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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Sundays @ 10 am
New Sermons
21 Sep 2025
Good morning and joyful greetings, my beautiful siblings in Christ! What a wonderful day to be out in God’s Creation worshipping together and relishing our shared community in Jesus Christ! Let us rejoice and be glad in it! Today is… abnormal. We’re outside, yes, but today is a particularly special day for all of us gathered here and myself specifically—It is a day of spiritual renewal. Long story short, I approached Pastor Tina a few months ago and asked to…
14 Sep 2025
14th Sunday after PentecostSeptember 14, 2025Luke 15.1-10 All week, I haven’t been able to get one particular scene from Lilo & Stitch out of my head. For some context, when Lilo adopts Stitch, she treats him like he’s her baby, she tucks him into bed, he has a bottle, filled with coffee mind you, but still a bottle, and she reads him bedtime stories. One of the books that he ends up picking up and requesting to be read is The Ugly Duckling. He turns to a…
07 Sep 2025
13th Sunday after PentecostSeptember 7, 2025God’s Work, Our Hands I can’t say that I ever anticipated doing a sermon about the sea diving women of Korea in the 1940’s but here we are. This wholly lies at the feet of one of the women in my book club because she chose a book about it, and while I was expected a book about, well, sea diving…what I have gotten is a painfully bleak book about the reality of life in Korea in…
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.
Music Director
Geoffrey Bell
Geoff is the Music Director and Organist at TLC. He leads the Adult Choir and Handbell Choir.
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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