Faith @
Fifth and Juliana
Dear Sisters & Brothers in Christ,
When your Vestry meets this coming Monday evening there will be several
significant things it will have to accomplish. Let me tell you about them, and let me ask
your prayers as well.
We must elect two people of Trinity as alternate delegates to represent us at
the deanery meeting on Sunday, May 30 where we will elect our representatives for
appointment by the Standing Committee to the Search and Transition Committees. If you are
interested, let a vestry member know soon. You must be able to attend this meeting.
We will gather together names of interested people to be nominated to the
deanery to serve on these committees. We must elect two clergy and two lay people from the
deanery. In a mailing to you earlier this week I enclosed material from the Standing
Committee of the Diocese outlining the process of the Episcopal Search, and also some of
the obligations of participating on the Search and Transition Committees. If you are
interested, speak up. If you cannot commit the time, please step back on this one and
nominate someone else — if you are elected and not present, our deanery and parish
effectively have no voice.
We will hear a report from Bob Brantner and the Accessibility Committee. They
have seen preliminary drawings by the architect and will be reporting to us about their
suggestions and feedback to him.
Other things: have you seen the crane in front for Trinity? The painters are
hard at work doing the bell tower and the high reaches of the church. It is quite a sight
on Juliana Street.
CALLING ALL GRADS — if you, or a member of Trinity you know, is graduating
from HIGH SCHOOL, COLLEGE, GRAD SCHOOL, or a VOCATIONAL/TECHNICAL program this spring, let
us know at the parish office as soon as possible. They will be prayed for on May 23rd!
Ops. I incorrectly reported that the Standing Committee would retain
Ecclesiastical Authority during the time of the Interim Bishop. The resolution clearly
states that they will transfer it to the Interim when he or she is in place.
Faithfully,
Scott Hunter+
|
 Supper Club Bulletin !!!
The May 21st meeting of the group (and we all are a part of this
gathering), has been postponed until Friday June 18th at 6:30 p.m. at the home of Lynette
and Jack Neilson. May is just too busy a time for Trinity parishioners! Please mark your
calendars now for this happy event, which will be the last get-together for the season.
We’re all invited, and you’re welcome to bring a guest!
 ECW Spring Luncheon:
The ECW Spring Luncheon was held this
past Saturday morning at the home of Diana Ruley. Many thanks go to Diana and her family
for opening their home and for all the hard work and preparation that went into making the
luncheon such a great success. Also many thanks to Anne Renner and several of her friends,
who acted as servers at the luncheon. They did a great job ! Also to Linda Branter, Carol
Ralsten, Carol Adams and Barbara Bailey for the delicious food and drink. Father Hunter
celebrated Eucharist which was followed by our speaker Robert Hattman, principal at
Parkersburg Catholic High School. Mr. Hattman spoke about the book he has written entitled
Stickers, which is designed to help adults to become more involved in the
lives of young people and especially teenagers. Mr. Hattman was able to publish his book
through a grant provided by the Sisters of St. Joseph. If interested in receiving a copy
of Stickers, you can contact Mr. Hattman at PCHS. There is no charge for the
book since it was made possible through a grant. (A copy has been placed in the Trinity
Library.) It was quite an enjoyable morning and again many thanks go out to all who made
this year’s spring luncheon possible.
IRONY;
Our God, who can call and embrace and make
use of all paradox and contradiction is also capable of subtle irony. For your preacher
today whose middle name is Tracy, is a descendent of William de Tracy, one of four knights
who in this very church, in the year 1170, killed the then Archbishop of Canterbury Thomas
a Becket. How glad I am today to have been given a more pacific task to perform and a very
different sword to wield.
———The Most Rev. Frank Tracy Griswold, Presiding Bishop
of The Episcopal Church, in a sermon at Canterbury Cathedral.
as printed in the Anglican Digest |
Stewardship Teleconference
ECTN is to provide the following teleconferences LIVE via satellite :
Giving: Discovering Another Way of Life
SATURDAY, JUNE 5, 1999, 2:00-5:00 p.m. (EDT)
Presented by ECUSA and the Office of Stewardship, and featuring Ms. Terry Parsons,
Stewardship Officer for the Episcopal Church. Broadcast live from the Church of the
Resurrection in Nicholasville, KY, this program will address stewardship from a renewed
perspective. As Ms. Parsons says, "Receiving and giving gifts in return is the heart
of our relationship with God and each other. Understanding how this works truly helps us
to discover another way of life." The broadcast will include a variety of witness
stories and opportunities to reflect on the role of giving in our lives. Father Andy
Gerns, Director of Pastoral Care, St. Joseph's Hospital, has offered to provide a room and
television link to this program. If anyone is interested in watching this program please
contact Eric Lawson by May 28th. This will be held at St. Joseph’s Hospital.
