Thank you.

Thank you for being flexible, helpful, and resourceful in the face of Covid-19, in the alterations and changes it has forced us to make as a church.

Thank you for your willingness to move our Sunday worship services from MES to TCC. It is tight and the space isn't ideal, but you are making it work and making it feel like home for Trio. Thanks for following the mask mandate, even if you don't like it and wish it weren't so. Thank you for being willing to linger, chat with, and invest in others before and after services. Thanks for being patient as we figure out how to make technology, sound, kids' ministry, seating, and refreshments work in our new situation. You have been gracious and helpful in this transition. Thank you.

I also want to thank people who have been helping in various ways, so that all of you reading this know some of the ways others are serving you and Trio. I will miss some who deserve thanks; it isn't on purpose.

Thank you Michelle Lukenbill and Jenny Knudsen for decorating TCC and making it look appealing. Thank you Jack & Sheryl Olson and Kathy Nelson for helping prepare breakfast on 9/13. Thank you Marie Angstman for helping serve coffee and refreshments, figuring out the space, individually pouring coffee, and altering refreshments to cut down the spread of germs. Thank you Josh Norby for helping figure out the screens and sound at TCC, and thanks Josh and John Angstman for adjusting sound and getting the tech stuff working each week. Thank you Amy Schultz for scheduling and organizing Trio Littles, plus Mark & Trista Stegeman, Aimee Burk, Matt Schultz, Tirza Schultz, Bria Knudsen, and Rachel Norby for helping with Trio Littles. Thank you Amy and Jake Olson for coming up with a plan to make Trio Kids work at TCC.

Thank you Debbie Anderson, Kathy Nelson, and Jenny Knudsen for greeting and running the welcome table. Thank you Rachel Norby for being creative and flexible this summer with Fusion, and now doing it again as we keep changing how we are using the building on a weekly basis. Thank you Logan Burk and Shelli Zimmer for helping Trio, our students, and Rachel with Fusion. Thank you Abijah Schultz for excellently cleaning TCC (and Amy for helping him and providing him rides). Thank you Tim Anderson, Mark Stegeman, Jake Olson and others who helped set-up MES all summer in the weirdness and are still pitching in with details of weekly set-up at TCC. Thank you Michelle Lukenbill for figuring out Trio's money stuff. Thank you Tim Anderson, Matt Schultz, and Mark Stegeman for helping to make hard Elder decisions with major implications for our church, especially over the past 6 months.

To all of you, thank you for helping Trio be a great church by serving and loving people. Despite the frustrations, changes, and craziness our country, state, county, community, and church have witnessed and been through since March, you have been fantastic, kind, and reasonable through it.

Thank you for all you are and do for one another, for Trio, and for our community.

Peace,

P.S.-You are always welcome to call, text, or email me:

Office: (320) 225-8746 Cell: (320) 469-8207 Email: kirk@triochurch.com

Trio would like to find a weekly host person, couple, or family for each Sunday morning service.

A TCC host will arrive by 9:30am, greet and welcome people, and meet new people before the service. After the service, a host(s) will mingle and linger to help Trio foster a lingering culture and prevent anyone from being missed or ignored. Right now, this a one-Sunday commitment. You can host as an individual, as a couple, as a group of 2, 3, or 4, or as a family unit.

If you want to do this, call/text Pastor Kirk at (320) 469-8207,

or reply to this email and say you'd like to host.

Trio's next Building Meaningful Connections (BMC) meal will be during the worship service at the Trio Community Center on October 11th.

The menu will be pre-prepared breakfast burritos, pigs-in-a-blanket (pancake wrapped sausage on a stick) fruit, and bread/pastries.

Messages are from the current week's Eagle Brook series.