september 2011 trinity newsletter

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Seasonal Newsletter - September 2011

Te Vicars MessageTe Rev. Johnnette Shane

rinity and Kirksville are alive with new things. Tereare new students and returning students all over town,and students look orward to new teachers. Proes-sors have new students, and we have a new time orSunday School. A new school year begins or all o ourschools, but, in the Church, we are a lot closer to the

end o the church year than the beginning.

It does seem to be the beginning o all in Kirksville,though not yet by our calendar. Walks, runs, sh-ing and just sitting outside are a pleasure. Yesterday,we had a workday at the church, and the weather wasglorious. Te urry o activity and the people whoworked on the church reminded me o St. Pauls dis-cussion o gis. Everyone had his or her particular joband gi. Pete and I worked together on cleaning outthe gutters. I wasnt really tall enough or particularly

strong enough to position the ladder well, but Ive beenup and down the ladder a lot in my lie. Pete wasntthrilled about going up and down the ladder; so, wemade a good team. Te people with green thumbsworked on the owers and weeds, and the people with-out carted things around. People with more strengthheed and towed; people with less sorted things. Itwas a wonderul reminder how we are all needed inthis work or the Reign o God.

Speaking o needs, we are needing people to perorm

many tasks at rinity. We need olks to cook dinnersor Canterbury Club and a coordinator or nurseryvolunteers. We need people to witness to the gisgiven them by our church community, and we do neednursery volunteers and Sunday School teachers. Wewill need people to attend recovery services at rinity,and we still need people to share their gis with peoplewho are in need o our assistance at rinity. I you eelcalled to these or any other leadership roles at rinity,contact me or Jessie.

I that list seems daunting, its because we are doing alot at rinity these days. Finally, have I reminded youlately what a blessing and a challenge it is to be yourvicar? Tank you all!

With love,Johnnette+

Episcopal Clothing Opportunity

Roger Rosenberg

Nancy errell and Roger Rosenberg are happy toannounce they are working with the Cathedral Book-store to develop a line o clothing with the logo o theEpiscopal Church embroidered. Te line will consisto polo shirts and casual denim shirts at rst, and theyare looking at outerwear or all. Tey can also pro-vide these items to rinity parishioners; with rinityKirksville wording added i desired. A portion o theproceeds will be donated to the Diocese or rinityin the case o items purchased in the Kirksville area.Catch either one at Church or contact them at LonePine Embroidery & Design, 660-627-0753 i interested


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Food for Tought

Kerrin Smith

Tis summer, rinity once again participated in Food-4-Kids, a summer program established to provide reelunches in the citys parks to needy children o ourcommunity, most o whom receive ree or reduced-ee lunches while school is in session. A number ochanges were implemented to the program this year,the most notable being that the children can no longercollect their lunches and leave; they must eat in thepark. Simple games and activities were provided tohelp encourage everyone to stay.

I, like others, had worried that the new requirementwould discourage people rom participating in theprogram; however, the opposite seemed to be true.Tose who came appeared to enjoy the time they spenteating, talking, and playing with their neighbors and

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amily. Several o us who worked at Jaycee were struckby the realization that the program participants ap-peared to be not only in need o ood, but also ocommunity. We were impressed by the amilies thatcame as a unit, as well as by the very young who camealone; by the kindness siblings aorded one another, aswell as by the proanity others spoke without a secondthought; by how some o the children approached the

same Play-Doh and tiny paint pots day aer day withrenewed enthusiasm, eager to simply sit and work withtheir hands while talking to an attentive adult; and bythe weight many o the children and adults bear tryingto manage the nancial, physical, and emotional de-mands o their lives. We came to know many o thosewho attended our park by name and began developingbonds with them. We nished our week in the parkeeling good about what we had accomplished by vol-unteering or Food-4-Kids, but also knowing we had

barely begun to meet the needs o those we served.

rinity is surrounded by a community o hungrychildrenchildren hungry or the time and attentiono caring adults. Many o the children who qualiyor the ree or reduced-ee school lunch program notonly spend their summers with less to eat, but withconsiderably less to do. Teir parents may work orbe otherwise physically or emotionally unavailable toprovide simple pleasures or structure to their days.Te summer is likely long and monotonous or these

children. Tey walk the streets or hang out in the parksunsupervised. And a child with nothing to do is armore likely to get into trouble than a child occupied increative pursuits.

