Trinity Press
Trinity Press is the monthly newsletter of Trinity Presbyterian Church. Here you can find current and upcoming events and congregational news.
The congregation is encouraged to submit articles/information that may be relevant for this newsletter to Pastor LaVera via her email by the 22nd of the month. Ideas include: notes to the congregation, community ministry news, community events, volunteer opportunities, and celebrations.
The congregation is encouraged to submit articles/information that may be relevant for this newsletter to Pastor LaVera via her email by the 22nd of the month. Ideas include: notes to the congregation, community ministry news, community events, volunteer opportunities, and celebrations.
June 2025
From the Pastor
Jim and I will be on vacation June 11-21. The Rev. Dr. Chris Blumhofer will be the guest preacher on June 15. You can read more about him below under Worship News. Chris is a member of New Hope Presbytery. I met him at the Fellowship Community Conference in FL back in March, but we also had lunch together with other New Hope Fellowship Colleague friends at the presbytery meeting we had just after the conference. After describing how hard it is to find pulpit supply in the northeast region of the Presbytery of Coastal Carolina due to the number of small churches with no pastor or CRE and the few people on our pulpit supply list to handle it all, Chris graciously offered to preach for me sometime as he and his family enjoy vacationing in the Morehead/Atlantic Beach/Emerald Isle area. We coordinated our summer vacations to work this out. I’m super grateful to Chris, and I know you will enjoy him.
Worship News
June 8 is Pentecost Sunday. Feel free to wear red that day in honor of the season.
June 15 is Father’s Day and Trinity Sunday. We will be celebrating the Lord’s Supper in worship. Our guest preacher for the day is the Rev. Dr. Chris Blumhofer. Chris is a professor of New Testament at Fuller Seminary and also serves as Parish Associate at Blacknall Presbyterian Church in Durham, NC. He loves preaching and teaching the Bible, especially the gospels of John and Mark. He and his wife, Stephanie, have two daughters and live in Durham.
June 22 begins the season of ordinary time. We will be resuming our study through the book of Isaiah in worship.
Bible Study
We will start a new bible study on June 8, The Exodus Way by the Bible Project. All you need is a Bible, something for notes, and a writing utensil. If you are planning on joining, please read Exodus chapters 1 through 4 before June 8. As you read, jot down whom you see as the main characters, what roles do they play, and what important moments are being set up in the plot. Be sure to bring your notes with you to our first study. This will jumpstart our discussion!
Scout News
The Troop was gifted a Blackstone Griddle to enhance their camping for volunteer service.
Two adults were given special honors at the April Court of Honor. Ms. Sonja was recognized by the East Carolina Council for her efforts in Fundraising, and Ms. Angie received the Troop’s Spark Plug Award for being a wonderful volunteer—helping as a driver and chaperone on campouts and events and for her overall volunteer service.
The Pack had their end of year advancement/cardboard box derby/annual picnic on Saturday, May 24. Curtis from the Troop was present to help with the flag retirement ceremony and helped Mr. Tracy cook hotdogs and hamburgers on the new griddle. Karen and Pastor LaVera judged the cardboard box cars for creativity, with Monty taking hope the grand prize soapbox car for the year. Next year he will return it for the next winner with a new addition. Last year’s winner added a rear light bar.
The same afternoon, Troy F., held his Eagle Ceremony at the church, which was followed by a combined reception and graduation party in the fellowship hall. Congratulations, Troy!
Have you noticed that we have a new bench to replace the stone memorial bench that was gifted back to Paula’s family as well as the new mulch around the plants? This was Colby’s Eagle Scout project. He worked on the bench at school with his classmates. His teacher kindly donated the completed bench for the project. Scoutmaster Dale, Ms. Monica and a few Scout friends helped install it and spread the mulch.
Congratulations also to Russell who has completed his trek to Eagle Scout!
Community News
The Food Pantry is expanding its space! They will still be located in the brown plaza, but will be moving a few doors down to have a bigger location. This has been very much needed for a long time!
Havelock’s summer concert series continues on Friday, June 13 with Spare Change performing at 6pm. The movie series continues on Friday, June 20 with the showing of Moana 2 at 8:30 pm. Yes, late start time due to it being the just before the first day of summer, the latest sunset of the year.
Important Dates in June
June 3 – Called Session meeting @ 3:30 pm
June 8 – Pentecost
Bible Study following worship
June 11-21 - Paratos on vacation
June 15 – Trinity Sunday/Father’s Day worship w/Communion. Guest Preacher: Rev. Dr. Chris Blumhofer
June 29 – Bible study following worship