The Trinity Trumpet www.trinityfairview.com Upcoming Events Monday, September 21 7:15 PM - 2nd & 3rd Year Confirmation Classes Tuesday, September 22 6:30 PM - Coffee Hour Crew Meeting 7 PM - Church Council 7:30 PM - PEAL Open Rehearsal, all are welcome! Wednesday, September 23 12 PM - ROMEO S Lunch 7 PM - Country Fair Meeting 7:30 PM - SALT Open Rehearsal, all are welcome! Thursday, September 24 9:30 AM - Soup Kitchen 6:30 PM - Building Committee Meeting 7:30 PM - CAPPELLA Open Rehearsal, all are welcome! Friday, September 25 Youth Group Lock In Saturday, September 26 2:00 PM Cleaning Sunday, September 27 Eighteenth Sunday After Pentecost 9:00 AM - Traditional Mass with Reception of New Members 10:15 AM - Adult Forum Before Amen & LOFT 11:15 AM - Contemporary Mass with Reception of New Members A Different Way to Give In addition to the 40 Trinity members who use Simply Giving instead of envelopes, another 6 have added Trinity to the list of payees in their bank s Bill Pay center. Just use your envelope number as the account number and you can easily support your church at the same time you pay your electric, water, and credit card bills. We currently receive money from 3 different banks, and get it within a day or two after our members send it. Join the in-crowd; try this simple method of electronic giving! Mike Martorelli Our Clergy: The Rev. Kim Guiser, Senior Pastor The Rev. Asha George-Guiser, Associate Pastor Vicar Micah Krey, Seminarian
A Good Time Was Had by All! Back 2 School Lock-In News To celebrate the start of the school year, there will be a Back 2 School Lock-In for the 2nd and 3rd Year Confirmation groups from Friday, September 25 to Saturday, September 26. Please RSVP by Sunday, September 20 by either filling out one of the signup sheets which will be passed around during both worship services or by emailing Chris Hicks at chrishicks@trinityfairview.com. For more details, please stop by the Confirmation bulletin board in the hallway at the back of the church or contact Chris. Readings for Sunday, September 27 First Reading: Numbers 11:4-6, 10-16, 24-29 Psalm: Psalm Psalm 19:7-14 Second Reading: James 15:13-20 Gospel: Mark 9:38-50
Getting it Backwards From the Desk of Nina Wason, Chris Ed Director No doubt you have been involved in a lively conversation with colleagues around the water cooler talking about the latest increase in workload without a commensurate raise in pay, or the new, crazy project you have just been assigned, or the fast-approaching deadline you know you can t meet, when the boss suddenly appears. There s that nanosecond of terrified, awkward silence, mercifully saved by someone jumping in with, So how bout those Phillies? If you ve been there, you can totally appreciate the disciples dilemma when Jesus saunters into their conversation about who among them is the better disciple (Mark 9: 30-37). Imagine the bragging, Well, when he told us to gather the leftovers at that big picnic I filled more baskets than the rest of you, says James Yeah, but then you proceeded to eat half of what was in them, remarks Judas. Hey, shouts Peter, Don t you remember that I was the first one to try walking on water? And started sinking in 10 seconds! adds his helpful brother, Andrew. John quietly offers, You all know I m his favorite And then Jesus comes around the corner and asks, Hey guys, what are you all talking about? Um. Not the Phillies. I can imagine Jesus rolling his eyes as he walks into that mess. He has to sit down and try once again to get through to these thick-headed followers. Time is running a little short here in Mark s gospel: tension is mounting, death keeps entering the conversation, Jerusalem is just down the road. When are these guys going to understand that the kingdom of God is nothing like the world they know? The greatest disciple? Should look like a slave. The seat of honor? Will be given to the one who welcomes those with no honor. What s first is last, and what is last is first. The world is upside down. Learning Jesus perspective is a life-long process. One of our Loft leaders, Lorena Carlson, pointed out to me the other day that an art class exercise in developing perspective is to take a famous drawing, turn it upside down, and try to replicate the drawing from that point of view, try seeing just the lines and shadows.just one change, will transform your whole approach. We will be giving that and other reversals a try in the Loft this week. Hope to see you there.
Helping Hands Dinner Benefit Trinity's very own 2nd Annual Helping Hands Dinner Benefit will be Friday evening, November 13 in the Ballroom at Chadwick's of Shannondell. We look forward to celebrating this annual event with each of you while raising money to benefit our congregation families in need. Last year $13,000 was raised and delivered to two worthy families. We are so excited to continue giving! Ticket sales will begin September 13 each Sunday after both masses in the Narthex. Ticket prices remain $25pp in September and $30pp in October. We need your help! At this year's benefit you will once again have the opportunity to win auction items, raffle baskets, and 50/50 money! We welcome any donation to the auction and raffle baskets! Any goods or service commitment, any value, is greatly appreciated for the auction! Large ticket items will be included in the live auction while more reasonable items will be won through silent auction. We hope to see everything from vacations to event tickets, gift certificates, jewelry, babysitting hours, landscaping services, etc... For Raffle Baskets you are welcome to donate an entire themed basket or simply one item or even the actual basket. If you do not have time to shop, monetary donations are appreciated as well! Please contact Lynn Chialastri to donate to the Silent Action or Kelly Berg to donate to the Raffle Baskets. Thank you in advance for your generosity! Get Well Wishes Several Trinity Members are in need of get well wishes. When you have a minute please drop a card to them. Flo Bloss - 3002 Runnymeade Dr Plymouth Meeting, PA 19432 Katrina Van Alstyne - 745 Jamestown Rd Collegeville, PA 19426 Al Rollin - 1559 Yeakel Way Lansdale, PA 19446 LIFT is Seeking Raffle Baskets Calling all who has contributed a basket to the basket raffle for the carnival or the Helping Hands dinner social previously - or for those who have won a basket from one of those basket raffles! We are once again collecting raffle baskets for the November Helping Hands Dinner Social. Please let me know if you would like to donate the basket back to us so that we can reuse it or if you would like to donate contents for the our every popular basket raffle. If you have donated contents for a basket previously - we are so thankful to you - and if instead you would rather just donate money - we would be glad to do the shopping for you and make up a basket of your choosing or one chosen by the committee. Any questions please contact Kelly Berg at 610-496-9495.
Annette Gervais September 2 Lorena Carlson September 3 Mary Setzer September 3 Rick Cole September 4 Sid Harris September 4 Eric Peltier September 4 Cassidy Shadle September 5 Piankhi Zimmerman September 5 Nicole Kenneson September 8 Asha George-Guiser September 9 Sean Keenan September 11 Nicholas Martinelli September 11 Mary Messatzzia September 11 Janet Fontaine September 13 Bill Florig September 16 Wilmer Cressman September 17 Ryan Aspinall September 19 Koby Allen September 21 Carly Travetti September 21 Chris Casey September 22 Vern Smith September 24 Jennifer depaulis September 24 Leanne Heuer September 25 Erin Smith September 25 Jane Roper September 26 Bob Heuer September 28 Howard Foulke September 30 Michael & Jocelyn Matour September 5 Tim & Dena Bailly September 11 Cliff & Betsy Sachs September 17 Jim & Pat Wolfe September 17 Greg & Justine Fry September 24 Bob & Sharon Wilson September 27