In thinking about all o this, several o us have oundourselves considering how rinity might expand uponthe Food-4-Kids and Art in the Park programs to pro-vide several additional hours o activities in a park twoor three times a week throughout the summer months.

In imagining such a ministry, weve wondered howmany o the children we met have access to the publiclibrarys summer reading program, and how wonder-ul it might be to bring books to the park to share withthe children who are unable to get to the library on aregular basis. I love the idea o spending an hour or soseveral times a week pouring over picture books withthe youngest children and reading a current award-winning novel with the older ones. I can also imaginethe un we could have spending another hour doingsimple cras and playing games: drawing,


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painting, making paper mch sculptures, stringingbeads, weaving, playing board games, working onteam-building activities, singing the possibilitiesare limitless. Little would be requiredaside rom ourtime and commitmentand the rewards would be im-measurable.

Few, i any, o us are in a position to commit to volun-

teering ull time, but there are so many o us with tal-ents to share, we could easily create a summer schedulelled with un activities by each volunteering just onceor twice a month. Id like to invite you to take sometime to consider how you might participate in such aministry. We, an inclusive community o people wholove God, have an opportunity to make a signicantdierence in the lives o the most vulnerable amongstus by simply sharing ourselvesour welcoming smilesand our listening hearts.

What do you think? I a man has a hundred sheep andone o them has gone astray, does he not leave the nine-ty-nine on the mountains and go in search o the onethat went astray? And i he nds it, truly, I say to you, herejoices over it more than over the ninety-nine that neverwent astray. So it is not the will o my Father who is inheaven that one o these little ones should perish. (Mat-thew 18:12-14 ESV)

Te Lectionary Page Has Moved

Your Communication Committee

I you regularly reerence the Episcopal Lectionarypage, be advised that the website has recently beenrelocated. Te lectionary page may now be accessed athttp://www.lectionarypage.net/

New Locks and Keys

Your Junior Wardens

Te locks on church doors have been changed. I youare in need o a key, see Wynne Wilbur or a replace-ment. Old keys should be disposed o.

Tank You!

Mike Ashcra

Id like to say thank you to all o you who participatedin Food 4 Kids. Ive worked with Food 4 Kids or sev-eral years, and have hoped that more rinity parishio-ners would get involved with this ministry. wenty o

us rom rinity, including our vicar, worked in thekitchen or served lunches to children in city parks.Tats great. I am optimistic about the changes inthe program. Tis year children had to remain at theserving locations to eat their lunches. In the past wesimply bagged up lunches and children took themhome. Tis new way o doing it gives volunteers theopportunity to get to know the children much better

than the old way. I hope our parish can sta a week oFood 4 Kids next summer too. God bless all who hada part in Food 4 Kids this year.

Education for Ministry CoursesMaria Evans

Have you ever wondered what some aspects o aseminary education is like? Have you ever wished youknew more about the Bible or the history o the church

and o Anglicanism? Have you ever wondered whatyour gis and talents might be as a lay person? TeEpiscopal Churchs our year course, Education orMinistry (EM) can help provide some o these thingsor you. Recent technological advances have madethis educational opportunity more accessible than everbeore.

EM is a our year course that more or less replicatesthe kinds o courses one would take in the rst yearo a seminary education, except there are no grades

issued. EM Year One is the study o the Old esta-ment, Year wo covers the New estament, Year Treecovers general church history, and Year Four covers thehistory o Christian denominations in America withemphasis on the Episcopal Church.

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A Message from Bishop Wayne Smith

A little known act about the Episcopal Church is thatthe diocese with the largest membership is Haiti, withabout 84,000 total baptized in the records. Te bestguess is that the actual number o baptized is closerto 150,000. Compare this to 14,000 in the Diocese oMissouri!

Haiti is also the most impoverished nation in the

Americas, and the 2010 earthquake merely accentuat-ed this datum. A glance at the table o statistics tells thestory. Undernourished people: 49 percent. Lie expec-tancy at birth: 49 years. Annual per capita income: 660dollars. Adult literacy: 48 percent.

