Trinity Tidings
 July 6, 2018 
Sundays at Trinity
  • Eucharist (7:30am, 9am, 11:15am, 7pm)
  • Children's Chapel (9am & 11:15am)
  • Sunday School for children and adults mid August - mid June (10:30am)
  • Nursery 9am-12:30pm 
Coming Up
On Going Events
Tuesday 5:30pm: Intercessory Prayer Group
Wednesday 7pm: Bible Study
Thursday 5:30pm: Contemplative Prayer Group  
Welcome Karen!
Our new Director of Children’s Ministries, Karen Van Winkle, starts this Sunday. Welcome to Trinity Folsom, Karen!
No Wednesday Morning Bible Study This Week!
The Wednesday morning Bible Study for July 11 th is cancelled, as Vacation Bible School will be in full swing. Come to the Wednesday evening Bible Study instead, and the Wednesday morning group will be back the next week.
What So Proudly We Hailed
In case you haven’t heard this little bit of trivia before or have forgotten, the author of our national anthem, Francis Scott Key, was also one of the founders of Father Todd’s alma mater, Virginia Theological Seminary, or as he likes to say, “the good one.” Many Anglican clergy were Loyalists and so left the United States during or immediately after the Revolutionary War. To raise up and train new clergy, a group of devout Episcopalians, including Key, founded the “Society for the Education of Pious Young Men for the Ministry of the Protestant Episcopal Church in Maryland and Virginia” in 1818, leading to the opening of the seminary in Alexandria, Virginia, in 1823. Hail, Holy Hill!
Strings, Swing, and Pasta!
On Thursday, July 19 th from 6-8pm, Trinitarian Emma Harvey and several Folsom youth are putting on a fundraiser in the Parish Hall to raise money for their upcoming service project in Spokane. You are invited to join them for live jazz and classical music, dinner, and a raffle/silent auction. Food and entertainment will be provided by Emma and her friends Erin, Joel, and Dayne. Tickets are $15 at the door, but can also be purchased from Eventbrite for $12: https://tinyurl.com/ssp-071918.
Keep Our Chins Up
Parishioner Alana Chin (whose husband Steve and three young children were baptized at the 11:15am service this spring) was diagnosed with breast cancer in 2016, and despite surgery and treatment, her diagnosis was recently changed to Stage IV metastatic breast cancer. Alana has been selected as July’s honoree for Folsom’s Helping One Woman group. There will be a fundraising dinner at Mexquite on Tuesday, July 31, at 6pm, and several of the women in our young women’s group are planning on attending. Proceeds will help Alana and her family pay for treatment and other needs in the coming months. For more information on the dinner and to RSVP, how to help, and the Helping One Woman group, check out the Facebook page for the event here: https://www.facebook.com/events/454875144957497/  
Children's Chapel and Nursery Open All Summer
Sunday School is on summer break, but the Children’s Chapel (at 9am and 11:15am) and the Nursery are open all summer long. Our new Director of Children’s Ministries, Karen Van Winkle, will lead Children’s Chapel beginning this Sunday. Though some churches call their Sunday School program “Children’s Chapel,” our Children’s Chapel is different; our Children’s Chapel is worship (prayers, stories, and songs) suited to children ages 3-8, and then they join the rest of us for Communion. 
Music from Walter's Last Sunday.
A link to the service music from Walter's last Sunday with us is available on YouTube. Please click here.
Try Another Service This Summer!
Summer is a great time to mix up your schedule a little; one Sunday, go to a service you don’t normally attend! The 7:30am is intimate and a little shorter than our other services. The 9am is very full and energetic. The 11:15 is a bit more traditional and chanted, but not stuffy, and we’ve recently extended our Children’s Chapel and Nursery to be open during this service, and more families with children are beginning to attend it; if the 9am is beginning to feel a little full for you, you might sleep in a little on Sundays and give the 11:15am a try. The hymns and sermon at all three morning services are usually the same. And if you are busy on Sunday mornings, the 7pm service, with one simple hymn, and silent meditation in place of a sermon, is a reflective and restorative way to end your weekend and prepare for the week to come.   
Donating Altar Flowers
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: https://www.trinityfolsom.org/on-line-flower-dedication/
Confirmation: Sunday, September 16th
The Right Reverend Barry Beisner, the bishop of the Diocese of Northern California, is scheduled to make his final official visitation to Trinity Folsom (he’s retiring in 2019) on Sunday, September 16th. We will be offering the sacrament of Confirmation and receiving people into The Episcopal Church at the morning services. While we usually have a large group of youth to be confirmed, in recent years, we’ve also had a significant group of adults. If you were baptized as an infant or child, but never confirmed, it’s never too late! For those who were confirmed as Roman Catholics, Lutherans, or in the Orthodox churches, we don’t re-confirm you, but you can be officially received into The Episcopal Church with the confirmands. If you’re interested in Confirmation or reception, e-mail Fr. Todd.
Trinity Episcopal Church, Folsom
801 Figueroa Street
Folsom, CA 95630
(916) 985-2495 ~ www.trinityfolsom.org