����������������� �������������������� Vol. XXIX ������������ No. 10 ������������� May 13, 2007 115 N. 4th St. Stillwater, MN 55082 ����������������������������������������� TODAY���������������������������� Trinity Summer Camps 2007 Trinity Day Camp Vacation Bible SchoolAt Trinity Bay Lake Camp At Trinity Deerwood, MN ����������������������������������������� Ages 3-Grade 2 Grades 3-6 Aug. 13-16 Aug. 13-16 ���������������������������� 9:30-11:30 a.m. 9:30 a.m.-2:30 p.m. Grades 3-6 June 21-24 Youth Summer Camp Parent Meetings Parents, please come to the Florida Beach Camp appropriate meeting to get packing lists, make payments, and ask questions. students having completed Confirmation Camp Senior High Florida Beach Camp Quadna Resort & Retreat Center Mon., May 28, 7-8 p.m. Grades 9-12 Hill City, MN Quadna Confi rmation Camp July 29-Aug. 4 Tue., May 29, 7-8 p.m. NEW DATE! ����������������������������������������� Grades 7 & 8 ���������������������������� July 9-13 or July 13-17 Bay Lake Camp ������������������������������Thu., May 31, 7-8 p.m. NEW DATE! ������������������������ SUMMER Ellingson’s Hidden Pines STRETCH Two-Day Bible Camp ������������������������������Bible Camp See details Hidden Pines Ranch, Stillwater All five ���������������������������������Counselor-in weeks: $100 on page 8! completed Kindergarten-Grade 7 Training students having completed June 14 & 15 Stillwater Grades 3-5 & 8:15 a.m.-4:30 p.m. Entering Grades 6-8 Grades 8-10 Register online: www1.minn.net/~hpr June 13, 27; July 18, 25; Aug. 8 or call 430-1282 June 13-15 8:30 a.m.-4p.m. If you have questions about any of these camps, please contact Sara Stenstrom at ext. 145 or email her at [email protected]. All camp registration forms are available at www.trinitylc.org worship o p p o r t u n i t i e s trinity May 12 & 13 transportation • Saturday, 5 p.m.: Worship, Communion • Sunday, 9 a.m.: Worship, Communion, Nursery Sunday van schedule • Sunday, 10:30 a.m.: The Walk, Communion, Nursery Trinity’s van will be available during • Sunday, 6 p.m.: The River (Grades 9-12 youth worship) the Sunday 9 a.m. worship service. A van ride is available for members May 19 & 20 or non-members lacking other means • Saturday, 5 p.m.: Worship, Communion of transportation. Please call the • Sunday, 9 a.m.: Worship, Communion, Nursery • Sunday, 10:30 a.m.: The Walk, Communion, Nursery Church Offi ce (439-7400) between • Sunday, 6 p.m.: The River (Grades 9-12 youth worship) 9 a.m. Wed. and 4 p.m. Thurs. to reserve your seat each week. Estimated pick-up times at senior residences if you have reserved a seat are: remember in your prayers 8:15 a.m. – Boutwells Landing Please notify the Trinity offi ce at 439-7400 if you or anyone you know has 8:25 a.m. – Raymie Johnson a prayer need, or when you or a loved one is hospitalized (the hospitals do 8:35 a.m. – Croixdale NOT notify us of admissions), has a baby or a death occurs in the family. Please contact 8:40 a.m. – Oakridge Jane Backe at 439-6006 or Jan Most at 436-7264 for prayer team submissions. 8:45 a.m. – Rivertown Commons Known to have been hospitalized/support in prayer • Bob Safe • Jason Jahnke • Joyce Arones • Leroy Swanson worship Altar Flowers a t t e n d a n c e • May 12 & 13 – In honor of the baptism of Addison Teply, given by Julia, Lauren, Brynne, Ella and Oren April 28 & 29 5 p.m. 81 Baptisms 9 a.m. 280 • Jonathan Estuardo Lande, son of Eric & Christine Lande 10:30 a.m. 210 • Talon Michael Lane, son of Josh & Lori Lane May 5 & 6 • Benjamin Clayton Stoffer, son of Dan & Amy Stoffer 5 p.m. 182 9 a.m. 364 Deaths 10:30 a.m. 233 Sympathy is extended to... • LeRoy Swanson on the death of his sister, Jane Strohrich. • The family and friends of Dave Swanson whose funeral was held at Trinity on May 1. treasurer’s c o r n e r TODAY PublicationPublication Number:Number: A long measuring stick: 16 weeks long! USPS 1509-650 If we want to see how we are measuring up in the “new” year of 2007, the best Published every other week by time to get a good reading is after Easter. The way Easter works with the calendar, Trinity Lutheran Church 115 N. 4th St., Box 339, Stillwater, MN 55082 however, sometimes is a challenge if we want to make year-to-year comparisons. Editor: Mary Steffl This year, we had to go a full 16 weeks to be able to make a fair fi rst comparison of Design & Layout: Amy Shalles contributions between 