Dear Trinity Family & Friends,

This week we begin our sermon series, “When the Spirit Moves,” with the message “We Learn to Wait.” The first movement of the Spirit in Acts is not action. It’s waiting. That may feel surprising, even uncomfortable. Because when we think about faith, we often think about “doing” …going, serving, building. But before any of that begins, Jesus gathers his disciples and gives them a single instruction: Do not leave. Wait for the promise. Wait for the Spirit. Wait for the power that does not come from you. Waiting, in Scripture, is never passive. It's an active trust. It’s the discipline of believing that God is at work even when nothing seems to be happening.

The Prophet Isaiah reminds us that those who wait on the Lord will renew their strength, not because waiting is easy, but because waiting places us where God can meet us. And if we’re honest, waiting is often where our faith is most tested. It exposes our impatience. It reveals our desire to move ahead of God. It confronts our tendency to rely on ourselves. But it’s also where our faith is formed.

This Sunday, we begin not with movement, but with stillness. Not with answers, but with trust. And we ask what it might mean for us not just as individuals, but as a church, to wait well.

Reflect and Prepare

1. Where in your life are you being asked to wait right now?
2. What emotions surface in seasons of waiting?
3. How might waiting be forming something deeper in you?
4. What does it look like to trust God when you don’t yet see the outcome?
5. Isaiah speaks of renewed strength. Where do you most need that renewal?
6. How might waiting actually prepare you for what God wants to do next?
7. What would it mean for you this week to practice intentional trust instead of control?

As we begin this journey, may we resist the urge to rush ahead and instead learn the quiet strength of waiting on God. The Spirit often does some of its deepest work not in what we do, but in who we are becoming. 

See you Sunday!

Pastor Carrie