August 27, 2015

 

TRINITY EPISCOPAL CATHEDRAL 

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"A Growing community making disciples who love and serve Christ and His world"

Tomorrow night we will gather to celebrate the life that Donna Clark Cheek lived, and continues to live in the presence of God.  Donna, Randy and Shannon have been faithful and involved members of Trinity Cathedral and are an important part of the grace and energy that infuse the Cathedral.  Donna battled ovarian cancer for 8 years and lived to experience several important milestones in the life of her daughter Shannon.  She stayed active at the Cathedral and was an inspiration to many.  I  hope you can join us for the service tomorrow night at 6:00pm.  It will be followed by a reception in the Great Hall.  If you can, please bring some food to share for the reception.   

This Sunday we have our first annual "summer festival" starting at 10:00am.  We will block off the alley and have a barbecue, dunk-tank, cake walk and other activities.  It should be a great time for us to relax and have some fun as a congregation.

Last week I wrote about the graduation of two women from the Army's Ranger School.  Writing for the enews inspired me to write a more general article about my experience at West Point in the fourth class that admitted women, alongside Andrea who was a member of the fifth class to admit women.  The article focused on the heightened scrutiny that women had to endure.  I posted the article to my recently resurrected blog. I was overwhelmed with the interest it garnered.  In three days 25,000 people accessed the blog post and I received many comments.  A recent West Point graduate asked if she could read parts of it for a sexual harassment/assault presentation at the Academy.  If you would like to read what I wrote, you can access it here.  

Blessings,
Brian
The Very Rev. Dr. Brian Baker
Dean, Trinity Cathedral
In this edition....
The Choirs want you...
Family Promise...
Ushers Needed...
Stephen Ministry...
Article Headline
Lunch Bunch & Writing Group...
Veterans Meeting...
Centering Prayer...
Mission Trips...
The Rev. Randy Knutson...
August 27 TNAC...
This Sunday...
Summer Fest...
Blessing of the Backpacks...
Newcomers' Group...
JUST Low Income Housing...
Tuesday Morning Group...
Speaker Series...
CROP Walk...
SAVE the date...
Harvest for Hunger...
Camp Noel Porter...
e-News Submission Guildlines...
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Volunteer

Opportunities... 

The Trinity Cathedral Choirs
want you!
 
Trinity Cathedral's active music program involves over seventy volunteers and part-time paid staff. With an emphasis on high quality and diversity, Trinity's music ministry speaks in many musical languages to worshippers who come to the Cathedral. With four singing choirs, everything from plainchant to world and gospel music makes up the dynamic worship music at Trinity Cathedral. Truly there is "something for everybody" here!
Music is a vital part of our life at Trinity, and helps us to fulfill our vision "to make disciples who love and serve Christ and His world."
 
Would you like to be a part of this dynamic ministry at Trinity Cathedral?? We would love to have you join us!
 

Contact David Link, Canon for Music for details: sierracanon@gmail.com or 916-446-2513, ext 224.
Family Promise
Family Promise
 
On Sunday, September 13, 2015, the families of Family Promise Sacramento return to the Great Hall for one week of shelter and evening dinners provided by the good volunteers of Trinity Cathedral. We need folks who can bring dinner or prepare it in Trinity's kitchen, or who can help serve the families and clean up, or who can stay overnight in the Hall to ensure that the families are comfortable and safe. When the families depart on Sunday morning of September 20, we also need people to load the cots onto the Family Promise trailer and launder the bedding and return it to the Cathedral before the next host week.
 
Interested? Please sign up on the Family Promise poster in the office hallway just outside of the door to the Great Hall, or contact Eleanor Taniguchi at ehtaniguchi@gmail.com or call/text 916-708-4295.
 
