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Justice and Outreach Council
Monthly Digest
April 2023
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Welcome to the Justice and Outreach Council (JOC)'s monthly newsletter.
A place to find all the happenings of this active ministry at Trinity.
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Local Events and Opportunities for Service | |
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Dinner in Alameda Park. We will preparing dinner and serving in the park again on Thursday, April 27. Check the online sign-up for volunteer opportunities or email Sarah Thomas, sthomas@trinitysb.org.
Transition House (TH) Meal Preparation for April. The Trinity Transition Team shops, prepares and serves a dinner meal for approximately 60 TH residents on the 4th Saturday of the month (April 22). Join us and work alongside Christine Green, Helene Gardner, Deborah Wells Ah-Tye, Emily and David Young, Mandy Phillips, and Karen Claydon. Contact Teresa Pietsch teresapietsch4@gmail.com for more details or check the online sign-up.
Gun Violence Prevention Task Force Save the Date: Sunday, May 28th for a forum to discuss gun violence, its prevention in Santa Barbara, recent school shootings and the church's perceived role. See information handouts at upcoming coffee hours. Contact Ken Johnson omaha73@gmail.com.
Interfaith Sanctuary Alliance will meet at Trinity on Thursday, April 20 at 6pm .
Learn more at sbact.org, email sanctuary@sbact.org or attend the meeting virtually using this link.
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Episcopal Relief and Development International Work (ERD)
Earthquake Relief Efforts Continue in Syria and Turkey. Working through the Middle East Council of Churches and other local organizations, the ACT Alliance is sheltering 10,000 families in open-air or structurally sound facilities; providing survivors with hot meals, blankets, medicine and trauma support; supplying body bags and other necessities to hospitals; and helping children return to school to provide more stability. The Anglican Church in Aleppo is sheltering another 1,000 people and providing similar support. Donate to Episcopal Relief and Development to help with these relief efforts.
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Community Events and Celebrations | |
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Immigrant Legal Defense Center
No one should face immigration court alone, check with JOC for event details or call. A Toast to Justice! on Wednesday, April 26, 5-7pm, a benefit for the Immigrant Legal Defense Center.
Reserve today by calling 805-886-9136.
The Santa Barbara County Food Bank has a summer kids meal program called "Picnic in the Park.” Also help them pass the strongest farm bill yet. Keep the pressure on lawmakers to strengthen The Emergency Food Assistance Program to help end hunger across the United States. Visit feedingamerica.org to take action.
Harding School Foundation started a Benevolence Fund for our families at Harding on the Westside of Santa Barbara. Donations are restricted to a Benevolence Fund for families to provide funds for utilities, groceries, rent, clothing, and other necessities. Contact: brianna@hardingfoundation.org for more information.
Planned Parenthood California Central Coast
Support the 2023 Birds and Bees Bash on Saturday, April 29th at 5:30 pm at the Hilton Santa Barbara Beachfront Resort outdoors in the rotunda for sit-down dinner, program featuring PPCCC President and CEO Jenna Tosh, Ph.D. Contact: natalie.smith@ppcentralcoast.org
Storyteller Children's Center 9th Annual Lunch
Join us on Thursday, April 13, from 11:30am to 1pm at the Santa Barbara Woman’s Club (Rockwood) for an inspirational afternoon to learn about Storyteller’s mission and hear how our trauma-informed model changes the lives of our community’s most vulnerable children. To RSVP or learn more about this event, contact melissa@storytellercenter.org or 805.730.0155.
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PFLAG Connects: Supporting LGBTQ Families
PFLAG creates a caring, just and affirming world for LGBTQ+ people and those who love them. PFLAG meets every month, generally on the second Monday. Meetings are run by trusted PFLAG Santa Barbara leaders, exploring topics relevant to the LGBTQ+ community, followed by sharing and support.
Environmental Defense Center
Green & Blue: A Coastal Celebration event on June 11, 2-5:30pm at Rancho La Patera & Stow House celebrates all that we have accomplished together and to raise critical funds to continue our fight for our climate and local environment. Trinity's JOC is a sponsor. If you would like to attend contact Jeffrey Krutzsch, jskrutzsch@gmail.com
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April Earth Day Celebrations
the organizations in Santa Barbara focused on environmental issues and opportunities for volunteerism are:
- Community Environmental Council
- Environmental Defense Center
- Sustainable Trinity
- Gaviota Coast Conservancy
- Santa Barbara Wildlife Care Network
- Santa Barbara County Trails Council
- Wilderness Youth Project
- Center for Urban Agriculture at Fairview Garden
- Garden Club of SB
- Natural History Museum
- Santa Barbara Botanic Garden
- Santa Barbara Channelkeeper
- Santa Barbara Land Trust
- Climate Reality SB
- Sierra Club
- Seaside Wellness Gardens
- Channel Islands Restoration
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Celebrate and Support Justice | |
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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.
A special thank you to recent donors in January: Irene Marsi, Anna Campbell, Jeannie Christensen, and Sarah Fenstermaker. And in February: Irene Marsi, Mel and Irene Sahyun, David Young, Sarah Fenstermaker, Jeannie Christensen, Jean Davis, and Grace Williams.
A special donation last month: Trinity’s Vitalant Blood Drive on March 17 engaged twenty donors giving us 17 pints of blood. This amount will serve 60 people. The Blood Drive to save lives will be an annual event, so next March 2024 we’ll host another blood drive at Trinity. Thank you to all who participated!
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The Justice and Outreach Council (JOC) continues its important work in our community and beyond. 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.
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 all our loyal supporters!
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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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