Our Activities
Listed below are the news articles for the month of August.
August 03, 2005
Outreach Retreat
Members of the Trinity Parish Outreach Commission met for a Saturday morning of planning and fellowship in the annual retreat at the end of July.
In attendance were, Jennifer Morrisey, Cindy Brinkmann, Nancy Grove, John
and Lucy Strandberg, Gerry Kirchgatter, Carolyn Emmerson, Diane Savage, Dorie Ives, and June LaBarre.
August 07, 2005
August Outreach
August 2005 - Outreach Activities
Fresh fruit for weekly homeless lunch at Trinity
Please bring summer fresh fruit to the Trinity kitchen Saturday or Sunday
for the weekly homeless lunch. This is a special treat that is not normally
part of the institutional meal served every Sunday afternoon.
Backpack Drive
Please leave backpacks in the office with Alecia or at the back of the
church on Sundays. If you wish you wish to buy a backpack please put a
check in the offering plate for $15 and on the memo line write backpack.
Trinity parishioners will be filling the backpacks with supplies. If you
wish, please enclose a check for $15.00 in the backpack you purchase or put
a check in the offering plate and on the memo line write backpack supplies.
We are happy to take checks in any amount for this fundaiser if you are not
able to shop for a backpack. To buy a backpack and supplies please put a
check for $30.00 in the offering plate and put "backpack and supplies on the
memo line.
On Sunday, August 28th the backpacks will be blessed, stuffed, and delivered
to EHP (Ecumenical Hunger Project). For more information or to sign up for
the backpack stuffing party call Nancy Grove at 650-329-8658 or email
ngrove@sbcglobal.net.
Clara Mateo 1st Sunday Evening Meal (Clara Mateo Alliance, Menlo Park VA on
Willow Road)
Sunday, August 7, 2005, 5:30 - 7:00. If you can help serve, make a main
dish or desert please call Jennifer Morrisey at 650-323-5320 or email
jennmorr@hotmail.com
5th Saturday Urban Ministry Lunch (Covenant Presbyterian Church, Palo Alto
on East Meadow Drive)
Holy Trinity will be making and serving lunch to the homeless. For more
information and to volunteer to help serve or make a main dish, salad, or
desert please contact Diane Savage at 650-321-8236 or email
diane@savagehome.com.
Save the date, Saturday, January 28 - Cafe Momus Fundraiser
August 23, 2005
Christian Education-Family Ministries Survey
WE HEAR YOU NOW: Survey Update: We are beginning to implement some of the ideas we received from the Christian Education/Family Ministries survey. Specifically, we have added a new 4 p.m. Sunday School for 3rd-5th graders, based on the responses that said that children in this age group felt "too old" for the Family Service or Godly Play. We'll continue to assess ways to incorporate your feedback into our programs. If you didn't get a chance to fill in the survey, please do so immediately and get it back to Pamela Dolan. The complete results of the survey will be published this fall in the newsletter.
If you are a member of Trinity and have a child in your household under the age of 18, you should have received a survey regarding Christian Education, Faith Formation, and Family Ministries programs. The results of the survey will be reviewed by the Vestry and the Family Ministries Commission in order to assess and implement future programs and curricula at Trinity.
About half the surveys were sent out electronically and half via snail mail (if we had an email address for you, we used it!). IF YOU HAVEN'T RECEIVED A SURVEY, you may be listed incorrectly in our databases: please contact Pamela Dolan right away so that we can correct our information. I'm happy to discuss the survey itself or the programs more generally. Your feedback is vital to us!