On a recent Sunday evening I enjoyed Trinity Lutheran’s Annual Music Concert at its 106-year-old neighborhood church at 24th and Lombard. Trinity is a small, community church, sharing the neighborhood with several other churches, all harking back a century or more ago. The pews were full and the faces familiar, as this is the church of my youth.
For a small congregation, I was awed by the amount of musical talent Trinity has. The choir is as impressive as any found in a much larger congregation. The dedicated bell choir members display an amazing talent that speaks of hours of dedicated practice. Retired organist Marilyn Leatherman and current accompanist Gary Hatle-Wyman on the keyboard provided a lovely blending of old and new. The soloists and flute player delighted everyone.
Sixty percent of all Protestant churches are small congregations. They are houses of worship where everybody knows your name. Trinity Lutheran is a place of peace and comfort for people to share experiences with one another. I kept drifting back to my childhood Sunday School days, my “mommy” days sitting four across in the pews and for awhile, some of my grandmother days sharing the pews with my sons and grandkids.
Trinity Lutheran may be a small church but it is filled with people who always make you feel glad you came and I always walk out smiling. Thank you, Trinity family, for an inspiring evening!
Barb Lamoureux
Everett
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