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 intercession. Intercession is one of the seven principal types of prayer; regarding intercession, the Catechism in the Book of Common Prayer (page 857) says “intercession brings before God the needs of others.” An example of an intercession might be Fr. Charlie praying for someone to bring chocolate chip cookies to the office for Fr. Todd. :)

Sunday School classes for children and adults meet at 10:30am. This week in the class for adults, we resume our series on the stories of the Bible and will be looking at our final stories from the Apocrypha. 

Our annual Harvest Festival is this Sunday, October 27th from 3pm-5:30pm in the Parish Hall. Bring a dish to share at the potluck (finger foods encouraged!), and especially any fall desserts that you’d like to showcase. For the children, there will be pumpkin-pouring, last year’s big hit “musical pumpkins” with Brett over in the church, and Trunk-or-Treating in the alley parking area. There will also be a costume contest for children and adults.  

We also need Trunk-n-Treat hosts to decorate the trunk of their car and hand out candy to our little Trunk-n-Treaters. If you would like to volunteer or would like more information, please click here or email our Director of Children’s Ministries Karen.

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.

Next Friday (November 1st), the Trekkers will be going out for a stroll on the shore of Folsom Lake. Bring yourself, your dogs, and your (grand)babies for a little exercise and the joy of being together in God's creation. If you'd like to carpool please meet at church at 9am, or else meet us at 9:15am at the ARCO Station across the street from the Mormon Island Cove trailhead (at the intersection of Green Valley Road and Sophia Parkway). There’s ample, free parking on the street along Sophia Parkway. We’ll be back in time for the All Saints’ Day Eucharist. If you have any questions, please talk to Fr. Charlie. 

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 week, we’re reading Rowan Williams’ Being Christian. We’ll read the fourth chapter (only 20 pages long), “Prayer,” for this coming Wednesday. Our next book, in case you want to go ahead and get it, will be Rachel Held Evans’ Inspired. 

Fr. Todd is hosting a table at the Twin Lakes Food Bank gala and still has one open seat, and Fr. Charlie and his bride are also hosting a table and have three open seats remaining! There are three other tables full of Trinitarians, so there are sure to be friends there, even if you haven’t met them yet. The Twin Lakes Food Bank got its start here at Trinity Folsom and we continue to be major supporters of it. The gala is Friday, November 8th in the Lakeside Church Auditorium. The auction preview opens at 5pm, and dinner begins at 7pm. Tickets are $55. If you’re interested in attending, e-mail  Fr. Todd or Fr. Charlie.

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.

Last week, 6 Trinitarians signed up to help Folsom’s Homeless Assistance Resource Team (HART) provide and evening meal and a safe place to stay for our homeless neighbors. Thank you! However, there are still some available opportunities to serve. HART still needs volunteers to commit to one shift (or more!) for the 12 weeks of the shelter (Dec. 15-March 7). For example, if you sign-up to help with intake interviews on Monday nights, that means you are signing up for every Monday night beginning Dec. 16-March 1. Intake volunteers work at Helping Hands (311 Montrose Dr.), while welcome teams work at whatever church is hosting overnight guests that particular week. Drivers transport guests between Helping Hands and the host site (or vice versa). There are substitutes available if you need to miss a date or two, and in fact, you may sign up to be a substitute if the time commitment feels too daunting! If you have any questions, please talk to Fr. Charlie, or contact Judi Alexander. Please use this link to sign up!

If you have enjoyed the meal-packing events we’ve hosted in partnership with Rise Against Hunger, then you’ll be happy to know that the diocese will be hosting its own Rise Against Hunger event at Diocesan Convention! They are looking for 1-2 volunteers from each Sacramento-area parish to help assist (volunteers cannot be delegates to convention). The event will be Friday, November 8th at the McClellan Conference Center. Set up will be around 3pm, with the event starting at 5pm. Packing will wrap up around 6:30, and clean-up will end around 7:30pm. Email Fr. Charlie for more details.

Beautiful Christmas greens can be pre-ordered 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.

We’re working on contacting everyone to set up a visit to talk about the capital campaign, but there are a lot of us to be contacted so it is going to take some time! To expedite the process, you can sign-up for a visit on the day and at the time that is best for you (including on Sunday mornings when you’re here for church); we’ve created an  online sign-up here. We’ll also have members of the capital campaign steering committee at church on Sunday signing people up for visits. 

Parishioner Lois Nelson has made some incredibly beautiful quilts and donated them for our capital campaign. The drawing for the first two of them will be during our Harvest Festival (you don’t need to be present to win, though). The suggested donation to be entered into the drawing is $1 for one entry, $5 for six entries, or $10 for 12 entries. During the week, you can see the quilts and enter the drawing at the Thrift Shop, or on Sundays in the Parish Hall during coffee hours. All proceeds go to our capital campaign!

The funeral for Joan Larson, a parishioner from St. Francis’ Fair Oaks, will be at Trinity Folsom on Saturday, October 26th, at 2pm.

We’ve capped attendance at the ECW retreat at 80, and 80 women have signed up, so registration is now closed. But if you didn’t get signed up in time for this one, don’t worry, our goal is to have an annual retreat!

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!

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