May 1, 2012 E -connections An electronic supplement to the parish newsletter Trinity knit-along to produce projects for the Trinity Parish Bazaar Trinity knits! Here's a fun and easy way to contribute to next fall's Trinity Bazaar, which will take place on November 17. Just come to a meeting about a Trinity knit-along! We'll have a quick organizational meeting on Sunday, May 6, right after the 10:30 service in the Trinity conference room. We'll check on how many potential knitters (and crocheters!) we have and plan simple, portable projects. Drop-in workshops with instruction as needed will be held on the second and fourth Mondays, 10-11:30 a.m. and again the same evenings from 7-8:30 p.m. (first session Monday, May 14). All workshops will be at Trinity. We'll have yarn and needles, or you can bring your own (think stash-busting!). We'll have simple patterns for easy projects, or you can bring your own. We may even spring for simple refreshments--or you can bring your own! We hope for a good turnout, instruction if you'd like to learn to knit, and companionable knitting time together. Questions? See Ann Hamilton, Mickey Schwarz, or Ashlin Bray. Apply for an Episcopal Diocese of Delaware license plate The Episcopal Diocese of Delaware will soon be offering State of Delaware automobile license plates which will also display the Episcopal Shield! The Diocese needs an initial 200 applicants and the State will begin printing the plates. So hurry and we can get our license plates ordered soon. Since all requested license plate numbers will be on a first come, first serve basis, you have an incentive to act quickly Applications and directions to apply for your new Episcopal Diocese of Delaware License Plate are available on the Diocese website www.dioceseofdelaware.net. You may order one license plate per vehicle that you own and that is registered in the State of Delaware. The plates are only $15 per vehicle and is a one-time charge only. There is a place on the application form (page 1) to indicate a number preference, 11 9999, but please know you may not be granted your request as all numbers will be distributed on a first come, first service basis. Please send in your applications as soon as possible, so we can begin the printing process. Remember, tags will not be printed until we receive an initial 200 applications. Do not send any applications or fees directly to the State of Delaware. All applications must come to the Bishop s Office, per State requirements. Please help us spread the word to all of our fellow Delaware Episcopalians. Flyers, describing the plate and the application process are also available in the Trinity Parish Office. Please contact Skip for more information. All applications and fees should be sent to Cynde Bimbi in the Bishop s Office, as she will be the representative for the Bishop s Office, acting as a liaison between the diocese and the Department of Motor Vehicles. Your license plate will be mailed to you directly from the Department of Motor Vehicles. If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to contact Cynde Bimbi at 302-656-5441, ext. 106.
Trinity Episcopal Parish Don t miss Anglican Idol Anglican Idol, a revival of the wildly popular talent program, is scheduled for Friday, May 4 th, at 7:00 p.m. at Trinity Church. We are looking for performers as well as people to volunteer to help in various capacities. If you would like to perform, volunteer or need more information, please contact Chris Ennis at 429-0638. May 1, 2012 Anglican Idol The Opus One Vocal Jazz Ensemble presents The Great American Songbook J oin us for an evening of the great songwriters of the 20th Century! Including the music of Gershwin, Porter, Berlin, Arlen, Kern and more with The Opus One Jazz Trio and friends, plus a special performance of Rhapsody in Blue for piano and trumpet! Saturday June 16 th 2012 7p.m. in Trinity Church Tickets $10, Children under 12 FREE. A portion of the proceeds will benefit The Friendship House of Wilmington. Bring that special Dad in your life for a Father s Day Weekend Treat! Visit www.opusonejazz.com for more info or email opusonejazz@yahoo.com Top Ten Reasons To See Opus One s The Great American Songbook Concert 10. Saturday night TV isn t really that exciting 9. You ve used the excuse I ll be washing my hair that night one too many times 8. Support the Local Arts here IN Wilmington! 7. We re doing that awesome version of Over the Rainbow by the Hawaiian singer! With a Ukulele! 6. $10 for an evening of the best music from the 20 th Century- try getting that from Regal Cinemas! 5. A Command Performance of Rhapsody in Blue by NY Trumpeter and UD Grad Adam Gordon and Juilliard trained pianist Sharon Bjorndal Lavery (wife of Eugene Lavery from The Cathedral Choir School of Delaware) 4. Our Jazz Trio will be joined by a horn section enough said! 3. I guarantee your Dad doesn t need another tie take him out to dinner and a concert instead! 