We also encourage you to support Isabel Marwick's Girl Scout Cadette Silver Award project to help homeless children via Family Promise. Isabel and her mother Silvia Marwick, who is a Girl Scout troop leader, and Isabel's sponsor Shireen Miles will be staffing an informational table and collecting donations of school supplies, personal care items, stuffed animals, craft materials, blankets and pillows in the Great Hall at the 10:15 coffee hour. If you are unable to volunteer during host week, this is a fantastic alternative for helping Family Promise as well as a youth member of Trinity Cathedral.
Ushers
Ushers Needed

One usher at 11:15am on the 1st Sunday
AND
Two ushers at 11:15am service on the 4th Sunday
AND
Two ushers at 11:15am service on the 5th Sunday
AND
Two ushers at 9am service on the 5th Sunday

Contact Kevin Donohue at 396-9731 / email kfdsac@att.net or Randie Strike at 203-7586 / email randie.trinity@gmail.com

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Would you like

to join us??

 

Stephen Ministry at Trinity Episcopal Cathedral is a program of caring. Stephen Ministers are trained to give one-on-one care to someone who is experiencing a life-changing event: grief, illness, job loss, divorce, a new baby in the family, loss of a loved one, a difficult move, an ailing family member.

 

We are trained for 50 hours, then commissioned to serve in this ministry for at least two years. In addition to Continuing Education, we also receive support from our peers as we meet with our care receivers.

 

As Stephen Ministers, we do not: fix anyone; suggest solutions; give pep talks or direction; go shopping; help around the house; express any kind of judgment. We are not therapists or part of a medical team, although we may meet with someone who is experiencing this kind of support.

 

We do: show up, listen, pray and listen some more . . . week after week, sometimes more than once a week, for about an hour.

 

Our ministry is simple, effective and dynamic, changing with the occurrences of life, meeting needs as they evolve and change with each situation.

 

Our next training class begins October 5th.  For information, contact Cherie Chamness in the bookshop, call 916-442-9194 or email Susan Wilson at snbwilson@gmail.com. 

Cathedral Bookshop 
 
Bookshop Hours: 
Tue, Wed, Thu:
11:00am - 5:00pm
Sun: 8:30am - 1:00pm
  
Phone: 916-442-9194 
TREE presents its...

USE YOUR OWN MUG AT COFFEE HOUR Campaign!

 

Help us to use less paper and generate less waste by bringing your own coffee mug to use on Sundays.

 

Show your coffee mug at the TREE table and receive a raffle ticket. You will be eligible to win environmentally-friendly items.

Ongoing... 

Lunch Bunch
will resume on
Thursday, September 10
at Noon in the Conference Room
with a new 10-week read-and-discuss series on Richard Rohr's Things Hidden: Scripture as Spirituality, facilitated by Dennis Hock. The book is available in the Cathedral Bookshop. Please think about joining us. Everyone is welcome!
 
If you have any questions, contact the Rev. Pamela Anderson at pamela@trinitycathedral.org.   
 
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Writing
Writing Group
Meets on Thursdays at 
2:30pm in the
Conference Room

Anyone who would like to write in an informal setting is welcome to drop in. Writing prompts are offered, we write for 20 minutes, then share what emerges or not, as the spirit moves. For information, please contact June Gillam at jgillam@wavecable.com. 

Veterans Meeting

Meets the first Sunday of the month at 10:15am in the Assembly Area. If you are a veteran please join us!!

Centering Prayer 

Centering Prayer

 

Tuesday's, 6-7pm, 


 

Thursday's, Noon-1:00pm, Cathedral East Transept

 and

Thursday's, 5:10 - 6:00pm,

St. Paul's - 15th and J

Contact Anne Slakey at

anneslakey@gmail.com

 

Centering Prayer is a method of meditation that helps quiet the mind and participate in God's presence. It is a receptive form of prayer - a kind of resting in God.  Learn to just be...in the midst of God's love. All are welcome. 

 

Cathedral Contacts are:

Nancy Earl: nancy.c.earl@gmail.com

Shelley Mydans: smydans@gmail.com
 
Mission Trips


While driving on one of our recent mission trips, I listened to a conversation drifting from the back seat. "I just don't know." one of the junior high group said to the others, "I mean I don't believe in the Easter Bunny or the Tooth Fairy." There was a chorus of agreement, although one reminded them that the Tooth Fairy did come with financial benefits. "But Santa and Christmas, that's different!" In the midst of mumbled comments, I heard one of the girls say, "Yes, once I heard footsteps on the roof," she said, "I know I did; I'm sure of it. I mean what would I do with that?"
 
