Old Trinity Lutheran Church - Columbus, OH

Trinity Lutheran Church representing at the Columbus Clippers game tonight!!!

Have you joined us for our VBS at Trinity this summer? Our final one is this Sunday after church August 18. It will be our last installment of being a “Good Steward Together.” Please join us. This is an intergenerational activity for the entire congregation. It’s a fun learning experience for all with lessons and activities and even lunch will be provided.

Trinity Lutheran Church folks come join us for a Columbus Clippers baseball game Friday, August 23 at 7:05 PM. Tickets are $10 per person. Please reach out to Amy for a ticket or call the church office. We can carpool from the church and maybe even grab a bite before the game.

The ELCA really wants to hear from our Youth & Young Adults about what they need from the church and how we can be better Church Together. Please fill out this survey (or encourage your young people to) before July 25.

*they’re calling “young people” under 35

CALLING MY LUTHERANS! WE HAD ALMOST 900 YOUTH TELL US WHAT *THEY* NEED FROM THE CHURCH! Please, please help us get over 1,000. Send the survey to any ELCA Youth and/or ELCA Young Adults through the 25th and let their voices be heard!!! Thank YOU ELCA Youth Gathering for being an awesome space for advocacy and youth empowerment!!! 💗🙌🏽😍

(Direct survey link: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSffbxj9flLjX8IJU0T1BXwzRJuBeRBRB7G-CLs2UA7cwKZO_g/closedform)

Sorry we don’t have a live stream right now. We are working on these issues but please remember we worship in person every Saturday evening at 5pm and every Sunday morning at 10:30am. We would love to have you join us and hear the word of God from Pastor Eli!! Check out our website for events, oldtrinity.com

This weekend Trinity joined over 100 members of the to march at Stonewall Pride. Trinity is proud to be a Reconciling in Christ congregation and grateful that a number of our leaders and members are part of the LGBTQIA2S+ community.

Whoever you are, whatever your gender, sexual orientation, race, ethnicity, faith background, lack of faith, and/or big questions, you are welcome at Trinity.

Happy Pride 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️

ELCA representing at Pride! Southern Ohio Synod ELCA ReconcilingWorks

Happy Pride from your family at Trinity! ReconcilingWorks Southern Ohio Synod ELCA.

Happiest of happy PRIDE month! ReconcilingWorks is looking forward to celebrating PRIDE with all of you.

I am very proud to see Illuminati use the sanctuary of Trinity for their official picture. They rehearse in the Fellowship Hall every Wednesday. I am sure they would like some members of Trinity at their concert next Sunday.

CGMC’s Sacred Ensemble, Illuminati, To Hold Special Concert

The Columbus Gay Men’s Chorus (“CGMC”), central Ohio’s premiere TTBB vocal organization, is holding a special concert presented by its sacred ensemble, Illuminati. Illuminati is one of the only LGBTQ+ sacred ensembles in the United States, and is presenting its annual performance, Songs of the Spirit, on Sunday, May 19th at Worthington United Methodist Church, at 2:00pm.

“Our relationship with religion has rarely been clean,” said Illuminati Artistic Director Jordan Saul, referring to the LGBTQ+ community. “For Illuminati to identify as it does [as both LGBTQ+ and sacred-based] has a defiance about it.”

And yet, “no bigotry owns the spiritual space,” Saul said.

Appropriately, then, Songs of the Spirit features a connecting thread with themes of courage. “There are so many dimensions of what it means to be brave,” Saul said. Audiences can expect a range of sacred music, not exclusively Christian, in addition to an increased presence of instrumentation as opposed to prior years. This will give the music a fuller, enhanced sound that Saul is very excited to present.

This concert is a chance for audiences to experience what Illuminati calls “Outreach” events, which occur in sacred spaces throughout central Ohio year-round. They are titled specifically this way, different than “performances,” because they are at places of worship, often during services themselves, and present a face of the LGBTQ+ community in a faith setting that may be different than what attendees may expect. This Outreach allows the community to have a presence in these spaces, building bridges and opening hearts wherever they travel.

To purchase tickets for Songs of the Spirit and learn more about the Chorus, please visit www.cgmc.com.

This is a note to let you know that there is a scam email that says it’s coming from Reverend Eli. Pastor Eli does not usually use the word Reverend as their title in casual communications. Please disregard this email if you receive it. Look at the email it is coming from, does it match the regular email we post in the bulletin or newsletter? Don’t engage with the sender, this is a scam. Please contact the church office at 614-224-6818 or email [email protected] if you have any questions.

This may affect your drive to Trinity.

Major downtown ramp up project announcement from ODOT 🚨 🚧🏗️

Join us downtown Columbus for Easter at Trinity Lutheran Church!!
Saturday Easter Vigil 8pm
Sunday Easter Morning Service 10:30am

Join us today as we continue towards Easter with our Good Friday Service. We have two services to pick from. One at 12pm and one at 7pm. Both services at Trinity Lutheran Church in downtown Columbus!

Join us downtown Columbus for dinner and a Maundy Thursday Dinner tonight at 6:30pm.

Today is the final mid week Lenten service before Holy Week! Please join us or check our website for Holy Week services.
www.oldtrinity.com

Happy St. Patrick’s Day!

“Christ with me,
Christ before me,
Christ behind me,
Christ in me,
Christ beneath me,
Christ above me,
Christ on my right,
Christ on my left,
Christ when I lie down,
Christ when I sit down,
Christ when I arise,
Christ in the heart of every man who thinks of me,Christ in the mouth of everyone who speaks of me, Christ in every eye that sees me,
Christ in every ear that hears me.”

Archbishop Eamon Martin of Ireland’s Saint Patrick’s day message in which he lamented the blight of human trafficking which still remains a reality in todays world.

“Saint Patrick’s personal experience of being trafficked to this island as a teenage slave had a deep and lifelong impact on him. The trauma of being uprooted from family and friends at such an early age gave him a particular empathy for victims of human trafficking. Patrick’s captivity transformed and shaped his whole life and his relationships with God and others. In his slavery and isolation he discovered through prayer a warm and personal friendship with God which he instinctively wanted to communicate to everyone he met. He challenges us to listen out for the cry of the poor, the ordeal of the migrant, the loneliness of those displaced through war and violence. His experience raises awareness of the injustice of human trafficking which shockingly continues. If we seriously wish to trace our connections with Saint Patrick this week, then we must open our hearts and minds to those who are struggling to survive such cruelty and exploitation in today’s world.”

Of all the stories about Saint Patrick’s life, I have been reflecting on this again today. May we too, stand with the most vulnerable among us.

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