HT Notes
news & updates, March 18, 2021
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Holy Week/Easter Schedule |
You will receive an email tomorrow (Friday, March 19th) with live registration links for the Holy Week and Easter Nave services listed above. You must sign up if you wish to attend. |
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Sign Up for Worship in the Nave on 3/21/21 |
So many people are excited about worshiping in the Nave again! Please know that there is limited seating due to Covid-19 restrictions. This will mean that everyone who wishes to attend must register each week on a first-come, first-served basis. Your registration link will be sent to you each week and you will have eight days after that to register online. Those who do not have internet may call me (Sheryl) at 864-654-5071 and I will register them over the phone.
Click the button below to sign up for worship on Sunday, March 21, 2021, at 10:00am in the Nave.
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Friday, March 19th will be your final opportunity to sign up for this service. |
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"And the angel said, 'Nothing will be impossible with God...'" (Luke 1:37) Join Mother Suz and Father Noah for a livestreamed Evensong for the feast of the Annunciation on March 25. The service will be broadcast on Facebook Live at 5:00pm. This major holy day celebrates Mary's "yes" to God's invitation to carry Jesus in her womb, and falls exactly nine months before Christmas. How will the example of the Mother of God inspire you to say "yes" to bringing Jesus into the world? |
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Join us for a video premiere of this year's Stations of the Cross at 5:30 on Friday, March 26 on our Facebook page. The Stations were pre-recorded and can be accessed any time on our YouTube channel. The premiere allows for parishioners to view the video together and pray together in real time, interacting in the comments section. You do not have to have a Facebook account to join the premiere; you can access by way of the HTV page on our website or by following this link: https://www.facebook.com/HolyTrinityClemson/videos/
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The Pastoral Care Team is preparing Easter baskets for some of our parish friends (30-ish households) to be delivered April 3. We would like to include 4-6 cookies in each package. If we could get 14 dozen cookies baked with love and packaged with care, that would be such a blessing. If you can help, please sign up here. Any questions, contact Pam Mack at pammack@clemson.edu
Cookies should be packaged in bags of 2 to 4 and delivered by 10 am April 3 to the side chapel.
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Lenten Prayers to Assist You |
We are pre-recording The Great Litany and Stations of the Cross, which will feature a variety of familiar faces and voices. These recordings will be available on our website for your devotional use as part of your Lenten observance. You may wish to pray The Great Litany one or more times each week. You might set a time each Friday for Stations of the Cross. You choose the time and frequency for your devotions. We pray that these offerings will help you to observe a holy Lent.
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Online Lenten Devotionals Each Wednesday |
During Lent this year, the Alliance of Pendleton Area Churches (APAC) will be offering Online Lenten Devotionals each Wednesday at noon on Facebook. We wish we could gather in person for our annual Lenten lunches, but this will give us an opportunity for virtual connection as a Pendleton community during this Holy Season. The devotionals will be provided by different area ministers and posted on the Alliance of Pendleton Area Churches Facebook page (www.facebook.com/AllianceofPendletonAreaChurches or search Facebook for @AllianceofPendletonAreaChurches). You do not have to have a Facebook account to view the video devotionals. If you do have a Facebook account, be sure to visit the APAC Facebook page and click “like” so you will see notifications from APAC. A new devotion video will be posted each Wednesday at noon during Lent, as well as on Good Friday at noon. The videos will remain available on Facebook so you may watch them at your convenience. We look forward to gathering as a community throughout the season of Lent, beginning on Wednesday Feb 17th.
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We have five openings left for providing Canterbury meals: March 31st, April 7, 14, 21 and 28. Please continue to sign up.
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Special Easter Flowers or Music |
If you would like to contribute toward special Easter flowers and/or Music on behalf of a friend or loved one, simply fill out and send in the form from the last page of the March Tempo (blank forms are also in the chapel). Or to make things easier, just send me ( Sheryl) an email with the information. Please be sure to include your name, their name, and whether you are giving in honor of, memory of, or thanksgiving for this person. The deadline is Monday, March 29th. |
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ZOOM Link for Coffee Hour |
Please use the link below from now on for Coffee Hour.
Meeting ID: 825 3754 2365
Passcode: 636407
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The Altar Guild currently has a small crew of members who volunteer to staff the outdoor services. Now that we are adding indoor services in the Nave on Sunday, we need some additional volunteers to help with these services. The task involves setting up for the service and cleaning up afterwards and does not require that you attend the service in the Nave. The task can also be done by a single person just before and after the service if you are attending the service or a day or so before/after the service if you do not plan to attend the service. The entire task will only take 10-15 minutes, and we are providing a checklist (with photos).
