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Justice and Outreach Council (JOC) Digest
July 2024
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Justice and Outreach Council Newsletter—Take a step toward justice. | |
"Do your little bit of good where you are, it's those little bits of good put together that overwhelm the world." Bishop Desmond Tutu | |
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Interview with Trinity Member, Ann Jaqua
This month’s JOC Digest features one of our most dedicated and influential parishioners, Ann Jaqua. If you are involved at all with one of our Parish Councils at Trinity, be it Children and Youth or Hospitality or Welcome or Worship or Justice and Outreach, that’s due to Ann’s involvement and her introduction of the concept of Shared Ministry to Trinity. All parishioners can participate and share in the ministry of the church. Ann has been a member of Trinity on and off for seventy years! Something of which she is most proud, is that she started Base Community at Trinity. Base Community has evolved over the years, but the main question remains the same: What is Jesus asking us to do? It is open to all. (Ann wishes to thank Michael Arnold for leading this group every week.)
Read the full article, submitted by Jean Davis Lange and Molly Kellogg.
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JOC Speaker Series - August 4, 11, 18
Trinity welcomes all to the “Compassion in Our Time” preaching series during Sunday services in August.
Rabbi Arthur Gross-Schaefer from Community Shul in Montecito will speak on August 4 Imam Wael Hegazy from the Islamic Society of Santa Barbara will speak on August 11
Tim Burnette from the Way Collective will speak on August 18
Members from all faith communities are welcome at each service. Services will be curated in collaboration with the faith leaders from each tradition, with the goal of respectfully integrating our varying traditions.
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Transition House Meal Preparation - July 27
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. Helpers are needed next month on August 24. Contact Teresa Pietsch teresapietsch4@gmail.com for more details or check the online sign-up for how to get involved.
Thanks to Trinity from Dignity Moves
Earlier this year, Trinity participated in the Dignity Moves Adopt a Room campaign to provide Transitional Housing at La Posada Village in Goleta for people without homes. The Justice and Outreach council allocated $900 to fund the allocation of furniture and home goods. In total, Trinity funded the furnishings for 11 rooms at La Posada.
Jack Lorenz, director at Dignity Moves, offers his thanks:
There was an encampment of 42 people living directly above La Posada Village on Hollister ...who were encouraged to accept a room. We were hoping that 15-20 would accept. To our great pleasure, all 42 people accepted... The encampment has been cleared and we are thrilled. Thanks to Trinity parishioners listed below and to the entire congregation for your generous support.
Lara Cooper, John and Anna DeVore, Miranda Fierro, Jane Forsyth, Priscilla Fossek, Helene Gardner, Anna Kokotovic, Jeff Krutzsch, Mac McNeel, Chris Mollkoy, Anne Roediger, Terre Sanitate, Stephen Singleton, and Norma Stuck.
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Gun Violence Prevention Action Circle
has recently received information from the Bureau of Firearms (BOF) that maintains Automated Firearms System (AFS), which is a repository of firearm records maintained by the California Department of Justice (DOJ). This is our State of California:
Overview of Homicide & Suicide. Below is a [partial] list of crime gun entries in AFS from 2010 to the present (data extracted on 5/22/24).
Homicide - Attempted 2,092 9.42%
Homicide - Willful Kill-Family-Gun521 2.35%
Homicide - Willful Kill-Family-Weapon 52 0.23%
Homicide - Willful Kill-Nonfamily-Gun 715 3.22%
Homicide - Willful Kill-Nonfamily-Weapon 71 0.32%
Homicide - Willful Kill-Pub Off-Gun 31 0.14%
Homicide - Willful Kill-Pub Off-Weapon 11 0.05%
Homicide - Willful Kill-Pol Off-Gun 1,049 4.72%
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Suicide 8,550 38.48%
Suicide - Attempted 1,182 5.32%
We urge you to join our efforts.
Faithfully,
Ken Johnson
Lead, Gun Violence Prevention Action Circle
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Interfaith Silent Vigil Thursdays, 5-6pm
State Street at Anapamu
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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Trinity provides sack lunches at the Santa Barbara Day (FARO) Center
on the 4th Thursday of every month—making the lunches in the morning and serving them mid-day. Our next lunch day will be on Thursday, July 25th.
We will need:
1 or 2 shoppers
3 lunch-makers who will arrive at the kitchen at 10:30am to assemble the lunches, and then head over to the day center (on Chapala and Ortega) to hand out the lunches and hang out with people for a little bit.
1 cleaner-upper to clean up after the lunches are assembled, arriving at the Trinity kitchen at 11:30am.
Helpers are needed for August 22. Sign up here: signupgenius.com
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James Robert Hagler
b. 1946, d. July 1, 2024
James Robert Hagler, OHC, a former prior of the Order of the Holy Cross’ Mount Calvary monastery in Santa Barbara and a priest of the Diocese of East Tennessee, died July 1 at Ferncliff Nursing Center in Rhinebeck, New York, where he was in nursing care.
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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 June!
Anna Campbell, Jeannie Christensen, Jean & David Davis, Nollie Lei Dawson,
Sarah Fenstermaker
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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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