Our New Sessional Ministry Team Structure in 2025
In 2023, with a recommendation from the Officer Nominating Committee and subsequent approval of both the session and congregation, Trinity adopted a plan to reduce the size of the session from 16 elders (fifteen serving three-year terms plus one youth elder serving a...
Canticles of Advent: Filled Up
Rev. Rebecca M Heilman-Campbell Selected Verses: Luke 1:46 – 55 Each year we hang stockings, light candles, purchase gorgeous wrapping paper and tie each red bow tight. We embrace the beauty and the sentiment of this Season of Waiting, sometimes forgetting the...
Not the Absence of Chaos, but the Presence of Hope
Rev. Rebecca M Heilman-Campbell Selected Verses: Jeremiah 32:1-17 I’m going to dive right into our passage today. Let me start out by giving you some context. This detailed story that I admit, if you have never read before, will raise major questions and maybe even...
Jesus, the Unbinder
Steve Lindsley John 11: 1-45 (selected verses) The movie Patch Adams is based on the story of Hunter Adams, a doctor who used his personal experience and pain to treat mentally ill patients with the healing medicine of humor. There is one scene where Patch visits a...
When Grace Doesn’t Feel Graceful
Steve Lindsley Exodus 16: 2-15, Matthew 20: 1-16 Scripture tells us that “the first shall be last and the last shall be first.” Where you are in any given situation plays a large role in determining how you feel about that. As a Panthers, Hornets and Wake Forest...
Move Closer
Steve Lindsley Ephesians 2: 11-22 The family table is set up in the dining room. Or the kitchen, or maybe the screened-in porch outside. Wherever it is, meals are consumed there; stories shared, lives made real. A table where each one gathered around it is held up...
Love in Action
Steve Lindsley 1 Corinthians 13: 1-13 It happens every now and then when I meet with an engaged couple to plan the details of their wedding. At some point in the conversation they mention how they would like someone to read the “Love Chapter” – or they may just say,...
Be Curious and Be Yourself
Rev. Rebecca M Heilman-Campbell 1 Corinthians 12:12-31 You’ve heard me share this story before. In her book, Breathing Space, Heidi Neumark writes about her friend, Miss Ellie. Miss Ellie lives on John’s Island near Charleston, South Carolina on a small dirt road in a...
Ministry Match: Handing Out Gifts
Steve Lindsley Ephesians 4: 1-7, 11-13, 15-16; John 6: 1-13 Back in 1926, the United States Congress authorized a huge auction. The items up for bidding were patent models sent to Washington DC over many years by idealistic inventors that, for whatever reason, did...
Solidarity Costs Something
Rev. Rebecca M. Heilman-Campbell, Associate Pastor John 20: 19-31 The reality of a country burdened by systems of oppression that reduces the availability of medical treatment, clean water, or a safe environment meant I attended many funerals during my year in Zambia,...