In this picture the Episcopal Diocese o Haiti, thougha tiny minority within a total population o 9 mil-lion, provides a clear witness to aith in Jesusandthe Diocese provides vital and singular social services,especially in health care and education. Notably in thisseason o earthquake recovery, the Diocese has provid-ed ood and shelter on twenty-three o its properties,including on the Cathedral grounds in Port-au-Prince(Cathdrale Sainte rinit). Te earthquake le theCathedral unusable and destroyed many other build-ings in the Cathedral compound. A poignant loss, andthe pride o the entire nation, was the set o ourteeniconic murals o Bible stories inside the Cathedralchurch. A team o artists completed the murals in the1950s, depicting all the characters as people o Arican

Creole descent. Te people look like Haitians, as istting. Only three badly damaged murals survived theearthquake. Tis Cathedral was a spiritual center orthe whole Haitian people, not just Episcopalians.

Te past tense in that last sentence is not quite correct,or as Bishop Jean Zach Duracin makes clear, the lieo the Cathedral and its people continues. But now it is

a Cathedral without walls.

Te Episcopal Church as a whole has undertaken agrass-roots eort to rebuild Holy rinity Cathedral andall its walls, rom the ground up, brick-by-brick. TeEpiscopal Church Women o the Diocese o Missouriare coordinating the e- orts here, with bricks at tendollars each, so everyone can participate. I support thiseort, and I am participating, or the sake o our brothers and sisters in Haiti.

Cathdrale Sainte rinit and its people play a crucialrole in sustaining the material lie o Haiti, throughits ministries o education and health care. More thanthat, the Cathedral represents the nations soul.

[Note: A special collection to support this eort willbe taken the rst Sunday o October.]

Toughts From the reasurer

Krista Baker

Perhaps as you go about paying bills you occasion-ally stop to think about the need to continue spendingmoney on something that has become a routine bill.You consider how important the item is and decide toeither stop the expense or use the item to its ull ad-vantage. When I pay bills or the church I do the samething. One expense, small as it is, to be considered isthe purchase o the small daily meditation booklets,Forward Day by Day. Each quarter the church receives15 booklets which are placed on the table at the backo the church. Each quarter when I pick up the newsupply at the post ofce and place them on the table,I notice the little stack o booklets rom the previousquarter. Generally more than hal are still there. Tatmeans 5-6 booklets are in the hands o someone whohas come into our church. Is the expense worth it todistribute 5-6 booklets?

I have read the Forward Day by Day or many years.


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At times I nd it healing, challenging, and sometimesa little conusing. But there is one thing I always ndreassuring and benecial: the prayers on the insideront and back cover, the Morning Resolve and Foroday. I would like to share the Morning Resolvewith you.

A Morning Resolve

I will try this day to live a simple, sincere, andserene lie, repelling promptly every thought odiscontent, anxiety, discouragement, impurity,and sel-seeking; cultivating cheerulness, mag-nanimity, charity, and the habit o holy silence;exercising economy in expenditure, generosity ingiving, careulness in conversation, diligence inappointed service, delity to every trust, and achildlike aith in God.

In particular I will try to be aithul in those hab-its o prayer, work, study, physical exercise, eat-ing and sleeping which I believe the Holy Spirithas shown me to be right.

And as I cannot in my own strength do this, noreven with a hope o success attempt it, I look tothee, O Lord God my Father, in Jesus my Savior,and ask or the gif o the Holy Spirit.

I cant think o a better way to start the day. Pleaseconsider taking a copy o the Forward Day by Day thenext time you are at church. It would be good to needto order more o these little booklets!

Accessibility and Responsibility

Jessie Cragg

Imagine a church that is totally inaccessible, securelylocked up, members not welcome except at certainrestricted times. No keys are available and no onewill let you in even i you ask. Where a musician cantpractice and an Altar Guild member cant bring ow-ers. Now imagine a church that stands wide open at alltimes, admitting thieves and neighborhood animals,where all the lights burn constantly, water is le run-ning, and energy bills are sky high. Where no oneseems to care.

Neither o these scenarios describes rinity Church.Our members do care, as shown aer Kirksvilles re-cent storm when so many showed up to check on thechurch and vicarage. We enjoy our beautiul buildingsweekly or worship, music, ellowship, and learning.Our vicar carries out her daily lie and work in oneo them. Many o us have keys, giving us access to goabout our various ministries in the church building.

rinity is accessible in that sense. We have been talk-ing a lot about accessibility, and we hope to soon carryaccessibility to a higher level. But or right now, ourcurrent level o accessibility carries a current level oresponsibility or our resources. Our beautiul build-ings are a tangible resource. We, the keepers o thekeys, are responsible or protecting them and takingcare o them in ways that are nancially aordable tous.

