Oct25
Reformation Sunday
8:00 & 10:30 AM · Nave
Red paraments, brass on A Mighty Fortress, and a potluck in the hall after the late service.
Trinity Lutheran Church · Fort Wayne · since 1846
Isaiah
Holy, holy, holy, is the LORD of hosts: the whole earth is full of his glory.
Sung in the Sanctus at every Divine Service on Fairfield Avenue since 1846, in German until 1919 and in English since. Sundays at 8:00 and 10:30, with the Lord's Supper at both.
This week at Trinity
The week, day by day
Everything below is open to visitors, except where it says otherwise.
SundayToday
- 8:00 AMWorship
Divine Service, spoken
Nave · With the Lord's Supper
- 9:15 AMLearning
Bible class
Fellowship hall · Adults; children's Sunday school in the school wing
- 10:30 AMWorship
Divine Service, sung
Nave · With choir and the Lord's Supper
TuesdayToday
- 7:00 PMLearning
Inquirers' class
Library · Adults new to the Lutheran faith
WednesdayToday
- 8:15 AMWorship
Matins with the school
Nave · Preschool to 8th grade; parents welcome
- 7:00 PMMusic
Choir rehearsal
Choir loft · Any voice that can hold a part
ThursdayToday
- 10:00 AMFellowship
Ladies' Aid quilting
Fellowship hall · Quilts for Lutheran World Relief
SaturdayToday
- 10–11 AMWorship
Private confession
Sacristy · Or by appointment with a pastor
Who we are
An old church that still says the old words
Trinity was founded in 1846 by thirty-one families from the Kingdom of Hanover who had come up the canal to work on the Wabash and Erie. They built a log church on this corner, then a brick one in 1868, which is the one we still worship in.
Our worship is the historic liturgy of the Western church: confession and absolution, Scripture read aloud, a sermon of about twenty minutes, the creed, and the Lord's Supper every Sunday. We sing the old hymns, most of them with all their verses. It is not complicated. Everything you need is printed in the hymnal or the bulletin, and someone will help you find the page.
What we teach
The six chief parts
Every Lutheran child learns these from Luther's Small Catechism of 1529. So does every adult who joins Trinity. They are the whole faith in a pocket-sized book.
The Ten Commandments
God's law, which shows us how to love him and our neighbor, and shows us plainly where we have not.
Exodus 20:1–17
The Creed
What we believe about God the Father who made us, God the Son who redeemed us, and God the Holy Spirit who calls us by the Gospel.
The Apostles' Creed
The Lord's Prayer
The prayer Jesus taught, said at every service and, we hope, at every bedside.
Matthew 6:9–13
Holy Baptism
Not plain water only, but water joined with God's word. In it God forgives sins and makes us his children, infants included.
Matthew 28:19 · Titus 3:5
Confession
We confess our sins and receive absolution, forgiveness spoken by the pastor as from God himself.
John 20:22–23
The Sacrament of the Altar
The true body and blood of our Lord Jesus Christ, under the bread and wine, given for us Christians to eat and drink.
1 Corinthians 11:23–26
Trinity Lutheran School
A parish school since 1849, preschool to 8th grade
Our school is three years younger than the congregation. Today 182 children learn in the brick wing behind the church, begin every Wednesday with Matins in the nave and learn the catechism by heart.
Classes are small, tuition is lower than you'd expect, and every child sings in a choir.
- Preschool from age 3, through 8th grade
- Average class of 18
- Weekly chapel and daily catechism
- Tuition help for every family that asks
Reformation Sunday, 25 October
The true treasure of the church is the most holy gospel of the glory and grace of God.
The church year
Coming up at Trinity
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Nov1
All Saints' Sunday
10:30 AM · Nave
We read aloud the names of the members who died this year and toll the bell for each.
Nov14
Ladies' Aid quilt sale
9:00 AM · Fellowship hall
Forty quilts and a great many kuchen. Proceeds to Lutheran World Relief.
Dec2
Advent Vespers begin
7:00 PM · Nave
Every Wednesday in Advent, with soup supper at 6:00 in the hall.
Dec13
Lessons and Carols
4:00 PM · Nave
The school choirs and the senior choir. Nine readings, a great deal of singing.
Nothing in that category this month.
Come to the Divine Service this Sunday
8:00 spoken, 10:30 sung. The ushers will hand you a bulletin and show you the page.