Holy Trinity Episcopal Church

SUNDAY

Eucharist Rite I, 8am, Chapel of St. Bede
Adult Forum, 9:15 am, Undercroft
Eucharist Rite II with music, 10:30 am, Nave
Catechesis of the Good Shepherd, 10:30 am, Atrium
Sunday School, 10:30 am, Old Rectory Classroom
Refreshments, after 10:30 service, Lower Level
AA, 7:30 pm, Old Rectory

WEEK OF NOVEMBER 22-28, 2009
Bible Study, Tuesday 10:00 a.m., Old Rectory
Prayer Group, Tuesday 11:00 am, Old Rectory
AA, Tuesday 7:30 p.m., Lower Level
Community Dinner, Wednesday 5:00 p.m., Lower Level
Office closed for Thanksgiving, Thursday–
A Blessed Thanksgiving to All!
Rector’s day off, Friday

PRAYER CIRCLE this week: Jeff and Kelly Stokes, Brittany and James; Jane Strippel; Chris and Elizabeth Taylor, Sam and Will; Nicole Thesz, Mathias; Rob Thomas and Mary Fahnestock-Thomas, Molly and Robin; Ann Titus and Charles Gill.

COMING EVENTS

Community Dinner this Wednesday: Please plan to offer food and/or service for this dinner the eve of Thanksgiving. Thank you!

Holiday Bazaar! Stop by on Dec. 6 in the Undercroft after the 10:30 service! The talent sale will have crafts and baked goods for sale, proceeds going to the Outreach Committee.

“Christmas in the Country” December 6 from 5-9 p.m. at the Schmitts. Get tickets from Harriet or Ted today!

Become a volunteer dispatcher at Oxford Seniors (answering phones and scheduling rides). For more information call Jennifer Marcum at the Oxford Seniors (523-8100).

Habitat for Humanity: Many of us are looking forward to Thanksgiving in a warm, cozy house filled with fabulous food &agrances and well-clothed family and &iends. Unfortunately, many people in our area won’t have such a privilege because they live in homes that are poorly constructed; allow cold air to seep in everywhere while creating monthly heating bills above $600; have only two bedrooms for six or seven family members.

Habitat for Humanity works to help families in such homes to acquire decent, affordable housing. Volunteers do much of the work to provide these homes. This month Oxford Habitat needs volunteers who will work with Family Services selecting families and supporting them during the construction of their new home. If you enjoy working with people and want to support the work of Habitat, Family Services is the place for you. For information, please contact Mary Melvin, 513-523-8752.

BE STILL AND KNOW THAT I AM GOD
Annual Silent Retreat
All are welcome
Date: Jan. 29 – 31, 2010
Place: Convent of the Transfiguration
Glendale/Cincinnati
Contact person: Kathleen Carels 513-523-8614

KROGER CARDS are again available. If you need one or want more information about how they work please see or phone Linda Church (523-4356) or Judy Shaw (523-3493). Proceeds &om these cards support the Holy Trinity food outreach projects of the Community Dinner, Serve City dinner and the Community Food Pantry. Cards are available from Linda, Judy, or in the church office.

KEEP UP WITH MEDICAL MISSIONARIES in the Dominican Republic, Drs. Michael and Anita Dohn. To be good stewards of their resources they will send you their newsletters online. Check out their website ­http://dohnfamily.org - and send them your e-mail so they can send you their news.

HOLY TRINITY PANTRY: As always, your generosity has helped enormously as we keep the pantry stocked for the community dinners. We are in special need of laundry detergent, baby products including wipes, shampoo, body wash, and diapers in sizes 2, 3, and 4, and cleaning supplies such as Pine Glo. No time to shop? Give us some cash or a check and we’ll do it for you. (Wooden boxes for contributions are in the Narthex.) Thanks, Geoff and Judith.

HOLY TRINITY RECYCLES: Containers for recycling: (I) Plastic bags; (2) batteries; (3) #1 clear plastic containers (look for the triangle with 1 on the bottom and on any detached lids); (4) fluorescent (not incandescent) bulbs are now located in the Bishop’s Foyer. Please remember that all recyclables that Rumpke takes (paper, cardboard, #1 and #2 plastic bottles, glass bottles and jars) can be placed in the kitchen & Old Rectory recycling bins.

