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Atlas: Lincoln is doing an outreach blitz in our neighborhood! We'll be sharing more about it at our services this Sunday, and flyers with more information are available on the Outreach table in the Narthex. Click the link to learn more and sign up!

Have you heard?

Atlas is having an Outreach Blitz from June 14th-20th! As it is shared on the flyer, during that week of outreach, we hope to build new relationships and support old ones by providing various kinds of help and connections.

If you would like to be a part of this process, scan that QR code or click this link: https://form.everestwebdeals.co/?form=af360f62c4b7f5ad1046b644425749a9

Our Outreach Focus for June and July is the Bread of Life Food Pantry at Immanuel Lutheran Church. Immanuel is one of Trinity's sister congregations and just over a mile away at 11th and South St. Bread of Life was started after Immanuel intentionally and thoughtfully connected with their community and desired to meet the needs of their neighbors.

Bread of Life is open on Tuesdays from 12-3 PM, Thursdays from 3-6 PM, and Saturdays from 9 AM-12 PM. Anyone over the age of 18 can receive food with no questions asked.

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Don't forget! This Sunday, worship is at 10:30 AM at Trinity Lutheran School!

There's only a few days left to place orders for the plant sale!

Help the TLS PTL reach our goal of $20,000 in sales for the 2026 Plant Sale! Orders can be submitted online or in the TLS office through April 13.
https://www.janetsjungle.com/lincoln-ne---trinity-lutheran-school.html
Be sure to check out the online-only Bonus Buys! Bonus Buys may sell out and are changed weekly.
Please turn in paper orders and donations during the week they are received. Students will receive prizes for each week they turn in orders or a donations for the Trinity garden. Each week, the top student sellers from the ECE and K-5 programs will have the opportunity to pick a prize or participate in the "money jump."

Visit our website https://trinityoflincoln.org/church to read about some of the special music that will be performed at our Easter Worship service at 9:30AM on Easter Sunday (scroll down to "Holy Week Music")!

Here is a small section of what Lyle wrote to describe the pieces:

The two Easter violin/piano duet music selections, the first during preservice and the second at postservice, combine to draw our attention to the viral dissemination of the news surrounding the resurrection of Jesus. Starting with the first news early on Easter morning, there was a juxtaposition of disbelief and hope. Just as the snippets of unbelievable and incredible information were communicated contagiously early on, as the day progressed, there was a resulting atmosphere of cacophony, breathlessness, and emotional ups and downs. In the intensive, almost explosive, passage of events during Easter day and evening, the thoughts and emotions morphed into feelings of breathtaking, heart-pounding euphoria mixed
with incredibility.

The preservice piece is the opening movement (Sinfonia) of J.S. Bach’s Cantata “Wir müssen durch viel Trübsal” (“We have to go through a lot of hardship”). Bach composed the cantata in Leipzig for the Third Sunday after Easter, called Jubilate, in which he contrasted sorrow and joy.

The post-service piece, entitled Beethoven Virus is a remix of the third and last movement of Beethoven’s Pathetique Sonata and is reworked in a variety of different instrumental arrangements including violin plus piano... The
repetitive base notes of the piano are like a fast, excited heartbeat, and when combined with the violin’s ‘Jewish celebratory dance’ soprano theme, we are using the music to reflect the eucatastrophe joy of the resurrection.

Trinity is blessed with many talented musicians who enhance our worship services with their gifts. This Good Friday and Easter, Lyle and Temu have selected special music for our services. You can read more about the music selections and listen to recordings on our website at https://trinityoflincoln.org/church (scroll down to "Holy Week Music"). Below is included a small snippet of what Lyle wrote to describe the pieces:

The first preservice piece, entitled "Fratres" (meaning "brothers" in Latin), was composed in 1977 by the Estonian composer Arvo Pärt. You may not initially appreciate the "Fratres" piece, unless you put your mind into what the music is trying to say. As you listen, give thought to the series of Jesus’ six last words on the cross followed by his last saying, "Father, into thy hands I commend my spirit." Then follows the darkness, the tearing of the temple curtain, the splitting of rocks, the earthquake, the opening of tombs.

The second preservice piece is entitled "Theme from Schindler’s List" and was composed in 1993 by John Williams. Its usage for us on Good Friday, beginning at the service start time, is to capture the emotions of melancholy, dismay, resignation and helplessness of the crucifixion eyewitnesses after Jesus has died.

To enjoy this music in person, please join us for our evening Good Friday service at 6:15PM.

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