ANNOUNCEMENTS
Announcements for March 31 , 2024
 
 

 

Holy Week and Easter

This Week! Prayer Walk

During Holy Week we invite you to come by the church at your convenience to participate in a “Prayer Walk With Peter” in the Narthex. As a nod to the Stations of the Cross, this meditative prayer walk highlights Peter’s role in the crucifixion narrative.  Through reading the scripture, engaging with artwork, and prayerful words or actions, we follow Jesus to his death with Peter as our companion. By focusing on Peter, we imagine how we might have acted and behaved had we been there as one of Jesus’ followers and friends. The prayer walk will be set up following worship on Palm Sunday and will be available until after the Good Friday Service.

 

Friday, March 29th, 7:30pm Good Friday Worship service

Come and experience a special service at Trinity. Tenebrae, which means “service of darkness,” is an early Christian observance of the events of Jesus’ passion. The story of the Passion narrative is told through readings and music, as candles are extinguished and the lights are dimmed. The Christ candle is hidden toward the end of the service to signify the apparent victory of death and evil. After a period of silence and darkness, the candle is returned as we remember that in Jesus, “light has come into the world that the darkness could not extinguish.” We leave the service in silence, carrying with us sadness for Christ’s suffering and the suffering of the world, but hope that will prepare us for the celebration of Easter. Due to the low lighting of the service, we will not record it but you can click here for the recorded service from 3 years ago.

 

Easter Sunday

  • 7 a.m. Sunrise Service in the Outdoor Chapel (no childcare available during this service.)
  • 9:00 a.m. Contemporary Worship in Calvin Hall
  • 10:15 a.m. Egg Hunt (gather in the Narthex)
  • 11:15 a.m. Traditional Worship in the sanctuary
  • 7:30 a.m. -10:45 a.m. Easter Brunch in Fellowship Hall

Flowering Cross Easter Morning

We invite you to bring flowers to put on the wooden cross on the front lawn of Trinity on Easter morning.

 

Egg hunt 10:15 a.m. Easter morning

Families will gather in the Narthex for a few minutes while the eggs are hidden and then the hunt will begin on the lawn. Thank you to Hannah Circle and Prime Time for filling the eggs and the youth for hiding the eggs that are filled with toys, stickers, and candy and collecting the empty eggs. We ask that you keep the treats and return the eggs for next year. Please bring your own basket! 

April 7th at 6pm

What are you doing on April 7th at 6-7:30pm?  We need an adult to help with the combined middle and high school groups that night. If you can’t do it that Sunday, please consider another Sunday in April!  You don’t need to be a parent, you just need to see when you are free on an early Sunday evening from now through June to hang out with the youth! It really is a lot of fun!   Click  to sign up.

 

AFAC Sorting Event: April 7th during Education Hour

Please join us for our 2nd “annual” AFAC (Arlington Food Assistance Center) food sorting event at 10:00 on Sunday April 7th downstairs in Fellowship Hall.  Once again Trinity Men’s Fellowship and the Mission and Service Ministry are coordinating with AFAC (Arlington Food Assistance Center) in bringing this opportunity to Trinity.  AFAC needs assistance in sorting food into family sized portions.  During the education hour on April 7th we will do this together!  Most of the participants are packers, but we also need supply chain personnel, quality control inspectors, supervisors, and movers. Hope you can join us and come see “many hands make light work” in action.  Please contact Todd Parker if you would like more information or have any questions about our food sorting event.  

 

April 7th: Adult Education

To allow as many people as possible to attend the Food sorting event, we will have just two adult options this Sunday: the Meditation class and the Stand Our Holy Ground class with that week’s topic “The impact of Gun violence on LGBTQ+ Communities.”

 

April 7th: Olive Oil Pop Up

If you would like to purchase Olive Oil, we will have a pop up shop on April 7th in the Narthex! Questions? Ask Beth Bailey!

 

Sign up to help with the Easter Brunch (food, hands, and set up!)

We always enjoy the potluck Easter brunch on Easter morning from 7:45 until 10:45. We need people to sign up to bring a dish! We are asking for people to help set up Fellowship Hall on Saturday March 30th and then Sunday morning also to spend an hour at the brunch to monitor the food levels, and a few hands to clean up at 10:30 (ish). Click here to sign up: https://signup.com/go/oLRXGYZ