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WEEK OF SUNDAY, AUGUST 9, 2026
✢ ELEVENTH SUNDAY AFTER PENTECOST ✢

Where is Your God?

My tears have been my food
    day and night,
while people say to me continually,
   “Where is your God?” Psalm 42:3

Where is your God? Many writers in the Old and New Testaments tried to answer this question.  As people of faith, many of us have faced the question, “So if God is all powerful and all knowing, why is the world in so such suffering?” It is the same question the psalmist is confronted with in the verse above. In a world that always seems on the edge of destruction, it is a valid question to ask. The puzzling part is how we answer it.

Some people will talk about original sin as the starting point for the hatred and fear in the world. Or that God gave us free will and we choose between doing good or evil. I remember watching Saturday morning cartoons where a character in the middle of a difficult decision has an angel on one shoulder and the devil on the other whispering in their ear has as they try and decide. We know that experience as well as did Paul. In the letter to the Romans a few weeks ago, Paul wrote that he knows what he is supposed to do but does what he doesn’t want to do.

Perhaps we need to reframe the question. Maybe what we need to ask is, “Where do you find God?” This question does not make us defensive or stumble with some futile attempt at naming where God is. Rather, this question asks each of us to look around us and within us naming where we find God, where we find hope, where we find faith, where we find love. Maybe it’s noticing a piece of graffiti as an elderly woman walks by with her groceries. Maybe it’s seeing a glowing sunset after a storm. Maybe it’s watching children running and laughing, lost in their play. Maybe it’s being able to walk without pain after a knee replacement.

Open your eyes. Open your heart. Open your soul.

Where do you find God?

The Rev. Stephen Connor

THIS SUNDAY

Sermon: Anne Lord, Director of Family Ministries

Readings for The Eleventh Sunday after Pentecost

First Lesson: 1 Kings 19:9-18
Psalm 85:8-13
Second Lesson: Romans 10:5-15
Gospel: Matthew 14:22-33

 10:00 am BULLETIN 
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 MEET OUR CLERGY AND STAFF 

AROUND TRINITY

HomeFront School Supply Drive: THANK YOU!

A huge thank you goes out to everyone who donated school supplies to HomeFront, and to those who helped load the truck! Because of your generosity, we were able to provide 150 backpacks full of school supplies to students in need!

Updating Our Member Directory!

Have you updated your directory information yet? Just go to members.instantchurchdirectory.com and log in with the e-mail address on file with Trinity. If you have any technical difficulties, please e-mail Alicia and she will be happy to assist you!

PETS OF TRINITY

Send Us Your Pets!

Our Pets of Trinity summer feature continues! Thank you to everyone who has shared with us. Please click here to see some of our parish’s beloved critters!

Want to feature your furry friend? Send pictures and a little bio to Greg Geehern.

UPCOMING EVENTS

AUGUST 13: Trinity Summer BBQs Continue!

Join us at the Trinity Summer BBQs! Bring anything you would like, and bring your friends. No RSVP needed. Remaining dates are: August 13 & 27 from 6:00-8:30 PM on Trinity’s front lawn. Email Hailey Hensley if you have any questions or need more info. 

AUGUST 22 at 9 AM: Trail Church at Mountain Lakes

Join us at Mountain Lakes Nature Preserve on Saturday, August 22 at 9 AM for our next Trail Church gathering! Save the date and stand by for details.

FAMILY MINISTRIES

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MUSIC PROGRAM

Welcoming Dr. Isaac Lee!

Please extend a warm Trinity greeting to Dr. Isaac Lee, our guest organist and choir director while Meg and Joseph are on tour. Dr. Lee recently completed his doctoral degree at Juilliard, and in the fall will begin as associate director of music at St. David's Episcopal Church in Wayne, PA.

Trinity’s Choir is on Tour!

We send our prayers and well-wishes to the Trinity Choirs as they tour England: that they might experience safety, learning, and fun as they worship God in ancient cathedrals!

Collect for Church Musicians and Artists, BCP:

O God, whom saints and angels delight to worship in heaven: Be ever present with your servants who seek through art and music to perfect the praises offered by your people on earth; and grant to them even now glimpses of your beauty, and make them worthy at length to behold it unveiled for evermore; through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.

Summer Choir is in Session!

