PS -  We're close, BUT WE'RE NOT THERE YET.  WE STILL NEED YOUR HELP!!  Thank you to all those who have pledged their support to Trinity for 2012!  If you have not made a pledge, please do so!  Our work in vitally important and we need your help! IT TAKES ALL OF US!

MAKE A PLEDGE TO TRINITY 

  

St. Nicholas Bazaar

Saturday, Dec. 3rd, 2011, 10 am-2 pm 

Preview Party, Friday, Dec. 2nd, 7 pm  

Friday Preview Party & Auction Chairperson: Jennifer Hayden

(mhayden500@comcast.net; 609-466-3992) 

Saturday Bazaar Chairperson: Sylvia Temmer  

(sbjornberg@aol.com; 732-297-5335 )

Our bazaar will feature your old favorites: fresh handmade wreaths, boxwood topiary trees, gingerbread houses, a cookie walk, St. Nicholas himself, items made by Parish Originals and a wonderful collection of antiques and collectibles inside our Trinity Treasures room.

New this year will be members of the parish featuring a variety of items, including: 

• Camille Quinton and Dorothy Morin will be selling their hand-made gifts.
• Camille's sister, Diane Golkin, will have a table featuring her silver jewelry and hand painted wooden objects.
• Charles and Lucia Huebner, Hopewell, will have their own farm-raised meat for sale... it will be frozen... for purchase, a chance to buy locally produced meat of excellent quality.
• Marcy Scollay, Bev and Bill's daughter-in-law, will exhibit her hand-made, all occasion cards.
• Victoria Rogers, of Giselle, will be selling imported toys and ballet accessories.

Please also welcome these selected vendors:

• Gorgeous yarns and knitted goods from Woods Edge Farm, Stockton,which raises alpacas and llamas, will have yarns, knitted goods, honey and candles made on the farm.  
• Capital Corn & Confections offers extraordinary popcorn (ever try white chocolate and oreo cookies popcorn....well, this is your chance)  
• Frisket Designs of East Windsor will be selling an array of garden stepping stones...  
• A wonderful assortment of kitchen knives made by RADA in the USA will be for sale (one use of the tomato knife will make you a believer in their quality).  
• A portion of the Trinity member and outside vendors' sales will benefit Trinity Church.

This is an experiment for Trinity's long running Christmas fair; we hope that the Parish will enthusiastically support this new look and effort. So please save some of the money you planned to spend on Black Friday for the fun Friday night Preview Party (enjoy a cocktail while you bid on vacations and silent and live auction items and buy into the Neighborhood Progressive dinners) at 7pm and the St. Nicholas Bazaar,  starting (new time!) at 10 am on Saturday.

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Make your Dinner Reservations at the St. Nick Preview Party for our Trinity Church Neighborhood Progressive Dinner

In addition to our traditional silent and live auction items at the St. Nicholas Bazar Preview Party, we are trying something new this year. The Neighborhood Progressive dinner is for Trinity members old and new, for those those that attend regularly or irregularly - or not all, but might want to come back! The goal is to bring unity. Plus friendship and love in an informal, social and enjoyable setting.

For a donation of $25, those that attend the St. Nicholas Bazar preview party on Friday, December 2nd (on line registration is also in the works!) will have the chance to sign up for a Progressive Dinner.

On Saturday, March 3rd progressive dinners will be held throughout the greater Princeton area and organized in such a way that guests can move through the evening to homes located within a reasonable proximity to each other.

We are hoping to have a progressive dinner in each of the following locations - Princeton, Rocky Hill, Belle Mead, Skillman, Hopewell, Pennington, Lawrenceville, Princeton Junction, West Windsor and wherever else there are folks willing to host and attend! Individuals that would like to attend may sign up for any one of the progressive dinners - and will be free to choose a dinner inside or outside their "neighborhood".

The schedule for the evening will be as follows...

• 5:00 Appetizers and Cocktails
• 6:30 Dinner
• 8:00 Coffee and Dessert

For more information, please contact me; and I look forward to seeing you at the St. Nick Preview Party Friday night, December 2nd. 

