Welcome to Trinity UMC Phoenix!

This fall, Trinity is reading together. Building on the discernment work our congregation began this month (asking who we are and what God is already doing among us) we'll spend seven weeks with Saving Church: Restoring the People of God with Missional Evangelism by Martyn Atkins and Bishop Ken Carter. Atkins is a British Methodist, Carter a UMC bishop, and together they take up a question many of us have been circling: what does it actually mean to share God's love in the 21st century, humbly and compassionately, in a way that looks like Jesus?

That means reckoning honestly with the word evangelism itself. For a lot of faithful people, it now carries the sound of pressure, politics, and a version of Christianity they don't recognize and so they've quietly set it down. Part of our work this fall is to pick it back up and ask what it meant before it was weaponized, and what it might mean for us.

Two meeting times, same reading each week: Tuesdays at 7:00 p.m. online and Wednesdays at 10:00 a.m. in the Hoyle Room, beginning the week of September 22 and concluding Wednesday, November 4. The book runs about $10 on Kindle. Email trinityphxumc@gmail.com to sign up and receive the video link.