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Know Your Neighbor Potluck and Canned Food Sculpture Contest!
Sunday, Oct.22nd from 1:30-3:30 at Emmanuel Episcopal Church. Please bring a dish to share (no pork please) and canned food donations for the food sculpture contest. We will gather for food, fellowship, and a fun sculpture contest! Candy prizes awarded! If you can't make it to the event, you can still donate canned goods for the sculptures! Look for a box located on the main level of the Parish House. All food donations will be given to local food pantries afterwards. Know Your Neighbor is a gathering of congregants from Allen Chapel AME Church, Temple House of Israel, Emmanuel Episcopal Church, Islamic Center of the Shenandoah Valley, and Trinity Episcopal Church.
Our Nursery caregivers,
Gloria and Bettijo, have been enjoying the new surroundings in the Nursery. These ladies on our staff have been with us, caring for our children, for over 20 yrs. Did you know we offer nursery care for children during our Evensong concerts? (Let Bettijo know by Sunday morning if you would like your children to enjoy pizza with them – they offer that at a contribution of $1/slice – for those that like to have a snack at this time of day, during the Evensong service. They are gracious to offer this to our busy young families.
Baptismal Banners near Extinction!
Our Baptismal Banners are handmade for each child being brought into our community of faith. The banner is a lovely addition to the ceremony, as well as a reminder of this precious moment that the family takes home. So, the banners require someone to make them and that current someone is planning to move to South Carolina. If we want to continue presenting the baptismal banners, we need one person to sew and one person to cut the felt decorations and letters. OR, maybe someone would like to design a brand new banner. If you are interested, please call Carrie Tucker at
540.230.0787
, or email
ctucker59@gmail.com
The Staunton Branch of the NAACP
annual Freedom Fund Banquet is scheduled for 4pm on Saturday, October 14, 2017 at Covenant Presbyterian Church. If you would like to purchase a ticket, $40 per person, please contact Diane Kent at dianeknt3@gmail.com.
What Keeps You Up At Night (WKYUAN),
the Adult Sunday School class, will meet in McCracken Hall Sunday’s at 10:00am. Grab a cup of coffee in the Foster Room and join us for heartfelt conversation. Our question will be “What do you see is a personal and/or Church (meaning Trinity) response to how a free nation deals with diversity.”Guidelines will be created by the group so that all will feel welcome to join in and participate in the discussion. No one will be allowed to advocate bringing others to see their way. No one will feel pressured to give up the ground he or she stands on. Joe Fiechtl and Gospel du Jour will join this class to show the parallels between our life today and life in the Bible. Schedule to be announced. Jim Manchester, Virginia Gillock, and/or Muffie Newell will facilitate the class. For questions or concerns please contact Muffie Newell 886-9132 or formation@trinitystaunton.org.
Farming in the Valley Family Fun Event:
The festival is from 11am to 6pm on Sunday, October 1, 2017 at Creative Works Farm in Waynesboro. Agriculture is part of our blood in the Greater Augusta region and we want kids to learn what exactly that means for our region. The festival hosts great activities like a petting zoo, sheep herding demonstrations, apple butter churning, a corn maze, reading time with Cubby the WVPT Bear, and a pedal pull. It also will give you access to local produce, products, and local food vendors!
Click here
to download a free child’s ticket as well as a coloring sheet. Your child(ren) may enter pre-colored copies of this sheet into a contest at the festival. You may print as many tickets/coloring pages as you need.
Greater August Prevention Partners
will be sponsoring Suicide Alertness and Suicide Intervention Skills Trainings in September. If you are interested in more information please see the bulletin board in the parish office hallway or contact the office at 886-9132 or
communications@trinitystaunton.org
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Benefit for New Directions Center
- “Living Behind the Mask” Gala will be on Saturday, September 30 with open bar and hor d'oeuvres at 6pm and dinner at 7pm. There will be a silent auction and music and dancing with “Everyday People.” Formal attire. Located at The Stonewall Jackson Hotel 24 S. Market Street, Staunton. Tickets $75. Reserve a table for 8 for $550. 540-885-7273.