If you are planning to attend services in the Nave and are interested in helping with this important task, you may sign up to volunteer to help the Altar Guild on the reservation form for the service. If you are not attending the service but would like to help the Altar Guild with set up or cleanup for these services, please contact Anna McKenna at amckenna@me.com or call at 320-761-0678 to volunteer or if you have questions.
I would like to also take this opportunity to thank the Altar Guild members who have graciously volunteered to fill in to support our services as we try to transition back to “normal times.” I especially appreciate their flexibility and willingness to move out of their comfort zone to support our services. This group has worked at Trinity Place since September and many are now doing double duty to staff the services in the Nave.
Special thanks to Jan and Jerome Cribb, Martha Williams, Kathy Woodard, Jack McKenna, Dorothy Meeks, Robbie Grider, Ann Russell, Emma Harrington and Jane Hamilton for volunteering to staff services, as well as Iris Reed and Betty Snowden for helping out with washing linens! - Anna McKenna
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We are all one Body, because we share the same Bread of Life. Noah and I are available to bring Holy Communion from the altar at Holy Trinity to those who are unable to join us in church at this time. We are arranging garage and driveway visits or window visits to bring Holy Communion to you. We can also arrange for visits by phone or FaceTime, if you prefer. We will bring the Sacrament and call you for the prayers, and we will consume the wafers together from a distance. Please contact one of us if you would like to arrange a visit. We would love to bring the Sacrament to you before Christmas, if possible. Much love, Suz+
We would love to bring the Sacrament to you in 2021.
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Pray for Justin, the Archbishop of Canterbury; Michael, the Presiding Bishop of the Episcopal Church; and Andrew, our bishop; for the people and clergy of the Episcopal Diocese of Haiti, especially in Cange and Bois Joli; for the Bishop Nominating Committee and the next Bishop of Upper South Carolina; and for the clergy, staff, and vestry of our parish.
Pray for Joseph, our President; Henry, our governor; and all entrusted with authority and those who influence public opinion.
Pray for all people in any kind of need or trouble, for For Dot and Bill, Violet, Jude, Roy and Charlotte, Frieda Wald, Luther, Kathy, Vicki, and Darla, Carolyn Foster, Jasy, Earl Burch, Marcelle and Desiree, Beverly Martineau, Connie, Rob, Marcos de Souza Lima, Michele Rios, Fatima Rodriquez, Dick, Robert David Holland, Ann and Fred Hoffman, the Loken family, Sinclair, Ellen Haase, and all who have COVID and their families.
Pray in thanksgiving for all who are recovering and have recovered from COVID-19, for the COVID vaccine, and for the birthdays of Henry Turnbull, Bert Fox, Jody Allen, Ethan Culler, Clyde Gorsuch, John Trice, Louise Nicholas, Travis Murphy, and Ron Jameson.
Pray for all victims of natural disasters, for those who have lost jobs, for healing for our nation, for people who work for justice and peace, for health care workers, for hospice care workers, for all essential workers across all industries, for all students, faculty, and staff of schools and universities, and young parish families struggling with parents work and children in school.
Pray for the souls of all the departed, Nita, Jim Spencer, Betty Anna Brown, Caroline Werntz, Ruth Harris, Brittany Loken, Gianni Baratti and all who have died from the coronavirus this week.
Please send us your prayers of thanksgiving as well as prayer requests. All names will be listed for three weeks unless a longer time is requested. To add a name to the list, send an email to Serena
DuBose at daffydubose@gmail.com. Please consider if you need to speak to someone before adding a name to the list to prevent misunderstandings.
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The deadline to submit articles for Tempo is the 24th of March--next Wednesday. |
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The Day School will hold its annual Spring Flower Basket Fundraiser this year. We are offering the following from Roebuck's Greenhouses, Roebuck, SC:
$17.00-10" Fern, green foliage, shade lover
$17.00-11" Red Geranium Basket, sun/part-sun
$17.00-11" Combo Basket, sun loving varieties
Please place your order from 3/1-3/31 by contacting Lauren Russell (lrussell@holytrinityclemson.org or 864-654-0298). Make checks payable to: Episcopal Day School. All baskets will be ready for pick-up after 12:00 pm on Friday, April 16th.
Thank you,
Lauren
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Our Lenten Program this year will follow the “Becoming Beloved Community” curriculum provided by The Episcopal Church. Becoming Beloved Community is an ongoing commitment to racial healing, reconciliation, and justice.
