Trinity Newsletter for August 5, 2021 🙏

August 5, 2021

Sharing Christ's love and grace in a vibrant community whose joyful spirit empowers people to do God's work.

Sunday Service Bulletins

Click the links below to download Sunday's service bulletins:

8:00am service bulletin (Rite I)

10:30am service bulletin (Rite II)

Good News Daily!

Click the link below to download your Good News Daily for the week:

Good News Daily - August 8th, 2021

Welcome, Father Ethan Lowery!

This Sunday, we welcome and celebrate the new ministry of Rev. Ethan Lowery — our Young Adult Missioner — who is also serving St. George's Episcopal and Christ Lutheran parishes.

Father Ethan is a newly ordained Episcopal priest and a recent graduate of Graduate Theological Union in Berkley, California, where he received a Master of Arts in the Sociology of Religion. He also holds a Master of Divinity from Church Divinity School of the Pacific.

Father Ethan will be ministering to college students (especially at Germanna and Mary Washington) and young adults under 40 in our community.

This Sunday, let's make sure to give Father Ethan a great big Trinity welcome!

Good News! Trinity Has A New Music Director!

Mr. Roger Long has accepted a call to be our Music Director and Organist beginning August 1st.

Roger brings a wealth of experience and a passion for the role that music plays in our spiritual development.

We're so excited to have you, Roger!

Honoring Roger Long and The Rev. Ethan Lowery

Following the 10:30am service this Sunday, August 8th, there will be a reception honoring Roger Long and The Rev. Ethan Lowery, our new Missioner.

Worship Updates

All worship services are now indoors.
Masks are now required.
We have flexible seating available. We are reserving the back rows for people who still want to maintain physical distance.

For general inquiries, you can contact Trinity at: 540-373-2996 or parish@trinity-fredericksburg.org.

Summer Feeding Program Successfully Concludes!

Our summer feeding program at Hazel Hill apartment complex has ended as students go back to school next week. We fed anywhere from 20 to 50 children each day with food provided by the Fredericksburg City Schools. We met children, mothers and fathers, and grandparents raising their grandchildren.

We learned that the Hazel Hill community has many Afghan refugees, including people who had helped American troops stationed in Afghanistan. Many of the women still wear traditional dress and some of the families follow halal practices, a set of religious dietary laws. The school cafeteria staff tailored their meals to fit this practice – always there was a veggie alternative to a chicken sandwich, for example. The children are much more fluent in English than the adults.

The apartment community has established an in-house food pantry, has found a source of refurbished bicycles for the children, provides some donated clothing to families, and offers other social services to their clientele.

We hope to remain in contact with and provide support for the community, so stay tuned for opportunities about how we can help these refugees and other low-income residents of our city. The activities director has asked if we can help provide winter coats for the children, so we’ll be telling you more about that later.

Thanks to these volunteers who offered both food and encouragement to the children and families this summer: Carol and Bruce Petit, Tracy Cain, Karen Harrison, Margaret Pullen, BG Erb and her friend Carolyn, Brenda Chase, Leigh Morris, John Henze, Jim Ripley, Joyce Sunday, Kathleen Carroll, and Peg Jacobson.

-Claire Curcio & Selby McCash

Caregivers' Support Group

The Caregivers’ Support Group will meet Thursday, August 12th, from 10:00-11:30am in the Health Ministries Room at Trinity.

Men and women who are caregivers for a disabled or ill adult (or child) are invited to attend the meeting.

For more information, call Randall (540-207-0600), Claire (540-479-6988) or Brenda (540-226-2628).

Brotherhood Outing to FredNats Game, August 29th

The Trinity Chapter, Brotherhood of St. Andrew, invites Trinitarians and their guests to an outing to a FredNats baseball game on Sunday, August 29th.

First pitch is at 6:05PM; however, a buffet of food and some drinks (lemonade, iced tea, and water) will be provided in the 1st base Sky Porch beginning at 5:30PM. For the list of food in the buffet, click here.

Tickets are $30 each for admission, food and drinks.

There are a limited number of tickets available and they will be reserved on a first-come, first-served basis. If you would like to go to the game and/or have any questions, please email Jim Carlock at jimcar2424@gmail.com by Thursday, August 12th. Payment is due to Rich Humphreys no later than August 14th. He will be attending the 8am Trinity Chapter meeting in Barber Hall on August 14th.

See details below:

1. The game is scheduled for Sunday, August 29th. Gates will open at 5pm. We will be in the 1st Base Sky Porch (the 3rd base Sky Porch has been sold out for quite a while).

2. We will have a buffet which will be put out at 5:30pm. The food will be available for 90 minutes after which it will be cleaned up. The drinks will be left out for our use. We may be sharing the porch with another group; if so, we will be separated by some sort of partition.

3. The Nationals will be playing the Carolina Mudcats.

4. Trinity Episcopal Church will be shown on the scoreboard before or during the game.

Have You Thought About Joining EFM?

What happens in EFM? A group of adults read books and meet weekly to consider how God is acting in the world and in our lives.

Do you have questions? Are you curious about the Bible, church history, or theology? Then EFM might be the right fit for you.

A new group is forming on Tuesday nights from 6:00 - 8:30pm.

For more information or to register, please contact Mother Cynthia at cynthia@trinity-fredericksburg.org.

Chicken Bingo

Saturday, August 28th

5-7pm

Join us for a delicious fried chicken dinner and stay for a few rounds of Bingo!

(Yes, there will be prizes!)

Tickets include dinner and one bingo card:

Adults - $7

Children - $5

Family - $20

Extra Bingo cards will be sold during the dinner for $5 each.

Want to come? Please do! Be sure to buy your ticket in advance on Sunday at church so we know how many people to plan for.

Office Hours

The church office is now open Tuesday and Thursday mornings from 9am-11am.

Early Service: Rite I

Every Sunday at 8:00am, the early service will now be Rite I.

Pastoral Emergencies

If you have a pastoral emergency such as an accident, serious illness, hospitalization, or death and need to speak to the clergy immediately, please call 540-623-4802.

For general inquiries, you can contact Trinity at 540-373-2996 or parish@trinity-fredericksburg.org.

Items for the Newsletter

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Thursday, August 5th