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TLC SS/Youth News 3
TLC Family Photo Gallery 4
Farm Tour Pics 5
LWML Luncheon Meeting 6
Lutheran Practices 7
Rev Paul Miller Retirement 8
MASS News 9
Those Who Serve 10
Momma’s House Pics 11
Birthdays/Anniversaries 12
Stewardship 13
Jr DYG Pics 14
Lenten Schedule 15
Choir Party Pics 16
Note from Treasurer 17
Calendar of Events 18
Lenten Suppers 19
The Desert Voice Dear Members and Friends:
What could be the worst thing
about being a Christian? That’s a
strange question, isn’t it? There is,
however, something to consider
here. St. Paul addressed a poten-
tial worst thing for us Christians
we he declared, “If Christ has not
been raised, then our preaching is
in vain and your faith is in
vain” (1Corinthians 15:14). The
most awful thing about being a
Christian would be the absence of
the bodily resurrection of our Lord
Jesus Christ. What a hoax all the
sayings and promises of Jesus
would be!
However, Paul not only af-
firmed the actual bodily resurrec-
tion of Jesus Christ, but taught it as
the indispensable truth we hang
onto as God’s people. “For I deliv-
ered to you as of first importance
what I also received: that Christ
died for our sins in accordance
with the Scriptures, that he was
buried, that he was raised on the
third day in accordance with the
Scriptures” (1 Corinthians 15:3-
4)
We affirm this truth in the Ni-
cene Creed, “And the third day
He (Jesus) rose again according
to the Scriptures.” We further
declare, “I look for the resur-
rection of the dead and the life
of the world to come.” Just as
Jesus gloriously rose bodily
from the tomb, so also we look
forward to rising from our
graves with a glorious body.
Even now, come what may, we
acknowledge and rejoice in an-
ticipation of everlasting life in
joy and peace with our risen
and gracious Lord and Savior
Jesus Christ.
Pastor Smith
Inside this issue:
Trinity Lutheran Church April 2017
Men (and Women)
Assisting
Seminary Students M.A.S.S. meets on the second
Tuesday, April 11th, at 6:00 pm
at Sloan’s Restaurant in Indio, corner of
Highway 111 and Clinton Streets. Men and
women, please come and join us for a good meal and devotions and enjoy being with friends. Remember, to donate regularly to our MASS fund which helps Seminary stu-
dents become Pastors in the LCMS. You can
donate on Sunday by placing a check in the
offering plate noted for MASS. Anyone, any
age, can help. God bless you and God bless
our work for MASS here at Trinity. Call
church office with questions 760-347-3971.
Russ Campbell, Chairman
P.S. We love our MASS men and women
members for their hard work! Thanks!
MEN’S M.A.S.S. MEETING
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WINGS (ladies night
out group) will be going to
The Olive Garden in Palm
Desert , corner of Hwy. 111 & Fred Waring Drive.
On April 20th 2017. Meeting time; 6:30 pm. Come
along and give us a try! April 20th at 6:30 pm;
We’d love to have you.! See Bobbi or Emily if you
plan on attending!
Women’s Bible Study Our Women’s Bible Study meets on Thursdays at 5pm. Our Teacher is Mary Helen Kelly. You will learn a lot about the Bible.
TLC QUILTERS . Trinity Quilters meeting times in March
April 19 & 23rd at 11:15 am. Newcomers
welcome.! Come and learn about quilting. Ques-
tions? call Marilyn Mohr 760 –775-4301.
Answer to last month’s
quiz was Timothy.
This month’s question.
Who Am I? Once before a
tomb I wept, A friend was
charged to see me kept. This was before
the glorious day, My Savior rose to go His
way.. Who am I? Call Ruth with your
answer at 760-574-3787.
NEW FLOWER CHART
For 2017 is here. All we
need to do is fill it. Please
put your name and spe-
cial occasion on your
special date. Cost is
$35.00 or whatever you
want to give. See Mary
Helen Kelly with any
questions.
Sunday School News
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TLC Sunday School/ Youth Fellowship
The TLC Youth Fellowship and Sunday School began a new quarter of lessons fo-
cusing on Jesus death and resurrection to save us from an eternal life in hell. We
began with Jesus and Zacchaeus and will lead the children thru holy week, ulti-
mately to John’s vision of heaven. There will be no regular classes held on
Easter Sunday and will resume the following Sunday, April 23rd.
