Trinity Tidings
May 3, 2019
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- Eucharist (7:30am, 9am, 11:15am, 7pm)
- Children's Chapel (9am & 11:15am)
- Sunday School for children and adults August - June (10:30am) see below.
- Nursery 9am-12:30pm
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Wednesday 11am: Bible Study
Wednesday 4:30pm: Children’s Choir Rehearsal
Wednesday 7pm: Bible Study
Wednesday 7pm: 11:15am Choir Rehearsal
Thursday 5:30pm: Contemplative Prayer
Thursday 7:30pm: 9am Choir Rehearsal
Thrift Shop: Monday 10am-Noon, Tuesday-Saturday, 10am-1pm
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Our word of the week from The Episcopal Church glossary is
dismissal. We’ve started singing the dismissal here at Trinity Folsom, even the more elaborate Eastertide one (and y’all are doing great at it!).
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Sunday School classes for children and adults resume this Sunday at 10:30am! The adults class meets in the Parish Hall, and we’ll be continuing our study of the prophet Elijah stories.
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Mark your calendars, the annual Parish Picnic is this Sunday, May 5th, at 1pm. In the past, we’ve combined the picnic with church services, but this year, we’ll have services in the church that morning as usual and then head to the park for a barbecue, potluck, and games. We’ll be in the same park, Lake Park, as we were last year: 8693 Country Creek Dr, Orangevale. We’ll provide burgers, hot dogs, vegetarian options, and the fixings, and we’re asking you to bring side dishes and desserts. We’ll eat at picnic tables at the covered pavilion, but you might want to bring a comfortable lawn chair or blanket to sit out on the grass for games. Even if you didn’t sign-up to come, but suddenly find yourself free on Sunday afternoon, come anyway, we’ll have enough and we’ll be all the merrier for having you with us!
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Have a bunch of plastic Easter eggs left over from Easter? We’ll be happy to have them back, if you got them here, or to take them as donations for next year’s Easter egg hunt. You can drop them off at Trinity House any time, and we’ll also have a box in the Children’s Chapel for returns for the next few weeks.
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Rise Against Hunger Volunteer Opportunity
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We’re well on our way to a successful food-packaging event with Rise Against Hunger next Friday! We’ve purchased supplies for 12,000 meals, but need about 30 more volunteers to help measure out, assemble, and seal them. This is a great way love your neighbor, meet new Trinitarians, and to work hand-in-hand with young and old alike.
To sign up for the event, please visit the following
link. No need to donate, the money for this event is coming out of our outreach budget.
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Mother's Day Diaper and Feminine Hygiene Drive
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Mother’s Day is Sunday, May 12th, and we’ll have our annual diaper and feminine hygiene product drive on that Sunday. Bring in diapers (any size!), tampons, and pads to help mothers and other women in need. In the past, we have divided the donations between Twin Lakes Food Bank and the Folsom Cordova Community Partnership, which includes a registered diaper bank serving many mothers in the Sacramento area. Drop them off at Trinity House any day, or bring them to church with you on May 12th, and we’ll stack them in front of the altar as part of our offering that day.
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We’re starting a new women’s ministry here at Trinity Folsom that will focus on fellowship – the women of the parish getting to know and building relationships with other women in the parish. Save the date for our first event, a Sip & Shop at the Trinity Thrift Shop on Sunday, June 2nd, from 1pm-3pm. All adult women of the parish are invited, and childcare will be provided by our nursery staff.
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The vestry met this week and is pleased to be in somewhat of a seasonal lull as we’ve passed Holy Week and Easter and are heading toward the end of our program year. Thank you to all who squeezed together to make room on Easter morning especially! We continue to look ahead at improving our space, and are moving forward on work with Garavaglia Architecture who helped us draw up our master site plan. We have approved funds which would take our project to the point where we could start to apply to the city of Folsom for permits, since our initial drawings weren't that specific. Over the next few months, we'll be starting to take a look at how much of this project we're really able to tackle at once financially. The vestry has been setting aside money toward improvements that we can use for this initial stage, but please start to prayerfully consider to what extent your family may be able to help contribute so that together we can see our plans realized. ~ Shannon Dillon, Senior Warden
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Looking for some ideas for your summer reading? Here are some of my favorite novels that feature Episcopalians/Church of England folks. ~ Fr. Todd+
- The Towers of Trebizond by Rose Macaulay. “‘Take my camel, dear,’ said my Aunt Dot, as she climbed down from this animal on her return from High Mass” is one of the most famous opening lines in English literature, but many Americans aren’t familiar with this fabulous short novel. The book is a surprisingly profound meditation on love, sex, religion, and what it means to live, as told through the antics of a group of outrageous English tourists in Turkey after World War II. It also includes one of my favorite lines in literature: “I too am high, even extreme, but somewhat lapsed, which is a sound position, as you belong to the best section of the best branch of the Christian Church, but seldom attend its services.”
