Worship Services
Sunday Early Worship (none till 2011)
Sunday Morning Worship 10:30-11:30am
Sunday Evening Worship 6:00pm (new format)
Sunday School 9:30am-10:15am
Handbell Practice
Handbell Practice Sunday 6:00pm
Wednesday Night Activities
Dinner at 5:30pm and Bible Study 6:15-7:00pm - There are bible studies for all ages, preschool through adult. There are also specialized studies for women, youth and children.
Adult Bible Study 6:15pm
Youth Bible Study 6:15pm
Youth Food & Fellowship 6:45-7:30pm
Praise Team Practice 5:30pm
Adult Choir Practice 7:15pm
Children's Bible Study 6:15-7:00pm
Office Hours
Monday - Friday 8:00am-12:00 Noon
423.586.5360 FAX 423.317.0128
Twana Bradley, Administrative Assistant
Sunday Early Worship (none till 2011)
Sunday Morning Worship 10:30-11:30am
Sunday Evening Worship 6:00pm (new format)
Sunday School 9:30am-10:15am
Handbell Practice
Handbell Practice Sunday 6:00pm
Wednesday Night Activities
Dinner at 5:30pm and Bible Study 6:15-7:00pm - There are bible studies for all ages, preschool through adult. There are also specialized studies for women, youth and children.
Adult Bible Study 6:15pm
Youth Bible Study 6:15pm
Youth Food & Fellowship 6:45-7:30pm
Praise Team Practice 5:30pm
Adult Choir Practice 7:15pm
Children's Bible Study 6:15-7:00pm
Office Hours
Monday - Friday 8:00am-12:00 Noon
423.586.5360 FAX 423.317.0128
Twana Bradley, Administrative Assistant
Jesus told his disciples, "Gather up the fragments left over, so that nothing may be lost." (John 6:12 NRSV)
I have begun to notice fragments all around me. The pear tree in front of my house is heavy with ripening fruit. Squirrels, birds, rabbits and I’m guessing the occasional deer are enjoying the natural bounty. One morning, I saw partially eaten pears sitting on the fence around the tree. Courtesy of our friendly squirrels. Later, they were gone - mostly. A few fragments with teeth marks remained.
Walking through the mall or sitting in a restaurant, one hears fragments of conversation – especially if there is a cell phone in use nearby. Often conversations are never finished because of urgent interruptions. My own life is filled with fragments – letters started and not finished, tasks undone, books with fancy book marks 2/3 of the way through, stalled out, waiting for me to get back to them.
We are pulled in multiple directions. Often, we live one place and have parents in another and children and grandchildren scattered about who knows where on any given day. We are busy people. We have jobs and churches and community involvement and friends and so and so on. Some days I wake up with so much to do and places to go, I just hope to end the day not too much farther behind than I started.
There are other ways of being fragmented – for example when our bodies fail us, when we can no longer do the things we always could, when we receive an unwelcome diagnosis. Life as we know is shattered in an instant, into fragments we no longer recognize.
Fragments happen when relationships fall apart, when simple misunderstandings result in years of estrangement; when our children make choices that are different from what we might have hoped; when friends turn aside because we are no longer useful in their world. People who once held respectable jobs are now without a source of income – and are often shunned by their former co-workers, who really don’t know what to say. Somehow, “Sorry you lost your job, but thank God, I still have mine” doesn’t quite cut it.
We find people on the margins of society – the working poor, the undocumented laborers, the homeless, the mentally ill. Cut off from the main stream of society, their lives are often fragmented and broken. Many have stories to tell that we can’t bear to hear.
Gather up the fragments . . .
The quote at the beginning of this article is from the story of the feeding of the 5000. Five barley loaves and two fish feed a huge crowd. After everybody had eaten their fill, Jesus said to gather up what is left. How ridiculous was that? But the disciples collected it up – 12 baskets of bread fragments. Nothing was wasted.
