Please join us on Wednesday, February 22 at 7:00 p.m. for an Ash Wednesday Holy Eucharist liturgy with imposition of ashes.
Due to the ongoing issue of limited parking availability on weekdays, there will be only one Ash Wednesday liturgy this year (i.e. no noon service, and the weekly 5:30 p.m. Eucharist will also be canceled.)
**October 14 UPDATE: Here is a link to the manuscript for Pastor Penwell's sermon preached on Matthew Shepard Sunday.**
Last spring, the Douglass Boulevard Christian Church in Louisville, Kentucky made national headlines by voting unanimously to stop signing marriage licenses--any marriage licenses--until same-sex couples are given equal marriage rights. Derek Penwell, pastor of Douglass Boulevard Christian, has generously agreed to preach the 13th annual Matthew Shepard Memorial Sermon. He will tell us about his church's journey to their decision, and will preach at both the 8:00am and 10:30am services on October 9. He will be available after both services in the Parish Hall to chat and answer questions. Derek Penwell is senior pastor of the Douglass Boulevard Church; he holds the degrees of M.Div and D.Min from Lexington Theological Seminary and is a PhD candidate in Humanities at the University of Louisville.
Trinity’s annual sermon is dedicated to the memory of Matthew Shepard, a gay student at the University of Wyoming who was brutally beaten and left tied all night to a fence outside of Laramie. He died a few days later, on October 12, 1998. Trinity’s annual sermon is given on the Sunday closest to Matthew’s death.