2. The Clifford Brown Jazz Festival starts the next week- get yourself in the mood ahead of time! 1. Not only will you be supporting a dedicated, local arts organization, but moreover, you ll be helping a local charity as part of the proceeds will benefit The Friendship House of Wilmington. Presiding Bishop and Archbishop Desmond Tutu to discuss mission on web E piscopal Church Presiding Bishop Katharine Jefferts Schori will conduct a conversation about mission with Archbishop Desmond Tutu in a live webcast on Saturday, May 19 at 3:30 p.m. The live webcast will be available at no fee on the website of the Episcopal Church www.episcopalchurch.org and will be available on demand afterwards. Hosted by Washington National Cathedral, the event will be moderated by David Crabtree, news anchor at WRAL-TV in North Carolina and an ordained deacon. Framing the conversation on the Anglican Five Marks of Mission, the questions to be explored are: What does Mission mean to me ; and What does mission look like in the world. I look forward to a stimulating conversation with Archbishop Tutu, and am very grateful for this opportunity to prompt wider conversation about God's mission, Presiding Bishop Jefferts Schori stated. The May 19 event is the first in a series of discussions about mission with the Presiding Bishop and other prominent religious leaders. The event is ideal for congregation and group viewing, adult forums, discussion groups, etc. E 2 Archbishop Desmond Tutu
May 1, 2012 Trinity Episcopal Parish The Diocese of Delaware invites you to participate in the summer of 2012 Diocese of Delaware 90 Day Bible Challenge a challenge to read the entire Bible cover to cover in 90 days. We will begin reading on Sunday, June 3 and finish on Friday, August 31. The Challenge requires reading about 12 pages of Holy Scripture every day. When done faithfully, without hurrying or skipping, reading 12 pages of Holy scripture takes about 30 to 45 minutes a day. The purpose of this challenge is to read the Bible in the way that you would read any good book and to focus not so much on the meaning of each passage but to be attentive to the whole story of the Bible as it unfolds from Genesis through Revelation. Focusing on the particular meanings of each passage is important and is one way of learning the Bible. Reading the Bible straight through in one sustained reading offers other insights and is another important way of learning the Bible. Researchers estimate that fewer than 5% of all Christians ever read the Bible cover to cover. During the past several years, a couple of congregations in our Diocese have taken this Challenge and each found the experience to be energizing and inspiring. At Christ Church in Wilmington, for example 170 parishioners, from ages 12 to 89 years old, set out in the summer of 2010 to read the Bible cover to cover in 90 days and more than 130 parishioners finished! Participating in this challenge proved to be a blessing for the whole church. Our hope is to have people from every church in the Diocese participating in the Challenge, and we hope that you will join. For this challenge, you may use your own Bible or a copy of the Bible (NIV translation) specially printed for the 90 Day Challenge; these Bibles may be purchased from most bookstores and may also be downloaded on Kindles and Nooks., For more information on the 90 Day Challenge, please visit: www.biblein90days.org. To join 2012 Diocese of Delaware 90 Day Bible Challenge you can sign up at church or you can send an e-mail to: Russ Bohner at de90daybible@gmail.com. Cathedral to hold a special service An Appreciation and Thanksgiving for the Ministry of the Cathedral Church of Saint John, Wilmington, Saturday, May 19, 10:30 a.m. There will be a Greeting and a Choir School concert at 10:30 a.m. The liturgy begins at 11:00 a.m., and the Most Rev. Frank Griswold (25th Presiding Bishop of The Episcopal Church) will preach. A reception will follow. We hope you will be able to attend! The Most Rev. Frank Griswold E 3
Trinity Episcopal Parish May 1, 2012 News and Events from around the Diocese Wilmington Garden Day, Saturday, May 5, 10:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m., rain or shine. On tour this year: homes and gardens new to our guests, as well as some old favorites including the Goodstay Gardens, a site from our very first tour in 1947. Frog Hollow, a treasured favorite of Wilmington Garden Day for over 20 years will be on tour for the final time. Proceeds will benefit Friendship House and St. Michael's School and Nursery, both of which are supported by this diocese. Click here to visit the Wilmington Garden Day website for details and tickets. And here's another link, to a 2-minute video slide show you may enjoy. Spring Flea Market, Saturday, May 5, 8:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m. at Grace Episcopal Church, Wilmington, across the street from Concord Mall. Over 80 vendors offer crafts and garage-sale items. Food will be available. For details, call 302 478-9533. Rain date: Saturday, May 12. Dover Antiques & Collectibles Sale, Saturday, May 5, 9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. at Christ Church, Dover. This one-day sale is part of the 79th Dover Days Festival, May 3-5. Dealers are welcome to set up a 10'x10' outside space for $20 or to take an inside table for $25. For details, please call 302 734-1736. Integrity Delaware Pot-Luck Brunch, Saturday, May 5, 10:00 a.m. at St. Peter's, Lewes. All are welcome! Click here for more details of Integrity Delaware. Southern Gospel Music Concert, Sunday, May 6, 3:00 p.m. at Christ Episcopal Church, Milford. The Faith Relations Committee of Sussex Habitat for Humanity hosts this concert. Everyone is invited. Admission is one or more tools for Habitat to use in house building: hammers, screw drivers, masks etc. The concert will feature Ms. Rebecca McDaniel, Music Director. Light refreshments will be served. For details, call 302 422-8466. Claymont Community Day, May 12, 9:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m. (NOTE NEW HOURS) at Church of the Ascension, Claymont. There will be