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The Rev. Dr. Elizabeth Lilly, priest/iconographer in our Trinity community, will write icons in the Parish Library, or perhaps the Chapel, the first Friday of each month, beginning on Friday, October 5. From 10 a.m. through the noon Eucharist, she will be available for conference, prayer, and to explain iconography and the spiritual journey. All are welcome!
Your brainstorming -- and bric-a-brac -- can benefit Trinity. Here's how:
In preparing the 2008 budget, Trinity's vestry made a commitment to raise additional funding through a variety of events and activities.
One of our plans calls for turning trinkets into treasure for Trinity at the upcoming Village Valuables sale in German Village on Saturday, May 17. We're looking for a few good German Village residents to host sales on sidewalks, yards and porches, and many more parishioners to serve as sellers. We're asking everyone to contribute a few "valuables" to benefit Trinity. In addition to boosting the budget, we'll have a chance to get to know one another by working together and enjoying a fun-filled Columbus tradition. Events details will be posted on Trinity's website, and published in the bulletin.
We have a few other plans in mind, but we're interested in your best ideas. Please contact Senior Warden Julie Newhall at
Wednesday, April 30
Trinity’s next opportunity to serve at the St. John’s Franklinton, 1003 W. Town Street. Arrive around 4:30 p.m., clean up usually ends before 8:00 p.m. Please contact Bill Bronson for further information.
The Lay Weeders' spring work day in the Trinity garden will be Saturday, May 3, beginning at 9 am. We will clean up the garden and plant annuals and the Shirley Wootten Memorial Geraniums. Bring gloves and tools, and a kneeling pad if you have one: the concrete is hard!
Parishioners who have extra hostas or other shade-loving perennials they would like to donate should bring them to the church by May 3.
All are welcome to help us manifest God's glory in the garden.
Monday, May 5, 2008, 6:15 p.m.-Registration
Veterans Memorial - 300 W. Broad Street
Stop the Downward Spiral of…
…Payday Lending
…Poverty & Education
…Crime & Drugs
I was very angry when I heard … these complaints.. After thinking it over, I brought charges against the nobles and the officials; I said to them, ‘You are all taking interest from your own people.’ And I called a great assembly to deal with them. (Nehemiah 5:6-7)
For further information, please contact the BREAD office (614) 220-9363, or visit them online at http://www.breadcolumbus.org.
Free tickets are required. See Suzan Waller, Peggy Malone or Dale Dubler for a ticket. Or contact the Parish Office 221-5351
Free Parking at Vets provided by BREAD
The Columbus Coalition for the Homeless Hosts 2008 Marsha Donner Mother's Day Brunch
Sunday, May 11, 2008
The annual celebration of this special day is an event to which all homeless or recently homeless mothers and their families are invited. CCH hosts a large celebration for these special people. The event will be held in Huntington Hall at the Downtown YWCA. We serve an excellent meal and provide mothers with wonderful gifts, all with the help of many volunteers and generous merchants. Trinity members are invited to join in offering this party to these mothers and their families. If you would like to know more or volunteer to help just contact the Coalition Office at 614-228-1342 or vist them online at http://www.columbushomeless.org.
We can support the CCH by sponsoring a mother for the brunch. A single mother sponsorship is $25 or a table can be sponsored for $500. Please contact the Parish Office to make your contribution through Trinity Church. 221-5351
In an attempt to better communicate with the parish, a mass email account has been established. Weekly notices and event updates will be sent out, as well as timely information of concern to the congregation. Use of this account will be very limited to avoid overloading your inboxes. All addresses in the current Parish Directory (2008) have been added to the list. Please add this address to your account so that it is not blocked. If you have not received an email this week (sent on Thursday), please send a note to the account and your address will be added or corrected. Please continue to use to submit bulletin and Chimes items.
Kevin Wines
Director of Music/Liturgist
An adult Explorers’ Class and a teen Confirmation Class, in preparation for Bishop Tom Breidenthal’s visit to Trinity later this spring, begin on Sunday, April 6 at 9:30 a.m.. Both groups are invited to meet in the Parish Library with the Rector and several others who will journey with the classes in a pilgrimage of discovery. The Explorers’ Class is designed for anyone 16 years of age or older who wants to be confirmed, or anyone who simply would like to learn more about the Episcopal Church and our common life in Trinity Parish. Young people—ages 12 and older—who want to be confirmed will be part of the teen Confirmation Class. Please see the Explorers Class page for a schedule of topics to be addressed.
Please plan to join Deacon School student Joe Mazza in the Parish Library on Tuesday evenings at 7:00 p.m. for the seven weeks of Easter (March 25 through May 6). During this time, there will be reflection and discussion on the Book of Acts.
Also, we have been invited by the downtown YWCA, our neighbors around the corner on Fourth Street, to host a weekly Bible discussion at their facility. Joe Mazza will facilitate these discussions, which will be held every Tuesday afternoon from 2-3 p.m. This is a wonderful opportunity for anyone interested to come forward and volunteer to be a part of an important downtown ministry. If you are interested in helping occasionally or regularly facilitating these meetingsl, please get in touch with Joe.
Trinity Church begins a ministry to homeless people with “In the Garden.” Deacon School student Joe Mazza will lead the service.
