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...  Read More

Dear Trinity family,It's a little over a month before our all-church retreat on March 13-15 @ Camp Spofford and I have some information for you.First, our retreat speaker. Joe Shea serves as the Pastor of First Congregational Church of North Brookfield, MA, having also been a campus missionary @ Worcester State University and Nichols College. Joe will be covering topics such as the authority of Sc...  Read More

Dear Trinity family,Several years ago, I was in a meeting that included a staff person from Athletes in Action, Cru's ministry to those involved in sports on both the college and professional level. This particular individual was the chaplain for the (then) Cleveland Indians and Cleveland Browns. Not that it should have but those two things made me listen a bit more intently than I may have otherw...  Read More

Dear Trinity family,I'll say a little more about this on Sunday, but it was SUCH a joy watching our youth return from Deep Freeze seeing their excitement (and exhaustion) having built all these shared memories and inside jokes and moments that as a parent, you just knew you'd only begin to be able to understand. If I could share a couple of suggestions for building on what happened at Camp Berea. ...  Read More

Dear Trinity family,I'd like to put three things in front of you on this Thursday morning. 1. Please be in prayer for those adults and kids heading to Deep Freeze tomorrow evening. Pray for safety, for sleep to be multiplied for our adults so that four hours feel like 10, for community to be built among our youth group, and for the messages to be received and put into practice long after the weeke...  Read More

Dear Trinity family, Just a quick note about a few items this weekend. Tonight is the first screening of The Chosen that's taking place at the church @ 6:30PM with the series being shown upstairs and the animated version downstairs. Also, our 2nd membership class takes place this Sunday @ 9:00AM. If you were unable to join us for the first class, you can still jump in. Sunday school continues for ...  Read More

Dear Trinity family,I hope and pray this finds you well and with power from your various electricity providers. We would get ice storms like these every few years in Texas but it rarely stuck around for more than a day or so just because temperatures never stayed below freezing for very long. Right now my driveway is a sheet of ice. Be careful if you venture to the church in the next few days. The...  Read More

Dear Trinity family,Here we are on Christmas Eve-Eve and I'm thinking about the New England tradition of windows filled with lit candles. I'd never seen that before moving here, and I didn't know what it meant. Just in case you don't, and assuming the places I looked for answers are right, 200+ years ago, those candles spoke a quiet message of safety. If you needed a place to stay as you traveled ...  Read More

Dear Trinity family,If you are part of the prayer group (accessed by the conversation icon at the top of the app), you know that Bree was placed into the experimental group of the clinical trial that will begin, Lord willing, next week! There are logistical details that still need to be worked out, such as the medicine physically arriving from the lab in California, but this is a significant prais...  Read More

Dear Trinity family,Being that I'm spending a lot of time right now in passages of Scripture that center on prayer, it shouldn't surprise me that God's given me an occasion to put it into practice. Bree has been accepted into the clinical trial for which we were hoping. She will have a PET scan on Monday and once that result comes back either later that day or the next, she will be randomized (50/...  Read More

Dear Trinity family,Now that we are fully into the Christmas season, there are some "housekeeping" items I'd like us to keep in mind especially since we are likely to experience an uptick in visitors this time of year. Parking - please remember, depending on when you arrive, to park either at the very end of a section or directly next to someone. Picking a random spot in the middle decreases the n...  Read More

Dear Trinity family,This Sunday is the first Sunday of Advent. Within the history of the church across the globe, this has served as a time to prepare our hearts as we expectantly await the arrival of Christmas. But it's not about the lights or the music or the gifts (all of which I love).Advent means arrival and since the Father kept His promise with respect to the first coming of His Son, that's...  Read More