SPECIAL MESSAGE FROM BISHOP GRAY 

Sunday School Teachers Wanted.  If you have a child between 6 and 12 years of age, we need you to volunteer to be a Sunday School Teacher.  Please contact the school office or Jody Link or Leslie Hutt. Sunday School will begin September 16

Breadbasket Coordinator Needed. Are you interested in coordinating Trinity’s Breadbasket program?  This is an easy and highly rewarding position. Please call the church office for more information.

NEEDED: CASSEROLES, SOUPS, BREADS:   Help St. Anne’s keep its freezer stocked for delivery to our ill and convalescing, the bereaved and families with new babies. Whenever preparing for your family, make extra, label with directions as needed, bring to the church office. Breads can be banana nut, date nut etc.  Thanks!!!

Jody Burnett’s Purse. If you are interested in helping Jody Burnett while he is in seminary, you can write a check to Trinity Church and put in the envelopes provided in the pews that have Jody’s name on it.  If you give cash, please indicate your name and address on the outside of the envelope. You do not have to put Jody’s name on the memo line of your check.  Just put it in the envelope with Jody’s name on it.  Contributions designated to specific individuals on your checks are not tax deductible. Jody would like to acknowledge your gifts, so we will provide him with names and addresses but not amounts.  If you have any questions, please feel free to call the church office.

Tempered glass in all interior classroom & office doors. To protect children, youth, adults, and staff against any form of harassment, we need to have glass panels installed in all office and classroom doors. If you would like to donate $85 in memory of a loved one, a plaque will be installed on the door stating, “Window given in loving memory of XXXX by YYYY.” 10 of our 23 windows have been purchased in memory of or in honor of someone.  There is still time to purchase a window.

Service Music from a New Mass to be Premiered in September.  Luigi Zaninelli, composer in residence at USM, has composed a mass for Trinity Episcopal Church.  This is a huge gift to our congregation.  Portions of that mass will be featured during the worship services during September; in October we will return to more familiar service music.  Luigi sis an internationally recognized composer, musician, and scholar.  He studied at the Curtis Institute of Music and studied composition with the Rosario Scalero (the teacher of Samuel Barber and Menotti).  He served on the faculty of the Curtis Institute, and was composer-in-residence at the University of Calgary and the Banff School of Fine Arts.  He also composed film music for RCA Italiana.  He has been the composer in residence at The University of Southern Mississippi since 1973.  He has been honored with a Steinway Prize, ASCAP Awards since 1964, and The Outstanding Achievement Award, Province of Alberta. In 1991, he became the first three-time winner of the Mississippi Institute of Arts and Letters Music Award.  He has published over 300 works, and has composed several movie and television scores, including the PBS documentaries “The Islander,” “Passover,” and “The Last Confederates.” His one-act opera, “Mr. Sebastian,” was premiered in 1995, followed by the first performance of his first full-length opera, “Snow-White,” in March 1996. 

Habitat HomeStore Opening in Hattiesburg.  The Hattiesburg Area Habitat for Humanity has opened its new Habit HomeStore.  It sells new and used home-related items and building materials to the public at discounted prices.  Located at 5282 Hwy 42, store hours are M-F, 9 am – 5:30 pm, and Sat 9 am until 1 pm. 

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