Archive for the 'Pastor’s Message' Category

New Sunday School Teacher!

Friday, October 7th, 2011

Welcome to Trinity! I’d like to introduce to you Jaime Borotz, our new Sunday School Teacher! Jaime is a UW student majoring in Elementary Education and Spanish, is fluent in Spanish, and has experience teaching children in a church setting. She will be teaching the children ages 7 through 11 three Sundays a month. Jaime’s [...]

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Living Your Strengths Workshop

Saturday, October 1st, 2011

At Trinity UMC we are ‘living our strengths.’  Already twenty of us have done the “strength finder” inventory . Jim Wells of UW-Madison has been teaching us how God has uniquely gifted us as individuals and as a church.  ”Living Your Strengths: Discover Your God-Given Talents and Inspire Your Community” by Winseman, Clifton and Liesveld [...]

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Winnie, Carlos & Eddie

Monday, September 26th, 2011

Hey Trinity Kids! Have you met us yet? We’re Winnie, Carlos and Ellie, friends of Pastor Marianne. We hang out in a replica of the Ark of the Covenant at Trinity Church. Most Sundays we have a story to share with you all. But we’re not at Trinity Church right now. We’re gone for a [...]

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Change and Growth

Monday, August 1st, 2011

Can you guess who that is in the picture?  Yup, it’s me, dressed up in my toddler finery.  There’s a bumper sticker on my car that reads “Change is inevitable.  Growth is optional.”  Our bodies keep growing and changing.  We have no choice about that.  What we do have a choice about is whether we [...]

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Stirring Up Love

Wednesday, July 20th, 2011

It’s my third week with Trinity UMC and I’m loving it. I grew up not far from here, this congregation has a friendly welcoming spirit, I see so many living their faith, and you are a reconciling congregation. I am passionate about making the UMC inclusive of GBLT people in all aspects of the life [...]

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