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Justice and Outreach Council (JOC) Digest
March 2024
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Justice and Outreach Council Newsletter—Take a step toward justice. | |
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The Santa Barbara community
thanks you for your generosity.
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Showers of Blessing Thanks Us
for our Donations
"Thank you for your donation to Showers of Blessing. In these days of huge social challenges, you are participating in a service that is requested and appreciated by our homeless neighbors as they try to negotiate housing and other services. They often tell us that with a hot shower they can do something to improve their lives. Thank you for understanding the essential foundation to a better life that hygiene gives our guests.
We invite you to stop by one of the sites to participate in the friendly, grateful atmosphere as guests take their hot showers, receive new socks and underwear and a meal. Each site has a group of volunteers who enjoy each other and create relationships with our guests.
With gratitude,
Sally Hamilton, Board Member, Showers of Blessing
P.S. Please look at our website
showersofblessingsb.org for the schedule of our weekly sites. We would love to welcome you for a site visit anytime.
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Basic Needs Action Circle (BNAC)
a Transitional Housing Appeal
Good Samaritan Services, or Dignity Moves, features an Adopt a Room campaign to provide Transitional Housing for people without homes. At a recent JOC meeting, the Council voted to allocate $900 to fund three rooms to support the transitional housing project of Dignity Moves and invites the congregation to join in this effort.
There are approximately 30 units still to be funded on this project, costing $200-300. This transitional housing program is managed by Good Samaritan, has been successful. See more at Santa Maria Homeless Shelter | Communities | DignityMoves
Contact Ralph Armbruster, ralpharm@hotmail.com 805-722-4556 or
Jeff Krutzsch jskrutzsch@gmail.com
Eldering Series: Creating Possibilities for Our Collective Future -
Third Act
March 26, 2024 | 1:00 PM Eastern/ 10:00 AM Pacific
Third Act Lead Advisor Akaya Windwood, unscripted, cross-generational conversations on the roles younger and older activists are playing in our shared work, and what we can be learning from each other.
Community Resilience (Climate Change and the Environment) Circle
Co-chairs: Bill Leahy (whleahy2@gmail.com) & Jean Davis (jeanlangedavis@gmail.com)
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Transition House Meal Preparation - March
You can experience a traditional Trinity volunteer activity and serve a meal at Transition House (425 E Cota St) for approximately 60 residents on the 4th Saturday of the month. One helper is needed on March 23rd. Contact Teresa Pietsch teresapietsch4@gmail.com for more details or check the online sign-up for how to get involved.
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GO BACK TO SCHOOL
The JOC Education Circle is making plans to visit two of the sites we support in our Education and Children's ministry. Let us know if you are interest to join a group when we visit Harding School on the Westside of Santa Barbara and the Storyteller location serving younger children. Contact: Jennifer Bergquist, jenniferbergquist@gmail.com 805-886-6256
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Interfaith Silent Vigil Thursdays, 5-6pm
on State Street at Anapamu
** Please note earlier time and new location.**
Join us as we stand together in silent, caring presence for all in a time of great pain. A meaningful way to support each other and our hurting world. Bring a candle, if you have one.
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Dinner in Alameda Park
Trinity will prepare dinner and serve it in the park again on April 28. Join us just once, with an indoor or outdoor task, for this community experience. Check the online sign-up for volunteer opportunities or email Sarah Thomas, sthomas@trinitysb.org.
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Justice and Outreach Council’s Climate Environment Action Circle
We welcome your participation. Two of the discussion points from the 3/3/24 meeting were:
Earth Day: April 27 & 28. Will you join us at a Trinity table?
We will invite other faith communities to join us.
Other Interfaith Partnerships: Bill Leahy introduced Third Act Faith connected to 350.org. Bill and Jean already met with the “Green Team” from Free Methodist Church to discuss ways in which we might work together.
Our Action Circle welcomes new members, and all interested parishioners are encouraged to join us at our next gathering!
Please contact Bill Leahy (whleahy2@gmail.com) or Jean Davis (jeanlangedavis@gmail.com) if questions or want more information.
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Justice & Outreach Action Circle
on Gun Violence Prevention
The Faith and Firearms Readers Circle, led by Ken Johnson will begin with Carol Anderson's book, The Second. Participants will engage in the unexplored approaches to reducing gun violence in our society. The group will meet on Zoom at dates and times to be determined. Persons interested in joining the kick-off session should email Ken Johnson at 41omaha73@gmail.com.
Please enter "Readers" in the subject field of your email to Ken. Thank you.
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Environmental Defense Council (EDC)
will host it's Annual Blue and Green Event, June 9, 2924. Your participation is encouraged. Would you like to attend as a representative of Trinity Church? Contact: Jean Davis (jeanlangedavis@gmail.com) if questions or want more information.
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Trinity Annual Blood Drive
April 12 from 1 to 4 pm at Trinity. Your personal contribution can save a life and serve our community. Mark your calendar now. Jeffrey Krutzsch, JOC Co Chair manages this drive at Trinity every year. Vitalant is the blood bank for SB County & will join us at Trinity.
Questions: jskrutzsch@gmail.com
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News from our National Partners | |
Transforming Climates: Preaching Environmental Justice
April 2-4, In person at Sewanee, the University of the South
Racial and planetary climates are shifting in ways that demand transformation: of our society, of our communities, and of our preaching. This conference will explore how preaching changes when colonialist and exploitative conceptions of humanity break down. In small group workshops and lectures, participants will develop tools for an embodied, attentive, and place-based approach to preaching that can invite transformation of racial and environmental injustices. For more information and to register, visit the Sewanee website.
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Celebrate and Support Justice | |
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Celebrate loved ones by using the envelopes in the pews to recognize a special family member or event.
Turn your memories into a donation to the Justice and Outreach Council. We will use these funds to provide comfort and safety to those in need—food, education for children, assistance to immigrants—any of our neighbors needing support. . . so they can celebrate. Together, these gifts make possible our community of welcome, reconciliation, and service.
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. 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. Or donate via Trinity’s PayPal account, select "Justice Fund" and under “special instructions” provide the names of the persons or occasion you want to celebrate.
Thank you to our celebration donors for February!
Jeannie Christensen, Jean & David Davis, Sarah Fenstermaker,
Molly Kellogg & Mark Brownstein
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Land Acknowledgement
We honor and acknowledge the Chumash people, the traditional custodians of this land, and pay our respects to the Chumash elders, past, present, and future, who call this land on which we sit their home. We appreciate their wisdom, their culture, and their presence among us today as the host people of this land. We lament the injustices done to the original inhabitants and the injustices done to this land in the centuries since. We seek the courage and wisdom to heal the wounds of the past and build a better future together, in deep solidarity.
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