Trinity Lutheran Church
Monroeville, Pennsylvania

2555 Haymaker Road, Monroeville, PA, 15146

           

Faithful to God's Word   

Breaking News

Breaking News:  
Sometime in December a small clan of shepherds started grazing their sheep near our church.  On Dec. 25, there was a lot of commotion as they paid a visit to another family from distant Nazareth- one who was forced to give birth to their firstborn in a cattle shelter.  The shepherds, with their emotional account, have convinced us that this newborn boy baby, laid in this manger, is the Son of God, as the angels revealed to them at the time of His birth.  We go out often to visit this new and welcome addition to our worship community.

This year we continue celebrating 125 years of God's blessings given through His Son and Spirit, as we remember Trinity Lutheran Church's history.
Began in 1892 as a preaching station in tiny Pitcairn, PA, the congregation soon grew to Call Pastor Walter Koenig in 1895.
The members moved the church to growing Monroeville in 1967.


Christ is risen!  God has given His Son Jesus as a ransom for sinners,   It is Him we celebrate all these years later. For we daily receive the benefits of His mercy on all who repent and call on Him.

Our heavenly Father is blessing our congregation with growth in faith and growth in numbers.  Children and adults have been added to our fellowship in the last several years. 

Trinity members enthusiastically support several local and national missions, including Unity Lutheran Church's (Pittsburgh) after-school ministry, Pastor Ruppert's ministry to the deaf of the greater Pittsburgh area, Lutheran Hour radio Gospel broadcasts, and various other area ministries, as well as Eastern District and Lutheran Church Missouri Synod Gospel and disaster relief.

Thanks to a generous donation, our new organ and sound system have been installed, and are making it easier to hear the Gospel.

In March, a missions team will begin again walking neighboring streets, meeting neighbors,  taking a survey of community needs and getting the word out about  God's salvation, and our congregation!
    We worship and live in the light of Jesus' crucified and risen from the dead.  Join us Sunday as we celebrate the most earth-shaking event in all history!

    We celebrate holy Communion almost every Sunday for our members and members of our sister Lutheran Church Missouri Synod congregations. We'd like to talk with you about joining us.
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    We are hearing bells these days!  After decades of silence, we now hear church bells ringing on Sunday mornings to call all to worship our Lord.

    With the apostle Paul, we also say, "I resolved to know nothing...  except Jesus Christ and him crucified."

A little about Trinity Lutheran Congregation

Teaching from the Bible the timeless good news of the Grace of God who sent Jesus to be crucified in the place of sinners like you and me, Trinity has served this community for 125 years.
We are a member congregation of the Lutheran Church Missouri Synod.  In 1965 a new church was built as the worship site moved from the original site in nearby Pitcairn, PA, to growing Monroeville, 15 miles east of downtown Pittsburgh.  Trinity has been served by many faithful pastors through the years, each speaking from God's Word, not from the pastor's own inventions, nor applying man's logic to spiritual truth. We invite you to join our community for worship and fellowship this week.

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Proclaiming the Good News of Jesus Christ

The Bible contains two basic doctrines.
The first is the truth that every person that walked this earth, except one, is/was a sinner.  Really, you and I have proved that to ourselves ten thousand times; but often we settle into a defensive imagination that we're not as bad as what's-his-name over there. The Law doctrine of the Bible yanks us back to knowing just how hopelessly you and I have gone astray.   It sort-of throws us down to the ground where we expect punishment. 
That's when the Good News lifts believers up, delivering the sweet forgiveness of God, so we can live at peace with both God and our neighbors. The Good News is that God loves us so much that He heaped the punishment that we deserved on His Son Jesus when Jesus walked this earth and suffered and died in our places on the cross.  Read the book of John to get the whole story on this.  Then you will see that the Holy Bible is the book about God's love and that He calls us to a life-long relationship where we live every moment in the joy of having Him close as our skin, beginning in His washing, called Baptism.  From then on, reading God's Word refreshes and feeds us, that we daily walk in spiritual life. 
Again- pick up John's Gospel (Good news) and start there.  Then call the number below and talk to Pastor Ruppert or someone at Trinity.  And God bless you as you read! 
Oh, yeah!  The one who never sinned (in the second line of the top paragraph above?)  Jesus, Son of God, who takes away the sin of the world!

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Pastor Mark Ruppert

Pastor Mark Ruppert
​came to Monroeville to serve Trinity in 2011. 
Graduating from Concordia Theological Seminary, Fort Wayne, Indiana, in 1997, he likes hiking, swimming, volleyball, working with people, cooking, and playing music- not in any particular order.  Pastor finds the members at Trinity great to work with and friendly, and continues to serve deaf persons with encouragement in Christ, on a volunteer basis.  
The whole family loves the hills, rivers, bridges, and mountains of Pennsylvania.
He is married to Melody, a southern girl coming from North Carolina.
Pastor grew up on a dairy/grain farm in southern Illinois in a large family.

Pastor's big prayer requests:
1) that God will strengthen and lead Melody and me as we serve in His Church.
2) that He continually lead our national and world leaders to repentance and humility, so that they get out of the way of His peace;  
3) and that "our country's people not be so distracted by money, sex, drink and drugs and idle talk; so they can be fruitful in God's Kingdom (John 15)  

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