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Don't forget! This Sunday, worship is at 10:30 AM at Trinity Lutheran School!

There's only a few days left to place orders for the plant sale!

Help the TLS PTL reach our goal of $20,000 in sales for the 2026 Plant Sale! Orders can be submitted online or in the TLS office through April 13.
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Be sure to check out the online-only Bonus Buys! Bonus Buys may sell out and are changed weekly.
Please turn in paper orders and donations during the week they are received. Students will receive prizes for each week they turn in orders or a donations for the Trinity garden. Each week, the top student sellers from the ECE and K-5 programs will have the opportunity to pick a prize or participate in the "money jump."

Visit our website https://trinityoflincoln.org/church to read about some of the special music that will be performed at our Easter Worship service at 9:30AM on Easter Sunday (scroll down to "Holy Week Music")!

Here is a small section of what Lyle wrote to describe the pieces:

The two Easter violin/piano duet music selections, the first during preservice and the second at postservice, combine to draw our attention to the viral dissemination of the news surrounding the resurrection of Jesus. Starting with the first news early on Easter morning, there was a juxtaposition of disbelief and hope. Just as the snippets of unbelievable and incredible information were communicated contagiously early on, as the day progressed, there was a resulting atmosphere of cacophony, breathlessness, and emotional ups and downs. In the intensive, almost explosive, passage of events during Easter day and evening, the thoughts and emotions morphed into feelings of breathtaking, heart-pounding euphoria mixed
with incredibility.

The preservice piece is the opening movement (Sinfonia) of J.S. Bach’s Cantata “Wir müssen durch viel Trübsal” (“We have to go through a lot of hardship”). Bach composed the cantata in Leipzig for the Third Sunday after Easter, called Jubilate, in which he contrasted sorrow and joy.

The post-service piece, entitled Beethoven Virus is a remix of the third and last movement of Beethoven’s Pathetique Sonata and is reworked in a variety of different instrumental arrangements including violin plus piano... The
repetitive base notes of the piano are like a fast, excited heartbeat, and when combined with the violin’s ‘Jewish celebratory dance’ soprano theme, we are using the music to reflect the eucatastrophe joy of the resurrection.

Trinity is blessed with many talented musicians who enhance our worship services with their gifts. This Good Friday and Easter, Lyle and Temu have selected special music for our services. You can read more about the music selections and listen to recordings on our website at https://trinityoflincoln.org/church (scroll down to "Holy Week Music"). Below is included a small snippet of what Lyle wrote to describe the pieces:

The first preservice piece, entitled "Fratres" (meaning "brothers" in Latin), was composed in 1977 by the Estonian composer Arvo Pärt. You may not initially appreciate the "Fratres" piece, unless you put your mind into what the music is trying to say. As you listen, give thought to the series of Jesus’ six last words on the cross followed by his last saying, "Father, into thy hands I commend my spirit." Then follows the darkness, the tearing of the temple curtain, the splitting of rocks, the earthquake, the opening of tombs.

The second preservice piece is entitled "Theme from Schindler’s List" and was composed in 1993 by John Williams. Its usage for us on Good Friday, beginning at the service start time, is to capture the emotions of melancholy, dismay, resignation and helplessness of the crucifixion eyewitnesses after Jesus has died.

To enjoy this music in person, please join us for our evening Good Friday service at 6:15PM.

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We hope to see you at our services this Holy Week!

Maundy Thursday, April 2nd - 6:15PM
Good Friday, April 3rd - 12PM and 6:15PM
Easter Sunday, April 5th - 6:30 AM, 9:30AM, and 6PM

Did you know Forward is one of the many organizations that receives items from Common Threads? Pillows and blankets from Common Threads can often be found in our Forward+ donations, and our Forward families love them!

Some additional volunteers are needed to help everything run smoothly for the memorial service on Saturday. If you are willing to serve, please sign up at the link below. You can also reach out to David Kumm at [email protected]. Thank you!

Memorial Service Volunteers We would love your help making sure everything runs smoothly at the memorial service for Matthew Wing on Saturday, March 28th. Please sign up for one of the volunteer spots below. David Kumm wil reach out with more inforamtion.