Trinity Episcopal Church - eMessenger
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Reverend Susan Kennard representing the Diocese of Texas!
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Upcoming Calendar Events
The Trinity choir has taken a well-deserved vacation during July.
We invite you to join our choristers. Rehearsals resume August 9.
We are honored to have Mr. Stephen Roddy,
Director of the Houston children's chorus, as interim organist.
The Houston Children’s Chorus will perform at Trinity Episcopal Church on July 29.
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7/15 - 5:30 pm - Rite II Holy Eucharist - Come As You Are - Sanctuary
7/18 - 10:00 am - DOK Blanket Project - Kelso Library
7/28 - 7:15 p.m. - An Acoustic Evening with Matisyahu (benefit B'nai Israel)
7/29 - 10:30 a.m. - Houston Children's Chorus - Sanctuary
Coffee and refreshments now available in downstairs Eaton Hall following morning services!
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REACH YOUTH MISSION TRIP
JULY 22 THROUGH JULY 28TH
PEARLAND, TEXAS
On July 22 through July 28, eleven of our youth and three adults will travel to Pearland to join with the REACH group to be a part of the rebuilding after the Harvey disaster. During their time there they will be primarily focused on replacing dry wall and flooring to help get families back in their homes. The group will need the following tools:
●Masks ●Utility knives ●Putty knives ●Sanding blocks/sanders
●Safety glasses ●Mud pans ●Tape measures ●Staple guns
●Keyhole saws ●T-squares ●Work gloves
If you can help provide any of the items or lend any of the items to our youth group, please let us know. There will be a sign-up sheet in Eaton Hall and a plastic tub to place the items in. Please put your name on the tools you are lending. Trinity will also accept a donation to help purchase needed items. If donating, make the check to Trinity with REACH Mission Trip on the memo line. We thank you for your support!
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A Benefit Concert for Congregation B’nai Israel
At The Grand 1894 Opera House, 2020 Postoffice
Saturday, July 28, 2018 at 7:00 p.m.
With Billboard Top 40 hits like “King Without a Crown” and “One Day,” Matisyahu beautifully blends the contemporary rhythms of reggae and hip-hop with the more traditional disciplines of jazz’s scat singing and Judaism’s chazzanut (prayer chanting). Regardless of your generation or faith heritage, this boundary-breaking acoustic evening with Matisyahu is sure to warm the heart and touch the soul.
This concert is presented by Congregation B’nai Israel in Galveston, honoring their 150
th
Anniversary. CBI has been an active partner in the wider community, ensuring the light of Galveston burns ever bright for all whom come to her shores. The proceeds from this concert will help in strengthening their efforts for the greater good in our community.
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BIRTHDAY CELEBRATIONS
July 15 - Lee Jaworski
July 16 - Bill Stein
July 17 - Julie McKee
July 17 - Caroline Neblett
July 18 - Paul Selman
July 20 - Jim Atchley
July 20 - Rev. John Donovan
July 20 - Joan McLeod
July 21 - Dulce Heller
July 21 - Elizabeth Pennington
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WATER SAFETY GEAR MISSION
Caroline Neblett, one of our local Girl Scouts in Troop 26045, is working on a scout project to create a place where families can easily borrow water safety gear, such as life jackets, for a safe day in the water. Caroline is asking for contributions of either used life jackets, or a monetary donation to help purchase new ones for the project. Checks can be sent to the Church office with Girl Scout Troop 26045 Project on the memo line. Thank you for helping to keep our community beaches and pools safe.
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9:00-10:15 a.m. in Eaton Hall (downstairs)
THE COLLECTS OF THE CHURCH YEAR
Our Adult Formation series –
The Collects of the Church Year
-- continues this Sunday We will delve into the meaning of “collects” in general and look at each Collect contemporaneous with the Sunday on which it is appointed. Please join us each Sunday morning at 9:30 a.m. in Eaton Hall for discussion (over coffee and doughnuts.
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Our nursery is staffed EVERY Sunday
from 8 am - noon
for newborns through age 3.
Children, ages 4 through 5
th
grade
, are invited to attend
Godly Play
Sunday School in the chapel on the cloister and will be returned to their parents in the Church at the Peace.
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Can't make the Sunday morning celebration?
We have a 5:30 pm Holy Eucharist every Sunday!
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GOSPELS & SERMONS
Missed church on Sunday? Want to listen again to a past Gospel or Sermon?
Now you can! When available, we'll try to post links to Sound Cloud of each week's
Gospel and Sermon. (taped during 10:30 am service each week)
Click Here
for Gospel and Sermon from July 1, 2018
Click Here
for Gospel and Sermon from June 17, 2018
Click Here
for Gospel and Sermon from June 10, 2018
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The Reverend
Susan Kennard
Rector
Trinity Episcopal Church
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The Reverend Edward Thompson
Associate Rector - Trinity Episcopal Church
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The Reverend Douglas Tucker
Assisting Priest - Trinity Episcopal Church
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Plumb Lines and Prophets of Pain
– Amos 7:7-15
Prophets are such pains. They just refuse to get with the program. Just when things are going smoothly, they start making waves.
