Pastor s Page. Here is a wonderful poem I found the other day that I want to share with you. HEALING AT THE CROSS

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1 Pastor s Page As we enter into the most celebrated season of the Christian faith, the one event that has changed everything - EASTER! Let us come with such a life of praise and faith that Mount Vernon can see Jesus shining through all of us, we have been changed folks, we have been redeemed, we have the promise of life after death, how can we not share this message of hope to everyone? Yes we will also have heartache as we live Good Friday again and remember all that Jesus went through for us, but oh what a day of rejoicing as we celebrate His resurrection! So as we enter this most holy time in our Christian walk, spend time in meditation, prayer, bible reading and worship and let Him touch you, renew your faith and revive and refresh your baptismal covenant and promises you made to our Great God and Master! Here is a wonderful poem I found the other day that I want to share with you. HEALING AT THE CROSS We know when Jesus was crucified Upon the wooden cross, Our every sin was laid upon Him All for loving the lost And we know that when He rose again, He conquered death and hell Through His resurrection we have Eternal life as well For this we praise our gracious Lord And thank Him for His love, For we could never have had this hope If it wasn't for His spilled blood But we can know His resurrection power, Right now, while we are here, For we can come to the cross of Christ And lay down our burdens there Continued on p. 2 ~1~

2 For everything that may hold us back, The hurts from yesterday, At the foot of the cross we lay it down And then just walk away For I believe that there is healing At the cross of Christ We do not need to carry these loads, For they've all been crucified Receive from Jesus the healing you need For your spirit, body and soul Then you can arise, freed from your past To walk completely whole For what He accomplished on the cross Goes on into eternity, Just reach out your hand and He will too And receive His victory. By M.S.Lowndes Think about it, Pastor Jamie March Averages in Attendance and Offerings Worship Offering - $2,537 Weekly Need - $3, Coming in May... May 12 - The Evansville Tri-State Association will hold it's annual meeting at Bethlehem United Church of Christ in Evansville. All members are welcome and encouraged to attend, our President of the United Church of Christ John Dorhauer will be the guest speaker along with a wonderful time of fellowship, a great meal and awesome worship together. Please let Pastor Jamie know if your interested in attending. Let's have a great turn out for Trinity! ~2~

3 Spiritual Life Please Pray for Solarbron The Terrace Geneva Holler Mary Jane Dausman Solarbron The Point Mary Beth Burkett Lucille Saunders West River Health Charles Huey Betty Englebright Good Samaritan Home Phyllis Huey Cloverleaf Geraldine Allen Jill Brunton Allen Bryant Christine Russell DeKemper Helen DeKemper Carroll Funkhouser Jerry Funkhouser The Family of Floyd Healy Mark Healy Beverly Henry Amy Higgins Josett Higgins Lourana Howard Doris Jefferies Bruce Layeer Maya Luna Curt McCarty Ruth Ann Nation Dorothy Niehaus Josh Osborne Ruth Russell The Family of Bea Schisler Doug Taylor Janie White Anwar & Family If we have inadvertently left a name off any list, please contact the church office at No Coffee Hour in April April Head Usher Carroll Funkhouser April 5 Logan Culley April 6 Gary Porter April 7 Phyllis Huey April 8 Brent Brauser April 13 Brad Oeth April 14 Melva Englebright April 14 Hannah Erwin April 15 Taylor Culley April 19 Ruth Duckworth ~3~ Lilies in the Chancel If you would like to place lilies in the chancel for Easter Sunday, April 16 please give the church office your name and the name(s) of the person (s) being remembered or honored by Wednesday, April 12, Please arrange for the flowers to be delivered by 11:00 am, Friday, April 14. 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. Mt. Vernon Relay for Life Saturday May 13, 2017 Noon Midnight at the Riverfront Magdalena Katherine Baumgart Baptised March 19, Daughter of Bill & Gretchen Baumgart. Prayer Quilts were blessed for Carroll Funkhouser and Ruth Russell. April 21 Jeffrey Hartmann April 21 Mark Culley April 22 Steven Grabert April 28 Karl Baro April 29 Gary Redman April 30 Sarah McCarty

