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A monthly newsletter of Trinity United Methodist Church ...a Stephen Ministry Congregation Volume 21, Issue 4 April 2021 Come & See … Unexpected Glory The Easter Cross Holy Week Events Easter Egg Hunt Children’s Sunday School Lessons Sunday School Class Map Easter Lilies HomeTouch Reading Memorials/Honoraria Thank You Notes Egg-stra Facts We Care for One Another Sympathies Birthdays and Anniversaries Righteousness Believing In … Go & Tell Open Hearts Open Minds Open Open Doors Hearts Open Minds Open Doors At Easter, we celebrate the unexpected glory of Jesus’ resurrection. We gather as a community of believers to share this amazing story. Our proclamation is little different today than when Mary proclaimed her story to the disciples. They bury Jesus in a borrowed tomb. Jesus’ friends came to the tomb on the first day of the week. The stone was rolled away. It was not rolled away that he might come out, but that they might go in. Jesus was not there. Jesus appears to Mary. Mary follows Jesus’ calling to tell her story. From that day, Jesus has been calling men and women to share their stories, to preach the good news of the resurrection of Christ. Are you willing to look for God working in the world in surprising ways? How can we on this Easer Sunday experience the Resurrected Christ anew? As the morning sun rises in the east, let us remember that wonderful day when Mary and the disciples arrived at the empty tomb. Jesus called Mary to share in the unexpected glory of that first Easter. Jesus is still calling us today to share in Christ’s unexpected glories. Tresco E. Shannon THE EASTER CROSS We will begin placing flowers on the cross located on the front lawn of the church on Saturday, April 3, at 5:30 PM. Bring your flowers and join us. If you cannot come, leave your flowers at the foot of the cross. If you do not have flowers at home to share for the cross, your grocery store has beautiful bouquets! If you cannot join us on Saturday, we will be at the cross again at 8:30 AM on Easter morning. Come, bring your flowers and your children and/or grandchildren, and help complete the beautiful resurrection cross! Thank you from your Worship Committee! Lana Hudson, Chairperson Palm Sunday Services Maundy/Holy Thursday Service Sunday, March 28 Thursday, April 1, 7:00 PM 8:45 AM and 11:00 AM Worship Service with Holy Communion Easter Sunday Services Sunday, April 4 8:45 AM and 11:00 AM Saturday, April 3 at 10:00 AM Calling all children ages 3 through 5th grade! We would like for you to join us in our Annual Easter Egg Hunt! Bring your Easter baskets and meet us at Easter Candy Needed!! the Cordie Page Building! If you are a child in 6th grade through age 90, please feel free We need your help providing candy to fill eggs to join the fun by helping hide eggs, providing non-chocolate for the Easter Egg Hunt! candy by Thursday, April 1, to the church office, or bringing Please bring individually wrapped, non- refreshments to share on April 3. chocolate candy by the church office no later Hop on over to Trinity!! than Thursday, April 1. Thank you! Children’s Sunday School Lessons for April Week 1: What does Easter mean? Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HL8R158Ujp4&list=PLYn06r4leL_RguA_6LO- 11rkjEsNb21oa&index=7 Song to sing: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rn84AYtFUSM Family Suggestion: Have a nice big meal together and share all the reasons you’re thankful for God, kinda like Thanksgiving but focused on God! Week 2: Balaam’s Donkey Lesson: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3PfIng59exg Song to Sing: https://www.youtube.com/watch? v=EVh1RlGBnxQ&list=PLIrwxXyh4FZgO89UAULHE23cP3B_z-pWe&index=27 Family Suggestion: Go on a walk with your dog or spend quality time with another pet and talk about how weird it would be if they started talking to you! Week 3: Rahab Lesson: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tWkbq50tH5A Song to Sing: https://youtu.be/2C_9oOoaWB8 Family Suggestion: Bake something together and talk about how every single part(even the parts that only require 1 tsp) are very important to the final result, just as each and every one of us, no matter our mis- takes, is important to the church of God. Week 4: The Israelites Cross the Jordan Lesson: https://youtu.be/FVDU4XnbolI Song to Sing: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Iyp7WNusPDg Family Suggestion: Watch an episode of a show where people do unbelievable things(ie man v food) and talk about how crazy it is that people are capable of so much but how even CRAZIER it is what God can do with us when we follow. Little Fish Minnows Class Big Fish Class First Floor In-person Sunday School