TRINITY UNITED METHODIST CHURCH
590 Elma Avenue SE
Salem OR 97317
503-585-8851
JULY 11, 2020 Updates
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*** PLEASE TAKE NOTE ***
TRINITY HAS A NEW EMAIL ADDRESS
tumcatsalem@gmail.com
Please use this new email address!
Thank you
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PLEASE NOTE: Please contact
Pastor Kalina Malua Katoa for any urgent pastoral needs.
You may reach her at
503-381-5142
kmkatoa@gmail.com pastorkalina@gmail.com
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Open Door Sunday Worship
Regaining our Center Sermon Series
Sunday, July 12th, 10:00 AM
Genesis 25: 19 -34 & Isaiah 55: 10 - 13
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Take a Picture of Yourselves this Sunday!
Take a photo or selfie of yourselves and family while worshiping at home this Sunday, June 12th. We'll then use the pictures during the worship service on July 19th. Please
upload your photos here
by Wednesday, July 15th.
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Do your kids have questions they want to ask the pastors? For the next three weeks, we're inviting kids to send in videos of them asking the pastors a question. We'll show the videos over the next three weeks of worship during the children's time along with the pastors answering their questions. These questions can be about the pastors themselves, God, church - anything that is on the child's mind. Ask your child, "What are you wondering about?"
Videos can be uploaded here.
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Participate in a Sunday Worship Service
Would you be interested in participating in an upcoming Sunday service by reading a verse, playing music, or offering a prayer? We are looking for people throughout Open Door Churches to join in by recording a piece for our worship times together. Our worship coordinators can talk you through how to video yourself and upload it to our Dropbox folder. Simply
email Pastor Alyssa
and let her know you're interested.
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Open Door Churches Pastors Team
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Rev. John Fleming
revjohnf@verizon.net
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Rev. Kalina Malua Katoa
kmkatoa@gmail.com pastorkalina@gmail.com
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It’s a great joy to be here in Salem to join this incredible ministry team of Lay and Clergy leaders and to have a hand in guiding the continuing development of this unique vision for ministry. On behalf of the clergy team, I’d like to share some thoughts about the ways we will be working with you over the next several months.
We will each be the “go-to” for a major area of responsibility:
- Alyssa for Worship and Young Adult Ministries;
- Kalina Malua-Katoa for Congregational Care, including Pastoral Care;
- John Fleming for Administrative Committees;
- Zaida Huereca and Arturo Fernandez for Las Naciones and Hispanic Ministries
- And, of course, we are so fortunate to have Jeff Lowery continuing as leader of our Youth Ministry!
Being the go-to person means that we will be your primary contact for questions and concerns in each of these areas.
In other words, if you have a question or concern, call/text/email the person listed above that seems to align closest to your needs.
Of course, we will all be working with all of these areas at different times. As we all live into this new way of doing ministry together, however, it’s important that you know who to call.
On the other hand, these ministry areas are broadly defined and it may be that you have a question that doesn’t fit neatly into one of the categories we have named. In any case, we just want you to know we are here to help! Whatever you need, just call one of us and we will find a way to assist or guide you to the place you need to be.
Furthermore, we are all your pastors, and we want to know as many of you as possible. I want to know the people who work in areas related to Worship and Congregational Care, just as Kalina wants to know people who are involved in the Administrative work of the church. And many of you are involved in multiple areas, so there will be some natural crossover anyway—that’s all healthy.
Pastor John Fleming
Pastor Alyssa Baker
Pastor Kalina Malua Katoa
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Modern Christian Life: Getting Educated on Race
Every
Monday at 7:00 p.m.
you can join a
Zoom conversation
about an issue that has plagued our country since its inception. One of the first things we will do – rather than trying to “fix” the problem – is to educate ourselves. We’ll do this through the use of videos, readings, and talks from people who have immersed themselves in this issue.
This is a long-term ongoing venture. The pandemic gives us an opportunity to take a deep dive into this topic. We’ll meet initially for six weeks, take a break, and reconvene to educate ourselves some more.
We’d like to hear what you are interested in learning about too. Feel free to send us an email with your suggestions.
If you are interested in this program please email
Cesie Delve-Scheuermann
and let her know you would like to join the discussion and she will send you the information you need to join the
ZOOM
meeting. The plan is to spend an hour together on-line.
July 13:
Our own
Tom Scheuermann
will address topics that are in the book he authored with Dr. Robert Carter,
Confronting Racism
Specifically, he’ll be talking about
“Race-Based Trauma and Related Legal and Health Issues in the U.S.”
July 20:
We’ll watch
Trevor Noah’s commentary on the broken “social contract”
with African Americans. We’ll discuss the implications for this time and place.
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Open Door Churches
All are invited to join us via our
Open Door Churches Youtube page
. Share this invitation with your family, friends and neighbors. These online services are a wonderful opportunity to share the love of our faith community with everyone, near and far! See you online!
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Open Door Young Adults
Upcoming Events
- Coffee, Conversation, & Community July 15th at 7pm on Zoom
- Meet and Greet Pastor John on Zoom July 22nd at 7pm
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Open Door Church Young Adult Instagram
Are you following Open Door Young Adults on Instagram?
Check out the Instagram page to see what is happening with Young Adult Group and to see what some of our Young Adults are up to!