Becoming Beloved Community represents not so much a set of programs as a journey, a set of interrelated commitments around which Episcopalians may organize our many efforts to respond to racial injustice and grow a community of reconcilers, justice-makers, and healers. The labyrinth may be an even more useful image for engaging the vision. "On the road toward reconciliation and healing, we move around corners and double back into quadrants we have visited before, each time discovering new revelation and challenge."—TEC website
Becoming Beloved Community will be offered via Zoom on Sunday afternoons at 4:00 in Lent, beginning February 21 and concluding on March 21. Each session will last about an hour. Information about the curriculum can be found here. The Zoom link is
Meeting ID: 896 5975 0605
Passcode: 737122
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Attention: Episcopal Day School Alumni |
Calling all former Red Birds, Yellow Birds and Blue Birds! The Episcopal Day School, Clemson, is putting together an alumni directory of Day School attendees since 1959. If anyone reading this attended the Day School or knows of anyone else who is an alumna/alumnus, please help us. We would like to include as many as possible in this, our first directory. Please provide your name, (and if it is different than it was at the Day School, please add that), address, email address and the years that you attended the Day School.
Parents or grandparents, if you have names of Day School alumni, please pass this on to them. Help us reach out and find as many as possible.
Thank you all for helping with this project.
Sally Morrell, on behalf of the Day School Board Member
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Now more than ever, it is an act of Christian love to wear a face covering when you are away from your home. Please love your neighbor by wearing a mask, including whenever you come to our church buildings! We have masks available in the church office and at our outside worship services, just in case you get out the door without one. Please take care of yourselves and those you love by staying home if you feel unwell or have been exposed to Covid 19. Quarantine 14 days or obtain a negative test result before resuming contact.
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Information on COVID-19 Testing and Vaccination In Our Area |
Part of our Christian duty to love our neighbor by promoting the common good just got easier, with improved access to COVID-19 testing and the vaccines in our area.
Free Community Testing
The City of Clemson is partnering with the university to provide free COVID-19 testing to the community, following their nationally recognized testing system that reduced positive cases on campus to less than 2% by the end of last semester. This is a fantastic opportunity to get into a regular testing routine to help combat the spread of the virus. Testing is available weekday mornings from 7am-11am at Nettles Park. You do not need to make an appointment but you must register in advance and bring your unique QR code with you; the code can be printed out or saved to your smartphone. Note that this testing is not for current university students or employees; please use the on-campus testing system.
Find all the details and the registration form on the City’s website here.
COVID-19 Vaccinations
This week Governor McMaster and DHEC announced an expansion of vaccine eligibility to all South Carolina residents 55 and older and essential workers. You must make an appointment to receive the vaccine. Visit scdhec.gov/vaxlocator or call 855-472-3432 to find a vaccination site and make an appointment.
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Covid-19 Vaccine Questions |
If you have questions about Covid-19, here is where you can get answers. Click on the picture to enlarge.
Spanish language:
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Health Bits by Kathy Hunter
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TBT: (Posted this health tip 7 years ago...)
"Theodore Roosevelt once said, "The credit belongs to those who are actually in the arena. Who strive valiantly. Who know the great enthusiasms. The great devotions. And who spend themselves for a worthy cause. Who, if they succeed, know the triumph of high achievement. And who – if they fail – fail while daring greatly. So that their place will never be, with those cold and timid souls, who knew neither victory or defeat.”
Give yourself credit for trying. You're in the game. Don't give up. Keep it up!"
Today: Ditto. Don't give up. Keep it up! You'll be glad you did!!
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If you would like to take part in the online Bible study which takes place on Tuesdays at 11:00am, use the link below. We take a deep dive into the readings appointed for the following Sunday, finding ways to connect them to our lives each week.
Join Zoom Meeting
Meeting ID: 837 8967 8685
Passcode: 927305
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Giving Thanks
for Your Giving
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Your faithful and steady giving helps Holy Trinity through these difficult times. Thank you. The leadership of the parish is grateful for your hearing the Gospel call to seek and serve Christ in all people, and responding with generosity. Because of that generosity, Holy Trinity continues to be a blessing in our community. May God continue to bless you richly also. |
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We're Here for You Holy Trinity is working hard to stay connected and provide support through the trials of pandemic restrictions. The Vestry and Neighborhood Group Leaders continue to reach out to parishioners in their areas regularly. Please contact your Neighborhood Group Leaders or the church office if you have any need, and we will do our best to help you out. The office staff are not necessarily in the office at all times, but we are all checking email and phone messages regularly. The office number is 864-654-5071. To reach Lynne Farmer, Parish Administrator select ext. 3, or Sheryl Shankles, Parish Secretary select ext. 0. You can reach Mtr. Suz at 864-364-1952 to call or text. Noah Stansbury's cell number is 864-723-0391.
