The Trinity Trumpet

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Sunday, October 14 - 21st Sunday After Pentecost

9:00 AM - Eucharist with Cappella!

10:15 AM - Adult Faith Formation & The Sunday Mix

11:15 AM - Eucharist with Salt

Monday, October 15

9:00 AM - 2:00 PM - TCNSK

6:30 PM - Confirmation

Tuesday, October 16

9:00 AM - 2:00 PM -TCNSK

7:00 PM - Executive Council Meeting

7:30 PM - PEAL Rehearsal

Wednesday, October 17

9:00 AM - 2:00 PM -TCNSK

12:00 PM - ROMEO’s Lunch

7:30 PM - SALT Rehearsal

Thursday, October 18

9:00 AM - 2:00 PM -TCNSK with Field Trips

7:30 PM - CAPPELLA Rehearsal

Friday, October 19

9:00 AM - 2:00 PM -TCNSK with Field Trips

6:30 PM - RSCM Rehearsal

6:30 PM - Garden Bingo Doors Open

Sunday, October 21 - 21st Sunday After Pentecost

9:00 AM - Eucharist with Cappella!

10:15 AM - Adult Faith Formation & The Sunday Mix

11:15 AM - Eucharist with Salt

2:00-3:30 PM - Trunk or Treat

Trinity’s Clergy: The Reverend Stacey-Kyle Rea

pastorskrea@gmail.com

Upcoming Events

All Saints’ Sunday - 11/4

Trinity is scheduled to serve dinner to families at the

Ronald McDonald house on Sunday, October 28th. We

are looking for volunteers to donate/prepare/serve the meal. We

leave about 4 pm and return around 7:30 pm. Please see Lynn

Chialastri for more information or to join the group. No experience

needed! Many thanks for your continued support.

Calling All Chefs

On the first Sunday of November, as we mark All Saints in the

liturgical calendar, we invite you to bring the names of your loved

ones who were baptized during this past year, since last All

Saints’ Sunday, as well as those dear to you who have died.

We have a journal in the narthex just outside the

sanctuary. Enter the names of your loved ones on the appropriate

pages after the names we have already entered of members of the

congregation whose baptisms were held here, and members of the

parish who died this year. Then we’ll include those names in our

All Saints Sunday prayers as we stand together, blessed by God,

in the communion of saints.

If you are in need of pastoral care on either a Friday or Saturday (Pastor Skyle’s days off), a member of TLC is

always on call. Below you will find the on-call list for October.

Friday, October 12- Saturday, October 13- Nancy Klein 610-405-9879

Friday, October 19-Saturday, October 20 - Sally Jeffries 610-539-4965

Friday, October 26-Saturday, October 27 - Alma Nowmos 215-208-1777

Confirmation Pretzel & Bake Sale

TLC On Call Schedule

The Second Year Confirmation Class will be attending the SEPA 2018

Junior Youth Gathering, being held at Tel-Hai Camp in Honeybrook this

November. This Sunday the youth will be holding a pretzel & bake sale to raise funds towards their

registration fees. There will be all kinds of homemade treats & Philly soft pretzels for purchase. The

youth will also be collecting monetary donations that day as well. Thank you for your support of

Trinity’s youth.

Trinity Trunk or Treat—Mark Your Calendars!

October 21

2:00-3:30 pm

Trinity Lutheran Church

Calling all Adults, Families, & Ministry Teams.

We need you to make this event successful!

Decorate your trunk, grab a costume & bring lots of candy

as we welcome families of ghosts & goblins

onto the campus of Trinity Lutheran Church.

It will be a fun day for all.

YOU ARE INVITED TO THE PREMIER OF:

TWENTY MINUTE TRINITY TOPICS

October 28th 11:30-1:00

On October 28th after the 10:00 service we will gather in the hall to share food,

information and conversation.

5 minutes of information and 20 minutes of conversation! Come and share your

views and ideas around the table.

Topics for this session are:

• Roof replacement and other campus upgrades.

