“From everyone to whom much has been given, much will be required; and from the one to whom much has been entrusted, even more will be demanded.” Luke 12:48
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Please join us for the First Annual Trinity Legacy Sunday on August 29, 2021, for the 10 am Service. Trinity Legacy Sunday was created through the cooperative efforts of Dean Boston and the Foundation. Trinity Legacy Sunday will be held on the last Sunday before Labor Day each year. Christian Markle, bagpiper will lead the procession to begin the service. The Legacy service is designed to pay respects to all deceased Trinity members and to thank the families of the benefactors to the Foundation. We also want to recognize and thank all of our current Legacy Builders. Guest presenters are Dr. Robin Coletrain, Principal, W.A. Perry Middle School and a Choir Member. After the service, our bagpiper, Christian Markle, will lead the Trinity families of all ages to the festive Celebration. |
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Trinity Legacy Sunday Celebration |
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The Trinity Foundation is looking forward to a very delightful Trinity Legacy Sunday Celebration with food, beverages, and entertainment for young children, teenagers, and adults. A photographer will be taking pictures for future issues of The Cornerstone. We encourage you to bring your cell phones and take pictures that you would like to have and also to share with the Trinity family. We encourage the choir to join us for the Celebration after they remove their robes.
Beverages
Mimosas for adults only, lemonade and water for all.
Brunch
All Ages: Ham biscuits, mini tomato pies, devil eggs, cheese straws, open face sandwiches with cucumber topping, pimento cheese sandwiches, and a veggie tray.
Appeal to Teenagers and Children: Mini-corn dogs, donuts, mini-muffins, cookies, and snow cones.
Special gluten-free section: Fruit, veggies, devil eggs, pimento cheese on gluten-free bread, gluten-free cookies.
Entertainment
Adults: Fellowship and Music
Teenagers: Fellowship, Music, Cornhole
Young Children: Balloons, Frisbee, Connect 4 (Yard version)
Folders with information from the service and from the Foundation will be available at both exits of the Cathedral Lawn. Please pick up one folder per family from the table when you exit the Celebration.
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Legacy Builder: Mary Belser |
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“From everyone to whom much has been given, much will be required; and from the one to whom much has been entrusted, even more will be demanded.” Luke 12:48
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Cherished wife, mother of three, grandmother of seven, community leader, philanthropist, fundraiser, Trinity Legacy Builder – and the lady loves to ride a tractor! Mary Rainey Belser, born in Anderson, South Carolina, came into this world blessed with an abundance of talents and loving parents, who not only stressed the importance of Luke 12:48, but served as living examples of its meaning. Perhaps unknowingly, they provided her with the motivation to lead and to serve.
Mary began her involvement at Trinity Cathedral in 1974, singing in the Choir as the young bride of Duncan Clinch Heyward Belser, Jr. Through the years, she served the Parish as a member of the Vestry; Junior Warden and Senior Warden; President of the Trinity Foundation Commission; Chairman of the Canon Organist/Choirmaster Search Committee; member of the 2011 Dean Search Committee; and Chairman of the Bicentennial Campaign for the Restoration of Trinity Cathedral and Parish House. When asked which of those commitments meant the most to her, Mary named the Restoration, and Clinch confirmed.
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As Senior Warden during the Restoration Campaign, Kirby Shealy worked closely with Mary. He refers to her as a “lesson in prepositions” because she was willing to go “over, under, around, and through” obstacles as they tried to achieve their goals. Kirby “learned a lot about leadership from Mary,” who was always prepared and “always checking to make sure others are on board.” Apparently, Mary could be depended upon to remain steady, as well. There was a photo opportunity with Kirby and Mary climbing on scaffolding on top of the Cathedral spires. Not being fond of heights, Kirby thought he was going to die, while Mary remained calm and composed!
“If you take care of your place of worship, it shows that you understand your call to stewardship,” says Mary. During the Restoration Campaign, she was especially appreciative of “all the people willing to call on people” for help, financial and otherwise. Clinch affirms that “one great thing about the restoration was that it wasn’t just one person, it was so many people.” As Mary says: “Trinity provides a place for people to participate – people with a passion.”
As a Legacy Builder, Mary has had a lot of practice. She has worked diligently to improve the lives of those in her local community and state, earning the prestigious Order of the Palmetto for her efforts. A few of the organizations that she has served are: S.C. Governor’s School for the Arts and Humanities, Converse College, The Columbia Museum of Art, Heathwood Hall Episcopal School, S.C. Orchestra Association, S.C. State Museum Foundation, The Symphony League, and the Junior League of Columbia.
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All of these commitments are important to Mary but, if you really want to see her lovely smile, simply ask about her family, especially children and grandchildren. Close to home, she gets to enjoy three grandsons who belong to son Freeman and his wife Maryanne; a flight to Connecticut takes her to daughter Callie and son-in-law Robert Creighton’s home for time with their son and two daughters; and Florida beckons for a visit with firstborn son Duncan, his wife Jessica and their son. Of her husband of 48 years, Mary says: “I wouldn’t be able to do any of the things I’ve done without Clinch.” Demonstrating what a team they are, Clinch’s website clearly states that his “greatest asset is his wife, Mary.”
