Friends, one of THE BEST books I've ever read; certainly one of a handful in the "I-can't-put-this-down" books. It's called The Boys in the Boat, Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics, by Daniel James Brown. It's about rowing, about young lives in the Great Depression, overcoming great obstacles, learning to trust others, themselves, team, beauty, a "touch" of the divine. As one commentator wrote: "I read the last fifty pages with white knuckles, and the last twenty-five with tears in my eyes." I recommend it. And thanks to the Trinity member who recommended it to me.
With the resurfacing of our driveways and parking lots, and the re-striping, our beautiful campus looks even more magnificent. Thanks to Josh Fuller, the facility maintenance folks and our Trustees for keeping everything around here attune to "the glory of God." You will need to park in the big lot (away from the Chapel and Education building) tomorrow.
Mortgage Burning update: We're right now at $276,312. We've still a ways to go, but we're going to get there - just like the boys on the UF basketball team!
Our deep thanks to Rev. Cliff Patrick for his powerful sharing this past Sunday. Cliff will be starting a new Bible Study on Tuesday nights (beginning next Tuesday, April 8) at 7pm in rm. 207 in the Education Building.
Also, Several of you have asked me about the movie, "Noah." I haven't seen it; probably will, but here is a pretty good article by my friend, Lawson Stone, professor of OT at Asbury Theological Seminary. You will find it helpful and interesting. Click here to read.
THE SEEDBED BLOG
Re-Writing Noah: 7 Things You Might Not Know about the Biblical Flood Story by Lawson Stone
I confess . . . I’m excited about the new movie Noah. I’m excited that someone with the star-power of Russell Crowe has taken up the challenge of playing one of the most opaque, enigmatic characters in all of scripture. I’m also excited that a major studio and production team committed a huge budget to do this film. The last time I was this excited about the Noah story was in the 1970’s when I about laughed myself to death listening to Bill Cosby re-live the story from Noah’s point of view.
I also should tell you that in general, with movies based on books I’ve already read, or things I know about, I’m prone to forgive. A movie, especially a movie based on a biblical account, is not a commentary, not exegesis, not a sermon, not even a translation or paraphrase. I don’t expect it to be. The biblical authors were famously laconic, sparing in their details, leaving huge open spaces in their narratives, which readers have loved filling in with their own imaginations. The Bible doesn’t deluge us with details, but seduces us with spaces. Jewish interpretation is a great example. A long tradition of Jewish interpretation, called midrash, includes the imaginative re-telling of biblical stories, with different aspects thrown into the mix. For example, the story of the binding of Isaac in Genesis 22 is told and re-told with different scenarios in play as to what Abraham might have known, what he would have done had God not stopped him, how the story might have ended differently. The midrashists fill in the gaps, fill out the storylines, and provoke us to imagine alternative stories, all ultimately coming back to the biblical story.
The Bible doesn’t deluge us with details, but seduces us with spaces. Tweet this!
So I tend to see movies on biblical stories as visual midrash, imaginative re-tellings with those maddening gaps and omissions of the biblical story filled in. That makes me not just prone to forgive, but actually curious and excited to see what imaginative worlds the biblical story created in the minds of the movie makers.
Still, folks with a high regard for the Bible will come to this movie and want to grade it for accuracy, and that’s okay too. Since I haven’t seen it, and have only seen the trailers… okay… seen the trailers about 30 times… and I’ve seen some bits from the graphic novel based on the script, I thought I’d share some little-known, or sometimes forgotten, facts about the biblical flood story.
Fact #1: Other ancient cultures had flood stories.
Tablet-11-GilgameshThe best known is the 11th tablet of the Epic of Gilgamesh, which comes from an earlier Akkadian text known as Atrahasis, which in turn, was preceded by a Sumerian story whose hero was named Ziusudra. These stories show some close connections with the biblical story, close enough to make scholars wonder whether the Bible and the ancient accounts depend on one another. That’s unlikely, but certainly, the biblical account drew from a fund of themes, motifs, images and genre-rules that were common in the ancient world.The cause of the flood in the Bible is the extreme wickedness of humanity, seen “intensively” in the line “every imagination of their hearts was only evil continually” and “extensively,” characterized by the Hebrew word חָמָס ḥāmās “violence.” It looks like the world of Russell Crowe’s Noah has the wicked heart and violent behavior theme perfectly! Interestingly, in ancient Mesopotamia, the main cause of flood seems to have been over-population, which produced a level of racket that disturbed the gods.
