Monthly Archives: March 2014

Neighbours Praising God – June 6 – 8th – All are welcome!

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Neighbours Praising God (NPG) – Timmins, ON  June 6-8, 2014 

Feel like you are always “busy”, overwhelmed and constantly burning the candle at both ends?

Want to feel relaxed, refreshed and rejuvenated??? 

Then you NEED to come to Neighbours Praising God (NPG) for a little REBOOT!  “Everyone Needs a Sabbatical – Reboot Your Life” is being hosted by Spirit Dancing Presbytery on June 6-8, 2014 in beautiful Timmins, ON.

Please visit www.manitouconference.ca for more information about this year’s upcoming NPG event.

The poster is available here —->NPG-2014-Poster

The Letter of Invitation is here —-> Letter-of-invitation-to-NPG-2014

Trinity Lent 2 Week

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Hello Trinity Friends!


This Sunday March 16th we continue our journey through the “blues” of Lent with an emphasis on MEMORY.

“You can’t separate modern jazz from rock or from rhythm and blues – you can’t separate it. Because that’s where it all started, and that’s where it all come from – that’s where I learned to keep rhythm–in church.” ~Art Blakey

During Lent, Christians traditionally give up our victorious “Hallelujah” songs in favour of more sombre tunes. As an experiment of the Spirit, we are exploring Lent as a season of the Blues, of secular music that speaks to our souls.

This morning’s “blues” music includes three intriguing requests from Trinity music lovers. Ione sings “Mood Indigo,” a blues classic sung by the likes of Ella Fitzgerald, Dinah Washington, and Nina Simone. Another Trinity member asked for “Auld Lang Syne” as a song that recalls the beauty and the pains of the past—a song that inevitably conjures tears for her.  A third request, from John Sheridan, was for Van Morrison’s classic, “Have I Told You Lately (That I Love You).” 

 

LENTEN COMPANION STUDY: a Lenten Bible study will be held Tuesdays in Lent at 1pm in the Fireside Room. Our study will involve spiritual practices, exploration of the readings and will complement Sunday worship. For more information, please contact Shalome. 

PASTORAL CARE LENTON SERVICE – Thursday March 20 at 2:15 pm at Nipissing Manor

Red Hot Friday Night – Chili Cook-off
 
A Dinner with a Winner
 
Friday March 21st 5:30
Free Will Offering.
Music by some of the Heavenly Hosts

Come on out and enjoy some delicious chili and choose a winner! Prizes for best chili, people’s choice and best name.

We are still looking for some chili submissions – if you have a chili you would like to enter into the cook-off please contact the church!

Bravo Mustard Seed!

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Congratulations to the cast and crew of Mustard Seed’s Ultimate Superstar on a fantastic run! Special thanks to Darlene Laferriere for her commitment and dedication to children’s music and drama – she is truly a superstar!  Thanks also to Brenda McLay for her wonderful music leadership, to Jim Liddell for his patient and flexible stage managing, to Caroline Harrison for her creative knack of making everyone look like a star and to Hannah McCallum for choreographing and leading all the amazing dances. Whole hearted thanks to the many people who volunteered their time in any way – at the risk of forgetting anyone:  Marcel MacDonald, Chris Clarke, Darren Summersby, Dave McKenney, Don Rideout, Bill Whalley, Blake and Michelina Beam, Bill and Doris-Rae Brownlee, Jeff Mailloux, Bonnie Beam, Rae Brownlee, Shirley Myre, Cindy Brownlee, Lori Butterfield, Cheryl Miller, Shalome MacNeill Cooper, Ryan Rozicki, Maurice Laporte, Anna Wright, Shirley Thom, Lynda Moseley-Williams, Ann Cann, Lisa Gibson, Geneva Thompson, Anne Graham and our patrons and supporters, Tee Lloyst, the Fosters and the Thom’s – and in particular Trinity’s AOTS and UCW. Thank-you,

thank-you, thank-you!      Lisa Blais 

Blues Lent – Communion Sunday, March 9th 10:30 am

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A BLUES LENT

 

 

 

             “Everybody has some kind of blues to offer.”

 

                                                           ~ Jimi Hendrix

 

The season of Lent—those 40 days winding towards Easter—is traditionally a season of spiritual discipline. While engaged with Lent, Christians have traditionally given up the victorious Easter “Hallelujah” songs in favour of more sombre tunes. As a spiritual experiment, we at Trinity are exploring Lent as a season of the Blues—exploring the heartache, hardship, and the deep searching of this Christian season.

 

 

 

This morning’s music includes Hannah McCallum singing, “Say Something (I’m Giving Up on You)”, which exposes the frustration, and pain of letting go of a broken relationship. Brian Risk is helped by Margaret Parker in singing, “You Raise Me Up”—a song that speaks of finding strength and comfort through love, even in the midst of life’s significant challenges. We hold to this song’s promises, even in the ashes and sometime discomfort of the “blue” Lenten season.