• Youth and Family Ministry position and ways to fund it.

Suggestions for topics for the next session will be collected.

Clipboards will be passed to sign up to bring sides and desserts.

Halloween Treats for Martin Luther Silver Springs Kids!

We’ll be collecting goodies for these great kids until next

Sunday, October 21st. If you can donate nut-less candy, little snack packs,

or little fun things like erasers, rings, temporary tattoos (no sharp objects,

please), you will be bringing a happy smile to a young friend. There are

about 75 kiddos who will know that Trinity loves them. Thank you for

your

The Meaning of Life

From the Desk of Nina Wason

Has anyone every stopped you on the street and asked: what must I do to inherit eternal life? Me either. But.

One of my daughters, from a very young age, would call me into her room at night and say, “Mom, why did God

even make us? What are we here for?”

The fellow in this week’s gospel interrupts Jesus on his journey to ask about achieving eternal life – how can he

achieve it? Clearly, he is dead serious about getting an answer. At least, why else would he run up to a perfect

stranger and get on his knees on the dusty road in front of the man, unless the issue was of great importance? Not

many people go around asking that exact question these days, but I suspect it has just taken on a different shape, the

shape of meaning or purpose. What are we here for? What’s the point? Aren’t we all hoping to live a meaningful

life…one which reaches beyond our personal successes and touches other lives in ways that are good and true and

lasting? What’s it all about, Jesus? What is the meaning of my life? Why did you even make me?”

Such big questions. I imagine we all come around to them over and over again, though maybe not in the deepest,

final sense, with those precise words. Maybe it starts with the small stuff.

I find myself asking about little things that will one day fill the whole picture of my life. Why do I spend free time

the way I do? What do I do with loose change or fun money? What relationships am I killing by neglect? Which

ones am I working really hard at sustaining? What am I tired from at the end of the day and is it a good kind of

tired? Where have I loved in a way that was costly to me and not just warm and fuzzy? What kind of review of the

day can I give to God? And aren’t there questions to ask each other, for the answers involve us as a community or

family? Can we say, as Peter does in this text: “Lord, we have left everything and followed you.”?

There are not always easy or even any answers to these questions, but asking them is a necessary first step. In the

words of German poet Rainer Marie Rilke (1875-1926):

“Be patient toward all that is unsolved in your heart and try to love the questions themselves, like locked rooms

and like books that are now written in a very foreign tongue. Do not now seek the answers, which cannot be given

you because you would not be able to live them. And the point is, to live everything. Live the questions now. Per-

haps you will then gradually, without noticing it, live along some distant day into the answer.”

Dinners on Us

Dinners’ on Us was created to coordinate the delivery of meals to members in need whether due to

tragic circumstances - such as death or illness - or happy but hectic times as when a new baby is born. It is

meant to make life easier for the dinner recipients by supplying an answer to the age-old question “What’s

for dinner?”

Through the use of the website, “TakeThemAMeal.com”, the meal coordinator sends out an email to

allow the meal providers to sign up for the day(s) when they will provide meals to the recipients. Any

allergies or strong food dislikes are noted in the email. To prevent meal repetition, volunteer providers are

prompted to list what meal will be supplied. (The site also allows “TBD” or “to be determined” to be

listed.) If a volunteer provider does not use email, he/she can request a call about meal openings.

There is no requirement for volunteers to provide a certain number of meals each month as everyone

has different and often hectic schedules. For those who do not like to cook, a gift card to a restaurant or

carry-out is always welcomed.

Please contact Jenny Anderson via email (jenny63060@gmail.com), text (610-304-1705) or call if you are

interested in volunteering or finding out more information.

Habitat Update

Because of permit issues, work has yet to begin on the Bridgeport build. Our fall work dates have been

postponed. Please watch the Trumpet for more information on dates coming up early in the new year!

Thanks for your patience.