Fact #2: Despite what Genesis 6:1-4 seems to say on the surface, there likely weren’t any children born half-angel and half-human walking around before the flood.
Nephilim-WatcherSeizing on the apparent connection between the term nephilim and the Hebrew verb meaning “to fall,” some immediately make a tie to “the fall” and think of these “fallen ones” as fallen angels. The graphic novel based on the Noah script shows these creatures as wingless giants with 6 arms! The reality was less dramatic. Several scholars have pointed out that certain lines of kings in the ancient world claimed descent from gods, and our text is probably talking about a period of extreme violence perpetrated by ruthless warlords claiming divine prerogatives.
Indeed, when the Pharaoh’s of Egypt spoke of violently rebellious warlords in Canaan, they often called them “wretched fallen ones.” On the other hand, that link to the verb meaning “to fall” might be weak as well. Another cognate language features the same word meaning “To destroy, to tear down” and so our Nephilim might well be “Destoyers” or the like. Since extreme violence figures into the reason for the flood in the Bible, Genesis 6:1-4, by providing a kind of genealogy for the abuse of power, provides a great prologue to the story.
Fact #3: The flood was not just rain.
I recall the comedy routine done by Bill Cosby in the 1970’s dealing with Noah, when God threatened to make it rain for a thousand days. Noah said “No, just let it rain for 40 days and let the sewers back up!” But the fact is, the flood in Genesis is far more than a big rain. In Genesis 1, God created the world in a most peculiar fashion. The universe took the form of a vast, dark body of water. In Genesis 1:6-8 God causes a vast “expanse” to open up in this water. The image is that of a bubble forming in the midst of the water.
This expanse, or bubble, separates the “waters above” from the “waters below” and essentially becomes a biosphere, a fragile but protected place for life to happen. In Genesis, we are told that the windows of heaven open, and the fountains of the great deep are broken up. On the latter, the movie depicts water bursting out of the ground! What’s happening in Genesis is not just rain, but the piercing of the biosphere, the bursting of the bubble, with the waters above and below flowing back together and, in effect, “uncreating” the world.
Fact #4: We know nothing of Noah’s emotions or experiences of God.
Noah is not depicted as preaching repentance to the world in Genesis (in the New Testament, yes). So how did Noah come to grasp the coming threat? The Bible simply says God told him. The Bible is typically very reserved about the details of these kinds of experiences, since God can speak in so many ways. So the movie stresses repeated visions of a flood that Noah needs time to understand.
This is a good place to comment on a controversy surrounding the movie, namely the use of “Creator” in place of “God” or “the Lord.” This substitution is seen as sinister in many places. One news commentator even commented how many times “God” and “the Lord” are named in the biblical account of the flood. But wait—during the actual narrative of the flood itself, Noah never speaks! Later, cursing his son Ham, he does name God, but in the story itself, Noah is silent. So maybe we have an opening for the movie-maker’s imagination here. But more to the point, substitutions for divine names are already present in the Bible and in later Judaism. The divine name “Yahweh” was not to be pronounced, and so a word meaning “My Lord” was always read in its place.
Now, “Lord” means something very different from a relational, personal name (“Yahweh”), so the substitution is not trivial! But even the word “God” in Hebrew is a substitute! The ancient word for deity in the language family to which Hebrew belongs uses the word “El” both as a generic term for deity and for one specific deity, the high-god of Canaan. The OT writers didn’t want anyone to think their god was a generic god, nor did they want anyone thinking he was just the Canaanite high-god, so they modified the word into a rather odd plural form, “Elohim.” So both “God” and “the Lord” in the Bible are substitutes for something else. So I guess I can’t be too upset that “Creator” is used in the movie. It could be worse.
Fact #5 The ark was not a boat.
It wasn’t designed to go anywhere, to navigate, steer, etc. The word “ark” in Hebrew denotes simply a box or chest. It had to be sea-worthy, of course, but otherwise, we shouldn’t have scenes of Noah, standing at the tiller in the rain, desperately trying to stay on course like Gilligan and the Skipper. Nope. “Ride it out” was the motto aboard Noah’s craft.
Fact #6 Noah got drunk after the flood.
