Worship on Sunday October 6, 2024 at 10:00am

Sermon "A More Harmonious Life"

This service will be live streamed on Facebook.

Trinity Church’s mission is to fill its people with the love of God 

and share God’s love in all the world.

Don't have Facebook? Don't worry, you can still view the live service from any device by following this link: https://www.facebook.com/Trinitychurchnorthborough



A step-by-step tutorial on how to access Facebook Live CLICK HERE

Have your Bible, a candle and lighter ready and create a worshipful space, maybe with a cross, a nice tablecloth, or other devotional items that are meaningful to you.

Replay on Verizon channel 31 and Charter channel 191

Sundays (previous week's) at 6pm and Thursdays at 8:00am.

Rita is here to help you. If you need technical assistance please email her at: trinitychurchnboro@gmail.com or call her (508) 393-8156 and she will walk you through each step.

Happy October!

On behalf of the Northborough Interfaith Clergy Association (NICA), I want to invite you to a special Interfaith Service for Peace this Sunday, October 6th at St. Rose. More information follows below. I hope you’ll be able to join us!



The Deacons are grateful that the congregation overwhelmingly approved Rev. Will Seals to become our settled Senior Minister. Will has been a breath of fresh air, appreciating Trinity's strengths and helping us work through any challenges. As Deacons, we have gotten to work very closely with him, and as such love his calm demeanor, his thoughtful comments and his humor! We know that God brought Will to us to help us thrive in the future! 

As we begin this new chapter in Trinity's history, we can feel the energy that is throughout the church. Its been fun to see the sanctuary buzzing, children going to Children's Church and of course everyone coming together to make Applefest so successful! 

The meeting with Paul Nickerson, the consultant we have hired to help us continue to grow, was wonderful and reminded us how special we are! The highlight that came out of that meeting is we are doing a lot for the community, from inside our building. Paul challenged us to think a little differently- How do we be out in the community and build relationships with people in the community?

We will be putting our new Vitality team together to focus on growth, targeted and purposeful. Not to just grow, but to find those who align with Trinity and their values and invite them to an event here. 

2025 will be here soon and we are looking forward to finishing 2024 strong with Will's installation and celebrating our future together!

Hello Trinity Community!

It has been great to get back into the flow of music planning, rehearsing and performing! I always enjoy sharing worship with all of you, and providing special music for services, but getting to create music with other people always seems to help me “recharge”! Music is one of the few areas of life where anyone is included and everyone belongs. Hmm.. Sounds like a great church I know. 🙂 

I’m excited for the variety of worship we will get to experience this month. Check out the information below for specific details for each week of October.

• October 6th: Traditional Communion Service with a beautiful Prelude provided by the Hand Bell Choir.
• October 13th: Service Music provided by the Worship Band
• The Special Music will bring together the Adult Voice Choir and the Band for a grand arrangement of “Better Is One Day”.
• Faith Formations Sunday: Interactive song during Children’s Moment, and don’t forget about Music & Movement following the service with Mr. Scott.
• October 19th: Central Mass Baptist Assoc Fall Worship Service
• October 20th: The Low Voice Ensemble will make another appearance to sing a song called “Think About his Love”.
• October 27th: Special Music provided by Hand Bell Choir

The Song of the Month I have chosen for October is “There is a Redeemer” by Melody Green. Even though this song is technically a praise and worship song, I feel it can be called a modern hymn. It has a melody that basically sings itself. You can listen to it HERE. And for a Sung Benediction, we will be using what is known as the “3-fold Amen”. You can find it on #312 in the Chalice Hymnal. You can listen to it HERE.

And it’s still not too late to join in on the joy of creating music together for the Lord. The Voice Choir can accommodate anyone joining through the end of the month and the Worship Band is open to anyone throughout the year. Reach out if you are interested in those opportunities.

As we enter Fall with the month of October, life seems to get faster and faster. I feel like we just recovered from the success of our involvement with Applefest, and now we are talking about Christmas in music rehearsals. But no matter how fast the revolving door of time spins us around, I hope you are able to always take time to show God’s Love everywhere you go! The Community of Trinity has a superpower: its people 

Until We Meet Again,

Scott Arnold (He/Him)

Music Director

Trinity Church of Northborough

Rides for Michael

Our Outreach Team has a new opportunity to help others. Michael is originally from Haiti and came to Northborough last year. Michael has graduated from Algonquin, received a Trinity Church scholarship and is currently attending Quinsigamond Community College.

Please help provide rides to & from QCC for Michael by signing up via this link: Click Here:

Thank you!

Your Trinity Church Outreach Team

Trinity Church continues to be a beacon of light in the Northborough Community and beyond

We continue to collect food monthly for the Northborough Food Pantry to help those who have food insecurity. Thank you to all of our members who participate. If you have questions about this project, please contact Faith.

Our work partnering with Worcester Fellowship helps another segment of our greater community combat food insecurity. The schedule for the fall is: October 20 and December 22nd. Thursday Café lunch is November 14th. Thank you to everyone who continues to participate in this project.