crafts, yard sale items, moon bounce, face painting, raffles of goods and services, demonstrations, church tours, pipe organ thrills, a bake table, plus hot dogs, chips and sodas for lunch! If you would like to be a part of the day, tables are available for $15 by April 30, $25 after that. For details, call Chrissie Lockwood at (302) 798-5029; Genia Thomas at (302) 475-6990 or the Church office (302) 798-6683. Register for Camp Arrowhead! Preparations are underway for the 2012 summer season at Camp Arrowhead, and registration is now open at www.camparrowhead.net. The Camp Arrowhead 2012 brochure is also on the website. A Day in Old New Castle including Evensong, Saturday, May 19, at Immanuel on the Green, New Castle. Evensong is at 4:00 p.m. The rest of the festivities take place 10:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. There will be free parking and shuttle from First Baptist Church in New Castle at the corner of Routes 141 & 273. Admission for adults is $15 in advance, or $20 on the day of the event. Tickets for children 7-12 years old are $5 each; children 0-6 get in free. Click here to see the Day in Old New Castle website. Way Home Quarterly Dinner, Thursday, May 21, at Georgetown Presbyterian Church, Georgetown. Hear participants speak from the heart about their experiences and enjoy a good meal. For details, call 302 856-9870 or visit The Way Home website. Students from St. Paul's Episcopal School in Baltimore will be joining us and helping with the dinner. That is their week with The Way Home for work projects and they also will get to speak with participants, take tours in the prison, and learn a lot about what it takes to help some one after release. Sunday, June 3, 3:00 p.m. Choral Evensong Service by the Cathedral Choir School, at the Cathedral Church of Saint John. This Final Day of the Program Year includes Recognition and Promotion of Choir School Students. For details, see the Choir School website or call 302 654-6279. Twelve University of Delaware students recently visited the Dominican Republic on a mission trip sponsored by the Episcopal Campus Ministry. Click here to learn more, including a day-by-day account of their adventure, with photographs. Throughout the week, they painted houses and a school, and did bible study twice a day. Immanuel Church on the Green, New Castle has called the Rev. Christopher P. Keene as their next rector, to start June 25, 2012. Chris comes from the Church of the Advent, Baltimore, where he served as rector for the past nine years, building parish infrastructure, developing Christian Formation, expanding outreach ministries, and serving in diocesan leadership. Prior to that, he was Stipendiary Seminarian at St. Thomas Church, Fifth Avenue in New York City, where he also attended General Theological Seminary. E 4
May 1, 2012 Trinity Episcopal Parish Blue Book reports posted on General Convention s website Episcopal News Staff T he Blue Book, the collection of reports to the Episcopal Church s 77th General Convention of the work completed by its committees, commissions, agencies and boards (CCABs), during the 2010-2012 triennium, is now available to download here. The book, at more than 750 pages, also contains more than 150 A resolutions that the CCABs have proposed to the General Convention, which meets July 5-12 at the Indiana Convention Center in Indianapolis, Indiana, in the Diocese of Indianapolis. (Legislative committee hearings and some other convention activities begin July 4.) Most, but not all, A resolutions are contained in the Blue Book. For example, the church s Executive Council agreed April 20 to submit three A resolutions to convention. Those three resolutions can be found in a list of all council action here. Resolutions may also be submitted to convention by three other groups: bishops (B resolutions); dioceses (C resolutions); and deputies (D resolutions). Presiding Bishop Katharine Jefferts Schori and House of Deputies President Bonnie Anderson assign each resolution as it is received to one of the convention s legislative committees. Once those assignments are made, resolutions are posted here. The deadline for filing any type of resolution is 5 p.m. EDT July 6, the second official day of convention. The 5.15MB Blue Book file in PDF form includes a table of contents page with jump links to each CCAB report. And this edition of the Blue Book is salmon (Pantone 169 M). People wishing to purchase a print copy of the Blue Book can pre-order it from Church Publishing Inc. here for $35. Cokesbury, distributor of Church Publishing s materials, is currently offering a 20 percent discount, making the price $28. Purchasers must pay shipping costs based on their location. For the first time, the Blue Book will be available in e-book formats, also from Church Publishing. Both versions will be available the week of April 30, according to a press release from the church s Office of Public Affairs. A PDF of the Blue Book in Spanish, El Libro Azul, will also be available the week of April 30. For questions about The Blue Book, contact Christopher Barajas in the General Convention office at cbarajas@episcopalchurch.org. A message from Executive Council Episcopal Church Office of Public Affairs he Executive Council of the Episcopal Church issued the following message at the conclusion of its three-day meeting in T Salt Lake City, Utah April 20, 2012 Salt Lake City, Utah The Lord is Risen! Alleluia! The Lord is Risen indeed! Alleluia! In this joyous Easter season, Executive Council came together in Salt Lake