May. Trinity Trumpeter. Happy Mother s Day!

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1 May Trinity Trumpeter Happy Mother s Day! 2016

2 Let s Pray! REQUESTS Pastor Randy & Family Consistory, Committees, Small Groups, Leaders/Volunteers, Missions (see bulletin). Ministries at TRC: Youth Group, Children & Worship, Young, Librarian, Custodian, Secretary, Nepali church Events: Communion TRC Shut-ins and members; finances; youth prayer partners; roof replacement and parking lot resurfacing (pray for guidance in how you can help); Melinda Hamstra (Sean s mother); Shannon (Kathy Simmon s friend) acute leukemia; RuthAnn DeKoekkoek surgery recovery; Fran Buikema & Jane Groenevelt pneumonia Great Lakes Region of Reformed of America 2016 Synod Assembly, May 2, in Grand Rapids 8:00 A.M. - 3:00 P.M. Delegates from Trinity will be there, pray for wisdom, insight and to be strong in the Lord. Victims of disaster: both natural and forced Nation Nation, state, community, churches, schools, businesses, leaders, upcoming elections, etc. Servicemen: Chris & Aaron Aldrich (Engels grandsons); Alex Turton (Hendricks grandson); Lucas Plitcha (Weersings son-in-law); Steve Zimmerman (VanElzelingen s grandson); Justin Ritsema (Marcia s grandson); Noah Baker (Bakers son). Loss of Loved Ones: Garbrechts in loss of dear friend Louise; friends and family of Harvey Bekins in his passing PRAISES Birthdays & Anniversaries Jack Mohr (nephew of Neil Louis) recovered fully from pneumonia and influenza WELCOME TO NEW MEMBERS! Births: Temperance Haven, daughter of Jon and Kim Carl New Members joined on April 24: Brandon Greeno, Bart & Anita Bremmer, Mike Leak, Jim Pond, Craig Spyker, and Craig & Suni Van- Damme. If you have any prayer requests or praises please call/ Jan Hendrick ( / jhendrick@bhhsclydehendrick.com), OR call/ Jim & Maria Tate ( / tatej22@yahoo.com). Use Your Talents! Clean-up - Put your hands (and maybe back) to work with us for spring cleaning the church and sprucing up the landscaping on Saturday, April 30 8:30-11:00am. Nursery - Perhaps you ve noticed the baby boom we ve been having at TRC lately! Along with this comes a need for more nursery volunteers. Please contact Annika Breimayer if you can help on Sunday mornings or Wednesday evenings during Family Night (beginning in September). Events Celebrate! Happy Birthday! 8 Phyllis Reenders 12 Joe Bierman Brandon Greeno 13 Jillianne Fettes 14 Henry Reyenga 17 Julie Hoebeke 15 Mary Rouwhorst 19 Rusal Lama 20 Jaidyn Fisher Chris Hajdu Micah Lee 21 Bob Rouwhorst 22 Jane Groenevelt 26 Jim VanDoorne 27 Sonia Musgrave 28 Jay Hoebeke 31 Lisamarie Davis Abby Reyenga Happy Anniversary! 4 Jon & Kim Carl 18 Ted & Carolyn Breimayer Shayne & Sheri Wieling Book Club - Watch the bulletin for details regarding the May Book Club. We hope you can join us! Whitecaps Outing - Join us on Friday, July 8, at the Whitecaps game! It s Tigers night. Please sign up on the bulletin board in the Fellowship Hall by June 12; see Cal Garbrecht with any questions. Picnic - Mark your calendars now for our annual church picnic at Pottawatomie Park June 20.

