Hello everyone and welcome to this week's episode
of Trinity Talks. My name is Kyla and I'm so
excited to be joined here by the Nash family,
or at least three members of the family. We're
going to talk a little bit more about your family,
a little bit more about what it's like being
a family here at Trinity and all the different
ministries and things that you've been involved
in. So thank you so much for joining me, folks.
Thank you. Maybe we'll start by doing some introductions.
Maybe we'll start over here, and you can just
give us a little introduction of who you are.
Sure. Thank you. My name is Jen Nash, and I've
been a member of Trinity. Oh, I actually don't
know, but I'm a number of years now. My kids
came through Camp Trinity, and our family started
to come here. I am in school right now. I'm in
a career transition, midlife, and enjoying being
a parent and getting more involved in my community.
Okay, awesome. Thank you. I'm Carter. I'm 12
years old. And I love playing sports. I've been
coming to Trinity, I think, all of us around
four years. Yeah. Yeah. Cool. What sports do
you like to play? I like hockey, soccer and football.
OK, very cool. So you've got like all the seasons
covered. And lacrosse. And lacrosse too. OK,
very cool. Yeah. And what about on the end here?
Hi, I'm Alexis. I am 10 years old and. I love
just hanging out with my pets at home and my
neighbors. Okay. How many pets do you have? We
have two pets. Two pets? Are they cats, dogs?
We have one dog and one cat. Okay. Very cool.
So, yeah, we want to just start by getting to
know you guys a little bit, getting to know your
family a little bit. So maybe first question
is, what's one... thing that you have learned
from somebody else in your family and this can
be something like really simple or something
like really big but what's one thing you've learned
from somebody else in your family um how to be
confident about myself and not to hide who I
am okay cool and like how how did you learn that
was that like something that somebody like taught
you or just like showed you actually my mom's
told me that all my life yeah I should be who
I want to be. And I followed that. And yeah.
Yeah. That's awesome. I'm so glad. That's such
a good lesson to learn. Yeah. What about you,
Carter? What's something somebody's taught you?
I learned how to play hockey fully from my dad.
Yeah. Okay. Yeah. So like, did you like start
that like when you were really young? Yeah. Yeah.
Okay. And he like taught you how to skate and
like how to all the different moves and that
sort of thing. Yeah. So now, do you think that
you're a better hockey player than your dad now,
or is he, like, still pretty good? I mean, my
dad can't really skate right now, so. Oh, right.
That's right, because he broke his leg, right?
So you're definitely on top right now. Okay,
okay. Yeah. Very good. Oh, yeah. What about you,
Jen? What's something you've learned from someone
in your family? Gosh, that's such a big question.
It is. I think that. My kids are my greatest
teachers, I would say, to be honest. Of course
they are. So much confidence. I love it. You
know, one of the first things that comes up for
me when I think of learning from my kids collectively
is I've learned a tremendous amount about forgiveness,
asking for forgiveness. wanted to and repair
in our you know in our relationships and such
but I think if I think individually I was sharing
a little bit earlier Carter has a really good
healthy sense of competition and I've learned
a lot about competition from him and okay tenacity
and giving things your all he's always been I
remember when he was a first in sports and sport
ball where it was like introduction to everything
and he would go he gave it a lot of energy right
And Alexis is so patient and kind and compassionate.
And I see her with children and people. And I
learn a lot from her about how to be patient
and kind with people. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. It's
so cool that like often we think that like parents
are there to like teach their kids things. Right.
But like you're also teaching your mom stuff.
Oh, yeah. That's super cool. Learning every day.
Yeah. Okay, so then what is one thing about you
that's, like, similar to someone else in your
family? Or is there, like, yeah, is there, like,
a family trait that you're like, ah, we're all
like this, or, like, I'm like somebody else?
No. What do you think, Jen? I think we all love
a good laugh in our family. We have a little
saying where it's like, no fun allowed in this
family. And it just creates a lot of fun. And
we all love to laugh. That's something we all
enjoy. We like to create space to make light
of life with each other. That's one way we're
similar. That's a really good trait to have,
for sure. Yeah. What about you guys? What are
some ways that you think you're similar to other
people in your family? I think, like, compared
to everyone else in my household, I think we
all have kind of the same strive to do the best
we can, if not better. Sure. Okay. Yeah. Just
be like, okay, we're always going to give it
our best. We're always going to do it. Yeah,
that's an awesome quality to have. Yeah. What
do you think, Alexis? Probably that we all have...