In the next ew weeks the locks on both the churchand the vicarage will be replaced, and new keys will behanded out to those o us who have requested them.Our names will be recorded in a notebook, and wewill be given a checklist. Copies o the checklist willbe posted in the sacristy and in the undercro. Techecklist will detail our responsibilities as keepers othe keys. It will contain instructions that remind usto turn out lights, adjust the thermostat, and lock alldoors when leaving. We are asked to be mindul othese details and to practice them right now. We are

also asked to remember that even i one o us is not thelast person in the building, touching base with othersprior to leaving will make sure the building is sae untilits next use.

Imagine a church that is lovingly cared or and re-sponsibly maintained. Where the heating, cooling,and lighting bills are reasonable. Where thieves wouldhave a pretty hard time getting in. Where animalscan visit, when invited. Where, on a Saturday, a coeehour volunteer can bring goodies, or another volun-teer can pick up ood bank donations to deliver, or thechildren can take a turn at baking communion bread.Where members o all ages care about their church andeveryone is welcome. Sounds like rinity Church.


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Te Financial Report

Krista Baker

Parish Financial Summary as of 7/31/2011

Year to date Annual budget 07/31/11

Income

Pledges $85,223.00 $53,477.50Plate $6,777.00 $7,746.00Other $17,700.00 $9,008.44otal Income $109,700.00 $70,231.94ExpensesBuilding $16,900.00 $11,208.64Clergy $63,115.00 $40,561.50

Miscellaneous $1,500.00 $934.27Music $8,900.00 $5,240.00Outreach $14,910.00 $9,263.79Worship $4,375.00 $2,072.71otal Expenses $109,700.00 $69,280.91Account Balances As o 7/31/2011

Checking $29,064.39Parish Savings $21,378.52Building Fund Savings $48,657.81

Investments - CD $25,000.00Investments - CD $9,820.62otal Worth $133,921.34

Debt/Libabilities $0.00

Calendar

September 18 10 AM Liturgy at the LakeSeptember 25 10 AM Te Bishop Visits Sunday EucharistOctober 2 2 PM Blessing o the Animals

4 PM Recovery EucharistOctober 5 7 PM Book Group

Millenium Development GoalsOctober 9 7 PM aiz ServiceOctober 12 7 PM Book Group

Millenium Development GoalsNovember 1 All Saints DayNovember 6 Daylight Savings ime Ends

All Saints Sunday4 PM Recovery Eucharist

November 13 7 PM aiz Service

Education for Ministry

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In years past, we have had a ew people rom rinity dothe ace to ace EM course, but the nearest course waheld in Columbia. I rst became intrigued about EMthrough Diane Johnson and Debby Baughman. But Iknew that, because o my call schedule, attending a ac

to ace EM course was an impossibility or me. But Idiscovered my Facebook riend Ann Fontaine, a voca-tional interim priest who splits her time in Wyomingand Oregon, is a mentor in an online EM course oerethrough Te University o the South (Sewanee.) Te online course uses Blackboard to do the academic portioo the course through discussion boards, and meets ina Blackboard chat room once a week to participate livetime as a group in the weekly Teological Reection.

I have ound the online course to be incredibly spiritu-ally rewarding as well as academically challenging. Haattended a ace to ace EM class, my classmates woulhave been other people rom mid/north Missouri. I ampresently in Year Tree o the online course, and in yeapast, my classmates have been rom all over the countryincluding a recent graduate o the class who worked orthe US Foreign Service and lived in Bahrain. Te diversity o my classmates in the online course has been a replus. We now have two rinitarians in online EM--JulSeidler just started Year One.

But without a doubt, my avorite part has been the Telogical Reection part o the class. We take seeminglyunrelated things--a photo, a Youube video, a poem, et-and tie them to the lessons weve been learning in ouryear o the course, as well as to our lives. We are requirto write a Spiritual Autobiography each year and reecton our aith journey to date. Te Teological Reec-tions have revealed things to me in my spirituality that did not realize. Tey have helped me understand bettenot just my gis, but my growing edges in my spiritualie--the things that make me uncomortable and showme how to live in the tension o it all. I have been grateul to the other people in the group or expanding myunderstanding o how God works in each o our lives ain our common lie in the church. In short, I cant sayenough good things about my online EM course!

I you think this would be o interest to you, eel ree totalk to Julie or me during coee hour. Wed be glad toshare our experiences!

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