What You Always Wanted to Know About TLC

TLC is Trinity’s home visitation ministry. In the healthcare world, TLC means Tender Loving Care. It

also stands for Trinity Lutheran Church. When the newly formed home visitation team needed to decide on a

name for itself, TLC fit the bill. We are a group of Trinity volunteers that call ahead to schedule a visit to stay in

touch with members who cannot come to church or who need extra support when experiencing frailty in old age,

grief over the loss of a loved one, chronic or serious illness or other life crises. Team members are trained to

administer the sacrament of Holy Communion to those baptized Christians visited, using portable sets provided

by Trinity. It is an important part of this ministry to let inactive or homebound members (often elderly) know,

through personal contact and by providing Communion, that Trinity has not forgotten them.

Some care-receivers may prefer to have only the Pastor tend to their spiritual needs and, of course, this

request is honored. Others may not want a home visit so the TLC team member “assigned” to that person will

call, send a note or an email to stay in touch.

TLC supplements the Pastor’s visits. If a team member notes a problem that appears to require more help

than a lay person can provide, he/she will notify the Pastor. In other words, team members can operate as

additional “ears and eyes” for the Pastor.

Finally, in order to give the Pastor a small amount of personal time, a TLC team member is on-call on

Pastor’s days off (Friday and Saturday) or when the Pastor is away. A Pastor is ALWAYS available; the TLC

team member serves as a front line person to respond immediately and contact Pastor as needed or to make a visit

for her.

Often the people of Trinity endure surgeries without letting anyone know until after the fact, and can be

shy in asking for care. Maybe they don’t want to bother the Pastor and don’t know that there is a whole team of

Trinity people who help with home visits.

If you or someone you know at Trinity has a pastoral need, please call the Church Office Manager, Kim

Travetti, during regular office hours, fill out a welcome mat for prayer request located under each church chair,

contact a members of the TLC Team, or notify the Pastor directly. After hours please contact the TLC person on

call. Names and contact information are announced each week in the Trinity Trumpet. Additional interested

volunteers welcomed.

TLC, because Trinity Lutheran Church provides Tender Loving Care to all our congregants in need.

Co-Captains of TLC,

Jenny Anderson and Alma Nowmos

Henry Bontempo October 1 JoAnn Sorom October 2 Jeff Shadle October 4 Jordan Smith October 5 Lawrence Weimar October 5 Darian Avery October 7 Kristen O’Brien October 7 Josh Sorom October 7 Katina Murphy October 8 Sara Chambers October 9 Sharon Wilson October 9 Meg Smith October 10 Kristine Diezel October 12 Christine McKinnie October 12 Thomas Diezel October 14

Nancy Morgan October 14 Peter Ditzler October 15 LoriAnn Verna October 17 Doug Avery October 18 Margaret Kline October 18 Ryann Lacerte October 19 Susan Chambers October 21 Lori Peltier October 23 Sandy Spiezio October 23 Caroline Ditzler October 24 Ryan Matour October 24 David Parker October 24 Kim Travetti October 28 Andrew Kemner October 30 Amelia Jones October 31

Doug & Kelly Avery October 1 David & Lynne Chialastri October 6 Jim & LoriAnn Verna October 6 Jeff & Rebecca Shadle October 16 Andre & Sandy DiPrinzio October 17 Marc & Kim Travetti October 17 Craig & Christina Moyer October 24 Rich & Ann Dungan October 26

Church Council Contacts

Ann Dungan, President rella1@comcast.net

Susan Chambers, Vice President schamb2795@aol.com

Mike Martorelli, Treasurer michael.martorelli@fairmountpartners.com

Dan Ditzler dand@newtonassociates.com

Marilou Doughty mdoughty@montcopa.org

Rick Cole earl6949@aol.com

Lynn Chialastri lmchialastri@shannondell.com

Craig Moyer reyom0825@comcast.net

Rebecca Shadle rebwynn@gmail.com

Meredith Booz booz1887@comcast.net

Reese O’Brien, Youth Representative reesepiecy4@gmail.com