2006 and 2007. Articles for the next Trinity Today (issue dated May 27), are due before Total contributions for 2007 to date are about 9% ahead of the fi rst 16 weeks of 2 p.m., Wed., May 16, to arrive in your 2006. Easter 2007 vs Easter 2006 was ahead by about 7.5%. These are encouraging mailbox beginning May 24. trends. I am praying for them to continue for the rest of the year! Here are income Offi ce: 651-439-7400 Fax: 651-430-2935 numbers for the 16-week period: E-mail: [email protected] First 16 weeks of the year: 2006 2007 Web Site: www.trinitylc.org Contribution Income $434,425 $473,467 Trinity Today is also available in full-color for download at Trinity’s web site. All Other Income $254,721 $306,845 Postmaster: Send address changes to Trinity Total Income $689,146 $780,312 Lutheran Church, PO Box 339, Stillwater, MN 55082. I only have access to our expense data through the end of March, but the amounts are within 2% of where we would like to see them after the fi rst quarter. Our staff is continuing its careful management and stewardship of our fi nancial resources – I say, “thanks, and keep up the good work!” And now it is time for us as members to do our stewardship part as we look forward to the rest of the year. I’d like to feel just as good about our year-to-date contributions after 16 more weeks, as I do about the fi rst 16 weeks! 2 - Jeff Anderson, treasurer care m i n i s t r i e s adult learning & With Pastor Kris Linner g r o w i n g I love spring; the beauty of greening Do you enjoy knitting? grass, budding trees and blooming Would you like to learn? If so, join the flowers. There is so much for all our knitting group on the last Friday of senses to take in as the dormancy of the every month at the Bead Alley. We knit earth bursts forth with new life. for missions making leper bandages, Spring, a time that sings of renewed children’s sweaters (a new pattern is hope and of song birds who have available), baby hats and booties, and returned from their winter haven, prayer shawls. Contact Kris Linner at reminds me that hope does spring ext. 107 or [email protected] if you eternal. have questions. The poet Emily Dickinson wrote: Yoga Devotion Hope is the thing with feathers is in the hospital, at home with an Summer Session extended illness, or has moved to a care That perches in the soul Tuesdays, June 12-July 31, 6-7 p.m. center or assisted living facility. And sings the tune without words Luther Hall; Cost: $50 And never stops at all. If you or a loved one is in the Come explore using the physical hospital please call the Joan Chittister says this about hope: practice of yoga to still your mind. Church Office to let us know. “When tragedy strikes, when trouble Hospitals don’t inform us when a Through simple yoga poses, you will comes, when life disappoints us, we member of Trinity is hospitalized. open your body, mind and spirit to stand at the crossroads between hope We are also interested in knowing if the presence of God. The practice of and despair, torn and hurting. Despair a member has become homebound, stillness creates space for the Holy cements us in the present; hope sends us because we have Home Communion Spirit to move in our hearts, bring dancing around dark corners trusting in Friends waiting to bring communion. clarity to our thoughts and stability for a tomorrow we cannot see. Despair says Please let us know if you have our emotions. Instructor: Jason Herd. that there is no place to go but here. experienced the death of a loved one, Contact Diane Rollie at ext. 141 or Hope says begin again.” so that we can hold you in prayer. If [email protected] to register. you are in need of support due to an This spring I hope you dance with hope illness, a death or a life crisis, and are Retired Men’s Group as the song birds sing. unable to reach someone in the Tue., May 15, 9 a.m. – Garden Room P.S. If you know someone from the Church Office, leave a message on At the next Retired Men’s Group Trinity community who is celebrating Trinity’s automated phone system meeting join us as we hear guest speaker by dialing “seven” to reach the a new child in their home, please let the Pastor Dan Poffenberger speak about Church Office know. We have a gift for confidential Mutual Care line and a pastor will respond to your message. “The Church of Our Grandchildren.” the child and a meal for the parents.