3 Thank you! We just want to say a huge THANK YOU to all who give of their time in preparing coffee and goodies for our after service Coffee Time. Please note that there is a change in the serving to help the flow of the line in getting coffee, goodies, and the cream/sugar process. We hope this simple move will help everyone get to their spot for fellowshipping faster and there will be more talk and laughter. We are so blessed to have a community of friends that care for each other that s love for one another. Enjoy! Hospitality Committee Prayer Corner Isaiah 56:7 For my house will be called a house of prayer. Teaching Kids the Meaning of Prayer Question: How can I help my seven-year-old daughter understand the proper use of prayer? I've tried to teach her that talking to God is simply a way of staying close to Him, but lately she's been using prayer to ask for everything she wants, such as getting a new toy, going to the movies, or winning a game she's playing with her friends. I don't want to put a damper on her faith, but at the same time I don't want her to misuse prayer. What should I say to her? Answer: It's impossible to overestimate the importance of solid spiritual training during childhood, and we want to begin by commending you on your dedication to teaching your child an accurate, biblical view of prayer. Keep up the good work! We know the Lord is smiling on your efforts. It's important to realize that seven-year-olds can't always comprehend some of the subtler nuances of prayer that mature adults are able to grasp. That's not surprising, being that many grown-ups seem to have a pretty childish understanding of prayer. Too many people of all ages tend to view God as some sort of "cosmic vending machine" that dispenses blessings at the touch of a button. With that in mind, we'd encourage you to resist the temptation to criticize your daughter's misapplication of prayer. Instead, concentrate on accentuating the positive. Praise her for making prayer a central part of her life. Encourage her to talk with the Lord about everything. Read the Lord's Prayer with her (Matthew 6:5-15) and point out that Jesus gave it to us as a model prayer, teaching us how to pray and what to pray for. As you do these things, you'll probably have all kinds of opportunities to reinforce the idea that conversation with God isn't about getting what we want, and that one of its main purposes is to make us more Christ -like. Apparently you've already been making a diligent effort to plant this concept in her mind. Just keep plugging away at it and eventually the message will get through. If you have further questions, feel free to call one of our pastoral counselors. They're available to speak with you Monday through Friday between 6:00 a.m. and 8:00 p.m. Mountain-time at HELP (4357). The Family Help Center staff member who answers the phone will arrange for the counselor to call you back. They will be in touch just as soon as they're able. Focus on the Family family.custhelp.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/26540 Kathy Simmons njcallhomegh@gmail.com Prayer Corner Coordinator

4 Who is this who looks down like the dawn, beautiful as the moon, bright as the sun, awesome as an army with banners? (Song of Solomon 6:10 ESV) Who indeed? A woman, of course. Where but in the Scriptures could we find a vision of womanhood as glorious as this? Who but our God could design something with such blinding beauty alongside robust strength? The Psalms and Proverbs fill out this vision of a woman that shows us fortitude clothed in splendor a woman who presides over her domain with strong arms and resourcefulness (Proverbs 31); daughters that are corner pillars, whose strong support could only be matched by their exquisiteness (Psalm 144:12). Women Only Yet, the vision our culture offers is a sad consolation that exchanges the glory of feminine strength for a treadmill race to nowhere. It squanders the kind of influence that is found primarily in the soil of the home. The home that center of all learning, the heart of nation-building, the dispenser of love and stability, the venue for gospel hospitality for single and married alike, in short, the footings of humanity. This home-based influence that because of Christ can last for a thousand generations, yet our culture urges us to cast it aside for the pursuit of rewards a little less off in the distance and certainly ones that don t require diapering. And what does it offer in return? Women who strive against themselves, at war with the seeming redundancy of two X chromosomes, in a competition we were never made for, and in our hearts, don t really want to win. For when a woman sets herself up alongside a man as made for the same things and without distinction the result is not uniformity, but rather, a reverse order. Indeed, in order for her to become like a man, he becomes less and less like one. And that s something that most women, even the most ardent feminists, recoil at in their heart. Not because femininity is detestable, but because on a man, it is grotesque. Feminine glory is suited only for a woman, not because men and women have nothing in common we have everything in common as bone of the same bone, flesh of the same flesh but because our sameness only makes sense in light of the Triune God, who is distinct in three persons. When we forsake our feminine glory in pursuit of the uniqueness that belongs to men, we abandon our God-given glory; we become usurpers, persistently insisting that our uterus and biology are equal to nothing, irrelevant. Women believe the lie that in order to be relevant in a man s world, you become like a man, when the opposite is true. Do you want to be relevant? Then shock the world and be what you were made to be: a fearless, unflappable God-fearing woman. Do not abandon the very differences that make you essential. Real Women Mimic Jesus The unique influence of a godly woman is in transforming things. A woman is to be compared to a crown on the head of her husband (Proverbs 12:4). This is not because she s merely decorative, but because she is the thing that makes her good man great. She transforms a promising bachelor into a purposeful, respected husband. He gives his seed and by some miracle and mystery, God has designed her body to nurture and grow a new person, as Nancy Wilson outlines in her address, Dangerous Women. In this transformative role, whether single or married, a woman mimics her Savior. Like him, she submits to another s will and, also like him, God uses her to take what was useless on its own and shape it into glory. Dirty things clean; chaos turned to order; an empty kitchen overflowing with life and food; children in want of knowledge and truth and a mother eager to teach; a man in need of help and counsel and a woman fit to give it; friends and neighbors with a thirst for the truth and a woman opening her home and heart to share it with them. Womanhood Is a Prism A woman is a prism that takes in light and turns it into an array of greater, fuller glory, so that those around her now see the rainbow that was contained in the beam. She constantly radiates reminders of God s faithfulness. She reads the black and white pages of the word of God and takes on the task of living them out in vibrant hues for her children, her neighbors, and the world to see. When the Bible commands feeding, nourishing, training and love, a godly woman sets to the task, enhancing and beautifying everything around her. God s design outlined in the Scriptures is a vision for womanhood that is not just right and to be obeyed, it is experientially better than all the world has to offer. And it doesn t just apply those who are married or mothers. Single women of any age are meant for full godly womanhood. To be a mother in the deepest sense that is, spiritually nurturing and growing all God s given her. God has made us for glory, women. Not glory that terminates on us, but glory that spends itself glorifying everything given to us and points in all things to Christ, who is the radiance of the glory of God, the Savior and ultimate transforming one. And as we behold him his perfection, his saving work, his glorious face we are changed from one degree of glory to another. By Abigail Dodds

