36 Main Street, Newtown, CT

Please note: Kim will be on vacation from Wednesday, April 22nd - Tuesday, April 28th.

Little Pantry Meeting

It is time for a gathering of all the stockers of the Little Pantry. Let's get together and talk about our success this past year and what is new! We will meet Sunday, April 26th after service, in the library.

We welcome any new comers who would like to become a stocker and help our neighbors in need of food assistance.

PANTRY UPDATES:

A BIG THANK YOU TO:

CARALUZZI’S 

For their generous gift card donation. 

This will help us fill in where there are extra needs. 

OUR PARISHIONERS

In the month of March we supplied over 800 Items to those in need. 

The following items are all low or out of stock!

Peanut butter

Pasta Sauce

Canned Tuna/chicken/ham etc.

Canned fruit

Canned beans

Dish/laundry soap

Shampoo/bath soap

Toothpaste/deodorant

No need for soups, mac and cheese or

canned veggies

Defibrillator Training

As part of the new Parish Nurse program Trinity has purchased a new Automated External Defibrillator. We are excited to have this technology on site.

Immediate CPR with the usage of an AED can double, or even triple survival rates.  This machine is meant to be used by anyone. We will be offering classes for training by a CPR Instructor. The next training will be offered on Sunday, May 3rd after service in the Johnson Library and will take about 15 minutes. Please join us!!

Praise the Lord. Praise God in his sanctuary; praise him in his mighty heavens. Praise him for his acts of power; praise him for his surpassing greatness. Praise him with the sounding of the trumpet, praise him with the timbrel and dancing, praise him with the strings and pipe, praise him with the clash of cymbals, praise him with resounding cymbals. Let everything that has breath praise the Lord. Praise the Lord!

Psalm 150: 1-6

There are many instances in scripture of references to music as a form of praise. In fact, there are over 400 references to singing and roughly 50 direct commands to praise the Lord through music! 

I love this passage from Psalm 150 because we are provided with a literal list of different musical ways to worship through music. It’s almost as if the psalmist was receiving pushback from parishioners who told him, “but I have no musical talent!” His answer was something like, “Oh stop.You could bang that drum or play your whistle or even dance!” You might remember our Church School kids entering the Trinity sanctuary on Palm Sunday with their various instruments and noisemakers. They were actually putting Psalm 150 into action in their own way. So, then, how can you, too, worship through music here at Trinity? 

You can sing in worship, you can sing in the choir (no experience necessary!), or you can play an instrument either as a solo or in a group. If you have any desire to level-up your musical worship, please reach out to me or find me after church, and I’ll help you find ways to get your Psalm 150 on! 

In Christ,

Jennifer

As we continue to live into Easter-tide, church school resumes this Sunday. We will be exploring the story of the Risen Christ. At the beginning of Lent, our classroom decorated a box filled with “Alleluias.” We talked about how this special word means “praise to God,” and how we refrain from saying it during Lent. After coloring our own Alleluias, we hid the box away. But now that Easter has arrived, it is time to find the hidden Alleluia box! We will get to break open the “empty tomb,” so our Alleluias can be joyfully shouted once again.

Looking ahead, we will spend time with the stories of the early christian Church as we head into Pentecost. We will discover how the Holy Spirit brought energy, and courage to our community of believers, and how that same Spirit is at work in us today.

Join us for a screening of Communion, a powerful and personal film about faith, identity, and belonging. After being fired from his Catholic school job for marrying his husband, a music teacher turns to art and storytelling to confront exclusion and rediscover hope. A live conversation will follow the screening.

Weekly Happenings

Trinity's nursery is open every Sunday from 9:15 - 11:15, and is professionally staffed by Wee Care Nanny Agency. Click here to review the nursery guidelines.

Trinity's Grief Support Group runs every first and third Thursday of the month from 4-5:15pm, and is open to all.

Glass and Elevator Doors Open until 9:45am on Sunday Mornings

Trinity’s Ushers offer wonderful hospitality on Sunday mornings! We want all –

especially visitors or newcomers! - to experience their welcome. For this reason, we

believe it is important for people to enter doors that are attended after worship has

begun on Sunday mornings.

If you arrive after 9:45 on Sunday, please enter through the historic red doors on Main

Street. Please speak with Rev. Andrea if you have any questions.

Should you wish to make a donation to LL, please mail a check to First Congregational Church of Ridgefield (FCC), 103 Main Street, Ridgefield, Ct 06877. The memo line should read LLGD or click here.

New Process for Vouchers

Vouchers can now be submitted virtually. There is a new page on Trinity's website (Vouchers). Please use this online form as a way to submit vouchers. If you need help learning this new system, please contact Kim.

Praise and Thanksgiving

For those requesting our prayers

Maureen, Marie, Jennifer, Jacky, Gail, Bode, Gracie,

Martha, Shirley, Dan, Barbara, Caroline, Brent, Judy, Kathy,

Peter, Abby, Rich, Cherie, Paula,

Larry, Elizabeth, Annmarie, L. Bertha, Levi, Millicent & family

For those celebrating a birthday this week

RafeD'Agostino, Philip Galletta, Lindsey Civitelli, Cherie Swetts

For those celebrating an anniversary this week

Pete & Katie Bundy, Jessica & Chris Gibson, Nancy & Tom Maxwell

There are events happening at Camp Washington - click here to learn more!

We are proud to be a parish in The Episcopal Church within 

The Episcopal Church in Connecticut.