All are welcome to join us, no experience necessary.  Simply be at Ivy Hall by 9 am on Sundays in July and August for rehearsal for the 10 am service.  We will sing simple anthems, so it's a great opportunity to get your voice in shape!  If you'd like to be on the Summer Choir email mailing list, reach out to director of music Meg Harper at harperm@trinityprinceton.org.

Wanted: Instrumentalists

Do you play a musical instrument? Then we’re looking for YOU! If you’d like to play a summer prelude in July or August, please e-mail Meg Harper.

ADULT FORMATION CORNER

Try Our Sermon Podcast

Trinity Church has a sermon podcast! We tried this briefly just after COVID, but the technology wasn’t quite there yet. We’re now able to provide a podcast feed of our sermons on YouTube, Apple Podcasts, and Spotify, with both video and audio available on YouTube. Click, like, and subscribe!

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  • YouTube

    Formation This Week

Monday through Friday at 7:45 AM: Morning Prayer Rite II The Zoom Daily Office link is here

Monday, August 10 at 7:30 PM: Pub Theology with Deacon Greg at Yankee Doodle Tap Room

Saturday, August 22 at 9:00 AM: Trail Church at Mountain Lakes

 Education for Ministry (EfM)

Do you have questions about your faith?

Do you wish for a community of like-minded seekers?

Do you want to integrate what you read in the Bible with your daily life?

Then EfM is for you!

Want to know more?

Call Julia Garry at 609-902-1388 or email her at jspenick@aol.com.

PARISH PRAYER LIST

Please keep the following individuals in your prayers:

Joshua Alexander, Dan Van Abs, Alexey Aulov, Barbara, Susan Barry, Zoe Beaton, Vanessa Belhomme, Gloria Bellamy, Cynthia Bellamy, Pamela Brecknell, Peter Brown, Wesley Brown, Helen Burke, Jennifer Burke, Brian Burleson, Peter, Bill Causey, Jessica Connor, Peggy Crawford, Kevin F. Cunningham, Chip Dongara, Daryll Eatmon, Gus Escher, Abigail Evans, Sue & Steve Frank, Amy G., Sebastian Godinez, Pat Grabiec, Jackie Greggs, John Hannan, William Hannan, John Havener, Ellen Jane, Anne Jarmon, Deborah Jordan, Joyce Kelleher, Patricia Killian, Kristen Lees and Family, Alexandre Lewkowicz, Noelle Lewkowicz, Philippe Lewkowicz, Cecil Marshall, Makenna Mattesi, Lucy and Megan, Edwin Metcalf, Nancy Metcalf, Clive Muncaster, Dulcie Muncaster, Joan Nester, Ross Parker, Bob Pietrucha, Lisa Witt Pinair, Elizabeth Read, Carol Reynolds, Samantha Seto, Randy States, Jody Stebbins, Mike Stebbins, Jim Stepleton, Isaiah Stevens, Gary Sykes, Ward Tomlinson, Aaron Ward, Dawn Young, Nancy, and Joshua.

Please pray for the souls of the recently deceased:
Jack Kenerson, Yook Jin Louie, Dianne Senko, Mary Aston Shackelford

Individuals will remain on the prayer list for one month, unless we are otherwise notified.

➨ If you want to add someone to the list, please email Annie Bryson at brysona@trinityprinceton.org.

RECOVERY MEETINGS: Looking for recovery meetings? See our list of recurring meetings here.

ZOOM EVENTS: Join all Zoom meetings, unless otherwise advertised, at ZOOM.US/J/2859819016 [By phone: 1 646 558 8656 Meeting ID: 285 981 9016 Password: 1979].

ABOUT US: Trinity Church ➨ Est’d 1833 ➨ An Episcopal Church in the Diocese of New Jersey ➨ 33 Mercer Street, Princeton, New Jersey 08540 ➨ (609) 924-2277 ➨ The Rev. Paul Jeanes III, Rector; The Rev. Cn. Dr. Kara N. Slade, CGS Associate Rector; The Rev. Cn. Steve Connor, Associate Rector ➨ Website: trinityprinceton.org

“We believe God’s love is expansive and unconditional and that through Christ, God has called us to love one another as God loves us. We welcome all people of every gender, race, age, culture, ethnic background, sexual orientation, economic circumstance, family configuration, or difference of ability. We celebrate the worth, dignity, and gifts of every person as a child of God.”

Please know that we are here for you, to support you and pray for you however best we can. Feel free to reach out to the clergy.

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