Sometimes we all have a lot of energy and we
all just love being outside. Okay. doing all
kinds of stuff okay cool so you guys sound like
a really like go go go kind of people oh yeah
we do balance with resting like sunday mornings
we come to 11 15 because we sleep in right yeah
yeah yeah oh we do we do yeah you guys had enough
rest too we try and balance for sure for sure
see they're still sleepy right now before 11
15 yes there you go yeah Okay, so what's one
thing that is, like, different? What's one thing
about you that's, like, unique from other people
in your family? Um... A thought? Yeah, what do
you think? Probably how I always, outside my
house, running around the neighborhood. Okay.
Playing with all my friends. Because, well...
Yeah. You're like a very social person. Yeah,
I have a lot of friends in my neighborhood who
I love to play with. That's awesome. Yeah. Yeah,
it's great. Unfortunately, it's all girls, so
Carter doesn't have the same kids in our community.
So actually, it's one boy in our community. He's
two years old. He's two years old? No, he's not.
There's another boy who is about in seventh grade.
Ah, so a little bit older. Okay. Anyway, so there's
maybe a couple boys around, but lots of girls,
lots of people for you to get to know and to
play with. Yeah, that's awesome. What about for
you, Carter? What's one thing that you think
is unique about you? I really like messing with
my pets. You're, like, messing with your pets.
Okay, so Alexis cuddles them, and you play jokes
on them? Okay, so, like, what do you do to play
jokes on your pets? I'll, like, pretend I'm going
to throw my dog a ball, and I'll, like, put it
behind my back and watch her kind of get confused.
Right, yeah. You also, like, make videos of them
with weird, like, little music clips and such.
I've attempted at making and editing videos before.
Okay. but it's like fun that like they're both
funny enough that it works out sure yeah okay
that's that's cool that's fun like you just like
that so like the sense that i'm getting is that
like you're maybe a little more goofy yeah yeah
you're like the fun funny guy yeah very cool
yeah he is Yeah, what about you? What's one thing
that's unique about you? They say that I sometimes
don't have a sense of humor. Mom, take a joke.
You take a joke, Mom. I don't get the sarcasm.
I often say, I guess one thing that makes me
unique from everyone is I embrace my... my inner
weirdness, like inner uniqueness. And I guess
that's many times where I say to them, be who
you are, find your weird, find your uniqueness
and let it shine. So I guess that's something
I'll own. Yeah, that's awesome. That's such a
good thing to own, I think. Just noticing I am
unique in many ways. And that is wonderful. That
just makes me who I am. Right. And like, I think
it's a testament to like what Alexis said before,
you know, like being really confident. Like if
your mom is confident, then she like helps you
to feel more confident. Right. Yeah. Yeah. Okay.
So. As you said, you guys have been around the
church for a few years, and I think Jen said
you started at Camp Trinity, right? Yes. Yeah,
so you both went to Camp Trinity? Yeah. Okay,
so what was that like? What did you do at Camp
Trinity? Well, I want to say it was actually
pretty good, except for last year when I stepped
on a bee. Oh, yeah, that's probably less good.
But it was always just like... I loved it there.
Everyone was inclusive. The leaders were just
so kind to everyone. I just loved hanging out
there. Yeah? Okay. Okay. What about you? Like,
what did you like about Camp Trinity? I liked
how much freedom they gave us. Sure. But, like,
within boundaries, but kind of made us feel like
we're here to have fun. But they trust us enough
that, like, they we can do what we want as long
as it's allowed right yeah yeah so you like get
to you get to choose some of the different activities
that you want to do right and also just everyone
was like welcoming and kind and stuff and that's
a big part of it yeah for sure for sure so did
you guys have like a favorite activity from camp
free time free time okay and what did you usually
do during your free time gecko ball gaga ball
okay cool cool so do you want to there might
be some people who don't know what gaga ball
is so do you want to like explain it a little
bit so there's a big fenced in um area with like
a wooden foldable fence and there's a dirt or
sand pit um and basically you go into it and
um your goal is to hit the ball at everyone else's
legs okay and just be the last one standing okay
and That's about it. You can't, like, hold it
and throw it. You have to, like, hit it like
this. Okay, so you, like, hit it, like, with
your fist. Yeah. Okay, so, like, roll the ball
around and you're trying to hit everybody else,
but, like, not get hit yourself. Okay. Okay,
very cool. This sounds very intense. Because
it's not a very big area, right? Yeah. Carter
likes intensity. Okay, that's good. What about
you, Alexis? What was your favorite thing to
do at camp? Also, Gagaball and probably Water
Day, putting on the slide and putting shaving
cream over all the needles. Yeah, yeah. Okay,
that sounds like fun. Just like for funsies,
you're just like, here, spray you all with shaving
cream. Kind of. Kind of, yeah, okay. That sounds
cool. And I love that they get to go to camp
in the summer and have these great experiences.
