The Intergenerational Trinity Sunday Resources linked below will help you explore the Trinity whether that is as a household or as a faith community.
What is Trinity Sunday?
Trinity Sunday is the only Sunday that the church celebrates a doctrine. The doctrine of the Trinity attempts to explain something of the mystery of who God is. How do we explain God, this divine being? Since the beginning humans have been struggling to describe who this God is. God is so much bigger and greater than anything we can explain or imagine. Each part of the godhead is truly and completely God, yet each is distinct from the others. Trinity is one way that we have tried to name and understand God.
You may have seen the Trinity being explained by anything that has three parts. For example, a clover leaf, an egg (shell, white and yolk) or water (ice, liquid, steam) but like any images we use they are inadequate to fully explain how God can be three but one.
The scriptures use many ways to name God and uses many images to describe God. Rather than focusing on the Trinity on Trinity Sunday you might explore different ways that God is described in the Bible.
God this divine being chose to reveal God’s self to us in the person of Jesus and through the Holy Spirit. This triune God is about relationship.
Celebrating Trinity Sunday
We have used various creative ways to explain or explore the Trinity on Trinity Sunday. Often these have involved anything that has 3 parts or can be explained as 3 but 1. This of course only goes some way to explaining the Trinity. Sometimes we’ve used relationships – inviting someone out the front who is a father, son and husband to other members of the congregation or talking about myself as a mother, wife and aunt to others in the congregation. Using this relationships to explain that although this person is father, son and husband they are still one person.
The Intergenerational Trinity Resouces and ideas below have been grouped into household and worship ideas but ideas under household could be used in community worship and vice versa. If you celebrate Trinity Sunday in worship you might like to send home some ideas to continue exploring the Trinity at home. You could suggest some of the ideas below or provide some continuing the discussion questions from what you’ve explored in worship.
Household Trinity Ideas
- 4 Simple Ways to Celebrate Trinity Sunday
- Trinity Flexagon: Print out, make and play
- Holy Trinity Spinners: Create & Discuss
- Faith Through Food: Celebrating Trinity
- Cycle A Family Crafts, Activities and Resources
Intergenerational Trinity Resources and Worship Ideas
Includes worship ideas as well as ways of exploring or explaining the Trinity.
- Year A Trinity Sunday from Intergen
- Year C Trinity Sunday from Intergen (written by me)
- Trinity A: Revenge v Forgiveness/Three in One from Mustard Seeds
- Trinity C: You’re worth it! from Mustard Seeds
- Year A: Trinity Sunday from Worshiping with Children
- Year C: Trinity Sunday from Worshiping with Children
- Trinity Sunday Intergenerational Program “Divine Love”
- Trinity Sunday: Intergenerational Worship Ideas
- Who is God? Using Symbols to explore the Holy Trinity
- Trinity Sunday Activities
- Exploring the Trinity with Children using Rublev’s Icon of the Trinity
- Three and One: A service plan for Trinity Sunday
- Naming and Numbering: God of many names
- The Strength of Triangles
- Ideas for Trinity Sunday
- Three Teaching Points for Trinity Sunday
- 5 ways to celebrate Trinity Sunday
- Intergenerational Prayer Stations on Trinity Sunday
If you use some of these Intergenerational Trinity Sunday resources or ideas, I’d love to hear what you do.
If you’d like help planning your own Trinity Celebration, please reach out to me.