He also had some kind of very unhappy sexual experience involving his son, Ham. As for the drunkenness, a friend of mine asked “Who wouldn’t get hammered after undergoing a worldwide flood and living a year confined in a floating box full of animals and cranky people!” For the record, Noah’s drunkenness does not occur in a cave, as shown in the movie, but in his tent. As for the sexual encounter, we simply do not know what it was, but I’ll be surprised if the movie doesn’t do something with that. It’s the kind of red-meat scandal “Hollyweird” loves.
Fact #7 We actually don’t know exactly how long the flood actually lasted.
The Bible has two chronological systems in the story. One is a day-count, with notes like “after 40 days” while the other gives the date, i.e. month and day. On the day-count model, we have 448 days, but on the month-day system, the flood goes 1 year and 10 days. No doubt, some clever soul can harmonize this, but on the plain, literal sense of the text, the author seems not to be splitting hairs on this point.
And this weekend, watching Russell Crowe, one of my favorite actors, portraying Noah, one of my favorite biblical characters . . . I won’t be splitting hairs either!
God bless, Dan
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4/11 - Parents Night Out, 5:30
4/11 - Alachua County Coalition Against Human Trafficking (ACCAHT) will meet on Friday, April 11, 2014 in Room E 232, 9 am
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Rev. Aaron Rousseau
A word from Rev. Esther:
What do Buddy the Elf, Eeyore from Winnie the Pooh, and Dutch Catholic Priest Henri Nouwen have in common? They've all worked their way into my thoughts preparing for this Sunday's sermon at Modern Worship. We'll be looking at Psalm 126 in our series on the Songs of Ascent, and focusing on 'joy' as a part of Christian discipleship. I'm quite enjoying bringing these three characters together and learning some things myself; so I invite you to come, especially if you haven't worshiped with us at MW yet. As always, we're praying for a fresh word from God for us, especially on this topic which is often lacking in our lives. Blessed week to you - you're in our prayers!
A word from Rev. Aaron: "Join us on Wednesdays at 6:35 in the Chapel each Wednesday evening through April 16 for a six-week series called "The Way of the Cross". This will be a special time for worship, including singing, prayer, Word, and Holy Communion... all aimed to prepare our hearts and minds for experiencing the joy of Easter in its fullness by first making the journey from the garden of Gethsemane down the Via Dolorosa to the cross on Calvary's hill." Rev. David Leonard will be bringing the message this week.
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Join us on Wednesday Nights for Food, Fun & Fellowship
Wednesday Night Supper
Wednesday, April 2 Menu:
Broccoli Cheddar
Baked Bread Bowls
Garden Salad
Turkey and Spinach Pinwheels
Dessert
Meal Costs:
Adult - $5; Child - $3 (ages 0-5 eat free); $15 family cap
Dinner is served from 5:30 - 6:30; dining open until 7:00.
Please pay by cash, check or charge at the door.
Following dinner is the 6:35 Service with Rev. Aaron
(6:35 pm in Chapel)
Join Rev. Aaron each Wednesday evening at 6:35 pm in the Chapel through April 16 for a six-week series called "The Way of the Cross". This will be a special time for worship, including singing, prayer, Word, and Holy Communion... all aimed to prepare our hearts and minds for experiencing the joy of Easter in its fullness by first making the journey from the garden of Gethsemane down the Via Dolorosa to the cross on Calvary's hill.
Music
Alice Wallis
The Accidentals and Company youth hand bell ensemble from Chelsea First United Methodist Church in Chelsea, Michigan, are delighted to present a concert at Trinity on Sunday, April 6, at 7:30, as part of their 2014 tour "We Shall Go Out With Joy". The ensemble is made up of youth in grades 6-12 that have been preparing for this journey since September. All of the music will have a recurring theme of "JOY" either in the title of the song, the text, or overall mood of the music. Some selections presented will be "I've Got the Joy," "We Adore Thee," and "Joyful and Triumphant." The concert will also feature solo performances on flute, cello and trombone.
This year, Sonlight is headed to the BIG APPLE and we need your help! Sonlight will be sharing their message in churches up and down the east coast with a stop in New York City. While there, Sonlight will give a concert for a congregation in NYC, see a Broadway show, and participate in an amazing interactive seminar where they will study social issues from a perspective of faith. If you would like to be a part of helping Sonlight go on tour, here are several opportunities to help:
Sponsor a student: $250.00
Sponsor a Metro Card: $30.00 per card
Broadway Show: $75.00 per student
Seminar Program: $24.00 per student
We are getting closer to achieving our goal to fund our lodging in Manhattan. Please pick up a "Bucks for Beds" envelope in the worship center on Sunday, which are printed with a dollar amount from $1-$200. When each envelope is returned with the amount stated, we will have raised the entire amount needed for our lodging in Manhattan! You may donate by cash or check, or give online by clicking here (please choose "Sonlight Tour" from the drop down menu). Mark your calendar for the Sonlight Send-off Concert on FRIDAY, JUNE 13 at 7:00pm in the Worship Center!