Chic Street Man Benefit Concert for Haiti
by the Virginia Haiti Collaborative (of which Trinity is a partner) will be held on Saturday, October 7 at 7:30pm in the Francis Auditorium of Mary Baldwin University. Ticket prices: Student $15 and General Admission $20.
Join us for an evening of wit and soul with Chic Street Man who performed with Heifetz. From his website: "His songs explore a love for people, music and the planet and allow audiences to laugh, think, and feel good inside."
http://chicstreetman.com/
Concert tickets will be available at the door, unless the event is sold out. There is also a benefit dinner, a pig BBQ (with Haitian rice and lots of non-meat sides), at Emmanuel Episcopal Church at 5:00 p.m. before the concert. It is dinner for donations, no tickets required. 300 West Frederick St, Staunton, VA, call 540-886-8172 for more info.
“Taking an Outside Perspective
– Coping with the Changes Dementia Brings”
Sharon DeBoever will present an Alzheimer’s caregiving program on October 3, at Grace Lutheran Church, Fellowship Hall on the lower level, 6:30 p.m. (500 S. Wayne Ave., Waynesboro). This is a program that will focus on the changes that occur in the various stages of Alzheimer’s and some of the other dementias. The program will offer specific tips to the caregiver on how to assist themselves and the person with the diagnosis to better manage those changes throughout the disease process.
The program will also focus on value of the caregiver caring for himself/herself throughout this process. Resources for additional outside assistance will be provided.
This program is free of charge and open to the public. RSVPs will be helpful but not required in order to accommodate seating and planning for “light” refreshments. RSVP to MHAA office, voicemail or email, 540.886.7181 or mhaa@ntelos.net.
Program Presenter: Sharon DeBoever,
BS., Masters in Educational Psychology, Community Educator, Alzheimer’s Association
Pursuing the Beloved Community
The Episcopal Diocese of Southwestern Virginia, in partnership with other faith communities and community organizations, is convening three community conversations across Southwestern Virginia entitled
Pursuing the Beloved Community: A Continuing Conversation on Race.
Each event will feature a presentation by Dr. Wornie Reed, Director of the Race and Social Policy Research Center and Professor of Sociology and Africana Studies at Virginia Tech. Following Dr. Reed's presentation, there will be question and answer time as well as informal discussion.
Save the date:
Roanoke, VA | October 25, 2017 | 6:00-7:30pm
Northwest Community Center
Wytheville, VA | November 8, 2017 | 6:00-7:30pm
Room TBA, Wytheville Community College
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September 24 Bulletin Announcements
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Today is SACRA (Staunton Augusta Church Relief Agency) Sunday:
To donate, please use envelopes in your pew or write a check with SACRA on the memo line. SACRA is a completely volunteer-operated agency which pools the outreach and relief funding of local churches to provide help to those in need within the local community.
Food for Allen Chapel’s Pantry:
Canned meats, such as chicken and roast beef, will be collected to distribute through the Allen Chapel food pantry program TODAY September 24.
Trinity Coffee Hour:
Join us for Coffee Hour in the Foster Room from 10 to 10:50am.
What Keeps You Up At Night (WKYUAN),
the Adult Sunday School class, will meet in McCracken Hall this Sunday at 10:00am. Grab a cup of coffee in the Foster Room and join us for heartfelt conversation. Topics will range from what it means to be a Christian living in a world with racism, responding to negative politics, to finding your personal talents within Trinity, religion verses-and-with spirituality, and how Trinity Church can provide comfort in a time of chaos. Joe Fiechtl/Gospel du Jour will join this class to show the parallels between our life today and life in the Bible. Schedule to be announced.
TODAY at 5:00 - Sundays at 5 Organ Concert
: Love the organ? David Jernigan, organist at Christ Church, Raleigh, NC, will perform works by Bach, Planyavsky, and Cooman on our beautiful Taylor and Boody pipe organ. Donations are graciously accepted and a nursery is available for young children.
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Blessing of the Animals:
Please gather in the Trinity churchyard on Sunday, Oct. 1 at 10am with your animal friends for the blessing of the animals. There will be no Sunday School that day.
