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Lake Eola Christmas Community Outreach Event
The Trinity Family will once again participate in the City of Orlando's annual Tree Lighting Celebration at Lake Eola on the evening on Friday, November 30 from 5-9pm. It is a live, on-air, first lighting of Lake Eola Park's 72 foot Christmas tree, live music and performances, vendor booths, and The Daily City's Food Truck Bazaar.

TLS Students will sing on the amphitheater stage at 5:30pm, and Trinity volunteers will serve in the vendor area from 5pm-9pm with multiple free activities and giveaways that celebrate the birth of Jesus, and communicate that "It's still all about Jesus".

Trinity Family volunteers are needed on Nov 30 to serve in various roles, especially:
  • Ornament Making Helpers (8, 5-7pm and 7-9pm) (help children make their own Christmas tree ornament).

  • Photo Booth Helpers (5-7p) (greet, help people pick out their costume for the photo booth)
  • Tear down help is always appreciated... about 9pm Friday night, a truck is always helpful, loading up at Lake Eola and taking things back to Trinity.
Sign up online at  http://signup.com/go/qQFjuWg   or just call the office Questions? Contact Chanda at 407-488-1919 x101 or  TLC@TrinityDowntown.com .  Can't wait to see you all there!

Tents Needed for Lake Eola Outreach Event
THANKS to all who are letting us borrow tables!!  We're still in need of TWO 10x10 tailgate tents to use at the event. Please let us know if we can borrow yours. It would be greatly appreciated!

Touch-A-Truck
Touch A Truck is coming March 9, 2018!  This is Trinity Lutheran School's biggest fundraiser and a huge community outreach event for Trinity Downtown.  Trinity Lutheran School's PTL needs your help to make it a success! Please support Touch-A-Truck by volunteering your time. Our first planning meeting will be held on December 3rd at 5:30 pm.  Meeting location will be provided next week.  We welcome your insight and time! The PTL Board will provide dinner and babysitting if needed. Please RSVP to PTL@trinitydowntown.com by November 30th.  

Regular Voters Assembly
Our next regularly scheduled voters assembly is scheduled for Monday, December 10 at 6:30pm in the Sanctuary. This will be a regularly scheduled voters for reporting purposes.

Advent Devotions Series on Wednesdays, December 5, 12, and 19
Advent is the time set aside to prepare our hearts for the coming of Jesus. The Christmas season has become such a time of hustle and bustle. We invite you to take a break from the rush.Join us for a lunch hour devotion from 12:10-12:50 if you're downtown, or come for a quiet dinner between 5:30 and 6:45 pm in Fellowship Hall followed by a short devotion at 7:00. Pastor Doug will lead us in our preparations through a series on the Characteristics of a Christian Life.  We'd love to see you all there! Dates: December 5, 12, and 19.

The menus for dinner are:
12/5 - Spaghetti casserole, salad, bread, drinks;
12/12 - Shepherd's pie,salad, drinks;
12/19 - Tomato bisque, bread, drinks.

Topics for each week:
12/5 - Word, Worship & Witness
12/12 - Fellowship
12/19 - Stewardship


Thanksgiving Bread Tradition
Many thanks to Gladys Dittmer and Catherine Simmons for each baking 90 mini loaves of bread for our Thanksgiving tradition of blessing and giving the bread away on Thanksgiving Eve. "Take one for home - Take one to give."

Child's Quilt Auction to support Trinity Lutheran School K-8 scholarships and LWML
LWML  has a child's quilt 55" x 90" for a boy or girl. Top of quilt is a print featuring zoo animals and back and binder is solid hunter green. This is a tied quilt of all new material which will wash well and be lightweight but warm. Our group has decided to offer this quilt for bids from November 16, 2018 to December 14, 2018.  We start with a $35 bid and you can bid in $5 or more increments. The money obtained will be donated half to Trinity School Scholarships and half to LWML treasury. Call in bids and leave a message if there is no answer at 407-491-4452. Each week the newsletter will report the current bid and also the final bid and who won it.

LWML Fall Project - Soap Collection
LWML's Fall project for World Relief is a collection of individually boxed bath soaps (no hotel soap). There will be a wash tub with a scrub board in the Narthex starting Saturday, November 17 and will continue until January 2, 2019. This is part of our mission outreach to third world countries where this soap is a precious commodity.

