This email went out to TPC today:
TPC family,
My conferences in Arizona and Kansas went very well. Both the CREC churches I visited are thriving It’s wonderful to see what God is doing across the country in our denomination. These are congregations that have experienced significant growth over the last few years, just as we have, and they are led by superb pastors who are bold preachers of the Word. God is doing great things!
This Sunday, we have a very important congregational meeting right after worship. This meeting will be crucial, in terms of casting a vision for the future of Trinity Presbyterian Church and Trinity Classical Academy. We are calling this plan “Building on the Promises,” reflecting our faith in God’s covenant faithfulness from generation to generation. You’ll get to see plans for the sanctuary we intend to build and hear about the way the school and sanctuary fit together in our long term plans. We really cannot build the school without also building the sanctuary because we need additional classroom space the sanctuary building will provide – but the connection between the two is far more than pragmatic. We want TPC to become a hub Christian culture-making. We aim to form a school that extends the worldview and liturgy at the heart of TPC into the classroom, and we desire to construct sanctuary that incarnates that worldview and liturgy in brick and stone. Our mission at TPC has always been oriented to Christendom – building a Christian civilization that flows out of the gospel, and produces the fruit of truth, goodness, and beauty. Christendom must start local, where we are, and requires forming and developing Christian institutions that embody the kind of truth, goodness, and beauty God calls us to promote. To this point I think we have done quite well in promoting truth (reflected in our preaching and teaching) and goodness (reflected in living lives of obedience to God’s Word), but we have been lacking in beauty. The sanctuary will complete the triangle, so to speak, giving us a place of fitting and majestic beauty in which to worship our glorious God. I believe we have a beautiful liturgy and beautiful hymnody at TPC, but we’ve never had a truly beautiful place to worship with that beautiful liturgy and hymnody. By God’s grace, I trust we will in the future.
Look below for more information on the upcoming Trinity Classical Academy launch event on November 16. We will not have regularly scheduled Home Fellowship Groups that evening because we’d love for all of you attend this event – whether you will have children in the school or not, we want you involved in what we are seeking to build. It’s also a great event to invite friends to if you think they might be interested in sending children to TCA. We will have more details as it gets closer, but make plans to attend now, as this will be a great opportunity to hear more about the vision and plans for TCA.
Blessings,
Pastor Rich
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