4 Trinity United Church of Christ, Mt. Vernon, IN Church Council Minutes February 22, 2017 Members present for the February 22, 2017 council meeting were Bill Baro, Dennis Clark, Carroll Funkhouser, Judy Heberer, Trudy Keach, Don Kleinschmidt, Gary Porter, Gary Redman, Susan Roby, David Uhde, Danny Ziegler and Pastor Jamie Kent. President Don Kleinschmidt called the meeting to order at 7:00 pm. Pastor Jamie Kent had an opening devotional and prayer. Minutes from the council meeting on January 16, 2017 were reviewed. Gary Porter moved to approve the minutes, Dennis Clark seconded and motion carried. Old Business: Parsonage Renovation: Gary Porter and Carroll Funkhouser reported the storm doors have been installed and one damaged window screen has been replaced. The sink in downstairs bath will be replaced on February 21. Parsonage Property Tax: Bill Baro submitted the paperwork for the parsonage to be tax exempt. He visited the assessor s office last week. There is an individual coming to courthouse to review tax exempt requests. We will receive notification from the assessor s office when the paperwork has been reviewed. Custodian Hours: Linda has been able to perform extra cleaning with the increased hours. However as we have additional visitors and programs in the building we may need to evaluate adding more hours. Secretarial Hours: We will continue to evaluate Jan s workload to determine if additional hours are needed. Safe Conduct Policy Training: We will have the Safe Conduct Policy Training at 6 pm on March 20 th. This is for all church council, teachers, secretary, organists, custodian and others who may work with youth and vulnerable adults. We will have a second session for anyone not able to attend on March 20 th. College Homecoming for Pastor Jamie: Pastor will be out of town February Pastor Doug from Immanuel is our on call. Jan has the information if we need to reach Pastor Doug. Church Sign: Our church sign needs replacing. The trustees have information from Stuart Sign Co and are evaluating. The family who donated the wooden sign are ok with replacing the wooden sign with an electronic one. Cost is estimated at $5,400 to $6,500 plus electric and concrete work. An announcement will be placed in the bulletin starting this week to determine if anyone is interested in giving as a memorial. Appointed Trustees: Council has not officially appointed the trustees for Carroll Funkhouser nominated Gary Porter and Bill Osborn as our appointed trustees, Judy Heberer seconded and motion carried. New Business: Parsonage Open House: The open house on January 29, 2017 was a success. There were over 50 church and community guests who had the opportunity to tour the parsonage. There were impressed by the work of the trustees and church volunteers. Thanks to Judy Heberer for providing refreshments. Movie Night: March 19, 2017 from 5 to 8 pm. Sub-Way sandwiches before the movie, Letters to God. Please bring a snack, dessert or liter of soda to share. There may be a children s movie in the library for the very young. Discussion was where to show the movie.sanctuary or fellowship hall. Movie Night: April 2, 2017 the movie The Easter Experience will be shown. It runs 80 minutes and there will be a discussion period afterwards. We will share snacks that evening. Continued on p. 7 ~4~

