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Justice and Outreach Council (JOC) Digest
October 2024
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Justice and Outreach Council Newsletter—Take a step toward justice. | |
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“Religion is something best done in community."
The Rev. Anne Howard
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Sing for Justice: Fundraiser for ILDC
Sunday, October 13, 3-5:30pm
Support Trinity's Justice Grant recipient, the Immigrant Legal Defense Center (ILDC), by attending this benefit concert to be held at Trinity.
Music by Kate Wallace, Doug Clegg, and James McVay.
$40 admission ticket at the door or purchase online. Ticket includes refreshments and hors d'oeuvres on the Labyrinth. Artists meet and greet during intermission.
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'Death is a Journey not a Destination'
a Sarah House documentary presentation
Hosted by the Trinity JOC, Sunday, October 27 from 11:30am to 1pm. Plan to join us after the 10am service. For more information contact Jeffrey Krutzsch at jskrutzsch@gmail.com.
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Transition House Meal Preparation - Help Needed
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 in November and December. Check the online sign-up for how to get involved or contact Teresa Pietsch teresapietsch4@gmail.com for more details.
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Message from the Climate Environment Action Circle (CEAC)
These three environmental bills have passed in the California legislature and are now on the Governor’s desk for signature. Now is the time to contact Governor Newsom and express your opinion regarding this proposed legislation. Two of the three bills below are authored by our own Santa Barbara representatives, Limon and Hart.
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SB1304 (Limon) Protect drinking water from oil and gas contamination. Mandates that the State Water Resources Control Board conduct an environmental assessment of proposed aquifer exemptions under the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA). It requires at least one public hearing during this assessment process.
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AB1866 (Hart) Idle oil well clean-up. Requires oil operators to develop a comprehensive plan to urgently plug the estimated 40,000 idle oil wells in California, and requires operators to prioritize wells that pose a threat to life, health, property or natural resources.
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AB3233 (Addis) Protect the right of local governments to regulate and phase out oil and gas operations in their jurisdictions
For more information about Trinity's Climate Environmental Action Circle and its engaging projects, please contact Jean Davis, jeanlangedavis@gmail.com.
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Trinity serves a hot meal to our unhoused neighbors
at the FARO Daytime Navigation Center (621 Chapala St.) on the fourth Thursday of every month. We had been making non-perishable lunch sacks, and now we have returned to making and serving a hot meal, just like we used to do with Dinner-in-the-Park, and this time the guests will be able to sit at tables indoors. The difference is that we will now be cooking the meal on Wednesday afternoons and serving the meal on Thursdays mid-day.
There are many volunteer slots available for October: Shopping, cooking (no experience needed), serving (the servers will meet at the church and drive the food over to the center,) and cleaning. Please take a look at the volunteer sign up for more details. Contact the Rev. Sarah Thomas, sthomas@trinitysb.org or call the office at 805-965-7419.
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Coming Soon: Alternative Christmas Market (ACM)
ACM takes place on the second Sunday in Advent (December 8) and has raised significant amounts of money over the years (2005-2023) to fund international justice work that is sponsored by a parishioner. Are you ready to participate?
Contact: Jennifer Bergquist, jenniferbergquist@gmail.com.
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Trinity JOC Climate and Environment
Action Circle
Green Bucket Tips from Cathy Runser
Consider Cloth Recycling
Take old linens, garments, and yardage to be recycled, refreshed, and reused to the Family Thrift Store in the Magnolia Shopping Center on Hollister Avenue. Ever since our trash disposal company, Marborg, stopped accepting cloth recycling, this thrift store has begun recycling. Find their green metal collection box in the back parking lot next to Lassen's Food store.
(Trinity choir’s worn out and stained white cottas were donated. We kept the clean ones and are enjoying our new longer white surplices.)
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Celebrate and Support Justice | |
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Election Engagement
“It is a Christian obligation to vote, and more than that, it is the church’s responsibility to help get souls to the polls.” —Presiding Bishop Michael Curry
The Episcopal Church Office of Government Relations has released its Vote Faithfully Election Engagement Resources for this national election year to support getting souls to the polls and empowering everyone to make their voices heard through voting.
Be a part of upcoming Civic Holidays: National Voter Education Week , Vote Early Day, Election Hero Day. Learn more: civicholidays.org. Register to vote, check your voting status, volunteer to help: nationalvoterregistrationday.org
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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 in September
Jeannie Christensen, Jean & David Davis, Sarah Fenstermaker, Anonymous
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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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