Yeah. And it gives us some time, too, to rest
as parents and such while they enjoy camp. Yeah.
For sure. For sure. Yeah. What about, like, are
there things that you, like, learned at camp
that, like, you remember or you think, like,
that was really cool? Maybe you, like, learned
to do something or you, like, learned a new story.
I actually learned how to do this cool. I forgot.
It's like a... It's kind of like a bracelet.
Okay. You take it and then you have two strings,
two strings, two strings, and then you make a
braid out of it. Okay, yeah. And then you can
just turn it into a bracelet. Oh, that's very
cool. Yeah. I learned a lot of stuff, actually.
Yeah? I think the best thing I learned is I learned
how to paddle a board. Oh, that sounds very cool.
Yeah. Yeah. Okay. And were you, like, the stand
-up paddleboard, or you were, like, sitting on
it? I stood up. Wow. I don't know that I could
do that very well. You have a lot of balance.
The first time I did that, last year, the year
before, I tried standing up, but I was with Austin
on the boat. Okay. He kind of... tipped me over
into the water. How rude. Silly Austin. I think
she enjoyed it. Yes, I'm sure. The water is nice
and cool. The sun is nice and hot. I think it
worked out okay. Yeah. Okay. What about some
other things that you've done here at the church?
I know Carter, you've been part of youth group
and Alexis, you've been part of kids church.
Like what have been some of your favorite parts
of doing those pieces? Probably how I always
get to help out Megan sometimes. Yeah. and just
being serious with other kids who are my age.
Yeah, so you get to, like, meet other kids, which
we've already sort of said, you know, you're
really social and really good at that. But then,
like, you also get to, like, help out, right,
and take some, like, leadership. That's super
cool. Yeah. What about you, Carter? What do you
like about youth group? Again, like, kind of
how it's a way to, like, just connect with other
people you might not always get to see outside
of, like, school or a different community. Yeah.
And, like, just the way they kind of make you
feel welcome and, like, how to meet new people.
And then, obviously, like, all the events and
stuff. Like, I think this year we went to Activate.
Couple other places than the big youth retreat.
Yeah, it's all fun. Yeah. Yeah. So you were on
the youth retreat last weekend, right? Yeah.
Yeah. Was there like one highlight for you? Like
a really cool part? Archery tag was really fun.
Archery tag. Okay. So I assume you weren't actually
shooting people with arrows. No, we were. You
were. Okay. Were they sharp, pointy arrows? No,
they had like something on the end of it. Oh,
okay. Okay. So listen, just like... You mean
suction cones? No. A little bit different. Okay.
Interesting. That sounds really fun, actually.
Yeah. Very cool. Yeah. And are there any ways
that like... being part of trinity at camp or
youth group or kids church like have helped you
to learn more things about jesus or like did
like have a better relationship with jesus uh
yeah i think while the leaders try to keep it
like as fun as possible and keep the kids into
it they still find good ways to enter integrate
like lessons about god or jesus into it so you
still learn a lot about your faith while also
having fun with it. Okay. Very cool. Yeah. What
about you, Alexis? What do you think? Are there
ways you've learned things about Jesus? Probably
all the times in camp where they've made us listen
to stories and they'll go back and talk about
it. It's actually teached me a lot. Yeah, for
sure. Yeah, and I know, like, maybe, no, just
earlier this year, I think, right? You got baptized?
Actually, last year. Last year? Okay. Yeah, I
couldn't quite remember. Yeah. This year, I got
confirmed. This year, you got confirmed. Last
year, you got baptized. Right. Okay. Yeah, yeah,
yeah. Yeah, and so, like, that, how do you think
that, like, being part of Kids Church helped
you to, like, make that decision? probably just
learning about how Jesus protects all the kids
and how he helps people through it so I just
felt like I want to do that yeah yeah I know
that's awesome for sure yeah and Jen when you
think about like this church family and your
family like how have you seen these two things
interact like how has Trinity sort of helped
your family if I think back to Life before Camp
Trinity, when my kids first came, I had a longing.
