Upcoming Events at Trinity July 23 Dinner and a Movie at 5:30pm with Hawg-N-Sauce for dinner and Facing the Giants will be our powerful, family movie starting at 6:15pm. Invite your friends, neighbors and co-workers to come out and be blessed. The month of August is Children & Youth month at Trinity, we are starting with the Blessing of the Backpacks Service on August 6 th at 5:00pm in the fellowship hall which is for all students from pre-school through grad school. We will be having a special blessing service at 5:00pm followed by hot dog supper with chips, brownies and homemade ice cream to enjoy. Every week during our morning worship service we ll have our children quoting scripture they have memorized in Sunday school and will be getting awards for their hard work. If you d like to donate food for the dinner or prizes for our youth please see Pastor Jamie. Coming soon.. The End of Me Bible study will be starting in September and if you d like a journal for the study please see Pastor Jamie to order yours by August 13. The Crop Walk in Evansville will be on October 28 th and I d love to have a big team from Trinity to support this awesome ministry which touches lives all around the world. A big THANK YOU to all who donated and worked at Vacation Bible School this year. It was a big hit with all the kids and adults too. We could not have done it without all your support. A special thank you to the kitchen staff, Judy Heberer, Angela Clark, Sarah Becker, Pam Hartmann & Wilma Jacobs. Thank you, VBS Committee Hannah Erwin, Trudy Keach & Dottie Funkhouser. August Newsletter will be mailed the first week of August. ~1~
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 Ruth Russell Good Samaritan Home Phyllis Huey Cloverleaf Geraldine Allen Alpha Banks Andy Bender 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 Kenny Meinschein Yvonne Mobley Ruth Ann Nation Dorothy Niehaus Josh Osborne Doug Taylor Janie White Anwar & Family Wayne Smith The family of John Keitel If we have inadvertently left a name off any list, please contact the church office at 838-3805. July Head Usher Gordon Vogel A Prayer Quilt was blessed for Ann Higgs Wall Hangings were blessed for Graduates Jessica King from University of Southern Indiana, daughter of John and Bigitt King and Madison Stahl from Indiana University, granddaughter of Don and Judy Heberer. June Averages in Attendance and Offerings Worship - 83 Offering - 2268.00 Weekly Need - $3,653.30 Nursery Volunteers Needed Additional volunteers are needed in the nursery Sundays during worship. If you are interested contact Jan in the office. Volunteers need Safe Church Training which can be provided. Coffee Hour July 16 Wilma Jacobs & Glenda Higgins Birthdays this month Office Closing The office will be closed Tuesday, July 4, 2017 July 16 Krista Cartwright July 17 Barbara Kleinschmidt July 18 Chase Ziegler July 19 Susan Eaton July 19 Joshua Mandel July 20 Denise King July 21 Milma Baro July 25 Sebastian Johnson July 26 Sharon Grabert July 28 William Baumgart July 29 Don Kleinschmidt July 29 Gordon Green ~2~
Shrimp Boil Advisory Christ called us to be Fishers of Men. We re going to be Shrimpers of People. Enjoy a relaxing, fun evening with a traditional Low Country Shrimp Boil, and help raise money for Back Bay Mission in Biloxi, MS. Shrimp, corn on the cob, potatoes, sausage, corn muffins and dessert will be served, along with tossed salad and garlic bread. Hot dogs will be available for those who don t eat shrimp. Chris Marlin-Warfield, Church Relations Associate for Back Bay, will be our special guest. With Cajun music on the radio and Cajun food on the table, this will be a dinner to remember. Sunday, August 20, 2017 5:00PM Christ Church UCC, 3601 Washington Avenue, Evansville. No cost, a freewill offering for Back Bay will be requested. Habitat for Humanity ReStore The Habitat for Humanity of Evansville s ReStore is to help provide funding for our organization s mission of bring people together to build homes, communities...and hope. The store does this by selling donated new and used appliances, furniture, cabinets, building products and household items to the general public. By providing a free pick-up service, the store is also an outlet for our donors to be able to recycle and repurpose items that may have otherwise gone to the local landfills. Since these items are donated to us, we