September 3, 2015

 

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

SummerFest! People have said how much fun they had! We hope you were among them.
 
For many years Trinity had a summer or early fall Parish Picnic. It was held at various parks throughout the area. In the last few years the number of participants began to decline. One of the reasons was because the event was distant from Trinity and happened on a Sunday afternoon (football became king). Nancy Tennyson used to organize a "Summer Beach Party" at Trinity for the children. We imported sand to play in. There were games on the lawns and ice cream for all. Last year we didn't do either of these events. This year we decided to try something new - combine the two. SummerFest came into being.
 
Patio social time.
Our Hospitality Ministry Team organized SummerFest. This team, headed by Thomas Ott, often works "behind the scenes." They send out the monthly reminders to bring refreshments for the coffee hours. They recruit and manage the hosts for those coffee hours. Georgianna Pfost does this. Recruiting people is a challenge. I encourage you to step up and be a host. The schedule is such that you would serve once every other month after the service of your choice. Gina Schumacher, another Hospitality Team member, manages the Visitor Center. The team also oversees funeral receptions and other uses of our kitchen.   Please see me or Thomas Ott if you would like to join.
 
One of the goals the Hospitality Team had for
Kami Davis in the tank.
SummerFest was that there would be some entertainment for all parish members. For example, we suspected that those who usually attend the 7:30 service would be more interested in music, coffee and a chance to socialize rather than a visit to the dunk tank. We saw the Fest as an opportunity to provide time for members to explore the garden. We included music, a cake walk, a chili cook off (Jason Lyons was the winner, followed closely by Paul Brosio), the now infamous dunk tank, sidewalk chalk art and games for the younger children. Oh yes...and free food!
 
Another goal was to include as many parish groups as possible in the
Planting in the Garden.
event. The Men's Group manned the barbecue. The Garden Committee provided fun and games in the garden. The Choristers were part of the musical show. The young adults helped serve ice cream. Parents of our younger children supervised games. T.R.E.E. donated environmentally friendly paper plates and flatware.   Staff members, Beau Carter, another Hospitality Team member, and Chris Tzimenatos were victims of the dunk tank.
 
There were also many individuals who helped with the cake walk, chili
Artists at work.
cook off, music, decorating and so much more to make the day a success. To all of them, THANK YOU! I want to recognize three people who were instrumental in making SummerFest a reality: Eileen Harvey-Qualset, Jeanne Jurgens and Thomas Ott. Without their energy and drive our fun day in the sun would not have happened. The entire Hospitality Ministry Team worked hard on SummerFest. These three made sure we "kept our eyes on the prize." 
Jerry gets dunked.
If you were able to attend, The Hospitality Ministry Team hopes you had fun. If you were not able to be with us, we will do this again next year and announce it earlier. Please send me your suggestions for improvements.
 
 
Jerry Paré
Operations Manager
Trinity Cathedral
 
In this edition....
Office Volunteer Needed...
Secret Pals Needed...
TNAC Kitchen Help Needed...
The Choirs want you...
Family Promise...
Ushers Needed...
Cathedral Bookshop...
Lunch Bunch & Writing Group...
Veterans Meeting...
Centering Prayer...
Thomas Merton piece...
TREE Tip...
September 3 TNAC...
This Sunday...
Trinity Men's Breakfast...
Crochet/Knitting Group...
Tuesday Morning Group...
Speaker Series...
CROP Walk...
Celebration of New Ministry...
Day of the Dead...
Canon Carey's Birthday...
Harvest for Hunger...
Camp Noel Porter...
e-News Submission Guildlines...
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Volunteer

Opportunities... 

Office Front Desk Volunteer

Volunteer should have office skills in order to answer phones, transfer calls etc. have some computer skills/experience with Word and email etc.  Be able to direct those who come to the office window to an area where they will be able to find help etc. 

If you are interested in working in the office on Friday afternoons, 1:00-5:00, please contact Randie Strike at 916-446-2513 or 916-203-7586.
Secret Pal
Secret Pals
 
We are looking for Secret Pals for the teachers and staff at Leataata Floyd School. Each teacher and staff person fills out an information sheet about themself and the work they do at the school. The Secret Pal (parishioner) is encouraged to send little notes of encouragement, to remember his or her birthday, special holidays, and help with supplies that might be needed.
 
A sign-up sheet will be available in the Great Hall or you can call me at 916-715-6942 or email me at mmhust@hotmail.com with any questions.
 
The teachers will be back to school September 3.
 
Thank You for your support of the teachers and staff at Leataata Floyd School.
~~Mary Hustler
Kitchen Help

Our Thursday Night at the Cathedral (TNAC) series is beginning on Thursday, September 10th with classes beginning at 7pm.  At 6pm a dinner is served in the Great Hall for $7.  Vaughn Wolff is the head cook on these evenings and could use some extra help getting the meal prepared from 3pm onwards.