5 The Easter Experience at Trinity The Easter Experience will be on April 2 beginning at 4:00pm with snacks, fellowship and scripture. At 4:30pm we'll watch the movie Easter Experience and then discuss what if what happened at Easter changes everything? Come and get prepared to celebrate Easter this season like never before. Bring snacks to share. Upcoming Events April 4 - The Pastor/Parish committee will meet at 6:30pm in the lounge. April 5 - Lenten soup/sandwich service at 6:00pm in the fellowship hall. April 9 Easter Egg Hunt 9:30 a,m, in Fellowship Hall April 12 - Spiritual Life committee will meet at 1:30pm in the lounge. April 13 - Maundy Thursday service with Holy Communion will be in the sanctuary at 7:00pm. April 14 - Good Friday ecumenical service here at Trinity UCC at 12:00pm with combined community choir and Rev. Allen Rutherford speaking. April 16 - Sonrise Service at 7:00am in the courtyard and breakfast to follow at 7:45am in the fellowship hall. Come and worship the risen Christ and celebrate His resurrection! April pieces of silver offering will be taken up and if we raise $300 a gift match of $300 will also be given to go to our food bank here in Mount Vernon. Please give and support this important ministry. April 26 - New weekly Bible study will begin...details will be coming soon! Community Good Friday Service The Mt. Vernon Ministerial Association will be holding its yearly Community Good Friday Service, April 14th from 12:00 to 12:55p.m. It will be held this year at Trinity United Church of Christ at 505 Mulberry Street in Mt. Vernon. Ms Cindy Searcy is organizing a Community Choir to assist with the music for this service. Cindy will be holding two choir rehearsals on Sunday afternoons, April 2nd and April 9th. Both choir rehearsals will begin at 3:00 P.M. at Trinity United Church of Christ. Please plan to attend at least one of the two rehearsals at your convenience, and both if possible. A final rehearsal will be held at 11:15a.m. on Good Friday, prior to the start of the service. We invite all singers from southern Posey County to sing in this community service ~5~

6 Women s News The women of Zion are hosting a hospitality night for all women of the west side and Mt. Vernon UCC churches. The Date is Thursday April 20, starting at 6:30 p.m. Please call the church office by April 13 if you plan on coming. Hope to see you there for a night of fun. Women s Auxiliary Trinity Women s Auxiliary is scheduled to meet Thursday, April 6 at Solarbron for lunch at 11:00 a.m. A brief meeting will follow and Betty Lueder will present the program Posey County Schools of Yesteryear. To car pool meet at the church at 10:30 a.m. in the church parking lot. Call Betty Lueder by Tuesday, April 4 to make reservations Plant & Rummage Sale St. Paul s UCC (German township) 8701 Highway 65, Evansville. Saturday, April 29 from 7:00 a.m. 1:00 p.m. BBQ Chicken, Sausage Burgers, Cinnamon Rolls and Kuchen will be available. Thank You Notes Thank you to everyone that participated in the American Cancer Society Relay for Life fundraiser dinner. Almost $ in donations was made. Thank you again. Don Kleinschmidt & Judy Heberer. I would like to thank everyone for the cards sent to me and Dick and Jackie Green for the rides to church. Dorothy Freimiller Thank you to everyone for the prayers, cards and condolences for Linc during his illness and passing. The Linc Baro Family Lenten Supper Free-Will Offering The Free-will offering from the Wednesday night Lenten Suppers go to the Women s Group at the conclusion of the suppers the money is designated to a project and/ or projects within the church,. To date $ has been given tyhanks to your generosity. April 1 April 8 Men s Lenten Breakfasts Bethlehem United Church of Christ Zion United Church of Christ, Newburgh, Memorial service All men of all ages are invited and welcome to come attend these wonderful Lenten services with wonderful lay speakers at each service. The theme this year is God s Bucket List and the text is from Matthew 22: Breakfast at 7a.m. Service at 8 a.m. Trinity s Sign The council and trustees are considering replacing the sign at the corner of Mulberry and Fifth Streets. Our current sign needs to be replaced. If you are interested in making a memorial gift towards the cost of a new sign, contact one of the trustees: Bill Baro, Carroll Funkhouser, Bill Osborn, Gary Porter or Danny Ziegler. ~6~