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The Ridiculous Journey
Join us on Wednesday's at 7 on Zoom we will continue our new series from The Work of The People on Wednesday July 15th. The series is called "The Ridiculous Journey" and takes a closer look at Jesus life and helps us deeply think about why we follow him today. This week we will move to Session 3. Don't worry if you missed previous sessions you can still join in.
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Phase Two!
God is our refuge and strength, a very present help in trouble. -
Psalm 46: 1, NRSV
Siblings in Christ,
This means that
IF
your church has a
DS-approved plan for Phase 2
, you can begin to implement that plan. If you have not yet submitted a plan, I'm sure you are working on it! Contact me with any questions,
tim@umoi.org
NOTE: Open Door Churches has a team that is working with each church to develop plans for reopening. F
or the time being t
he Clergy team plans
online worship services to continue indefinitely.
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July - August Upper Rooms Are Here!!
You can email the church office
Here
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SOMETHING FUN "VIRTUAL BINGO"!!
Friday - July 31
6:30 p.m. - Social
7:00 p.m. - Bingo
Judy and Eddie Wilson will host
ZOOM
Bingo. Please email
Eddie Wilson
, e
ddie4077@gmail.com
and let him know you want to play and he will email you an invite
.
White elephant prizes: Each household please be prepared to furnish one good white elephant prize if your name is drawn for a Bingo winner.
Everyone is welcome to play! It's a
FUN
game night!!
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July JOY
Group
JOY Group for the month of
July
is cancelled due to
COVID-19 virus.
We will keep you posted on what will happen for the month of August!
We'll all have to eat
triple
for the months we missed!!
STAY WELL, STAY SAFE, WEAR YOUR MASK and STAY HOME
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$OLLARS & CENTS
by Pat Gillespie, Treasurer
The work of Trinity UMC continues! Please remember to give your tithes, gifts, and offerings to keep vital ministries going.
We welcome you to mail your check to
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Trinity United Methodist Church
590 Elma Avenue SE
Salem OR 97317
2020 FINANCIAL STATUS THROUGH JUNE 30, 2020
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*The budget is designed to reflect seasonal fluctuations in income and expenses and to zero out at the
end
of the year.
If you have questions or comments please give me a call or
email me
a
t trinity_pag@msn.com.
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For Pastors and churches in transition and please keep the following persons in your prayers in addition to all those infected with COVID-19 or who may be displaced because of it in any way; and for those with other health issues that were unable to receive care in the last few months.
Other concerns:
For Pastor Kalina's husband, Soine Halafuka, who has been in the hospital and for Pastor Kalina; for Tim Bulletset recovering from surgery; for Micah, Ardeth's granddaughter's husband; Jim Harless who will have heart oblation surgery the end of July and also keep his wife Karen in your prayers; Pat Lacy; for Velma Hampson's nephew Win; Ardeth Jerde's son Dan; Leon Chartier and for Judy as she cares for him; Bev Otjen; Ashley Haskell for health concerns; Jerry Rempel's sister-in-law Noreen Reed; Ann Jeffries' brother George who is on hospice; Pastor Mario Gonzalez; Dorothy Kliewer; Nathelle Brown; our country and its leaders; our home bound or those in care facilities; the elderly and disabled, the poor, the hungry, the homeless; care for the earth.
Those serving in the Military:
Alex (Pat Hossner's grandson), Daniel (Wilson's and Petersen's grandson), Jacob Phillips (Sherry Petersen's grandson), Zach Gilmore (Nadine & Edson Gilmore's grandson) and Donald Kimbrow.
If there are others to add or remove from this list please let the
church office know.
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2 Rose Rhoads
4 Linda Beerbower
8 Stacy Jungling
Hazel Lefler
11 Lynette Sorg
14 Valleda White
21 Mike Wiege
23 Joanne Scott
24 Christine Spenner
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2 Doris & Darrell Wing
6 Nadine & Ed Gilmore
24 Doris & Clem Spenner
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How to Get Involved:
Join us in reading (or listening to)
How to Be An Anti-Racist by Ibram X. Kendi
Reading discussion groups will meet Mondays in August from 7:00-8:30 PM
Register for the reading group
here
!
This may be a hard time for those with young children. If there is enough interested from this group, we can schedule a different time to gather and discuss. Let me know if that is something you are interested in.
Other ways to connect and learn together over the summer:
to receive information about joining the online meetings
Prayers of the Heart –
Sundays at 9 AM on Zoom
This group gathers to share a short reading, a time of meditation, and lectio divina.
Tuesday Evening Women’s Book Group-
Tuesdays at 7 PM on Zoom
Join for a lively engaged discussion of a new book each month.
Getting Educated on Race
– Mondays at 7 PM on Zoom (through July 20
th
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A weekly gathering addressing topics related to racism (such as white fragility, race based trauma, racism, etc) using a wide variety of resources to ground the conversation.
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JOIN THE PRAYER GROUP
Just a reminder that the Facebook Shalom Prayer Group is open to all Open Door Church members and a wonderful way to share your prayer concerns in a private and safe online place. Your prayers and comments are only visible to the group members and the page is facilitated by Morningside member Beth Fleisher.
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Go to
opendoorchurches.org
to see information about each of the churches and ways you can be involved. Links for the Sunday Services can also be found here.
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