Justice and Outreach Council
Monthly Digest
February 2021
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Welcome to the Justice and Outreach Council's monthly newsletter: a place to find all the happenings of this active ministry at Trinity. |
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Opportunities for Involvement
Ways to get involved in our community, at Trinity, and in the world.
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Celebrate Black History Month
February 2021
February is Black History Month. Celebrate with virtual events hosted by a collaboration of Santa Barbara County organizations. Around thirty virtual events are planned this year, honoring the theme of The Black Family: Representation, Identity, and Diversity.
Click here for a list of events with information on how to join.
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PFLAG Virtual Support Meeting
Monday, February 8, 7pm on Zoom
PFLAG is an organization supporting parents, families, and friends of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender persons. The theme of this month's meeting is Stages in the Coming Out Journey For LGBTQ Persons & Loved Ones. Registration is required in order to attend, and the registration window is open until 6pm on the day of the meeting.
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Love Your Neighbor Weekend
March 11-14, 2021
Want to talk about what's next for immigration advocates? Please join the Interfaith Sanctuary Alliance for a virtual Love Your Neighbor Weekend, a time for people of faith and people of conscience to renew our commitment to standing in solidarity with our immigrant neighbors. Events will include a film screening and panel discussion.
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Freedom Warming Center
Trinity Church is part of the interfaith community feeding and sheltering the unsheltered during the cold and rainy months from November through March. We are scheduled for about four weeks during those months and usually open our doors and prepare food when it rains or becomes too cold.
This year's Warming Center season will have houseless guests staying overnight in the Veteran's Memorial Building on Cabrillo Blvd during harsh weather, instead of at individual churches. However, the Veteran's Memorial Building is unavailable to host guests on Wednesday or Thursday evenings and Trinity has answered the call to host on those harsh weather nights. Trinity, along with the other participating churches, has been asked to provide dinners on nights that the Center is open.
The Trinity community has answered our call for frozen casseroles and our freezer is full and ready to feed our houseless neighbors! Thank you to everyone who donated a casserole. We will let you know here when we are in need of casseroles once again!
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Stories of Volunteerism
Every month we publish a story about volunteerism from a Trinity parishioner. Here’s an excerpt from a poem by Pandra Moriarty (you can read her full poem by clicking this link).
"There are so many opportunities to reach out to others. Some are small, some big, some close at hand and some much farther away. For me these two opportunities flow together as I carefully handle the chalices and cruets, placing them on the tray, and as I wind the yarn around my needles to create stitches that will also hopefully bring comfort."
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Celebrate and Support Justice
The Justice and Outreach Council (JOC) has continued its important work while Trinity has been in diaspora. Funding for the JOC comes from your pledges and Celebration offerings. The JOC’s funding is part of our annual Operating Budget where five percent (5%) of all pledges received during the year is put in the JOC account. As pledge income has remained steady this year, these funds continue to be set aside for justice work.
However, with in-person church services suspended, we no longer have “Celebration Sundays”, and we are informed that when we resume gathering at Trinity we will not be allowed to have envelopes (as well as other materials) in the pews.
But be not dismayed! There are two ways you can continue to celebrate and support our justice work in addition to your pledges both now and in the future. You can send in a check made out to Trinity and simply note “Justice” in the memo line and provide the names of the persons or occasion you want to celebrate. You can also donate via Trinity’s PayPal account by visiting our website or by clicking here, and under “special instructions” designate your donation for JOC and provide the names of the persons or occasion you want to celebrate.
Thank you for supporting our justice work through your pledges, donations, prayers, and most of all, the work you do in your lives to make this a more loving, peaceful, and just world.
Kathryn Dean, JOC
Michael Dean, Treasurer
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