Trinity Tidings
June 12, 2020
Prayer List - to submit a prayer request click here.
Altar Flowers - if you would like to dedicate Altar Flowers click here.
Stay at Home, Stay Connected
We worship on Sunday mornings at 9am here.
You can find the Sunday bulletin here.
There’s a coloring sheet for children (or adults!) based on the Sunday lessons that you can print out at home here. If you can’t print at home, e-mail Karen Van Winkle and she will print a few weeks’ worth and mail them to you.
We say Compline on Wednesdays at 8pm here.
You can find the Compline bulletin here.

Zoom meetings require a password to enter, but you should be able to bypass that by clicking on these links. The password for all of our meetings is trinity. 
  • Parents’ Social Hour is meeting on Mondays at 7pm on Zoom here
  • Altar Guild is meeting on Tuesdays at 11am on Zoom and would love for you to join them here
  • Qi Gong, practice of simple movements, meditations, and breathing practices, on Zoom every Tuesday at 5:30pm here
  • Young Adults are meeting on Tuesdays at 8pm on Zoom here
  • Bible Study on Wednesdays at 11am is meeting on Zoom and would love for you to join us here. The meeting actually begins at 10:45am so that there’s time to socialize before the study begins. For next Wednesday, the lesson Matthew 9:35-10:23.
  • Trinity Wednesdays is meeting on Wednesdays at 6pm on Zoom here
  • Thrift Shop Volunteers meet on Zoom on Thursdays at 10am here
  • St. Martha’s Guild meets on Zoom on Fridays at 11am here 
  • And Fr. Todd is hosting a parish-wide Social Hour on Zoom every Friday at 5pm here

The 9am choir, 11:15am choir, and the Children’s Choir Zoom meetings are on summer break, but will begin meeting again in the fall for some non-singing educational and fellowship time.

The parish office is closed. Barbara and Fr. Todd will be in on Sundays and occasional weekdays to take care of mail, finances, and other essential work to keep the parish running. If you need to be in touch with any of us, e-mail us or call us (Fr. Todd’s mobile: 916.367.9281) or call the church office (916.985.2495), which has been rerouted to go to Barbara’s mobile phone. Barbara and Fr. Todd are on e-mail for most of the day, so if you e-mail us (Fr. Todd [ tbruce@trinityfolsom.org]; Barbara [ trinity@trinityfolsom.org]), we will get back to you as soon as we can.
Welcome Erika!
I hope y’all read yesterday’s special announcement about our new assistant rector, the Rev’d Erika Essiem. If you didn’t, check your e-mail inbox or you can read it on our Facebook page or our Instagram account. In the coming weeks, we’ll announce some ways that you can welcome and get to know Erika and help her and her family get settled in Folsom. So stay tuned! ~ Fr. Todd+
Word of the Week
Our word of the week is deacon. Libby Vincent will be ordained to the diaconate this weekend (see below)!
Trinity Wednesdays
Trinity Wednesdays is meeting on Wednesdays at 6pm on Zoom here. Our book is David Brooks’ The Second Mountain: The Quest for a Moral Life. This coming Wednesday, we’ll be discussing chapters nine through thirteen. We’ll be starting a new book in a few weeks, and it is sold out and sort of hard to find right now, so you might want to go ahead and start looking. The book will be Robin DiAngelo’s White Fragility. Amazon and most bookstores are sold out, but it is available on Kindle, and your local library may have an e-copy, and you can also check used book sites – if they don’t have it now, they probably will soon. I’m guessing, too, that the publisher is probably running the presses at full power to print more copies, so keep checking!
Mark Your Calendars ~ Libby Vincent's Ordination
Our own Libby Vincent will be ordained to the transitional diaconate on Saturday, June 13th, at 11am. The ordination will be held at the cathedral in midtown Sacramento, and due to the coronavirus, is closed to the public. It will be broadcast on the diocesan website, and the diocesan Facebook page here, and we are planning on sharing it on our own parish Facebook page, too.
AmazonSmile on Your Phone
For those of you using AmazonSmile to support Trinity Folsom or another non-profit, Smile is now available in the Amazon app on your phone. Open the app, choose settings on the main menu, tap AmazonSmile and follow the instructions on-screen. Thanks for those choosing to support us while they shop – every little bit helps, especially these days!
Building Project Update
We are hoping that work on the new Children’s Building will begin any day now; we’re still waiting on the planning department to sign off on the permit, but our contractor is getting ready, and we have high hopes for a start date very soon. That phase of our project should take about two months. We are hoping, too, that work on the church building and Parish Hall will begin in August. Initially, we planned to do this work in phases so that we would still have use of one of the buildings, but due to the pandemic, it seems unlikely that we will be able to make much use of the buildings this year. Our architects and potential contractors are telling us that we will realize very substantial savings by not phasing the work on these two buildings, so we are changing course and planning on having the work on these two buildings done simultaneously. We will continue to broadcast the Sunday service from the campus – from the church up until construction begins, and then from the chapel in the new Children’s Building, with a possible detour to Trinity House if the timing doesn’t quite line up. If we are able to gather again before the work is completed, which we hope to do in some fashion, we will gather outside or rent space in the area. It’s far from an ideal situation, but it is temporary. And when it is over, we’ll be very happy with the results! ~ Fr. Todd+
Race and Racism in America and in the Church: A Reading List
I haven’t read all of these, but they’ve been recommended to me by people I trust. I’m reading White Fragility right now and have ordered The Color of Law because I’m particularly interested in the history of racist land use policies, especially those instituted by the government – listen to Terry Gross interview the author  here. I have tried to include many different perspectives, but this is not a comprehensive list by any means. Race in America is far more complicated than black and white, and you’ll notice that Latinx and Asian-American voices are notably missing on this list, and though there are some, more conservative voices are also mostly missing from this list; but I think that this is a good place to start for the current moment. You might not agree with something you read here, but I think that’s a good thing; you might be challenged to think about your own perspective and to try on someone else’s, and you might learn something and grow. I hope you will. 

