november-december 2008 trinity topics newsletter, trinity toledo episcopal church

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Trinity Topics The Newsletter of Trinity Episcopal Church in Toledo, Ohio

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SUNDAY DECEMBER 7 ADVENT 2B

Isaiah 40:1-11, 2 Peter 3:8-15a, Mark 1:1-8

9:00a Traditional Eucharist

10:00a Formation for all ages

10:45a Festive Euchar ist

7:00 O Antiphon s

SUNDAY, DEC 14 ! ADVENT 3B

Isaiah 61:1-4, 8-11; Ps 126; 1 5:16-24; John 1:6-8, 19-28



10:45a Festive Eucha rist

SUNDAY, DEC 21 ! ADVENT 4B

2 Sam 7:1-22, 16, Romans 16:25-27; Luke 1:26-38



10:45a Festive Eucha rist

SUNDAY, DEC 28 ! CHRISTMAS 1B

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SUNDAY, NOV 16 ! PROPER 28A Judges 4:1-7; Psalm 123; 1 Thess 5:1-11; Matt 25:14-30




SUNDAY, NOV 23 ! PROPER 29A — CHRIST

THE KING — BISHOP’S VISITEz. 34:11-16, 20-24; Psalm 100; Eph 1:15-23; Matt 25:31-46

No te: No Early service

No formation for children


12p Greening of the Church

SUNDAY, NOV 30—ADVENT 1B/PARISH MTG.

Isaiah 64:109; Ps. 80:1-7, 16-18; 1 Cor 1:3-9; Mark 13:24-37




12n Parish Meeting

Trinity is hosting a sp ecial event to benefit

Emmanu el Children’s Home in San Pedro

Sula, Honduras, which cares for over 75

orphaned children. Trinity’s mission this

year is to raise $12,000 to build a nu rsery,

allowing them to give homes to children

from birth through adulthood.

This one day event begins with a p re-

holiday art market featuring local artists

beginning at 12 noon. A portion of every

sale made will go directly to the Children’s

Home. There will also be a silent auction

where ALL proceeds will go directly to the home. Members of the Northw estern Ohio Chapter of the

American Harp Society will provide mu sic throug hout the d ay.

The capstone event for the d ay w ill be a concert by Celtic harp ist and Storyteller Patrick Ball. Tickets for

this concert are $10 students/ seniors and $15 adults. Again, a portion of every ticket sold will got to the

Hom e. Do your holiday shopp ing and make a difference in the world. This is truly Art with a Heart!

ww w.hogaremanuel.com ww w.patrickball.com

Art with a HeartOne very special day at Trinity

Saturday, November 15 12 noon to 9 pm

Patrick BallCeltic Harpist and Storyteller

7 pm

The O Antiphons of Advent

Canterbury Choir’s

annual lessons and carols

celebrate the coming Messiah

through wo rds, music and symbols.

Sunday December 7, 7:00 p.m.

Admission is free. All are welcome.



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Christmas Services

W ednesday , December 24, 2008

Christmas Eve Family Service with Communion,5:30 pm

A service designed just for young children with short

attention spans and their families.

Christmas Eve Prelude, 10:30 pm Trinity’s own Canterbury Choir rings in the ChristmasEve Service and will feature the world premiere of a

new work by Toledo composer Wayne Anthony, The

Dawn Brings Forth Light.

The Festival Christ Mass, 11 pm

A full celebration of the Feast of the N ativity filled w ith

music.

First Sunday after Christmas December 28, 200810:45am Note: one service only

Prop hesies of the birth of Chr ist told in lessons & carols

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Orphanage Repair N eededPlease keep the p eople of Hond uras

in your p rayers. Due to the

continuous stream of trop ical

depressions that have been hitting

the country for more than a m onth,

much of the north coast and the

Southern Pacific Coast is under

water. Many have been left

homeless d ue to the flooding.

DONATIONS (tax deductible) can be received

at PROJECT GLOBAL VILLAGE EMERGENCY

FUND, c/ o Western PA District Church of the

Brethren, 115 Spring Road, Hollsopple,

PA 15935. DONATIONS for the emergency at

Emanuel Children’s Home shou ld be marked

specifically that it is for the H OME.

Christmas AngelsThis year w e w ill provide Christmas gifts to

app roximately 50 men, wom en and children in

need. Each Christmas Angels recipient will

receive two gifts, one a practical need, such as an

item of winter clothing,

and one a wish, a more

fun item. We will

provide a gift tag for

each gift with

information about the

item d esired, size, color

etc.. There may be

several suggestions on

the gift card to give you

a choice – you are N OT required to p urchase all

the items – only ONE!

