If you have moved or changed your phone number or email address please contact the church office at 916-446-2513 to update your contact information in the church database. We don't want to lose you.

If you have questions about an update or want to talk with someone please contact Randie Strike at 916-446-2513 or on her cell phone 916-203-7586 or e-mail her at randie.trinity@gmail.com    Thank you.

Voices of Faith

Thursdays at 7:00pm in the Assembly Area 

August 6-- Robert L. Litchfield, Jr., is both an author and an advocate for the homeless in Auburn, California, where he has been making waves because of his most recent book. He describes himself as "a conservative, Republican, business attorney and very spiritual person."

His latest book came about a when friend asked him to write an article to support the maker of a video about homelessness. Litchfield thought this would be easy, interview "three or four of these guys." He found, "I was amazed at how easy it was to fall in love with these people." He went further, writing Until they have faces: 110 interviews with the homeless people of Auburn, California, which he is selling as a fundraiser for homeless services in his town. This is his seventh book.

August 13 -- Facilitated by Loren Weatherly.

Note:  This class will be held in Room A.

Sir Michael Tippett

Some consider Sir Michael Tippett the equal of Benjamin Britten. Maybe you've wondered who Sir Michael was. Here is what Clive Paget, writing in Limelight, Australia's Classical Music and Arts Magazine had to say.

"Out and proud? You betcha! One of the few twentieth century composers who examined and discussed his own sexuality, Sir Michael Tippett was a brave light in a period of relative darkness. Unlike the tightlipped Benjamin Britten, he was out there almost waving the rainbow flag. Not that he had it easy: "Being unable to enter into a biological relationship with a woman, it seemed that I was excluded from an understanding of half the human race", he wrote. His relationship with Wilfred Franks, a young painter, produced, in his own words "the deepest, most shattering experience of falling in love", and was "a major factor underlying the discovery of my own individual musical 'voice'." The first composer to seriously portray gay characters in his operas, and to explore the possibilities of bisexuality, Tippett was a true pioneer."

Please join us in Room A at 7 pm on Thursday August 13 to hear about Sir Michael's music and his life. We will listen to and focus on "A Child of Our Time," one of his best known works.            ~~Loren Weatherly 

Trinity Men's Breakfast

Saturday, August 8, in the Great Hall at 9:00am

All men of Trinity are invited to join us for a delicious breakfast and a short meeting.

Crochet / Knitting Group 

Meets in the Great Hall at 10:15am

Please join us for a crochet/knitting gathering. They will help people who want to learn to crochet and/or knit.

Newcomers' Group

Meets in Room C at 10:15am

The group will discuss Living with Change.

All are invited to be with us especially Newcomers and visitors. If you have questions contact Randie Strike at email randie.trinity@gmail.com or 916-446-2513.

INTRODUCTION TO THE NEW TESTAMENT

Begins on Sunday, August 23 at

10:15am in Room A 

Are you smarter than a 5th Grader? Fifth graders at Trinity spend the entire academic year studying the Bible. If you think they might have one up on you, then attend the course, Introduction to the New Testament from August 23 - November 1 in Room A after the 9:00 service. Don't feel you have to attend all classes. Please bring a Bible. (Early on we will talk about recommended translations.) Donald Grigg's The Bible from Scratch: The New Testament for Beginners is recommended but not required. (Copies are available in the Bookshop.) NO KNOWLEDGE OF THE BIBLE IS REQUIRED. After all, our 5th graders don't know that much about it before their 5th grade year. But our 6th graders now know that Luke wrote something else besides a gospel! They know that Revelation is wild and crazy but not necessarily about tomorrow's destruction of the "bad guys."

This course is meant to provide a basic understanding of the New Testament. We will start with the basics: What is the Bible? Where is the New Testament located in the Bible? What is a "good" translation? What makes it "good"? and move on to study the 4 Gospels & Acts of the Apostles, the letters of St. Paul and others, and The Book of Revelation"!

Jerry Paré teaches this course. He has a Master of Arts in Scripture from the Claremont School of Theology in Claremont, California. He is repeatedly reminded of the truth of John 1:1:  "In the beginning was the Word"!

Save the Date:

TRINITY SUMMER FESTIVAL!

Sunday, August 30 from 10 AM to 3 PM at Trinity Cathedral

Activities will include food (BBQ, solar cooking & pies), DUNK THE DEAN, garden activities, sidewalk chalk art, music, and time to sit down with friends and neighbors to chat. And that's not all! We are recruiting cooks and judges for a CHILI COOK OFF and are planning a good ole CAKE WALK. This may be better than the State Fair (even if we don't have bacon wrapped corn on the cob)! Plan to come. Look for more information next week. 

Trinity Cathedral Speaker Series

The next speaker in our Speaker Series is Dewitt Jones on Friday, October 2nd at 7pm.  He was a National Geographic photographer for 20 years and he will share his photos and insights that he learned in his photography career.  The title of his talk is "Celebrate What's Right with the World."  It's a phenomenal presentation and not to be missed!

Tickets go on sale Sunday in the Cathedral Bookshop for $12.  Tell your friends!

School News

Secret Pal: Be sure to stop by the Floyd School table and sign up to be a Secret Pal. A Secret Pal is assigned a staff member for the year. The Secret Pal sends notes of encouragement to the staff member, prays for them and sends small items or cards for holidays and the persons birthday. At the end of the year we have a luncheon for the staff, volunteers and Secret Pals at Trinity. Please be a Secret Pal this year. 

School Supplies: The ads for Back to School have started. With that in mind I asked principal Eric Chapman what items are needed most at Floyd.

The students need the following:

* Spiral bound note books or journals wide ruled and college ruled

* #2 pencils

* Crayons

St. Francis of Assisi

11th Annual Summer Film Festival: Mystics and Magicians

26th & K Streets, Wednesdays at 6:30pm in Brunsman Hall

(behind the church next to the parking lot).

 You are invited to bring your dinner, or help yourself to popcorn and beverages, and to be ready for stimulating post-film discussions.

Christianity has a rich mystical tradition that reaches back to New Testament times and remains surprisingly relevant today.  It is not an exclusive realm for the very holy, but what the Christian life is about for all of us.  This series of award-winning films recognizes the presence of mystics living among us and how the impact our world.

August 12   Vision: From the Life of Hildegard von Bingen

(Rated G and Subtitled)

An abbess, visionary, naturalist and composer, Hildegard is a memorable mystic of the Middle Ages.  Her legacy comprises radiant accounts of religious experience, yet her faith-filled visions were questioned. Despite living in an era in which women were proscribed from preaching and interpreting scripture, Hildegard believes that she must reveal the visions she experienced as a gift from God.  A stirring and beautiful film.

Follow this link for all the offerings. 

The six weeks of summer camp has concluded for the summer and now the camp is hosting individual churches for family camp throughout the month of August.

The retreat center is continually being refurbished right now the center needs some student size desks for some of the rooms and Tahoe pictures for the walls.

If you have any items you would like to donate please let Nancy Tennyson know. She will make arrangements for picking them up.

Also save the date of  Saturday, October 10 for the Camp Noel Porter Gala at St. Michaels Church at 5:30 pm. There will be a fabulous dinner prepared by our own, Laura Stewart, of Indulge Catering, there will be silent auctions and a live auction. All of the proceeds go to the camp for continuing the summer programs and helping with scholarships for young people to attend camp.

A new camp video will debut that night as well. Tickets are $100 and you receive $20 to use for bidding on auction items. Bring friends and those who love to support youth in our diocese.

Tickets are available from Canon Nancy Tennyson. nntennyson@gmail.com or 916-481-3546.