Eliminating the Spoken Announcements.  Announcements will no longer be read in church, so please be sure to take home and read your copy of The Weekly Grail.

 

 

Introducing Alternative Eucharistic Prayers.  With permission of the Bishop, and after consultation with members of the Liturgy Commission and other parish leaders, we will use an alternative Eucharistic Prayer on a trial basis for the month of September beginning this Sunday, September 2.  The one month trial period is to provide sufficient time for us to gain some familiarity and to determine how the Eucharistic prayers engage, nourish, and sustain our community and its relationship with God.  The prayers come from the supplemental liturgical materials prepared by the Standing Liturgical Commission of the Episcopal Church, and authorized for use by General Convention in 1997.  They are published in a volume entitled Enriching Our Worship (EOW).  The form of our worship services will be the same as always:  Rite II, with prayers of the people from the Book of Common Prayer (BCP).  The only part of the service that will be different will be the Eucharistic prayer that begins after the offertory and ends with the great AMEN.  The purpose of EOW is to utilize more accessible language than that used in the 1979 BCP Rite II service.  The hope is that the language of the prayers will enhance and illuminate our worship experience.  The EOW prayers draw upon the riches of scripture and Christian tradition to invoke the many images of God.  The language used was designed to appeal to the diversity of people in the Episcopal church, both those who are well steeped in the tradition and those whose knowledge of scripture and Christian tradition is fragmentary, as well as those who may be puzzled by the liturgical metaphors and forms of address in the 1979 BCP inherited from the 18^th and 19^th centuries.  As we use the alternative prayers, please let Fr. Bill know how you experience them and any issues that arise for you by their use.

 

 

Adult Forum:  Denominationalism continued.  We will begin discussion about the Congregationalist trend in church and even in the Episcopal church,

 

 

Church office closed for Labor Day.

 

 

Centering Prayer,  2 p.m.

 

Liturgy Commission, 5:15 p.m.

 

 

Holy Eucharist & Healing Service 9:30 a.m.

 

Youth Choir,  4:45 p.m.

 

Daughters of the King, 5:30 p.m.

 

Adult Choir Practice, 6 p.m.

 

 

Marriage Encounter Weekend at the Gray Center. 

 

 

Three chapters of the Daughters of the King Meeting,  9 a.m. – 12 noon in the Parish Hall.

 

 

NO Adult Forum because of Rally Day

NO Children’s Chapel because of Rally Day

 

 

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

 

ATTENTION ALTAR GUILD MEMBERS AND PEOPLE INTERESTED IN ALTAR GUILD:  Libby Lewis has been chair of the Altar Guild for a long time, and she wants to step down so that she can devote more time to other activities.  She needs a replacement chairperson.  In addition, the Altar Guild needs more volunteers.  Please search your heart and see if you might be called to help prepare the altar and the church for Sunday worship and other services, and step forward.  We need your help, please!

 

Karen Shappley has volunteered to be our Breadbasket Coordinator.  Thank you Karen.

 

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.” 12 of our 23 windows have been purchased in memory of or in honor of someone.  There is still time to purchase a window.

 

Adult Study in the Library.  Beginning Sunday, September 16, Patty Bomboy will facilitate an Adult Study “Living the Questions” in the Library at 9:15 a.m.  More information will be available at the Christian Education table during Rally Day and in future Weekly Grail announcements. 

 

 

Meet our new Nursery Manager, Sarah McClure: 

 

 

 

... And meet our new Christian Ed Director, Lauren Wainwright: