February/March Newsletter

 

 

 

LENTEN SCHEDULE

 

 Shrove Tuesday, Pancake Supper (February 24, 2009)
                                    5:30 pm—7:00 pm       Cost:  Adults $4.00, Children $2.00, Family $10.00
                                                                        Hosted by the Altar Guild.
 
 Ash Wednesday—February 25, 2009
                                    7:15 am           Holy Eucharist and Imposition of Ashes (Church)
                                    6:00 pm           Holy Eucharist and Imposition of Ashes (Church)

 

 Sundays during Lent
                                    8:15 am           Holy Eucharist
                                    9:15 am           Christian Formation
                                    9:15 am           Adult Forum
                                  10:30 am           Holy Eucharist

 

 Third Sunday of each month
                                    4:00 pm           Contemplative Service at Trinity

 

 Fourth Sunday of each month
                                    3:00 pm          Spirit Time Discussion at Hayner Culteral Center led by
                                                            Melody Williams

 

 Wednesdays during Lent  (Beginning Ash Wednesday– through Holy Week)
                                    6:30 am—8:15 am         
                                                            Community Lenten Breakfast in the Parish Hall
                                                           (Juice, coffee, milk, pancakes, bacon and omelets
                                                           made to order (plain/ham/cheese/ham & cheese.)

                                10:00 am          Wednesday Morning Discussion Group (Workman Lounge)

Tuesdays               6:45 am           Men’s Fellowship Group —  Night Sky Restaurant, Troy
                                   

 

NEW CHURCH E-MAIL ADDRESSES

OFFICE E-MAIL
trinitychurch@trinitytroyohio.org

MELODY’S OFFICE
rectortec@trinitytroyohio.org

 

 

 

Sundays                   8:15 am              Holy Eucharist
                                    9:15 am              Christian Formation 
                                    9:15 am              Adult Forum  
                                  10:30 am              Holy Eucharist  —  Child Care is available
                                     
             First Sunday of each month — Laying on of Hands and Healing Prayers 

 

Tuesdays                   6:45 am              Men’s Fellowship Group and Bible Study
                                                                — Night Sky Restaurant, Troy

 

Wednesdays          10:00 am    BOOK STUDY— Workman Lounge     

                                                               We are discussing Marcus Borg’s:  Jesus:  Uncovering the                                                               Life, Teachings and Relevance of a Religious Revolutionary.
 
                                    7:00 pm             CHOIR PRACTICE
 
 
Pranic Healing Clinic  —  Thursday, March 5 -- For information call Marina Shaw at 937-492-0407

 

Vestry — March 9 at 7:00 pm  — Workman Lounge 

 

3rd Sunday of the month
          Contemplative service will be held at Trinity at 4:00 pm in the church sanctuary.  This service will practice ways through which we can encounter the presence of God in community. This will be a quiet and contemplative service with music that will encourage inner silence. We will engage the scriptures together as well as pray together and share Eucharist. 

 

4TH SUNDAY OF THE MONTH
Spirit Time Discussion Group at Hayner Cultural Center, 3:00 pm.  Exploring Progressive Christianity. This group is for the congregation and the community. 

 

 

CIRCLES DINNER BEAUTIFULLY SERVED AND APPRECIATED.

 

I want to thank our Trinity team that planned, prepared, and served dinner to 45 people at the Circles Meeting Feb. 10.  What with chicken and noodles, chicken cheese soup, turkey duck soup,  cornbread and beans, vegetable platters, and an amazing variety of cookies and bars, it was a great Trinity experience.  Heartfelt thanks to Sherry Conard, Earl and Cindy Moore, John and Barbara Trombley, Nancy Blair, Catherine Reed, Kurt Wacker, Phyllis Donahoe, and Marina Shaw.  Our next opportunity to cook and serve the Circles Family will be Tuesday, June 9, 09.   Think bar b que, and mark your calendars. If others are interested in joining our efforts and the fun, please call Carolyn Workman at 335-1299.

 

It isn't enough to talk about peace. One must believe in it. And it isn't enough to believe in it. One must work at it.

- Eleanor Roosevelt

Carolyn Workman
2245 Rockingham Dr.
Troy, OH  45373
937-335-1299

 

 

TRINITY IN PARTNERSHIP WITH MIAMI VALLEY
 PASTORAL COUNSELING CENTER

 

To encourage our members’ wellness of mind, heart and soul our congregation is in a covenant relationship with the Pastoral Counseling Center with the Department of Pastoral Care and Counseling of Miami Valley Hospital. We are part of the Covenant Society for Pastoral Counseling-- over ninety member congregations are in this ministry of care.

 

The counseling services provided at the Pastoral Counseling Center are an extension of our congregation’s pastoral ministry and, of course, strictly confidential. It is a ministry of relationship in helping move through a crisis or transition for:

 

You…when life seems too difficult
Your family…when communication is failing and you don’t know what to do
Your children…when you feel you may be too close to them to talk.

Anytime…you feel you need help

 

Our congregation, therefore, has a caring team of professionally trained counselors available to you.

Highlights of this pastoral counseling service include:

 

Individuals call directly for appointments and inquiries and are usually able to be seen within a    week’s time.    
      The phone number is 937-208-6606.
Conveniently located at 409 East Monument Avenue in Dayton; immediately adjacent to 5th/3rd
      Field. More than ample free parking.
Honors the faith journey and personal resources of the individual.
Promotes wholeness in moving toward wellness and healing with personal difficulties.
24-hour crisis line is available.
50% fee reduction. No limit to number of sessions. No need for pre-authorization.
$110 is the full fee for a 50-minute session for individual, marital, relationship or family counseling.   
      Our church members are charged $55.
In lieu of participating in managed care or insurance panels our Covenant Society membership pro-
      vides us with an assurance policy with a preferred provider in the Pastoral Counseling Center.
The counseling staff will assist the individual with referral to other appropriate counseling resources
       as needed based on level of care or choice to use insurance benefits.
The Pastoral Counseling Center’s essential commitment is in providing and assisting our members
       in getting the quality care they are seeking.
The Pastoral Counseling Center is accredited by the American Association of Pastoral Counselors.
      All staff members are duly licensed professional counselors with the State of Ohio.
Pastoral, educational, training, enrichment and leadership workshops/retreats are also available to our congregations.

 

Please feel free to call Rev. Bob Skipper, manager of the Pastoral Counseling Center, for any additional information.

 

VOLUNTEER OPPORTUNITIES

 

UPPER VALLEY MEDICAL CENTER

 We are looking for people who enjoy working with the public and like to stay busy.  They should be willing to commit to a minimum of one shift (4 hours) per week.  While our greatest needs are during the evenings and weekend, we do have some weekday, daytime shifts available in select areas.

 

Some perks of the job are a free meal in our cafeteria, discounts through the gift shop, free TB test and flu shot each year, yearly volunteer recognition luncheon and, most importantly, I hear there is a great team of employees to work with throughout UVMC!

 

Should you know of someone who may be interested in being an extension of our staff through volunteering, I would love to talk with them.  Feel free to have them contact me directly at (937) 440-4995 for further information.

We greatly appreciate your help in spreading the word of our needs.

                                                                                    Thank you,

                                                                                    Robin Fisher, Manager, Volunteer Services

 

 

VOLUNTEER OPPORTUNITIES

UPPER VALLEY MEDICAL CENTER

 

 We are looking for people who enjoy working with the public and like to stay busy.  They should be willing to commit to a minimum of one shift (4 hours) per week.  While our greatest needs are during the evenings and weekend, we do have some weekday, daytime shifts available in select areas.

 

Some perks of the job are a free meal in our cafeteria, discounts through the gift shop, free TB test and flu shot each year, yearly volunteer recognition luncheon and, most importantly, I hear there is a great team of employees to work with throughout UVMC!

 

Should you know of someone who may be interested in being an extension of our staff through volunteering, I would love to talk with them.  Feel free to have them contact me directly at (937) 440-4995 for further information.

We greatly appreciate your help in spreading the word of our needs.
                                                                                    Thank you,

                                                                                    Robin Fisher, Manager, Volunteer Services

 

PARTNERS IN HOPE

Partners in Hope provides many worthwhile services for which volunteers are needed. These include: Crisis Intervention (interviewing clients), Caregivers (driving clients to doctor appointments), Car Repair (mechanic or parts pickup/delivery), Ohio Benefit Bank Volunteer (Helping determine client eligibility). You may volunteer as little or as much time as you desire. If you would like to discuss any of these opportunities, contact Evanthia Owen (937-339-9702) or call Kelli Early at Partners in Hope (937-335-0448).    
   
WOMEN OF FAITH CONCERT
TICKETS AVAILABLE

First United Church of Christ, Troy, has 17 tickets available to the Women of Faith Concert at Nationwide Arena in Columbus, April 24-25. The tickets are $83.00 and include the Friday evening and all-day Saturday Conference as well as a box lunch on Saturday. The tickets are on the lower level of the arena. If you've never been to a Women of Faith Conference, it's a wonderful time of great music and Inspirational speakers. First UCC also has a block of hotel rooms reserved in Columbus for that Friday night. If you are interested in purchasing one of these tickets, please call the church office at 339-5871. You can get more Information about Women of Faith at www.womenoffaith.com.

 

 

FIRST UNITED CHURCH OF CHRIST HOLD FUNDRAISER

An All You Can Eat Beef-n-Noodles Dinner will be held Saturday, February 28th, 4-7:00 pm at 1st UCC, 120 S Market St., Troy.  Adults $6.00; Children 10 and under $3.00.  (Carry out is available)  Dinner includes:  Beef-n-Noodles, Mashed Potatoes, Green Beans, Homemade Dessert and Drink.  Proceeds to directly to the American Cancer Society.

 

MELODY’S NOTES

Visions, Budgets and Lent . . . . . . . OH, MY!