 Jennifer Hayden

 ( mhayden500@comcast.net; 609-466-3992)

  

Incredible Turnout for the 4th Annual Trinity Turkey Trot! 

WOW! Our goal was to have 1,000 participants and by the final count we had 1,175. Compared to our 700 last year that is an unbelievable result!!  That translated into a profit of approximately $22,500 all to be donated in equal amounts to The Crises Ministry of Princeton and Trenton, Housing Initiative of Princeton, and Urban Promise, Trenton.  In addition to the money we have helped to raise awareness for theses organizations within our community.

None of this would have been possible without the incredible outpouring of support by the Trinity parishioners, Trinity parishioner sponsors (two), and our corporate sponsors. I want to extend a thank you to all those that helped to make this possible. This includes participants, volunteers, pie bakers, donations (monetary or otherwise), photographers and all our committee members who put in hours of work! With special thanks to: Rev. Paul Jeanes, who was the mastermind behind this event, Mark Hamilton, our former chair without his planning and foresight none of this would have been possible, Ruth Thurmond Scott for her incredible leadership, Annie Thomas, for all her hard work and planning and Bill Hackett who managed to handle a crush of registrations on game day without breaking a sweat!!

As Rev. Paul Jeanes said "we have established Turkey Trot as a new Princeton event". I received an email from one of the participants after the race who commented that she and 7 members of her family participated and planned to make turkey Trot an annual Thanksgiving tradition in her house!!  

Click here for Turkey Trot photos, courtesy of John Burns and James Scott. 

Tom Saltsman
Turkey Trot Chairman

Committee Members: Anne-Marie Crain, Debbie Cohen, Bonnie Crowley, Grant Fraser, Roman Horoszewski, Guy Pierson, Candace Saltsman, Ruth Thurmond Scott, Annie Thomas, Phil Unetic, Anne Zultner       

  

Staff Christmas Gift

Parishioners have asked if they could express their appreciation to the parish staff at Christmas. After discussing the matter with Paul, I think that what would be most appreciated is a little extra cash.

Parishioners who would like to join this effort should send gifts by check marked "staff Christmas" to Elly or put them in the offering plate. Many small gifts will make a nice gesture. Please get your gift in before Christmas.

We are blessed with a dedicated and hardworking staff that deserves our thanks-and a check is a supplement to, and not a substitute for, a heartfelt "Thank you."

                                                        Van Davis

  

GAIA-Trinity Partnership: Mkanda Mobile Health Clinic Third Quarter Report  

In July, GAIA's International Programs Director, Dr. Ellen Schell, RN and GAIA's Development Director, Amy Rankin-Williams, visited the Mkanda Clinic and talked to some of our patients.  The report is informative and provides an update on the care assisted by Trinity.  We encourage you to read the report, which you can find here.

  

Helpful Information for Trinity's New phones  

We wanted to bring you up to speed and hope you have noticed now that calls placed via our telephone system now go where required. I wanted to let you all know a few things about our new telephone system that are different to the previous one:

• All extensions have been changed so if you thought you knew the extension, please know they no longer work. A complete list of new extensions is at the end of this note.
• The first extension listed is that used for pastoral care emergencies and so if you have an urgent pastoral care need please do use this extension as soon as you hear it. This is monitored closely by clergy responsible for any particular day.
• This telephone system will transfer all voicemail messages left on the system directly to the email of the person or ministry holding this extension number. It is hoped that everyone calling into the parish offices will feel that they have the same access to clergy and staff as a result of this new facility without needing to have access to a computer to send the email.
• There are some new extensions for the ministries receiving the most frequent traffic and the voicemail-to-email facility will be exactly the same on these extensions: e.g. a call for rummage will be put straight thru to this extension and will be monitored by the team responsible for this ministry.