7 Quarterly Sunday Meal after church: Currently we have a meal to kick off Relay for Life, a picnic and a meal near Christmas. Pastor Jamie asked if we were interested in having at least a quarterly meal after church. This encourages fellowship and is an opportunity to meet and greet new families and individuals who are attending church. We will consider at a future date. Narcotics Anonymous: There have been multiple complaints about the group hanging around before and after meetings. Neighbors feel uncomfortable with the group present. Gary Porter and Don Kleinschmidt will be meeting with the group along with someone from police department on February 23 and ask the group to leave our facilities. We will not allow them to hold meetings at Trinity. Keys will be collected from the group. We will be asking the police for additional patrols in our area. Gary Porter commended Trudy Keach and Dottie Funkhouser for volunteering as teachers for the Sunday School and Gary and Gerilyn Redman for volunteering to work with the youth group. We have a number of families and youth who have returned to Trinity and are ready for these services. We are grateful to see this growth. Gary Ported commented that Pastor Jamie has been doing a great job. We have received many positive comments from community members. Pastor Jamie noted that it takes the congregation working together, hosting a variety of activities and inviting families to visit for us to be successful. He noted our average Sunday attendance was 49 the last 6 months of Since Pastor Jamie started in January our average Sunday attendance has been 84. Men s Lenten Breakfast at Trinity is Saturday, March 18. We will need men to cook the breakfast and be part of the service. Breakfast is at 7 am with the service at 8 am. The attendance at all Men s Lenten Breakfasts is down. If we want them to continue, we need to have a group attend at least some of them. White folding tables: The Uhde family has requested use of the white folding tables on Saturday, March 25 for the Diabetes Poker Run. They will return the tables to the fellowship fall on Saturday evening. Gary Porter moved to allow the Uhde family use of the white plastic folding tables, Bill Baro seconded and motion carried. Letter regarding After Prom: A letter was received requesting support for the After Prom program at MVHS. This is a drug and alcohol free event at the HS. It is a worthy program. Council agreed to research past practice for support and discuss in March. Big Brothers, Big Sisters: We need to approve their use of space at Trinity during Carroll Funkhouser moved to allow Big Brothers, Big Sisters to use space at Trinity during 2017, Danny Ziegler seconded and motion carried. Pastor s Report: Sacred Harmony Music Group sings Southern gospel music with a contemporary flair. They have won gospel awards. Pastor Jamie knows the group and would be interested in inviting them to sing at Trinity. Cost is $500 plus a love offering. They prefer to schedule several events in the same area for one week-end in order to save travel expenses. Pastor Jamie to get additional information about their availability in our area during the fall. Christian Education: Pastor Jamie requests that council put $1000 in the Christian Education fund to allow the purchase of books, start up materials and VBS materials for our Sunday School and Youth groups. Bill Baro moved that we place $1,000 into the Christian Education budget, David Uhde seconded and motion carried. Banners: Pastor Jamie would like several new banners for the church. When he looked on-line, the cost per banner was approximately $150. He talked with Sarah Becker who said she could design and make the 3 banners he wanted for approximately $88. Council agreed to reimburse Sarah Becker for cost of materials. Vacation Week: Pastor Jamie will be taking a week of vacation April 17 to 24. He will arrange with IN-KY conference for a substitute minister and minister on call during that time. ~7~ Continued on p. 8

