Trinity Tidings January 15, 2025

Our Mission

We provide a welcoming environment to explore our faith and serve others.

Our Vision

As a beacon of inclusivity, we seek to transform our community.

Trinity Tidings E-Newsletter

January 15, 2025

Birthdays

February

March

16 - Roger S.

19 - Donna M.

27 - Julie L.

1 - Meg N

2 - Mary Y

4 - Julie M

6 - Jackie V

Please pray for:

Carolyn + Cathy + Caitlin + Jenny + Bill

Bob & Rose-Marie Z.+ Bob R. + Aaron & Cindy Brian + Jane & Carlos + Lori + Jan + Dixie + Kathy + Robert + Tam + Judy

NEED PRAYERS?

Notify Diane C. (dkmchristensen@gmail.com) of your request.

Names will remain on our prayer list for 30 days.

A request can be renewed.

Holy Eucharist

Sunday January 19

Second Sunday after

the Epiphany

Rev. Ken Erickson

In person and on Zoom.

Annual Meeting to follow!

The Rev. Ken Erickson

Diocese Missioner

for Church Life

We are excited to welcome a new priest to celebrate Eucharist with us! Rev. Ken is also our new Diocese Missioner for Church Life, succeeding Rev. Mack Olson in this roll.

Rev. Ken was born and grew up in Chicago, and was baptized and confirmed in the Swedish Evangelical Covenant Church. During college, he began attending an Episcopal Church where one of his English professors was an assisting priest, and that is where he found his spiritual home. Through the encouragement of the brothers at the Society of St John the Evangelist, he found his way eventually to Duke Divinity School, and was ordained in the Diocese of North Carolina by Bishop Michael Curry. Since then, Ken has served parishes in the dioceses of Oregon, Chicago and Michigan.

For the last ten years, through the invitation of a family member to consider a change, he took a challenging detour and managed 400 acres of walnuts, almonds, pecans and olives here in Sutter County. With gratitude and delight for God’s good timing, Ken looks forward to supporting the mission and ministries of our diocese.

Bishop Megan to Visit Trinity

February 16, 2025

The Rt. Rev. Megan Traquair will celebrate Holy Eucharist with us and join us for a special potluck coffee hour.

Please come join us in welcoming her to Trinity. She is a delight to speak with!

Sunday Service Schedule

Season of Epiphany

January

19 2nd Sunday after Epiphany

Holy Eucharist

Rev. Ken Erickson

26 3rd Sunday after Epiphany

Morning Prayer

Amanda

February

2 The Presentation

Holy Eucharist

Rev. Craig Kuehn

9 5th Sunday after Epiphany

Morning Prayer

Steve R.

16 6th Sunday after Epiphany

Holy Eucharist

Bishop Megan Traquair

23 7th Sunday after Epiphany

Morning Prayer

Mary K.

March

2 Last Sunday after Epiphany

Holy Eucharist

Rev. Craig Kuehn

Season of Lent

March

9 1st Sunday of Lent

Morning Prayer

Amanda

16 2nd Sunday of Lent

Morning Prayer

Carol

23 3rd Sunday of Lent

Morning Prayer

Steve R.

30 4th Sunday of Lent

No Service--5th Sunday

Trinity Annual Meeting Announcement

2025 Annual Meeting

January 19, 2025

In Person and on Zoom

Trinity's Annual Meeting will follow our 10:00am service on January 19. In the meeting we will:

report on our past year
review our finances and the 2025 budget
elect new members to Trinity Vestry
elect delegates to Diocese 2025 Convention

We will be doing a "hybrid meeting" with meeting attendees in church able to see Zoom attendees.

Meeting link is the same as Sunday Service zoom link below. You will be asked to leave the worship service and rejoin on Zoom for the annual meeting.

Time: Five minutes (for refreshments) after

close of the service

Link to both the worship service and the meeting:

Zoom

Candidates for 2025 Vestry

Our regular Vestry is nine seats. We currently have seven seats filled. Vestry members have a three-year term, staggered so that three members come off the Vestry and can be replaced with three new members each year.

Members retiring this year are Steve Russell, Co-Senior warden, Steve Christensen, and Carol Holt, Treasurer (however, Carol can remain treasurer). We are grateful for their service these last three years.

That leaves David Hoos (2026), Co-Sr. Warden, Julie Mathis (2025), Jr. Warden, Nancy Moore, (2026) clerk, and Jennifer Putnam (2026) remaining on the Vestry.

We have two candidates to fill five vacancies:

Diane Christensen | Jeff Seitz

A big thank you to Diane and Jeff who have stepped up to serve on the 2025 Vestry!

Our by-laws allow for a minimum of five on the Vestry. We are going into 2025 with four incumbent members and five vacancies. However, the two candidates will give us six members!

Convention Delegate Candidates

2025 Diocesan Convention

November 7 – 8, 2023

Redding, CA

Trinity must also send three delegates to the Annual Diocese Convention to be held in Redding on November 7-8, 2025.

Delegate candidates are:

Mary Krauthamel | Meg Verardi | Carol Holt

We also need two alternate delegates in the event an elected can't attend. We need one more.

Alternate delegate candidate:

Nancy Moore

Please Contact David or Steve R. if you interested in becoming a Vestry Member or an alternate delegate.

Email seniorwarden@trinitysuttercreek.org

Music Director

We are sad to announce our music director Mary Y. will be leaving us after January. She has seen us through COVID by providing piano recordings for our Zoom services, and when we could meet in person again, she has been at the piano leading our choir in song every Sunday.

We have been so blessed to have her and our choir. Many churches our size go without this enriching addition to services.

We wish her all the best in her transition

Centering Prayer

Wednesdays, 9:30 AM

Thursdays, 7:00 PM, evening group meets

The practice is simple to begin, and benefits are quickly felt.

Email Martha for information marthadrobbins@gmail.com

Drumming Circle

Regularly Scheduled on 2nd Sundays at 3:00PM

Contemplative Circle

Regularly Scheduled on LAST Sundays AT 3:00PM

Contact Martha for more information on either Circle.(marthadrobbins@gmail.com)

Trinity Vestry Meetings

Vestry usually meets monthly on the fourth Tuesday of each month at 6:30pm on Zoom. However, the newly elected Vestry meets to elect Vestry officers immediately following the Annual meeting. Our next regular meeting is on Tuesday, February 25, 2025.

Email office@trinitysuttercreek.org for link if you would like to attend our next meeting.