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Trinity Episcopal Church, 44 North Second Street, Ashland OR 97520 (541) 482-2656 FAX 482-1260 office@trinitychurchashland.org
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Holiday Bazaar
This years SWAT bazaar will be on Sat. Nov. 19th. From 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. We need your baked goods! Cookies, cakes, bread, candies etc. Please package cookies in dozens and indicate if they have nuts. Goods should be delivered to the Parish Hall by 8:30 a.m. that morning. Once again this year well have our wonderful quilts for purchase, plus other craft items, mincemeat and raffles . As usual, quilts will be available on the Sunday after the 10 a.m. service to purchase for yourself or to donate to Child Services. This is a wonderful way to express your generosity towards the most vulnerable of our members of society--children in foster care. For more infoimation, contact Chris Amorellis
November Forums at Trinity will return to an old favorite--looking ahead to the next week's lessons. I've been told that on The Prairie Home Companion Garrison Keillor did a sketch of a Lutheran pastor struggling to create a sermon on Matthew's wedding banquet parable with its murdered messengers, burning of a city, and the poor unsuspecting guest dragged in off the street, who was cast into outer darkness because he lacked a wedding garment. I wish I had heard it, preferably before preaching on that text. In November we can look at the end-ofthe-church-year readings, ponder them, and on occasion pray for whoever is called to preach on them. Join us at 9:05 on the first three Sundays of November for lively free-flowing discussion based on the impending lections for the coming Sunday. On Sunday, November 27th, we will feature a special series in Advent dealing with the Anglican Covenant (see Advent Forums, Page 5). Morgan Silbaugh
Father Tony +
We asked our incoming rector, Fr. Tony Hutchinson, the same questions we asked many Trinitarians in earlier parish profiles. We are grateful for his honesty and promptness in sharing part of whats shaped him He will begin his time with Trinity on January 1, 2012. We wish a smooth transition and warm welcome as Fr. Tony and Elena begin their lives with us.. nations, or classes, or races, or parties. It runs down the middle of each and every human heart, no matter how far we have distorted Gods image in us or how hard our hearts have grown. God calls us all to forgiveness and amendment of life. To deny the possibility of that to others is to deny its possibility for me. My experiences that summer are a major reason I ended up serving most of my Foreign Service career in China, but also were the trigger for authentic spiritual growth for me. In your life, what is the hardest part about being a Christian? Knowing how pathetically short I fall from our stated ideals, despite all the joy and beauty that God has let me see and experience. What are your pet peeves or greatest frustrations? I get really frustrated when I run into the idea that the laity hires clergy to do the job of seeking holiness, serving, praying, or building the Church, and that these are no longer the responsibility of the average Christian. For me, it is absolutely basic that Christ gives to all the people of God the call to ministry and service, to all the baptized the demand of prayer and holiness, and to all his followers the need to read and study Holy Scripture and witness for ones faith (only occasionally opening ones mouth). Our baptismal covenant is clear on this. We hire ordained priests or deacons to help us all better fulfill the demands of what Martin Luther called the Priesthood of All Believers. We do not hire them to stand in for us and do the job instead of us. The three historic orders of ministry (bishops, priests, and deacons) are merely fellow Christians entrusted by the rest of us to help enable us all to become Christs body, to become Church. What do you anticipate as your role at Trinity and your hope for the parish as a Christian body and a force in the world? In the first while, I have to admit, I just pray I dont break anything or ruin any of the great things Trinity Ashland already has going on. In the long run, I hope that we see in Ashland God come fully in charge, right here, right now, proclaiming liberation to the captive, healing to the sick, and hope to the lost. I pray that Trinity grows and becomes an even brighter light for the larger community, witnessing to the joy and grace of God in all our works. Note: Our coming rector hath a blog. He invites us to check it out at http://ellipticalglory.blogspot.com
Describe your family, your growing up, what brought you together and something of your time together. Elena and I were both raised as Mormons, she in the East San Francisco Bay area and I in eastern Washington [Moses Lake]. We met as undergraduates in a full-time team-taught Great Books class. We fell in love, literally, reading Tolstoy. We married just shy of a year after meeting, and immediately started on our family. We eventually had four children; they now are grown and with their own spouses and children, in Seattle, Washington DC, and Paris, France. Elena and I realized we were Christians in the historic sense soon after our wedding, when we both came to understand that, unlike most of the people around us in that community, we believed in the Apostles Creed and the Nicene Creed. We worked for social and theological change within that very community-centered faith for a while, but then very gradually, gently, moved into the Anglicanism of the Episcopal Church when we found we needed it for the spiritual sustenance we were not getting where we were. Both Elena and I are graduates of the Catholic University of America, me a Ph.D. in Biblical Studies, and her an M.L.S. in Library and Information Science. We have spent most of our life together living overseas and in Washington DC while I worked as a U.S. Foreign Service Officer for the Department of State. When we celebrated our thirtieth anniversary, we had a renewal of vows ceremony, where we took for the first time vows of Christian marriage (having originally married in a Mormon Temple rite.) The priest who had brought us into the Episcopal Church conducted the wedding. One of my great joys as priest today is helping others understand what Christian vows of marriage are, and helping them to participate in this great sacrament. What has shaped your spiritual journey? What is your earliest or most memorable experience of God? I was serving at the U.S. Embassy in Beijing China in June 1989, as director of the U.S.-China Fulbright Program. At the time of the June 4 violent crackdown on democracy demonstrations, I was very unlucky and ended up at the wrong place at the wrong time on several occasions, and saw horrible things that no one should have to see, let alone experience. I had to have counseling and participate in groups to help me sort things out in order to be able to sleep without nightmares and be awake without a sense of anger, dread, or depression. Part of the process of healing was hearing a house church sermon from a lay Chinese man who had been persecuted quite severely. He spoke on the nature of evil, and the need for us all to forgive, and to pray for our enemies. The line between good and evil is not between
Your VESTRY
SENIOR WARDEN Mindy Ferris (2011)
Jeff LaLande
(2011)
Kathy Griffin
(2011)
Rhonda Loftis
(2011)
Jean McDonald
(2012)
Ward Wilson
(2012)
Vicki Gardner
(2012)
Tom Harrington
(2013)
Carol Harvey
(2013)
Donna Ritchie
(2013)
Your Vestry meets the 2nd Wednesday of the month at the Parish Hall. Parish members are welcome to attend. Submit written proposals for Vestry action to the Rector or the Parish Clerk (Phyllis Reynolds) one week prior to the meeting.