are able to provide our donors with a charitable gift receipt. To learn more, contact Todd Morgan 812-423-5623 ext. 28 or restore@evansvillehabitat.org St. Lucas UCC Annual Rummage Sale Friday, July 14 8:00-2:00 p.m. Saturday, July 15 8:00-12:00 noon. Starting at 11:00 on Saturday there will be a $3.00 bag sale. St. Lucas is located at 33 W. Virginia Street,, Evansville. A Memorial and Celebration of Life for Lee Moye will be held in the fellowship hall on Friday, July 7, 2017 from 2:00-5:00p.m.. Stacey and Barb invite you to drop by to share some memories. Thank You Notes Thank you for the prayer square and the recognition at your service. I will be heading to Grace College in Winona Lake, IN in August. I will be studying nursing and playing Softball. Your kindness is greatly appreciated, Britney Young. Thank you to everyone that brought in gallon plastic bags and combs for Church World Service Kits. Trinity collected 603 Ziploc bags, 76 combs and 5 toothbrushes. ~3~
Life as an Oxymoron The dictionary defines oxymoron as a rhetorical figure in which incongruous or contradictory terms are joined. The English word is formed from two Greek terms oxus, sharp, and moros, dull. It therefore identifies expressions that appear to link opposite and incompatible ideas. Common examples might be computer reliability or temporary tax increase. Got the picture? Someone recently shared with me a list of the Top 50 Oxymorons with me. Here are the ones I selected as my favorites: Act Naturally Almost Exactly Alone Together New Classic Childproof Clearly Misunderstood Plastic Glasses Terribly Pleased Definite Maybe Pretty Ugly Now, then The fun intended by pointing to these common terms with questionable propriety set me to thinking about more serious issues. For example, you probably have some skepticism about unemployed workers. If they re really willing to work, there s little excuse right now for people to be unemployed. On the other hand, I d hope nobody points to your company or to you and offers business ethics as an oxymoron. And what about your family? Are you an unloving mate? Ever take a working vacation with the people who want, need, and deserve your attention and find it strangely unrewarding? The ultimate inconsistency in the life profile of any mother or father would be for someone to appropriately tag her or him with the label absentee parent. You may be one or the other, but you re not both! Just ask your children. Then comes your relationship with Jesus. Ever hear what surely amounts to the ultimate oxymoron spiritual indifference? According to Jesus, the two words cancel out one another. The New International Version have Him saying this in Matthew 10:30: He who is not with me is against me, and he who does not gather with me scatters. The Message makes the sense of His words emphatic with this rendering: This is war, and there is no neutral ground. If you re not on my side, you re the enemy; if you re not helping, you re making things worse. OUCH!! Maybe there are some less-than-funny aspects to this business of inconsistency in words, behaviors, and relationships. I don t really want to be laughed at in the things that matter matter eternally. I ll bet you don t either. Think about it, Pastor Jamie ~4~
July 2017 Sun Mon Tues Wed Thu Fri Sat 1 2 Holy Communion 9 3 10 4 Office Closed 11 9:00 Quilters 6:30 Christian Ed 5 6 7 Private Party in Fellowship Hall- Memorial for Lee Moye 12 1:30 Spiritual Life 13 14 15 8 16 11:20 Coffee Hour 17 7:00 Council 18 9:00 Quilters 19 20 Newsletter Deadline 21 22 23 5:45 Movie & Dinner 30 24 31 25 9:00 Quilters Private Party in Fellowship Hall 26 27 28 29 Secretary's Vacation is July 19 through July 31. During this time office hours will be from 12:00 Noon to 2:30 p.m. ~5~
TRINITY TRUMPET July Vol 19 Issue 7 Trinity United Church of Christ 505 Mulberry Street Mt. Vernon, IN 47620 Tel: 812-838-3805 E mail: trinityucc1@sbcglobal.net Facebook: www.facebook.com/tucc47620 Webpage: www.mytrinityucc.com Address Services Requested THURSDAY, July 13, 2017 your notes, articles, or announcements to the office on time! Electronic submissions are especially appreciated! Trinityucc1@sbcglobal.net www.facebook.com/tucc47620 Inside This Issue Upcoming Events 1- Visit our web page: mytrinityucc.com Spiritual Life 2 Thank You Notes 3 Pastor Page 4 Food Pantry Item Spaghetti Sauce Calendar 5 Miscellaneous 6 ~6~