Hi, Everybody: First, some sad news: Doris Sampson passed away peacefully this morning at 2 am at the age of 102. Please keep her friends and family in your prayers. There are no plans yet for a memorial service. This Sunday, April 19, is the Second Sunday of Easter, also known as “Doubting Thomas Sunday” since …
Christ is Risen! SO now what do we do? Easter is over, and we have moved on to the “shelter in place” of the week. But just because we have headed back into our new normal everyday lives, does not mean that we should be any less excited or passionate about the fact that Christ …
Devotions from Tri-City ELCA Pastors – Pastor Tim of Holy Trinity, April 17, 2020 Read More »
Which day is today? No, don’t look at the calendar. Would you have known it? Well, I get mixed up these days. What did we have for breakfast? Oatmeal? Ok, that means it has to be a weekday. Or a Sunday. We never have time for a fancy breakfast on Sundays. Did the kids have …
Devotions from Tri-City ELCA Pastors – Pastor Tia of Christ the King, April 15, 2020 Read More »
Cast all your anxiety on God, who cares for you. 1 Peter 5:7 Dear Church, Last week I wrote about how encouraged I was by the industrious little birds building their nest by our back door. Well, you can imagine my dismay when I saw a big blue jay attacking that very nest! I saw …
Devotions from Tri-City ELCA Pastors – Pastor Barbara of Holy Redeemer, April 13, 2020 Read More »
Rejoice with us! Though we can’t all be together for Easter, we are still celebrating the resurrection of Christ with a worship service, sermon and song. Today’s worship service was recorded by conference call, and other parts were recorded at different times and places. Please see our bulletin if you’d like to follow along and participate. Full Worship …
Good Good Friday, Everybody: Hopefully you all got my email with the link to our Good Friday video service, but just in case, here it is again: https://holytrinityfremont.org/good-friday-service-april-10-2020/To put your mind at ease, please note that we were way more that 6 feet away from each other when recording it. The reading parts were done from our own homes via …
Good Friday Service Video We invite you to join us in viewing the video for our Good Friday Service – Mary’s Reflections at the Stations of the Cross. We hope you find it moving and inspiring: Click here for a bulletin for the service
The Cross. It was an instrument of torture, a cruel form of death reserved for rebels, robbers, and criminals of various kinds. So cruel and painful was the practice that Roman law forbade its use on any Roman citizen. Nails were driven through the hands and feet and, more often than not, the person being …
Devotion from Pastor Tim of Holy Trinity, April 10, 2020 Read More »
Dear siblings in Christ, here is the major thing. Our churches are closed. For good reasons, obviously. I would have never thought that I once in my life had to beg people to stay at home – even during Holy Week. The (church-)world has turned upside down. For the last 3 weeks Sunday mornings have …
Devotions from Tri-City ELCA Pastors – Pastor Tia, April 08, 2020 Read More »
25 “Therefore I tell you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat or what you will drink, or about your body, what you will wear. Is not life more than food, and the body more than clothing? 26 Look at the birds of the air; they neither sow nor reap nor gather …
Devotion from Pastor Barbara of Holy Redeemer, April 06, 2020 Read More »