Easter Sunday Prep! Saturday, April 15 @ 9:00 am
Yep! It’s that time of year! Easter is just around the corner and we will need help getting the big day
ready. Our annual Easter activities are always a big hit. The crafts for the children will need to be gath-
ered and organized and the eggs filled for the egg hunt. If you are available to help the Saturday before
Easter, April 15 @ 9am I will greatly appreciate it!
Also, we will need donations of jelly beans to fill the eggs for the egg hunt. Please bring the
candy to church any Sunday this month. Our Sunday School has grown and we always have a
good number of visiting children on Easter. The candy donations are very important.
Also, still looking for volunteers to help hide the eggs for the egg hunt, Easter morning during
the 8:30am service
Thank you for always remembering the TLC Family Events!
THANK YOU!!!! Yep that’s right. Thanks for the willingness to
serve as counselors, 3 TLC members, Richard & Tara Robin-
son and Ali Young, accompanied all 11 of our youth to the Jr.
District Youth Gathering held at Concordia University Irvine.
The youth gathered in the CUI chapel with all the other youth
attending and participated in games and break out sessions.
What a wonderful time to grow in their faith, bond with fellow
TLC youth and make new friends from the Pacific Southwest
District. So THANK YOU, Richard, Tara and Ali.
A big THANK YOU, also goes out to the TLC congregation for making this all possible by continuing to
keep their youth in prayer and including them in the annual budget. The Lord is truly good!
CUI
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Lutheran Women’s Missionary League
Trinity Lutheran Church, Indio
April Luncheon Meeting
Wednesday, April 19, 2017 11:30 A.M.
THEME: Today
“But if serving the Lord seems undesirable to you, then choose for
yourselves ….whom you will serve …., but as for me and my household,
we will serve the Lord.” Joshua 24, Sections of verse 15
PROGRAM: By laws Surprise?
MISSION GRANT: POBLO
SERVICE PROJECT: Cards to M.A.S.S. students
HOSTESSES: Ladies from Peace Lutheran Church
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Together Let’s Honor and Celebrate the Retirement of our Beloved Father,
Paul Miller Sunday, April 30, 2017
Christ Lutheran Church 64565 Pierson Blvd.
Desert Hot Springs, Ca 92240
CELEBRATION SERVICE 3:00pm
FAREWELL DINNER RECEPTION Follows the celebration service
R.S.V.P. Requested Christ Lutheran 760 329-9292
Bobbi Smith 760 485-7770 Email: Bobbi322@verizon.net
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MASS NEWS FOR APRIL 2017
We are in April and next month we will have two men getting the assignments for their vicarage year
And is seems like the year has just started.
I provided the first service some information that Pastor Chris Howell who graduated last year and was as-
signed a church in Nebraska. He was installed in June of 2016 and he now has 35 children in a Wednesday
night bible class, and he told me he should be up to 45 very soon. Not bad for such a short time.
We received a very nice note from Krista Weeks for the Valentines card and $50 gift certificate MASS sent
her. Krista will be going out with her husband on a vicarage assignment also. Her thank you was very touch-
ing as she not only thanks Trinity for the gift card, but thanks us again for the support you provide them each
month.
Kyle weeks provided me with a letter in very small type and filled the letter with information but I will not
do the same. He is enjoying his course work and looks forward to each new class. On another note Kyle will
be setting up a blog and provided us with the address. So if anyone would like to sign up you will have an up
to date on what he and Krista are doing. KTWeeks2015@gmail.com
Kyle also thanks us for our continued support during their time at the Seminary. It gives them much needed
encouragement and the means to continue toward the goal of pastoral ministry.
We did receive another check for $1,000 which we greatly appreciate, and we thank the anonymous donor.
Tanner Wade and his bride wish the congregation a blessed Easter. He has just about completed his spring
courses which he enjoys very much. He keeps getting A’s except for one course. Sounds good to me. He is
also very busy with a youth program at St Paul’s Lutheran in Des Peres, MO. He relates that when he was
just about to start the children’s message during the service one little girl stood up and announced that her
sister was sitting too close to her and she wasn’t sitting where she should. Life seems to be the same all over
the world, at least with children.
Until next month I also thank you for your help and encouragement in our mission together.
