June 14th

Pride Brunch

WELCOME AND PRAYER OF GATHERING 

Leader: In accordance with the words of Philippians 4.21 - Greet every saint in Christ Jesus - siblings, we greet you.  

Welcome! Let us pray and sing together.:

And now, to you,

Divine Presence,

Scandalous One,

Versatile God,

You have been called the worst of names,

tossed aside by the hands of tradition,

met with violence and neglect by stranger and kin alike.

ALL: And still, you do not conform to the expectations of power

or polite your way into halls of destruction.

Leader: You, the ultimate transgressor of norms

that harm or confine,

bear witness to the glory of Strange.

You, Queer One, reveal the gifts of falling outside the lines.

You, Wild One, break open possibilities –

within us and around us –

whispering in our ear,

ALL: “See me. Feel me. Desire me.” You help us come alive again.

Leader: On this day, we recognize you as our Father in heaven, who in the words of Deuteronomy 10 - 

executes justice for the fatherless and the widow and loves the sojourner

ALL: We too, were sojourners and you are the One who breathes life into us. Hallowed be your name! 

Leader: Hallowed be the ways in which you move those on earth, as in heaven, to father us well.

All: For whom, we give you thanks!

Leader: Beauty is your passion.

Love is your motivation.

Courage is your center.

ALL: May your spirit be awakened in every space dull with repressed delight,

that we may choose to live into the riches

of this peculiar life together.

Embrace us, O God,

and lead us in the ways of your love,

so promiscuous,

so deviant,

so free.

Amen.

Trinity is fostering a haven of belonging where wanderers and wonderers 

gather to discover and embody the love of Jesus in the world.

COMMUNAL SINGING

Praise to the Lord, the Almighty
Praise to the Lord, the Almighty, the King of creation!
O my soul, praise Him, for He is thy health and salvation!
All ye who hear, now to His temple draw near,
Join me in glad adoration.

Praise to the Lord, who o’er all things so wondrously reigneth,
Shelters thee under His wings, yea, so gently sustaineth!
Hast thou not seen how thy desires e’er have been
Granted in what He ordaineth?

Praise to the Lord, O let all that is in me adore Him!
All that hath life and breath, come now with praises before Him!
Let the amen sound from His people again;
Gladly forever adore Him.

You Say

I keep fighting voices in my mind that say I’m not enough

Every single lie that tells me I will never measure up

Am I more than just the sum of every high and every low?

Remind me once again just who I am, because I need to know

You say I am loved when I can’t feel a thing

You say I am strong when I think I am weak

You say I am held when I am falling short

When I don’t belong, oh You say that I am Yours

And I believe, oh I believe

What You say of me

I believe

The only thing that matters now is everything You think of me

In You I find my worth, in You I find my identity

Taking all I have and now I’m laying it at Your feet

You have every failure God, and You’ll have every victory

ANNOUNCEMENTS 

Elder Process. The eldership process will be commencing later this month with the aim to bring on new elders in November. More details will soon be posted online and sent via email, including qualifications and the process timeline. Most importantly, take some time to consider who you might nominate for eldership and also familiarize yourself with the new Apprentice Elder role provision added to Trinity bylaws. With the anticipation of one Administrative Elder and one Parish Elder rotating off the Leadership Team at the end of the year, the following would help round out the current team: One Administrative Elder (who may be ready to fill an officer role as needed into the future), up to two Parish Elders (preferably from the currently underrepresented parishes of Broad Ripple and North/Carmel), and Apprentice Elders (new position). Nominations will open on June 28th and be collected through August 9th. Watch communications for more details. In the meantime, questions may be directed to contact@indytrinity.org. 

Church Center App. We’re excited to announce the launch of Church Center for Trinity! Church Center is our new “all-in-one” app that makes it ridiculously easy to stay connected—right from your phone. No more hunting through emails, scrolling old posts, or wondering “wait… when was that again?” With Church Center you can:

• See upcoming events in one clean, simple place

• Find and join groups (and get updates without the chaos)

• Stay in the loop on what’s happening at Trinity—fast

Think of it like having Trinity in your pocket: events, groups, and key info….organized, easy, and always up to date.

Download Church Center from the App Store or Google Play, open it, search for Trinity Church (Indianapolis), log in, and you’re all set! Want a little help to get started? Check out our Church Center Guide, or chat with Joel.

IYG Food Pantry. IYG keeps a food pantry stocked and available to the folks they serve. As an organization that serves tweens, teens, and young adults you can imagine that the food goes pretty quickly. Over this summer we would like to do an ongoing food drive for the pantry. You can participate in the drive by purchasing through IYG's Amazon wish list here: https://www.amazon.com/hz/wishlist/ls/3DAEFR3DASH2A/ref=hz_ls_biz_ex

 (please note in your purchase that you are with Trinity for their tracking purposes) or you can use that as a guide to purchase items on your regular grocery run and bring them to a gathering and we will get them to IYG. Any questions: ask Britney!

Mark your calendars for special (and off site) Gatherings this summer. More information to come on special Gatherings!