As for the lady loving to ride a tractor, Mary and Clinch recently sold their house in Columbia and moved to the farm that has been in the Belser family since 1920, and a haven that Mary loves. They also keep a pied-à-terre at Still Hopes and, rest assured, maintain a strong commitment to Trinity Cathedral. Once you become a Legacy Builder, the “ties that bind” are for forever.
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A Message from Dean Dane Boston |
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What will your legacy be?
That's a good question for each of us to ponder every now and again, whatever stage of life we find ourselves in, whatever our family circumstances are, whatever our core commitments may be. What will I leave behind when I am gone? What will those who follow after remember about me? What will my legacy be?
To build a legacy requires faith. We live our lives fully, joyfully, faithfully in this moment, and simultaneously we recognize our own finitude, our own mortality. The legacy we leave behind when we are gone is a manifestation of our fidelity to the deep truths that give meaning to our lives right now.
To build a legacy requires trust. We trust that the foundations of our lives are firm and lasting--indeed, that they will outlast us! We trust that those who come after will be faithful stewards of the things that matter most, even as the world changes from day to day. We trust that the legacy we leave will bless generations we have not known and cannot imagine, and who will yet be bound to us by the Spirit of the Living God.
To build a legacy requires hope. Martin Luther reportedly once said "Even if I knew that the world would go to pieces tomorrow, I would still plant my apple tree today." With our hope firmly fixed on God, we find the courage to do what must be done today, and through all the uncertain days that lie before us.
What will your legacy be? Becoming a Legacy Builder of the Trinity Foundation is an act of radical hope, radical trust, radical faith. It takes the temporal goods we know we can never keep and offers them in service to the eternal life we know we can never lose in Christ Jesus our Lord. As we approach Legacy Sunday on August 29, take a moment to ask yourself that one simple question: "What will my legacy be?"
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Please Welcome The Reverend Jimmy Hartley |
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Jimmy Hartley began his service as Canon Pastor of Trinity on August 15. He is well known to many Trinity parishioners, including Foundation members, having served as Canon for Christian Formation Congregational Vitality and Mission Communities for the Diocese of Upper South Carolina, and also as a Trustee at Heathwood Hall School. He is a graduate of the University of South Carolina, having earned a BA degree in Religious Studies, and has a Master’s degree in Divinity from Virginia Theological Seminary.
Jimmy and his wife Caroline have three children, William, Robert, and Sinclair, who attend Heathwood Hall. Please welcome the Hartley family who are no strangers to Trinity and Columbia.
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Special Request of Parishioners |
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The Trinity Foundation is in the process of updating our records so that we can preserve them for the future. One area that we are committed to improving is records of bequests of all types and from all sources: Charitable gifts in Wills, Legacy gifts from IRAs, 401 (k) plans, insurance, securities, real estate, Donor Advised Funds, trusts of all types, and tangible personal property. Our records are up-to-date beginning in 2015 and also the Tom Vernon Bequest received in 2013. The list of bequests from 2015 to the current date will be provided in the folders on Trinity Legacy Sunday.
If you have records of any member of your family making a bequest to Trinity before 2015, please share that information with us so we can recognize them each year on Legacy Sunday. Please contact the Foundation: Patti Trotter at 803.446.1985 or ptrotter@trinitysc.org.
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Welcome our New Legacy Builders |
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Peter and Jessica Shand. Peter is a past member of the Vestry and is a former Eucharistic Minister. He also headed the Theology through Film group and currently Chairs the Security Committee. Jessica is a current Vestry member, Sunday School teacher, and Liturgy Prep teacher. She is a past Chair of the Trinity Bazaar, the Elsie Lamar Chapter of the DHC and member of the Altar Guild. Their family, including daughters Grace and Louisa, is the seventh generation of Shands to attend Trinity.
Patti Trotter. Patti began as a volunteer in 2016 in many areas which led to serving as an excellent Administrative Assistant to the Foundation, and she continues to serve as the Chair of the W.A. Perry Cooking Club, the Bishop Temple Chapter of the DHC, and volunteers for numerous ministries. She will enter the Lay Chaplaincy Program this fall.
Ellen Wright. Ellen, a member of Trinity for many years, immediately felt like she was a part of the body of the church. For more than 20 years, she was a member of the Order of St. Luke, active in the Bishop Temple Chapter, the Evangelism Committee, taught Sunday School, baked for the Bazaar, and did any task needed.
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Trinity Foundation Fund Descriptions |
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Lectureship Fund. This fund was initially established by Dave and Julianne Sojourner prior to 2009 making a significant contribution in honor of Dr. Charles P. Sigel to help bring in inspiring speakers to Trinity. Dave and Julianne continue to support this fund. The tradition of Lenten speakers began in 1956. Over the years, nationally known Episcopal ministers and authors such as Fleming Rutledge, Michael Sullivan, and Phillips Yancy, were popular at Trinity. Dean Boston and his team are currently focusing on selecting speakers for our Lenten Services as well as preparing for speakers at other events in the near future. Donations to the Lectureship Fund are ideal during this planning session.
Bob Riegel Haiti Fund. This fund was established in 2012, but in the early 2000’s Trinity adopted the remote village of Morne Michel which is located in Cange, Haiti. Many Trinity members have been involved and visited Morne Michel. We are all probably aware of the vast damage to Haiti by the 7.2 magnitude earthquake and followed by the severe tropical storm Grace. Please keep the people of Haiti in your prayers and remember that donations are needed to help with the severe and acute food shortage situation.
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