Praising God in Newport News

Come visit this Sunday @ 10 am on River Road. We’re glad to meet you.
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Location Details

6812 River Road Newport News, VA 23607

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New Sermons

20 Apr 2025

EasterApril 20, 2025Luke 24.1-12 I want you to take a journey with me back to President’s Day 2025. It is a decently comfortable day outside, a little chilly, but not awful. We are only a couple of days out from Jim Cantore levels of snow apparently, and I have one final task that I need to get done before the house goes on the market on Thursday: I have to get the leaves in the backyard bagged up. Full confession,…

13 Apr 2025

Palm SundayApril 13, 2025Luke 19.28-40 Let me take you back almost nine months, to a basketball arena in New Orleans. It’s the first full night of the Gathering, and our youth have had a day. After a disastrous accompaniment morning that was just all kinds of shades of not good, we had then experienced penguins and stingrays and butterflies at the aquarium, hauled all the way across the city for a several hours long rehearsal for our mass cast performance,…

30 Mar 2025

FAITH JOURNEY During Lent, we invite members of our congregation to share their faith journey. Let the little children come to me, and do not hinder them, for the kingdom of heaven belongs to such as these – Matthew 19:14 Hi.  My name is Jacob and I’m an Episcopalian.  I’m not a wolf in sheep’s clothing or anything.  It’s just the way I was raised and seemed like an important detail.  I guess there’s some structural and theological differences between the Episcopal and Lutheran…

People

Pastor

Tina Toburen

Pastor Tina has been with Trinity for over 5 years. She lives with her dog, Scully and loves all things Harry Potter and football.
Administrative Assistant

Sharon Mathison

Sharon started working at Trinity Lutheran Church in December of 2023. She comes from Illinois and lives with her husband, Brent.
Treasurer

Carol Bessom

Biography: My family moved from New Jersey to Newport News, VA when I was about seven years old, my sister ten, my brother four. That was my dad’s last work-related move, and I’ve been here ever since. We began attending Trinity Lutheran Church shortly thereafter when services were still being held in the downtown Newport News location and joined about a year later. My parents were members until their deaths, my brother and sister until marriage and jobs took them…

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