Sin of Omission: We would like to apologize for excluding three Trinitarians from
the article about the Parkersburg Choral Society concert which was held last Saturday
evening. Along with Claudia Smith, Marge Hamperian was accompanist Lynne Schwartz was a
soloist, and Connie Waterman was a guest violinist. Please forgive our oversight.
Please hold these people, events and circumstances in your daily
prayers. Also, we encourage you to always say a prayer for those unknown persons who have
no one to pray for them. By-the-way, please remember to renew prayer requests weekly.
Tom Patrick, Charlotte Martin, Larry Bellew, Nellie Taylor, Terri
Hindman, Alex Northrup, Mary Carolyn & Bill Mildren, Sr., Donna Tyo, Ruth Greer, Mazie
Smith, Mary Glen Rice, Maggie Crofton, Butch Shaver, Carr Leavitt, Esber Tweel (priest)
and Rocky Rachell (priest), Gladys Fitcher, Lu Reindle, Juliette McIntire, Julia Batten,
Julia & Shirley Davis, Bill Pollock, Mary Bee, Elsie Reed, Doris and Maurice Brown,
Jamie Hill, Virginia Nicely, Dick Smith, Laurel Pleninger, Sarah Jane Wharton, Seldon
Stone, Helen Waterman, and Bill Goettel
Our prayers are with Chralotte Muse and Julie Matheney as we receive
news of the death of Charlotte’s mother (Julie’s grandmother), Lula Reed. Rest
eternal grant to her, O Lord.
Noah's Ark Coloring Page
Color and bring to
Sunday School
[click image to enlarge for printing]
| Connie’s Corner PLEASE HEAR WHAT I AM NOT
SAYING
Don't be fooled by me. Don't be fooled by the face I wear. For I wear a thousand
masks, masks that I'm afraid to take off, and none of them are me. Pretending is an art
that's second nature with me, but don't be fooled, for God's sake don't be fooled. I give
the impression that I'm secure, that all is sunny and unruffled with me, within as well as
without, that confidence is my name and coolness my game; that the water's calm and I'm in
command, and that I need no one. But don't believe me. Please! My surface may seem smooth,
but my surface is my mask. Beneath this lies no complacence. Beneath dwells the real me in
confusion, in fear, and aloneness. But I hide this. I don't want anybody to know it. I
panic at the thought of my weakness and fear of being exposed. That's why I frantically
create a mask to hide behind, a nonchalant, sophisticated facade, to help me pretend, to
shield me from the glance that knows. But such a glance is precisely my salvation. My only
salvation. And I know it. That is if it's followed by acceptance, if it's followed by
Love. It's the only thing that will assure me of what I can't assure myself, that I am
Worth something. But I don't tell you this. I don't dare. I'm afraid your glance will not
be followed by acceptance and love. I'm afraid you'll think less of me, that you'll laugh
at me, and your laugh would kill me. I'm afraid that deep-down I'm nothing, that I'm no
good and that you will see this and reject me. So I play my game, my desperate game, with
a facade of assurance without, and a trembling child within. I idly chatter to you in the
suave tones of surface talk. I tell you everything that is really nothing, and nothing of
what is everything, of what's crying within me; so when I'm going through my routine do
not be fooled by what I'm saying. Please listen carefully and try to hear what I'm not
saying; what I'd like to be able to say, what for survival I need to say, but what I can't
say. I dislike hiding. Honestly! I dislike the superficial game I'm playing, the phony
game. I'd really like to be genuine and spontaneous, and me, but you've got to help me.
You've got to hold out your hand, even when that's the last thing I seem to want. Only you
can wipe away from my eyes the blank stare of breathing death. Only you can call me into
aliveness. Each time you're kind and gentle and encouraging, each time you try to
understand because you really care, my heart begins to grow wings, very small wings, very
feeble wings, but wings. With your sensitivity and sympathy, and your power of
understanding, you can breathe life into me. I want you to know that. I want you to know
how important you are to me, how you can be the creator of the person that is me if you
choose to. Please choose to. You alone can break the wall behind which I tremble, you
alone can remove my mask. You alone can release me from my shadow-world of panic and
uncertainty, from my lonely prison. Do not pass me by. Please; please do not pass me by.
