Trinity News
May 30, 2006
Trinity Team heads to the Gulf Coast to lend a hand!
Twelve volunteers are traveling to New Orleans June 10 to June 17 to volunteer at Camp Coast Care: Pat Erbes; Trudy Minkler; the Rev.Frannie Hall Kieschnick, Julie and Nate (Frannie's twin sister and son); June LaBarre; JB and Gayle Brahy and granddaughter, Nicole; A.J. Molina; and Diane and Caitlin Savage.
Camp Coast Care is a relief center for survivors of Hurricane Katrina on Mississippi's Gulf Coast and a mission point for Lutheran Episcopal Services in Mississippi. Since the first days after the storm, they have offered help to survivors in the form of a distribution center for foods, cleaning supplies, personal hygiene products and clothing, a free medical clinic, housing for volunteers who come to clean out and rebuild local homes and communities, and a center for the church's work in Harrison and Hancock Counties.
If you can go, there's still room and scholarships are available. For information contact June LaBarre 650-321-7575 or junelab@comcast.net.
Here's what Camp Coast Care would like us to bring with us AND YOU CAN DONATE: Gift Cards: Home Depot, Lowe's, Wal-Mart, and POWER TOOLS - used and in good condition. Please leave in offering plate (not the tools!) on Sunday or bring/mail to office by June 8, 2006. www.campcoastcare.com
And here's the prayer we hope parishioners will pray for the team:
Lord, God of the universe, creator and sustainer of all life. Grant us the serenity to respond to disaster in bold faith, seeking not certainty, but rather the assurance of your abiding presence.
Grant us hope when we spiral into despair and fill our broken hearts with the love with which you surround us.
Grant us wisdom to discern what you are calling each of us to do to respond to the needs of our brothers and sisters and to support those who travel to be with them and work with them to rebuild.
As they rebuild, guide each hammer and nail with a ring of hope; bless each bandage and conversation with the balm of healing and strengthen each resolve with the blessed assurance that all manner of things shall be well, through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen
revised from Brother Charles LaFond, SSJE, 9/6/2005