Today we heard from Amos. What a pain Amos is.
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See, I am setting a plumb line in the midst of my people Israel
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A plumb line—a reference point. A way of seeing how our ways are different from God's ways. Prophets give us a way of standing back and appraising our condition.
Since coming to Galveston ten months ago I’ve had the opportunity to admire the history of this place, as seen in the infrastructures. Many of the homes were built before there was plumb and plumb line. We live in one now that is half before 1924 and the other half since then. You could put a marble in the center of the floor in any room and it would roll to the corner.
It seems we are constantly in need of a level, an outside authority. Because if we looked only at our environment, everything would look right, but nothing would really be right.
The worship of things, the fear of others, the failure to sacrifice
are what Amos calls us to account for. That's why Amos, like all prophets, is a pain.
Because prophets call us to account
. That’s what prophets do.
– Ed Thompson+
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WILLIAM TEMPLE CENTER (WILLIE T'S)
An Episcopal Ministry to College and UTMB Students
Larissa Botik, Executive Director
We welcome dessert donations or if you would like to volunteer, call me at 409.599.1457 or wtecgalveston@gmail.com.
WILLIAM TEMPLE EPISCOPAL CENTER
Still Feeding and Serving UTMB Students Every Week
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News from Trinity Episcopal School
TRINITY SCHOOL HOSTING SUMMER CAMPS
Beginning School Pre K-Rising 2
nd
Grade
Summer II: July 2-27
Register with Rachel Brown at Beginning School or the TES office.
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Episcopal Relief & Development works closely with church partners after disasters, equipping them to meet needs of those most vulnerable in their communities. Currently, our staff is responding to areas devastated by
Hurricane Harvey
and
Hurricane Irma,
and watching developing tropical storms. Because of our strong diocesan partnerships, Episcopal Relief & Development is ready to assist in the recovery of the impacted areas for as long as necessary. You can help provide critical relief to affected communities by donating to our Hurricane Relief Fund. To donate and read the latest updates, visit
episcopalrelief.org/irma
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Trinity is happy to announce the formation of a
LGBTQ Social Group
for all who are interested (especially Episcopalians.)
For further details please contact:
Rev. Susan Kennard at 409.765.6317, susankennard@sbcglobal.net
TRINITY EPISCOPAL CHURCH (AND OTHERS)
LGBTQ SOCIAL GROUP MISSION STATEMENT
It is our mission to provide an inclusive environment for Galveston’s Episcopalian LGBTQ Community (and others; their spouses, friends, those of other denominations and all LGBTQ individuals regardless of sexual orientation, gender identity or gender expression) to gather for fellowship in a social environment that fosters the opportunity to meet new people, offer support and network as well as participate in cultural events of interest to all who choose to come.
We will be meeting in the homes of those who choose to join the fellowship.
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VISITOR QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
Have you noticed that Trinity has many weekly visitors at our services as well as those knocking at the office door throughout the week to see our sanctuary and to hear our history? By benefit of the cruise ships, tourists come to us from across the country and across the world. We learn so much from them about their churches, traditions and cultures. Please take the opportunity to greet them and share our history. These are some of their prime interests that you can relate. (more to follow as space permits)
The church was founded in 1841, prior to Texas becoming a state. The church building was completed at the cost of $40,000 in 1857 with 150 pews, 60 which were rented for $3,400 per annum. Because the women felt insecure with the tall ceiling, the pillars were added at a cost of $125 each, but do not add support to the building. The shamrock/Trinity symbols in the ceiling represent our Irish founder, The Rev. Benjamin Eaton (pictured above) as well as the Trinity, and thus our name. The ceiling shamrocks were inserted to let the hot air out in the early days of the church. More are positioned in the arches of the outside aisles and throughout the sanctuary, circling the lights fixtures and our wooden collection plates.
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PRAYERS OF HEALING FOR
John Speich, Ken, Dave Adams, Lillian Wood, Carl Haglund, and Bill Macdonald.
OUR ONGOING PRAYERS ARE REQUESTED FOR
Frank Fotony, Rodney Winzel, Leslie Sandiser, Lisa Schweitzer, George Jones, Ellen Parkey, Mike Ellis, Cynthia Vought, Sissy Howell, Stephanie Ramos, Cheryl Kelly Webster, Peggy McMullen, Chase and Keaton Adams, Genie Tavener Rolfe, Lillian Mayes, Jim Atchley, Steve Boling, Kevin Godleski, Jerry Cooper,Mary Cooper, Jeffery Horn, JBJ, Guy Griffith, Robert Hutchins, David Edwards, Elizabeth Stamile, Karen Rudenberg, Belva Funke, Louise Campbell, Betty Schroeder, Leta and Joe Higgins, Will Blackshear, Joe Vance, Dan Vaughn, Frances Townsend, Mindy Bollinger, Margaret Lee, Phillip Head, Billy Garrison, Daryl Wilson, Rose Farmer and Kyle Brown.
We are updating our prayer list. Please notify the office if your loved
ones and/or friends have recovered or need to remain on the prayer list.
