Thanksgiving Day Service

November 14, 2024

Thanksgiving Mass with Brass

Thursday, November 28 at 10:30 am

This year’s annual Thanksgiving Eucharist at Trinity Episcopal Cathedral will feature a brass sextet and timpani playing festive arrangements of Boyle’s Thou O God art praised in Sion, the Gloria from Kodaly’s Missa Brevis, Karg-Elert’s Nun danket alle Gott, and popular Thanksgiving hymns. Music will also include Bach’s Nun danket alle Gott, BWV 657 and Maurice Greene’s Thou visitest the earth, featuring Trinity’s Taylor and Boody continuo organ.

Our preacher, Kevin Pranoto, is the Associate Pastor of Social Work at Second Baptist Church in Downtown Little Rock. As both a licensed social worker and ordained minister, he blends pastoral ministry and social work practice to help the church’s vulnerable neighbors. In 2024, Kevin led the planning and launch of Second Place Pantry, a new client-choice food pantry serving the Downtown community. Prior to moving to Arkansas in 2022, Kevin served as the Executive Director of Mission Oak Cliff in Dallas, TX, and has worked for the global denominational office of the Cooperative Baptist Fellowship.

Kevin earned his Master of Divinity and Master of Social Work degrees from Baylor University where he concentrated his studies in “Church Social Work: Women and the Church” and is currently enrolled in the Doctor of Ministry program at Boston University where he is researching the intersection of Christian theology and social work practice. He is an adjunct lecturer for the Garland School of Social Work at Baylor University and also serves as the chair of their Board of Advocates. Other boards Kevin serves on include Baptist News Global, Central Seminary, and the Clergy Sexual Misconduct Task Force for the Cooperative Baptist Fellowship. Kevin is married to his husband, Chris Carson, and they have three dogs together.