City for its final meeting of this Triennium. It has been a time of reflection on what we have done, and what we have left undone. It has been a time to ask whether we have loved our neighbors Council members and Church Center staff; bishops, clergy and laity of The Episcopal Church; our sisters and brothers of the Anglican Communion; sisters and brothers who chose to leave The Episcopal Church; the poor, the needy and the oppressed as ourselves. Have we had enough strength and courage for this work, or have we at times shrunk from the need to stand up and say things that are not only hard to say, but hard to hear? Have we cherished collegiality more than accountability? Have we used our structure to empower one part of the church while disempowering another? Have we been able to overcome fear of the unknown as we face the challenges of being church in a post-christian world? The presiding bishop spoke of this in her opening remarks: We will be more faithful, and far more effective, in that discernment work if we can let go of suspicion, assumptions about others motives, and power politics all of which are based in fear and scarcity. We do know that perfect love casts out fear, and when we can remember how deeply and completely love dwells within us, the fear does begin to recede. Read the entire message here. E 5
Trinity Episcopal Parish May 1, 2012 People of faith called to be environmental activists Utah panel explores intersection of poverty and environment By Mary Frances Schjonberg Episcopal News Service articipants in the Episcopal Church s The Intersection of Poverty and the Environment program April P 21 agreed that people of faith can and should play an important role in organizing communities to be both good neighbors and stewards of creation. In the Abrahamic religious traditions, poverty confronts the divine dream of plenty of a heavenly banquet in a land of peace with justice, Presiding Bishop Katharine Jefferts Schori said in her keynote address. Antibodies to poverty begin to form when members of the community discover that their common humanity and dignity depend on one another, she said, urging people to begin by choosing to notice and do something about the poverty in our midst. The two-hour program was webcast live from the Diocese of Utah s Cathedral of St Mark in Salt Lake City. Statistics showed that 700 computers received the webcast; at least 50 of those computers were being used by groups to view the webcast. The session will soon be available on demand and there will be a facilitator s guide and resources to optimize viewing and participation here. The text of Jefferts Schori s address will be released when the on-demand version of the webcast is available. House of Deputies President Bonnie Anderson makes a point April 21 during "The Intersection of Poverty and the Environment," a live webcast from the Episcopal Cathedral of St. Mark in Salt Lake City, Utah. Listening are George Handley, professor of humanities at Brigham Young University, left, and Forrest Cuch, chief executive officer of Ute Tribal Enterprises. Photo/ Mary Frances Schjonberg The event, held the day before Earth Day, included two panel discussions moderated by Kim Lawton of PBS s Religion & Ethics NewsWeekly. During the first discussion on the question of whether sustainability initiatives can lift people out of poverty, Bonnie Anderson, president of the House of Deputies, reminded listeners that people of faith have the unity of purpose that is fundamental to community organizing. We have the unity of the rule to love our neighbor as ourselves, she said. The problem is that we don t know our neighbors very well. Forrest Cuch, chief executive officer of Ute Tribal Enterprises, told participants that the thing that troubles us the most is that all of this [environmental] degradation has really caused a lot of harm to our people to the point where there s hopelessness. He called that hopelessness our single-most threatening issue and said that tribal leaders are trying to help their people reconnect to traditional beliefs We re reminding them of who they once were, he said. My people came from beautiful parts of this country we were very happy people, very healthy people and we were a self-sustaining people who were deeply connect to the earth. George Handley, a professor of humanities at Brigham Young University, said during the same discussion that religion has historically been an obstacle to environmental stewardship but every faith tradition has sacred principles that if lived to and adhered to will be a great benefit to the earth. He suggested that individual and collective adherence to those principles as well as work across ecumenical and interfaith boundaries such as the April 21 forum unleashes a tremendous amount of spiritual energy. Handley had earlier said he has encountered a weird theological obstacle that prevents people from looking at such issues as alternative energy sources. Some people have told him that they would be appear to be ungrateful to God if they did not use the God-given gifts of oil and gas to their benefit. I would simply like to point out to people that the sun itself is God-given, the wind, geothermal energy these are extraordinary sources of energy that are also in the same category of gifts of the creation, he said. I don t think any theology is responsible if it doesn t remember our own accountability for being creative and making adjustment when we realize that what we ve been doing is actually not working anymore. Read more here. E 6