• Special Off-site Gathering on Sunday, June 21st. Mark your calendars as we prepare for a special Gathering to include the Haughville Walk and Talk with Sampson Levingston at Through2Eyes, Sunday, June 21st. Plan to arrive by 9:45 for brief liturgy before we walk and talk. More details to come! 

• Special Off-site Irvington Counseling Collective (ICC) on Sunday, July 12th. More details to follow. 

• Special Off-site Gathering at Octavia’s Visionary Campus (OVC) with Kheprw on SATURDAY, July 25th. (No Sunday Gathering on the 27th.)

• Special Off-site IYG on Sunday, August 16th. More details to follow. 

• Retreat weekend starting Friday, August 29th - Sunday Gathering, August 30th. Watch your emails for more information, sign ups for camping and activities, etc. Please email contact@indytrinity.org if you’re interested in lending a hand in the planning/preparations. Additionally, we plan to hold baptisms at the retreat Gathering on August 30th. Family Covenants may be offered in the near future. Please contact Britney Foster at britney@indytrinity.org regarding interest or questions for either.

Sermon Series. Check out the sermon series page to see where we’re headed. Reflection and discussion prompts as well as resources have been included.

Gathering Hosting Schedule. As an act of service and care, please join staff, leaders, and others from your parish in hosting Sunday Gatherings. These are great times to converse while serving, connect, and welcome folks to the Gathering. Arrival at 9:45am is great, particularly for last minute needs and welcoming people. Arrival by 9:30am is extra helpful for assisting with audio equipment and general set up. Cleaning up on the back end is appreciated and should only take 10-15 minutes. The hosting checklist is on the Gathering cart. Thank you!

June

7: North/Carmel

14/Pride Brunch: Midtown/Downtown

*21/Walk and Talk - Fishers

28: Broad Ripple

July

5/Holiday Weekend Brunch: North/Carmel

*12/Irvington Counseling Collective: Midtown/Downtown

19: Fishers

*SATURDAY the 26/Octavia’s Visionary Campus: Broad Ripple

* Indicates dates we plan to be off site and don’t really have hosting duties. However, we’d like to have a parish scheduled in the event plans shift.

FEASTING LITURGY

Leader: Dearly Beloveds, queerly Beloveds, we are gathering to imagine the world differently.

we are gathering to enflesh the world otherwise.

ALL: to say ‘yes’ to new possibilities to live tenderly,

to think expansively, to do daily life with ferocious love so that life can live and breath can breathe.

Leader: Beloveds, do we not know all life is cultivated by insisting that 

we can’t and won’t be satisfied by the norms that suffocate,

the habits that poison, the patterns of relating that deaden?

Beloveds, do we not know the Sacred is restless? 

ALL: the Sacred is restless in us.

we pause to pay attention and nourish strange practices to let the Sacred work her queer magic through us.

Leader: Beloveds, do we not know queer magic means dreaming of more than fitting in?

ALL: we can’t simply settle for a place at the table if the table is built on binaries, exclusions, hierarchies, and control.

our collective future depends on being in this together.

and so with holy urgency, we extend tables and we turn them over,

we claim our place with stubborn dignity.

Leader: so, blessed be the queers, the freaks, the misfits, the outcasts and all those who cast their lot with the strange.

ALL: blessed be the meal before us, the earth that still pours forth its abundance, the food that nourishes our bodies.

and blessed be this gathering, that emboldens us for this holy labor of otherwise living and love,

for the sake of collective survival and also, always, joy. Amen!

FELLOWSHIP, GAMES, AND OFFERING OF WORSHIP                                                                                                                                    

Enjoy games with one another as we celebrate Pride. Take delight in one another today! Consider discussing:

• What is your favorite story of resistance and why?

•  Who is protecting you in these unsettling times?

Offering Basket

DEPARTING BENEDICTION

Let us not love with words or speech but with actions and in truth. (1 Jn 3:18) 

Go in the companionship of the Spirit and be a light to the world and all who are yearning to be free. Embrace your own difference, celebrate the difference of others, and proclaim the Good News: God’s love does not conform to the standards of our culture. It is without boundary. It extends to all.

(Some liturgies adapted from enfleshed.com)

GATHERING RESOURCES AND INFORMATION

Guide and Service Dog Training. As we welcome Guide/Service Dogs at Gatherings, please familiarize yourself with resources under on these two websites https://www.guidedogs.com/resources/blindness-and-guide-dog-etiquette and https://www.guidedogsofamerica.org/best-practices-when-around-a-service-dog/  and discuss main points with those in your household. If you or anyone in your household has severe allergies or any fear of dogs, etc. please contact us (contact@indytrinity.org) so we can do our best to keep Gathering spaces welcoming for all. 

Land Acknowledgement. We acknowledge that the land on which we gather for worship was stolen from Native peoples, who were driven out of the area and of their native lands by genocide, force (through broken treaties and laws imposed upon their nation), and systematic disposession.  The Myaamiaki, Kaskaskia, and Kickapoo peoples* and their sovereign Nations have cared for, and are deeply a part of, this land - past, present, and future. (ref: Repudiation of the Doctrine of Discovery, Trinity Church)