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May 2021 Volume 43, Issue 5 trinity 115 4th St. N Stillwater, MN 55082 TODAYBecause God first loved us, we live as Jesus in the world. 651-439-7400 www.trinitylc.org May 2021 volume 43, issue 5 I am the vine, you are the branches. Those who abide in me and I in them bear much fruit, because apart from me you can do nothing. – John 15: 5 Jaxon at the drive-in on Easter Sunday. LEAD PASTOR THE REV. DR. CHRIS BELLEFEUILLE Prayers + son, and family, feeling the blow of processed in community. We invite you Presence + an axe hew away a branch that was to stand with African American church alive in the sun, ready to bear fruit leaders and members in this moment. for many seasons to come. A branch Stand with the NAACP, Urban League, Prophesy cannot die without us feeling it in the and other black-led civil rights and core of who we are. Daunte was our community organizations. Stand with I am the vine, you are the branches. Those brother, his mother our sister, his son courageous young activists who have who abide in me and I in them bear much our son. Daunte was part of God’s relentlessly pressed the issues through the fruit, because apart from me you can do vineyard dream. senseless police killings of Jamar Clark, nothing. – John 15: 5 It is normal to feel grief, frustration, Philando Castile, George Floyd, and now Sometimes it is helpful to be reminded and helplessness in the aftermath of Daunte Wright. that I am not the vine. such a needless tragedy. It is normal to Our commitment to accompaniment It seems obvious, but when one is part feel paralyzed by inaction because we in mission calls us to come alongside of the dominant culture and granted do not know what to do. But we don’t our neighbors, listen to them and with all the privileges therein, it is awfully have to stay in that place of helpless- them, and find our story and theirs easy forget what part I play in God’s ness and inaction. Our faith calls within God’s story. dream. I have been cast in the role of us forward. Prophesy – Presence must turn into a branch. We can look to leaders from the prophesy. Refuse to be comforted. Refuse Vineyard imagery is abundant in Minnesota Council of Churches, to rationalize this killing. Speak truth both the Old and the New Testament Presiding Elder Stacey Smith to power. Call for police accountability. of the Bible. God’s people are often (President), Rev. Dr. Curtiss Paul Call for Minnesota legislators to act on equated to a vineyard, whether DeYoung (CEO), and Rev. Jim Bear proposed police reform bills. Call for a thriving or languishing, fruitful or Jacobs (Director of Racial Justice). system-wide transformation of policing barren. God is the landowner, the vine Prayers – As people of faith we must in Minnesota. tender, the source of all goodness. pray for the family and friends of Our call as Lutheran Christians is, Jesus is the vine, the stout central Daunte Wright who are mourning and as Martin Luther instructed, to call trunk grounding the plant amid the weeping. They are mourning for their child a thing what it is and to serve the storms, sending nourishment through Daunte and weeping for his now fatherless best interest of the most vulnerable branches large and small, lifting the child. We must pray for our neighbors among us. fruit into the sunlight. in Brooklyn Center where this injustice It is normal to feel powerless. We are We are the fruit bearing branches. occurred. We must pray for African not powerless. In partnership with Empowered by life in the risen Americans and People of Color who are other communities of faith and our Christ, we bring delight, sustenance, once again feeling fear, rage, grief, and neighbors, God can work mighty creativity, imagination, invention, love hopelessness. And we must pray for justice power through us, pushing us to and hope into the world; each branch in the ongoing trial of former police officer a future that comes ever closer to imbued with all the love the vineyard Derek Chauvin who killed George Floyd God’s dream. owner can impart. We grow alongside in Minneapolis. We must pray for racial justice and equity in our city, state, In the journey together, branch to and celebrate one another’s fruitful branch, branch to vine, contribution; growing more abundant and nation. when a branch wearies beside us, Prayer is our most powerful collective trusting that when we are weary; our act of faith, professing our belief in a Pastor Chris neighbor will share the load. God who engages and invites us into For more concrete ways to be engaged, With the death of Daunte Wright in relationship and is impacted by our prayer. please see page 4 in this issue or mid-April, I began to wonder: Does visit the Racial Justice Ministry Team not the whole vine shudder when Presence – Prayers must become pres- page on our web site at: https:// any branch is severed? Certainly, ence. In moments like this, outrage is trinitylc.org/welcome/who-we-are/ Jesus cries out with Daunte’s mother, a natural part of grief, which is best racial-justice/. 