If this sounds of interest to you, please contact him at vewolff@yahoo.com.  Additionally, he needs some extra help in the kitchen on Friday, October 2nd for the Dewitt Jones reception from 3pm onwards as well.  Thanks everyone!
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
One usher at 11:15am service on the 4th Sunday
AND
Two ushers at 11:15am service on the 5th Sunday
AND
One usher 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
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 
4:30pm 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 the Rev. 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
 

By overwhelming request...

Thomas Merton

...here is the Thomas Merton piece I referenced in Sunday's sermon. I am beyond thrilled that so many people who had never heard of him are now interested in his work. Happy reading! 

 


"My Lord God, I have no idea where I am going.
I do not see the road ahead of me.
I cannot know for certain where it will end.
Nor do I really know myself, and the fact that I think that I am following your will does not mean that I am actually doing so.
But I believe that the desire to please you does in fact please you.
And I hope I have that desire in all that I am doing.
I hope that I will never do anything apart from that desire.
And I know that if I do this you will lead me by the right road though I may know nothing about it.
Therefore will I trust you always though I may seem to be lost and in the shadow of death.
I will not fear, for you are ever with me,
and you will never leave me to face my perils alone."


- Thomas Merton,
"Thoughts in Solitude" 

~~ The Rev. Megan Anderson

megan@trinitycathedral.org

TREE Logo TREE Tip
by Ann Rothschild
 
Found Stuff, Prize Winner, and Pope Francis' Encyclical Letter.
 
Have you lost your white earbuds, or your black computer connection chord?   They were left a few weeks ago on the TREE table during coffee hour. We would like to restore them to their rightful
owner(s).   Contact Ann at dzonokwa@comcast.net.
 
Mary Anderson & Mickie Dundon
TREE is happy to share that Mary Anderson won the August raffle. We give raffle tickets for prizes every time someone brings their own coffee mug to coffee hour - and we have a monthly drawing. This month's prize, generously donated by the Reafs, was two tickets to a Beethoven concert at the Community Center. The first winner, Mickie Dundon, would not be in town for the dates, so the next winner was Mary. Well done, both of you.
 
Let's read Pope Francis' Encyclical Letter, Laudato Si', "On Care for Our Common Home."
 
It focuses on the environment and how that impacts global and social issues. TREE members will be leading discussions on the encyclical during Thursday Night at the Cathedral Fall Series. Please come: the first class will be on September 10, led by Deacon Tina Campbell.

Thursday Night at the Cathedral

 on September 3

 

Compline - 6:00pm

 

Dinner and Classes will resume on September 10

 

Follow this link to see the classes offered.
This Sunday - September 6

The scheduled preacher at the

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

The Very Rev. Dr. Brian Baker

LibraryThe Library is Open in the Elevator Alcove
Library hours are 8:30-11:30am
  
 
Peter, Paul and Mary Magdalene - this is not a 60's song but rather a book by Bart Ehrman, attempting to separate fact from fiction. The writer is a recognized expert on early Christianity, Jesus, and the New Testament. (225.9 E on the shelf)
First Sunday Family Service
  
Family Service with the Rev. Kathy Hopner
  
Sunday, September 6, at 9:00am
in the Great Hall.

Newcomers' Group

 

The group will discuss Resources for Next Steps.

 

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.

Veteran's Meeting
Sunday, September 6 at 10:15am
in the Assembly Area
 
We will continue planning our Veterans Day Celebration on Sunday, November 8 from 12:30 to 2:30pm. 
 
We are going to be inviting the entire Diocese, veterans and their families to join our celebration.
 
All Veteran's are invited to come  and help plan the celebration!

Next Week and Beyond... 

Trinity Men's Breakfast
Saturday, September 12, 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
Sunday, September 13, 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.
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.
Lori and Jim Richardson +
A Celebration of New Ministry
 
The people of Church of the Incarnation in Santa Rosa invites you to join them in welcoming their new Priest-In-Charge, the Rev. Jim Richardson, on Saturday, October 17, 2015. Pastor Jim comes from St. Paul's Memorial Church in Charlottesville, Virginia, where he was the Rector for seven years. However, many of you already know him well! Pastor Jim is returning to the Diocese of Northern California where he was ordained, and served as a canon and associate dean at Trinity Episcopal Cathedral, Sacramento for many years. He also served as interim rector at All Souls Parish in Berkeley. More information about Pastor Jim can be found on our website.
 
A Celebration of New Ministry will be held at the Church of the Incarnation on Saturday, October 17 at 1:30 p.m. Bishop Barry Beisner will officially install Jim as our new priest. After the service ends, we will have a reception and dinner. Childcare for children under the age of 12 will be available during the service and reception; you will be asked to collect your children to join you for dinner.
 
Seating is limited, so please RSVP to our Parish Administrator Alison Cole at alison@incarnationsantarosa.org or 707.579.2604. Please let us know if you will attend both the service and dinner, how many people, and if you will need childcare. We look forward to welcoming Pastor Jim with you!
Save the Date!
  Sunday, November 1st at 5pm

Day of the Dead Potluck Dinner Church

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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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