The third ongoing project is Community Meals housed in our own Fellowship Hall. We will be hosting again on October 23rd. Martha will send out a sign up genius when the time gets closer.

John P continues to organize a crew for Northborough Helpers. If you are interested in helping with the outreach project, please contact John.

Neighbors in Need/World Mission Offering

On Oct 6th, we will have a special collection for Neighbors in Need and International Ministries’ World Mission Offering. 

Neighbors in Need is a United Church of Christ offering the provides funds for the Council for American Indian Ministry and UCC’s Justice and Witness Ministries (JWM). JWM provides grants to UCC churches in support of social justice and direct service projects in their local communities. 

The American Baptist World Mission Offering provides ministry and support to 70 different third-world countries. These mission projects include such things as micro-loans for cottage businesses, clean air and water projects, and building schools. 

As a dually-affiliated church, your gift will be divided between the UCC and ABC special offerings. You may donate using the envelopes provided in the pews, or online using this link:

Neighbors in Need/World Mission Offering

Northborough Junior Woman’s Club, Boros Cares 4 Troops and the Vincent F. Picard American Legion Post 234 will host Wreaths Across America on December 14, 2024 at 12:00 noon.

The Northborough Junior Woman’s Club, Boros Cares 4 Troops and The Vincent F. Picard American Legion Post 234 are fundraising to support the Wreaths Across America being held in Northborough for the first time this year. We are hosting an event at the Howard Street Cemetery to bring awareness to the yearlong mission of the organization, which is to Remember the fallen, Honor those who serve, and Teach the next generation the value of freedom. 

Wreaths Across America is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization founded to continue and expand the annual wreath-laying ceremony at Arlington National Cemetery, which was begun by Maine businessman Morrill Worcester in 1992. The organization’s yearlong mission – Remember, Honor, Teach – is carried out in part each year by coordinating wreath-laying ceremonies in December at thousands of veterans’ cemeteries and other locations in all 50 states and beyond. 

The wreaths are $17 each. If you order two wreaths, Wreaths Across America donates one!

Saturday Breakfast Fellowship is starting up again for the fall on October 19th at 8:30 AM in room 105.

Our topic this month is those verses in the Bible which we wish we never saw. They’re awkward or inconvenient, things which you wish the Bible didn’t say. I decided on this topic after seeing a “Daily Devotional” from the UCC which started with the following scripture.



"Wives, be subject to your husbands as to the Lord, for the husband is the head of the wife just as Christ is the head of the church… Slaves, obey your earthly masters with respect and trembling, in singleness of heart, as you obey Christ… – Ephesians 5:22-23a, 6:5

Wow!! Two things I can’t unsee. However, they, along with many other things which I wish the Bible didn’t say are in there. Both Old and New Testament. How do we deal with these passages? Do we have to follow them? Can we selectively ignore them or pick only the good passages?

We’ll have breakfast, fellowship, and talk about this on the 19th. Everyone is welcome to join us.

For more information or to add yourself to the Saturday Breakfast Fellowship email list, please contact Tom at tomdan4@gmail.com

The ONA/SJ team will be having two peace, love, social justice gatherings, one on Saturday, October 5th. and the other on October 19th. from 10am to 12 noon.

This will be the same type of events that we did in the spring of 2024. Come one and all. Any amount of time that you can donate is helpful and feel free to bring a sign to carry if desired.

Something You Should Know

“Demonizing immigrants through falsehoods about their diet is a political tactic

that originated in the late 19th. century, during the height of anti-Chinese

sentiment", said May-lee Chai, author and a professor of creative writing at San

Francisco State University.

“It’s a very old political trope to dehumanize Chinese male immigrants and to

show them as a threat to white American workers.” This contributed to violent

attacks against them, and eventually to the passage of the US Chinese Exclusion

Act of 1882 (stopping Chinese immigrants from obtaining US citizenship).

This fearmongering tactic was also used by Grover Cleveland in the 1888 US

presidential election against Benjamin Harrison. Now, it is being used to target

Haitian immigrants whom have already have been given legal status by our

government because they fled the atrocities happening in Haiti.

Trinity Family, our power comes from our knowledge, thoughtful reasoning, and

the values given to us by God the Father. Please use it wisely.

Dave Chin, ONA/Social Justice Team

The Faith Formations Committee (formerly known as the Christian Education Committee) would like to welcome all children and youth to Trinity Church! "Children's Church" is scheduled for Sunday, October 13th. On this day there will be a children's story in the sanctuary during the worship service, followed by a 10 -15 minute faith-based lesson which will take place in the 2nd floor classroom, across from the bathrooms.

The children who want to participate will leave the sanctuary with Faith Formations leaders during this time, and will return to their parents/guardians in the sanctuary before the end of the worship service. We hope to see you there!

The Faith Formation Committee

The Exterior Restoration & Maintenance Task Force was successful in obtaining a $5,000 grant from the George Wright Fund of The American Baptist Church of Massachusetts to pay for a structural engineering investigation of the church steeple.

The interior of the steeple was cleaned of bird droppings and other debris and the structural engineering firm conducted its investigation. A report from the engineer is expected by the end of October. 