We w ill have th eir na mes and wishes available

on Sunday Novem ber 16, which should give

plenty of time for shopp ing. You can sign up to

provide just one gift or as m any as y ou like. You

can also sign up to “share” a gift. If your family

would like to “adopt” a whole family, please let

us kn ow – this is a very rew arding p roject for

families to do together at Christmas time.

Please make sure you attach your gift tag

firmly to your w rapp ed gift when you bring it in

to church on Sund ay December 14 to make sure

that we h ave all the gifts we hav e pledged to

provide. As we did last year, we plan to invite

the Christmas Angels recipients to the church

before Christmas to collect their gifts and join u s

for hot d rinks and snacks.

Stew art Academy fo r GirlsHats and mittens for Stewart Academy .

This year w e are collecting h ats, scarves, gloves

and mittens for the girls at Stewart Academy in

the fall. In past years we have collected h ats and

mittens in January but they are often needed

much earlier. We will bless the items in

November before taking th em to school wherethey will keep small hand s, faces and heads w arm.

Any color is welcome – the brighter the better!

Reading Is Fundamental

This mon th w e are sponsoring the Reading Is

Fundamental program at Stewart Academy. This

is a matching grant pr ogram w hich gives each

student th ree books to take home. The girls love

this program as many of them have no books of

their own . This is a cash sponsorship by the

Outreach Committee – if you would like to

contribute please place your gift in an Outreach

envelope and mark it (or your check) Reading IsFundamental.

V alerie Garforth, Ou treach Committ ee Chair

Member MattersBaptized on All Saints’ Sunday: Nash Thomas Gadway, son of Randall & Erin Gadway,

and Derek Oyler Jr. son of Derek & Beth Oyler.

Food DriveThe way we play this

game, everybody

wins!

November 22 is THE

Game. Think y our teamis going to win? By how

mu ch? Make it coun t! We’ll be collect-

ing canned goods for area Food Pan-

tries. For every point you think your

team will lead, bring in a can of SOMETHING.

We will have specially marked boxes for each

team. We will bless the boxes on The Morning

After and send them on their way Novem ber 23.



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Thank you notes received

Thank you from Mom’s House

Many thanks to the person who brought in a

bagful of new baby bottles and formula, which w e

took round to Mom’s House. We have received

the following note from Kardine Dur ham of

Mom’s H ouse: “Thank you for your recent donation

of baby bottles to M om’s House. It was very timely

because we had a mom who really needed new bott les

(she has newborn t wins). She is already u sing them!”

You m ade a D iffe rence

A big thank you to all those Trinity people wh o

helped to tie and cut fleece into no-sew blankets.

You helped to provide warmth and a message that

“we care about you” to someone in need. We

couldn ’t have mad e 500 blankets w ithout you.

Thank you.

Judy Meeks & Mary Wabeke

De ar Blanket Makers

Many thanks for providing Focus families with

warm , cud dly blankets! You know they will get

lots of use for years to com e.

Please continue to pray for our families as they

create new futures for themselves.

Thank you.

Kyle Grefe, Director

Dear Friends:

Thank you so mu ch to all the wond erful

volunteers from your congregation who m ade

blankets for the wom en at the YWCA. Thank you

also for inviting m e to th e Blessing of the Blankets

ceremony. There’s nothing I like to see more than

a community uniting under the banner of

generosity. Thank you.

Libby Schreffler, Y W CA V olunteer Coordinator

Susan:

I want you to know that I truly enjoyed the

service and am grateful for the blankets provided

to the veterans. The Church and members arebeautiful.

When I pr ovided all the residents w ith their

blankets, I received many requests to provide

thanks to all who offered such generosity.

Thank you & God Bless.

Jennifer Cawthorn-M apes

Tent City MattersOf the 500 blankets made during the Blanket

Blitz, 200 wen t to Tent City last w eekend . Tent

City is an advocacy program w hich h elps the

homeless get medical, legal, and other services to

help them OUT of homelessness.

For some, it is hard to comprehend w hy we all

do w hat we d o. This email arrived at Tent City

offices a few days ago:.

