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Masks are back! Trinity’s Administrative Team met and voted to respond to the recent spike in the occurrence of the COVID Variant in our area with a return to requiring masks inside the church building.  “Safety First,” has been our main concern since the beginning of the pandemic. So, at the advice of our local and national health officials, we’re taking this simple step to protect both those who have and those who have not been vaccinated. We will also be reinstating the barriers on every other pew to help us keep social distancing as much as possible. The remodeling of Gollaher Chapel is finished! Many thanks to our Trinity Trustees, chaired by Gloria Gress, for leading us through the renovation of Gollaher Chapel. Thanks to a generous gift by the estate of Wilma Morton we were able to seal in the leaking windows, finish the tuck-pointing of the bricks, take off the damaged wallpaper, and fix and paint the walls. Special thanks to our Janitor Jason Chohon for stepping in above and beyond the call of duty to help with tuck pointing and placing putty around the windows when it was critical to do these projects before the scaffolding was taken down. Thanks to those church members who also helped our Trustees clean up and put all the pews back at the end of the project. Saturday night worship will return to Gollaher Chapel on Saturday, September 11th at 6 p.m. Since this renovation began, we’ve been spoiled by being able to broadcast our Saturday night worship in the Sanctuary live on Facebook. Returning to Gollaher Chapel means that life broadcasting will no longer be possible. We’ve made the choice to put our resources (human and digital) into having the best possible broadcasting of our services in the main Sanctuary. It is a future possibility, but broadcasting from Gollaher would take a major additional investment of both equipment and manpower. Homecoming Sunday is September 12! Much prayer, discussion, and research has gone into the decision by our Long-Range Planning Committee and Family Ministries Team to make a change in our Sunday Mornings. Many thanks to those who filled out surveys this spring and summer. Thank you for all the great ideas! The kick-off for the new Sunday schedule is September 12: Traditional Worship will be at 9:00 a.m. 10:00 a.m. will be a Growing in Faith Together hour. There will be activities and food for all ages outside door number 1 (the parking lot by the circle drive or across from the Walnut apartments) on Sunday, September 12. In the future at that time, there will be Sunday School for children and small group studies for adults. We’re also hoping folks will hang out in the Gathering Place during that hour in a time of fellowship. At 11:00 a.m., we’ll have our contemporary worship with our Crosspoint band. The nursery will also return on September 12.