In his service,
Russ Campbell
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Duties
April 9
11:00 am
Communion
April 16
8:30 am
Communion
EASTER
April 23
11:00 am
Communion
April 30
April 2
8:30 am
Communion
Duty Elder
8:30am
11am
Roy Culley
Richard Robinson
Roy Culley
Gary Wiedle
Webb Sprague
Gary Wiedle
Webb Sprague
Gary Wiedle
Gary Wiedle
Richard Robinson
Readers
8:30am
11am
Roy Culley
Richard Robinson
Roy Culley
Gary Wiedle
Webb Sprague
Gary Wiedle
Webb Sprague
Gary Wiedle
Gary Wiedle
Richard Robinson
Ushers
8:30am
11am
Russ Campbell
& Jim Lorimer
Jim Ducatte &
Andy Schlange
Jim Lorimer
& Terry Lahn
Jim Ducatte &
Bob Wirtenberger
Larry Piunti &
Russ Campbell
Richard Robinson
&
Bob Wirtenberger
Larry Piunti
& Terry Lahn
Jim Ducatte &
Bob Wirtenberger
Russ Campbell &
Terry Lahn
Jim Ducatte &
Bob Wirtenberger
Acolytes
8:30 am
11:00 am
Elder
Elder
Elyssa & Erin
Ashbaugh
Baron
Chamberlain
Ethan &
AnnaMarie Frese
Erin Ashbaugh
& Samantha
Schuessler
Ethan & AnnaMarie
Frese
Emma Ashbaugh
& Lily Tobin
Ethan &
AnnaMarie Frese
Emma & Logan
Ashbaugh
Greeters
8:30am
11am
Raejean &
Bruce Kuhnau
Bob & Irene
Wirtenberger
Raejean &
Bruce Kuhnau
Joan Mandell &
Beverly Ducatte
Raejean &
Bruce Kuhnau
Bob & Irene
Wirtenberger
Raejean &
Bruce Kuhnau
Bob & Irene
Wirtenberger
Raejean &
Bruce Kuhnau
Bob & Irene
Wirtenberger
Flowers
Raejean & Bruce
Kuhnau
Don & Wanda
Lahn
Those Who Serve in April 2017
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April 2017 Birthdays
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12 Mark & Elsa Smith
14 John & Luretta Eide
15 Webb & Francisca Sprague
20 Luke & Marilyn Mohr
20 Alex & Maggie Negron
3 Luke Mohr
9 Emily Bonette
13 Blake Carlson
14 Doris Spiker
20 Ruth Farquhar
21 George Intemann
21 Denny York
22 Bill Bonette
26 Joan Mandel
29 Nolan Ducatte
29 Laura Thomason
1 Bryan Lorimer
4 Dani Ducatte
9 Joey White
9 Renee’ Young
16 Bobbi Smith
19 Kaden Onak
21 Kacie Onak
22 Donna Heinzeroth
April Anniversaries 2017
18 Shad & Jill Schuessler
May 2017 Birthdays
May Anniversaries 2017
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Easter is a moveable feast. Easter isn't on the same calendar date every year in the way that
Christmas is always celebrated on December 25. The date for Easter each year always falls on
the first Sunday after the first full moon after the Spring equinox. And once you find the date of
Easter, everything else finds its place—Good Friday and Maundy Thursday, Ash Wednesday
and the Transfiguration, the Ascension of our Lord and Pentecost.
All this is a long way of saying that Easter determines everything. Easter defines everything. It
orders not only the entire church year, but it orders our very lives. It defines and gives meaning
to our lives, as well to the things that happen in them. And since Easter defines everything, that
means it changes everything too. It redefines who we are and where we stand with God and with
one another. Easter makes all things new.
Without Easter, Jesus would not be raised from the dead. Without Easter death would still reign,
we would still be in our trespasses and sins, and our faith and hope would be in vain. But Jesus is
raised from the dead. Easter changes everything. It makes all things new. Therefore, darkness is
overcome with light, wrath with peace, fear with hope, angst with rest, sadness with joy, hatred
with love, sin with righteousness, and death with life. Easter changes everything, redefines eve-
rything, determines everything. Easter makes all things new.
Thus, Easter also changes our attitude about giving. For if God gave us His own Son into death so
that we will live, how will He not give us everything else we need? He will, and He does. He pro-
vides for us. He even gives us the gifts that we give back to Him for service in the church. Easter
demonstrates that we have a God who loves us, a God who provides for us, a God who presses
us into His service, a God who has made us new in the death and resurrection of His Son.
For when you give to the church, you pass along those things that God alone has given to you.
You pass along the message to others that Easter changes everything and makes all things new,
even as it has done this for you. This is not a burden, but pure joy. For God has given you a part
in the administration of His kingdom. He provides for the needy through your hands. He ensures
that the Gospel is preached and the Sacraments are given out through the work of your hands
and in the gifts that you give. And He honors and blesses this work and generosity as it redounds
to those around you.
