Trinity congregational council will be abiding by the Synod directive to suspend worship services and find alternative ways to participate in worship and in our community of faith until it is deemed safe to resume.
The best source of up to date information on our local situation, self-care, self-monitoring and self-isolation can be found on the website – www.Saskatchewan.ca/coronavirus

A Letter from Pastor Mark...…
Grace and peace to you from God our Father and from our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ.  I pray the blessings of our ever-present Lord rest upon you and pray that you are staying safe and staying healthy as we move into the summer months and work through continuing movements of re-opening in our province.
Summer is here.  Maybe it hasn’t felt very much like summer as we have had so many cool days and so much rain but, indeed, summer has arrived.
As summer proceeds, more opportunities may become available for being out and even getting away.  Many people, maybe you as well, enjoy going to a lake for some holidays.  And one of the pastimes people like to engage in at the lake is swimming.
I think that swimming is a good analogy for what the life of faith can be like.  Think of faith as a body of water – a lake.  There are many people in our world who are “still on the shore”.  They are afraid or unsure of the water and would rather lie on the beach and so they never experience the cool, refreshment of God’s grace and goodness.
Some people become “waders”.  They’ve stuck their toe into the waters of faith and taken a few steps in.  They worship occasionally or maybe come to a church activity but are not fully sure about taking the plunge.  They see those who are out deeper, splashing and diving with smiles and laughter, and they long to join them but feel hesitant about leaving the comfortable shallows.
Others move from the shallows and become “swimmers”.  They learn that the waters of God will support them.  They may not know all the fancy strokes but they are learning! There are times when they cannot wait to get to worship and come into God’s presence with His people.  They take part in classes, offer their time and talents in various ways.  They are coming to know the joy of being immersed, “dunked under (which is the literal meaning of the Greek word for baptized)”, in God’s love and find that their daily life is different because of what is happening in their spiritual life.
Some who are swimmers learn to become “deep sea divers”.  They are at home with God anywhere and everywhere and God leads them into deeper waters.  They strap on the “scuba tanks” of Scripture, prayer and worship and are led by God into the mysterious and beautiful depths of His presence.  They trust God with everything and faith is the center of every aspect of their life – family, work, play, finances, etc.
And there are some who learn to become “lifeguards”.  They have the privilege (and responsibility) of teaching others to swim.  They call out to those “on the shore” inviting them to come to the waters.  They help the “waders” to take steps toward the deeps, to learn to float first supported by God’s grace and the communion of saints.  They take on leadership roles within the community of believers and they work hard to keep their skills sharp so that they can be there when someone needs their help.
            So how’s your “swimming”?  In our Baptism, God brought us into the waters of faith.  We were, and continue to be, encountered by a loving God who tells us that He does not reach for us with judgment and condemnation, guilt or shame.  God reveals to us through Jesus Christ that, in Him, there is acceptance and meaning and purpose and life.
           
Martin Luther wrote about being encountered by this deep and real love of God.  He said: “Anyone who has had even a faint taste of it can never write, speak, meditate, or hear enough concerning it.  It IS a living spring of water, welling up to eternal life.” (Luther’s – “A Treatise on Christian Liberty”)
            So – come on in, the water’s fine!!
(Meditation inspired by Kelly Fryer’s book “Reclaiming the ‘L’ Word: Renewing the Church From Its Lutheran Core”)
 Yours in Christ,
            Pastor Mark
 
One of the joys of camping and the outdoors is that there are lots of lakes to visit.  The metaphor from my devotion is of lakes as the body of faith.  This summer our worship is going to take us to “different lakes” as we partner with some of our Saskatoon ELCiC sister churches.
           
I include the schedule for you to reference as the summer proceeds:
July 12th      Trinity provides worship for all congregations which will include all partners of the 7 Saskatoon ELCiC congregations
July 19th      King of Glory provides worship for Resurrection and Trinity partner congregations
July 26th      Resurrection provides worship for King of Glory and Trinity
Aug 2nd      Each congregation provides worship on their own. 
Aug 9th       Zion Lutheran provides worship for all congregations of the 7 Saskatoon ELCiC communities
Aug 16th     Resurrection provides worship for King of Glory and Trinity
Aug 23rd     King of Glory provides worship for Resurrection and Trinity
Aug 30th     Trinity provides worship for Resurrection and King of Glory
 
On the designated Sunday members are encouraged to go to the ELCiC website (www.saskatoonelcic.com) to find the link to worship there.  Or go direct to the host congregation’s website to hear or view worship as each congregation provides worship in their style. 
 
(www.koglutheranchurch.com for King of Glory
and www.resurrectionlutheranchurch.ca for Resurrection).  
I recommend the site for the 7 churches as easiest to navigate

Welcome!

Greetings and blessings to all!
 
     I welcome you to our congregational website and hope that you will take a moment to look around. We hope that there will be opportunity to share our faith and we hope that you might get introduced to, or maybe come to know a little bit more, the family of faith that is Trinity Lutheran Church.
  
    We invite you to contact us if you find problems or issues with anything on our website. And we encourage you in your walk with Christ. If you are searching for a worship home, or for opportunity to grow in your walk, we hope that you would consider Trinity Lutheran as a place and a people who can support and encourage you along that way!
 
Pastor Mark 

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