TRINITY TRUMPET
OCTOBER 2021

Our New Worship Series is a series of reflections inspired by the book, How Not to Be Afraid - Seven Ways to Live When Everything Seems Terrifying,
by Gareth Higgins.

The dedication of this book reads:

for Brian Ammons, who once woke me up from a nightmare and said, “You’re OK. You’re OK. You have what you need.” And he was right.
 
NEW WORSHIP SERIES:

October 10
October 17
October 24
October 31
November 7
November 14
November 21
CELEBRATING THE SUM OF US

Fear of Not Having Enough
Fear of a Meaningless Life
Fear That You'll be Broken Forever
Fear That You Don't Know the Ending
Fear is a Story
Fear for the World
Abundant Love Casts Out Fear
NEW Zoom Worship Info
Sundays at 10:00 AM

Virtual Worship
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MOVING BEYOND SCARE CITY

I’m eager to enter the conversations surrounding this Worship Series. There is a lot that is frightening in our world today. Climate change, the pandemic, those that deny the pandemic, division that is being stoked for political gain, situations of illness or conflict in our own family/friendship circles… the list goes on. We’ll take several weeks to explore the sources of our deepest fears and consider responses from our faith.

Over the next few weeks we’ll also begin our annual Stewardship Campaign. The Operations Committee will share more detailed information about our current financial situation (better than we feared! not as good as it could be!) And we’ll consider our ministry priorities for the coming year.

Join us for worship – via Zoom if you must - but we’d LOVE to see you in person!

Pastor Dale

Bible Study New Link…

Join us in our new virtual space on Thursdays at 9:45 – 11:00 AM

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Flowers on my Mind    
If you would like to donate flowers for the altar on one or more Sundays, please  e-mail or call Lisa. That way we can invite everyone, even some of the people who attend by Zoom, to volunteer for flowers. (This will replace a physical flower chart in the Gathering Hall.)

If there is a week when no one has signed up for flowers by midweek, we will contact Lucy Dorenfeld to fill in the gaps. Please call ahead to reserve if you have a particular Sunday that you would like to acknowledge an event or person in your life. Please be aware that there are a few Sundays that will already have a prescribed liturgical color scheme (for example, red/white for Pentecost).
 
You have the option of either providing the flowers yourself at your expense as a donation, or donating the $ for us to provide the flowers. We’ll set the donation this year at $15. You can always put in a larger check for several weeks worth of flowers!

Thanks to Lucy Dorenfeld for creating a policy designed to include everyone!
Mission Core Report

Our Love of Neighbor ministry has identified two projects that will take place over the upcoming weeks.
 
The first project asks you to go to your favorite store and purchase disposable diapers that will go to the Women’s shelter at the Evanston YWCA. 
Your purchases will be collected in the “drive and drop” method in our Trinity driveway on Saturday October 23rd from 2:00 to 4:00 PM.
 
Our second project is providing wrapped Christmas gifts for the children of Casa Central. The gifts should be suitable and tagged for either a girl or boy ages 5 to 14. Casa’s request is that we deliver our gifts on or before December 10th. To meet that, we will do both a ‘bring to church’ and a final “drive and drop” collection on Saturday, December 4th, from 2:00 to 4:00 PM in the church driveway (providing we’ve not had a large snowfall).
 
In advance, thank you for your consistent and generous participation in all that we do.

Roger
OUR DEEPEST SYMPATHIES
On Friday, October 1, Pastor Dale led a private graveside service in Gurnee and then a Memorial service at the Illinois State Park at Zion, at the shore of Lake Michigan, for Angela Joy Bongratz. Angie was the niece of Kerry and Nancy Karth who had visited Trinity often and intended to join until retirement and a move to Champaign, IL.

Angie’s mother, Karen, and her Grandmother have also worshipped with us. Please keep the family in your prayers, especially, Ethan, her 11 year old son, and her fiance, Patrick.
Trinity United Church of Christ has received the following Memorial Gifts:

In Memory of: Bonnie Kerschke

Given by: Carol Mellem

FOR YOUR MUSICAL MEDITATION

Mark Miller – Surrounded by Love, sung by Justin Gonzalez

Temporary Office Hours

Tuesday and Wednesday, 9 AM - 12 PM
Monday & Thursday, Lisa is working from home and checking email regularly.