Tuesday 5:30pm: Qi Gong in the Church

Wednesday 11am: Bible Study

Wednesday 4:30pm: Children’s Choir Rehearsal

Wednesday 5:30pm: Trinity Wednesday Potluck & Discussion

Wednesday 7pm: 11:15am Choir Rehearsal

Thursday 5:30pm: Contemplative Prayer 

Thursday 7:30pm: 9am Choir Rehearsal

Thrift Shop: Monday 10am-Noon, Tuesday-Saturday, 10am-1pm

Prayer List - to submit a prayer request click here.

Altar Flowers - if you would like to dedicate Altar Flowers click here.

Our word of the week is oblation. Oblation is one of the seven principal types of prayer; regarding oblation, the Catechism in the Book of Common Prayer (page 857) says “oblation is an offering of ourselves, our lives and our labors, in union with Christ, for the purposes of God.” The lifting up of our hearts is one way in which the Eucharistic prayer is an oblationary prayer. 

Join us for Eucharist at noon on All Saints’ Day, Friday, November 1st. This short, simple liturgy is an especially appropriate time to remember and pray for your dead.

Don’t forget to set your clocks back an hour on Saturday night, and you can arrive at church well rested on Sunday morning! 

Sunday School classes for children and adults meet at 10:30am. This week in the class for adults, we finish our study of the Apocrypha with the gruesome stories of Second Maccabees.  

On Sunday, at the 11:15 am service, we will hear “Pie Jesu” and “Agnus Dei” from Gabriel Fauré’s 20th-century French choral classic Requiem. While it was common to commemorate a specific individual with a Requiem Mass, Faure chose to write his work “for the pleasure of it.” The Agnus Dei, a traditional Fraction anthem, is extended to include material from Fauré’s opening movement, “Requiem aeternam,” which asks God to grant to the dead eternal rest. These two movements are especially fitting for this Sunday after All Saints’ Day. In a few weeks, Trinity Choir will sing more movements from this comforting and peaceful work. ~ Brett, Director of Music 

You should have received by now in the mail your pledge cards for our annual operating budget. If you haven’t, e-mail or call (916.985.2495) the church office and we’ll get one out to you. Please return your pledge card by Sunday, November 3rd, so that we can finish up the 2020 budget. Many thanks!

If in the future, you are in one of the planned power outage areas and need an hour or two to recharge your phones, medical devices, or whatever, please please please come down to the church and do so! You can chat with us while you wait, or browse the bookshelves in the Parish Library, or leave whatever it is here to charge and go have lunch or coffee or do some shopping in Folsom. Generally, at least one of us is in the office Sunday-Thursday from 10am-5pm, but you might want to call ahead (916.985.2495) to confirm we’re open. 

This Sunday is the final Sunday to pre-order beautiful Christmas greens in the Parish Hall during coffee hours. We order through a company that supplies natural wreaths and garlands, and all the profits we make from the sale will go towards Heifer International’s efforts to provide livestock and agricultural training to those in the developing world. Look for the Christmas Greens table in the Parish Hall to check out the catalogue and place an order. Greens will arrive in time to be distributed in early December, usually at the St. Nicholas Fair.

Christmas Around Town is a partnership of 65 churches, civic organizations, and businesses that work together to ensure that Folsom families in need are able to celebrate the Christmas holiday. On December 14th, hundreds of families will gather at Lakeside Church for a celebration complete with games, songs, and a brunch. Then each person is given a shopping voucher and the opportunity to “shop” for gifts for their families. Trinity is sponsoring the Women’s Shop, one of the biggest at CAT! Over the coming weeks, we’ll need to collect about 2,000 items (brand new with the tag attached) for about 800 shoppers. This week, we are collecting pans (10” fry, 3 qt. sauce, and 5-6 qt. Dutch oven), which can be dropped off in the Parish Hall on Sunday, or at the office during the week. In the coming weeks, we’ll be collecting beauty/bath sets, make-up, blow dryers/curling irons, pajamas, slippers, kitchen wares/appliances, sweaters/fleeces/hoodies, and store-bought throws. There are also other ways in which you can participate: we’ll need volunteers to help sort and price the gifts, move the merchandise, stock the store, and help people “check-out” on the day of the event. To learn more, or pick up a shopping list, please stop by the CAT table in the Parish Hall after services, or email Fr. Charlie.

