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In This Issue:
Pastor’s Chili Cook-off
Faith Questions
The Night
Ash Wednesday
Confirmation Mini-Retreat
Generations Brunch
Classes For You
Faith Through The Arts
Help Flood Survivors
2C + 1F = G
Where Does My Offering Go
Coming Up At Trinity:
Office Hours:
Tues. – Thurs. 9am - 12am
TOPS
Thurs. Feb. 9 @ 4 – 7pm
Choir Practice
Sun. Feb. 12 @ 9:15am
Sunday Cont. Breakfast
Sun. Feb. 12 @ 9:30am
Sunday
Worship
Sun. Feb. 12 @ 10:15am
Children’s Church
Sun. Feb. 12 @ 10:15am
Chili Cook-Off
Sun. Feb. 12 @ 11:30am
Willing Workers
Tues. Feb. 14 @ 9:30am
Presbyterian Luncheon
Tues. Feb. 14 @ 11:45am
Choir Practice
Sun. Feb. 19 @ 9:15am
Sunday Cont. Breakfast
Sun. Feb. 19 @ 9:30am
Sunday
Worship
Sun. Feb. 19 @ 10:15am
Transfiguration Sunday
Children’s Church
Sun. Feb. 19 @ 10:15am
Worship Assistants:
February 12- Sixth Sunday after Epiphany
Acolyte- Zane Carrington
Lector- Karen Troup
Communion Assistant- Dan Troup
Ushers- Peggy Cranmer & Doreen Secor
Counters- Maureen Engelhard & Cindy
Estelle
February 19- Transfiguration of Our Lord
Acolyte- Mason Kunkle
Lector- Mary Lou Vanderpool
Communion Assistant-Mary Lou Vanderpool
Co Ushers- Ann Feusner
& Jan Seaberg
Cc Counters- Peggy Cranmer
February 22- 7:00 PM Ash Wednesday
Acolyte-Michael Wallitsch
Lector-Cathy Bellanca
Communion Assistant-Cathy Bellanca
Ushers-Cindy & Dave Estelle
February 26- First Sunday in Lent
Acolyte- Nathan Chilson
Lector- Cindy Estelle
Communion Assistant- Cindy Estelle
Ushers- Thelma Allis & Debbie Philippi
Counters- Bryan Champluvier
& Cindy Estelle
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Trinity News
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Pastor’s Chili Cook-Off – This Sunday
Sunday, February 12, 2012 after our
10:15am worship the competitive heat will turn up a notch as
congregation members and friends of the congregation compete in this
year’s annual Pastor’s Chili Cook-Off. Anyone may submit a chili for
consideration for “Best
Chili.”
In
addition, we will continue the “burn the pastor contest” where
contestants can submit a bowl of their own “Very HOT but Tasty” chili to be eaten and decided by the
pastor. Don’t worry,
Pastor Jira can handle it…he thinks.
If
you have not signed up but wish to enter a chili, simply bring your chili
Sunday morning. If you
don’t have a chili to enter, you are invited to come, taste, and
judge.
“Faith Questions” –Theme For Lent
Starting February 29 at 7:00pm we will begin our Wednesday night Lent
services. This year’s
theme will be “Faith Questions.” As Pastor Jira begins preparing for
this Lenten series, he would like to hear the faith questions that would
like him to address. He will
most likely not be able to address all of them, but he will do his
best. Send your faith questions
to pastorjira@yahoo.com or put
your questions in the plastic jar inside the entrance of the church.
The Night
Saturday, March 3 at 7:00pm.
Mark your calendars now for this night of mystery. You may not know what to expect, but
you can be assured that it will be fun.
Ash Wednesday – Mark Calendars
Wednesday, February 22 at 7:00pm we
will start the beginning of Lent with our Ash Wednesday service. If you have not participated before,
you are encouraged to come and experience a very powerful and holy service.
Confirmation Mini-Retreat
Saturday, February 25 at 1:00pm, the
confirmation students will take part in a mini-retreat at the church. Confirmation students should mark
their calendars now.
Generations Brunch – After Church
Sunday, February 26 after worship, all
children and all adults of the congregation are invited to a brunch together. The brunch will be full of surprises
and fun as we explore our faith together. Friends are invited to come!
Classes Available To You!
Registration is now available online
for two classes offered to you by the Northeastern Pennsylvania Synod, "How
the Bible Came to Be: From Papyrus to iPad"
and "Lutheran Basics." You can either download a brochure for more information and
a registration which you can print and mail in to the Lutheran
Center OR...go directly to the online registration page for March 17 (deadline for
registering is March 9) or for the August 25 event
(registration deadline is August 17).
