13 March, 2025


Worship With Us at Trinity Church


Sunday, 16 March

Second Sunday in Lent



10:00 AM

Holy Eucharist Rite II in the Church

and live-streamed via YouTube

Trinity Church YouTube



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Trinity's Sunday Guest Presider,

The Rev. Horace S. Johnson

Trinity's Sunday Guest Preacher,

The Rev. George Chien (UMC, MCC)

SAVE THE DATE - ACF Lenten Series

Lectio Divina Sacred Reading - March 23, 2025

"ECCT Spring Training and Gathering" Opportunities

A Notice from the Prayer Team

What is Godly Play?

Join Our Choir! You’re Invited!

Prayer List Requests

Calendar

News from the Diocese

During this time at Trinity we will be blessed to welcome visiting priests as presiders and preachers for our Sunday services. In order for you to get to know a bit about them before they arrive on Sunday, please take the time to read their biographies.

The Rev. Horace S. Johnson, Presiding

 

The Rev. Horace S. Johnson, MBA, is a retired Associate Rector from Trinity Church of Hartford and the former Business Manager of Connecticut’s Community College System. Born in Jamaica, West Indies, the eldest of nine children and the son of a Pentecostal minister, Rev. Johnson learned that God is good all the time; all the time, God is good from a very early age. Pastor Johnson called on his son daily to lead morning devotions with his brothers and sisters. This practice planted the seeds of Rev. Johnson’s call to ministry.

 

After his children became adults, Rev. Johnson answered the lingering call to ministry. He entered the seminary at Berkeley Divinity School at Yale and was ordained to the priesthood in the Episcopal Diocese of Connecticut by the Rt. Rev. Andrew Smith on December 15, 2001. Subsequently, having spent five years in full-time ministry at Trinity Episcopal Church as the Associate Rector, Rev. Johnson retired to Florida. At St. Thomas Episcopal Church in Palm Coast, Florida he was a volunteer Assisting Priest for 14 years. In the rear of the global pandemic, Rev. Johnson returned to Connecticut in 2021 and rejoined Trinity as his home church. When he’s not filling in as a supply priest, Rev. Johnson enjoys traveling and spending time with his grandchildren - Davis and Avery, completing a daily crossword puzzle and playing weekly rounds of golf.

The Rev. George Chien (UMC, MCC), Preaching

 

The Rev. George Chien retired from the senior pastorate at Metropolitan Community Church of Hartford in 2011, having served there for twelve years. He previously pastored several United Methodist congregations in upstate New York and Connecticut. An amateur photographer and graphic artist, George enjoys exploring the city, its arts and architecture, and meeting its people. A graduate of Garrett-Evangelical Theological Seminary in Evanston, IL, he and his husband Julio Flores reside in Frog Hollow, Hartford in a 150-year-old Victorian.


SAVE THE DATE!

 

Adult Christian Formation Lenten Series

LISTENING FOR GOD IN A NOISY WORLD

 

March 23, 2025

LECTIO DIVINA – SACRED READING

               

Do you find it hard to sustain a daily practice of prayer and reading the Bible? Many people start a daily routine with great enthusiasm, only to find that the practice becomes stale or laborious after a short time. If you feel like your daily devotions need a dose of new energy, please join us for the forum on Sunday, March 23 when Rev. George Chien will lead us in an exploration of Lectio Divina.

 

"Lectio Divina is a contemplative way of reading the Bible. It is a way of praying the scriptures that leads us deeper into God’s word. We slow down. We read a short passage more than once. We chew it over slowly and carefully. We savor it. Scripture begins to speak to us in a new way.”

 

Please plan to join us!

"ECCT Spring Training and Gathering" Opportunities

All are welcome to register for these classes


For information, please click here

A NOTICE FROM THE PRAYER TEAM

 

At Trinity Church we believe in the power of prayer.

  • Your written prayer requests are welcome. There are prayer jars on tables at both entrances in which you are invited to place prayer requests. You may also call or email the church office to make a prayer request. During the week, written requests will be collected and prayed over privately. At your discretion, such requests can be placed in the Sunday service leaflet. Prayer requests will be published for four weeks, then deleted unless you choose to renew them by contacting the Parish Administrator. 
  • Intercessors are stationed in the south (lectern side) aisle of the Nave during communion each Sunday. Please approach them if you desire a moment of personal prayer. All personal prayers will remain confidential.


What is Godly Play?

 

Godly Play is a wonderful way to tell stories of faith—Bible stories, baptism, church seasons, and others in ways that allow us to enter the stories as “children”, and discover the riches that are waiting there for us all.

The stories are told very simply with simple props and without interpretation or moral instruction.

After a story is presented, we work with the story props, or create whatever they choose in response to what they feel most important or most interesting in the story.

 

What’s up for the next couple of months in our Godly Play class?


Our list of stories in the coming two months (not necessarily in order) are as follows:


St Nicholas of Myra

The Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. 

Mary, The Mother of Jesus

Parable of the Good Samaritan

The Good Shepherd and World Communion

Parable of the Deep Well


Our students ages 2 1/2 and up are welcomed into our Godly Play sacred space at 9:45 each second, third, and fourth Sundays. Our classroom is on the second floor of the education building. We join our families in church at about 10:40.


Anyone 18 yrs of age or older is welcomed to choose this as one of your ministries; once a month or once every other month ,and bring more JOY into your life!


To comply with safe church guidelines we must have two adults 18 yrs and older in our class.

 

Questions about this ministry? talk to Nancy Crandall in person or text (860) 503- 3353 She looks forward to hearing from you.

Join Our Choir! You’re Invited!

 

We know you’ve heard it before, but we want to remind you: Everyone is welcome to join our choir! Whether you’re a seasoned singer or just love to make a joyful noise, there’s a place for you here.

 

Why Join?

  • Share your love of music
  • Build friendships within our church community
  • Enrich our worship experience together

 

When: Rehearsals every Thursday, 7:00 -8:30 p.m.

Where: The Choir Room 

 

Don’t miss out on this wonderful opportunity to connect and contribute! If you have any questions or want to learn more, feel free to reach out to the Director of Music, Markus Centola, email: mcentola@trinityhartford.org.

Prayer List

 

Should you like a name added to the Prayer List, please contact the office at office at Trinityhartford.org or 860-527-8133 ext. 204.

 

Please note that unless the office is otherwise notified, the name will be on the list for 4 weeks and then removed.

Weekly Calendar
Find upcoming events HERE .

News from the Diocese



Click the link below to read up on what's going on in the Episcopal Church in Connecticut.

 

ECCT Newsletter - March 12, 2025



eVoice Deadline


All announcements should be submitted to the office at office@trinityhartford.org by Wednesday 9am for publication that week. Announcements that are submitted late will be held until the following week’s edition.

 
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