Greetings Trinity Family,
I pray that everyone in our extended church family is doing well. I hope you are also staying cool in the midst of these very hot days.
You no longer need to RSVP for our in-person worship service on Sunday morning at 10:15. Please join us!
BLESSING OF THE BACKPACKS –THIS SUNDAY!
CALLING ALL STUDENTS!! On Sunday, August 22, we will bless our students and their backpacks during our 10:15 worship service. Please join us either in-person or virtually and bring your backpack!
SEPTEMBER’S FIRST FRIDAY – September 3!
Please join us in Skippack for our First Friday gathering on September 3. If you are able to help share information with our neighbors about our church, we will gather at 5:30. We will probably set up our table on the lawn of the Copper Partridge. Please let Pastor Amelie know if you are able to help.
RALLY DAY—SEPTEMBER 19, 2021
Our back-to-Sunday-school celebration will be on September 19. This year, we are adding to our offerings. Our Pre-K through 5th grade students will continue to go to Sunday School after the children’s sermon on Sunday mornings. Our older kids, 6th grade and older, will have their “Pre-Confirmation” class on Sunday mornings from 9:15 to 10 am. Everyone is invited to our Sunday morning class which focuses on the intersection between our Christian faith and current world events. Our class will continue on Zoom from 8:30 to 9:15 am.
THE PRAYER COURSE
On Tuesday, September 7, we will begin an 8 week session of The Prayer Course. During the 8 weeks, we will journey through The Lord’s Prayer. These sessions are designed to help us expand our prayer life and learn new prayer practices. The course will be held on Tuesday evenings at 7 pm and will probably last about an hour and a half. The course was created by 24-7 Prayer International. Learn more about their work at https://www.24-7prayer.com/ We will meet over Zoom. Please let me know if you would like to participate.
REOPENING COMMITTEE
We are now singing hymns in worship!!
The decision was made to continue to wear masks during our in-person services, until the children have the opportunity to be vaccinated.. We’re still taking temps, distancing, and having sanitizer available. Thank you to everyone for their concern and diligence during this time.
Hopefully it won’t be much longer before all restrictions are lifted and everyone is vaccinated.
LUNCH BUNCH MEETS WEEKLY!
Lunch Bunch is our Tuesday afternoon Bible Study. Everyone is invited to join us on Tuesdays at 12 pm. Please bring your own lunch. (In the past, we had a potluck lunch, but for now each person will bring their own food.) Lunch Bunch typically studies the portion of the Bible that will be the focus of our worship service on the upcoming Sunday.
NEED TECH-Y VOLUNTEERS
We are looking for volunteers who are willing to learn how to live-stream the worship services. If you are willing, please let Bill Vogl or Pastor Amelie know and we will show you how to do it. There are a few steps involved, but most computer users will be able to easily learn the process.
GIVING TO TRINITY
Although things are not fully back to normal, Trinity’s expenses have continued throughout the pandemic. We know that everyone’s work-life has been disrupted during this time and we don’t expect everyone to be able to contribute to the church in the amount you were able to contribute in the past. If you have the means to contribute to the church, you may drop off your offerings during the Sunday Morning service, at the church office, or you may mail it to our address: Trinity Christian UCC; 2009 Church Road, PO Box 538, Skippack, PA 19474
DAILY BREAD SCHOOL SUPPLY DRIVE
We will be collecting school supplies and backpacks again this year for the children of our clients.
Our biggest needs this year include backpacks - small - packs with cartoon characters, Disney or similar are very popular, medium and especially large backpacks since even middle school children carry a large quantity of books, 24 count packs of crayons, Fiskar children's scissors, boxes of 24 colored pencils. plastic pencil boxes, pencil cases with 3 holes to go into binders for the older children, composition books for elementary age school children, red pens, packs of 3x5 index card, packs of dividers for binders, 1" three-ring binders, folders with prongs, three-ring loose leaf filler paper, black dry erase markers, packs of dry erase markers containing 4 different colors, highlighters of any color, mechanical pencils, Sharpie markers, small pencil sharpeners, packs of Post-It notes and flash drives.
We will be distributing backpacks and school supplies at the food pantry throughout the month of August and will gladly accept donations through mid-August.
All donations can be delivered to the Daily Bread Community Food Pantry. There is someone there to receive donations Monday through Friday from 9 A.M. until Noon. Since we distribute food to clients on Wednesday mornings from 9 to 11 A.M. you might want to avoid those times.
You can also drop off school supplies at any time in the beige bin near the garage doors on the side of the food pantry. This bin is checked each morning by our volunteers. Thank you so very much for your dedicated and generous support of this project! We sincerely appreciate it!
DON’T GIVE UP MOVEMENT
Our Outreach committee is inviting everyone in our congregation to join us in sharing messages from the “Don’t Give Up” movement. This outreach was started to encourage people who are considering suicide to not give up. We have yard signs, postcards, stickers, and business cards with messages that say things like “You are Enough” and “Your Mistakes Don’t Define You.” These messages are especially important right now as many people are struggling with their mental and emotional health after the many months of our pandemic. Please pick up yard signs at church and other signs to promote this message of love for our neighbors. Here is more about the movement: https://www.dontgiveupsigns.com/
DAILY BREAD COMMUNITY FOOD PANTRY – NEW ITEMS!
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:
Juice & juice boxes –shelf stable, Cereal for kids, Chips, Creamed cooking soups, Diced tomatoes, Canned peas, Men’s & Women’s razors*, Men’s & Women’s shaving cream*, Laundry soap*, Men’s & Women’s deodorant*
And any other items you wish to donate would be greatly appreciated. Please, no adult diapers!
*These items can’t be purchased with SNAP (food stamps).
WORSHIP SERVICES
We now have in-person worship services in our sanctuary. We are still checking temperatures, maintain social distance guidelines and wearing masks.
We are no longer offering a ZOOM worship service.
On Sunday mornings, you are also invited to join us on Facebook:
Join us for our Sunday morning hymn sing at 9:45 am live-streamed from the Trinity Christian UCC Skippack facebook page. https://www.facebook.com/TrinityUCCSkippack
10:15 Facebook livestream Worship. You can find us at our "Trinity Christian UCC Skippack" facebook page. https://www.facebook.com/TrinityUCCSkippack
SUNDAY BIBLE STUDY
We
have a Sunday morning Bible Study on ZOOM at 8:30 am. This is a new meeting time. Here is the
link to log in:
Amelie Sell is inviting you to a scheduled Zoom meeting.
Topic: Trinity's Wired Word Discussion Group
Time: This is a recurring meeting Meet anytime
Join Zoom Meeting
https://us04web.zoom.us/j/76933813590?pwd=Nzc0MkthZFBkdmVNTGYycjVtRXkwUT09
Meeting ID: 769 3381 3590
Password: 7qLSWw
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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