Beloved Friends,
Little by little and then all at once.
This is what I am thinking about, and how I am feeling, as I sit down to write to you this week. As I look around at what is happening in our ministry and in our building, we have indeed reached the “all at once” moment.
This is a big weekend for us.
Saturday we have our annual all-day vestry retreat followed by hosting the Toledo Symphony event: Introducing the Orchestra: Featuring Young Artist Competition Winners.
If you are free at 3:00 tomorrow I encourage you to make your way to Trinity for what will surely be a memorable event.
Read more about this in Chelsie’s Music & the Arts blog post.
Sunday we celebrate the feast day of Absalom Jones, the first African American Episcopal priest ordained in 1804 and then, after our 10:00 Trinity@316 service, we will gather upstairs to welcome members of the Ohio Health Department to hear about their Harm Reduction and Northwest Ohio Syringe Service (NOSS) program that we will be piloting in conjunction with our next Mobile Food Pantry day.
Read more about this in George’s Community Engagement blog post.
And then, amidst all of that, we are just weeks away from beginning our Lenten journey. Lent is the time we set aside each year to walk with Jesus out into the wilderness and spend a season reflecting on the landscape we find- inside and out and consider where we are in our journey and what we might want to give up, embrace, redeem, renew or reimagine.
This year we offer a plethora of ways for each of us to engage deeply in this sacred season. In the days to come you will hear more about these offerings, but here is a brief summary of what you can look forward to.
Sundays: 2/26- 3/26
11:30-12:30 Lean-In Conversations about Community Engagement w/George
6:30-8:00pm Marching from Pain to Possibility: A Lenten Journey through the Wilderness of Woundedness (via Zoom)
Mondays: 2/27- 4/3
7:30-9:00pm Province V- A virtual Lenten Bible Study focused on Healing and Understanding the current Suicidal Crisis
(click here to sign up for a Preview Night: Monday, February 13, 2023, 7:30 pm to meet the instructors, and learn more about this resource.)
Wednesdays: 3/1-3/29
12:00 T@316 Eucharist
7:00pm Concert Series- Chelsie has more detail
Saturday & Sunday, March 25 & 26
ACT & Trinity present:
Winter Rain: Six Images of Thomas Merton
I give thanks for each of you and to God for the growth and vitality alive in our corner of the vineyard as Trinity continues to grow and thrive as a progressive, inclusive, creative expression of the Episcopal branch of the Jesus movement!
May you never forget that you are loved,
Lisa