Missions
Ted Grueser
This week's mission box supports ACORN. The Alachua County Organization for Rural Needs, Inc (ACORN) Clinic is a nationally recognized program that provides low-cost medical, dental and social services care to residents of north central Florida. ACORN Clinic is able to provide high quality health and dental care at low costs due in large part to the exceptional medical and dental community of Gainesville and outlying areas. Members of this extraordinary community regularly volunteer their time to help the disadvantaged rural residents of North Central Florida.
We're so excited to announce the dedication on Thursday April 3, of the Director's Home at the FUMCH Madison Youth Ranch. By a leap of faith and a generous congregation, TUMC sponsored the house build. We'll leave Trinity at 8:30am, share lunch on site and then be back at TUMC by 3:30pm. Contact Tammy Karafa to reserve your spot on the bus to Madison.
Kids Count is asking for iPad donations, either hand-me-downs or contributions for new tablets. Initial experience with loaned iPads has been very positive, with students using both math and reading apps to work at their own speed and skill level. The apps are fun, challenging, and may also improve eye-hand coordination. Please email Bill Hutchinson if you can help us incorporate this technology.
This week please remember to keep in your prayers another one of Trinity's Mission teams as they prepare to leave Saturday for a week in Port Au Prince, Haiti. The team will be working with "Servant in Fellowship" as they build homes for families still living in tents from the earthquake.
Are you still looking for something to do this summer with your family? What about something that will allow you to make a difference in someone's life. Trinity has several mission opportunities that are geared toward the whole family. This summer we have a trip to Guatemala for families and a trip to St. Simons Island Georgia. To learn more about those opportunities and others check out our new Mission's Magazine? It provides information about our mission trips in 2014 and highlights some local mission opportunities. Get your copy at the Welcome Center or any of the kiosks in the Education building or contact Ted Grueser to sign up.
Membership
Carmen Nelson
Are you interested in joining Trinity UMC?
If you are looking for a church home and want to learn more about the vision, mission and ministries of Trinity United Methodist Church, we invite you to attend one of our upcoming Coffee with the Pastors. It is a casual gathering in which you'll learn more about the United Methodist Church, who we are at Trinity and what is expected of members. The class is designed for visitors and gives you the opportunity to meet our ministers and learn about the many ways to become involved in our church family.
The next Coffee with the Pastors this Sunday, April 6, from 12:15 to 1:45 pm in the Room 222. To register for Coffee with the Pastors click on this link or e-mail Carmen Nelson to receive the form via e-mail. We would love to meet you and to welcome you into the membership of our church!
Adult Ministries
David Leonard
The Parents of Youth Sunday School Class (11 am, rm E204) will be meeting April 6 & April 13. They will be doing a short 2 week study on the Gospel of Mark.
The Misty Mornings Sunday School Class (9:40 am, rm E207) will begin reading through the book Anam Cara: A Book of Celtic Wisdom by John O'Donohue this Sunday. If you would like to order a book from the Trinity Bookstore, contact Kim.
Looking to join one of Trinity's Adult Sunday School Classes? Click HERE for a complete listing of our classes. New participants are always welcome! For more information email Kim or call 416-3074.
Youth Ministry
Julie Mishoe
This Sunday is Sloppy Sunday! We will have a variety of awesome, messy games that you won't want to miss! Be sure to wear clothes you don't mind getting rid of. This is a Big Event, so it will run from 5:30-8:30, and the cost is $8.
If you would like to help with the Easter Sunrise Service on April 20, please email us.
Reminder: Confirmation resumes this Sunday at 9:40 and 11:00. Be sure to let Julie know if you are or aren't coming on the retreat next weekend.
Children's Ministries
Elizabeth Jones
Join us as we "SPRING" into our next Parent's Night Out on Friday, April 11, from 5:30-8:30! Our "themed" Parent's Night Out will be a fabulous night of dinner, Easter crafts and activities for all ages, 12 months through 5th grade! Cost is $12 per child with a $30 cap per family. Please register at here by Wednesday, April 9.
