Our Mission
We provide a welcoming environment to explore our faith and serve others.
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Our Vision
As a beacon of inclusivity, we
seek to transform our community.
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Trinity Tidings E-Newsletter
January 14, 2021
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Please pray for:
Carol + Carolyn + Pam + Jane + Carlos + Lila +
Cathy + Donna + Kim + Patti + Mary M. + Dale + Doris + Julie + Amanda + John E.
+ Luke + Rita
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2- Donna M.
3- Margaret L.
8- Aloysha M.
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In-Person Worship Suspended
Due to sharply increasing COVID cases in Amador County, in-person worship is suspended until further notice. Services will continue as regularly scheduled, but on Zoom only.
Visiting priest Rev. Christine Leigh-Taylor will still be saying Eucharist for us on Sunday, but the service will be Zoom only. Some of you may remember her visit from several years ago. Her introduction is below.
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Holy Eucharist January 16
Second Sunday after the Epiphany
with Dr. Christine Leigh-Taylor
Zoom ONLY at 9:30
Please join us Sunday on Zoom to welcome Rev. Christine and celebrate Eucharist.
Hello Trinity Sutter Creek. I have celebrated and preached here a few times before, sometimes with my “ministry helper,” my black Standard Poodle, Shadow.
I have been ordained for 20 years, and retired as rector of St. Clement’s at the end of August 2014. I am currently priest associate at Church of Our Saviour, Placerville.
Ministry with veterans, especially those who have been psychologically injured as a result of their military service, is one of my keen interests. In 2014 I founded and chaired for four years a veteran-led non-profit – Four Paws To Freedom – that trains veterans with their service dogs. In 2017 a group of us created El Dorado Veteran Resources, a non-profit that provides direct assistance and referrals to veterans staffed by volunteers. Our office is in the Veterans Memorial Building in Placerville.
Prior to being ordained to the priesthood in 2002, I enjoyed a fulfilling 26-year career as an academic administrator with various campuses of the University of California.
My husband, writer David Weber, and I have been living in the area since 2006. We have three living children, Alexa, Peter, and Erec, all married, with two sons apiece, ranging from 9 to 21.
I’m a native Californian, pretty much a green freak (we live in a straw bale house with a plant roof and solar panels, and I’ve been driving a Prius for 20 years), and I love music, art and building things.
Christine+
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2022 Diocese Convention Set
Calling for Delegates
The Diocese of Northern California has scheduled its Annual Convention to be held Friday, Saturday, October 21-22, in-person, at the Redding Civic Auditorium in Redding, CA. Convocation will be BY ZOOM on Saturday, September 17.
At Trinity's Annual Meeting we elect three delegates to represent Trinity at convention and elect two alternates. Anyone who would like to be considered for a delegate position, please email office@trinitysuttercreek.org or call Trinity office and leave a message at 209-267-0255 by January 21.
There will be no nominations from the "floor" at the annual meeting.
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Trinity 2022 Annual Meeting
January 23
Our annual meeting is scheduled for the fourth Sunday in January, the 23rd. The meeting will be held on Zoom, similar to what we did last year. The first order of business will be for the congregation attending the meeting to approve the Special Rules for Annual Meeting and Voting on Zoom.
Annual Meeting Agenda
Note: one of the items will be to vote on whether we keep 9:30 AM service time or change to 10:00.
Link to Zoom Annual Meeting
Note: You will be admitted to a "waiting room" and host will let you into the meeting.
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Candidates for Trinity's Vestry in 2022
We have candidates to fill all five of our open Vestry positions! Thanks and gratitude go them for for their commitment to the future of Trinity. New Vestry members will replace the three required to come off after serving out their terms and the two vacant positions in 2021.
In the meeting we will vote on a slate of the five a candidates below. The vote in the meeting will be to accept all five to the open Vestry seats.
Carol | Steve C. | Steve R. | Amanda | Laurie Jo
Thanks and our deepest appreciation goes to our outgoing Vestry members, Diane, Roberta, and Amanda for serving Trinity, during the especially difficult times of the last two years with COVID and transition from priest-in-charge to a working Vestry.
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2021 Senior Warden Report (Excerpt)
What a year! To borrow the Taoist phrasing about the only constant being change, I would say after this last year, the only certainty we have is the uncertainty of any of our plans coming to pass. However, that I am here writing a Sr. Warden report, is a tribute to the love of God and the dedication of the people who have kept Trinity's doors open for the whole of 2021, quite literally since we began regathering in the church June 6. I consider it a blessing for Trinity from COVID when Fr. Paul dragged us into the world of Zoom. Looking back we would have not functioned without it.
With our mission before us, "provide a welcoming environment to explore our faith and serve others", our plan for 2021 was to bring Trinity through the leadership transition from Paul Colbert, priest-in-charge, to a working Vestry managing all aspects of church, including regular Sunday services. Despite all the challenges our plan has come to fruition, through the ever-changing landscape of human interaction. It is with a sense of our mission accomplished, I report we have had a service every Sunday since February in 2020, albeit mostly Zoom because of the times. In 2021 we have had twenty-nine in-person services—every Sunday, except for two Zoom-only—since we re-opened our doors June 6 of this year. Thanks goes to those who were committed to make it happen and those who make the effort to attend in church.