I recently wandered through a store that creates beautiful things out of stained glass. One whole wall was filled with squares of colored glass – in every shade of the rainbow and beyond. There were samples of the store owner’s work everywhere. And it was beautiful, incredibly detailed work. One cannot create a piece of stained glass art without breaking the glass. It’s not the whole pieces that make it beautiful, but it’s the way the broken pieces are fit together that makes the picture or tells the story. I happen to know the owner. She was down-sized from her job several years ago. She was out of work with a family to support. Life was in pieces around her. But, she had a vision. Out of the fragments of her life, her world has opened up in a whole new dimension and direction.
. . . That nothing may be lost
We come together on Sundays as people who may or may not have it all together. If you are one of the rare individuals who has life by the tail and everything is falling into place, congratulations. If you are, instead, like most of us, there are places in your life that are falling apart. Hear the good news: we as a community, as a worshiping body don’t have it all together. It’s not a requirement, after all, to be perfect before we come to church. We bring what we have, ridiculously small, simple or whatever. We don’t need to be embarrassed by what we bring.
It will be not only enough, but hugely more than enough when we offer it to God.
Then, how do we care for the broken places in each other’s lives? Do we offer a basket for the fragments? Do we offer a safe place for healing? We all have fragments in our lives – things that we have discarded or hidden. There are broken edges that we try to cover. We have deeds, done and undone, that we want to keep out of the light. It doesn’t have to stay that way.
Jesus says, “Gather up the fragments. Bring them to me. They are precious in my sight. I will take them, bless them and make something beautiful out of them. Nothing will be lost from me.”
Feeling fragmented? Come to worship with other fragmented folks. Let God make us beautifully whole.
Grace and peace,
Pastor Carole
Message reprinted from TUMC Bridge Builder, August 2010 Issue
I have begun to notice fragments all around me. The pear tree in front of my house is heavy with ripening fruit. Squirrels, birds, rabbits and I’m guessing the occasional deer are enjoying the natural bounty. One morning, I saw partially eaten pears sitting on the fence around the tree. Courtesy of our friendly squirrels. Later, they were gone - mostly. A few fragments with teeth marks remained.
Walking through the mall or sitting in a restaurant, one hears fragments of conversation – especially if there is a cell phone in use nearby. Often conversations are never finished because of urgent interruptions. My own life is filled with fragments – letters started and not finished, tasks undone, books with fancy book marks 2/3 of the way through, stalled out, waiting for me to get back to them.
We are pulled in multiple directions. Often, we live one place and have parents in another and children and grandchildren scattered about who knows where on any given day. We are busy people. We have jobs and churches and community involvement and friends and so and so on. Some days I wake up with so much to do and places to go, I just hope to end the day not too much farther behind than I started.
There are other ways of being fragmented – for example when our bodies fail us, when we can no longer do the things we always could, when we receive an unwelcome diagnosis. Life as we know is shattered in an instant, into fragments we no longer recognize.
Fragments happen when relationships fall apart, when simple misunderstandings result in years of estrangement; when our children make choices that are different from what we might have hoped; when friends turn aside because we are no longer useful in their world. People who once held respectable jobs are now without a source of income – and are often shunned by their former co-workers, who really don’t know what to say. Somehow, “Sorry you lost your job, but thank God, I still have mine” doesn’t quite cut it.
We find people on the margins of society – the working poor, the undocumented laborers, the homeless, the mentally ill. Cut off from the main stream of society, their lives are often fragmented and broken. Many have stories to tell that we can’t bear to hear.
Gather up the fragments . . .
The quote at the beginning of this article is from the story of the feeding of the 5000. Five barley loaves and two fish feed a huge crowd. After everybody had eaten their fill, Jesus said to gather up what is left. How ridiculous was that? But the disciples collected it up – 12 baskets of bread fragments. Nothing was wasted.
