This year Trinity will join with thousands of other United Methodist congregations across the U.S. to make Palm Sunday a little greener. We have purchased our palms from Eco-Palms, a project supported by United Methodist Committee on Relief, Lutheran World Relief, and Presbyterian Church USA Enough for Everyone Program. Eco-Palms are sustainably...
Presentation on Reconciling Ministries Network efforts in Austin at St. John’s UMC Representatives from Reconciling Ministries Network and Methodist Churches in Austin who have Reconciling Ministries Teams will discuss their efforts to encourage congregations to affiliate with the Reconciling Ministries Network. Come at 6:30 pm for snacks and mingling; the...
This Sunday, 4/10 between the first and second worship celebrations, we will be holding a discussion of two recent films we have viewed as a class on LGBTQ issues and the church: “A Fish Out of Water” wish you must rent to see (https://streamingmoviesright.com/us/movie/fish-out-of-water) and a sermon by Rev. Michael...
The Nobelity Project invites you to two wonderful evenings benefitting education work in the US and Kenya. Building bridges between nations to help create a more peaceful and sustainable world. More info at www.nobelity.org Wednesday, April 6th – at the Paramount Theatre, The Premiere of Building Hope – the Story...
Do you care about: Education, Immigration, Long-term Job Training, Living Wages, Worker Rights, & Neighborhood Safety Join us to learn where public officials stand on these issues. Candidates for city council, AISD representatives, Austin Police Chief Acevedo, and State Legislators have been invited. Leaders will also launch a spring Get Out the Vote...
The next meeting of the Southwest Texas Chapter of the Methodist Federation for Social Action will be Thursday, March 10 at Emmanuel UMC, 200 Brushy Street, in downtown Austin. The program will focus on immigration issues. Special guests at the meeting will be members of the host church as well...
The Southwest Texas Chapter of the Methodist Federation for Social Action will hold its February 2011 meeting Thursday, February 10 in St. John’s Fellowship Hall. The program will be a DVD entitled “Meeting with a Killer: One Family’s Journey”. It is the story of the carefully planned mediation between Houston...
On Thursdays when the temperature drops below freezing you will find 30 men finding warmth and a hot meal at Trinity. A whole crew of dedicated volunteers work to ensure that these men receive a lot of TLC during their time with Trinity, and they could really use your help....
The Methodist Federation for Social Action (MFSA) is a 103-year-old independent organization of United Methodists with a broad social justice agenda, based in Washington, DC. MFSA mobilizes, leads and sustains a progressive United Methodist movement that energizes people to be agents of God’s justice, peace and reconciliation. Acting out of...
For the January meeting, the MFSA folks have invited a speaker from the Center for Public Policy Priorities (CPPP) with a discussion about the important issues they see for the upcoming session of the Texas Legislature. For more than twenty years, the CPPP has been a nonpartisan, nonprofit policy institute...
