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Share in Shining Your Light, pt. 3
Beloved Friends, From November 3-17 Trinity will be engaged in our Annual Giving Campaign. It is an important time in our common life calling us to intentionally reflect and respond to what it means to be a community of faith supporting the ministry we share. Each...
You are mine and I am yours (by Heather Meyer, Trinity Staff)
Dear Trinity, You are mine and I am yours. You have been a gift. For the last two years, whether you know it or not, you have shown my child what it is to be inclusive, creative and a spiritual presence downtown. She not only knows your building’s nooks and crannies,...
Share in Shining Your Light, pt. 2
Beloved Friends, From November 3-17 Trinity will be engaged in our Annual Giving Campaign. It is an important time in our common life calling us to intentionally reflect and respond to what it means to be a community of faith supporting the ministry we share. Each...
Trinity Episcopal Church
Come Experience More! YOU are invited to join us every Sunday! A Free Community Breakfast is served at 9:00! Eucharist begins at 10:00! All are welcome and wanted! A special thank you to Owen Cappellini, Nate Leonard, Dave Beckwith, Anna Toney, Lisa Tucker-Gray,...
Share in Shining Your Light, pt 1
Beloved Friends, From November 3-17 Trinity will be engaged in our Annual Giving Campaign. It is an important time in our common life calling us to intentionally reflect and respond to what it means to be a community of faith supporting the ministry we share. Each...
I’m Where I Belong (by Nick Zurawski, Trinity Staff)
I thought this was going to be just a temporary gig; just a chance to help out, and earn a little Christmas cash. That's what I thought. But I'm sure Lisa was thinking, "All I have to do is get him in the building, and he's ours". And that's...
For All the Saints
Beloved Friends- Question: What do a memorial service, a conversation with a struggling mom who’s grown daughter just came out to her, a mid-week Eucharist, follow up from a vestry meeting, a staff huddle, some liturgy preparations, a conversation with new friends who...
What I See and Feel (by Jane Bueche, Trinity Staff and Member)
Over these next five weeks, Trinity Voices will features stories shared by our full and part-time staff. Trinity Voices offers an opportunity for members and friends of Trinity to share their joys and challenges of our mutual ministry. What I see and feel.... When I...
Trinity Is So Much More (by Lynzi Miller, Trinity Staff)
Over these next five weeks, Trinity Voices will features stories shared by our full and part-time staff. Trinity Voices offers an opportunity for members and friends of Trinity to share their joys and challenges of our mutual ministry. It was just supposed to be a...
Creativity: Where the Divine and Human Meet
Beloved Friends - I am someone who loves books, and as a result I seem to have collected more than my fair share over the years. Each time I have to move I find myself wondering if I shouldn’t pare down and “thin out” my collection. Sometimes I do a bit, but this week...
Watch the Installation and Blessing of Our Weary Traveler
Read more about Trinity's journey to bring our Homeless Jesus home, in the Toledo Blade, HERE! A life-changing experience in 2011 led Canadian sculptor Timothy Schmalz on a journey to create the Homeless Jesus sculpture, now a highly revered 'street-artwork' that Mr....
Taking Time to Say Thank You
Beloved Friends- This Sunday when we gather, we will hear a gospel lesson from Luke that always reminds me of a part of my childhood I dreaded a couple times a year; the dreaded thank you notes ritual following either Christmas or a birthday. It’s not that I was ever...
#LOVE IS THE WAY (by Sherre Owens Smith, Trinity Member)
The question is "What keeps you coming back to Trinity?" My three reasons: the liturgical service, deep reading of the Word, the awesome people. ToledoScape, Class of 1982, was my first venture inside Trinity's walls. In 1998 the Bishop "received" me and I...
We Are Never Alone
Beloved Friends- Today, October 4th, is the Feast Day of St. Francis of Assisi. Francis astounded and inspired the Church by taking the gospel literally—not in a narrow fundamentalist sense, but by actually following all that Jesus said and did, joyfully, without...
What Trinity Episcopal Church means to me (By Lucy Russell, Trinity Member)
My husband, Bruce, and I came to Trinity about nine years ago, leaving a Presbyterian church where we raised our sons. I had been a lifelong Presbyterian. Our primary reason for leaving was a new, homophobic pastor. We both...
Reflections on Erin Wiley’s discussion of Mental Health and the Spiritual Journey from Homecoming Sunday (by Leah Reed, Trinity Member)
Do not be conformed to this age, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind so that you may discern what is the good, pleasing, and perfect will of God. (Romans 12:2) “Do not be conformed to this age…” The first part of this verse always gives me pause. What are...
Here We Are in the Middle
Beloved friends- The words below resonate with profound depth and meaning for me as I sit down to write today. They come from Jean Vanier, Founder of the beautiful L'Arche community- a collection of 150 houses of men and women with or without an intellectual...
A Healthy Community of Faith
Beloved Friends, There is a growing canon of research material focused on church growth and development. And while there seem to be as many opinions on the subject as there are authors, there are some common themes and criteria I believe are helpful articulating...