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 petition. Petition is one of the seven principal types of prayer; regarding petition, the Catechism in the Book of Common Prayer (page 857) says “in petition, we present our own needs, that God’s will may be done.” An example of a petition might be a hungry Fr. Todd praying for someone to drop chocolate chip cookies off at the office. :)

Sunday School classes for children and adults meet at 10:30am. This week in the class for adults, Kathy Lawler will finish her short series on science and faith. We hope you’ll join us! 

There are a few road closures (mostly Folsom-Auburn Road and Sutter Street) in Folsom this Sunday for the Folsom Blues Breakout races, and most of the roads will be open by 8am or 8:30am. Check the City of Folsom Traffic Alerts page for more info.

The Children’s Choir will be singing at the 9am this Sunday!

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. 

Fr. Todd is hosting a table at the Twin Lakes Food Bank gala and still has three open seats! 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.

Our annual Harvest Festival is on 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 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 third chapter (only 20 pages long), “Eucharist,” for this coming Wednesday.  

Greetings! The vestry met again last night (October 15th) and we have only good news to report. The capital campaign continues to go well and we appreciate your continued support as we head into the home stretch. If you haven't been visited yet, let us know when we can come meet with you! We also appreciate how many of you have already returned your pledge cards for this year's stewardship campaign right after pledging to the capital campaign. I promise we are not starting any more campaigns in 2019!

Our architects, Garavaglia Inc, have delivered more detailed drawings, which they have sent to a local cost estimator to give us a more accurate financial estimate for implementing our master site plan. This will also allow us to start applying to the city for all of the permits we will need, which can be a lengthy process in Folsom. Once those are approved, we can begin to plan where and when work will begin. We know that you're excited after all the planning to see the work begin, and we are, too!

~ Shannon Dillon, Senior Warden

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.

Trinity Folsom’s Episcopal Church Women is hosting a half-day retreat for women on Saturday, November 16th, from 10am-1:30pm. The theme of the retreat is “From Information to Transformation: Cultivating Your Inner Life with God,” and our own Libby Vincent, a former professor of theology at Fuller Seminary and a postulant for holy orders in our diocese, will be the facilitator. It will be here on our campus, and childcare in the nursery will be provided; if you intend to use the nursery, please let Barbara know so that we can prepare to be adequately staffed. The cost to attend the retreat is only $5 and includes lunch catered by our friend Rosario at Sutter Street Taqueria. Register early here to save your spot before we open registration to the diocese and wider Christian community. We already have 53 registered, and we’re intending on capping attendance at 80, so don’t delay!

During the winter months, Folsom’s Homeless Assistance Resource Team (HART) provides an evening meal and a safe place to stay for men and women experiencing homelessness. As in the past, they are in need of 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. Substitutes are available.

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). Training will be available online and in person.

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 16th 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.

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.

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.

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