Several months ago Pastor Gerry and several other members of Trinity began formulating what we would like Trinity’s new website to include.  How can we use this tool to share the Good News and facilitate the discipling of the reader?  We’ve been working diligently to create a place on the worldwide web for Trinity that is both user friendly and helpful with the kind of information people want.  When looking at our target audience, we pondered how we could serve two distinct groups:  those who are of the Trinity family and those who are unfamiliar with Trinity.  How do we want Trinity to appear to those unfamiliar with church?  What kind of message do we want to send?  How can we show Trinity to be a body of believers and not just a building?  What kind of information do our members want and need on the website? We had a very special task ahead of us!

Read more: Boy, I'd Sure like to Find That on Our Church Website

In the September issue of the Tidings we reflected on how many contemporary phrases have their origins in Scripture, particularly in the King James Version of 1611. We laid out the invitation for you to add to our list. Wow, did you people ever come through!  So, now, we are printing an updated list (including the ones from the previous article). Refresh your memory and enjoy the additions...

Read more: More Familiar Phrases Originating in the Bible

Rog and Gloria Klein flew to southern California to visit with their daughter-in-law's folks.  Son Dave and his wife Corina had bought one of her folks' cars; Rog and Gloria were to deliver that new purchase to their kids in Alaska.  Well, Rog and Gloria set out driving all the way up the Pacific coast into Canada.  But, they had quite an experience when driving through the Yukon Territory...

Read more: On the Road in the Yukon: The Good Samaritan and the Chain Saw

Senior Work Week” or “Retirees Week” at the Christian Reformed Conference Grounds in the fall happened September 26-30, 2011, with three couples from Trinity volunteering their skills and time in preparing the campground for winter.  Many projects need to be done and the volunteers help to improve, maintain, and prepare cottages and camping facilities for all the seasons of the year...

Read more: Volunteering at the Christian Reformed Conference Grounds

The Apostles’ Creed states “We believe…one holy catholic [or universal] church….” In this we understand that Christ’s church extends around the world and throughout the ages. All of His believers together are one church, one body.  One way in which we express that is by way of the sensitivity with which symbols are displayed in our worship services. As much as is possible, we try to show unity with fellow believers around the world—in many different countries and various cultures. No matter what might be the citizenship of any of Trinity’s worshippers gathered on any particular Lord’s Day, we demonstrate that we all are united around the cross of Christ, His table, His baptism, not around a national emblem.

Thus, the Trinity council has a policy that in our worship services we do not place emphasis on our national holidays or their symbols...

Read more: Council Report: The Universality of the Church

This article first appeared in the September 21, 2011 CRC News and is used by permission.

Dan Euser, a landscape architect who is a member of a Christian Reformed Church, says he experienced God’s hand and grace at work throughout the lengthy process of designing two fountains of cleansing, cascading water that are a key part of the National September 11 Memorial and Museum...

Read more: CRC Man Designs 9/11 Water Memorial