I drove on silent, because you only get the gift of these conversations if you are silent, thinking. There it was - the most profound question of these teen years: "What do I do with that?" One of my favorite writers, French philosopher Paul Ricoeur, once noted the biggest challenge we face as people of faith is to make that leap from a childhood faith crowded with Easter bunnies and Santa Claus, to a mature adult faith that still leaves room for the mystery and wonder of God. This transition is not simple or easy. But as Paul wrote in his letter to the Hebrews, "Now faith is the foundation of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen."
 
Helping our young people grow and nurture their faith, helping them build the bridge to mature adult faith as they struggle with the question, "What do I do with that?" is the reason we do youth ministry here at Trinity. It's why we have Sunday School, youth group, service projects, lock-ins, movie nights, parties - all of it. One of the most powerful ways we struggle with this question is through Mission Trips. Even after 10 years of doing mission trips, I am still amazed at what transforms on these adventures. Inevitably our youth are pushed beyond their comfort zones: they live and work with 40 or 50 strangers in places of profound poverty and need, they encounter and must function in cultures and customs not their own, they work in challenging places and conditions, often with hurt and hungry people. And, inevitably, our youth rise to these challenges, finding God at work where they least expected, love in the lost and hurt, and the impossible becomes possible.
 
I want all our youth to have these experiences. I want our kids to be able to go on Mission Trips, to go to national youth events, to join Bishop Beisner on pilgrimages, to spend some time each summer up at Noel Porter, to participate in retreats. But we have children and youth here for whom this is not possible without financial assistance; whose families need some help to make these experiences happen. With this need in mind, we have started a new fund for children and youth here at Trinity. We're calling it the "Dreams Fund." I'll be talking more about this in church, but it would be a great way to honor the children and grandchildren in your life, or to honor someone special's birthday. Please join me in making the impossible possible for our kids!
 
Thank you! 
Rev. Kathy Hopner
Director of Children, Youth and Family Ministries
The Rev. Randy Knutson
Dear Trinity Cathedral Friends,

I have greatly missed seeing many of you over the past months. Following my Ordination on April 25 at Trinity, I was able to see a few of you on some Thursday nights in May and also at David Links celebration in late May. However, after that, scheduling time to get up to Sacramento was difficult. Some of you knew I was considering a duo call in Ft. Bragg in late May and awaiting the result of the vote of Trinity Lutheran to call me. After I accepted the call, I was able to go to Ft. Bragg on Sunday, June 14 at be at both St. Michael's Episcopal and Trinity Lutheran parishes with their respective bishops present to celebrate this upcoming call. So it has been an exciting time, but I missed seeing many of you and saying good-bye personally over these months.

Thursday Night at the Cathedral

 on August 27

 

Compline - 6:00pm

 

Dinner and Classes will resume on September 10

 

Follow this link to see the classes offered.
This Sunday - August 30

The scheduled preacher at the

7:30, 9:00 and 11:15 services is

The Rev. Megan Anderson

TRINITY SUMMER FEST!
Sunday, August 30 from 10 AM to 3 PM at Trinity Cathedral
 
Please make plans to come to SUMMER FEST 2015!  This will be a fun event for all parishioners right here at Trinity.  It is a time for socializing with your fellow Trinitarians. 
Events include:
+ BBQ Hamburgers, Veggie Burgers and
   Hot Dogs
+ A Dunk Tank*:  "Victims" include
   Brian Baker, Pamela Anderson,
   Jerry Paré, Diana Turner, Beau
    Carter, Kami Davis and Chris Tzimenatos
  - We will empty the tank water into the 27th Street
    shrubs when finished practicing immersion baptisms
+ Solar Cooked items
+ Bean bag toss
+ Salads (bring some to share)
+ Garden activities, including veggie spoon races and
   succulents to take home
+ Pies (sign up to bring one)
+ Music
+ Chili cook-off
+ Chalk Art
+ Cake Walk (sign up to bring one)*
 
If all of this seems too like too much fun, there will be an area to relax, talk with friends, enjoy the day and mark the end of summer and the beginning of fall.  Come and have fun....did we mention, there's food!

