WORSHIP CENTER CONSTRUCTION

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1 Subscribe Past Issues Translate Volume II No 33 July 28, 2017 View this in your browser WORSHIP CENTER CONSTRUCTION The construction on the Worship Center platform begins this Monday, July 31st. The construction is projected to be finished the week of August 14th. We appreciate your patience the next few Sundays as we make improvements to the platform.

2 TPC WOMEN S FELLOWSHIP Senior & Empty Nester Ladies, this is a reminder that our breakfast fellowship is next Thursday, July 6, at 10:30 a.m. at The Original Pancake House, 5760 Texas 121, Suite 125, Plano, TX (This is on the South side of Sam Rayburn Tollway across from IKEA). Please make plans to join us for coffee and fellowship. RSVP to Caye Cobb (mizcaye@aol.com, ). VOLUNTEER BOOTCAMP WITH ANDREW, JEFF & LISA After the worship service on August 13th and 20th, Lisa Eubanks will be giving an ESL worker training in room 130, Andrew Simmons will be giving a nursery worker training in room 230 and Jeff Morrow will be giving a greeter/usher training in room 228. If you work in any of these ministries in any capacity then you are required to attend one the to trainings offered for your given ministry area. We will provide pizza in the education wing, but we ask that anyone who attends donate towards covering the cost. There will be a basket next to the pizza for donations.

3 TASTE OF TRINITY Three times per year, Trinity s Community Groups host a Sunday luncheon called Taste of Trinity right after church in honor of our most recent newcomers. If you re new to Trinity, we would love for you to be our guest on Sunday, August 27th, from 12:15-1:30 p.m. You ll have a chance to meet other Trinity newcomers as well as getting to know the folks who are serving as your hosts. While we re eating dessert, Mike Rasmussen will briefly share about Trinity s vision. Please register online or register in person at the Connect Desk where someone will be there to help you. Childcare is provided by reservation. ADULT SUMMER SUNDAY SCHOOL CLASS What is your actual belief about the causation and results of the crucifixion and resurrection of the Lord Jesus Christ? Has it become white noise or is it the lens in which you see God, yourself and others? Can the cross truly free men and women from hardened hearts due to past committed sins both by and against them? Come join elder Steve LeBlanc as he teaches and unpacks the truths about the Gospel. Please join us for this 6-week Sunday mornings at 9:15 AM in room 230 to learn and discuss.

4 SAVE THE DATE FOR OUR NEXT ELDER-LED PRAYER 6 AUGUST Our next Elder-led Prayer will be Sunday, August 6 at 5:00 pm. Come join us for an elder-led prayer service where in community we are privileged to busy ourselves in prayer as a community and for our community as we seek the gospel to take root in our lives and to go out where we live, work and play. EXTENDING THE GOSPEL TO THE WORLD Update from Rich and Martha Millhouse, REACH Global, Hungary Writing you from our All Europe Conference in Slovenia where we are having a wonderful time of refreshing and reconnecting. Along with our prayer requests I wanted to update you on the pastoral search at Danube Church. The church has called me to be the next pastor of the church! We are very excited about this opportunity. The position will begin on September 1 and I will have a 75% time commitment to the church. This is a great opportunity and extension of our Strategic Partnering team s ministry. What a strategic place to work with missionaries, international students, embassy personnel and international business families. I will also have the opportunity and flexibility to continue my traveling and teaching responsibilities with the Strategic Partnering team throughout the year. The financial arrangement is that the church has offered to support us through

5 ReachGlobal, and therefore help complete our financial needs so that we are fully supported. Thank you for all your prayers and support! We miss you all! Rich PRAYER REQUESTS CHURCH & EXTENDED FAMILY Dolly James just got home from the hospital this week for an intestinal blockage. Pray for healing and recovery. She is recovering and would love to have visitors. Her address is: Dayspring Assisted Living Cheyenne Trail, Plano, TX Bill Keenen's mother Joan Andes fell and broke her hip. Pray for her to regain her strength and have a renewed desire to return home. Tom Lindsey - continue to pray for Tom, Mona and their family as they with Tom's cancer. Pray for healing, possible treatments and strength for Tom and Mona. Please pray for Pam Box, one of our missionary partners. Her cancer has returned in some spots on her liver and she is currently undergoing treatment through a clinical trial at MD Anderson. For more information you can go to

6 Pam's blog spot at pambox.blogspot.com. Pray for Jeff Cottam as he continues to recover from gallbladder surgery. Pray for strength, healing and recovery. Pray for Lodie Rodriquez's mother Maria who is living with Lodie and John while she recovers from a small stroke. Pray for a quick recovery, strength and grace. There are several people in our congregation that are seeking employment. Pray that God will open doors of opportunity, move on their behalf through the interviewing process and grant them employment. Mary Enright's son, David, to be saved. Pray for those at Trinity who are unemployed and under-employed at this time. Pray for those unable to attend worship: Al & Barbara Gibson and Dolly James. LOCAL AND GLOBAL CHURCH Pray for the ministry of our sister PCA churches in the North Texas Presbytery and area churches in our community; specifically for Matt Wood, Grace & Peace Presbyterian Church, Anna, TX. Prince of Peace Lutheran Church, in Plano. MILITARY Pray for our men in the armed services or military academy and their families: SSgt Micah Smith, son-in-law of Tim and Kay Bokmeyer; Air Force, Okinawa, Japan LCPL Dillon Baker, nephew of Kellie Parmar; deployed to Kuwait as part of a quick response team on anti-tank Benjamin Rasmussen, son of Mike & Renatta Rasmussen; Air Force, deployed to Kuwait. CWO Ken Wichlan, brother of Michael Wichlan; U.S. Navy in Norfolk, VA