8 Girl Scout Troop: The local Girl Scout troop is looking for a permanent place to meet. Would Trinity be willing to allow them to use one of our meeting rooms? They meet on Monday evenings. Gary Porter moved that we allow the Girl Scouts to meet at Trinity, Danny Ziegler seconded and motion carried. The Pence Endowment supports both the Boy and Girl Scouts with funding each year. List of Persons Moving to Mt. Vernon: A company in Ohio offers a service which provides your organization with a list of persons who move into your zip code. Pastor Jamie would like to join the service. The cost is approximately $15 per month. He would design a post card to send to the person(s) moving into our area welcoming them and inviting them to visit at Trinity. Dennis Clark moved to try the service for one year, Judy Heberer seconded and motion carried. Treasurer s Report: Susan Roby reviewed the attached report. January income (all funds) was $18,464. January expenses (all funds) was $34,218. We had interest income of $1,964. Loss for the month of January was $15,754. Gary Porter moved to accept the treasurer s report, David Uhde seconded and motion carried. Bills: Council reviewed the list of bills to be paid (attached). Gary Porter moved to pay the bills, Danny Ziegler seconded and motion carried. Committee Reports: There was no report from Finance. Christian Education: Trudy Keach shared there will be an Easter Egg Hunt on Palm Sunday. She asked about children walking in church with palm branches. Spiritual Life: They are visiting a variety of people, including inactive members. Music and Worship: Pastor Jamie and Cindy Searcy have met to plan music during Easter Season. Trinity is the host of the community Good Friday service. Gifts and Bequests: Memorial gifts for Linc Baro will be used for the LED lighting project. Trustee Report: Carroll Funkhouser and Danny Ziegler gave the report. There are wasps in the attic and basement which have been sprayed. Light has been replaced in closet that Pastor uses. Ice machine has been cleaned and serviced for the year. Fan and light in the kitchen at parsonage has been replaced. A bench is being built for Pastor. Turn gas valve off in kitchen after using the stove. We occasionally smell gas. Shutting the valve off prevents any leaks. LED replacement lights are scheduled to arrive by end of February. e meeting closed with a prayer by Pastor Jamie. Next Meeting: Monday, March 20, 2017 starting at 6 pm for Safe Church Training Secretary Gayle Vogel We are considering removing the minutes for the newsletter to allow space for other news and upcoming events. Copies will be available at the back of the church or a copy can be mailed or ed to you by calling Jan in the office or trinityucc1@sbcglobal.net. ~8~

9 April 2017 ~ Sun Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri Sat 1 Men's Lent Breakfast Bethlehem UCC 2 Holy Communion 8:30 Adult Bible Study 9:15 Choir 10:10 Worship 4:00 Movie & Discussion 3 9:00 Care Squares Private Party in Fellowship Hall 6:30 Boy Scouts 4 9:00 Quilters 6:30 Pastor/ Parish Meeting 7:30 AA 5 6:00 Soup & Sandwich 7:15 Choir 6 10:30 Women's Auxiliary 4:00 Hageman Semi Finals 6:00 Neighbor to Neighbor graduation Dinner 7 8 Men's Lent Breakfast Zion UCC Newburgh 9 8:30 Adult Bible Study 9:15 Choir 9:30 Easter Egg Hunt 10:10 Worship 10 9:00 Care Squares 6:30 Boy Scouts 11 9:00 Quilters 6:30 Christian Ed 7:30 AA 12 1:30 Spiritual Life 7:00 Choir 13 Maundy Thursday 7:00 Worship with Communion 14 Good Friday 11:00 Office Close 12:05 Community Ecumenical Worship at Trinity Easter 7:00 Worship 7:45 Breakfast 8:30 Adult Bible Study 9:15 Choir 10:10 Worship 17 9:00 Care Squares 6:30 Boy Scouts 7:00 Council 18 9:00 Quilters 7:30 AA 19 7:00 Choir 20 Newsletter Deadline 6:30 ETSA Women's Hospitality Night at Zion UCC :30 Adult Bible Study 9:15 Choir 10:10 Worship 30 8:30 Adult Bible Study 9:15 Choir 10:10 Worship 4:00 Bible Study 24 9:00 Care Squares 6:30 Boy Scouts 25 9:00 Quilters Private Party in F. Hall 7:30 AA 26 7:00 Choir ~9~

10 TRINITY TRUMPET April Vol 19 Issue 4 Trinity United Church of Christ 505 Mulberry Street Mt. Vernon, IN Tel: E mail: trinityucc1@sbcglobal.net Facebook: Webpage: Address Services Requested THURSDAY, April 20, 2017 your notes, articles, or announcements to the office on time! Electronic submissions are especially appreciated! Trinityucc1@sbcglobal.net Inside This Issue Pastor Page 1-2 Spiritual Life 3 Minutes of Council Meeting 4 Visit our web page: mytrinityucc.com Easter at Trinity 5 Women s News, Thank you Notes 6 Minutes Continued 7. Food Pantry Item Canned Vegetables Minutes Continued 8 Calendar 9 Miscellaneous 10 ~10~