Trinity Tidings
May 18, 2018
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- Eucharist (7:30am, 9am, 11:15am, 7pm)
- Children's Chapel (9am & 11:15am)
- Sunday School for children and adults (10:30am)
- Nursery 9am-12:30pm
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5/19
Royal Wedding Watch Party at 4:00 pm in parish hall
6/2
Youth Overnight
6/24
Church Picnic
7/9
Vacation Bible School
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Pentecost/Whitsunday Dress Code
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Just kidding, we don’t have a dress code, but there is a tradition in the Church of wearing either red or white on this Sunday, the Day of Pentecost, or as it is known in England, Whitsunday. The name Pentecost comes from the Greek word meaning fiftieth, because it is fifty days after Easter; it marks the coming of the Holy Spirit on the disciples in Jerusalem, an event that is often considered the founding of the Church. The liturgical color for events associated with the Holy Spirit is red, and the altar will be decked out in the reds, and parishioners often wear red, or something red, too. In England, Pentecost was known as Whitsunday, White Sunday; no one really knows why, only that there was a tradition of wearing white on that day, and in English churches, white vestments were used instead of red. So this Sunday, wear white or red, and together we’ll look like a giant peppermint and it will be wonderful. You’ll also notice a few liturgical changes; the opening words of the liturgy change, and the alleluias that accompany that opening acclamation and the dismissal at the end of the liturgy disappear, as the Prayer Book reserves them for the Easter season and instructs us to not use them the rest of the year.
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Sunday School for Children and Adults
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Sunday School classes for children and for adults meet at 10:30am. This Sunday, in honor of Saturday’s royal wedding, at which the Presiding Bishop of The Episcopal Church will be preaching, the Sunday School for Adults will have a special lesson on the sacrament of marriage. We’ll be finishing up the Moses cycle of stories before the program year ends on May 27
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!
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Royal Wedding Watch Party
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On Saturday, May 19
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, HRH Prince Henry of Wales will wed Miss Meghan Markle in St. George’s Chapel, Windsor Castle, and the whole world will be tuning in to see the beautiful Prayer Book liturgy in action and the Presiding Bishop of The Episcopal Church, the Rt. Rev’d Michael B. Curry, preach the sermon. If you’re not keen on waking early to watch the proceedings at 5am, Trinity Folsom is hosting a royal wedding watch party at 4pm (tea time) in the Parish Hall. If you would like to bring a light snack to share, your contribution to the festivities would be most welcome. Fr. Charlie will be making a few pots of tea, and we have plenty of china to make sure everyone gets a proper cup. Huzzah!
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Wednesday Bible Studies Cancelled This Week
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The Wednesday Bible studies, morning and evening, are cancelled this coming week (May 23
rd
). The clergy will be at the mandatory diocesan clergy conference in Healdsburg, and trust that you will all read your Bibles at home while they are away. If you’ve never been to Bible study, join us the next week! We study the lessons for the upcoming Sunday. You don’t need to do anything to prepare, you don’t even have to bring a Bible with you – we have plenty to share! Bible studies meet in the Parish Hall on Wednesdays at 11am and 7pm, come to whichever best suits your schedule.
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Several years ago, we created a new line item in our annual operating budget for outreach, to reflect that we believe it is central to our Christian faith and practice, and our budget should reflect our priorities. Since we started it, we have used this money primarily to make grants to other organizations whose work we support – Twin Lakes Food Bank, Powerhouse Ministries, WIND Youth Services for homeless teenagers, the Mustard Seed School for homeless children, HART of Folsom and several others. We also created an Outreach Committee to oversee our outreach activities, propose and nurture new ones, and make recommendations to the vestry about how we spend the outreach line item; chaired by Father Charlie, the Outreach Committee members, appointed by the vestry, are Susan Bentley, Janice Freeberg, Deborah Goldsmith, and Sue Mack. One of the new projects recommended by the Outreach Committee and funded by the outreach line item in the operating budget happened this past Friday. We partnered with Rise Against Hunger to pack 10,000 balanced nutritious meals for hungry children around the world, and the parish’s operating budget covered the costs so that everyone could participate. We had an amazing turnout – 65 Trinitarians and friends, including a lot of kids and youth, volunteered. There are more pictures from the event on our Facebook page, so check them out. The Outreach Committee will continue to support our longtime partners in ministry, and to seek out new ways to serve those in need, all made possible by your pledges to the annual parish budget. You can check out news from the Outreach Committee and spotlights on the organizations we support on the bulletin boards by the kitchen in the Parish Hall.
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Over the next few weeks, we’ll be introducing a new program to help schedule parishioners serving in worship as lectors, acolytes, chalices, ushers, and more. Once you get the hang of it, it should be super easy for you to change your schedule, sign up for more opportunities, and find substitutes, and it will send you a reminder a few days before you are scheduled to serve. Our parish administrator Barbara is working on setting it up and training folks on how to use it. Just a heads up that it’s coming!
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Our youth minister Jorim will be leaving us on June 24th, and as part of her leave-taking, she’s scheduling a youth overnight at Trinity Folsom on Saturday, June 2
nd
, to Sunday, June 3
rd
. It starts at 5:30pm on Saturday, and we’ll have dinner, games, snacks, movies, and breakfast on Sunday morning, and then kids can be picked up after the 9am service. All youth in 6
th
-12
th
grades are invited to attend. To find out what all you need to bring, and to RSVP, e-mail
Jorim.