I recently wandered through a store that creates beautiful things out of stained glass. One whole wall was filled with squares of colored glass – in every shade of the rainbow and beyond. There were samples of the store owner’s work everywhere. And it was beautiful, incredibly detailed work. One cannot create a piece of stained glass art without breaking the glass. It’s not the whole pieces that make it beautiful, but it’s the way the broken pieces are fit together that makes the picture or tells the story. I happen to know the owner. She was down-sized from her job several years ago. She was out of work with a family to support. Life was in pieces around her. But, she had a vision. Out of the fragments of her life, her world has opened up in a whole new dimension and direction.
. . . That nothing may be lost
We come together on Sundays as people who may or may not have it all together. If you are one of the rare individuals who has life by the tail and everything is falling into place, congratulations. If you are, instead, like most of us, there are places in your life that are falling apart. Hear the good news: we as a community, as a worshiping body don’t have it all together. It’s not a requirement, after all, to be perfect before we come to church. We bring what we have, ridiculously small, simple or whatever. We don’t need to be embarrassed by what we bring.
It will be not only enough, but hugely more than enough when we offer it to God.
Then, how do we care for the broken places in each other’s lives? Do we offer a basket for the fragments? Do we offer a safe place for healing? We all have fragments in our lives – things that we have discarded or hidden. There are broken edges that we try to cover. We have deeds, done and undone, that we want to keep out of the light. It doesn’t have to stay that way.
Jesus says, “Gather up the fragments. Bring them to me. They are precious in my sight. I will take them, bless them and make something beautiful out of them. Nothing will be lost from me.”
Feeling fragmented? Come to worship with other fragmented folks. Let God make us beautifully whole.
Grace and peace,
Pastor Carole
Message reprinted from TUMC Bridge Builder, August 2010 Issue
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Trinity United Methodist Church
Morristown, Tennessee
Morristown, Tennessee
By the grace of God I am what I am, and His grace toward me was not in vain . . . 1 Corinthians 15:10
Trinity United Methodist Church seeks to be a caring community of Christian Believers, saved by God's Grace, filled with the Holy Spirit, and committed to Worship, Proclaim, Disciple, and Serve in the name of Jesus Christ.
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Trinity United Methodist Church
425 Wilder Street, Morristown, TN 37813 423.586.5360
425 Wilder Street, Morristown, TN 37813 423.586.5360
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"When we are linked by the power of prayer, we, as it were, hold each other's hand as we walk side by side along a slippery path; and thus by the bounteous disposition of charity, it comes about that the harder each one leans on the other, the more firmly we are riveted together by brotherly love." -- Pope Gregory the Great
Activities and Services
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What's happening at Trinity?
UMW FALL RUMMAGE SALE
September 10th & 11th.
Don't just throw it away, bring your item to the Multi-purpose room. For clothes items, we are in need of hangers so if you have extra ones please bring them. Drop off hours are from 8am to 12 noon Monday-Friday.
September 10th & 11th.
Don't just throw it away, bring your item to the Multi-purpose room. For clothes items, we are in need of hangers so if you have extra ones please bring them. Drop off hours are from 8am to 12 noon Monday-Friday.
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Pastor's Corner
Cluster Group Meetings started the end of July and will continue through September. Sign up sheets are available in the church atrium. Purpose: for the congregation to meet and speak with Pastor Carol on a personal basis and discuss their hopes for Trinity's future.
CLUSTER GROUP MEETINGS
Cluster Group Dates & Changes
Sept 7th Tues @ 7 pm - Bob & Lana Self
Sept 9th Thurs @ - Don & Jean Wilson
Sept 19th Sunday - Brack & Jana Terry
Sept 27th Mon - Archie & Linda Cantwell
For updates or to host a cluster group, please contact Jana Terry at 235.3484.
Sept 7th Tues @ 7 pm - Bob & Lana Self
Sept 9th Thurs @ - Don & Jean Wilson
Sept 19th Sunday - Brack & Jana Terry
Sept 27th Mon - Archie & Linda Cantwell
For updates or to host a cluster group, please contact Jana Terry at 235.3484.
The FALL BEAN SUPPER will be held on October 16th in the Multi-Purpose Room. Canned goods will be sold, so be sure to save some of your canned vegetables for this event.