2 May 2021 • trinity.today. PASTOR OF LIFELONG FAITH FORMATION THE REV. PETER WESTON MILLER May You Continue Pollinating with God’s Easter Love Read more at: https://trinitylc.org/ congregational-life/connections/green- This Spring, Trinity’s Green Team has we value them. How we appreciate team/ been collaboratively offering different their participation in our shared Care opportunities to engage Caring for of Creation. How we seek to live in God’s Creation. We’ve hosted a “Tree harmony with all that God has made. Lady” story time, brainstormed To point out the wild graces of our requests for future visits to Trinity’s shared communities, the truth of community solar garden leaves. different gardens and the language Trinity even received a grant to put of the rest of our God-created in a piece of pollinator lawn on the animate neighbors. multipurpose Green Space. We’ve have good conversation about how we I resonate with the Pollinator Alliance, steward eco-system-wide God’s gifts not just in how we name the mix of and how we continue to pollinate with native species around us, but also the God’s love. suggestion to name our faith in that public yard. In one recorded session with the Adult Faith Forum, Laurie Schneider from It’s the way that we pollinate with the Pollinator Alliance, suggested God’s love in our community. UPDATE: PUERTO RICO to congregants to put signs around It’s one of the myriad ways that we their faithful pollinator projects. To water, that we restore, that we re- MISSION TRIP 2021 be public and visible about your imagine God’s living and eco-wide With sadness, we have made the decision faithful gardening. dream. to cancel the Puerto Rico mission trip “Sometimes it’s really helpful and I’m really grateful for the Green once again for Summer 2021. We will be in people appreciate when you explain Team’s excitement and energy around contact about what this means, what the why you do what you do,” she said. this Trinity pollinating. All for the sake future holds, and how refunds will work. Why you might want a to plant a of the world that God loves. It is not a decision we came to easily, but hedgerow. I know for me that means putting we just could not see a way to provide the kind of trip we wanted to provide as far as Or what helpful micro-friends might in a couple more milkweed and coneflower this season for our safety and experiences go. Thank you to all be grateful that you left that brush pile of the missionaries and sponsors for your in the corner of your yard. pollinators, and some signs to explain why. understanding, support, and flexibility! Or that the bees love to sun their Blessings in all the ways that you We will be looking for other ministry wings on the brightest flagstones or options for the summer. Updates will big rocks. pollinate with God’s love in this season, be posted as they become available at: Pointing out these wild graces of https://trinitylc.org/learning/youth/high- the world around us names how school/. Pastor Peter May 2021 • trinity.today. 3 ACTION ITEMS Trinity Adopts Formal Supporting Trinity’s Together, we explore the racial inequities and history of unconstitutional policies Sabbatical Policy Life-affirming and prejudices. And we ask ourselves By Melanie (Mel) Sullivan, Council President how we can be better neighbors today. Ministries During Trinity’s Racial Justice Ministry Team is “I am the vine, you are the branches.” continuing the practice of weekly action Such a short sentence, but so much this Season of items that began during Lent. meaning associated with this verse. READ: The Minnesota Council of We are all interconnected, with the COVID-19 Churches has issued: Statement on Killing one true source of life being Jesus. By Tim Gillis, Stewardship Team of Daunte Wright in Brooklyn Center by The branches are connected and we Police. How do we respond as a faith receive all the love, nourishment and Thank you for your prayerful community? essentials by believing in Jesus and consideration to support Trinity’s being in service to one another and our life-affirming ministries during this Read at: https://mnchurches.org/ broader community.
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