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The annual Parish Picnic is scheduled for 10am on Sunday, June 24
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, at Lake Park in Orangevale. We’ll have Eucharist and then a barbecue; burgers (including veggie burgers) and dogs will be provided, and we ask you to bring side dishes and desserts to share. We’ll have games for the young ones and young at heart, and we are working on getting a golf cart to help transport those for whom the walk from the parking to the picnic site is difficult. We’re looking for volunteers to help clean and prepare the site the day before (Saturday June 23
rd
) and to setup and staff the grills and food tables during the picnic. Mark your calendars, and we’ll have more info about volunteer opportunities soon. The schedule that Sunday is Eucharist at 7:30am in the church, Eucharist at 10am in the park, Morning Prayer at 9am and 11:15am in the church for those who don’t wish to picnic, and Eucharist at 7pm in the church.
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As you begin to plan out your summer, don’t forget Vacation Bible School! This summer we’re going to have one full week of programming, July 9-13. 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! Though VBS is geared towards grades K-3
rd
, all are welcome, and we have volunteer opportunities for adults, older children, and youth. Mark your calendars, stay tuned, and please email
Fr. Charlie
for more info/to volunteer/to RSVP.
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Mother's Day Diaper Drive
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This year our annual Mother’s Day Diaper Drive also collected feminine hygiene products for women in need. We collected 9457 diapers, 1212 baby wipes, 2864 tampons, 970 pads/liners, a baby blanket, and a bottle of soap! Everything we collected went out this week to Twin Lakes Food Bank and to the Folsom Cordova Community Partnership. It was a beautiful thing to see parishioners walking up and leaving their gifts at the altar on Sunday morning, especially the two little kids at the 11:15am service who ran up the aisle dragging a box of diapers, trying to get it to the altar before the choir finished the introit and the procession started. A thousand thanks to everyone who participated and honored the mothers in their lives by helping mothers and other women in need in our community.
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Children's Choir on Summer Break
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Our Children’s Choir is on summer break, so no more rehearsals until August. Our other choirs will be extending their seasons past the normal date when our summer break begins (the end of the program year, Trinity Sunday – May 27
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this year), and will be singing right up until the day Walter leaves, June 17
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.
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If your child is graduating from high school or college, we would love to hear about it, and what they are doing next. E-mail
Father Todd
.
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Gardeners Needed at Twin Lakes Food Bank
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Our partners over at Twin Lakes Food Bank run a community garden with 48 raised beds and several fruit trees, providing fresh and healthy fruits and vegetables to those in need. On June 9
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from 9am until noon, TLFB will be doing some maintenance work on the community garden – planting, harvesting, weeding, repairing raised beds and deer netting – and need our help. Invite a fellow parishioner to work with you and sign up
here
and if you have any questions, talk to
Fr. Charlie
.
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This summer, at least five of our kids are already signed up for Camp Galilee, two youth will serve as counselors at Camp Galilee, and one of our youth is going on the Pathways summer pilgrimage. Camp Galilee is on the eastern shore of Lake Tahoe, owned and operated by the Episcopal Diocese of Nevada. There are also two Episcopal camps in Sonoma County, owned and operated by the Episcopal Diocese of California: Bishop’s Ranch in Healdsburg, and St. Dorothy’s Rest in Camp Meeker, between Occidental and Monte Rio. The Pathways summer pilgrimage program for older youth is operated by our own Diocese of Northern California. If you’re interested in any of these opportunities, talk to the clergy or Jorim, our youth minister. Since our diocese doesn’t operate a summer camp facility, the diocese offers $200 scholarships for children and youth to attend any of the camps and programs mentioned above; the parish can provide additional scholarship funds if needed.
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Confirmation: Sunday, September 16th
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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 16
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. 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
Father Todd
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Sunday School for Children & Adults
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Our Sunday School classes for children and for adults are from 10:30-11:10 on Sunday mornings. If you have little ones who aren’t old enough for Sunday School yet, the nursery is open during this time so that you can attend classes.
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Children’s Choir is on summer break; no rehearsals until August!
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The 11:15am choir practices on Wednesdays beginning at 7pm; the 9am choir practices on Thursdays beginning at 7:30pm. Both practices are held in the church.
E-mail
Walter
for more info.
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Please join us in the Parish Hall on Wednesdays from 11am-noon for our weekly Bible study, during which we sample some teas from my collection and study the Scripture lessons for the coming Sunday. All are welcome! There’s no homework, and you’ll have some good background information on the text when you hear the Sunday sermon. ~ Charlie+
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Wednesday Night Bible Study
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If you can't make it for Tea and Talk, please join us in the Parish Hall on Wednesday nights from 7pm-8pm for Bible study. All levels of Biblical literacy are welcome and no preparation is necessary! ~ Charlie+
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Contemplative Prayer Group
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Thursdays in the church from 5:30pm-6:30pm. This group begins with 5-10 minutes of discussion and education, followed by silence and contemplative prayer practice. ~ 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, Folsom, 801 Figueroa Street, Folsom, CA 95630
(916) 985-2495 ~
www.trinityfolsom.org
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