Join Trinity for worship this 5th Sunday of Easter.  Reverend Nguyen will continue her sermon series Belong, Behave, Believe.  Sunday's theme is "Philip and the Ethiopian eunuch show us how to walk with “the other” on the road to belonging."  Come and be blessed!

The General Conference of The United Methodist Church is meeting, April 23 through May 3, 2024, in Charlotte, NC.  That is our Rev. Lisa Yebuah celebrating with the musicians.  LaNella is on her right.  Rev. Dr. Edgardo Colon-Emeric is next to LaNella.

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Commit to individual and communal prayer for the General Conference, the lay and clergy delegates, the volunteers, and for discernment. Use the updated Upper Room prayer guide specific to General Conference 2024 to guide your prayers.

I have the honor of being a member of the NC Conference delegation to General Conference.  The conference is April 23rd thru May 3rd in Charlotte, NC.  Additionally, I have some support responsibilities for the Judicial Council of the United Methodist Church which always meets immediately before General Conference.  I will leave for Charlotte on April 18th.

I will continue to check emails and voicemails while away.  Additionally, I will send out the newsletter The Steeple and the Preparation for Worship. 

I solicit your prayers for the conference.  I also ask that you pray for smooth sailing in my absence.

Blessings and peace,


LaNella Smith
Office Manager
Trinity UMC

This summer, the families whose kids Durham Cares is serving this year through the Freedom Summer Camp Program need our help! To boost student motivation to read, generate more positive attitudes toward learning, increase self-esteem, and connect the needs of families and children to the resources of their communities, The Mt. Level Community Partnership for Racial Justice (MLCPRJ) sponsors a Children’s Defense Fund (CDF) Freedom School program in Durham and this year we have been asked to help! In an effort to assist Durham kids and their families, we will host 5 Tuesday night dinners at Epworth UMC for the families whose children are campers at Freedom School. The first dinner will be June 25, 2024 with volunteers needed from 4 to 6 (PM). Signing up is super easy; just click the link to our Sign-up Genius ad below and find a dinner and a role that works for you! For more information, please contact Travis. (travis@trinitydurham.org or 706-351-9918)

Trinity’s Congregations for Children (C4C) is happy to announce our final mission project for the 2023-2024 academic year. Our Kindergarten Book Bag Mission Project will help rising kindergarten students who will enroll in Eastway Elementary over the coming weeks. We will collect new book bags, small enough for kindergarteners and without rollers, as well as the school supplies to fill them. It is our hope that every kindergarten student will have the supplies needed to get off to a good start in school this fall.

Collection Sundays for the project will be April 28-May 19.  We will collect book bags and hope to put the following specific supplies in each bag:

(3) Student folders with pockets & prongs for notebook paper

(1) Notebook paper (approx. 100 sheets, wide ruled)

(6) #2 Ticonderoga pencils

(1) Crayola large crayons (approx. 8 crayons per box)

(1) Elmer’s school glue stick

(1) pencil/crayon pouch or box

(1) small bottle of hand sanitizer

No one needs to fill a book bag completely! Bring what you feel led to bring, and as always, it will work out to the glory of God! If you prefer for C4C members to shop for you, please mail a check to Trinity, and be sure to put C4C on the memo line.

After 9 months of serving a weekly average of 25 people, Communion & Conversation will pause for the months of May-August. If you would like to be a part of the planning team for the fall please contact Pastor Tobi pastor@trinitydurham.org

• April 28th - Young Adult fellowship lunch at Bull City Burger following worship
• April 30th - Finance Committee meeting at 6:30 pm in the parlor
• June 3rd - Application deadline for Trinity Scholarships

Give if you can and call if you need.

Carol Ayres • Jean Eason •  Drew Markham • Family of Jackie Lane