Following a tradition borne in Northern California in 2001, Threshold Choir of Southern Oregon was founded by Sarah Seybold and Ilana Cotton in 2003. Including many Trinitarians, it describes itself as women singing at the bedsides of people strugglingsome with living, some with dying. Members carry on the ancient practice of singing at the bedside with music honoring many different traditions. When invited, choir members visit the bedside in small teams of two to four singers, and come as often as requested by the patient and family. There is no charge; the service is the gift of those gathered to sing. The choir rehearses at Suncrest retreat center in Talent and at the Phoenix Public Library and no prior music experience is necessaryjust a willing spirit. If youd like to learn more about Threshold Choir or wish to request they sing at the bedside of a friend, relative or hospice patient, please contact Susan Doyal.
FINANCIAL HIGHLIGHTS
The Nine Months Ended September 30, 2011 INCOME EXPENSES Budget this year $181,797 $187,928 Actual this year 184,223 160,326 Actual last year 188,000 180,013 Financial Reports are posted monthly on the Vestry Bulletin Board in the Parish Library. Jim Littlefield
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PHONE IT FORWARD
Phone It Forward will keep us together. Instead of Pay It Forward, as in the book or movie title, our Trinity community is sponsoring a Phone It Forward campaign, so that, two-by-two, our singledwelling parishioners and neighbors can have a way of checking up on each other. Here is how Phone It Forwardcan work: 1. If you live alone, pair up by telephone with another parishioner (or neighbor) who also lives alone. Work out an arrangement where one person phones the other each morning on the odd days of the month, (1st, 3rd, 5th 7th 9th 11th 13th, etc.) and the partner person phones on the even days, (2nd, 4th, 6th, 8th 10th, 12th, etc.) This will confirm that each partner is ready to welcome the day in good health. 2. To make this project work doubly well, each Phone It Forward partner can ask another parishioner or neighbor that lives alone to find a Phone It Forward partner and do the same thing. In this way the Phone It Forward idea will keep widening and bring our community closer together in a caring way. 3. If you need a Phone Partner there will be a sign up sheet in the Parish Hall. Gloria Boyd
To A Violet Found On All Saints' Day by Paul Laurence Dunbar Belated wanderer of the ways of spring, Lost in the chill of grim November rain, Would I could read the message that you bring And find in it the antidote for pain. Does some sad spirit out beyond the day, Far looking to the hours forever dead, Send you a tender offering to lay Upon the grave of us, the living dead? Or does some brighter spirit, unforlorn, Send you, my little sister of the wood, To say to some one on a cloudful morn, "Life lives through death, my brother, all is good?" With meditative hearts the others go The memory of their dead to dress anew. But, sister mine, bide here that I may know, Life grows, through death, as beautiful as you.
Katherine is an Ashland resident. She may be a familiar face to you because she was a member of Russ Otte's Ecumenical Youth Choir. She has also been at Diocesan events as a Cruficer at Bishop Hanley's consecration, an acolyte at Bishop Itty's consecration, and a delegate to Diocesan Convention.
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Trinity worship Sunday Mornings 8:00 AM, Holy Eucharist, Rite II 10:00 AM, Holy Eucharist, Rite II with Choir Godly Play
10:00 - 11:30 AM, Infant care
The trinity vision To be the Episcopal presence in Ashland, welcoming all who seek Christ in a parish family, where all of Gods children can find, celebrate, and grow in Gods grace.
Sunday Evenings 5:00pm November: 6 Contemplative Eucharist November 13 and 27: Evening Prayer Thursdays 12:00 PM Holy Eucharist with Healing Upcoming Special Events
Sunday after All Saints, Nov 6 Newcomers Welcome, Sun. Nov 13, 10:00am SWAT Bazaar, Saturday, Nov 19, 9:00am Thanksgiving Eve Eucharist, Wed. Nov 23, 7:00pm
Trinity Office Hours Monday Thursday, 8:30a 3:00p Friday, 8:30 12:30p (541) 482-2656
Trinity Episcopal Church, 44 North Second Street, Ashland OR 97520 publishes The Trinitarian monthly. James Johnson and Ann Magill, Editors. Submit articles to office@trinitychurchashland.org at the church office by the 20th of the month. For more information, visit Trinity Episcopal Churchs website at www.trinitychurchashland.org.