This year to provide Thanksgiving meals for families in need, Twin Lakes Food Bank is asking partner churches to pledge a certain number of frozen turkeys and a particular side dish toward this year’s effort instead of the usual Thanksgiving boxes. Our Outreach Committee has committed to providing 100 frozen turkeys and 100 frozen pies towards this year’s effort to help TLFB feed over 500 families. To spare you from having to bring a frozen bird to church, we’ll have envelopes on Sunday that can be filled with specific amounts. $25 will buy a turkey and a pie, $15 will buy a turkey, and $10 will buy a pie. If you’d like to participate in assembling Thanksgiving dinner bags at TLFB on the 23rd, please contact Father Charlie. And thanks be to God, who has made us stewards of a great bounty, “for the provision of necessities and the relief of all who are in need.” 

Join us on Wednesday evenings for a potluck supper (5:30pm-6pm) and a discussion group (6pm-7pm)! The nursery will be open for childcare, including activities for older children. For the potluck, bring whatever you want to share, and if you can’t make it to the potluck, just come for the group discussion. This coming Wednesday, November 6th, we’re finishing our discussion on Rowan Williams’ Being Christian. Our next book, beginning Wednesday, November 13th, will be Rachel Held Evans’ Inspired. 

In a few weeks, we’ll be having our diocesan convention in Sacramento. Whenever we hold the event in the area, churches in the area get together and host an overnight at the Cathedral so that young people from all over the diocese can get to know each other better. The focus will be on food, “structured chilling” and games, as well as a spiritual component (past offerings have included non-violent communication and the theology of Star Wars). Youth will be carpooling from church on Friday, November 8th at 5pm. The lock-in will end around 8am the following morning, when we’ll carpool back to church. If your child would like to participate, please talk to Fr. Charlie.

Thanks to those of you who have signed up to help Folsom’s Homeless Assistance Resource Team (HART) provide an evening meal and a safe place to stay for our homeless neighbors. There are still some available opportunities to serve! HART needs some volunteers to get the shelter off the ground; this commitment is about 1 1/2 hours a week for 12 weeks. Their biggest needs are for drivers, Saturday night volunteers, and folks willing to sub in for volunteers who might miss a day or two. If the time commitment feels like a stretch for you, please consider consulting HART’s wishlist. Our very own Jessica Leng (9am) is in charge of the emergency shelter’s inventory, and items on the list can be dropped by the church office anytime the next few months. On any given night, there are 35-40 people living on the street in Folsom – let’s get them in out of the cold this winter.

Several people recently have asked us if we accept stock transfers as fulfillment of annual operating budget pledges and capital campaign pledges, so we have set up an account to receive stock transfers. For more information, contact Barbara in the church office 916.985.2495 or trinity@trinityfolsom.org. 

 

We’ve also learned that a lot of people weren’t aware that you can fulfill your charitable pledges through required minimum distributions from your IRA? If you’re 70 ½ and older, you can make a contribution to Trinity Folsom directly from your Traditional IRA by instructing the plan administrator to make the transfer directly to Trinity Folsom as a Qualified Charitable Distribution. Your gift will go directly to Trinity Folsom, will not be reported as taxable income, and will count toward your RMD requirements for 2019. For more information, contact Barbara in the church office 916.985.2495 or trinity@trinityfolsom.org.  

Trinity Episcopal Church

 801 Figueroa Street

Folsom, CA 95630

(916) 985-2495 ~ www.trinityfolsom.org