I knew that there was a sense of community that
my family was, I was looking for, that I wanted
to have to bring, welcome my family into. For
me, Camp Trinity was a gateway when Alexis and
Carter came home and they told us about Family
Week. Actually, it was just me who said that.
Yeah, it was you. You were like, we need to go
to Camp Sunday. And so in we came, and I'll never
forget the first sermon was so meaningful. Rob
has a way of delivering sermons from my perspective
and just divine timing for when I need them in
life. And that first sermon gave my husband,
Colin, and I a lot of interesting, topics for
conversation and that was a such an enjoyable
opening experience that had us start coming and
more frequently now we also balance with hockey
sundays during certain seasons of the year but
uh we've now i think as carter said it was probably
about four years ago and now all of the ministries
and the the opportunity to be involved in community
to contribute to give and receive yeah within
trinity and the the the way in which that our
family has felt so welcomed here there's a fullness
now that if i think four years ago there was
a longing that yeah i don't have that same sense
so yeah a lot of gratitude for sure yeah part
of the trinity community yeah and like getting
to meet new people and being part of Like your
family is sort of part of a bigger family, right?
We've contributed. I've brought the, we've contributed
to the meals, the community meals and cleaning
up. And this, the end of May, Carter and I are
going to serve at the community meal as well.
well you have taekwondo so you'll join us after
Alexis she's saying what about me mom and as
well I'm meeting with Sally today I'll do some
more welcoming of people to give back the way
I felt welcome when I came and yeah and the women's
ministry just different ways that we've had touch
bases that I've really enjoyed and Alpha how
could I forget Alpha Alpha program too it was
incredible yeah yeah so Like, what are some ways,
so mom was just saying, you know, that you guys
have been involved in, like, confining meals,
and I know, Carter, you've done some help on,
like, the media team and stuff like that, too.
So, like, what do you guys like about, you know,
like, volunteering or serving with the church
family? I guess it's just how it kind of brings
us even closer to the community here. Sure. And
how we can give back for, to and for all the
people who have been kind and welcoming to us.
Sure. Yeah. Yeah. That's beautiful. Yeah. What
would you say, Alexis? Like, yeah. Probably the
same thing that Carter said. Also to bring to
know people in the community and to bring us
closer to and meet new people that we can just
know more about. Yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah. yeah
there's like i i love this sense that i'm sort
of getting from you guys that you're like very
people people right you you want to like help
people and serve people and get to know people
and that's that's awesome um yeah are there things
that like you've sort of learned as you've been
doing some of that work like when you were doing
like media stuff did you like learn how to do
something yeah cool um i learned how to switch
camera angles with um like um it was like a soundboard
but it didn't um it didn't use sounds yeah it
just had these buttons during like the songs
we could like go to like the piano the singers
um the drums um guitar bass um and we get like
all different angles we can ask the people actually
recording to zoom in and zoom out But yeah. That's
very cool. Yeah. There was a lot of gratitude
to Alex for welcoming Carter into that. Carter,
what was the, come on, just share with us what
we said at home. No fun allowed. What was the
title we called you when you got that first job?
Come on. Assistant to the assistant? AV manager?
What was it? Something like that. We had a lot
of fun. But Carter really, so Alex, thank you
for that. Yeah. Yeah. And if he's not done, he'll
be back from the red shirt. I want to call him
Little A .V. Okay. Because he was younger doing
the A .V., so I want to call him that. Little
A .V., yeah. That's a good nickname, too. Yeah.
So what do you think about, like, you all get
to come to church together on a Sunday morning?
Like, do you think that there's something special
about that or something that you really like
about that? Yes. yeah so throughout most of the
year um like october through around april um
we don't usually get to come as a family because
um my hockey team operates practices from like
8 30 or 9 30 a .m they're like to 10 30 and then
getting undressed until around 11 yeah right
so we don't get to make it a lot but the odd
time out we do um and like all four of us come
it's just different like i can there's i can
feel there's something different there okay yeah
yeah yeah what were you gonna say alexis probably
just kind of coming here with my family means
a lot to me And just to see them all happy being
here and just learning about Jesus. Yeah, yeah,
yeah. It's that chance where you all get to do
something together, right? And that's really
cool. What would you sort of add to that? Yeah,
so it just warms my heart to hear my kids say
that they can feel it's something different when
the four of us are doing something together.
