Upcoming Events at Trinity

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1 Upcoming Events at Trinity June Trinity kids at Merom Church camp this week include Braden Bincsik, Jamilee Kent, Ella Sponn, Nicole Kent, Mallory Kuhn, Hunter Spaulding. Please send them a card or letter to Merom Camp & Retreat Center P.O. Box 127, Merom, IN 47861, send the card by June 9, 10, or 12 for them to receive it. June 4 - New Adult Sunday school class will start at 9:10 with Pastor Jamie teaching, the first study in the class will be "Embraced by God" studies on God's love. We will meet in the library and this class is for all ages of adults from 18 to 100. Come and get into God's Word and let us all expand our knowledge of His incredible love. June 4-Children s Sunday School begins at 9:10 a.m. Coming soon... July 23 - Dinner and a Movie with dinner being served at 5:00pm from Hawg-n-Sauce and the move "Facing the Giants" starting at 5:45. This is a great event to invite friends, co-workers to attend and enjoy a free, friendly environment to fellowship and meet new friends. August is children and youth month at Trinity UCC and we start off with a special event on... August 6 at 5:00pm with "Blessing of the Backpacks" service and then a hot dog supper. All students pre-school through college are invited to attend. Then every week during Sunday school the kids will be asked to learn new scripture and share it with the congregation during the children's sermon. The youth will also be ushers each week during August. September 2-4 is Family Camp at Merom our UCC church camp with Pastor Jamie as the dean. It will be a great weekend to relax, worship, hang with family and do plenty of cool activities and events. All ages from birth to 100 are invited to attend, mark your schedule and see Pastor Jamie for a registrar sheet. ~1~

2 Spiritual Life Please Pray for Solarbron The Terrace Geneva Holler Mary Jane Dausman Solarbron The Point Mary Beth Burkett Lucille Saunders West River Health, The Legacy Charles Huey Good Samaritan Home Phyllis Huey Cloverleaf Geraldine Allen Alpha Banks Andy Bender Carolyn Brauser Jill Brunton Allen Bryant Rick Culiver Christine Russell DeKemper Helen DeKemper Carroll Funkhouser Jerry Funkhouser Gayle Gunter Lana Hagemann Mark Healy Beverly Henry Amy Higgins Josett Higgins Ann Higgs Lourana Howard Mark Hudson Bruce Layer Faren Levell Maya Luna Curt McCarty Ruth Ann Nation Dorothy Niehaus Josh Osborne Ruth Russell Doug Taylor Janie White Anwar & Family If we have inadvertently left a name off any list, please contact the church office at June Head Usher Gary Redman 06/02 Jennifer King 06/07 Ann Higgs 06/07 Lilly Saddler 06/09 Isabella Sims 06/09 Mark Vogel 06/12 Evelyn Seyffarth 06/12 Carroll Funk houser 6/14 John Jacobs 06/16 Sondra Knopfmeier 06/18 Nancy Renschler 06/20 James Higgs 06/20 Nolan Mandel ~2~ If you are not on the Trinity mailing list to receive the monthly newsletter and other important items please call or Jan in the church office at or trinityucc1@sbcglobal.net. Our Indiana-Kentucky Conference Annual Gathering June 9-10, Don Kleinschmidt and Pastor Jamie will be attending this event. Please bring in your wide tooth combs and gallon Ziploc bags and place in the container in the Sanctuary before June 1. Graduates Congratulation to Jevin Redman, University of Southern Indiana, son of Gary & Geralyn Redman. Britnay Young, Harrison High School, granddaughter of Nancy Renschler Coffee Hour June 11 Gretchen Baumgart, Jackie Green Birthdays this month 06/22 Erin Crawford 06/23 John Culley 06/25 David Lueder 06/26 James Keach 06/27 Brenda Schroeder 06/27 Marilyn Wallis 06/27 Cynthia Searcy 06/29 Mary Jane Dausman 06/29 Ruby Oeth 06/29 Steven Boberg 06/29 Daniel Lueder

3 Vacation Bible School Vacation Bible School will be the week of June 5 9 from 5:00 p.m. 7:30 p.m..at St. Matthew. The theme this year is Sparks Lab Please help us anyway you can Thank you Food Items Needed for VBS Monday Bagel Bites, Cutie Oranges, Baby Carrots Wednesday Spaghetti Noodles, Spaghetti Sauce, Garlic Bread, Bananas Friday Hamburger Patties, Hamburger Buns, Grapes, Pretzels. We will be serving up to 50 children. Please bring items to church May 28th. Other Items needed are: 8 Packs of Mentos, 20 packs of Pop Rocks Candy, 3 x 5lb bags of potting soil, 10 x 2 liter bottles, empty and clean, 10 x 2 Liters of Diet Coke and 10 x 20oz Diet Coke. ~3~

