The Liturgy of the Word

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Livestream Link:

Upcoming Event: Adult Forum

Date: Thursday, Aug. 6

Time: 7 p.m.

Location: Livestream

Description: Join Fr. Rob and Senior Warden Steve King. See full Adult Forum article for more information.

Livestream: https://www.facebook.com/pg/TrinityLawrenceKS/

Upcoming Event: Children's Sunday School

Date: Sunday, Aug. 9

Time: 9:30 a.m.

Location: Livestream

Description: Susan Hires leads lessons and activities. Join us on on our Facebook page. https://www.facebook.com/pg/TrinityLawrenceKS/

Upcoming Event: Spiritual Communion

Date: Sunday, Aug. 9

Time: 10:30 a.m.

Location: Livestream

Description: Join your fellow Trinitarians online for worship and music.

Livestream: https://www.facebook.com/pg/TrinityLawrenceKS/

Upcoming Event: Anchor Women

Date: Tuesday, Aug. 11

Time: 6:30 p.m.

Location: Zoom

Description: A community of women of various ages and backgrounds share thoughts, stories, highlights, fun and laughter. For more information reach out to Patti Anderson (patti6of7@gmail.com) or Mary Perkins (mlperk59@gmail.com).

Upcoming Event: Children's Story Time with Susan

Date: Tuesday and Thursday

Time: 10 a.m.

Location: Livestream

Description: Susan Hires reads picture books and great children's literature, and explores crafts and beekeeping.

Livestream: https://www.facebook.com/pg/TrinityLawrenceKS/

Upcoming Event: Friendship Circle

Date: Wednesday, Aug. 12

Time: 4 p.m.

Location: Zoom

Description: The Friendship Circle welcomes those who are widowed, divorced or single, or who are seeking friendship from parishioners. If you would like to join us, please contact Susan Ralston at sralston@sunflower.com for an invitation. All are welcome.

Upcoming Event: Evening Prayer

Date: Wednesday, Aug. 12

Time: 7 p.m.

Location: Livestream

Description: Join us for Evening Prayer each week.

Livestream: https://www.facebook.com/pg/TrinityLawrenceKS/

Upcoming Event: Adult Forum

Date: Thursday, Aug. 13

Time: 7 p.m.

Location: Livestream

Description: Join your fellow Trinitarians for exploration of faith issues.

Livestream: https://www.facebook.com/pg/TrinityLawrenceKS/

Reminder, if you do not see the "This Week at Trinity" at the bottom of the newsletter, there should be an expand button to click to view our complete newsletter.

Is your spiritual life by chance, or by choice? I'll freely admit that a lot of my own spiritual life is by chance, and that is not a bad thing per se.

Let me explain by using a metaphor. Right now my extroverted tendencies are largely being fed by random encounters with people I meet. I'll run into a parishioner in the store, or a friend downtown, and will deeply partake of the energy of that encounter with all the gusto my social heart can muster. A lot of my spiritual life operates in the same way: I will have some moment in my life suddenly take on a profoundly spiritual quality, one that appears to come entirely from the external, not by my own design.

Contrast that with the intentional design. Back to my metaphor, I've had to remind myself to keep up with personal correspondences with people whom I normally see on a regular basis--close friends, etc. With the cessation of public worship and its radical transformation into an almost exclusively online format, what was my normally scheduled spiritual life has fallen away. I'm no longer receiving the Eucharist, praying with others, or singing hymns.

Ideally my social life should be a combination of the intentional and the spontaneous, rather than rely so heavily on what is really the more inconsistent fare. In the same vein, all of us should be mindful of finding new disciplines, new methods of ensuring that our spirits remain healthy and regularly fed as well.

Grace and peace be with you in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ.

This evening Fr. Rob will livestream a discussion with Senior Warden Steve King on the challenges of dealing with COVID-19 at Trinity, and the deliberation process the Vestry is using to determine when and how to re-open for in person services. Join us at 7 p.m. Aug. 6 on our Trinity Facebook page .

Reminder that articles for our newsletter should be sent to corner@trinitylawrence.org by noon Wednesday each week. Please limit submissions to 150 words.

Our newsletters are available on our website and Facebook page.

The scheduled Vestry meetings are:

Sept. 7, Oct. 5, Nov. 2

Meetings are open to all and are being held on Zoom at this time. The minutes of each meeting are posted to the church bulletin board and Trinity Vestry Minutes. Your Vestry can be contacted at vestry@trinitylawrence.org

Minutes through June have been added to our website.