*=Items for which tickets will be needed to play.  Tickets will be available on site.
Blessing of the Backpacks
Sunday, August 30, at the 9:00 and 11:15 services!

Anyone can bring a backpack and have it blessed to get the school year off to a great start. It doesn't even have to be full of books!

You might also bring an extra (empty) backpack for the Floyd School BackSnacks Program -- PLEASE, nothing fancy or cute -- dark, unadorned, and sturdy type backpacks work the best for Floyd School.

Newcomers' Group

 

The group will join in the Summer Fest fun.

 

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.

Next Week and Beyond... 

CALL TO WITNESS 

 

Join the faith community, Labor and other low-income housing advocates at 5:30 pm, Tuesday, September 1 at City Hall (915 I Street) to take a stand for a JUST Affordable Housing Ordinance to create desperately-needed housing for low-income families in our community. This has been a very long uphill fight. After several years of community input, review and discussion, members of the Sacramento City Council will finally be VOTING on a revised Affordable Housing Ordinance. The future of affordable housing in Sacramento is in their hands. We are challenging our elected officials to include fees high enough to realistically generate funds for affordable housing, requirements that 50 acre properties be included in the requirements rather than being exempted, and to remove automatic exemptions for conversions of commercial property to residential. Help us show our elected officials that the faith community CARES about those who struggle to find housing. Please come out for this meeting. For more information, call Shireen Miles at 203-5595.

Tuesday Morning Group
with Susan Hotchkiss
 
Begins Tuesday, September 15,
10:00am to 11:30am
 in the Conference Room.

On August 6, 1965, President Lyndon Johnson signed the voting rights, making poll taxes and literacy tests as prerequisites to vote unconstitutional.  Anne Moody's Coming of Age in Mississippi chronicles her journey as a young girl and as a woman in the thick of the Civil Rights movement in the South.  Come and discuss her journey on Tuesday mornings September 15th to October 20th from 10:00am to 11:30am in the Trinity Conference Room.  The book is available for purchase in the Cathedral Bookstore.  Hope to see you on Tuesday mornings starting September 15.
Trinity Cathedral Speaker Series

Dewitt Jones, a National Geographic photographer, will be speaking at the Cathedral on Friday, October 2nd at 7pm.  He will share an inspirational talk entitled "Celebrate What's Right with the World."  Tickets for that event are $12 and can be purchased in the Cathedral Bookshop.  The following day on Saturday, October 3rd, Dewitt will lead a camera phone photography workshop at 10am.  The cost for this event is $20 and can be purchased in the Cathedral Bookshop.  Bring a friend and come join the fun!
Trinity Cathedral is looking for walkers for the Sacramento CROP Hunger Walk on
Sunday, October 11. 
The Walk will commence at the
West Steps of the State Capitol.
  
Registration 1:00 p.m. Walk 1:00 p.m. 
Admission to the Walk and Raffle is a can food donation. 

Please contact Marion Welch at (916) 923-5781 or 49steelerway@gmail.com for more information.
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Saturday, November 7, 1-4pm

Celebrate Canon Grant Carey's 90th birthday in the Great Hall!

to help out with the event.

In the Community... 

River City Food Bank presents
Harvest for Hunger
Thursday, September 10,
5:30-8:30pm
 at 28th and R Streets
 
+ Live music
+ Participating food trucks:
             -Drewski's
             -North Border Taco
             -Luciano's Scoop (Gelato!)
 
+ Wine and beer from local wineries and microbreweries
+ Exciting drawing prizes and Balloon Poppers
+ Meet the Reverse Food Truck, up close and personal!
 
Party with RCFB and learn more about the wonderful work they do to fight hunger and malnutrition!
 
Check out our sponsors! There is still time to join them, so visit our website and sign up today.

Camp Noel Porter
  

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 and 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. 

 

Click here for a printable flyer with more information.

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