PRAYERS FOR THOSE IN ACTIVE MILITARY SERVICE
John R. Kelley, Jarrod Johnson, John Wilkinson, Bo Lollar, John Kelso, Jr., David Middleton
and Nick Toombs
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ALTAR FLOWERS
The Altar Flowers today are given to the Glory of God and in honor of our Senior Warden, Worship Leader, Outreach Leader, Usher and Eucharistic Minister,
JOHN SPEICH
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EIGHTH SUNDAY AFTER PENTECOST
July 15, 2018
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LEADERS IN SUNDAY'S LITURGY
8:00 a.m. – Rite I
Lector ---
Bob Hern
Worship Leader
--- Bob Hern
Eucharistic Minister
--- Bob Hern
Sermon ---
The Reverend Edward Thompson
Celebrant
--- The Reverend Douglas Tucker
Altar Guild
--- Betty Head and Cheryl Tucker
Ushers
--- Claudia Stein and John Speich
9:15 a.m. Adult Sunday School - Eaton Hall Downstairs
Collects of the Church Year
10:15 a.m. – Godly Play
10:30 a.m. – Rite II with Music and Choir
Interim Organist
--- Stephen Roddy,
Director of the Houston Children’s Chorus
Current Choir On Vacation
Isaias Degollado, Gretchen Lindquist,
Gayle Monsour, Edgar Moore, Bill Noble, Joanna Thompson,
Mary Townsend, Cheryl Tucker, Patty Wood
Prelude
--- Benedictus --- Alec Rowley
Hymns
--- 540,671, 615
1st
Lesson
--- Amos 7:7-15 --- John Giovannini
Psalm
--- 85:8-13
2nd Lesson
--- Ephesians 1:3-14 --- Carol Malloy
Gospel
--- Mark 6:14-29
Sermon
--- The Reverend Edward Thompson
Offertory ---
“Aria” --- Craig Phillips
Celebrant
--- The Reverend Douglas Tucker
Eucharistic Ministers
--- Mike and Carol Malloy
Communion Anthem
--- “Elevation” --- Paul Benoit
Postlude
--- Recessional on “St. Anne” --- Gordon Young
Usher Team III
Teresa Reeves, Team Leader
Alison Barker, Jim and Sally Byrom, David Henderson,
Bill Kennard, C. J. Poirier and Rick Swanson
Altar Guild Weekday
--- Nancy Boling
Altar Guild Sunday
--- Brenda Atchley, Joy Incaprera, Kathy VanDewalli
Godly Play
--- Danielle Alvarado, Linda Alvarado and Kay Perkins
Youth Group
--- Peyton Heinze, Larissa Botik, Jennifer Haglund
E-Messenger
--- Kathy VanDewalli
Newcomers/Visitors Ministry
--- Carolyn Speich
William Temple Ministry
--- Larissa Botik
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2018 VESTRY
The Reverend Susan Kennard, Dan Freeman, Susan Duif, Ann Anderson, Senior Warden John Speich, Walter Meyer, Jerry Jackson, Carolyn Clyburn, Maurine Nichols, Eileen Hall, Calvin Buckley, Eugenia Campbell and Laura Hughes McDermott.
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IF YOU HAVE CONTACT INFORMATION TO UPDATE OR IF YOU HAVE RECENTLY JOINED TRINITY WE WANT TO INCLUDE YOU. PLEASE PICK UP A FORM IN THE NARTHEX, COMPLETE AND DROP IT IN THE DESIGNATED BOX. IF YOU HAVE A PHOTO TO INCLUDE JUST DROP IT BY THE OFFICE OR EMAIL TO INFO@TRINITYGALV.ORG.
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PASTORAL CARE
For Pastoral Care please contact
The Rev. Susan Kennard
at
979-248-7849
or
The Rev. Ed Thompson
504.320.4857
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PARKING LOT USE
Trinity is privileged to be permitted use of the fenced parking lot across the street for weekly services and, with approval, for our special events. However, by owner’s terms, cars must leave the lot soon after services, lunches, weddings and funerals or risk being locked in behind the fence. We certainly encourage use of the parking lot, but caution those planning lunch or other offsite activities to please park elsewhere after church sponsored events. Thank you for helping us to be good neighbors with the new owners.
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TREASURER’S REPORT
Year to Date Totals as of May 31, 2018
Total Revenue $321,674
Tranfers from Reserves $0
Investment Earnings Used in Operations $ 20,334
Less Total Expenses ($328,136)
Net Total Revenue(Deficit) $ 13,872
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SHARE THE NEWS
If you have any news you would
like to have included in our bulletin,
we would love to share it.
Email news to:
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SERVICES AT THE MERIDIAN
Reverend Susan Kennard conducts a Eucharistic service at 10:00 a.m. in the chapel at The Meridian on the 2nd Tuesday of each month. Families and friends of residents are welcome to join the group regardless of denomination.
In addition, Rev. Susan has been playing some of the residents' favorite songs on her guitar accompanied by Mr. Wyatt on an electric organ.
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Trinity Episcopal Church | (409) 765-6317 | info@trintygalv.org | www.trinitygalv.org
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