“I vowed last year at Tent City, this year I

wou ld be able to serve the homeless and not be

one of them. Through God an d A.A., I have

achieved that goal. Today I’m clean and sober!! I

saw Michele Ross’video and everything she said

is so true. I wond er if you all know wh at an im-

pact you have on us? Last year was AWESOME.

It was the start of my road to recovery and the

start of being a productive part of society. The

comp assion, dignity and k indness I was shown

last year will forever leave my soul indebted.

The only way to pay it back is to come back

October 31 and pray I can touch even one lost

human being.

Please let me know wh at I can do to help. I

wou ld love to just “m ingle” amongst m y former

“peeps” and maybe tell them m y story. Or just

LISTEN. They MATTER.

Christmas flow er memo rialsEach Ch ristmas, we decorate the church and

cloister with flowers and other decorations.

Those wh o wish to contribute should send the

names of donors and those being remembered or

honored by Friday, December 19, in order to list

them in the Christmas liturgy booklet.

We ask don ors to give the full Christian n ame

of persons memorialized or honored (Mary Jane

Smith, rather than Mrs. John Smith). $25 is the

usual gift but larger donations are especially

welcomed. An envelope is enclosed in this issue

of Topics for your convenience. Please make

checks payable to Trinity.



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Special Parish Mee ting N oticeWhen: Sunday, November 30, 2008 immediately

following the 10:45 service, in th e n ave.

Why : To consider amend ing the Parish Bylaws.

What: The Vestry believes that given the current

size of our community, it is reasonable and

app ropriate to reduce the num ber of vestry

members from 12 to 9 (i.e., 3 classes of 3

members). For the past 18 months, the Vestry has

intentionally operated with 11 members, because

of a lack of nominees and to experience operating

as a smaller leadership team. Changing the size of

the vestry requires amend ing the Parish Bylaw s,

wh ich mu st be voted on at a parish meeting.

In ad dition, counsel is reviewing the Mod el

Bylaws r ecently offered by th e Diocese of Ohio,

and may recommend other minor amendments to

Trinity’s Bylaws intended only to conform them to

these Model Bylaws.

Questions in advan ce of this meeting can bedirected to any m ember of the Vestry.

Bishop Hollingsw orth to visi t

November 23Our annual Episcopal visitation will occur on

Sund ay, Nov. 23rd with Bishop Mar k

Hollingsworth. Please join us on th is day to

welcome Mark. Note that we will have only one

service at 10:45 am on that da te.

N ominations sou ght for vestryAre you a p erson of vision w ho d ares to dream

as big as God's creation? Are you w illing to ma ke

and follow through on commitments? Do you

have specialized skills that might be helpful as we

work tow ard ou r vision and mission? If so, then

we'd like to hear from you.

The vestry is a small group of people who help

to discern the vision toward wh ich God is

draw ing our commu nity, articulate and

comm un icate that vision, hold ou r commu nityaccountable for the realization of that vision, and

keep the mission of the Church and of our

individual congregation clearly before our

community.

We believe we have been given the resources

needed to do the job God has called u s to. Our

leaders identify and allocate those resources, and

lead our comm unity in celebrating an d giving

thanks for those resources.

In 2009, we expect there to be only two vestry

positions to be filled. This is a challenging time

for the parish and these leadership positions offer

unique opportunities for ministry. Nominations

or expressions of interest can be given to junior

warden Jeff Albright.

D iocesan conventionThe vestry appointed Bud Gartz, Mary Gartz

and Becky Roth as the parish’s delegates to the

diocesan convention being held November 14-15.

Alternates are Jim Zechm an, Jane Bueche and Jill

Snyder.

Weather AlertA level two or level three snow emergency

means that the church is closed. That goes for

Sunday services, too! Church closings will be

announced on local television.

Next to NewShopping Hours Monday and Friday 9:30-3:00.

Don’t forget to shop at a p lace wh ere your

pu rchase matters! In this economy, w e can help

your Christmas shopping, and you can help area

ministry partners w ith every purchase you make.Come and see the new winter collection at Next-

to- New. Clothes, household goods and other

wonderful things await you. Gift Certificates

available starting De cember 1.

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Greening of

the ChurchJoin us November 23 at

noon after the Bishop’s visita-

tion for the greening of the

church. In preparation for

Advent an d eventually for

Christmas, we w ill hang the greens minu s the

ribbons and other decorations. All are welcome

to help!