VBS: Workshop of Wonders, June 9-13, 9-12:00: Use your heart, mind, and imagination to participate in the creative life of God, the one who works wonders! VBS Planning is underway and we need VOLUNTEERS! Sign up on the bulletin board outside the CMT Office (rm. 108) or email Christina if you are interested in volunteering during the week. Volunteers can sign up their children now. Registration opens April 20 for all!
Mark your calendar for our Easter Celebration on Easter Sunday, April 20, at 9:40 and 12:00! Join us at 9:40 for our wonderful children's Sunday School program, followed by refreshments, singing under the oaks and our family egg hunt. For our 11:00 attenders, children will join their parents in worship for a Family Easter Service followed by an egg hunt by the big playground. Don't forget your Easter basket!
SAVE the date: May 4 is Children's Sunday! Our Trinity children will be leading the 9:40 worship service so we need all of our children's beautiful voices! Parents, please plan to be in town on May 4.
Register your child for Summer Time Fun and/or CrossTrainers TODAY! Registration for the public opens on April 7! For registration and details, visit here .
Trinity Dance Camp 2014: Registration will begin on Monday, April 7. Dance Camp is for girls who are currently in 1st - 5th grade. The camp will be held July 28 - August 1st this year from 9am - 1pm. For more information or to register please email Susan Kovi,or call 352-416-3017.
Sports Ministry
Ben Haines
Next Level Soccer Clinic: for boys & girls age 9-13. May 7 - June 13 (Wednesdays and Fridays) from 4 - 7pm. Click here for more information and to register.
Senior Slow Pitch Softball 55+ every Tuesday and Thursday at 9 AM on the softball fields. The 65+ group meets on Mondays at 9 AM. Both groups are open to males and females. Females can attend either group regardless of age. Come and join us if you're interested!
CrossTrainers registration is now open for Trinity members and regular attenders, Stepping Stones, and MOPS families. Registration is open to the community on April 7. For more details, click here.
General Announcements
Mindfullness Meditation Class will begin tomorrow, Wednesday, April 2 at 6:30 in rm. 203/204 in the Education Building.
Kids Count is asking for iPad donations, either hand-me-downs or contributions for new tablets. Initial experience with loaned iPads has been very positive, with students using both math and reading apps to work at their own speed and skill level. The apps are fun, challenging, and may also improve eye-hand coordination. Please contact Bill Hutchinson if you can help us incorporate this technology.
Faithful Friends - many of us have a desire to be in ministry in some way but don't know exactly what that might mean. We know we have been given much and would like to give back in some way, but we're not sure just how. Faithful Friends ...might be the way. This is your opportunity to be in ministry in a way that takes advantage of exactly who you are a a member of Trinity.
It is saying:
"I'd like to share with another the things I know about Trinity."
"I can share with someone new some things that might be helpful."
" I'd be willing to commit to being a friend to someone new to the Trinity family."
Sometimes simple, seemingly small things can have great meaning. Just by having been here at Trinity for a time you can make things easier for someone else and make a new friend at the same time. This is for everyone...families, singles, students, adults, seniors...all you have to be is willing. If you would like to be a part of this new ministry of caring, contact Jim Cook or call 352-416-3036.
Lay Servant Ministries Training for Lay Servants and Lay Ministers
Where: Lady Lake UMC
When: Saturday, April 5 and April 12 (9:00 - 4:00), Meals provided
Fee: Basic Course $35.00, Advance Course $40.00 (Leading Worship or Storytelling)
Register: Online on the Florida Conference Web Site
Trinity Member, Ann Scroggie will be teaching "Advanced Story Telling Class."
Annual Trinity Talents Art Show Opens Next Month! And we need your talents! Have you created paintings, fiber art, carvings, woodwork, stained glass, jewelry, photographs, sculpture, paper craft, or other artistic works that you would share with Trinity? Just pick up an application form at the Information Center in the Worship Center or from the literature racks in the Education Building and bring your items to the second floor of the Education Building on Monday, April 7 from 8:30 until 12:00 noon. We will even recognize and honor you at the opening reception on April 13. This is your chance to hang at Trinity. Any questions please call Grace TeSelle at 352-372-8673.
Stephen Ministers care for people facing tough times. Every one of us experience challenges at some time in our lives - times when we could benefit from the support of a caring Christian friend. Stephen Ministers are ready to provide the emotional and spiritual care we need when faced with a crisis or difficulty. Trinity currently has Stephen Ministers who are available to help. Call Kay Walker at 336-2006 or Tom Sklens at 384-1807 for more information.
