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Building community, telling our stories, awaking our hearts to Jesus' call, and imagining new ways of engaging in God's mission to create a healed and whole Body of Christ - that is my role as Region Missionary in a nutshell. During this time of social distancing and Covid-19 these goals still hold true, just on a quieter level. I am still gathering communities together online and by phone, I continue to listen to and share stories across the Region, and I am always seeking to awaken myself and others to Jesus' call to build God's kingdom right here and now with whatever means we have available to us. God is still at work in the world. Love still inspires.

 

I graduated from Yale Divinity School with a Master of Divinity in 2017 and immediately began work as your Region Missionary. I was ordained to priesthood in January of this year at Christ Church Cathedral in Hartford. At Yale I spent three years immersed in Anglican studies and college chaplaincy, working as an intern and then Program Director for the Episcopal Church at Yale. Prior to seminary, I worked in university administration at Northwestern University. My background is in theatre production and I was an assistant lighting designer at The Lyric Opera of Chicago for four years. I am originally from New Hampshire, and I am delighted to call New England home once again. I live in Middletown with my husband and our two giant Newfoundland dogs, Zoë and Hannah. I am especially passionate about ministry that looks outward and is open to all people, connecting people to one another, veggie gardening and fishing!!

 

You can reach me at: [email protected] or 860-966-3742

 

The Rev. Erin Flinn

North Central Region Missionary
Pronouns: she, her, hers

While it continues to be hard not to gather on Sundays, one joy has been to see so many faces joining our Zoom services. If you have not had the chance to do that yet, please connect with the link provided in today's e-Voice. For the Easter season we will share Morning Prayer with all who connect, with music led by Organist Jackson Merrill. If you have found our Zoom-delivered worship a good experience, please encourage fellow Trinity folks, or any neighbor, friend or family member, far or near, to join us. We had one Trinity friend joining us from California last week. You will be hearing sermons from Trinity's familiar and gifted resident preachers, and from me every other week as your Interim.

Trinity has long practiced outreach to the hungry in our region and beyond. With the pandemic causing so much unemployment, the need for food distribution to those experiencing hunger around us has sky-rocketed. Foodshare spent $225,000 in March to help people in Hartford and Tolland Counties, about what they spent all last year. We at Trinity will be discussing how we can continue to be helpful during this crisis. In the meantime, please consider making a cash donation to Foodshare (foodshare.org) or the Connecticut Food Bank (ctfoodbank.org). These organizations provide much of the food that goes to soup kitchens and food pantries all over the state.

If your household needs assistance during this time, please do not hesitate to contact me at 860-986-3289 or via email, [email protected]. All spoken conversations with me on sensitive issues are confidential.

I have been inspired by the ways in which the community of Trinity has stepped up during this difficult time. It is a privilege to serve this parish as you continue your process toward finding a new Rector.

Many blessings,

Norman

From now on, we will describe this digital message to you as The e-Voice. We will continue to publish The Voice as a hard copy postal newsletter under Kathie Wilson's skilled hand as an editor.

Reading the newspaper or watching television news these days, there's a lot of focus on the experience of loss brought about by the coronavirus pandemic. There are the obvious and immensely painful losses in the passing of loved ones, including our own friend and brother Carl Williams. There are the losses engendered by the changes in our day to day activities, children missing their friends because they're out of school, adults missing colleagues at work, and the frustration of losing our freedom of movement and activity, so cherished in the USA.

And then there are the losses that have nothing to do with COVID19, losses that occur in the natural progression of life. This week we learned of a loss we will encounter when Jackson Merrill, our much loved and admired Director of Music Ministries, takes his leave of Hartford to further his education at the University of Michigan. We rejoice with Jack at this wonderful opportunity even as we mourn our loss of a parish leader, a friend, a teacher, and one who helps to shape our worship experience with skill and love.

We are an Easter people, though, and we view all our transitions through the lens of faith, trusting that God will provide what we need in order to carry out our ministries as Trinity Church on Asylum Hill. We are already in the midst of a search for a new Rector, and that will remain our first priority. There will be supply musicians for a while after Jack departs at the end of July, while the search for a new musician gets into full swing. Your Vestry will appoint a musician search committee, which will be led by Linda MacGougan.

 

Th e Mark Twain House & Museum offers this FREE program on May 5, 7:00 - 8:00 pm via Crowdcast.

 

Join us for an online evening with Amity Gaige as she talks about and reads from her latest novel Sea Wife, a smart, sophisticated literary page-turner about a young family that escapes suburbia for a year-long sailing trip that upends all of their lives. 

 

Sea Wife is told in gripping dual perspectives: Juliet's first-person narration, after the journey, as she struggles to come to terms with the dire, life-changing events that unfolded at sea; and Michael's captain's log-that provides a riveting, slow-motion account of those same inexorable events. Exuberant, harrowing, witty, and exquisitely written, Sea Wife is impossible to put down. A wholly original take on one of our oldest stories-survival at sea-it also asks a pertinent question for our polarized political moment: How does a crew with deep philosophical differences and outmoded gender roles bring a ship safely to shore?

Please click the link to find out more and register for this event. 

 

Forward Day by Day is a publication that many of you access via hard copy. Did you know that there is a link to this publication on our church website? Go to the Worship tab, click on Worship Involvement and then click on Worship Resources. You will find the link to Forward Day by Day.   

 

If you would like a paper copy sent to you in the mail, please email Barbara Roos at [email protected] and she will send one to you.

 

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