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Serving This Week
8:00 am - Sunday Service - Rite I
Acolyte - Val Folden
Lector - Sven Rundman
Eucharistic Minister - Sven Rundman, Val Folden
Healing Prayer Minister - Robin Barrett
Vestry Member - Val Folden
10:30 am - Sunday Service - Rite II
Crucifer - Brennan Gray
Torch Bearer - Cian Gray, Auden Gray
Lector - Dan Gray
Eucharistic Minister - Tim Allison, Anne Adams
Vestry Member - John Deppel
Ushers - John Depel, Michelle Deppel
Healing Prayer Minister - Andrea Marcinkevicius
Flower Delivery - Tim Allison
Parish Shepherd - Martha Crigler
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Table of Contents
- From The Interim's Desk
- Special Morning Prayer and Compline Schedule Update
- Stewardship Ingathering
- UPDATE: Trinity's Annual Red Cross Blood Drive
- Trinity College Students
- Vestry Nominations
- Special Offering
- Healing Prayer Ministry
- Interim Rector's Office Hours
- Blessings in a Backpack: Update (10/29)
- Outreach: Update
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From The Interim's Desk
Daylight Savings Time
It’s back this coming weekend! Time to “Fall Back,” setting your clocks back one (1) hour before you go to bed Saturday night for Sunday morning. Failure to do so could mean you’ll be an hour early for church at 8:00 am or 10:30 am. It’s also a suitable time to change those batteries in any smoke/carbon dioxide detectors you have in your homes. Let’s be careful out there, Trinitarians!
Investiture of the Next Presiding Bishop
Episcopal dioceses and congregations everywhere across our Church are preparing to celebrate the November 2, 2024, investiture service of Presiding Bishop-elect Sean Rowe. I invite you to tune in to the 11 am ET event this coming Saturday which will be livestreamed to The Episcopal Church’s (TEC) Facebook page. Announced in June, a simpler, scaled-down service to welcome the 28th.
Presiding Bishop has been planned around a smaller carbon footprint and increased churchwide virtual participation. A special “roll call” of all the Episcopal dioceses will precede the actual service, commencing at 9:30 am ET, again to be found the TEC Facebook page. With this change in our Church leadership, as Bishop Rowe ascends to Presiding Bishop and Primate of The Episcopal Church, The Most Reverend Michael B. Curry, our 27th Presiding Bishop, will be standing down after nine (9) years as our “Chief Pastor.”
Please join me in offering prayers of Thanksgiving for both ++Bishop Curry and +Bishop Rowe.
Grace & Peace,
David+
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SPECIAL MORNING PRAYER AND COMPLINE SCHEDULE
Monday-Friday
6:30 am Morning Prayer (via Facebook Live)
No Morning Prayer on Tuesday, Election Day, November 5th.
On Break! Our 7:30 pm Compline Prayer (via Facebook Live)
will be on break this week.
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Stewardship Ingathering
Stewardship season has begun! As we embark on our stewardship campaign, we invite you to reflect on the powerful theme, "You Welcomed Me."
Let us consider how Christ calls us to embrace one another with love and hospitality. In our shared journey of faith, each act of welcome strengthens our community and reflects God’s grace.
Together, we can -- and have -- created a space where everyone feels valued and accepted. How can we deepen this theme at Trinity?
Join us in this opportunity to pledge your support and help us extend our arms wider to all who seek a home in Christ. Please prayerfully consider making a pledge to support the mission and ministry of Trinity Episcopal Church.
Physical stewardship packets were in church for people to pick up on Sunday.
If you'd like to make your pledge online,
click here.
The deadline to turn in the pledge card is Sunday, November 17th.
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UPDATE: Trinity's Annual
Red Cross Blood Drive
Thanks to all the blood donors and the American Red Cross crew who made Trinity’s Blood Drive a success this year. All together we were able to donate 36 units of blood, the highest total in over ten years.
Eight Trinitarians showed up to donate along with many other members of the community.
We appreciate those parishioners who work behind the scenes and also assist the crew on the day of the drive. Kudos to Randall Clingenpeel, Claire Curcio, Margaret Pullen, Jessica and Adrian Smith, and Brenda Chase for making this event happen this year.
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Trinity College Students
Trinity has several students who are attending college this year. The Care Ministry would like to bring back the practice of Trinitarians “adopting” a student. This can involve whatever you feel that you are able to provide, and participating Trinitarians can be either individuals, a family or a group. Steve and I will be participating and plan to send care packages in the Fall and Spring semesters. This is a way we can let our Trinity students know that we care for them, and we are keeping them in our prayers.
Please consider “adopting” one of our precious college students. You can email or text me to let me know that you can help. Once I have a list of folks who would like to be part of this ministry, I will reach out to parents to get some information about their student that I can pass on to you.
If you have a student currently attending college, please let me know so that I can include them on the list.
Thank you for your consideration,
Destine Bradshaw
(540) 226-6164
bradshawdh@verizon.net
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Vestry Nominations
Join the Vestry, see the world. The Trinity world from the inside, that is. Four members will be elected to the Vestry in November. Serving as a leader for Trinity is an important ministry. If you think of someone with the gifts for Vestry service or if you are interested, please contact a member of the Nominating Committee – Chris Brantley, Prudence Jarvis, John Murray, or Carol Walker. Copies of the nomination form and the Vestryperson Responsibilities will be available on the table in the narthex.