 

To use a  metaphor from my favorite movie, The Wizard of Oz, the only way to get to the other side of the dark forest is to walk through it —— can’t go around it, can’t go under it, can’t go over it.

Over the past several weeks we have been reflecting upon what is good at Trinity, visioning about our future ministry together and identifying critical issues that need to be addressed so that God’s vision for us will be realized. The data we have received from the small group sessions are full of the movement of the Spirit of God in our community. The vestry and I thank you for your participation, your thoughtful ideas and your prayerful presence. 

 

When you are reading this letter the vestry will have come home from their retreat and will be preparing for you a presentation of how they used your ideas in building a vision for the future, and a beginning plan for moving toward the future. When I work with the leaders of Trinity and when I am with all of you on your journeys of faith I am both proud and honored to be journeying among you as your rector. Trinity is being called to be a light of the love of God and to draw others to that light. That calling is already being lived into and will become more fully realized as we take steps toward the future. I can’t imagine anything else I would rather be doing than being here with you during this time of your life.

 

As we move through this process and begin the next chapter in Trinity’s long history of ministry in Troy we may feel like we are in a dark forest and the demons that tell us that we lack resources to be engaged in ministry as the Episcopal presence in this place. But I am reminded when Dorothy and her trusted friends, Scarecrow and Tin Man and Toto linked arms and entered the forest. Dorothy did not travel alone; they would face the demons together. And when the Lion roared and jumped out of the forest and attempted an attack upon the weakest of their group, Toto, Dorothy found her courage and confronted the demon that she feared. Consequently, she found out that the demon was not so big and dangerous as she had imagined.

 

Our current financial situation (which is experienced by every congregation right now) seems like a dark forest. But we are walking through that forest with arms linked with each other and with the Holy Spirit. We are learning that the roars of the demons that threaten our resources are not deafening and that we can still hear the still small voice of the Spirit as we move forward. I suppose we could say that we have already entered into the darkness of Lent only to find that the darkness is illuminated with God’s voice as we travel there.

 

The season of Lent is all about having the courage to walk into the dark forests of our lives. But we don’t enter alone; we enter with our arms linked with the community of faith that we name Trinity. We also enter with the Spirit of God who teaches us that the demon’s roar is used only to make us afraid so that we will turn around and miss meeting God who is waiting for us in our darkness so we can be healed.

 

I pray that all of us will experience a blessed and healing Lent. At the other side of the dark forest is God’s radiant love.

 

In God We Dance,

Melody

 

 

BULLETIN BOARD

 

NEWS ABOUT: JEFFREY BRIGGS GAMBLEE -- Trinity Alum Ordained

Briggs and Joanne Gamblee are pleased to announce that their son, Jeffrey Briggs, was ordained to the Unitarian Universalist ministry on January 25, in the Community Unitarian Church in White Plains, NY.

Jeff was confirmed by Bishop Roger Blanchard while the church was located on Franklin Street, and he was active as an acolyte and member of Trinity Teens. Because he is grateful for the progressive religious instruction he received from the people of Trinity and the Episcopal Church, he asked long-time friend, Episcopal priest, Rev. Dr. David Hamilton, Director of Pastoral Care at Fletcher Allen Health Care, Burlington, Vermont, to give a pastoral blessing at the ordination.

 

Jeff and his wife Patricia Wallendjack live in Staten Island, New York, with their two cats.

 

 

COMMUNITY BREAKFAST
WednesdayS during Lent 
(Beginning Ash Wednesday– through Holy Week)

6:30—8:15 am Community Lenten Breakfast
in the Parish Hall

(Juice, coffee, milk, pancakes, bacon and omelets
made to order (plain/ham/cheese/ham & cheese.)

(The breakfast is free of charge, however, donations are appreciated.)

 

 

TICKETS AVAILABLE FOR
MAYOR’S PRAYER BREAKFAST
MARCH 7 AT 8:00 AM

Tickets are available in the office for the MAYORS’ PRAYER BREAKFAST to be held Saturday, March 7 at 8:00 am.  The breakfast will take place at First Place Christian Center of First United Methodist Church, 110 W. Franklin St., Troy OH.  Tickets are $7.00 per person.

 

 

ECSF GRANTS RECEIVED

The Episcopal Community Service Foundation RECENTLY awarded grants to the TORRENCE MEDICAL FUND and PARTNERS IN HOPE.

 

ECSF is an independent charity of the diocese.  Its mission is to provide grants and free planning help to Southern Ohio’s Episcopal congregations working to overcome human need in their community.

 

 

ATTENTION!   *    PLEASE NOTE!
NEW CHURCH E-MAIL ADRESSES

We have recently changed to Time-Warner as provider for our phones and computers. 

NEW OFFICE E-MAIL
               trinitychurch@trinitytroyohio.org
MELODY’S OFFICE
               rectortec@trinitytroyohio.org             

If cable should be down for any reason, you can reach the office or Melody on the following cell phones:
            Office:                 681-4868
             Melody:               542-1559