Time to get reading for our summer book discussion! We'll be talking about Half the Sky, by Nicholas Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn, on Sat., August 14, at 10 a.m. Women hold up half the sky; let's see how we can support them worldwide.
Welcome, Ben Ricker!
We welcome Ben Ricker as our new organist and choir
director. With a music degree from UMass, Ben has played jazz and other musical
styles across New England and Canada,
as a solo pianist, in his own trio, and with Senegalese master drummer Lamine Toure's
band Group Saloum. Ben released the CD “Alone Together” in 2007. (You can learn
more about his work on his web page, www.benricker.com.)
He also plays for the evening Watershed service – a contemporary, contemplative
service – at First Presbyterian Church of Waltham.
We’re so glad to have
him. Thank you for your prayers during our search for a music director.
Deacon Carline Orelus ministers to the people of Haiti Carline Orelus, deacon, registered nurse, and daughter of Haiti, spent a week with a mobile medical clinic in and around Port-au-Prince. Click hereto see the album of her trip.
Trinity
was represented by our moderator Lisa Deeley Smith at the July 7 prayer
vigil for the tragedy in in the Gulf. See the link below; more than 100
people attended the service at Old South Church, which featured an
outdoor candlelight vigil. You'll find links to the prayer
composed for the service and (on page four of the order of worship) to a hymn sung to the tune of the Naval Hymn, "Eternal Father, Strong To Save."
Welcome, All Hands In!
At a special business meeting, Trinity voted to welcome All Hands In, a new interfaith organization dedicated to combating human trafficking. All Hands In will have an office at Trinity near Fellowship Hall. Until All Hands In gains its own non-profit status, donations will be routed through Trinity's Benevolent Fund. Make your checks out to Trinity Baptist Church and put "All Hands In" on the memo line. For more information, check out its web page or contact Barbara Anderson at allhandsin@comcast.net.
Breaking news! All Hands In has just received a grant for its work!
Resist Human Trafficking, Go Green, at Coffee Hour! Fueled by our increasing commitment to "go green," and our knowledge that child labor on major coffee plantations is another face of human trafficking, Trinity has joined the Equal Exchange Interfaith Program. Our coffee hour, already rich in fellowship, will now support good growing practices and the dignity of non-exploitive labor. And the coffees and teas are really good!
Will we be selling Equal Exchange chocolates, nuts, and dried fruit? Stay tuned ...
We had a wonderful evening assembling and packing hygiene and baby-care kits for Church World Service to send to Haiti. The community response was terrific! Get the details about this and other photos on our public Facebook page. (You don't have to be a member of Facebook to see it!)
We still need some items to complete baby-care and hygiene kits for Church World Service to send to Haiti.
At this writing, we need cloth diapers for baby-care kits and hand towels for hygiene kits.
Questions about the kits program? Visit Church World Service's FAQ page.
If you're looking for a hands-on way to assist in Haiti, help us with these kits!
Click here if you want to make a monetary donation to Church World Service's effort in Haiti. See the article about us on Boston.com. Read on Wicked Local.com how Trinity and other Arlington churches are participating in Haitian relief.
Photos from Human Trafficking Awareness Sunday Barbara Anderson leads the candlelight procession concluding our Human Trafficking Awareness prayer service. For more photos, see our photo gallery at Smugmug.com.
Our Worship Hours
10:30 a.m. worship returns Sun., Sept. 13
Our Sunday worship is at 10:30 a.m., with coffee hour following, until the Sunday before Father's Day. Sunday School for elementary- and middle-school children is at 11:15 a.m. Sunday School for adults and youth is at 9:15 a.m. beginning Sept. 20.
Welcome from the pastor
Dear friends! On behalf of the membership of Trinity Baptist Church, I greet you in the name of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, and I bid you a hearty welcome to our website.
I pray that the peace of God and the grace of Lord Jesus be your constant companion. At Trinity, we believe in the authority of God's Holy Word, the priesthood of every believer, and in a loving and merciful God who empowers us to serve the Kingdom of God in our daily living. Moreover, we believe that “God is Good, All the Time” and that “All the time, God is Good.” God’s goodness permeates the air, including the whole environment of the church where we are drawn to worship.
Has God been good to you? We invite you to come and worship with us and enjoy the goodness of the Lord, together as the daughters and sons of the Living God, through Jesus Christ our Lord. We believe that worship is a privilege because of God’s goodness and because of the atoning sacrifice of Jesus. Because of one sacrifice, we who are many have become members of the body of Christ, brothers and sisters in the church universal.
The Rev. Mikel E. Satcher, Ph.D., pastor
Congratulations and prayers for the people of Trinity who have taken denominational offices:
Pastor Satcher, the new moderator of our regional association, the Samuel Stillman Association of Churches
Barbara Anderson, who is the immediate past president of Samuel Stillman and nominated as national president of American Baptist Women's Ministries
Sharon Gallo-Dunn, the new president of the Stillman Association American Baptist Women's Ministries
Molly Dunn, a member of the National Leadership Team for AB Girls
Check out the blog of the president of American Baptist Women's Ministries, "A Woman Destined for God's Purpose." It's authored by our own Barbara Anderson.
THE
BELL I KNOW WHO I
AM I am God's child (John 1:12) I am Christ's friend (John
15:15 ) I am united with the Lord (1 Cor. 6:17) I am bought with a price
(1 Cor 6:19-20) I am a saint (set apart for God). (Eph. 1:1) I am a
personal witness of Christ. (Acts 1:8) I am the salt & light of the earth
(Matt 5:13-14) I am a member of the body of Christ (1 Cor
12:27) I am free forever from condemnation ( Rom. 8: 1-2) I am a citizen
of Heaven. I am significant (Phil 3:20) I am free from any charge against me
(Rom. 8:31 -34) I am a minister of reconciliation for God (2 Cor
5:17-21) I have access to God through the Holy Spirit (Eph.
2:18) I am seated with Christ in the heavenly realms (Eph. 2:6) I cannot
be separated from the love of God (Rom 8:35-39) I am
established, anointed, sealed by God (2 Cor 1:21-22 ) I am assured all things
work together for good (Rom. 8:28 ) I have been chosen and appointed to bear
fruit (John 15:16 ) I may approach God with freedom and confidence (Eph. 3:
12 ) I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me (Phil. 4:13) I
am the branch of the true vine, a channel of His life (John 15: 1-5) I am
God's temple (1 Cor. 3: 16). I am complete in Christ (Col. 2: 10) I am hidden
with Christ in God (Col. 3:3).. I have been justified (Romans 5:1) I am God's
co-worker (1 Cor. 3:9; 2 Cor 6:1). I am God's workmanship (Eph. 2:10) I am
confident that the good works God has begun in me will be perfected. (Phil. 1:
5) I have been redeemed and forgiven ( Col 1:14). I have been adopted as
God's child (Eph 1:5) I belong to God Do you know Who you
are?
Thanks to Sheri Macone, president of Women's Fellowship, for providing the Bible bell.
our increasing commitment to "go green," and our knowledge that child labor on major coffee plantations is another face of human trafficking, Trinity has joined the