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Special Offering for
Hurricane Helene Relief
Please consider donating to Episcopal Relief & Development’s disaster fund to help those affected by Hurricane Helene. These communities have been devastated and are in dire need of our help.
By giving what you can, it will help ensure that our neighbors to our south who are struggling can receive much needed supplies, such as food and water, pastoral care and other urgent needs. A donation will also help assist with the long-term efforts needed to rebuild and heal.
https://www.episcopalrelief.org/
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Trinity’s Healing Prayer Ministry
I imagine most of us could use a prayer for ourselves or someone we know. I often ask a friend “please keep me in your prayers.” Maybe you do too. I also have a number of people for whom I’m praying. Trinity has trained prayer ministers who stand in the back of the church during communion at both services who would love to offer up a prayer for you or someone on your heart.
Our prayer ministers are Trinitarians who are your friends and acquaintances. So think about stopping for a minute or two next time you return from communion and let these folks be the hands and ears of Christ for you in that moment. And a prayer of thanksgiving to God for His tender mercies is always a good thing.
Tom Rotella,
Chair, Vestry Faith Team
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Interim Rector's Office Hours
Tuesday: 1:30 pm - 3:30 pm
Wednesday: 9:30 am - 11:00 am
Thursday: 1:30 pm -3:30 pm
Friday: 9:30 am -11:00 am
+ Appointments are encouraged and will be honored.
++ Drop-ins could miss me if pressing needs (pastoral care needs, meetings) take me away from the church.
+++ 3rd Wednesday each month, I am out, volunteering at the Washington National Cathedral.
Peace & Cheers,
David+
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Is Your Pet A Trinity Star?
The Animal Welfare Ministry wants to feature Trinity pets and their owners. If you would like to highlight your pet, please send a photo and a paragraph about the animal to Claire at curciocc@msn.com. We'd especially like to feature Trinity children and their pets.
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UPDATE 10/29
Blessings in a Backpack:
Food is a School Supply!
Blessings in a Backpack thanks our Trinitarians for your generosity! We have packed 900 bags for the students of Rocky Run so far, and we will pack 630 more through December.
Thanks to the generosity of Trinitarians, we now have $3,152.39 toward our recent order of 42 cases of Optimum Food Packs, costing $3,465.84, to see us through 2024 for weekend food insecure children at Rocky Run Elementary.
We will also need to buy 5 more weeks of macaroni & cheese to include in the bags we pack at a cost of $450. With the low 4% fee we pay to BIB for administrative fees, we are asking for $927.25 more to cover costs for 2024.
Please keep giving generously.
Food is a School Supply to get Rocky Run Elementary School children to their Mondays well fed and ready to learn.
We depend on your financial contributions with checks in the collection plate marked BIB and by donations made on our Trinity website at www.trinity-fredericksburg.org through our Online Giving (accessacs.com) portal. Thank you again for keeping this vital mission going!
John Henze and Leigh Morris,
Coordinators
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Outreach Update
The Fredericksburg Food Bank continues to have low supplies of some items so we are most grateful if the parish can augment the supplies we need, especially these:
- Peanut butter
- Canned fruits and veggies
- Dried beans, packages of rice
- Pasta, sauce, canned items like beef-a-roni, mac & cheese
- Protein items like canned tuna and chicken.
- Packaged snacks for school children.
- Pet food.
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We also get requests for diapers, both babies/toddlers and adults, baby formula, and other such items such as nutritional shakes that you may no longer need.
The generosity of Trinitarians continues to overwhelm us and those we serve with gratitude.
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News from Trinity's Library
The Trinity Library is now offering free Christmas cards..
With the holiday season approaching, the library has added Christmas cards donated by parishioners to the library's ladder-style "freebie" shelves which are located behind the door as you enter the library and the adjacent Ida Beck Chapel. Also available are sympathy, get well, thank you, and blank note cards; 2025 calendars; pens; journaling books; and CD's. CD's with a variety of Christmas music will also soon be added.
Among the currently-available CD's are a 4-disc Musical Heritage Society set of hymns and anthems entitled "All Things Bright and Beautiful" featuring several leading British choirs including the Choir of Winchester Cathedral and the King's College Choir; two albums by the famous Three Irish Tenors, "Live in Belfast" and "Heritage," both featuring classic Irish songs; an album entitled "Three Mo Tenors" featuring acclaimed African-American operatic singers; and albums by folk and country singers including "Heartaches and Highways" by Emmy Lou Harris and "Greatest Hits" by Reba McEntire.
The library's "freebie" section was started and is managed by Phyllis Rundman and Carroll Ann Daymude. In addition to cards, the "freebie" section now offers other items donated by parishioners or acquired by the library committee. Although tucked behind the door, it is easily found as you enter the library and chapel area. Help yourselves!
Selby McCash, Library Committee
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Text To Donate
Want to support life at Trinity?
Give using text messaging!
Text TRINITYEPISCOPAL
to 73256.
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Items for the Newsletter
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