My fondest memories are the times I spent with my church family. My friends were my church friends as well as my school friends. We all lived on Third Avenue and went to Holy Trinity and Fairview school. We all sang on the youth choir and attended Sunday School and Luther League. We attended school together from grade school through high school. I still keep in contact with some of those friends. Church was the heart of the family. I thank God I was born in that era of time.

Kathleen Sparrow

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Up until maybe the 1940s there was only one woman, Sadie Dieter, who did all the altar guild tasks by herself. She arranged the flowers every Sunday. She was a maiden lady who lived on Market Street just beyond Fourth Avenue. We didn't have an altar guild until Pastor Snyder came, and then he started it. The flowers were delivered in a box. We had to arrange them in the vases by ourselves.

Helen Cool

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Hank, his mom and dad, and aunts lived across the street from Holy Trinity. He was seven-years old, and being 1945, the war years, the highlight was watching the weddings at the church on Saturday afternoons from his front porch. We joined in 1975 when Pastor John Kuhns married us in the chapel.

Cheryl and Henry Seiss

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I started to play the piano when I got confirmed in the Beginner's Department for the little ones. I went with pastor Snyder to the State Hospital, and the residents gathered all in one room to hear me play.

Joyce Wetzel

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More than 300 people gathered together for our 65th anniversary services and picture taking, Sunday, November 16. It was a joy to have Dr. Stine with us, and we are happy for the picture which will be at least a partial record of the congregation at this stage in its history.

from Holy Trinity Parish Notes, 1952

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On October 13, 1956 we were married in Holy Trinity by The Rev. Henry H. Snyder, Jr. So, when our daughter was born 10 months later, we wanted her baptism to be on Sunday, October 13, 1957, our first wedding anniversary. Everything was set. But the night before, Audrey Snyder (pastor's wife) called to say Pastor Snyder was sick and couldn't be in in church the next day. Pastor Victor Kroninger was our assistant pastor, and Mrs. Snyder said he would be able to do the service of baptism. It turned out to be his first time to have a baptism on his own. He said he didn't feel confident to hold a small baby as most pastors do. But all went well!

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" . . . a statement of common rights, and a covenant of mutual duties as Christians, in order to sustain, by the labor and gifts of love, the pure Word and Sacraments as God's only appointed means for saving the lost and for edifying His people "

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I remember longing to be on choir, but, you had to be 8-years old to be on Jr. Choir. My eighth birthday was on choir rehersal night and that was one of my happiest birthdays. At 13-years old I was on Teen Choir. We sang at the early service and went to late service with our families and friends. Around 18 I joined the Senior Choir. This September will be my fifty-second year as a choir member.

Another desire I had for years was to be a Sunday School Teacher. You had to be 18-years old, and had to have attended Sunday School yourself. This year I completed my forty-first year as a Sunday School teacher. I thank God for that wonderful opportunity to share my love for him and his word with children.

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I've been going to church ever since I can remember. But I actually didn't join the church until pastor Snyder coerced me into being a member. I was playing with the hardball team. Even though I had been coming there for years I was never officially a member because I was never baptized. Pastor Snyder told me either I had to join the church or not play on the hardball team. And so one day he just baptized me into the church so I could continue playing. That's when I officially became a member. That was in the late 40's.