The time is NOW to get connected at Trinity Downtown! So much is happening–outreach planning, campus improvements, PTL events & fundraisers underway, ministry team development, fellowship activities, financial planning, youth program growth… and all of the ongoing relationship building and cooperation necessary to make it all happen.  Welcome to the Trinity Family!

Here are just a few highlights…. 

Thanks for a great start on our FALL FELLOWSHIP EVENTS!  Last Sunday’s Church Picnic was a great time to get together and visit over a delicious meal, in the cool comfort of the gymnasium on a brand new floor.  And our 7th & 8th graders received some generous donations towards their Washington D.C. class trip.  (Did you hear our new Student Council leaders in church and see how they worked together to clean up after the picnic?!!)

Next comes the Fall Festival on Friday, October 23 (details in the Trinity Weekly), Trinity Family Sunday on November 22, when we’ll welcome new members and a lot of new staff just finishing up the Foundations class, then Thanksgiving dinner together after church on Sunday, November 22.  

Our Outreach Ministry Team is on the move, with weekly planning sessions, and a 10’x20’ display table on Magnolia for the Calle Orange festival on Sunday, October 25.  (check the info on road closures for Sunday worship that day.)

We are blessed to have another member of the Trinity Family joining us on October 25.  Pastor Billy Brath returns to bring us God’s Word and an update on the ministry of LiveUCF.  Please give him a warm welcome and offer your encouragement as we partner with him in campus ministry at UCF!  The LiveUCF Gala is coming Saturday, Nov. 14. (details in the Oct 16 Trinity Weekly, and tickets avaialable in the Livingston office.)

Another one of our Ministry Partners, Lutheran Hour Ministries, is coming to Orlando to host the Regional Outreach Conference Friday & Saturday, November 13-14, and to partner with us in worship on November 15th.  Lutheran Hour’s radio host Rev. Greg Seltz will be our guest preacher at our 11am service on Sunday, November 15.  The Lutheran Hour airs on over 1350 radio stations across North American.  Rev. Seltz has been the Lutheran Hour radio speaker since 2011.  This is a wonderful opportunity to hear about the mission of the Lutheran Hour Ministries.   The ROC conference that weekend promises a great line up of topics and spreakers.  We have been blessed with a $79 discounted rate since we’re having Rev. Greg Seltz as guest preacher.  The conference is a rare opportunity to bring a wave of “outreach enthusiasm” to our campus.  (Additional scholarship help is available.)  Please sign up with Chanda in the church office — she will be attending as a representative of our Trinity ministry staff and church membership as someone who is deeply committed to outreach! TLC@TrinityDowntown.com.

Looking forward to Reformation Sunday on October 25.  Not only will it be the day some of our first year confirmands start receiving the Lord’s Supper, but it will be the 498th anniversary of the Reformation, dating back to Martin Luther’s posting of the 95 Theses on the door of the castle church in Wittenberg, Germany.  Earlier this fall our 7th and 8th graders heard that Luther was born November 10, 1483, took his stand at the Diet of Worms on April 18, 1521, translated the Bible into German in 1522, published his catechisms in 1529, and served the Lord as a father, pastor, and theologian until his death on February 18, 1546. LutheranReformation.org is the website the LCMS just launched with lots of resources in preparation for the 500th Anniversary in 1517.  The October edition of the LCMS monthly Lutheran Witness is full of Reformation history.  You can subscribe by calling 1-800-325-3040 or email lutheran.witness@lcms.org  

And don’t forget to join us for this Sunday’s Voters Assembly Meeting at 12:30 in the Sanctuary so you can hear the updates on our January Dedication Date, Senior Pastor and K-8 Principal Call Processes, as well as the next steps in our campus revitalization plans.  And of course, down the road in December, we have The Gift, Wednesday Advent dinners & Worship, Christmas Eve Worship, Cantata… and more… 

So, get connected!  Meet people, find a group you’d like to serve with, ask questions about a ministry team, join one, give input to another, volunteer at an event, attend a different worship service, invite someone to come with you, and wander around the Trinity website to read more and see photos of what’s going on at Trinity Downtown.  The message here is, there are so many ways to GROW DEEPER in your faith, and with your family of faith… just make that next step, and get connected.

Jim & Eric

 

 

-Pastor Jim Martin
Jim.Martin@TrinityDowntown.com