Beloved in the Lord, As you all know, Trinity Church runs the Alpha Course at the Washington County Jail, as well as here at our own building. The Alpha Course does two things for us as a community. First, it is a simple, respectful, fun way to share the gospel with our friends and neighbors. Evangelism can feel like a big scary proposition, but inviting someone for a meal and a discussion feels much more natural. The second thing the course does for us is enrich our disciple

God is always at work, and no expression of loving your neighbor is ever wasted.

Helping others to know the great love God has for them is amazing, miraculous and beautiful. It is also heartbreaking, frustrating and hard.

Beloved in the Lord, A resource Jamey and I use often is the website: https://www.dailyoffice2019.com/ This site brings up the daily offices: Morning, Midday, Evening and Compline prayer services, with all the Scriptures included. It even has an audio version. One of their new features is to give a history of different Saints, according to their feast days. I wanted to share this informative feature with you. Below is the information for Cyril of Alexandria, whose feast day w

We cannot swim against the current in our own strength. We need to be still. We need to trust that God will carry us to a safe place and rescue us.

Hello Saints, As most of you know by now we lost Karen Halligan on Tuesday of this week. This is a little less than a year since that family also lost Jeremy. If you haven't already, please reach out to her husband Steve by emailing stephen.halligan@usa.net or by sending a card to: 240 Hawthorne Road, Washington PA 15301. It's at times like this when being part of a loving church community can be so important. We of course have the comfort of knowing that she is now with Je

I had two conversations this week about assurance. One was with someone who was lamenting their own lack of assurance-they struggle to trust that they are forgiven and saved because they can see the sin in their own life. The second conversation was with my husband. We were at a funeral recently where assurance of salvation and eternal life was NOT preached-even though the deceased was a professing Christian. Article 11 of the 39 Articles, a foundational document of Anglican

Hello Saints, First a quick reminder that tomorrow is the bishop's annual visit to Trinity. We will be receiving two people into the Anglican Communion as well. We encourage everyone to make it to church this weekend if you can. As an added incentive, there will be a tasty feast for coffee hour afterwards! So for movie night this week we watched an older movie, Field of Dreams (1989). This was one of my favorites as a young adult. I actually owned a Laser Disc copy (if you

As the season for vacations begins, Jamey and I thought we’d make some suggestions for summer reading. These are books we love, or authors we love, in both fiction and non-fiction. We also got some suggestions from our son and our Bishop!

Hello Saints, I recently listened to a in interview with author and Anglican priest The Rev. Tish Harrison Warren. She is the author of two amazing books, Liturgy of the Ordinary & Prayer in the Night. She is also a columnist for the New York Times. Both Tracey and I would highly recommend her writings, and, well, she also happens to be one of Tracey's friends. Warren's latest offering is called What Grows in Weary Lands: On Christian Resilience. The book was the subject of

Hello Saints, First, as a follow-up to those who are wondering how our daughter is doing after the bus accident on Sunday, she is emotionally shaken but, miraculously, physically well. She even has returned to work. I don't have much more to say on that other than we are still emotionally processing the horror of the accident and the joy that she is both alive and, all this considered, relatively unhurt. It truly is a miracle. We had a great discussion tonight at supper clu

Beloved in the Lord, Last Wednesday at the Contemplative Prayer Service, (7 to 8.30pm every Wednesday, all are welcome!) we read part of Isaiah chapter two. A line from verse 3 caught my attention: He will teach us His ways, so that we may walk in His paths. I wonder what the paths of the Lord look like. Are they springy turf dotted with delicate wild flowers? Are they smoothly laid stones, so perfectly engineered that even a blade of grass cannot divide them? Or are the path

Bono in Belfast to help Good Friday Accords Passage Hello Saints, It's great to be back from our vacation camping out in a Yurt at Keystone State Park. We had a wonderful time resting, eating, going for walks, and listening to/reading books. You might notice i didn't say playing cards. That's because TRACEY had fun playing cards. I was 1-6. One of the little joys was that I got to listen to the latest EP release by U2, Easter Lily. It's actually the second EP the band has r

Hello Saints, First, I want everyone to know that so far our Spring Alpha Course has been going very well. The first week we had 9 guests from the community. They enjoyed it enough to invite others so that this week we had 14! Next week is the last week new guests can join so if you know anyone who was on the fence encourage them to come next Friday and check it out. The Atlantic Magazine's cover story this month snagged my interest. It's no surprise why. It's by staff writ

We need to remember to pledge our allegiance to the Lamb, not the donkey or the elephant. Our nation, our kingdom, is not of this world.

Hello Saints, We thought we would give an update on our giving financials for the first half of the year. The good news is that because...

Of reports and praise for those who showed up to our first opportunity to feed those at the City Mission in Washington, PA.

Of vacation returns, opportunities to feed the hungry and the existence of Christian love songs.