Greetings Trinity Family,
Merry Christmas to all! I
hope this message finds everyone doing well.
I hate that I can’t see your smiling faces this year on Christmas Eve,
but I am looking forward to “normal’ activities resuming as we are vaccinated.
We have a lot going on at the church that I want you to know
about:
CHRISTMAS EVE
When our Consistory decided to discontinue in-person services,
our Christmas Eve options were impacted.
Therefore, we will still have three services, but they will all be
virtual.
Each of our services will begin with a Christmas Hymn Sing led
by Ralien and Amey.
At 11:40, the hymn sing will be livestreamed from the “Ralien
Luann Besch” facebook page and the new “Trinity Skippack Choir” facebook page.
At 12 pm, we will have a live-streamed worship service on
Facebook. Please log into the “Trinity
Christian UCC Skippack” facebook page to participate. The service will continue to be on facebook
after it is live, so if you are not available at 12, you can participate in it
later.
Ralien and Amey will lead a live Christmas Eve Hymn Sing on our
ZOOM worship page at 2:40 and 6:40 pm.
Then, at 3 pm and 7 pm, we will have live ZOOM worship
services. Please join us by clicking
this link:
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LEO’S CHRISTMAS VISIT
Leo will visit our children
TONIGHT on facebook! Please log in to the “Ralien
Luann Besch” facebook page at 7 pm tonight.
CHRISTMAS CAROL HYMN SING
This December has 5 Wednesdays.
On December 30, Ralien and Amey are inviting us all to join them for a virtual
Christmas Carol Hymn sing. We will join
together on facebok at 7 pm. Please sent your Christmas Carol requests to
Ralien and we will work to sing everyone’s favorites.
To join in, log on to “Ralien LuAnn Besch” ‘s facebook page at 7
pm on Wednesday, December 30.
NEW TRINITY CHOIR FACEBOOK PAGE
Our choir now has a facebook page. Choir members, under the capable
leadership of Ralien Besch, have begun sharing songs and solos on our new
page. This is a wonderful complement to
our ministries as we have worked to increase our “virtual” reach to our
community, friends, and neighbors.
Please check it out on facebook at “Trinity Skippack Choir”
YEAR-END DONATIONS
Although we are not
having in-person services, the work of your church continues. And, most of our regular expenses continue –
we plow the parking lot when it snows, we keep our buildings heated so the pipes
don’t freeze, we continue to keep our staff busy with work, we keep our lights
on so that the community is reminded that the Light of Christ is always
shining. If you would like to make a
year-end donation to the church, or any type of offering, you may mail it to Trinity
Christian UCC, 2004 Church Road, PO Box 538, Skippack, PA 19474.
WORSHIP SERVICES
On Sunday mornings, please join us on
Facebook or Zoom:
Join
us for our Sunday morning hymn sing at 9:45 am livestreamed from the “Ralien
Luann Besch” facebook page. (On January
3, our Hymn Sing will be livestreamed on the Trinity Facebook page.)
10:15 Facebook livestream Worship.
You can find us at our "Trinity Christian UCC Skippack" facebook
page.
11 am ZOOM worship. You can login
at this link:
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meeting.
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BIBLE STUDY
We also have a Sunday morning Bible Study on ZOOM at 8:45
am. Here is the link to log in:
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MUSIC MINISTRY
Here is information about Trinity’s Music Ministry:
Wednesday music schedule:
Adult Choir - 1st
and 3rd Wednesday of each month on Zoom
Mission Music - 2nd
Wednesday of each month on Zoom
Leo - 4th Wednesday of each month on Facebook
Special Surprise - when there is a 5th Wednesday of the
month – this month, it is a Christmas Carol Hymn Sing!
Each of our Wednesday activities will be at 7 pm. Here is the ZOOM link for our music ministry
Wednesday evening activities:
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DAILY BREAD COMMUNITY FOOD PANTRY
We continue to collect food and toiletry items for the Daily
Bread Food Pantry. They can be left at the doors of the church.
The Daily Bread's Current
needs change every few weeks. This is their latest list of needs:
Personal Care: Laundry Detergent, Cleaning
Supplies *
Food: Jelly, Jam, Peanut Butter,
Mayonnaise, Ketchup, Rice, Skillet Helpers or Rice a Roni, Cookies, Chips,
Juice, Shelf Stable Milk, Stuffing, Pie Crust Mix, Pie Crust Fillings in cans,
Pet Care: Dry Cat food*
And any other items you
wish to donate would greatly be appreciated!
*These items can’t be purchased with Food Stamps.
COVID UPDATE
On the weekend of December 6th, our Consistory had an emergency meeting and voted to discontinue our in-person worship services. We are only meeting virtually on Facebook and Zoom.
The Covid pandemic continues to peak and is worse now than when we first closed this past spring. Please know that we are consistently re-evaluating and updating our Covid practices and criteria according to official guidelines, both state and county, as well as what we consider best for our members and community. We ask you to be patient as we find our way through this bewildering time.
We feel that returning our services to an online presence is a small price to pay to keep our congregation and friends of our church safe. We've been informed that the next three months will be the most critical of the entire pandemic.
Let's do our best to mask up, use gloves, distance, wash our hands, and stay home as much as possible. Hopefully we will be together again soon but, in the meantime, please stay the course and be safe.
At the Pennsylvania Southeast Conference UCC’s fall meeting, Reverend Worley recommended that all of our churches return to online-only worship services. The neighboring UCC churches who are part of the Skippack Ministerium are meeting virtually and are not meeting in-person.
HYMNALS
If you would like to borrow a hymnal from the church, please let me know and I will arrange for
you to receive one.
TRINITY BLOG
Trinity now has a blog where I am posting notes to the
congregation and the text of my sermons.
If you would like to read these notes and messages, you can find them
at: www.trinityskippack.blogspot.com
I will “see” you in worship on Sunday!
Many blessings!!
Pastor
Amelie
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