To add a person's name to the prayer list or to become a prayer chain member, please contact the parish office... Prayers... or call 785-843-6166; or Carol Hatton, Prayer Chain coordinator (caroldonhatton@gmail.com).

The Prayer Chain prays daily for those who are ill, suffering or troubled; who have died; or who wish to offer praise and thanksgivings. Prayer Chain members find that their own private prayer life with God also deepens during this daily practice.

Pray for those who need healing: Eleanor, D.J., Dave, Anne, Brandon Woods employees and residents, Jeff, Gary, Tim, Linda, Kathie, Janice, John, Fr. Bob, Ellen, Melissa, Kim

For those with special circumstance: Chris and family, Kyle, Nathan, Jennifer, John, Rylee, Steven, Marianne

 

For those in the hospital: Michael, Sharon 

For the departed: Karen Lipp , Jacque Alstatt, Cheryl Estes

We would like to know about hospitalizations, illnesses or special needs you are experiencing. Please call Fr. Rob, Deacon Deborah Burns, the Church office or a Vestry member so that we can help.

Trinity is purchasing audio visual equipment to produce livestreams of the Sunday morning service. The new equipment is an unbudgeted expense, which will require fundraising. We have created the Staying Connected Campaign to fund this unbudgeted expense.

If you are able to support this campaign, please click here or mail a check to our office at 1027 Vermont St., Lawrence, KS 66044 with Staying Connected Campaign in the memo line.

The food pantry continues to be grateful to the parishioners for your abundant support to our ministry of giving food to people in need by gifts of money, service, and prayer.

 Trinity Interfaith Food Pantry (TIFP) was open seven days in July (closed Saturday, July 4) and served 148 households. So far this year, the food pantry has been open 57 days and has served 1,550 households. Volunteers with the Mobile Food Distribution (Harvesters) on a hot day on Saturday, July 25, at First Baptist Church served 130-plus  households.

TIFP spent $761.21 in July for food purchased locally, and $761.12 through Harvesters. The total retail equivalent value of all food provided was $3,108.00. Each grocery bag of food has a retail value of $21.00. TIFP remains unable to accept donations of food at this time.

TIFP provides food to any person requesting food with no eligibility requirements.

TIFP continues to distribute food outside of the Matthews Center near the parking lot, maintaining physical distancing between clients. Our volunteers wear facemasks and plastic gloves and practice physical distancing inside the food pantry and outside serving our patrons.

TIFP volunteers include friends of the pantry, along with Catholic Charities of Northeast Kansas, First Baptist Church, Salvation Army and the Boy Scouts.

 

July, of course, is in the midst of summer and is usually warm and uncomfortable—so why are the climate scientists saying that the July of 2019 is different? In fact some of these scientists are now replacing the term climate change with climate emergency! 

Opinions can differ, but clearly this July has been shown as the hottest month ever—since records have been kept. The World Meteorological Organization and the European Union’s Copernicus Program stated that this July’s recorded temperatures surpassed 2016 figures and were about 1.2 degrees Celsius above the pre-industrial levels and fast approaching the 1.5 degree Celsius rise that the Paris Accord set as the limit of change. July heat waves hit Paris (108.6 degrees Fahrenheit), Germany, Belgium and the Netherlands (104-105 degrees Fahrenheit).

There are drought and drinking water emergencies in India, wildfires in the Arctic (releasing 100 megatons of carbon dioxide), loss of the ice sheet in Greenland (197 billion tons of lost ice—the average summer sees only 60 million tons of lost ice.), and extreme heat waves in the U.S. (Anchorage, Alaska—hottest July ever).

All of this heat is occurring in a non-El Nino year, which is another danger signal, because an El Nino year is usually warmer.  Clearly, we must stop this trend. It is affecting human health and worldwide food security issues, causing economic upset (think losses from extreme floods, fires, tornadoes, etc.), and, of course, damaging the web of life that supports and sustains the planet.

Visit the Trinity website for full and past articles 

 

SOURCES: www.epa.gov/heat-island/what-you-can-do-reduce, https://www.livescience.com/66084-july.2019-hottest-month-ever,

EARTH STEWARD ACTION: 

Please vote and advocate sustainable policies and leaders at all levels. We can also plant shade trees, purchase energy star appliances, change to a cool roof that reflects heat, “beef up” insulation in our homes, use ceiling fans and wear light clothing.

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Kristin Montgomery

Director of Development