THANK YOU FROM NIKKI &MICKEY AND THE MOVING MTNS W/MICKEY FUNDRAISER I want to extend a heartfelt thank you to Trinity and members for generously donating the use of the Fellowship Hall for our fundraiser on December 5. We are deeply grateful to everyone who attended, supported, or sent cards to the office; each gesture has meant a lot to our family. As many of you know, my husband, Mickey Boaglio, was recently diagnosed with stage 4 colon cancer, which doctors have described as “incurable.” With your help, we were able to raise over $15,000 to assist with treatment-related costs, and nearly 150 people came through the doors throughout the evening. During clean-up that night, one of the first things my family said was, “We definitely need to get them a thank- you card!” The support from the Trinity family has helped lift us during an unimaginably hard season, and we are so thankful for your prayers. As we spend the next few weeks over Christmas in and out of Fred Hutch for chemo treatments, I promise—that thank- you card is coming. With tremendous gratitude, Nikki VanCleef-Boaglio (Trinity Office Manager) ANNUAL REPORTS Reminder: Annual reports are due by Wednesday, January 7. Please e-mail to tlclview@cni.net by this date with the report title in the subject line. It does not have to be in a Word document or anything fancy, simply typing in an e-mail works great. THANK YOU FROM FAMILY PROMISE Dear Trinity Church, We want to thank you for your help at our annual Burgers & Bingo fundraiser. Thanks to your help, we were able to raise over $12,500 to help families facing homelessness. Thank you for believing in our mission: Every child deserves a home. ANNUAL CONGREGATIONAL MEETING Our annual congregational meeting is coming up on Sunday, January 25 th , following service. SOCIAL MINISTRIES A big thank you for everyone that brought baked goods for the sale. Especially Tom for all the support you provide for Social Ministries. David & Ginger too! We wish you and your families a very Happy New Year. Our year kicks off by supporting the Women’s Emergency Support Shelter. –Social Ministries TLC LADIES The TLC women’s group activities continue the 2nd Fridays at 1:30 at Trinity. On 1/9 there will be a “Purses for Purpose” activity where we bring together purses and necessities for our local Women’s shelter All ladies, including friends of the church, are invited. Our schedule for the first half of the year: 1/9 “Purses for a Purpose” suggestions for fillers: pens, aspirin, mirror, wallet, comb, hand sanitizer, first aid items etc 2/13 TLC Women’s Tea 3/13/26 Game Day! 4/10/26 Lunch Out. Restaurant TBD. Noon 5/8/26 “Baby Shower” (*all gatherings are 1:30 PM at the church unless otherwise noted*) TLC ladies’ 39; Bible study is taking a break for the holidays and will return Jan. 23. From the Pastor “Let us, then, meditate upon the Nativity just as we see it happening in our own babies. Behold Christ lying in the lap of his young mother. What can be sweeter than the Babe, what more lovely than the mother! What fairer than her youth! What more gracious than her virginity! Look at the Child, knowing nothing. Yet all that is, belongs to him, that your conscience should not fear but take comfort in him. Doubt nothing. To me, there is no greater consolation given to mankind than this, that Christ became man, a child, a babe, playing in the lap and at the breasts of his most gracious mother. Who is there whom this sight would not comfort? Now is overcome the power of sin, death, hell, conscience, and guilt, if you come to this gurgling Babe and believe that he is come, not to judge you, but to save. " (A Christmas Sermon in Here I Stand, translated by Bainton) This passage is a poignant reminder that this season commemorates the birth of our Savior. That, in order for God to dwell among His people, he suffered the indignity of the human birth and a life in the flesh. Luther captures in the wonder of new life a baby playing in his mother’s lap. However, in the Christmas hymn “What Child is This?” there is a reminder of what is to come. This hymn not only describes the wondrous birth, but it also foretells the horrors that this child would endure for us. Nail spears shall pierce his side – the cross In the movie “The Passion” the relationship between Jesus and his mother is prominent. Mary follows Jesus at a distance and watches as he carries his cross through Jerusalem. At one point, when Jesus collapses from the weight of the cross, they meet and Jesus, bloodied and weak, looks at his mother and proclaims, “I make all things new.” This promise is from the twenty-first chapter of the Book of Revelation 1 Then I saw a new heaven and a new earth; for the first heaven and the first earth had passed away, and the sea was no more. 2 And I saw the holy city, the new Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God, prepared as a bride adorned for her husband. 3 And I heard a loud voice from the throne saying, “See, the home of God is among mortals. He will dwell with them; they will be his peoples, and God himself will be with them; 4 he will wipe every tear from their eyes. Death will be no more; mourning and crying and pain will be no more, for the first things have passed away.” 5 And the one who was seated on the throne said, “See, I am making all things new.” Christmas is the beginning of the story of the birth of this child who would make all things new. However, birth is always followed by an outcome – death. That is just the natural order of the world. But in this small child there is a promise of new life, a never-ending life, for that was his propose in life – to save the world from its own sin and make all things new. Blessings Pastor Craig

TLC WOMEN’S GROUP The TLC women’s group activities continue the 2nd Fridays at 1:30 at Trinity. On 1/9 there will be a “Purses for Purpose” activity where we bring together purses and necessities for our local Women’s shelter All ladies, including friends of the church, are invited. Our schedule for the first half of the year: 1/9 “Purses for a Purpose” suggestions for fillers: pens, aspirin, mirror, wallet, comb, hand sanitizer, first aid items etc 2/13 TLC Women’s Tea 3/13/26 Game Day! 4/10/26 Lunch Out. Restaurant TBD. Noon 5/8/26 “Baby Shower” (*all gatherings are 1:30 PM at the church unless otherwise noted*) TLC ladies’ 39; Bible study is taking a break for the holidays and will return Jan. 23.