If you have any questions or suggestions for the Task Force, please contact one of its members: Pete Carlsen, Jean Leif, Tom Danforth, Wally Corwin, Cheryl Silverberg, Beth Buckley or Tim Cashmore.

The Pastoral Care team is available for anyone who would appreciate a friendly caring call or a check in on a home bound member. We keep in touch weekly or monthly or whatever is needed. We even make “sunshine“ house visits with a small box surprise!

We are here and if you or anyone you know would benefit from a call from our team please contact Linda F. at: lmferraro25@gmail.com or Michele W. at michelewheelock@gmail.com

We meet once a month at Trinity with knitting/crocheting hands to make shawls for our members in need of a “hug”. Blessed handmade item are delivered right to their home to warm the heart and soul. I have a simple knit pattern that can be made easily. It comes along with a card of encouraging words.

The next meeting will be on Wednesday, October 30, 2024 at 1:00pm.

Our shawls and blankets have become quite popular and we need to keep on making more to comfort our members in need and the fellowship is great too!

Linda

Anyone interested in meeting over a cup of tea just once a month for one hour for a rewarding mission please contact Linda Ferraro at: lmferraro25@gmail.com

The Pastor Parish Relations Committee, or PPRC, supports and sustains an open and healthy relationship between the pastor and the members of the congregation, and ensures open and honest communication amongst all parties.

Our quarterly meetings include a time of sharing within the group and a discussion of timely matters (mainly concerns expressed by members of the congregation). We currently have only one Committee member and Barbara's contact information is listed below:

PPRC Member:

Barbara Sutherland - (508) 460-0233 or

barbarasutherland123@comcast.net

We need one more committee member to be part of PPRC. This is a great committee to join if you're not part of another one. If you're interested in joining, please contact Lorna Van Horn at lornahelms1@gmail.com. Thank you.

I am looking to put together a list of people who would like to help when needed on our hospitality list. We are looking for people when we have collations (after funeral services) to help with set up, serving, clean up and baking. If you would like to be called upon, please email me at:

lornahelms1@gmail.com or call/text me at

(508) 596-1776.

Would you like to provide altar flowers for Sunday worship? Please click on the link below to choose a date and add a comment if the flowers are in celebration, honor or memory of an event or person.

Signup Genie will automatically send you an email reminder six days prior to the day you signed up to bring flowers.

 ALTAR FLOWER SIGNUP CLICK HERE

Join us for Bible Study! We meet weekly on Mondays for a lively discussion. For more info, contact Jean Leif (jhleif@gmail.com).

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Join Pastor Will 

At Coffee & Pi (π)

276 Turnpike Rd #8, Westboro

Wednesdays 10:00am - 11:00am

The "Count Your Blessings" Thrift Shop

Open Wednesdays, Fridays & Saturdays, 10:00 am - 2:00pm.

At this time we are accepting Fall/Winter women's and men's tops, coats, jackets.  No pants or suits. No formalwear. 

We're also looking for household donations, such as kitchen items and house decor. No picture frames.  

Please drop the houseware donations off during regular thrift shop hours.

Come in and get an early jump start on your holiday shopping! We have a great selection of clothing, shoes, handbags, costume jewelry, and fall and holiday decor. Perfect for your holiday gift-giving and entertaining! 

Give to Trinity Church

“Give to others, and God will give to you. Indeed, you will receive a full measure, a generous helping, poured into your hands—all that you can hold. The measure you use for others is the one that God will use for you.” – Luke 6:38, Good News translation



Taking our cue from Jesus, looking to God as our Source and Supply for all our needs, let us give to Trinity Church with a cheerful and generous heart, knowing God’s storehouse is always overflowing with abundance – an abundance which can never be diminished or run dry.

Thank you for sharing your time, talent, and treasure with Trinity Church!

If you're paying by check, please make checks payable to Trinity Church. Our mailing address is 23 Main St, Northborough, MA 01532.

You can also use “bill pay” and have your bank mail a check to us on a regular schedule set up by you, at no cost. Or give online at www.trinitynorthborough.org/donate

Community Meals

If you have any questions, please call Martha Michalewich at (774) 258-0867 or email at martha.michalewich@verizon.net

CHURCH OFFICE CLOSED

Rita will be out of the office on October 2, 3, & 4th. The office will be closed during this time and will re-open for regular business hours on Monday October 7, 2024.

The Church office will be closed on Monday October 14, 2024 in observance of Indigenous Peoples' Day. Office will re-open on Tuesday October 15, 2024 for regular business hours.

OFFICE HOURS

Mondays 9am - 12pm & 1pm - 4pm

Tuesdays 9am - 12pm & 1pm - 4pm

Wednesdays 9am - 12pm & 1pm - 4pm

Thursdays 9am - 12pm & 1pm - 4pm

Fridays 9am - 12pm & 1pm - 3pm

NOVEMBER 2024 TIDINGS

If you have any information that you would like to have included in the November 2024 Tidings, please be sure to have it to Rita / church office no later than Friday October 25, 2024.

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