My First Visit
As you come into the parking lot of our church, please take advantage of the numerous parking slots marked "Visitor Parking." How many weeks can you use this convenient parking? That is entirely up to you! But we hope you won't feel like a visitor for long.
Entering the front doors of the church you can visit our Information Center. There you will be able to ask for directions to the church nursery or Sunday School classes. You can also find information about Trinity, the PCA, our beliefs and church activities. Someone will be available to assist you before and after the worship service.
Sometimes people wonder as they prepare to visit a new church, "how should I dress?" As a church with the full range of demographic characteristics, both age and social economics, people come to our worship in an equally wide range of dress. However, a form of business casual would probably describe the average choice by the congregation.
You will be given a morning Order of Worship by an usher at the entrance to the sanctuary. Rather than announce what we are going to do next (what song and page number or who is doing it) we use this printed order as a silent guide. It contains materials to inspire and focus your worship, as well as the usual information about the church and weekly activities.
We use a hymnal. We read from the Bible. We seldom project on a screen as has become the custom in many churches. Why? Because we like you to be able to see the notes to music as well as the words. We like you to be able to hold in your hands the books that for centuries have become treasures to Christian people. There is a permanence and strength to using a hymnal. Like your Bible, you can have one to use at home (see our church bookstore) so you can continue the worship that you had on Sunday morning.
Our service is built around the message of the morning. The songs and hymns and other parts of the service will have been chosen as a reflection or amplification of the theme from the Pastor's text of the morning. These are not rigidly chosen, so there remains a wide variety of expressions of praise and prayer, but neither is a hodgepodge of materials that have no connection to each other. It is our hope that you will enter into each act of worship with understanding, which leads to conviction and enthusiasm.
Our service may appear formal to those who come from very informal traditions, but may also appear informal to those who come from highly liturgical traditions. That is our goal. We seek order, dignity, reverence, and thoughtful participation without being cold, stiff and inflexible. We do not fan emotions, but neither do we discourage them.
Trinity Presbyterian is not a church to visit only one Sunday. We encourage you to come several weeks in a row to understand our unique culture, to meet or become friends with some people, and to have time to allow the Holy Spirit to direct you as to whether this would be the place for you to call your church home.