Our accomplishments are astounding in light of our resources. With a worship team of three (initially four), including a techolyte, and the additional support of lectors, responders, greeters, and acolytes we have filled our service calendar each month, if not the church, itself. With visiting priests we met our commitment to offering Eucharist twice monthly since Fr. Paul's August departure, with only one exception, despite the high demand for visiting priests making it quite a challenge to schedule Eucharist Sundays.
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On to 2022! What will it bring? Only God knows. What Trinity can take on or offer in 2022 is somewhat determined by a somewhat meager budget. However, we will be able to invest in infrastructure, if the Vestry decides, due to a generous bequest from Jeri Miller. We can but continue and build on the foundation we have laid in 2021. It is for the Vestry, with its new members joining the incumbents to determine how we grow in our mission and expand our vision to transform our community as a beacon of inclusivity. Read full report here.
Faithfully,
Meg Verardi
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All Trinity 2021 Annual Reports
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Forward Day by Day
The new February- April spirit booster booklets are here!
Find them in the rack near the back door, or Nancy will gladly bring one to you.
Just email, text, or call me: 770-1382
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Afghan Resettlement Update
Everyone can help resettle an Afghan Family
Individuals, small groups, and churches all can have a role to play in welcoming our new Afghan Neighbors to Northern California and providing them with much needed and appreciated help in establishing their new lives here. Opportunities for participation include supplying winter blankets, laptop computers, money for temporary housing and services, and forming a Sponsor Circle and working directly to resettle an Afghan family.
To date, 56,000 Afghan Allies (these are folks who worked directly in support of the U.S. mission in Afghanistan over the past 20 years, their family members, and folks who worked for NGOs and humanitarian groups that provided aid to the Afghan people) have left their temporary homes at U.S. military bases and are resettling in communities all over our country. Many are already in Sacramento and other communities in Northern California. 18,000 more Allies are awaiting assignments and sponsors at these bases. Several thousand of these refugees are slated to come to Northern California. The nine official resettlement agencies (our local partners international Rescue Committee and World Relief are two of the nine) are maxed out in their ability to resettle all the families.
Our help is very needed and urgent.
Please join this effort by doing your part to welcome Afghan refugees. Details on ways to do this are here.
-The Afghan Resettlement Team
A Ministry of the Commission for Intercultural Ministries
To donate to the local effort, click here, then click the red “Give” button and select “Center at St. Matthew’s”.
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Also, you can click here for the latest Ways to Help flyer.
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For more information contact:
Lynn Zender Commission for Interculteral Ministries
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Diocesan Commissions | Committees | Ministries
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Amador County
Behavioral Health Network of Care
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Amador County Mental Health Resources
NAMI Amador Connection Recovery Support
FREE Group for Adults with mental illness, regardless of the diagnosis; Led by trained individuals who are also in recovery-people who understand the changes and challenges.
EVERY THURSDAY
10:00AM to 11:30AM at Sierra Wind
10354 Argonaut Ln, Jackson, CA 95642
OR
1:00PM to 2:30PM at the Senior Center
229 New York Ranch Rd, Jackson, CA 95642
NAMI Peer-to Peer Support
A course of eight sessions led by NAMI State certified mentors and instructors.
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Trinity Vestry Meetings
Our next meeting will follow the Annual Meeting for election of 2022 officers. The next regular meeting will be in February.
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Vestry Team Leaders and Responsibility |
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Pastoral
Spiritual needs of the parish
Meg Verardi, Sr. Warden
Diane Christensen—Prayers for parishioners (prayer chain email, prayers of the people in worship, newsletter)
Liturgical
Church services, high seasons and holy days, supply priest scheduling, and music
Amanda Paul-Parker
Mary Yount—Musical Director
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Administrative/Treasurer
Communications, Diocese requirements and reporting, office management
Carol Holt, Treasurer
Newsletter
Nancy Moore, Clerk
Meg Verardi
Facilities
Building and grounds
David Hoos, Jr. Warden
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Trinity In-person Worship is Suspended
Services are Zoom only
as of 1/14/22
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Zoom Worship
Sunday, 9:30 AM
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Eucharist
1st and 3rd Sundays
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Lay-Led Morning Prayer
2nd, 4th and 5th Sundays
Post-Easter
Morning Prayer Booklet
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Daily Vespers
Monday-Saturday 6:00 pm
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Centering Prayer
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Wednesdays, 9:30 AM
- Thursdays, 7:00 PM, evening group meets
The practice is simple to begin, and benefits are quickly felt.
Email Martha for information
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The Rose of Zion Wisdom School
Adult Spiritual Formation
All are welcome, regardless of creed or religious affiliation.
No one is excluded from the universal Light of Wisdom!
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We Want to Hear From You!
Trinity Tidings Editors
Nancy Moore—Parishioner News
209-267-5182
Meg Verardi—Vestry News
209-267-0101
Steve Christensen—Community, National Episcopal
209-256-5914
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