Feb 13, 2020
I began attending Trinity about 3 or 4 years ago and had taken an immediate interest in Next To New (NTN). At the time, Mary Wabeke was leading the group and everyone I spoke to told me that if I wanted to start volunteering down at the shop, Mary was the person to...
Feb 6, 2020
Toledo Streets Newspaper (TSN) produces a monthly street paper, covering community news involving homelessness, poverty, and positive change. Vendors are self-contracted ‘business owners’ who set their own goals, selling locations and times, while abiding by a...
Feb 6, 2020
Beloved Friends, Taped to the inside page of my monthly planner is a tattered piece of paper with these words from Methodist pastor Ted Loder: Empower me to be a bold participant, rather than a timid saint in waiting, in the difficult ordinariness of now; to exercise...
Feb 6, 2020
[ These next weeks we will continue to highlight the wonderful volunteers down at Next To New thrift shop, one of Trinity’s Ministry Partners. Next To New, located in the lower-level of Trinity, has been serving the local community offering low-priced,...
Jan 30, 2020
Beloved Friends- the words below are from an article I wrote over 15 years ago when I was still a fairly new priest. As I read them today in the context of our worship life together at Trinity, they make me smile even more and strengthen my conviction. We have a...