Showing posts with label memories. Show all posts
Showing posts with label memories. Show all posts

Tuesday, March 22, 2016

"Searching for Sunday" Lenten Devotional Series: Sundays: Happy Memories




Tuesday, March 22

Sundays:   Happy Memories

The Lord is my Shepard, I shall not want. He makes me to lie down in green pastures. He leads me by the still waters.—Psalm 23:1-2

Upon my anticipated move to Denver in 2005, my daughters who already resided in Denver, told me about this church. A beautiful very large church downtown.  One day when we were downtown we passed by Trinity and they told me that was the church they had described. The following Sunday I visited Trinity and was quite impressed. The first thing to impress me was the choir and then the pipe organ. I was especially excited however about the choir, how beautiful they sounded and the number of members in it. With that I decided I wanted to be a part of it. I asked about how to join and that day met Judith Mitchell and joined.

Also I saw how everyone seemed to care for one another and was impressed with the friendliness I had experienced. I was amazed by this in such a large church. Later when I became unemployed in 2006, I spoke with various members of the ministry about my situation. I was told of a position in the nursery and then later a position in the janitorial department. I applied for and obtained both positions which was quite helpful to me at the time. This is when I met Kathy Gibb and Reverend George Brunner. 

I was then employed here in these positions until another opportunity emerged in May 2007 which I took and I left employment at Trinity. These things happened on Sundays.

In my time here at Trinity, I have met a lot of very caring wonderful people: the first Judith Mitchell, then Rev Linda Marshall, Rev Miriam Slejko, Rev Darrell Mount, Jim Feickert, Diane Theobald, and the choir members (too numerous to name) as well as the two I met related to my employment. I want to thank you all and care deeply for you all.

Calagney A. Lange

Friday, February 19, 2016

"Searching for Sunday" Lenten Devotional Series: Sunday Memories




Friday, February 19

Sunday Memories

Above all, clothe yourselves with love, which binds everything together in perfect harmony. And let the peace of Christ rule in your hearts, to which indeed you were called in the one body. And be thankful.
 Colossians 3: 14-15

Do you ever sit in church and wonder what is going on with those squirming children in the pew next to you?  I am sure that I was one of those kids; but I learned a lot about worship. By the time I remember being in Sunday morning worship, Mom had returned to singing in the choir and Dad worked most Sundays; so it was Great Aunt Cora who ended up with the three Sanger kids!  

She had never had children of her own, but she loved us and she loved the Church. We learned a lot about that love from her. When we squirmed or giggled Aunt Cora went into action.  First came bribery; there seemed to be an endless supply of Life Savers in her purse and it was easier to be quiet with candy in your mouth.  If that didn’t work, she would split us up; one brother on each side of her and my sister on her lap. We learned to follow the service as she led us through the bulletin and pointed to the words of the hymns that we were singing; we grew to love being in worship.

Dear Lord, we pray that children may see your love and grace in the people of Trinity.  Amen.

Dave Sanger