The Rev. Dennis Sparks

 

    "Faith is a living, daring confidence in God’s grace so certain that you could stake your life on it one thousand times.

    This kind of trust in and knowledge of God’s grace makes a person joyful, confident, and happy with regard to God and all creatures. This is what the Holy Spirit does by faith.

    Through faith, a person will do good to everyone without coercion, willingly and happily; serving everyone, suffering everything for the love and praise of God, who has shown such grace.” -- Martin Luther

At Trinity Evangelical Lutheran Church, we are the church that shares a living, daring confidence in God’s grace.

We believe that we are saved by the grace of God alone and not by anything we do. We need only to believe that our sins are forgiven because Christ died to redeem us.

As part of the West Virginia-Western Maryland Synod of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America, we are in full communion with the Presbyterian Church (USA), the Reformed Church in America, the United Church of Christ, the Moravian Church in America, and the Episcopal Church.

Our faithful ministries reach out to the community to serve those in need through our Sunday evening meal, Trinity’s Table, and through hundreds of food baskets at Christmas, and in many other ways. Many organizations use our facilities for meetings and gatherings.

We tend to our own flock through music, through children’s and youth ministries, Sunday Church School, Friendly Lutherans (for seniors), through our monthly Men’s Breakfast, through Bible studies and mid-week services.

Please join us for worship and become a part of our growing family.

  

 
I know many of you wait to read what happens at Trinity's Table each Sunday night and last week there was no report.  Well, Eunice and took the weekend off and spent it in our nation's capital with our grandson. I did not have the a way to send out the report.  We had a great time last weekend but we were back at it today.  We had a good mothers day at Trinity's Table.  The rain held off enough that we served 234 meals tonight.  Right on target again.  The menu was as follows:

Goulash
Green Beans
Corn Casserole
Hot Dogs(donated by TYG yard sale/hotdog sale yesterday
Coleslaw(also donated by TYG
Bread(donated by Charleston Bread)
Desserts(donated by Spilman Law Firm)
Tea/Juice/Soda
Deviled Eggs(eggs donated by a member of Trinity)

I thought it was going to rain just about dinner time but the rain held off so therefore we had a good night.  Mostly our regulars with a few new faces.  Our youth group had their yard sale yesterday and they had a lot of clothes and books left over.  We allow our guests to go through and take all the books and clothes they wanted.  Many left with numerous large bags of clothes and books.  One lady come up to me and said when she came to Trinity's Table tonight she was hungry and just had the clothes on her back but when she left she was full and had a couple of new outfits to wear.  She was thankful that God had provided for her.  One of our members donated flowers for all of the mothers who attended church this morning.  The flowers left over she left for us to give out at Trinity's Table. We allowed the mothers to have a flower.  All the mothers were very appreciative of the flowers.  So with all of this going on it was a great day at Trinity's Table.  We fed all who came, we clothed some, we advanced their literacy skills with the books, we remembered the Mothers with the flowers and their sweet tooth got satisfied with all the desserts that were donated.  How much better could it get. Our cost tonight was approximately 43 cents a meal.  Year today we have served 5260 meals.
 

Ed & Eunice
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THIS WEEK AT TRINITY Wed. May 16 11:00 a.m. Friendly Lutherans 6:00 p.m. Carry in dinner and Bible Study (1st Corinthians) 7:30 p.m. Choir Rehearsal Sat. May 19 8:30 a.m. Men’s Breakfast 9:15 a.m. Annual Outside Cleanup Sun. May 20  8:00 a.m. Choir Rehearsal 8:45 a.m. Service of the Word, Holy Communion 9:45 a.m. Sunday Church School 11:00 a.m. Liturgical Service, Holy Communion 2:00 p.m. Doll Club 5-6:30 p.m. Trinity’s Table 7:00 p.m. AA Sun/Mon/Wed/Sat Mon. May 21 7:30 a.m. Mustard Seed AA Mon. thru Fri. Tue. May 22 7-10 p.m. Rose Society

06.08.12- CHILDREN'S MINISTRY
May's Trinity Children’s Ministry activity will be at 5:30 p.m., June 8.  The food and supplies will be provided, and children should dress comfortably.
Our ministry welcomes all children, birth to sixth grade, and meets on the second Friday of each month.
For more information, or to see how you can help serve our children, contact Rachel Hall at genslerwv@gmail.com

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06.10.12- ANNUAL CHURCH PICNIC
Come and enjoy the annual church picnic at the Kanawha State Forest in shelter number 3.  The shelter is located in the rear of the forest.  We will have our service along with St Pauls this year and it will be followed by a hot dog and hamburger cookout with members bringing a dish to pass.  This is a unique service set in the outdoors that promotes fun and fellowship among members and congregations.  
  

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