- More Tales of the City by Armistead Maupin. The second in the Tales of the City series (the first book is here), this book follows Maupin’s wild cast of San Franciscans as they try to figure out what an elite, secretive group of Episcopalians are doing up in the rafters at Grace Cathedral. There are nine books in the series, and PBS and Showtime made three excellent miniseries, starring Laura Linney and Olympia Dukakis, out of the first three books. Netflix is set to release a new miniseries, covering the end of the novel series, on June 7th, with Linney and Dukakis reprising their roles. If you fall in love with the residents of 28 Barbary Lane, you can see the famous steps they ascend to get home just a short drive away from us, on Macondray Lane in San Francisco.
- Father Melancholy’s Daughter by Gail Godwin. In this NYT bestseller, the father of the title is a father in two ways – he’s the father of the main character, Margaret, and he’s also the rector of an Episcopal church in Virginia. Margaret and her father are still learning how to live after her mother, his wife, abandoned them over a decade ago. Godwin is an Episcopalian, and when I was in seminary, I was a summer intern at her parish, St. Gregory’s in Woodstock, New York. And if you’re looking for another book to read, check out what I think is Godwin’s best novel, A Southern Family .
- Looking For It by Michael Thomas Ford. This is a light read, with a steamy page or two (fair warning!) – perfect for a day by the pool with a refreshing beverage. It’s the story of an Episcopal priest in upstate New York who is involved in a car accident with the bartender at the local (and only) gay bar and ends up befriending the diverse characters who gather there looking for identity, community, an opportunity to not feel so alone. It’s a soap opera in book form, a satisfying read and a quick one.
- In The Bleak Midwinter by Julia Spencer-Fleming. This novel is also about an Episcopal priest in upstate New York, but this time, the priest is a woman and it’s a murder mystery, not a romance. It’s the first book in Spencer-Fleming’s mystery series centered on the Rev’d Clare Fergusson, and if you like mysteries and Episcopalians, you should check this series out.
- Some Tame Gazelle by Barbara Pym. This darkly humorous is the story of two spinster sisters in a small English village after World War II and their unrequited love for ineligible men, mostly Church of England priests. Barbara Pym is sort of a depressed Jane Austen who refuses to give her characters happy endings, but don’t let that dissuade you. She’s a marvelous writer, and it’s a crime that she isn’t better known in this country!
- Persuasion by Jane Austen. Maybe you read Pride & Prejudice or saw one of the many movies based on it and have always wanted to read something else by Austen – you should definitely read Persuasion. This is my favorite novel, and one I frequently reread. Persuasion is the story of a woman who missed her chance for love and happiness, having been persuaded to wait for something better that never comes, and now has to persuade herself, and the man who might be her second chance, that things can change. This edition has helpful annotations on the facing page so you will understand the early 19th-century language and context.
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Lost your nametag, never got one, or new to the parish? E-mail
Barbara to get one!
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Vacation Bible School 2019: Who Is My Neighbor?
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The theme for Trinity Folsom’s 2019 VBS is “Who Is My Neighbor?” and will be held July 22-26, from 9am until noon.
Online registration for children entering grades K-5 is available
here
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For the second year in a row, Trinity will be offering a full week of Vacation Bible School free-of-charge. The theme will be “Who is my neighbor?” and the program will help kids understand how to better love God and neighbor by learning about neighbors from all over the globe. Our time together will be filled with interactive storytelling, music, games, and creative art experiences. VBS is geared toward children in grades K-5, and there are lots of volunteer opportunities for adults, teens and older children. We will also have nursery care available for the parents of young children who would like to volunteer to help with VBS.
Sign-ups for adults, teens and older children interested in volunteering for VBS is available here. The volunteer form lists many of the different ways you can support VBS: being a small group leader to shepherd groups of children as they rotate through daily activities, leading or assisting at a station such as crafts or games, bringing snacks, donating supplies, etc. Or let us know you are flexible and we will DEFINITELY find a role for you!
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Each week, Trinity welcomes 6-9 students and three adult mentors from FCUSD’s Active Community Transition Training Program (ACTT), which helps special needs students make the transition from high school to adult living by providing skills and experience they can use to enter the work force. They help lay bark and tend to the grounds, polish brass and wood, vacuum the parish hall and church, disinfect the nursery, and tackle some of the things that our biweekly cleaning crew can’t get to regularly. We are so grateful for the ACTT crew (which happens to include our own Jack Goldsmith!) that we are going to throw them a pizza party on May 14th. If you happen to see a bunch of young folks dressed alike and walking up Wool St. from the train station, please thank them for all the work they do to make Trinity beautiful!
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If you have a request to add to the parish prayer list, e-mail
prayers@trinityfolsom.org. Prayer request will be kept confidential within the intercessory prayer group. If you’re interested in joining this prayer group, e-mail
Fr. Charlie.
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Each Sunday, the flowers behind the altar are given to the glory of God, and in memory of the dead, or in thanksgiving for living loved ones, for answered prayers, or for life events like births, graduations, weddings, and anniversaries. The suggested donation is $50. If you’re wondering what happens to the flowers, they don’t go to waste! After the Sunday evening service, they are divided into smaller bouquets and taken to parishioners, and to non-parishioners in local nursing homes. You can donate altar flowers on the
website.
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Trinity Episcopal Church
801 Figueroa Street
Folsom, CA 95630
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