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ECW Fall Luncheon: The ECW Fall Luncheon will be held Monday October 11th at 11:30 am in Trinity Hall. All women of the congregation are invited and childcare will be provided. Everyone is asked to bring a sandwich. Salad, drinks and dessert will be provided. Lee Fritch, fellow Trinitarian and local artist will be our speaker and will also be displaying some of his latest works that he did on a recent trip to Colorado and Utah.

Book Sale: The time for the 50th Anniversary Trinity Book Sale is fast approaching. Book-marking continues on Tuesday and Wednesday mornings at 10 am. Books are still needed: If your or anyone you know has books they would like to donate to the sale please bring them to the church as soon as possible as we are still in need of books for the sale. If you are unable to bring them to the church please call the church office and arrangements can be made to pick them up for you. Also please note the poster and sign-up sheet in Trinity Hall for the 50th Anniversary Book Sale T-shirts. The shirts are red with black lettering and available in a variety of sizes. Please sign up for your T-shirts as soon as possible so that they can be ordered and ready to wear at the Book Sale !!!

Supper Club: Everyone is invited to Supper Club This Friday Oct. 8th at 6:30 pm at the home of Betty Rodda. Please call Betty as soon as possible at 295-4727 to let her know you will be there and what you will be bringing. A salad, main dish casserole or dessert to share would be most welcome. Beverages are provided. If you have a favorite one you are invited to bring it. No agenda…...just a warm friendly gathering of Trinitarians and guests.

More T-shirts: Also in Trinity Hall is a display of the T-shirts available with the Episcopal Habitat Project Logo on the front. These shirts are available in red, white or blue and in sizes from small – 3XL and are 100% cotton. The prices of the shirts are $12.00 each. Sign-up now and help support Trinity’s involvement in this special Habitat project.

The next St. Cecilia Event is October 10th at 7:00 P.M. This event will feature the Keyboard faculty from Ohio University whose members include: Gail Berenson, Sylvia Henry, Alejandro Cremaschi, Richard Syracuse and Paul Barte. Come join us !!!

Rivers of the World

Saturday October 9th at 7:00 P.M. Mark Thurman, a trustee of Rivers of the World (ROW) will be at Trinity to share the mission, ministry and outreach of this organization. ROW is an international exploration and development agency that works on very remote rivers. Their goal is to explore and assist people with all manner of projects! Each year, hundreds of volunteers travel to select ROW sites to assist in projects that range from education to health, to missions, to construction!

Mark will be bringing information and images gathered on three trips to the Peruvian Amazon. Saturday, October 9th , at 7:00 p.m. in the church will be a special time open to everyone. Mark will then join us again on Sunday morning, October 10th, for a special adult education time at 9:15 am.

Wonderful Wednesday’s: Wonderful Wednesdays will resume this month on Wednesday October 27th at 6:00 P.M. The book we will be discussing is The Early Church by Henry Chadwick. The books can be found in your local bookstore, Diocesan Bookstore or on the web. The evening will begin with a light dinner at 6 (which is provided) and will follow with discussion of the book. The evening will end by 7:45 !

Blessing of the Animals: The Ohio Valley Episcopal Cluster will hold a Deanery wide Blessing of the Animals this Sunday Oct. 10 at 2:00 pm at the St. Mary’s Veterinary Clinic in St. Mary’s, WV. The service will be conducted in the lot next to the clinic, and since space isn’t a problem, all species are invited to attend. Light refreshments will be served. Please have your animal under appropriate restraint, especially since the location is right next to the highway. Directions are: proceed north thru St. Mary’s, the clinic is on the left, just a little past the end of the 4-lane highway, and across the road from the Rite Aid Pharmacy. Parking is available in the clinic parking lot and across the road at the Rite Aid.

Crop Walk: This year’s annual Crop Walk to Fight World Hunger will be held Sunday at 2:00 pm. Brochures and sponsor sheets are available thru the church office. Trinity will have a waterstation for the walkers. If anyone is interested in helping out, please be at the church at 1:45 pm on Sunday. Crop Walk dollars help end hunger locally and globally, support long-term grassroots development and help meet the special needs of refugees and assist after disasters.

Budget Requests: Open Budget Requests will be held this coming Sunday Oct. 10th immediately following the 10:30 am service. If you or your Committee has a request for church monies in the 2000 budget please attend these hearings and make your presentation.

Thanksgiving at Peterkin: In keeping with a three-year tradition, Peterkin offers an opportunity to observe Thanksgiving at Peterkin beginning with dinner on Wednesday, November 24 and concluding with breakfast on Saturday, November 27. The highlight will be Thanksgiving Day with Eucharist in the morning and dinner at 5:00 pm with all the trimmings. Come worship and use the facility at Peterkin for walking, hiking, playing tennis and just enjoying God‘s creation and the fellowship of folk gathering to observe Thanksgiving. There is no charge for housing and meal cost are as follows: Breakfast-$8.00/person; Lunch-$9.00/person; Dinner-$13.00/person; Thanksgiving Dinner-$16.00/person. You can contact Peterkin at 304-822-4519 for more information .

Fall Retreat/Workshop on Spirituality with Father Simon:

Father Simon Holden, CR, a monastic from England who led a highly popular retreat at St. John’s Charleston last fall, will return to the Diocese October 23-31. A retreat/workshop will be held for several days at the Sandscrest Retreat Center in Wheeling and then at St. John’s, Charleston. Brochures with registration forms are available through the church office. The weekend retreat is the weekend of Oct. 22nd-24th. For more information you may also contact Debbie Short at Diocesan House at 344-3597.

Workday at Trinity: Saturday October 23rd from 9 AM till Noon is the date of the next workday at Trinity. Still lots of Honey-do items left on the list. More information will follow in later editions of the Times as to exactly what is needed done on the workday, or you can contact Jennifer Currey for more information!!

The Lord is my shepherd, I shall not want. He makes me lie down in green pastures; He leads me beside still waters; He restoreth my soul. Psalm 23:1-3

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, Nellie Taylor, Terri Hindman, Alex Northrup, Mary Carolyn & Bill Mildren, Sr., Donna Tyo, Ruth Greer, Mazie Smith, Mary Glen Rice, Maggie Crofton, Gladys Fitcher, Julia Batten, Julia Davis, Shirley Davis, Elsie Reed, Jamie Hill, Dick Smith, Sarah Jane Yates, Faye Watson, Gene and Periene Oeland, Seldon Stone, Betty Stout, Michelle Turner, Ann Johnson, Tony and Louann Cottrell, Tom O’Shea, Sam Dils, Charlie Cope, Sheila Stovall, and Andrew Hunt

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