By the time you read this article we will be more than halfway through Lent. What a Blessed Lent we have had so far. The Wednesday Lenten dinners and program have been very well attended.We meet for Evening Prayer at 6:00pm; dinner at 6:30; and the program beginsat 7:00. Becky Mathis-Stump hasdone an excellent job of exploring our individual gifts and how they can be used and combined to further God’s kingdom here at Trinity. We are very appreciative of Becky’s efforts and everyone that has helped to coordinate the meals and provided food.Our observance of the Stations of the Cross on Fridays has also been very well attended. We have between 16 – 20 people for the Stations and almost everyone goes out to dinner afterwards. I want to say thanks to our resident “cruise director” Lynn Fury-Prather for coordinating the reservations. We continue our efforts to restore the Rectory (the office building) and the youth area on the second floor. We finished the plaster work and painting on the first floor which also led up to the secondfloor andeven the stairway to the third. We did some clean up and organization of the youth rooms, including adding a flat panel TV for the XBox 360 game donated for the youth. With the pool table, the videogames, and a ping pong table that can be pulled out of the closet and put into use in the hallway, it is quite a space the youth can be proud of and invite their friends to come see. We are interested in some appropriate furniture, maybe a sectional couch. If you have something to donate, please contact Tiffany Deem to discuss. Of course Tiffany’s office is up there and thanks to the prior efforts of Marion Culbertson, it is quite an office for Tiffany to use as our Director of Religious Education. We also cleaned up the old “pewroom” and have put it back into use. We have it set up for two purposes right now. The first is a“war room” so that Tiffany, Terry, and I can gather information and focus our attention on continuing to build on our youth programs. Feel free to stop in anytime and see it. The room will also be used by Joan Ramsay, who has agreed to help coordinate with our Communications Director, Jim Full the inhouse pictorial directory. Tim Northrup has donated some office furniture and computer equipment for that use. We are in the process of getting it all hooked up to our network so Joan can work on the directory.Watch for more information to come. As a reminder, we are encouraging the use of the Adams Chapel in the Rectory as a quiet space for prayer anytime the building is open. Even though we have outgrown this Chapel for our Wednesday service it is still a beautiful and spiritual space in our Church. So I encourage you to take advantage of this chapel, any time you are near the church, for prayer and quiet reflection. Feel free to close the door if you desire more privacy. You can see we have a lot of exciting things happening. Please, come and be a part of what God is doing here at Trinity, and as always, bring a friend. God bless you one and all,
Father Paul