They both have their own unique activities. My
husband and I have our own things. Carter and
Colin share hockey. But we move in these patterns,
whereas Trinity, then Sunday mornings when we
do come all together, it is this connective space
where we reflect on how we want to be for the
week. And, you know, it gives us a grounding
that we all hear and take in. you know, messages
of contemplation for how we show up and work
through the week ahead. It also gives us topics
of conversation, too, that it's like little stimuli
throughout the week that I appreciate a lot.
Yeah, it definitely has brought our family closer
together, and we value our time with Trinity
here a lot. Yeah, for sure. Okay, so then when
you think about your faith, and we talked about,
you know, like learning about Jesus from being
part of the church family, but are there ways
that you think your family, your parents or your
brother or sister have also helped you to learn
something about Jesus? Yeah, I think when we
first started coming to Trinity, like I didn't
really get it. And I was also really young, so
it was hard. to, like, kind of make me understand.
But I think my mom, in particular, kind of, like,
pushed me in the right way and, like, made the
effort to show me some stuff. And now I can,
like, I've learned a lot. Yeah, for sure. Is
there, like, one certain thing that sort of stands
out to you? Yeah, just I think I wouldn't have
agreed to be here right now if it wasn't for
her showing me, like, the reason to be in this
community i think the way it's so like open and
friendly puts a whole nother thing on dude except
just being in church sure yeah yeah yeah and
then like now hopefully you like at least like
it a little bit yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah so like
maybe at first it was like ah i'm going because
mom says i need to but now maybe you're like
oh actually this is kind of fun now it's more
of a want to relieve and hurry up mom right there
you go flipping the tables there yeah yeah what
about for you alexis like how would you say your
family's helped you learn about jesus For me,
my mom also teaching us that Jesus saves us kind
of and telling us all the stories that she's
had as a little kid growing up with Jesus. Yeah.
Yeah, for sure. So she's able to like, yeah,
you don't just learn about Jesus like in the
stories at kids church. You also get to hear
stories from your mom. Yeah. Yeah, that's really
cool. Yeah. What about for you? How have you?
Well, my faith journey, my kids speak about that.
Yeah, I had a faith journey early in life and
then it really was Camp Trinity and my children's
experience. As I said, they're the greatest teachers
that brought me back to to Jesus and live like
Jesus, love like Jesus and lead others to Jesus
became a way in which I kind of held that within
myself and within my family. And I've also had,
here at Trinity, we've had other extended family
members join us for Alexis' baptism and at other
occasions. And during our grief, I've used the
prayer channel recently. And we've had a family
member who's passed away. We've had some other
circumstances. 2026 has been a tough year for
our family. Sure. And I've noticed I've... put
out for for others in trinity to pray with me
and being in community versus alone during some
of these times has really meant a lot and to
receive the messages back from from people here
yeah to be seen and witnessed and held during
these times has really meant a lot yeah yeah
so a lot of gratitude for for sure that too yeah
yeah i think it's so cool to sort of see all
of you as A family within a family, as I said
before, you know? Yeah. I just want to point
out with a family member passing away, my mom's
been really brave about this, and it's just,
I know it's hard on her right now because it
was her brother who sadly passed. She's been
really good, really brave, and she's been handling
this very well now, and I just want to point
out how. It's good to do it. Yeah, you have a
really good mom. I do. I think I've learned a
lot about. through Jesus, through my faith. And
with my faith, that's been a rock right now for
this time. So yeah, I've learned a lot. Well,
thank you so much, folks. Like I said, it's been
really fun to sort of hear more about you, learn
more about your family, but then also how, yeah,
you're this family within a family. You get to
be part of this whole community of people that
all love and support one another. And we all
grow in Jesus together. So thank you for sharing
with me today. Thank you. And thank you for tuning
in. into this week's episode of Trinity Talks.
Whatever family situation you find yourself in,
whether you are a single person or part of a
large family or a small family, I pray that you
are able to find yourself within the family of
God and find a community where you can also really
be blessed and be a blessing to others. And we
will see you again next week.