As a part of supporting the Choir School, it would be greatly appreciated if you would help with setting up the Sanctuary for the Choir School Concert. Please take a few minutes to move the cushion from your chair and from the chairs around you to the side of the Sanctuary before you go enjoy coffee hour!

In order to facilitate taking advantage of the flexibility of our space, beginning next Sunday, November 27^th, cushions will not be on the chairs. Instead, cushions will be available at each entrance of the Sanctuary.

This Advent, we are continuing Trinity's tradition of a "Giving Tree" - a tree set up in the Sanctuary, loaded with tags that list wishes from students at Trinity Academy and children from the Adopt-A-Social Worker program of Covenant to Care.

Our tree will be up on Sunday, 11/20, with tags for each of the children. Parishioners who wish to participate may chose a tag on this or a subsequent Sunday, purchase the item and place the gift under the tree by Sunday 12/11. We are committed to these children, and it is important that gifts be returned by this date so that they may be distributed.

We will be providing:

- $25 gift cards to either Target or Walmart for 18 students of Trinity Academy (Asylum Hill Congregational Church is providing gift cards for the other 18 students) and:

- Actual gifts as requested for 18 children through Covenant to Care.

With only 3 weeks to shop for and return the gifts, our elves will be busy! Please mark your calendars and plan to join in this festive event.

Questions? Please contact Ruth Rose or Penny Pearson.

 8:00 am Sunday Worship in Advent

During the season of Advent the 8:00 am service will be Morning Prayer with

Lectio Divina instead of a sermon. Lectio Divina is a guided meditation in Holy Scripture that seeks to help us connect prayerfully to where we are in this moment.

Saheba Dadwall, the mom of Trinity’s Afghan refugee family, is an expert dressmaker and will soon open out of the family’s home a dressmaking shop!  This is a wonderful opportunity for Saheba to supplement the family’s income and to take pride in her excellent skills. The refugee resettlement team has collected for her a sewing machine and some basic sewing supplies, as well as a large table necessary for cutting fabric. At this time, the refugee resettlement committee is looking for the following items, either new or used, so long as, if used, they are in good condition:

ordinary ironing chores.

If you can help out with any of these items, please contact Anne Rapkin, anne dot rapkin at gmail dot com or 860-521-5992. Thank you so much in advance for your help.

Anne Rapkin,

for the Refugee Resettlement Team

You are invited to journey through Advent with The Womb of Advent by The Rev. Mark Bozzuti-Jones. For each day of Advent, there is a mantra, Scripture reading, questions for reflection, and a spiritual exercise.

Beginning on Thursday December 1^st and each Thursday in Advent, you are invited to join a 7 am zoom call to share what has touched you and what has challenged you in your prayer and reflection over the past week. Additionally, you can join in discussion anytime you would like by going to trinityhartford.wordpress.com and adding a comment on the relevant post. In order to allow for relatively private and open sharing, the reflection posts will be password protected. To receive the password, please call Barbara at 860-527-8133 Ext. 204 or email her at office at trinityhartford dot org.

Copies of the book will be available after Church beginning on Sunday, November 20^th or may be picked up from the office by arrangement with Barbara.

Thursday Morning Zoom Information:

Meeting ID 88007395 3968 Passcode 996527

Call in phone number 929-436-2866

The king who was coming is still coming.

This is full of mystery.

You know a mystery is hard to enter sometimes.

Sometimes people can walk right through a mystery and not even know it is there.

This time of year you will see people hurrying in the malls buying things and doing this and that.

They don’t know how to get ready or maybe they just forgot.

Beginning December 4 we will be taking a journey with the prophets, the Holy Family, the shepherds, the angels, the Magi and all the rest to make the journey that was not just back then. IT IS NOW.

Children of all ages are welcome into our Godly Play classroom each Sunday at 9:45 am and join the congregation about 10:40 am.

December 4^th ACF Forum:

Join us on December 4^th after the 10am service for an opportunity to learn more about how The Episcopal Church is organized and to discuss why that matters to our life together at Trinity. If you already have questions in mind that you would like addressed, please email them to Barbara (office at trinityhartford dot org) or call her at the office to submit them.

Godric, a tale of historical fiction based on the life of Godric of Finchale, a twelfth-century English holy man, is Trinity Book Group's selection for January. It's written by Frederick Buechner (who died earlier this year) - a theologian, ordained Presbyterian minister, and acclaimed writer. Book Group will meet on Friday, January 6th, 7:00-9:00 pm at the home of Mark and Linda MacGougan. Please let them know if you plan to attend so there will be plenty of goodies. All are welcome to attend, whether for one meeting of Book Group, or regularly. (macgougans at gmail dot com; 860-561-1588)

7:00 am                                (via Zoom)

5:00 pm                                 (Church)

5:00 pm                                 (Church)

7:00 pm                                (Church)

After the 10:00 am service   (Church)

5:00 pm                                Children and Family Service

9:30 pm                                 Choral Prelude

10:00 pm                               Christmas Eucharist (with use of incense)

10:00 am                               Christmas Morning Eucharist

As we pray for Jacqui, we also ask that you prayerfully consider being screened as a potential kidney donor. For more information about living organ donation and to sign up to be screened, please visit nkr.org/SBB483. Please encourage your friends and family to consider donor screening.

To hear Jacqui talk about her illness and need for a transplant, watch this clip that has aired on local news.

7:00 P.M.

Choir School of Hartford Fundraiser

Concert (Church)

Transgender Day of Remembrance

(Zoom and MCC Hartford)

TCRJ Meeting (Zoom)

There is no Noonday Service.

The office and church are closed.

All announcements should be submitted to Barbara Roos at office@trinityhartford.org by Wednesday 9am for publication that week. Announcements that are submitted late will be held until the following week’s edition.