Category: General

Happy Thanksgiving

We wish you all the best on this Thanksgiving weekend. We are truly thankful for all the good things that our Lord has brought into our lives – family, friends, health.

We thank our Heavenly Father for being a loving God, we thank our Lord Jesus Christ for sacrificing His life for us poor sinners, with the promise of eternal life, and we thank the Holy Spirit for guiding us through the Word.

Welcome to our new members

Anna Meier, Fay and Taylor Jaques and Pastor Henock

We welcome Anna, Faye and Taylor as members to our church. Although relatively new to the congregation, they have all raised their hands to become not only members, but active members! Anna has volunteered to take the lead on compiling our weekly worship service bulletins. Fay and Taylor will lead our video and audio needs.

If you interested in becoming a member, or renewing your membership to our church, please feel free to talk to Pastor Henock.

Another four-week Adult Membership class is just beginning on Thursdays at 10:00 am. Do not hesitate to contact Pastor Henock if you are interested in attending.

Job Posting

Our church is searching to fill a part-time Secretarial position. The hours are anticipated to be in the range of 18-22 per week. There will be some flexibility of the work hours but they will likely occur on Tuesday to Thursday. The pay will be commensurate with experience but we will make every effort to be competitive.

Qualifications:
  • Good communication and interpersonal skills
  • Ability to take directions and work independently
  • A demonstrated proficiency with computers and computer software, including:
    • Microsoft Word, Excel, and PowerPoint and/or 
    • Google Docs, Sheets, Gmail, etc.
  • Some experience in Website maintenance and/or Social Media
Under the supervision of the Pastor you will be asked to:
  • Monitor Email, mail and office telephone
  • Organize Sunday Worship Service materials which involves preparing and printing bulletins as well as PowerPoint presentations
  • Update the Church’s online Google Calendar(s) and volunteer schedules
  • Enter information into databases
  • Prepare documents for special services (e.g. weddings, funerals etc)
  • Compile and prepare a regular newsletter
  • Maintain Church Records
  • Assist the Pastor as otherwise required

As this is a Church-based position, it would be required that you have an understanding and appreciation of our Christian values.

Please respond to hr@trinitylcc.ca with:

  • A resume 
  • A brief statement of why you believe you would be suitable to fill this position.

Only persons selected for an interview will be contacted.

Camp Luther Annual Meeting Notice

The Camp Luther Annual meeting will take place:

  • at 3:00 pm on March 10th,
  • at Camp Luther’s Dining Hall
    9311 Shook Road, Mission, BC.   

You and your family are invited to stay for a Camp Luther Supper following the Annual Meeting.  It’s a great time to get to know the Greater Camp Luther staff, the Camp Luther family and supporters and ministry.  

Camp Luther Phone No. 1-604-826-7062 to confirm you are coming to the supper following the Annual Meeting.

Why We Follow Liturgy?

A Lutheran Church worship service is currently and historically liturgical. Below is an excellent article by Rev. David Haberstoke that describes the rationale for why liturgy is important.

WHY LITURGY?

by Rev. David Haberstoke
Lutheran Church–Canada (LCC)’s Central Regional Pastor

This article was originally printed in the
September/October 2023 issue of The Canadian Lutheran
and is reprinted with permission

Why do Lutherans do liturgy? To answer the question, we first have to define what we mean by the word “liturgy.” It’s usually used by Lutherans in two ways: first, to mean the way in which Lutherans worship (with an orderly set of words for both pastor and parishioners rooted in Scripture). Secondly, it’s used to refer to the specific services in our hymnals.

Many pastors refer to the Divine Services in our hymnals as the “Historic Liturgy” of the Church. This distinguishes them from the tendency in recent decades to vary the text of the service from week to week (for example, in what Concordia Publishing House calls “Creative Worship”). Creative Worship is certainly liturgical in the first sense above because it is an orderly outline with responses. But when I ask why Lutherans “do liturgy,” I mean the second sense: the Historic Liturgy”—that is, the liturgies in our hymnals which Lutheran Church–Canada congregations in convention have accepted, recommended, and agreed to use. Why do we do these historic liturgies? There are many reasons but here are just a few:

  1. Because they are solid and unchanging in a world which is constantly changing. 
    Scholars, of course, would point out that the liturgy has changed over time. But generally, this change has been gradual, with changes and additions made bit by bit over the centuries. Divine Service Settings 1 and 2 in the Lutheran Service Book represented a departure from this slow and gradual
    process when they were introduced nearly fifty years ago, because they introduced a lot of change all at once. But even they follow the general outline of the older Setting 3. Once learned, Settings 1 and 2 also become a solid and stable thing you can hold onto in an ever-changing world. 
  2. It is Scriptural. 
    Almost all of the words in the liturgy are straight out of the Bible or are a summary of things in the Bible. I remember being shocked in my teen years reading 1 John and realizing that those words we say in Setting 1—“If we say we have no sin…”—were straight out the Bible.
  3. Repetition is the key to learning. 
    You learn, grow to understand, and remember the things you repeat regularly. Repeating things together until they are learned by heart is the best way to serve the aged, the very young, and the parent with a crying child in service. It keeps us all together supporting each other as no other technology can.
  4. It is orderly. 
    St. Paul says of worship that things need to be done in good order, “for God is not a God of confusion, but of peace” (1 Corinthians 14:33). Order is something that young people raised in our present world of endless variety are drawn to and are actively seeking. Order gives them an anchor, a stable thing to connect to and root their lives in (Hebrews 6:19).
  5. It teaches the most important things you need to know. 
    The core teachings and practices of the Christian faith are included in the liturgy. From the very first Easter Sunday, Christians have always gathered for God’s Word, prayer, and the Lord’s Supper (e.g., John 20; Acts 2:42; 20:7). From there, the liturgy developed by adding the most important things we need to know. For example, when the creeds were written to clarify who our Triune God is and what He does, they were then added to the weekly liturgy so that we would learn them by heart.
  6. It connects us to the whole church throughout the ages. 
    When we use the liturgy handed down to us, we are being truly democratic and inclusive in that we are allowing the whole Church throughout the ages to have a say in how we do things! Not that it’s about voting; it’s about the teaching of Scripture and how all the saints of all the ages have handed this blessed faith on to us. We worship in the same patterns and traditions they used and passed on. We sing the very songs of the saints who have gone before and of heaven itself. Most canticles we sing in the liturgy are songs of the angels (the Gloria and Sanctus) or of the saints in Scripture (Kyrie, Agnus Dei, Magnificat, Nunc Dimittis, Benedictus, and so on.) 
  7. It is evangelistic. 
    “Evangelistic” simply means Gospel, and the Gospel is the power of God unto salvation (Romans 1:16)! When a pastor fails to preach the Gospel with clarity, the liturgy does. I have heard sermons that were all Law and no Gospel, and left us in dread of our sins. But then the Offertory (“Create in Me” – Psalm 51) immediately followed, applying the balm of God’s forgiveness to our hurting hearts, pointing us to Jesus. Pointing sinners to Jesus is true evangelism!