Sundays -- 10:15am @ The Woods Community Center (10100 Wards Grove Circle, Burke)
As Eugene Peterson noted, the pastor’s Sunday morning invitation — “Let us worship God together” — is an incredibly subversive invitation. In a culture replete with all sorts of false gods, the invitation (and decision) to worship God forms us as a unique community.
This is particularly true for Anglicans, as we are deeply committed to a tradition of “common prayer.” And so we gather to worship on Sunday — to hear and learn and respond and participate, to pray and worship and receive the sacrament, to serve and to be sent.
Most Sundays, we gather to worship at the Woods Community Centre in Burke Centre at 10:15am. Our services generally last around one hour and fifteen minutes. This element of our life together is central to our formation and our identity, and is marked by liturgy, word, and sacrament, as well as congregational singing and a warm responsiveness to God and one another.
The Woods Community Center
10100 Wards Grove Cir, Burke, VA 22015
Sundays @ Trinity FAQ
Trinity is a pretty casual church. You’ll see plenty of kids in shorts or their sports uniforms, and adults in a range from jeans and t-shirts to dresses and button-downs. Don’t stress — come as you feel comfortable!
The Woods Community Center has a parking lot and there is plenty of street parking on Wards Grove Circle.
From the Woods Community Center parking lot, you’ll walk up a sidewalk into the community center. If weather is cooperative, you’ll see a table and ez-up outside, where you can register your kids for kids ministry (pre-register your kids here to save time) and grab a name tag (most everyone wears them). As you head into the community center, you’ll see coffee and tea (help yourself!) on your left and a table with church Bibles and fidgets/journals for kids on your right. Our worship space will be through a door on your left — make yourself at home!
If the weather isn’t cooperative, name tags and kids ministry registration all happens in the front hallway of the community center.
We love kids at Trinity. Seriously — up to 40% of our attendance on any given Sunday is likely to be 14 and under. Kids are always welcome in our worship service!
We do have programming for crawlers through third grade. Here’s how that works:
- Kids get checked-in before church at our welcome table. You can fill out this form ahead of time to streamline the process, but it’s not complicated.
- Littles (crawlers – pre-school) have their own classroom downstairs, which opens 10 minutes before our worship service. Parents of littles are welcome to drop their kids off before the service starts or bring them downstairs after the Gospel reading (about 15 minutes into the service).
- Biggers (k-3) have their own classroom upstairs. We’ll gather them after the Gospel reading (about 15 minutes into the service), pray for them, and send them with their teachers to their class for their lesson. They’ll be returned in time for communion.
- Parents of littles can either collect their children from downstairs during the “passing of the peace” (after the sermon and prayers) for communion or pick them up following the service.
Kids 4th grade and up worship with the adults. At Trinity, we believe faith is “caught” as much as it is “taught” and that it is good for bigger kids to worship and learn alongside their parents. And our pastor works hard to deliver sermons that are accessible to all ages!
That being said, we’re not above a little bribery to help encourage kids to stay engaged. Kids 4th grade through high school are encouraged to take sermon notes (journals and pens are available for bigger kids at a table in the hallway outside our worship space), and those who “show their notes” after the service get candy. Your big kids won’t miss the note-candy line — it’s just out in the hallway by the kitchen.
Bigger kids also have their own Bible study with trained leaders that meet in a home just down the street from the community center before church on Sunday mornings. You can learn more here.
Yes! We’ll make it clear when we’re supposed to stand, sit, sing, and pray. All the words necessary to participate — from songs to prayers to communion — will be on a screen. We want to make it easy for everyone to participate!
We have a small band of all ages (usually piano, guitar, bass, violin, and cello) that leads us in a mix of old and new songs.
At Trinity, we receive communion (gluten-free bread and wine) ever week. Our pastor will give clear instructions before communion every week, so it’s nothing to be anxious about!