So when you sit down on the first day of the week to make your offering to the place where
Easter is proclaimed and where the gifts of Easter are given out, remember: Easter changes eve-
rything. It makes all things new. More than that: Easter has changed you and made you new. Be-
cause Jesus who was crucified for our transgressions is raised for our justification.
Cindy Hilger, Chairman
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As a Lenten lead-in to the 500th anniversary of the Reformation, the Standing at the
Cross series will focus on portions of sermons Martin Luther actually preached during
Lent, Holy Week and Easter in the parishes where he served. As we stand with Luther
at the foot of the cross each week, we contemplate the ways in which we stand firm in
the faith as followers of Christ during this holy season.
Wednesday, April 5 @ 7pm: Standing in Truth
Maundy Thursday, April 13 @ 7pm: Standing in Faith
Good Friday, April 14 @ 7pm: Standing in Forgiveness
Easter, April 16 @ 8:30am & 11am: Standing in Victory
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It is Time Again to Decorate Our Sanctuary for Easter. Please help by do-
nating $8.00 for a Lily. Fill out the coupon in the Bulletin and give to
Wanda Lahn. Also, Donations are needed for the Easter Brunch.
Mary Helen Kelly, Chairman LWML
Standing at the
Cross
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A NOTE FROM YOUR TREASURER
PLEASE READ! VERY IMPORTANT!
As a congregation Trinity is blessed with faithful and generous members who love the Lord
and daily demonstrate that love in their service and giving. Each one of us is blessed to overflowing by being part of Christ’s Body (The Church) here at Trinity Lutheran Church in Indio.
We are especially blessed with a Pastor who is faithful to his calling and preaches the Law
and Gospel of God’s Holy Word in truth and purity; and leads us in the study of God’s Word through which the Holy Spirit works to keep our faith alive, reflecting Christ’s light to all
around us.
Let us each ask our self, “Am I giving to support Trinity’s ministry as I have been blessed?” Through the summer, operating expenses continue. When you look at our Financial State-
ments, the total bottom line has been looking great! But, that includes all of our restricted gifts for specific projects and when our two parking lots are completed, most of those funds
will be gone.
We must look at our General Operating Fund Reserve and see what we will need to carry us through the summer months. Because we are in a recreation/winter visitor area, most of our income is received in the winter months. Monthly expenses will remain about
the same (or depending on air-conditioning needs might be higher) at 39,877, with antici-pated monthly income – 24,416. This means we will have a monthly loss of about
15,461. Currently, our reserve will only cover this for two months, not until October when our income usually increases.
Trinity is operating on a combined financial accounting for the congregation and the Child
Development Center. Last year both operated at a loss in several of the summer months which depleted our Reserve Fund
WHAT DOES THIS MEAN? We ALL must INCREASE our GIFTS OF LOVE FOR BLESS-
INGS RECEIVED to match our expenses AND NOT JUST DEPEND ON A FEW TO COVER THEM FOR US! I just paid our District Convention Assessment for 171 Communicant mem-
bers. If this number is correct, many are not giving anything. If everyone gives something, as the widow gave, WE CAN MAKE IT!
If you remember, a letter was sent by the Chair of the Stewardship Board asking each member to pray about considering increasing their giving. This note is a follow up to that
letter. Let us all again take it to the Lord in prayer and ask the Holy Spirit to guide us.
In Christ’s love,
Mary Helen Kelly
Robert E. Smith, Pastor
Cell Phone: 760-485-5171
Emily Bonette, Church Secretary
Church Office Phone: 760-347-3971
Eloise Freeman, Preschool Director
Preschool Phone: 760-347-3838
Lutheran Church Missouri Synod
Pacific Southwest District
Stamp
Sunday Worship
8:30am & 11am
Sunday School/
Bible Class
10:00am
Holy Communion
8:30am—1st & 3rd Sundays
11am—2nd & 4th Sundays
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LENTEN POTLUCK SUPPERS
5:45 p.m. March 29, 2017 The annual Lenten potluck suppers preceding
Lenten services each Wednesday until Holy Week
have begun. We ask that you please bring a main
dish, a salad or dessert to share. We have a great
time visiting with one another and sharing fellow-
ship . We all help with cleanup.
Remember the time: 5:45 pm followed by the Lenten
service and Choir practice.
Serving for Special Services @ 7pm
March 29th Elder: Roy Culley Ushers: Terry Lahn & Larry Piunti
Wed. April 5th Elder: Roy Culley
Maundy Thursday April 13th Gary Wiedle (C)
Good Friday April 14th Richard Robinson C)
Easter April 16th 6:30 am Richard Robinson