We welcome guests! We enjoy the chance to say hello personally. Following worship, we hope for an opportunity to chat with you. To help us become better acquainted, please take a moment to meet our pastors and some of our members before you leave. We also ask that you fill out an Attendance Card and place it in the basket or offering plate during the service. Prayer requests may be submitted on the back of the attendance card. A supervised Nursery for infants & toddlers is available during worship.

Hearing assistance is available for our indoor worship services. Ask an usher for a Personal PA Receiver.

We hope you will join us each weekend this fall for worship:

Heritage Worship: 9:00 a.m.

Celebration Worship: 10:30 a.m.

Please turn off cell phones during worship

Fall Worship and Education Schedule begins the week of September 11 &12.

Have you posted your leaf yet? The vision tree is hungry for leaves. Write your own or write one of your own.

Fall Football Parking helpers Needed! A great fund raiser for Trinity. Please consider helping for one of the home games.

A sign up sheet is in the information area.

When you are out of town and looking for a place to worship, try www.elca.org/ELCA/Search/Find-a -Congregation.asps

End of the month Goods Collections will go to HARC, the regional HIV/AIDS Resource Center located on Clark Rd. in Ypsilanti. Personal house cleaning items, paper goods and nutritional supplements like ensure are needed. Non perishable foods are always needed. Baskets for your donations will be out the weekend of August 28&29.

Would you like to be a Stephan Minister or learn more about it? Call Norma Graflund at 475-9646.

Worship servant scheduling for the fall has begun. Login online and update your schedule.

Two new servant roles are Welcome Center Host and Connection Launcher have been added to help us expand the Table and be more welcoming to our guests and visitors.

School supplies drive: members are encouraged to bring in school supplies for local kids in need. Three boxes are located on the altar for all ages. The drive ends on rally day, September 12.

Saturday Night 5 begins at 5:00 p.m. on September 11. This year round worship experience is designed ass an outreacy to those who may be unfamiliar with church or who have felt disenfranchised from “organized religion”. Call the church office if you have any questions about this new quest for Trinity.

A new group for young professionals in forming named T3 ( Trinity Twenties and Thirties) There will be a kick off gathering on Sundayt, August 29. Watch for more information. Contact Diana Welmerink at kwelmerink@gmail.com if interested.

August 22:Volunteer appreciation Day , Hearts and Hands Picnic from 2-4 p.m. at Alpha House, 4290 Jackson Rd. Bring along a picnic blanket, chairs and family and friends. Music, games and good along with fun will be provided.

Join the Y’all Come Choir – no fuss, no robes, no stress, come 30 minutes before the service to prepare an anthem. Sing for any or all!

New Men’s Group on Tuesday nights at 7:00 p.m. : Discovering the Secret of a Man’s Soul will meet to discuss the book Wild at Heart by John Eldredge. Contact Will Campbell (wiskye@aol.com) or Steve Piche (734-904-9817

Great News! 2010 Habitat for Humanity Builds project has collected a total of $1437 from donations and lenten dinner donations of Trnity members. Thank You. Help is still needed if you are looking for a fun summer project. Call Judy Willi.

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New Small Group for working young people in their 20’s and 30’s.. Kick off BQ to be held mid-August. Contact Diana Welmerink at dwelmerink@gmail.com or Apator Gretchen at gbingea@trinityaa.org.

.Trinity Reads: Evangelism without Additives- What if sharing your faith meant just being yourself? By Jim Henderson. There will be a discussion group at the Adult Forum on May 16.

Looking for Mowing Teams . Two persons can complete in 2 hours. Weeders also needed. Check out the sign up sheets in the gathering space.

The Haiti Relief collection boxes have been moved around the corner and still open for business: Needed are blankets, medical equipment such as walkers, crutches, etc. tents

And tarps, bandages, gauze, cold compresses, water jugs that collapse, etc.

Copies of the 2010 Lenten Calendar are available in the gathering space. .

Trinity Preschool Welcomes All:

Open House is on August 11 from 7-8:00 p.m.. Trinity sponsors the preschool as a community service and Christian outreach. All faiths are welcome. We are always in search of interested parents who would like a Christian Preschool experience for their children. Call Barb at 662-4419 or475-3554 and pass the word to your friends.

Check out the Youth Nooz Board for registration information and for details about other Living Water Ministries 2010 Summer Programs.

Interested in a Book Group? Once a month starting with The Help by Kathryn Stockett. Contact Marion Miller 997-8383 or Gretchen Daniele at 944-0113

The Altar Guild is looking for volunteers for the upcoming year. Contact Barb Sturms at 429-2598 if you would like to learn what makes worship services happen!

Muli-media in the worship space Interested in providing pictures digitally for our services? Contact Daryl in the church office. dhurst@trinityaa.org.

Wednesday Morning Bible Study meets at 10:00 a.m. in the room across from the lounge. All are welcome for these discussions on the upcoming Sunday lessons.

Friends in Need Furniture Program is in need of furniture, trucks and drivers for delivery and carrying furniture or any of the above. Please call the FID office 734-485-7658 or www.friendsindeed.info.

Men’s Ministry meets every Wednesday morning at 7:00 a.m. in the lounge and occasionally for dinners in various homes. Contact Ren Snyder at 995-9262 for more information.

Friday Friends is a small group that meets monthly in each others’ home to share food, fellowship and books. Call Ann/Greg Clites at 994-1342 or Brad/Ann Hubbard at 971-2725 for more details or to join the group.

Trinity’s dinner Club is free to anyone who likes to eat and socialize. Call Betty Fritzler for more details at 426-2291. Dinners are held on the third Friday of each month: a semi potluck affair.

Ele’s Place offers free on-going support groups for grieving children and their parent/caregiver through creative activities that help children to share their feelings and memories with others their age who have experienced similar loss. Call 734-929-6640 for more information.

We are seeking images for our multimedia projection in worship! Members of all ages are invited to become involved in supplying pictures of Trinity people, places in the wider Ann Arbor community Contact Daryl Hurst in the church office or speak with one of the pastors.

Check out the new “We Need Your Help” board in the new church office. We’ll be using it to list a wide variety of odd jobs and small projects in need of volunteers. If you have some spare time to help out around your church, just stop by, check out the current list, and sign off on the items you can do. Our ministry programs and the maintenance of our building depend on volunteers like you!

Help us defray the cost of our coffee, juice, and paper supplies provided for our fellowship time after each worship service. As you enjoy the spread, you may make a freewill offering in the Coffee Fellowship drop box in the coffee corner.

Fair Trade nuts available: Check out the bags of fair trade almonds, toasted pecans, and dried cranberries at our Fair Trade display in the coffee corner along with all the coffee roasts!

LSSM is dedicated to creating communities of service that meet the needs of people, upholding human dignity, advocating equality and justice. Established in 1934 and affiliated with the ELCA, LSSM spans the Lower Peninsula with more than 70 programs in 40 cities. Lutheran Social Services provides a wide variety of services for children and families, senior adults, refugees, and persons with disabilities. LSSM serves all persons, regardless of race, religion or national origin, as an expression of the love of Christ.

Loving Casseroles is a ministry offered through our members to provide meals for other members who are ill or coming home from the hospital, delivering a delicious meal for however long is needed. Read more about this ministry in a new e-flyer.