5 Servants of God Greeters May 1 Mike & Nancy Leak / Joe & Arlene Bierman Front / Back 8 Jim & Maria Tate / Henry & Pam Ryenga 15 Bart & Anita Bremmer / Ted Breimayer Family 22 Neil & Nancy Louis / Cal & Mary Garbrecht 29 Bob & Jan Hendrick / Lee Trowbridge & Gwen Miles Nursery May 1 Katelyn Hamstra, Michelle Garbrecht, Joseph Bierman 8 Scott Breimayer, Allison Mueller, Kaitlyn Greeno 15 Kim Breimayer, Sheri Wieling, Autumn Fisher 22 Annika Breimayer, Carolyn Breimayer, Anna Bremmer 29 Jim VanStedum, Vicki & Megan Stroud PowerPoint May 1 Brandon Greeno 8 Daniel Bremmer 15 Ted Breimayer 22 Justin Yonker 29 Jon Yonker Sound May 1 Wally De La Fuente 8 Paul Bierman 15 Wally De La Fuente 22 Tim Wallace 29 Paul Bierman Prayer May 1 B & D: Janet Wiessner Warrior 8 B: John Gerber D: Linda Gerber 15 B: Kathy Simmons D: Gwen Miles 22 B: Bob & Jan Hendrick D: Marcia Ritsema 29 B: Bob & Mary Rouwhorst D: Bea Wallish Coffee May 1 Carolyn Breimayer Server 8 Carolyn Breimayer 15 Dale & Kathy DeYoung 22 Larry & Marsha Jongetjes 29 Lisamarie Davis Children & May 1 Hilary Philips & Lisamarie Davis Worship 8 Tracy Bremmer 15 Chris Hajdu & Allison Mueller Opening / May 1 Youth / Jim Tate Congregational 8 Youth / Eldon Self Prayer 15 Youth / Henry Reyenga 22 Youth / Mike Leak 29 Youth / Paul Miles Communion May Jim Musgrave (monthly) June Pastor Randy Bremmer Offerings 3-20 $4, $5, $3, $3, Needed for weekly budget: $3, If you are unable to carry out your duties as assigned, please find a sub or trade weeks with another person on the schedule.

6 May SUNDAY MONDAY TUESDAY WEDNESDAY THURSDAY FRIDAY SATURDAY 1 11am Sunday School 8 Mother s Day :30pm Girl 6-7:30pm Girl 6:30pm Elders 7pm Deacons 7:30pm Consistory National Day of Prayer Ascension Day Sanctuary/ Fellowship Hall Reserved Kremer - Busman Wedding 22 Trumpeter Articles Due :30pm Girl 6-7:30pm Girl Memorial Day