A Bereavement Support Group
is forming at Trinity this fall. It is open to anyone experiencing the death and loss of a loved one. We will be using the book, " Understanding Grief: Helping Yourself Heal" by Alan Wolfelt. We will meet once weekly in the evening (time to be determined) for 8 weeks. Please contact Sally Mueller at 290-4832 for more information and to sign up. Leave a message if no answer. The purpose of the group is to share our experiences and support one another. It is very relaxed and informal.
Novel Theology
will meet next on September 26 at 7:00pm in the Foster Room of the Parish House to discuss
Say Nothing
by Brad Parks. Everyone and anyone is invited to attend provided you have read the book! On October 24 we will discuss
Here I Am: A Nove
l by Jonathan Safran Foer.
Upcoming Guest Priest Schedule
October 1:
The Rev. Dr. John Lane
October 8:
The Rev. Canon Mark Furlow, Stewardship Sunday
October 15:
The Rev. Roger Bowen
October 22:
The Rev. Dr. John Lane presiding, The Rev. Anne Grizzle preaching
Chic Street Man Concert to Benefit Haiti
As we all know, Trinity Church and The Virginia Haiti Collaborative have joined together and inspired 6 local Episcopal churches and Stuart Hall School to partner with a small, rural, Episcopal school - St. Marc's in Cerca la Source, Haiti. The relationship has been transformational on both sides of this nine year friendship; and many visits have deepened the bonds of mutual affection. The little school brings literacy and hope to the village. It brings hope and joy to us too.
Haitian families' income is weather-dependent in an agrarian culture. Hurricanes are devastating for Haiti, wiping out all their crops. And so, school fees [less than $50/year] and teachers' salaries [less than $70/month] disappear and need some additional revenue to be sustainable. The folks in Cerca la Source want to build a little bakery to remedy those awful fluctuations in their lives; and we want to help them with that creative idea.
To that end, a fabulously-talented blues musician - Chic Street Man - has agreed to come all the way from Seattle to offer a benefit concert for this project. Some of us have witnessed his performances, and he absolutely lights up the room.
The entire Trinity family
is invited to this one, special evening:
Chic Street Man Concert at Mary Baldwin University's Francis Auditorium, 7:30 P.M. Saturday, August 7. Concert tickets here:
http://bit.ly/chic4haiti
Attendees may also enjoy a [donations only] North Carolina Pig Roast and Haitian dinner, 5:00 P.M. at our sister parish, Emmanuel Episcopal Church
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7:45 am Service
PRESIDER & PREACHER:
The Rev. Roger Bowen
ALTAR CHAIR
: Susanna Larner
EUCHARISTIC MINISTERS:
Katie Cathey, Carrie Tucker
LECTOR:
Sally Mueller
USHER:
Ruth Ward
GREETER:
Sally Mueller
8:45 am Service
PRESIDER & PREACHER:
The Rev. Roger Bowen
8:45 ALTAR CHAIR
: Janice Sultenfuss
EUCHARISTIC MINISTERS:
Will Smoot, Jane Walsh
LECTOR:
Lolo Kable
PRAYERS:
Mary Schwaner
USHERS:
Darlene Green & Julian Hickman
GREETER:
Caroline Sheridan
MUSICIANS:
Steve Carpenter, Cindy Hickman, Oakley Pearson, and Bill Wellington
11:00 am Service
PRESIDER & PREACHER:
The Rev. Roger Bowen
ALTAR CHAIR
: Susanna Larner
EUCHARISTIC MINISTERS:
Frank Babcock, Lilchy Huffman
CRUCIFER:
Hannah Fiechtl
CHOIR CROSS:
Melina Fiechtl
TORCH BEARERS:
Isabelle Fiechtl, Janie Malone
LECTOR:
James Dungan
PRAYERS:
Joe Fiechtl
USHERS:
Rick Cason, Nan Gregory
GREETER:
Thurston & Marcy Robinson
ORGANIST & CHOIRMASTER:
Virginia Bolena
ASSISTANT ORGANIST:
Louise Temple-Rosebrook
5:00 pm Organ Concert
USHERS:
Rick Chittum, Lilchy Huffman
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