is tentatively scheduled to resume on Sunday, May 2. Check the maps on this page to see where your class will be meeting. The Joy Class is not pictured, but it will meet in Ladies Purpose the Fellowship Hall. Seekers Class Second Floor Ladies Fellowship Men’s Toddlers Nursery Class Fellowship Class Class Choir Middle Faith School Purpose Class Y’ALL Youth Driven Class Class Class High Handbells School Youth Class Easter Lilies Given in Memory of… Amy Metts, by Robert & Irene Booth Patrick Henry, by Marvis & Pat Henry Tracy Graham & her dad Grier Johnson, Jr, by Shirley Long Johnson Alyson Iglesias, by Bryan & Nancy Hopkins Cyril & Frances Anderson, by Cindy Mills Their son, Charles Fox, by Bill and Alta Fox Robert & Louise McCord, by Bryan & Nancy Hopkins Alan Nagy, by Joe & Lana Hudson Elbert Long, by Athene Long & family Terry Long Anderson, by Athene Long & family Carlisle & Frances Floyd, by Olivia Garren & Karen Nobles Barry Garren, by Olivia Garren & family Bob Fortson, by his wife, children & grandchildren Billy Dillard, by the Webster family Hilda Talbert, by the Fortson & Webster families Mr & Mrs Howard Webster, by Kellah, David & Nicholas Webster Capt. & Mrs Nelson Fortson, by the Fortson & Webster families Wilson Webb, by Craig & Melinda Hyman Evelyn Dunn, by Pete & Genie Peterson Charles Cutts, by Pete & Genie Peterson Margaret Nixon, by Russ Nixon L. R. Nixon, by Russ Nixon Given in Honor of… Robyn Culbertson, by Robert & Irene Booth Angela Booth, by Robert & Irene Booth Her Children and Grandchildren, by Shirley Long Johnson Trinity’s Music Ministry, by Dale & Patty Grunsky Lana Fortson, by her children and grandchildren Nicholas Webster, by his parents David Webster, by Kellah & Nicholas Webster Gage Jr., Grace & Gage Fortson, by Kellah, David & Nicholas Webster Bryn, Bret, Lana, & Lilly Ginn, by Kellah, David & Nicholas Webster Ward Johnson, by Audrey V. Johnson Lee Faulconbridge, by Audrey V. Johnson Her sister, Barbara, by Margaret Henry Their grandchildren, by Don & Brenda Murphy Girl Scout Dear Trinity Church family, Recognition We are deeply grateful for your many acts of kindness during the unexpected illness and death of our brother Sunday Charles. Your prayers and God’s presence comforted us on this April 25 bitter-sweet journey. With love, Genie Peterson Buck & Edward Cutts April 4 Easter lilies Chancel Vases— Anonymous donor 11 In honor of their grandchildren with love, by Stan and Martha Cross 18 In memory of Ed Kemm by Gail Kemm & son Ned 25 In memory of Henry Davis by Barbara Davis Egg-stra facts • Although Easter eggs were once part of pagan spring festivals, they’ve become Christian symbols of new life. A cracked-open shell also represents Jesus’ empty tomb on Easter morning. • The early Christians of Mesopotamia began staining eggs red in honor of Jesus’ blood shed on the cross. Red eggs remain part of Greek Orthodox celebrations today. • For Lent, some families used to give up eggs and dairy, so they prepared a pancake feast on Shrove Tuesday, the day before Ash Wednesday. They solved the egg surplus by hard-boiling them in various broths, which led to colored eggs. • In medieval times, churches held “egg-throwing” festivals. The priest threw a hard-boiled egg toward the choir boys, who tossed it back and forth. When the clock struck 12, whoever was holding the egg got to keep it. • In some European countries, children go from house to house to collect Easter eggs. • Each year, the PAAS Dye Co. sells more than 10 million egg-coloring kits, which consumers use to decorate 180 million eggs. • The tallest chocolate Easter egg ever produced weighed 16,000 pounds — more than an elephant! Scripture Reading: 1 John 3:1-7 He who is not contented with what he has, would not be content with what he would like to have. ―Socrates One day, my wife and I were traveling through the southwest en route to Fort Worth, Texas. We stopped in Albuquerque one afternoon where we booked a room to relax for the rest of the day. I took a walk and saw many interesting things, including a pottery shop, an art museum and a precious metals store that featured fine turquoise jewelry. And then I saw a flea market. It was amazing! I saw furniture, clothing, fruit, vegetables, shoes, leather goods, collectibles, toys, books, cars, artwork, tools, toiletries, cosmetics and cookware, among other things. And then I saw this sign: “If we don’t have it, you don’t need it!” Wonderful! It was as though the Lord was speaking to me about my own life: “Timothy, if you don’t have it, you don’t need it. Trust Me!” I decided to do some research. I learned that the first version of this marketing expression appeared in 1907 in The Dallas Morning News in an ad for the Palace Drug Store.