Extensions are as follows:

Clergy

Pastoral Care           350

Rev. Jeanes              303

Rev. Gaventa           307

Rev. Replogle          308

Staff

Tom Whittemore      316

Elly Matsil                311

Annie Tomas            317

Sam Greenlee           304

Organ Scholars         315

Ministry extensions

Archives office        313

Music admin office  314

Altar Guild Sacristy  306

Rummage               351

One Table Café       352

Parish Life               355

St. Nicks                 354

Memorial Garden    356

Outreach                 357

  

Painting for Urban Promise Postponed  

The painting project for Urban Promise scheduled for December 10 will have to be postponed. 
Our intern Jeff advertised this service opportunity in church a few weeks ago and there were blue flyers around church describing the details. 
The project will hopefully still happen, but sometime later than December 10.     

  

The Episcopal Church at Princeton University:

Sunday, December 11

9:00 p.m.

Princeton University Chapel 

Favorite Hymns including Once in Royal david's City, O Come all Ye Faithful, Hark! The Herald Angels Sing, O Little Town of Bethlehem, The Angel Gabriel from Heaven Came, and more.

And Carols and Music by Frank Boles, Ralph Vaughan Williams, J. S. Bach, Darke, Daniel Elder Marcel Dupre and more

  

Epiphany Conversations

Beginning January 8th

Beginning on January 8th - the first Sunday after the Epiphany - Dick and Juliana McIntyre Fenn will lead a series of five conversations about the many facets of Epiphany.
Epiphanies are turning points when we see ourselves, others and the world around us in a new light... or when we come into a deeper sense of  our connection with others or with the cosmos. Epiphanies may also turn us to enter into a new way of life.

We will invite participants to explore various Biblical accounts and to share their personal experiences of such revelatory moments.

Conversations will take place in the Thomas Room during the Forum Hour: 10:15 - 11:00. 

  

Episcopal Pilgrimage to the Holy Land 2012 

Pilgrimage to the Holy Land-2012
Hosted by Bishop George Councell
(Attachments:  Flier - 4 pages and registration form)

EPISCOPAL DIOCESE OF NEW JERSEY
Departs USA, July 23rd
Returns USA, August 5th     

Cost of the Pilgrimage-$2524 for double occupancy ($385 extra for single occupancy) - see page 4 for further information.
Fees and Airline fare are handled by:
Chris Winchell, Pinnacle Travel Services LLC,
185 S. Douglas Street, Suite 200, El Segundo, California 90245
(800) 896-3636, Fax (310) 414-0188

You can find more information and applications at the reception table in the Trinity office. 

  

Weekday Worship at Trinity and Beyond  

Trinity is a worshiping community. Please join us in worship:

• Tuesday at 12.10 p.m.  for Holy Communion
• Wednesday at 5.30 p.m. for Holy Communion and prayers for healing
• EVERY weekday at 5 p.m. for the Order of Evening Prayer
• Service of Morning Prayer at PTS at 8a.m. on weekdays to which all are invited.  
• Sunday nights at 9 p.m. in the PU Chapel, Holy Eucharist sponsored by the ECP.  
  

   

   

    

Ordination to the Priesthood

December 16th

7:00 p.m.

  

Knitting Caps for T.A.S.K. 

Thanks to hard knitting parishioners, we now have 4 watch caps for T.A.S.K.  There is still plenty of yarn as well as needles and directions in Pierce Hall, under the windows on the right hand wall as you enter.

  

Help Wanted to start a Prayer Shawl Ministry at Trinity!   

  

Women at the Well 

Wednesdays 

Noon - 1:30 p.m. 

Flemer Library  

  

Next Baptism Date: January 8  

  

New Adult Education Class on Genesis 

Sundays through December 18 

10:00 a.m. 

A Closer Look at the Beginning: Please join Summerlee Staten, our PTS adult education Seminary intern, for a 9-week class focusing on the first eleven chapters of Genesis. Taking into consideration the development of culture and religion in the ancient Near East, we will explore how the first chapters of the Hebrew Bible may have been understood in ancient times and how we can understand the text today. As we look at each chapter in depth, we will consider what Genesis 1-11 has to teach us about the creativity and faithfulness of God, while acknowledging various interpretations of the text through art, song and contemporary Biblical scholarship. The class will start on Sunday, September 25 in the library at 10:00am.