I tried to make a short list, but I’m not very good at that, so I’ve put an asterisk by the titles that are probably good places to start or most accessible to all of us. The New York Times published a much broader anti-racist reading list this week; you can find it here. If you learn best through non-fiction, try Toni Morrison’s The Bluest Eye or Beloved, Zora Neale Hurston’s Their Eyes Were Watching God, James Baldwin’s Another Country, Richard Wright’s Native Son, or Ralph Ellison’s Invisible Man. For children, check out this reading list here. ~ Fr. Todd+

*The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness ~ Michelle Alexander
White Rage: The Unspoken Truth of Our Racial Divide ~ Carol Anderson
*I’m Still Here: Black Dignity in a World Made for Whiteness ~ Austin Channing Brown
Disunity in Christ: Uncovering the Hidden Forces that Keep Us Apart ~ Christena Cleveland
*Between the World and Me ~ Ta-Nehisi Coates
*The Cross and the Lynching Tree ~ James H. Cone
Native: Identity, Belonging, and Rediscovering God ~ Kaitlin Curtice
*White Fragility: Why It’s So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism ~ Robin DiAngelo
Stand Your Ground: Black Bodies and the Justice of God ~ Kelly Brown Douglas
*The Souls of Black Folk ~ W. E. B. DuBois
Killing Rage: Ending Racism ~ bell hooks
Waking Up White: And Finding Myself in the Story of Race ~ Debby Irving
How to Be an Antiracist ~ Ibram X. Kendi
Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America ~ Ibram X. Kendi
Be the Bridge: Pursuing God’s Heart for Racial Reconciliation ~ Latasha Morrison
Proud Shoes: The Story of an American Family ~ Pauli Murray
*Song in a Weary Throat: Memoir of an American Pilgrimage ~ Pauli Murray
Half and Half: Writers on Growing up Biracial and Bicultural ~ edited by Claudine O’Hearn
*So You Want to Talk About Race ~ Ijeoma Oluo
The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America ~ Richard Rothstein
*Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption ~ Bryan Stevenson
Rediscipling the White Church: From Cheap Diversity to True Solidarity ~ David W. Swanson
*Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria?: And Other Conversations About Race ~ Beverly Daniel Tatum
Jesus and the Disinherited ~ Howard Thurman
*White Like Me: Reflections on Race from a Privileged Son ~ Tim Wise

Several of these books are sold out, and some folks don’t like to buy books anyway and prefer to use the library. Libraries often have e-copies you can download, so check your local public library to see what is available!
Music Notes ~ Pass Me Not, O Gentle Savior
This week’s offertory is the well-known hymn “Pass me not, O Gentle Savior.” The composer, William Doane, was a successful businessman in Cincinnati, the president of a machinery company, with more than seventy patents registered in his name. Things changed dramatically for Doane after having a heart attack at the age of thirty, which caused him to reflect on life’s most meaningful endeavors. Doane began writing hymn tunes, leading to a partnership with the blind poet Fanny Crosby; this partnership produced this hymn and many other hymns still popular today, like “Jesus, keep me near the Cross” and “I am thine O Lord.” Doane wrote hymns and hymn tunes for Crosby and others, and ultimately edited more than forty collections of hymns and wrote more than two thousand tunes. Doane’s legacy of ministry was continued through his daughter’s use of his estate to fund missions and education. ~ Brett Judson, Director of Music
Family Camp at Camp Galilee
Beautiful Camp Galilee, the Episcopal camp on the Nevada side of Lake Tahoe, had to cancel its summer programs for children, but they are offering a socially distanced family camp experience on a few weekends (June 26-28, July 3-5, July 17-19, July 24-26, July 31-August 2) this summer. Meals are provided by the camp, and you can spend your time kayaking on the lake, exploring the hiking trails in the area, or just soaking in the beauty on the shore of Lake Tahoe. Lodging for two nights and six meals starts at $150 a person. Spots are filling up quickly, so if you’re interested, call 775.749.5546 or e-mail info@galileetahoe.org for more info, or check out www.galileetahoe.org and register at www.galileetahoe.org/register.
Trinity Episcopal Church
 801 Figueroa Street
Folsom, CA 95630
(916) 985-2495 ~ www.trinityfolsom.org