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Watching the web workIn preparing for the

Diocesan Youth Event,

it has been a privilege

to talk w ith so many

wond erful people in this

town who are giving

their lives to help those in need . Here’s a synopsis

of one interesting unfolding of the web of connections:

This all started when Marie’s connection with

Susan McDonald, th e Bishop ’s Assistant for Life-

long Learning, led to Trinity being asked to host

the Fall Youth Event. Part of my work for this

weekend w as to find p laces where the youth

could go in small groups to volunteer. The com-

mu nity has been very enth usiastic and we easily

found plenty of agencies and places for the young

people to go for 3 hours on Saturd ay morning.

One of these places was Mobile Meals. While I

was talking with Carolyn at Mobile Meals I told

her about one of the other sites we w ould be

using, Food for Thought, the group that han ds out

sandwiches on Saturdays at the downtown

library. She was very interested in this service

and has since contacted them , volun teered with

them and has given them extra food from Mobile

Meals for their lunch progr am. Next I found ou t

that the husband of the person w ho run s Food for

Thought w orks in the same bu ilding as the Mobile

Meals office so he can easily take th e d onated food

to the site where the lunches are put together. In

ad dition, a r elative of a Mobile Meals stafferworks at Panera and now they have Panera

helping with Food for Thought.

And there’s more. Many from Mobile Meals

staff are coming to tie blankets with us. Another

group coming to help w ith blankets is the Girl

Scout troop that the director’s daughter is

with. AND, a group of women from New H arvest

church has mad e and delivered blankets to us

already.

Toledo is a small town in some ways, filled

with very generous people. This seems to have

God’s fingerprint all over it.

—Susan Lowrey

Meditating on A dvent

when you may not think

you are readyIf you w ant God, and long for union w ith

God, yet sometimes wonder what that

means or w hether it can mean anything at

all, you are already w alking w ith the God

wh o comes. If you are at times so w eary andinvolved with the struggle of living th at you

have no strength even to wan t God, yet are

still dissatisfied that you don’t, you are al-

ready keeping Advent in you r life. If you

have ever had an obscure intuition that the

truth of things is somehow better, greater,

more won derful than you d eserve or desire,

that the touch of God

in your life stills you

by its gentleness, that

there is a mercy be-

yond anything youcould ever suspect,

you are already

draw n into the cen-

tral mystery of salva-

tion.

Your hope is not a

mocking dream; God

creates in hu man h earts a huge desire and a

sense of need, because God wants to fill

them with the gift of God’s self ….

You yourself are the place of desire and

need. All your love, your stretching ou t,your hope, your thirst, God is creating in

you so that God m ay fill you. It is not your

desire that makes it happ en, but God’s. God

longs through you r heart ... God is on the

inside of your longing.

! Maria Boulding

THANK YOU CJ!Congratulations and thanks go

to CJ Meeks for 20 years service

as verger. We will celebrate this

anniversary at coffee hour Sun-

day November 16.



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Holy Days as announced

Remember those for whom our prayers have been requested: Michael Zohn, BarbClarke, Herb Landis, Jack Kaufman, Esther Lewis, Sandy Sheperd, Ruth Archer, the children staff of Emanuel Childrens Home, the people in the Diocese of Pittsburgh, those on death roall victims of war and violence; Marie Harkey and David S. Nelson in their continuing

vocational discernment.

For those who have died: In the parish: , T.C. Lyon (Charles Morrison. In the world:

Michael Crichton (writer), John Leonard (critic).

servicesParish Staff Elizabeth M. Hoster, Rector Wayne F. Anthony , Associate for Music and the Arts Susan Lowrey, Associate for Spiritual Development

Marie Harkey, Associate for Digital Ministries

Virginia Shafer, Executive Secretary Jane A. Bueche, Parish Accountant

Bridget Blanchard , Organist

Parish VestryBecky Roth, Senior Warden

Jeff Albright, Junior Warden Charles Kiskaddon, Treasurer

Jason Rahe, Clerk Lucia Cooper, Bud Gartz, Jane Gomersall-Zohn,

Jennifer Siebold, Sherre Owens Smith, KarenWabeke, Jim Zechman.

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vision & missionTrinity is called to be a progressive, inclusive and creative urban community.

! We will practice radical hospitality.

! We will be engaged in the life of our city.

! We will stand with those in need: the poor, the sick, the friendless, the marginalized.

! We will actively invite all to experience and celebrate God’s living presence.

! We will journey together toward a Christ-centered life, pursuing personal ministriesthat connect us to God, to one another, and to the world around us.

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