7 Private First Class Brandan Kendrick, grandson of Tom & Cheryl Kendrick; Army, deployed to Kuwait. MINISTRIES REAL Options for Women: PRAISE REPORT! Paula has been in and out of unhealthy relationships for years and is pregnant again. She plans to parent but knows she is in a downward spiral. Her patient advocate was able to share the Gospel with her and she accepted Christ as her Savior! Paula also committed to a life-style change and says she wants to get involved with a church. Praise God for this changed life. PRAISE REPORT! I had asked you to pray for Summer. She is a teenager and came to Real Options wanting an abortion. After following up, we learned Summer has chosen LIFE! She also told her parents who are fully supporting her and their grandchild. Pray for Julieta. She is a high school student who does not want her parents to find out she is pregnant. She would rather parent than abort but feels like abortion might be the only way to keep this a "secret". Pray she would be able to speak to her parents and that they would love and embrace her. Pray for Cassie. She has several children and she and her fiancé have already had one abortion. They are now wanting to abort again. Cassie's patient advocate was able to share the Gospel with her and she did accept Christ as her Savior! Pray the Lord would soften both of their hearts toward this child, and Cassie would grow in her new faith. ESL Please thank and praise God for: a well attended ESL information meeting and new volunteers signed up for ESL ministry this year and for returning volunteers. new opportunities even this week for sharing the gospel with our students, for their questions about Christ and for TPC people who are excited about

8 sharing their faith and testimonies. growing relationships and deepening friendships and the inclusion of ESL students in TPC community groups and life activities. TPC people who are growing in excitement for sharing Christ and for the encouragement the Lord provides to us His people. Please pray for: gospel curiosity and gospel understanding among our students as we share in word and deed that we have hope in Christ. Jennie Kornfield as she presents the gospel and her own story in Christ this Wednesday at her reading group. Pray God will give hearers ears. God to provide the details and volunteers needed to organize 3+ classes on each of 4 different days a week of ESL ministry this fall. us at Trinity to recognize that this is God's work and God's power, that we will eagerly look to see His glory. the teachers, volunteers, and students God will bring together when classes start in September to connect and develop relationships and friendships. the preparation for and content of training volunteers on 8/13 and 8/20 at TPC Volunteer Bootcamp to be useful and helpful. ESL Teacher Training at Volunteer Bootcamp on August 13th and 20th. ESL training will be in room 130 on both Sundays, ESL volunteers must come to one of these training days. We will provide pizza and ask that anyone who attends donate towards covering the cost. There will be a basket next to the pizza for donations. ESL will resume regular classes in September on Monday and Tuesday nights, and Wednesday and Thursday mornings. The first class will be Tuesday, September 5. MISSIONS Dick and Joanne Brown, MTW, Colombia - We will go to 2 services in early August. Please pray that the membership will step up and help with both services and also that we will anticipate logistical issues in advance. Rich and Martha Millhouse, ReachGlobal, Hungary - Pray for the Millhouse family as they spend the month with family in the U.S. and getting Ben settled

9 at college in South Dakota. Karis Krieger, MTW Intern, Japan - Praise God for the many relationships Karis and other MTW and CBI team members are making with Japanese interested in studying the Bible. Pray that Karis will have the right words to say, give all saving power over to God, and want to do His will. TRINITY VOLUNTEER SCHEDULE 3rd Qtr Volunteer Schedule click here. July 23: Nursery Coordinator Jan Geist; Nursery Sunday School Beverly Girouard, Stacey Estevez, Katherine Teague, Elizabeth Teague, Taniya Issac, Tiffany Teal; Nursery Worship Service Donia Joseph, Haven Freeman, Julie Avedikian, Caroline Geist, Taniya Issac, Tiffany Teal; Celebration Chapel; Dan Gardner, Mason & Whitney Sonju. Ushers Steven Hanks, Vimala Jebakumar, Johnson Thangaswami, Gabe Gabriel, Kyle Gabriel. July 30: Nursery Coordinator Krista Kruckeberg; Nursery Sunday School Tammy Baker-Gross, Laura Baesel, Mary Enright, Molly Wallace, Taniya Issac, Tiffany Teal; Nursery Worship Service Neil Farquharson, April Stuart, Sarah Freeman, Aubrey Stuart, Alex McNeil, Taniya Issac, Tiffany Teal; Celebration Chapel; Scott Sonju, Mason & Whitney Sonju. Ushers Kyle Gabriel, Dino Dato-on, Dariel Dato-on, Morry Beatty, Kay Bokmeyer.

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