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for the Fifth Sunday in Lent:
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The Bataan Death March Remembrance |
For the past 12 years, Colonel Ben Skardon has traveled to White Sands Missile Base in New Mexico to participate in the Bataan Memorial Death March, paying tribute to his fallen comrades and all who endured that gruesome time. Over the years, Ben has garnered a following, dubbed "Ben's Brigade", that march that tribute with him. Due to COVID restrictions, Ben will not be traveling there this year. Instead, a virtual march, created by dedicated Clemson folks and Ben supporters, will be held March 21-28. You can participate and pay tribute to the brave men who marched with Ben and endured such an unimaginable time. Learn more about The Clemson 8 Challenge - Bataan Death March Remembrance. Sign up here. |
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Clemson Community Care's most needed food items are: soup, jelly, canned mixed vegetables, pork and beans, and shelf stable milk products i.e. canned or Instant Non Fat Powdered. Thank you so much for your support.
Donations may be dropped off to the purple bin on the Purkerson's front porch (111 Dogwood Terrace Lane, Clemson) or taken directly to CCC (105 Anderson Hwy, Clemson) around back of the building before 11:00am any morning Monday through Thursday.
If you would prefer to make a monetary donation to enable CCC to buy food or help the community in other ways you can send a check to CCC, PO Box 271, Clemson SC 29633 or make an online donation via PayPal or credit card at clemsoncommunitycare.org. Donations are tax deductible and all donations are greatly appreciated! Thank you for your continued support.
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An Update from Family Promise |
The pandemic has challenged us to be extremely flexible, creative, and on-going in recognizing needs and modifying what we do. We have continued offering sheltering services throughout the pandemic.
We are sheltering families by paying for motels now. This has led to the requirement that guests must have a vehicle to be accepted into the program. Because so many folks come to us with old and faulty vehicles, we have had to take on the role of sometimes assisting with car repairs. Because meals are not being cooked and served by the congregations, we have asked our network churches to conduct drives for restaurant and grocery gift cards. Additionally, we have requested hand sanitizer and masks (mostly children’s) from the volunteers so these can be provided to the guests. There have been some issues to work out with the motel such as spotty wi-fi. Since the majority of case management is being done by email, it is necessary for guests to have access. When I do have case management meetings in person, they are held outside, rain or shine, cold or warm! While we still have the expectation that parents work, we’ve had to be flexible when single parents have to accommodate children doing virtual weeks of school or having to quarantine.
Because there is emergency funding available to respond to people in need caused by COVID, Armilla has written proposals and accessed these funds, enabling us to begin offering prevention services, to prevent folks from becoming homeless. We have a part-time case manager to manage those cases. At intake, we look at whether someone’s needs could be met through prevention instead of sheltering. Thus far, more than 60 people have benefitted from our prevention program!
--Excerpted from a recent email to Family Promise Coordinators.
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Phone: 864-482-2040
Address: PO Box 1246
525 East Main St.
Seneca, SC 29679
PayPal at OurDailyRest.org
Volunteer: 864-482-2040
Phone: 864-482-2040 ext.110
Questions, please call Judy Surak 864-933-5205 or judysurak@yahoo.com.
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Our Daily Rest and New Programs |
The homeless shelter in Seneca has branched out and now not only helps the homeless but works with individuals who are at risk of becoming homeless. For those who meet criteria, Our Daily Rest helps with utilities and rent and connects individuals with social services to help avoid the outcome of homelessness. Our Daily Rest also partners with landlords to identify safe and affordable housing. Another new program partners with local contractors to help repair and replace major home features, like roofing. Always your generosity, help and prayers are needed and appreciated.
The shelter still needs daily use items ( eg. coffee, sugar, trash bags, laundry detergent, cleaning supplies, gift cards). For now they have ample clothing.
As we strive each day to be Christ’s servants, may we be mindful of the time and talents gifted to us and how to share them with our brothers and sisters.
Our Daily Rest, P.O. Box 1246, Seneca, SC 29679
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Click here for a list of the Vestry members, their area of responsibility as well as contact information.
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St. Paul's Thrift Shop hours are Mondays or Thursdays from 10am to 12:30pm or 12:30pm to 3pm. 3rd Saturday from 10am to 1pm. Other than the open hours, contact Diana Manly (722-5112).
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Singing Rooster Coffee
Just text Lynne Farmer at 864.710.0011 and let her know what you want to order.
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The link to HTv is provided below and is also located on the home page of the Holy Trinity website.
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Our outdoor worship service is held at Trinity Place each week at 2:00 pm. Hope you can make it! Just remember to follow social distancing guidelines. |
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