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Lynn C Johnson; Roxane Sunboom; Bob Meeks; Ruth Sundin; Lyn Vavreck; Sandy Fahning; Nathan Holtz; Brian Harrison, father of Jackie Krakow; Tom Krakow, father of Tracy Krakow; Bev Aanonsen; Bea Martinson; Tom Peterson; Bruce Erkel; Erin Buss, daughter of Dale Buss; Helen Brodin, mother of Judy Maharry; Frank Stefanoc, father of Joy Lyle; Ginny Miller; Marilyn Robertz; Fran Hoffmann, daughter of Mary Linder and sister of Linda Grack; Theresa Kampa; Sharon Unander–Miller; Jo Christianson; Ruth Weiss; Jaye Marcotte, sister of Ytive Prafke; Sue Guth; and Arlene Lindquist.
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Lead Pastor
Joy G. Ekstedt Cell: 507-317-7402 Email: [email protected] OFF ON MONDAY Associate Pastor
Nikoli Falenschek Cell: 763-482-1709 Email: [email protected] OFF ON FRIDAY
program staff
511 South Fifth Street
Saint Peter, MN 56082
507-934-4786
www.trinitystpeter.org
Trinity Lutheran Church Worship Times
Sunday 8:00 am † 9:30 am
Wednesday 6:15 pm
Church Office Hours
M-Th: 8:30 am to 5:00 pm
F: 8:30 am to 12:00 pm
www.trinitystpeter.org facebook: Trinity Lutheran (St Peter, MN)
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Public Access TV Broadcast on Channel 7
Sunday at 9:30 am, 2:00 pm, & 7:00 pm
Monday at 5:00 pm
Tuesday at 11:00 am & 3:00 pm
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Please feel free to contact staff members via email or cell phone. Voice mail messages at the church may not be checked regularly by all staff.
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A U G U S T 9 — 1 6
The Announcements Page
Worship
Services are available on Facebook and YouTube each Sunday at 9:30 am. Services will continue to be aired on SPPA channel 7 and at the care facilities. If you do not currently live in a care facility, do not have online access, and do not have St. Peter Public Access channel 7 please call the church office if you would like a DVD copy of these services.
Virtual Coffee Fellowship!
Coffee time and conversation are happening at TLC! After the 9:30 am Facebook worship service on Sunday mornings, grab a cup of coffee (or milk or juice), a treat from your very own kitchen, click into the Zoom link that will be provided in the comments or here, and visit with your TLC friends and neigh-bors. See you then!
Between Now and Normal.
Paul reminds us in his first letter to the Corinthians (10:23-24), "All things are permissible, but not all things are beneficial. 'All things are permissible,' but not all things build up. Do not seek your own advantage, but that of the other.” Your pastors and Health Response Team are working very diligent-ly and compassionately to discern how Trinity Lutheran Church should respond to the pandemic data available. The difference between what we can do and what we should do is sometimes great. Your leaders are collaborating and working overtime to generate a phased plan to safely reopen the build-ing for worship and other gatherings. However, we don’t anticipate it being safe to begin phasing for some time—unfortunately, the Covid pandemic is in control of the timeline, and not us. For now, our pastors and Health Response Team recommend staying the course with our virtual worship services. The period of time—between now and normal—may be long; so, let’s continue to support, pray for, and uplift each other in the ways we can!
Let’s Celebrate Women in Ministry
June 29 marked the 50th anniversary of the vote that made it possible for women to be ordained ministers in the Lutheran church. Cantor Emily Bruflat from First Lutheran Church in St. Peter, created a worship service to celebrate this milestone! This event will be on Facebook, today, August 9 at 3:00 pm. The event will feature special music with hymns and texts written by women and reflections from pastors who are women, including our own Pastor Joy. Celebrate women in ministry today by joining the worship service here.
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Staying Connected in Digital Times
There are Trinity members without access to the local TV cable channel 7 and/or computer broadcasts of our worship services. We are in the process of getting them set up with TV/DVD players in their homes. Here is how you can help...
If you have a small TV/DVD combo or portable/travel DVD player that is no longer being used in your house we would be grateful to have it donated for their use.
If you know of anyone who needs to have TV/DVD players set up in their home, let us know. If you are a person who needs this setup, we have a few available already.
Please contact Nancy Hanson for anything related to this important project at nmhanson @hickorytech.net or 507-317-5436.
Contact: Pastor Nikoli Falenschek
children, youth & family ministry
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Fall Programming
We will be starting the programming year online and at-home. Sunday School will kick off on September 6, Confirmation will kick off on September 9, and High School Youth Group on Sep-tember 13 — all programs will join a combination of online content and physical materials, and none will meet in person. In order to gauge how we can best structure these programs and most sensibly serve our families, we will be sending a survey to our families sometime soon. Please keep an eye out for that survey and be sure to make your voice heard by participating!
Pastor Nikoli has a blog platform on our website where he can respond quickly to the ever-changing world and its events. Many of you have been wondering what your leaders think about the murder of George Floyd and the pro-tests happening in the Twin Cities and across the nation. Check out trinitystpeter.org/blog to get his take on the situation.
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What Can I Do….?!
What can I do to be part of the solution and not part of the problem of racism? Perhaps you’ve asked the question in the past and are asking the question again. If you’d like to be part of a time for conversation, study, learning and growing please join Pastor Joy on Wednesday nights at 7:00 pm via Zoom. Send an email to [email protected] to get the link.
Grace Street Bible Study
In case you have not heard, Grace street is available through Zoom! Zoom is an interactive pro-gram that allows you – through your computer, tablet, ipad or some sort of device – to see and hear other participants and they will see and hear you too! If you do not have a “device” you can simply call from your phone. All are invited to be part of this Bible study. Please join us Thurs-days at 10:30 am. If you are interested, please send an email to Pastor Joy at [email protected] to sign up.
Offering Options
It is important for us to maintain our levels of offerings during this time when we are not worship-ping in person. If you usually give weekly while at church please mail your offering to Trinity. Here are some other options: Text: send message to 844-373-8817 with the amount you would like to contribute (example: 25). App: download GivePlus through your app store. Web: click on the Give button on our website. Thank you for supporting the mission and ministry of TLC.
Keep them Coming!
We are still collecting Family Fresh receipts. Thank you to those who have been sending them. The use of the Direct you Dollar funds will be determined by Church Council in the future. In the meantime, please send your receipts by mail to the church or drop them off in our “mailbox” by the parking lot entrance doors. The mailbox is typically out during morning hours. Thank you for sup-porting the ministry of Trinity.
Volunteer Needed
We are in need of one person (or more if from same household) to load and deliver about 25 boxes of donations to a thrift store. The boxes are here at the church. Masks will need to be worn and social distancing guidelines will be followed. Contact Jen in the church office if you can help. Thank you.
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