Here are some of the details you need to know:
Dates (pick one - or come twice!): March 17 at the Lutheran Church of the Holy
Spirit, Emmaus and August 25 at Christ's United, Ashland.
Time: First workshop ("How the Bible Came to Be: From Papyrus
to iPad") will be offered from 10-12 at each
site. Lunch will be served at 12 PM. "Lutheran Basics" will be offered
from 12:30 PM to 2:30 PM. Come for the whole day - or just for the workshop
you would like to attend!
Cost: $10 per person
Celebrating Faith Through The Arts
On April
28 the Faith Formation Resource Team of the
Northeastern Pennsylvania Synod is sponsoring an exciting day to focus on
the connection of the arts to our faith.
Register online or
download a brochure and registration form
to print and mail in to the synod office.
This
event will give participants the opportunity to observe and experience how
faith can be enriched and deepened through art. This event is open to those
in 8th grade and older.
Participants
will:
1. experience ways in which using the
arts can help bring them into a closer relationship with God;
2.
create and/or observe and/or experience the visual arts (photography,
sculpting, painting, etc), auditory arts (music and drama), written art
(creative writing), and physical art (liturgical dance);
3.
get ideas for implementing a day like this in their own congregations (if
desired); and,
4.
become part of a supportive network of people who
are interested in a specific art expression (if desired).
People
who will be energized by attending this event include young adults, Adult
Sunday school classes, confirmation classes, musicians, dancers, writers,
families with older children (8th through 12th grade), photographers,
painters, people who want to organize an arts day for their own
congregations, people who don't think they are creative (but really are -
even if they don't know it), youth groups, sculptors, actors, people who
want to experience God in new ways and more....
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Are you interested in submitting a work of art for display at the event?
The theme is psalms - and you can read all about the guidelines and download an art submission form
here!
Help Survivors Of The Flooding!
First
Presbyterian Church in Towanda
is in the process of working with Presbyterian Disaster Assistance to
create a "volunteer village" which will host mission groups to
work in flood recovery and rebuilding. These groups will come from all over
and stay for one week.
If you and others in your church
are interested in scheduling groups to come to our area, this village is
fully ecumenical and is encouraged by Lutheran Disaster Response. You, your
fellow congregation members, your co-workers, your scout troops, and your
civic groups are invited to work in conjunction with this effort.
One site coordinator for Bradford
County is still needed to help coordinate efforts. Support and training
will be provided if need be. Please consider volunteering in this
crucial way.
In addition, if you and your church
are interested in providing meals for volunteers, as you are able, please
let First Presbyterian Church know.
If you would like to minister to these groups in this way, you may
invite them to your church, or serve them at First Presbyterian.
Please pray for this effort. There
is a real concern that the passage of time has led people to forget that
there are many, many neighbors who are still suffering the effects of the
flood. Pray for them, as well as this effort to serve them.
If you are interested in scheduling groups, can volunteer as a work site
coordinator, have questions, or are interested in serving meals to the
workers, please contact these Presbytery leaders:
Marge Zeigler, overall coordinator, reply to presbylack@aol.com.
Jan Thyren, work-site coordinator, jthyren@aol.com
OR call the presbytery office at 348-0643.
2 Children + 1 Family = Grace
1. Choose one child in the church (who is not a son or
daughter or grandchild) and help raise them in the faith, treating them as
if you would die for them.
2. Choose one child outside of the church (who is not a son or
daughter or grandchild) and help raise them in the faith, treating them as
if you would die for them.
3. Choose one family either within the church or without whom
you could mentor in the faith (youth choose a friend).
Where Does Your Offering Go?
“I
understand that most of the money given through my offering goes to my
local church, but where does the money given to ‘the synod’ go?”
The
money that is given to “the synod” is money that goes to fund
ministries of the ELCA both regionally, nationally, and
internationally. It does more
than pay salaries (though that is part of it), it provides for ministry on
a larger scale than the local church could do alone. It provides a pastor for your
pastor. It provides funding for
missionaries and missionary training.
It provides foundational money for new congregations. It provides money that helps the
poor and hungry throughout the world.
It provides funding to make sure that the gospel message is not
forgotten in the shaping of our nation’s politics. It provides funding for educational
events for people like yourself and for your pastors. This is just a drop in the
bucket. Find
out more by Clicking Here.
To
see a video about where your money goes, Click
Here.
Still thirsty?
Come to www.trinluth.com to
find much more about the life of faith and Trinity Evangelical Lutheran
Church.
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