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Justice and Outreach Council
Monthly Digest
August 2023
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Justice and Outreach Council Newsletter. Lord, make us instruments of your peace. | |
Opportunities for Service | |
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Dinner in Alameda Park
Trinity will prepare dinner and serve it in the park again on Thursday, August 24. 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. Trinity's next dinner will be on August 24.
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Transition House Meal Preparation for August
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 (August 26).
Contact Teresa Pietsch teresapietsch4@gmail.com for more details or check the online sign-up for how to get involved.
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Gun Violence Prevention Task Force
Many of you attended the Gun Violence Prevention Forum on May 28. Interest and enthusiasm for Trinity involvement continues.
We collected your signatures and composed a letter for our elected officials, Congressman Salud Carbajal, and CA Representatives Monique Limon and Gregg Hart. Our Clergy have reviewed this work. A portion of that letter is posted below. Be sure to check the link regarding the products sited.
"As congregants of Trinity Episcopal Church Santa Barbara, we submit this petition urging immediate legislative action on the approval and availability of personalized (i.e. 'smart') handguns such as those developed by Lodestar and Biofire companies."
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The Future of Religion in the West with Corey Williams, Ph.D.
AUGUST 12, 3:30 pm at All Saints by-the-Sea Episcopal Church
83 Eucalyptus Lane, Santa Barbara 93108
Corey Williams, Ph.D. (University of Edinburgh) is associate professor of Anthropology and Global Christianity at Leiden University.
Whether measured by belief, self-identification, membership, or participation, religion is declining. And it is happening fast and not just in Western Europe. The latest studies indicate that similar secularizing trends are emerging in the United States. This lecture concerns this decline and seeks to address why this is happening, what are its historical roots, and attempts to offer some ideas about what the future of religion in the West might look like in the coming decades.
When Those with the Greatest Needs Live with Us...
CA Dept. of Aging - In California, the Caregiver Resource Centers (CRCs) offer help throughout the state to serve thousands of families and caregivers of those with Alzheimer's disease, stroke, Parkinson's disease, and other disorders.
California Caregiver Resource Centers | Caregiver Resources (caregivercalifornia.org)
California was the first state in the nation to establish a statewide network of support organizations for caregivers; every resident has access to a CRC in their area.
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Pride Sunday at Trinity
with Special Panel Forum
Sunday, August 13 after the 10am service
“How Can Congregations Be Better Allies to the LGBTQ+ Community?” Sponsored by the Justice and Outreach Council.
Please join us for this exceptional Sunday service and forum supporting our LGBTQ+ community in these scary times of backlash and attack. Shawn Carey will preach, and the service will lift and celebrate our LGBTQ+ loved ones. The forum following the service features three local congregational leaders devoted to advocacy:
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Karen Rice of The Way Collective,
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Rabbi Debi Lewis of the Santa Ynez Valley Jewish Community, and
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Scott Claassen, recent pastor of St. Mikes in Isle of Vista.
We will explore together how to be better allies and advocates.
For more details on our Forum Panel, read their bios.
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Pacific Pride Festival at Chase Palm Park Field
Saturday, August 26, 11am-7 pm
Santa Barbara celebrates Pride in August at the Pacific Pride Festival at Chase Palm Park, a family-friendly and accessible park
along Cabrillo Blvd. Trinity will be represented with an information table. There are opportunities to volunteer in shifts from 10am to 7pm. Sign up at coffee hour at the next two Sundays or sign up online. Come join us!
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NEXT MONTH: The Central Coast Alliance United for a Sustainable Economy
Hazel Davalos and Lucas Zucker, Co-Executive Directors of CAUSE
invite Trinity members to join them on September 21st for Raising Justice. For those of you who don’t know, Raising Justice is their annual fundraiser and afternoon of community building that brings the CAUSE community together to help advance our movement for economic, environmental, and social justice in our region.
Click here to learn more and to RSVP.
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Stories of Engagement and Volunteerism | |
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Every month we publish a story of justice, ministry, and volunteerism from a Trinity parishioner. This month we feature another former member of the Trinity SB Justice and Outreach Council who continues to do important work in our community.
Charlie Zimmer is being honored by Hospice of Santa Barbara with the Lifetime Hero Award. Congratulations to him from all of us at Trinity SB. Charlie also worked with PATH in Santa Barbara, serving persons who are housing challenged. Charles and Nina are a wonderful couple with an interesting professional/business/academic background. Their lives exemplify the Hospice values upon which Charlie's award is granted:
"What matters most? Consider those things that are most significant to you. When grief or illness impact our lives, we are often reminded of what really matters most to us – the people we love, the meaningful actions we take, and the simple pleasures of life...traveling, family, spirituality. Our 2023 Heroes of Hospice event presents an opportunity to examine what really matters."
Congratulations Charlie!
Charlie pictured above with Hannah Beth Jackson (former California State Senator) receiving the 5th Annual Hospice Hero Award in 2017.
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Celebrate and Support Justice | |
Look for the blue celebration envelopes in the pews and recognize a birthday, an anniversary, graduation, engagement, a special event of any sort for which you are thankful. Turn your “celebration” 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. | |
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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 June and July!
Jean Davis, Norma and Glenn Stuck, Jeannie Christensen, Sarah Fenstermaker, Becky and Holly Hoffman, Emily and David Young, Robert Adams and Nancy Caponi.
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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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