The first gathering of “In the Garden” will take place today, Sunday, March 30th at 2:00 PM, and at that time every Sunday thereafter, in the garden of Trinity Church. The service will begin with a hymn, followed by prayers (including intercessory prayer), and an opportunity for testimony. Then the congregation will be served a simple lunch. The Rev. Dr. Debbie Little Wyman, Episcopal priest and founder of Ecclesia Ministries, is sending us an initial supply of 25 Ecclesia Crosses to give to all participants of “In the Garden.”
Dear Trinity Friends,
Thank you all for your very warm welcome! You are a lovely congregation, and I look forward to getting to know you better as I serve as your deacon. If you missed filling out my “get-to-know-you” questionnaire at the Annual Meeting, please take one from the Narthex and do so. Then leave it in the basket in the Narthex. Thanks!
Spring term begins for me next week, and my studies will be quite full. Nevertheless, thanks to cheapfares.com, I am very excited to be taking off a short week at the end of the month to visit my son in Madrid!
May God’s blessing be with you as we embark together on the journey through Lent to the Cross and Easter.
Recently the Episcopal Community Services Foundation has received 48 grant proposals from 37 congregations across the diocese to aid community ministries in 2008. Sister Episcopal churches are requesting small sums to leverage the time and treasure they are putting in themselves, often at great sacrifice. You probably know several of these projects first hand: think of His Place dinners at St. John’s Columbus; the Interfaith Hospitality Network in Xenia; St. James Pantry in Piqua. They have received several first-time requests for creative new ministries, like the diabetes screening and health education offered at by All Saints Portsmouth during the Loaves and Fishes dinner.
Please pray for the Saints Like You who are bringing hope and help to beleaguered neighbors in God’s name. And please donate to ECSF, your own diocesan charity, created to support the community ministries of Episcopal congregations right here in Southern Ohio. If every Episcopal household gives just $15, they could fully fund this year’s requests! You can send a check to ECSF c/o Diocese of Southern Ohio, 412 Sycamore Street, Cincinnati, OH 45202 or give online. All gifts are tax-deductible.
Episcopal Relief & Development (ERD) is providing emergency assistance to people in Peru after the country was rocked by a violent earthquake on Wednesday August 15. ERD is working with the Diocese of Peru to provide food, blankets, shelter support and medicine for people left homeless by the quake. 80% of housing has been destroyed in Pisco, near the epicenter of the earthquake. The Diocese of Peru is deeply involved in the relief and rescue efforts by providing critical supplies and helping displaced people who have been injured and brought to Lima.
In the wake of Dean, a Category 5 hurricane, ERD has contacted partners in Jamaica, Belize, Haiti and the Dominican Republic and other parts of the region. The major storm has caused flooding, mudslides, heavy rain, high winds and severe damage, killing at least nine people.
ERD will assist people impacted by Hurricane Dean as church partners identify and assess needs locally. Please continue to pray for those affected by both of these disasters.
Envelopes for contributions to be sent directly to ERD are enclosed in the Sunday bulletins. You may also make a contribution online.
Did you know that you can donate the altar flowers on Sundays in memory or gratitude for loved ones? It is a wonderful way to remember people and to assure that there will be flowers on the altar Sunday by Sunday. Please contact Clara Anderson or the Parish Office to sign up. This is a long standing tradition at Trinity Church and we are deeply grateful to Clara for coordinating this ministry for over thirty years. You will enhance worship at Trinity with the beauty of nature on the high altar, and you will give thanks for special people in your life.
Attention, Trinity photographers! In our continuing effort to enhance this website, and use it as a medium to share our vision of faith and hospitality with the wider community, we would like to include more pictures of our parish life together. If you have any photographs that you would like to submit for consideration for inclusion on this site, and/or would like to participate in this effort by taking some pictures for us, we would love to hear from you! Please contact us at .
The Parish Life and Hospitality Committee is looking for people interested in greeting on Sunday mornings for both the 8:00am and 10:30am services. This is a great way to meet new people and welcome those who worship each week. If you have an interest in leading this group, or being a part of the team, please contact Mary Wanamaker at or call the Parish Office.
Each weekday morning, Trinity Church offers a Morning Prayer service at 8 a.m. This is traditionally a lay-led service, and we invite anyone who is interested in serving as an officiant for these services to contact the Parish Office. Please consider taking advantage of this opportunity to contribute to the weekday ministry of our church.
Trinity is seeking volunteers to assist in the Parish Office on weekday mornings, afternoons or both. This is a great opportunity to see what happens during the week at Trinity Church. You can make a meaningful contribution by being part of the work and outreach in the Parish Office - call Diane Donato at 221-5351 for more information.
Contributions for The Chimes and the weekly announcements brochure should be emailed to . The next issue of The Chimes is planned for mid-May preceding the Day of Pentecost. Notices for the weekly announcements must be received by 8:00 a.m. each Tuesday morning.
Please bring in any and all inkjet cartridges that can be recycled for funds to help in our daily outreach. This is a great way to fund our program and to keep inkjet cartridges out of the landfills.
The Open Shelter, located on the third floor of our Parish House, is requesting children’s clothing, especially coats and warm items.
The Parish Office is in need of men’s socks, deodorant, toothpaste, disposable razors and easily opened non-perishable food items that folks can eat on the street. As always we are looking for winter coats for men and women. Please check your closets for those coats you haven’t worn in years. There are many outside now without warm coats. We would also appreciate warm stocking hats and gloves to distribute to the homeless. We know there are well over 300 people living outside in Columbus. - Diane Donato, Parish Office.
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