6/24 Church Picnic

7/9 Vacation Bible School

Tuesday 5:30pm: Intercessory Prayer Group

Wednesday 11am: Bible Study                     

Wednesday 7pm: Bible Study

Thursday 5:30pm: Contemplative Prayer Group

The annual Parish Picnic is this Sunday at 10am at Lake Park in Orangevale (8693 Country Creek Drive, in the Woodbridge Ranch neighborhood). We’ll provide burgers and hot dogs, and vegetarian options, and ask you to bring a side or dessert to share. You’ll also need to bring a blanket or lawn chair for seating during the service. We’re going to be in a pretty shady part of the park for the service, and we’ll eat in one of the covered pavilions. Members of the vestry will be driving golf carts to transport those who need it from their cars to the picnic site, so if uneven ground and a little distance worries you, don’t let that keep you from coming – we’ll drive you from the park to the altar! Jorim and Fr. Charlie are inviting children and youth (and the young at heart) to bring their water squirters (we’ll have water for them) for the games after eating.

We still need some volunteers to help set up. The sign-up sheet to volunteer is here:  https://www.signupgenius.com/go/10c0c4caaab23a6ff2-church

Our schedule this Sunday is:

7:30am ~ Eucharist in the church

9am ~ Morning Prayer in the church; no sermon, no music, no Eucharist

10am ~ Eucharist in the park, followed by the picnic

11:15am ~ Morning Prayer in the church; no sermon, no music, no Eucharist

7pm ~ Eucharist in the church 

The Children’s Chapel and Nursery will not be open this Sunday, as Jorim and the other staff will be at the picnic.

This Sunday is our youth minister Jorim Rhee’s final Sunday with us here at Trinity Folsom. You’ll have a chance at the Parish Picnic to say goodbye and wish her Godspeed. Jorim is heading to South Korea for the summer, and then will move to Berkeley in the fall to begin teaching at the Hearts Leap School. Jorim came to us four years ago as an intern in the Lutheran Episcopal Volunteer Network, and we liked each other so much we hired her to stay on as our youth minister. She helped to start the Children’s Chapel program, got our youth group started again, and has added so much joy to our common life. Thank you Jorim, for all you have done. We expect you to “come home” and visit, and we anticipate with delight hearing about all you will experience and accomplish in the years to come. 

Thomas Freeberg has changed the calendar on the homepage of our website to one that will be a bit easier for those of us in the office to use, and Barbara has already updated it and filled it with meetings and events. It’s a work in progress, but it should be a more reliable and accessible calendar for you. Thanks Thomas! 

This summer, Trinity is offering a full week of Vacation Bible School free-of-charge! The theme will be "Holy Me, Holy Community" and will be designed to help kids try on different ways of moving closer to God, through interactive storytelling, healthy eating, prayer, games, and messy art experiences! VBS will run from Mon. July 9th thru Fri. July 13th, from 9am to 12:30pm. Though VBS is geared towards grades K-4, all are welcome, and we have volunteer opportunities for older children, youth, and adults. Please mark your calendars and fill out a registration form here:  https://form.jotform.com/81617015484153 (paper forms will also be available in the parish hall). If you would like to volunteer, or simply receive more information, please email Fr. Charlie .

The Prayer Book’s catechism defines intercessory prayer as “bringing before God the needs of others… that God's will may be done,” and if you’ve ever yearned for more intercessory prayer time than the Sunday liturgy can provide, then please consider joining our new intercessory prayer group meeting in the church on Tuesdays at 5:30pm. We had a great turnout for the first meeting this past week. For the first few sessions, we’ll talk about our experiences of intercessory prayer before working out how we would like to structure our time together. If you are looking to expand your prayer life, or simply have some people or things for which you would like to pray, you’re invited to join us! If you have any questions, please contact  Fr. Charlie .

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. 

Printed photo directories are out of date as soon as they are printed, and many people dislike dealing with the companies who take (and sell) the pictures. We’ve moved to InstantChurchDirectory.com ; there’s also a super convenient app for your phone, and you can update your own contact info and photo. If you don’t have a photo, Ab Malmquist, who took pictures for us at Easter, will be back in the fall to take photos for the directory. Signing up for InstantChurchDirectory is easy, but we have to have your e-mail address in the directory for it to work. We’re working on updating our directory so that everyone will be in there. You can find step by step instructions to sign in on your compute r , iPhone or iPad or Android/Kindle by clicking anyone of the links. If you can’t get signed in, call the church office and Barbara will help you. She’ll also be at all the coffee hours on a Sunday soon, and she’ll be at a table to help sign people up.

The Rev’d Seth Kellerman, rector of Emmanuel, Grass Valley, is facilitating a men’s retreat from September 21-23 at the Mercy Center in Auburn. The theme is “Closer than a Brother: A Study of Biblical Friendships,” and the goal is to gather together men from the parishes in the Gold Country/Foothills to support their spirituality and involvement in the Church. If a little prayer and fellowship would be a welcome addition to your fall schedule and you are interested in attending, there are still three spots open. If you have any questions, or would like to attend, please contact Fr. Charlie.

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/

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