4 Thank You Notes Big Brothers Big Sister is so blessed and so grateful for the donation of office space for our organization. It is so important because it helps us give services to three children in our program. What a blessing you are to us! Thank you. And may God bless all of you for your goodness and care. Big Brothers Big Sisters. Dear Trinity Church Thank you for your generous donation of 4 x $25.00 ITunes gift cards to the MVHS after prom event. Your donation helped make it a very successful and exciting event for our students. Sincerely, 2017 After Prom Committee Friends of Trinity UCC Thank you for your recent gift of $ We are grateful to partner with you and put your gift to good work. Together, we are making a difference in the lives of our neighbors near and far. Thank you! Rose Sharp Associate Congregational Engagement Specialist, Church World Service Thanks to everyone for your prayers and concerns for me during my knee replacement and recovery. Don Uhde Relay For Life We would like to thank everyone that participated and donated to the American Cancer Society Relay for Life. A total of $2430 was raised by Trinity. Thanks again for your support. Judy Heberer and Don kleinschmidt Strengthen the Church Offering Each day, visions and dreams are created in the hearts of many in the United Church of Christ. Through the Strengthen the Church offering, they can become a reality. As God calls our congregations to be church in new ways, your gift will plant new churches, awaken new ideas in existing churches, and develop spiritual life in our youth and young adults. Because of this offering, many more will hear the good news that God is still speaking. Offering envelopes are also available in the pews. We will dedicate this offering June 4, 2017 Lent/Easter Offering The total amount of contributions received for Lent/Easter was $ This will be divided one third to Willow Tree of Posey County, one third to Habitat of Mt. Vernon and one third to camperships. May Averages in Attendance and Offerings as of May 21 Worship - 95 Offering Weekly Need - $3, ~4~

5 Pastor s Page What Do YOU See? According to a story I recently heard, Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson were on a camping trip. They had retired early but had both awakened around 2 a.m. With a clear, star-studded night sky above them, Holmes asked, Watson, what do you see? Well, said the doctor, I see thousands of stars! And what does that mean to you? pressed the detective. I suppose it means that we are most fortunate to inhabit God s great universe as intelligent observers. Although we are small in His eyes, we are blessed with powers of reasoning that permit us to make our way in this world of blind greed and criminal enterprises. And surely a night so clear and beautiful as this is a portent of another beautiful day for us to enjoy tomorrow, dear friend. What does it mean to you, Holmes? To me, Watson, it means that while we were sleeping someone has stolen our tent! Similarly, while we fortunate people of 2017 reflect on our educational, scientific, and technological achievements, we may be overlooking the fact that something has been taken from us. Things like innocence, propriety, and decency. Front page headlines remind us of government mistakes, morals declining, leaders resigning over adultery, substance addictions or theft. Yet polls tell us the majority of Americans couldn t care less about our leader s morality so long as the economy remains healthy. I do remember Jesus asking the question, What will a man give in exchange for his soul? The idea that a bull-market economy makes basic questions of morality unimportant reduces ethics to a business proposition. Have we really come to that point in American culture? The nation built upon the Ten Commandments as our moral code and laws of the land? Continued on p. 6 ~5~

6 The tent of objective moral norms by which to frame and judge human conduct has been stolen from this generation. Not only the tent but the pegs of objective truth necessary to hold it in place have been ripped from the ground. Indeed, press our thought leaders (i.e., spin doctors) and you will hear them explain in condescending tones that there is no real ground of history and meaning beneath our feet. There is only the ongoing process of interpretation, no definite or fixed meaning to anything. The sins in the Bible are still sins, drunkenness, adultery, co-habitation, cursing, taking Gods name in vein, lying, gossiping are all still sins in God s law and to Bible living, believing Christians. In a commencement speech at Stanford University on June 14, 1998, Ted Koppel counseled graduates: Aspire to decency. Practice civility toward one another. Admire and emulate ethical behavior wherever you find it. Apply a rigid standard of morality to your lives; and if, periodically, you fail as you surely will adjust your lives, not the standards. That s good advice for people of all ages and backgrounds. Before we speculate on the ethereal meaning of the stars, Dr. Watson, we must pay attention to finding the tent that has disappeared. We need to put it back in place. Think about it, Pastor Jamie Brokelyn Alexis Grabert daughter of Christopher & Amber Grabert April 30, 2017 ~6~

7 S June 2017 Mon Tue Thu Fri Sat SUN MON TUE WED THUR FRI SAT 1 1:30 Women's Auxiliary 2 3 Girl Scouts Mother Daughter Tea. 4 9:10 Adult Bible Study 9:10 Children SS 10:10 Worship Holy Communion 6:00 Bible Study 11 9:10 Adult Bible Study 9:10 Children SS 10:10 Worship Coffee Hour 18 9:10 Adult Bible Study 9:10 Children SS 5 VBS 5-7:30 p.m. 9:00 Care Squares 6:30 Boy Scouts 12 9:00 Care Squares 6:30 Boy Scouts 19 9:00 Care Squares 6 VBS 5-7:30 9:00 Quilters 7:30 AA 13 9:00 Quilters 6:30 Christian Ed 7:30 AA 20 9:00 Quilters 7 VBS 5-7:30 8 VBS 5-7:30 9 VBS 5-7:30 Annual Gathering 14 1:30 Spiritual Life 15 Newsletter Deadline Annual Gathering 10:10 Worship 25 9:10 Adult Bible Study 9:10 Children SS 10:10 Worship 6:30 Boy Scouts 7:00 Council 26 7:30 AA 27 9:00 Quilters :30 Boy Scouts 7:30 AA ~7~

8 TRINITY TRUMPET June Vol 19 Issue 6 Trinity United Church of Christ 505 Mulberry Street Mt. Vernon, IN Tel: E mail: trinityucc1@sbcglobal.net Facebook: Webpage: Address Services Requested THURSDAY, June 15, 2017 your notes, articles, or announcements to the office on time! Electronic submissions are especially appreciated! Trinityucc1@sbcglobal.net Inside This Issue Upcoming Events 1- Spiritual Life 2 Vacation Bible School 3 Visit our web page: mytrinityucc.com Thank You Notes 4 Pastor Page 5-6 Calendar 7 Food Pantry Item Breakfast Items Canned Fruit (no applesauce) A Master Calendar is in the hallway next to the fellowship hall, please check this before scheduling meetings or activities to help prevent double booking. If you have an event that is not listed, please tell Jan in the Office. ~8~