Lent, Holy Week, and Easter at Trinity

The Season of Lent begins with Ash Wednesday on March 5, 2025.

The forty days of Lent offers us the opportunity to journey ever closer to God through the life and sacrifice of Christ. Join us this Lenten season as we prepare for the events of Holy Week and the celebration of Easter. To help us with our journey, we will be using the Cultivating and Letting Go devotional guide which begins with Ash Wednesday and continues until Easter.

Copies of the devotional guide are available in the sanctuary on Sunday mornings.

Trinity will offer numerous opportunities for worship, discussion, and fellowship during Lent.

Friday Mid-day Lenten Services

Join us on Fridays for a mid-day service from 12:00 noon-12:30 p.m. from March 7- Good Friday, April 18. Our worship leaders will be using our theme for the year "Branches" to share their thoughts on "Branches, How Has God's Grace Grown in Your Life?" The services will include music and the speaker of the day.

Weekly Friday Mid-day Services in Grace Chapel from noon-12:30 p.m.

March 7	Worship Leader	Rev. Dr. David Calhoun
	Music	Teri LaFleur and Steve Hays
March 14	Worship Leader	Rob Powell
	Music	David Belew
March 21	Worship Leader	Adam Smedberg
	Music	Don Evans and Vera Baker
March 28	Worship Leader	Colleen Bugbee
	Music	Noreen Acconcio and Vera Baker
April 4	Worship Leader	Kristin Goold
	Music	Caroline Mazzarella and Vera Baker
April 11	Worship Leader	Holly Blair
	Music	Janet Dixon-Metcalf, flute and David Belew
April 18 Good Friday	Worship Leader	TBA
	Music	TBA

Children's Message Series

LentLab: A special children's message series for Lent

We often think about Lent as a season to get quiet, to reflect, maybe even reduce or remove things from our lives so that we can increase our focus on God. That's great! But, Lent can also be a season of creativity, an opportunity to try new things, look at the world in new ways all in the hopes of knowing God and knowing ourselves a little bit more. It's in that spirit that children are invited to participate in LentLab- a special children's message series that will run throughout Lent. Each week, children will witness a new experiment and then, here's the really important part, they will interpret that experiment. They'll ask:

What can this teach me about God?

What can this teach me about me?

And, what can this teach me about how and how much God loves?

LentLab is fun! It's surprising! But, it also lets kids know that it's ok to try new things, to get creative with our faith because if we look closely, if we think hard, there is always something we can learn about God and about ourselves.

Lenten Book Study 24 Hours that Changed the World

24 Hours That Changed the World

No single event in human history has received more attention than the suffering and crucifixion of Jesus of Nazareth. Join Rev. Dr. David Calhoun in this Lenten journey, as Adam Hamilton guides us through the last twenty-four hours of Jesus' life. Each chapter is designed to help the reader experience and understand the significance of Jesus' suffering and death in a way you have never done before. Whether you are a long-time Christian or simply curious about the story of Christ's crucifixion, you are invited to join this Lenten study in retracing the last 24 hours of Jesus' life. Mondays, March 24, 31, April 7, 14. This book study is being offered twice on each the days--from noon to 1:30 p.m. and from 5:30-7:00 p.m. Participants are invited to bring a bag lunch or supper. The group will meet in the Parkside Cafe and Community Gallery.

The book can be ordered from Amazon. Please email the church office to let them know which session you will be attending.

Pizza, Palm Crosses, and the Prince of Egypt

Join Rob for a fun evening of pizza, making palm crosses for the Palm Sunday Service, and watching the movie Prince of Egypt.

6:30 pizza and a tutorial on making palm crosses

7:00 p.m. movie The Prince of Egypt

Lent Lab Event

All children and youth are invited to join Rob on Sunday evening, April 13 at 5:00 p.m. for a fun event where they will be able to conduct all the experiments he's done during his LentLab Children's Message series. It should be an exciting and fun event.

This is a video of the March 30 Children's Message as an example of the fun experiments he's been conducting: https://youtu.be/BOkRxwG1pAU

Ash Wednesday March 5

From 9 a.m. - noon, Rev. Dr. David Calhoun offered ashes in Grace Chapel. This is a beautiful way to enter into this reflective season and important time of year in the life of the church.

7:00 p.m. Ash Wednesday service which marked the beginning of the 40 days of Lent including a special message and music. We also offered the imposition of ashes.