It will not be easy for you. A long conviction of worthlessness builds strong walls. The
nearer you approach me, the blinder I strike back. I fight against the very thing I cry
out for. But I am told that love is stronger than walls, and in this lies my hope. Please
try to beat down those walls not with firm hands, but with gentle hands- for a child is
very sensitive. Who am I , you may wonder I am someone you know very well. For I am every
man you meet and I am every woman you meet.
This was a paper handed out in one of my Social Work classes. I hope you enjoy it.
Peace+ Connie
|
Parkersburg Area Christian Radio
Station
TUNE IN TODAY!
Click to visit website
Ministers for Sunday, May 16th
Chalice Bearers: Charlotte Bee, Eric Lawson, Paul
Miller, Laverne Marshall,
Lectors: Charlotte Bee, Kelly Miller, Jim Full, LaVerne Marshall
Ushers: Ed Johnson, Forbes Heihle
Coffee Hour Hosts: Harriett & George DeHoff
Proper for Easter VII
Acts 1:(1-7)8-14, Psalm 47, 1 Peter 4:12-19, John 17:1-11
Altar Guild for the week of May 10-16
Helen Roberts, Lynette Neilson, Emily Dowling, Charlotte
and Bill Bee, Cara Bowen, and Charlotte Muse |
Food
Closet Items of the Month
 | Baked Beans |
| Canned Meat |
| 1lb Boxes of sugar |
Please place in basket at the back of the church
Vestry
Meeting:
The next meeting of the Vestry will be Monday May 17th at 7 P.M. Please note that there
is to be no meeting of the Vestry in June.
Bumper Sticker Seen in Parkersburg:
Praise the Lord;
Anyway |
 Pictorial Directories: It has been reported
that the new Pictorial Directories will be arriving in about a month!!! Look for more
information in upcoming editions of the Times.
Bell Choir Concert:
The Marie Boette Concert Series at First Presbyterian will present
the Westminster Concert Bell Choir on Wed. May 19th at 7:30 p.m. They will be performing
original works, transcriptions of light classics and folk songs. There is no charge for
this concert, but donations will be accepted. For more information call 422-5426. |
Refresher Course for Chalice Bearers and Readers will be held
Sunday May 16th at Noon. It is important, please attend!
Peterkin News:
On June 4th – 6th Peterkin will be having a Peterkin Reunion Weekend. The weekend
is for any Peterkin Alumni who are interested in catching up with old friends from camp.
There will be lots of "camp" activities planned for the weekend plus an
opportunity for a memorial project and a chance to learn about plans for Peterkin’s
future. Registration forms are available in the church office and you can contact Julia
Felts at (540)381-3960. |
|
| God's Boxes of Love
I have in my hands two boxes
Which God gave me to hold
He said, "Put all your sorrows in the black,
And all your joys in the gold."
I heeded His words, and in the two boxes
Both my joys and sorrows I store
But though the gold became heavier each day
The black was as light as before
With curiosity, I opened the black
I wanted to find out why
And I saw, in the base of the box, a hole
Which my sorrows had fallen out by
I showed the hole to God, and mused aloud,
"I wonder where my sorrows could be."
He smiled a gentle smile at me.
"My child, they're all here with me."
I asked, "God, why give me the boxes,
Why the gold, and the black with the hole?"
"My child, the gold is for you to count your blessings,
the black is for you to let go."
…….Source Unknown
Webmaster note: If
you would like to see a new topic, link, issue, or any other content on this site, please
leave a message with one of the webmasters
below, or sign the guestbook. There is a
comment box there.
Trinity Times editor: Betsy
Curry
Trinity Times Electronic Edition webmaster: Craig Curry
Trinity Episcopal Church Rector: The Reverend S.
Scott Hunter
hosted by: Network Associates
also see www.Parkersburgweb.com
Visits since March 19, 1998 |
|
|
![Click on [Home] to take yourself to the homepage.](../_borders/TrinityBannerNewleft.jpg){kind=small}
![Click on [Home] to take yourself to the homepage.](../_borders/trailer.jpg)