February 13th TrinityOnline

In Person Worship at 10:30 Sunday is PARKING LOT.  We are watching the COVID numbers carefully and will let you know when we can go back indoors. Soon, we hope!

We also have this ONLINE option! Our thanks to Julie Wieck, Jill Schneider, Luke Polley for their talents in putting this together

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I5k7gFpBqp0

In John, Jesus uses and interesting and different time to talk about Communion. not the Last Supper, but the Feeding of the 5000. Enjoy!

TrinityONLINE January 30, 2022

Hello everyone. With Omicron cases spiking even higher than last week this will be our primary Worship for you this weekend. Next Sunday we hope to back out in the Parking lot, and, if things go according to patterns we have seen, we hope to be back indoors soon. 

Today's Narrative Story has Jesus cutting through Samaritan territory on his way back up to Galillee.  We often don't understand the latent distrust and even aninimity between Jewish and Samaritan peoples. It was bad. 

So things to hear in the story: Jesus reaches out to the Samaritan Woman.  So many reasons to keep his distance. She's the wrong race, wrong gender, wrong religion...and yet.  It's in her question to her fellow villagers that I find a key. In the greek text she says,"He can't be the Messiah." A flat rejection. Then..."Could he?" A glimmer opening the door to God at work where you least expect. 

Remember our Trinity Zoom Annual Meeting at 1:00pm Sunday the 30th. Invite coming out soon. 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yk7U-qPvud4

 

Online Trinity January 23, 2022

Hello all! Here is your Trinity Online Worship for January 23rd!  Our Narrative lectionary moves on to Jesus late night meeting with Nicodemus. What a wonderful and even playful interchange. What does it look like to enter into Abundant/Eternal Life?  It's like being born all over again, from top to bottom. Life just looks different. We act differently. Like a breath fo bracing wind just blew through a stuffy room! Enjoy the wonderful music by Julie and Jill, and dive into a very Living Word. 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rg1NHfjbsIY

From Pr Wes Concerning In Person Worship

Dear Members of Trinity, 

With the spiking of the Omicron varient now reaching Pullman the Trinity Re-Opening (now called Trinity Covid Response) has been meeting and agonizing over our best response.

We will be holding Indoor Worship tomorrow at 10:30am  but please be aware of the risks; especially if you are in a vulnerable group.

When faced with snow or ice we look out the window and weigh the risks,  deciding if it is safe for us to venture out.

With COVID you can't see it, and I think that has created an environment where we are relaxing our guard. In today's paper  the Whitman County Health Director said, "We are asking that residents take caution when planning or attending large indoor events, urging the use of higher quality mask such as KN95 and getting vaccinated."  We are concerned about this spike both from the perspective of individual health, but also the strain it is already putting on our health system. 

At Trinity we have implemented the following to create as safe an enviroment as we can::

Communion will be outside on the entrance patio following worship

KN95 masks have been ordered for Trinity and should be arriving next week 

Masks are required indoors and please wear a KN95 if you have one

Chairs in the sanctaury have been spread out again to a distance of at least 6 ft

All windows and doors will be open so dress warmly

Choir will be practicing in the Fellowship Hall prior to worship 

Air purifiers will be operating. 

Our Trinity Online worship is an excellent alternative and can be found on Facebook, our Website,  and email. 

You have all done so well in this challenging past two years. As Saint Paul said, "Let us run with perserverance the race set before us."

Pr Wes

 

ONLINE Trinity January 16th

Here is your Trinity Online worship for the Weekend of January 16th.  

Jesus BEGINS his ministry in the Gospel of John with the cleansing of the Temple. obviously John is seeing something different in this event...and not the usually seen righteous indignation of Jesus which begins Holy Week. THat's the way the other three Gospels see it. 

So...let's explore...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rzCf-ziKOH0



Advent Four at TLC Pullman

Hello All! With Advent Four we move into the New Testment.  This year in the Narrative Lectionary we will focus on John, and here is how the author begins, "In the beginning was the Logos ... and the Logos became flesh and pitched a tent with us..." Where does this imagry come from?  It turns out an often overlooked branch of Judaism called WISDOM literature.  In Proverbs 8, and other books, Lady Wisdom (Hochma/Sophia) is the firstborn of creation and participates with God in putting it all together. When early Christians were trying to understand Jesus this connected for some. 

https://youtu.be/zcXlVijvcHY

Online November 14th

Here is your Trinity Online Worship for November 14th!   The Prophet Amos is called by God from being a shepherd to speaking truth to a Society which has gone off the rails. Often prphets speak to those in power....today Amos speaks to a whole society which takes their status and life style for granted...not thinking of those who are trodden upon to create that life...God calls for justice and righteousness...better translated as deep fairness and the willingness to act in harmony with God.

https://youtu.be/fpyruiep4rc



Online For All Saints! Trinity Pullman

Happy FALL BACK TIME CHANGE and All Saints Sunday! Here is your Online Trinity Pullman Worship. Today, along with our usual, we have a special musical offering by the Trinity Choir!

Our narrative lectionary tells the story of a Prophet under duress! Elijah flees for his life and looks for God's presence in A Holy Place, Fire, Earthquake and Wind...but God comes to him in Sheer Silence...

https://youtu.be/D8NTfUS6OO0

David is Anointed...

Here is your TrinityPullman Online Worship for October 24th! 

I Samuel 16:1-13. David is Annointed to be King...

From the Avengers in the Marvel Universe to the Political Scene we have a weakness to looking for a Hero to solve all our problems...no different 3000 years ago when Samuel is called to choose a new King to replace Saul (even though Saul is still alive and well). "Go to Jesse's tent in Bethlehem...he's has a son I will choose. So the parade begins .Eldest, strongest...nope.  Youngest...nearly expendable...out in the fields taking care of the sheep...David.  David has the heart of God, but is still all too human. Fredrick Buechner (Presbyterian writer) commented that he was probably too good looking for his own good. And, like many, he begins to think he can do no wrong. But when he messes us, God calls him to account, and each time David ultimately takes responsibilty. His weakness is part of his humanity BUT he is not excused...

https://youtu.be/y-BnUxOZekE