Pastor’s Ponderings January 2026

“Do not be anxious about anything, but in every situation, by prayer and petition, with thanksgiving, present your requests to God. And the peace of God, which transcends all understanding, will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus.” Philippians 4:6-7 NIV

 

As we enter 2026, we enter into a secular New Year of new possibilities, new resolutions and of course the Annual meeting and budgets. We also have uncertainties in our lives, families, communities and world so let us, as St. Paul encourages us, in every situation give over our prayers and petitions to God and know that we can leave them in God’s hands and have peace.

We are a people with faith in God and can step out in that same faith from God to where and how God is leading us to serve and the resources to serve God’s purpose for Trinity in this coming year and so I pray that you will see the gifts that you have in yourselves within and without, in your resources, in your hearts and that we have received this past Christmas season the greatest Gift that is Christ Jesus our Savior and Lord.

And finally as St. Paul writes in 2 Thessalonians 1:3: “We ought always to thank God for you, brothers and sisters, and rightly so, because your faith is growing more and more, and the love all of you have for one another is increasing.”  I do indeed thank God for you, sisters and brothers in Christ, for exactly those reasons he gave and thankful that you have taken up the call to be leaders in this congregation for the work needed to share the message of Christ through Trinity. So for this coming year let us trust that we need not be anxious but know that God is at work in each of us and in Trinity in this community and beyond.  God bless you all and Happy New Year!