The Alachua County Coalition Against Human Trafficking (ACCAHT) will meet on Friday, April 11, 2014 in Room E 232 at Trinity, 9 - 11am, 9 - 10 am Business meeting with reports from task groups, 10-11 am Program on Project Safe Childhood (PSC). PSC is an initiative started by the U.S. Department of Justice aimed at preventing the abuse and exploitation of children through the Internet. Speaker: Frank Williams, Assistant United States Attorney for the Northern District of Florida, Gainesville Division and District Coordinator for the Project Safe Childhood. Please register online. The mission of ACCAHT is to build a safety network of partnerships that will work together to identify, rescue, and restore victims of all forms of human trafficking within Alachua County. We welcome anyone interested in helping fulfill this mission. For more information email or call (352) 639-0924.
The next Order of St. Luke service will be on Palm Sunday, April 13, in the chapel at 9:40. If you need healing or someone you know and love does, please be intentional about being there. If you normally attend the 9:40 church service, and wish you could also be at the healing service, try attending the 11:00 church service afterwards. There's room for you. The Healing Service speaker will be Ann Abbott of Grace United Methodist Church. Afterwards, the Order of St. Luke will lift your prayers with theirs for the healing you are seeking for yourself and others. Come! See!
Easter Lily Dedications are being accepted through Sunday, April 13. Dedication envelopes are available at the Front Desk. Cost is $12 per Lily. For more information please call Tammy at 416-3005.
The AARP Smart Driver Course is being offered in a one day session convenient for Trinity United Methodist Church members in the Education Building Room 222 on Thursday, April 24. This classroom refresher for motorists age 50 and older is offered for a modest fee and you do not have to be an AARP member to register for the class. For course registration call Mrs. Lynda LeGrow at (352) 333-3036.
Sunday Morning Altar Flowers - If you wish to reserve the Worship Center altar flowers in honor or memory of someone or to the Glory of God, please contact Tammy.
Volunteer Opportunities
•We are in need of volunteers for the Front Reception Desk, please contact Susan Kovi for details.
•If you want to volunteer but don't see anything that interests you, contact Susan Kovi. Susan can help you help Trinity!
•Hospitality volunteers needed one Sunday per month for the new Modern Worship service in the Youth Building. Please contact Franny or call her at 352-416-3027 if you would like to help.
•Communion Stewards are still needed for all three Sunday services - especially the 9:40 and 11:00 services. No experience is needed. Volunteers may help as they are available. No short or long term commitment. Please contact Pam Goad or Chuck Goad.
•Kitchen Volunteers Needed: The food service ministry needs your help. Please contact Franny.
•A call for volunteers! We need your help! If you have a desire to serve, we have many opportunities for you to use your gifts and graces in our Modern Worship service. Greeters, Communion Servers, Hospitality, set up/tear down, to name a few. Please contact Rev. Esther or check out our list at here .
Weekly Bible Studies
-Tuesday Morning Moms, Tuesdays, 9:30-11:30, E203
-Women Growing in Faith, Tuesdays, 6:30-8:30, E232
- Men's Prayer and Bible Study, Wednesdays, 7:00 am, E232
- Wednesday Morning Pastor's Bible Study, Wednesdays at
9:15 am, Chapel
- Exploring Jesus' Teachings Bible Study, Thursdays at 10:30am, E232
- Dan Johnson's Daily Scripture Email is available upon request.
Trinity Members in the News
Exactech named a new CEO Wednesday after co-founder Bill Petty stepped down after 30 years and President David Petty, his son was promoted. Bill Petty, an orthopedic surgeon, was a professor at the University of Florida College of Medicine for 23 years and served as chairman of the Department of Orthopaedic Surgery from 1981 to 1996. He founded Exactech in 1985 with wife, Betty, and biomedical engineer Gary Miller.
David Petty became the first employee in 1988 and has served as a vice president over operations, and sales and marketing before being named president in 2007.
We would love for you to share any news involving our Trinity family. Please contact Tammy or call 416-3005.
Family Matters
Special Birthday Greetings are extended to Dorothy Anthony (95) 4/3, Don Myhre (89) on 4/7 and to Cris Barnes (91) on 4/7.
If you are celebrating your 80th, 90th, 90th plus birthday and would like it announced in the Tuesday Word and/or the bulletin, contact Tammy Karafa.
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