Everyone Needs Trash Bags!
The High School National Youth Gathering Fundraising has begun! We have eight youth committed to attend the National Youth Gathering in Minnesota in July 2019. The estimated cost per participant is $1,500. This includes airfare, hotel, and meal money. Our first big sale begins now! You won't want to miss this!  It's something EVERYONE uses and the good news is you don't have to stuff your freezer with tubs of cookie dough or choose from 50 varieties of wrapping paper! Be sure to find our youth set up outside church selling TRASH BAGS! Each roll is $13, either 15 gallon bags / 65 bags per roll (white) or 39 gallon bags /25 bags per roll (yellow). Please make checks payable to TRINITY LUTHERAN CHURCH (youth fundraiser on memo). Thank you for your support.

Youth Instrumentalists for Christmas Eve 3pm Children's Program
Trinity's Children's Christmas Eve worship service will once again be held at 3pm on December 24th in our sanctuary. Children and youth who play a solo instrument are invited to play a sacred Christmas piece before the service begins. We have space for 4-5 instrumentalists. Please contact Julia Malenke at jmalenke@trinitydowntown.com if you are available that evening and would be interested in sharing a musical offering.

Facebook Users - Help Us Reach More People
In the next few days multiple event posts representing our Advent, Longest Night, Christmas Eve, Christmas Day and New Year's Eve worship services are going up on Trinity's Facebook page, as well as some interactive posts that ask for you to share a comment. If you're on Facebook, please help us reach others by sharing those events on your own page, and by commenting on Trinity's page for the interactive posts.  The more those events are shared, the more likely someone outside our Trinity family will see an invitation to worship and find their way one step closer to Jesus. The more interaction we get on interactive posts, the more Facebook recognizes our posts as something that should be shared more often. This really helps us to extend our reach beyond our own Trinity Family.  Thank you.


Christian Yoga!
You're welcome to join us on first and third Mondays (and if we have enough participants, we could add second and fourth Mondays too) for a $5 Christian Yoga class at 6:30pm in Fellowship Hall. The class needs a minimum number in attendance to be held at such a discounted rate, so please email Beth at baschu4@bellsouth.net to confirm you're coming. Class starts at 6:30 pm, please arrive by 6:20 pm. Thank you! Bring with you an exercise mat (and block if you have), $5, comfy clothes, a smile, and enthusiasm!


Please let us know!
Please let your Trinity family know of any scheduled surgery or hospital stay.  In addition to scheduled procedures, please give the church office a call to let us know about extended illness, unplanned hospital stays, or even the birth of a child.  You can call the office at any time and leave a message-no need to wait until business hours (407-488-1919 x101). During business hours, that information can then be forwarded to the appropriate caregivers.  For an emergency that requires the care of a Pastor after hours or over the weekend call or text us at 407-490-7339 and leave a message. We'll get back to you ASAP. We want to be sure to know when you need us-whether to pray with you before a scheduled procedure, sit with you during a loved one's procedure, pray for you while you recover, visit you in the hospital/at home or to share praise and thanksgiving prayers for good news/results. Just let us know.  Thank you.

Urgent Prayer Requests
If you have an urgent prayer request that can't wait until you fill out a yellow prayer card during worship, please submit it via email to Pray@TrinityDowntown.com .  While submitting a yellow card during worship is still the preferred way to share prayer requests, sometimes a prayer need can't wait until Sunday.  Your prayer request (first name and basic details of the prayer requested) will be shared with a team of committed weekday prayer warriors and will also be added to Trinity's regular printed prayer list for the congregation.  All prayers are kept on the printed list for a period of three weeks, so please resubmit long term prayer needs regularly so that they stay on the printed list. Thank you.

Important Dates

November 22-23  Offices and School Programs Closed
November 30 Community Outreach Event at Orlando Tree Lighting

Dec 2 First Sunday of Advent
Dec 5 Wednesday Advent Worship 12:10-12:50p devotion, 5:30-6:45p meal, 7-7:45p devotion
Dec 9 Second Sunday of Advent
Dec 10 Regularly Scheduled Voters Meeting
Dec 12 Wednesday Advent Worship 12:10-12:50p devotion, 5:30-6:45p meal, 7-7:45p devotion
Dec 16 Third Sunday of Advent
Dec 19 Wednesday Advent Worship 12:10-12:50p devotion, 5:30-6:45p meal, 7-7:45p devotion
Dec 22 Service of the Longest Night 6pm
Dec 23  One Service: 10AM Worship Service
Dec 24 3pm Children/Family Worship, 5,7,9,11pm Candlelight Communion Worship
Dec 25 10am Worship
Dec 31 New Year's Eve Worship 7pm

Attendance and Giving



Christmas is Coming...  

Christmas services are some of the very best opportunities all year long to invite someone to come to church with you, or invites someone back to church who has been gone a while.  

Start thinking & praying about who you're going to ask...

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