MEDICINE BOTTLES AND ART CATALYSTS: A separate container in the Bishop’s Foyer (the largest) is for medicine bottles and craft catalysts. Mary Fahnestock-Thomas collects medicine bottles for use by clinics in needy areas as well as anything for early childhood schools in Oxford that could stimulate young minds in arts and crafts: bottle and jar lids, buttons; paper towel and toilet tissue rolls; reusable plastic containers and small bottles; fabric, ribbon and yarn scraps; spools; basically anything that can be reused creatively

TODAY

Sunday Eucharist Rite I, 8am, Chapel of St. Bede
Adult Forum, 9:15 am, Undercroft
Sunday Eucharist Rite II with music, 10:30 am, Nave
Catechesis of the Good Shepherd, 10:30 am, Atrium
Sunday School, 10:30 am, Old Rectory Classroom
Refreshments, after 10:30 service, Lower Level
AA, 7:30 pm, Old Rectory

WEEK OF November 15-21, 2009
Bible Study, Tuesday 10:00 a.m., Old Rectory
Prayer Group, Tuesday 11:00 am, Old Rectory
Finance Committee, Tuesday 7:00 pm, Old Rectory
AA, Tuesday 7:30 p.m., Lower Level
Choir rehearsal, Thursday 7:30-8:30 pm, Lower Level
Rector’s day off, Friday

PRAYER CIRCLE this week: Tom and Angie Schultz, Katie and Luke; Jordan and Rachel Secrest, Adrian; Walter Secrest; Judy Shaw; Dick and Ginger Smith; Jack and Sally Southard; Mike and Lynn Stahr, Cindy, Nina, Morgan and Michael; Anny Stevens-G1eason.

COMING EVENTS

NEXT SUNDAY, November 22: Join us for the second annual BREAK THE CART Thanksgiving in-gathering of non-perishable foods. Show your gratitude… help stock the Choice Food Pantry BREAK THE CART!

ADULT FORUM, Sunday, November 22, GRATITUDE EXPRESSED: Bring your donations for the “Break the Cart” event and join in a special program focused on gratitude and thanksgiving, led by Rosalyn Benson.

Wednesday, NOVEMBER 18 at 7:00 p.m., you are invited to the Oxford Community Arts Center for a “Green Screen” showing of “The Omnivore’s Next Dilemma” and “New Thinking on the Climate Crisis,” both sponsored by the Oxford Interfaith Climate Change Work Group.

Come “play” with us. We need help creating materials for the Catechesis ofthe Good Shepherd Atrium. We’ll be making small figures of biblical characters, painting simple scenery, doing simple carpentry. PLEASE join us – don’t let your fear of your artistic inadequacies keep you from this rich ministry to the smallest members of our congregation. We promise there’s work for everyone. Details: Saturday, November 21,9:30 – 11:30 a.m., Barbara Hamilton’s home, 102 Hilltop Road. RSVP to 523-6542 or barbarah001(at)Yahoo.com

Community Dinner November 25: Please plan to offer food and/or service for this dinner the eve of Thanksgiving. For the first time ever, we ran out of food at our October Community Dinner, so we need to be better prepared this month. Thank you!

Habitat for Humanity: Many of us are looking forward to Thanksgiving in a warm, cozy house filled with fabulous food fragrances and well-clothed family and mends. Unfortunately, many people in our area won’t have such a privilege because they live in homes that are poorly constructed; allow cold air to seep in everywhere while creating monthly heating bills above $600; have only two bedrooms for six or seven family members.

Habitat for Humanity works to help families in such homes to acquire decent, affordable housing. Volunteers do much of the work to provide these homes. This month Oxford Habitat needs volunteers who will work with Family Services selecting families and supporting them during the construction of their new home. If you enjoy working with people and want to support the work of Habitat, Family Services is the place for you. For information, please contact Mary Melvin, 513-523-8752.

You are invited to serve as a volunteer to help deliver meals to home bound persons on Thursdays and Fridays from 10:45a.m. to 11:30 or 12:00 p.m. The routes begin at McCullough-Hyde. We send 2 people out on every route: one to drive and one to deliver the food. If you are not available on a weekly basis, we are always in need of subs Mondays through Fridays to be called on as needed. For more information please contact Jennifer Marcum at Oxford Seniors, 523-8100, or jmarcum(at)oxfordsenior.org.

KROGER CARDS are again available. If you need one or want more information about how they work please see or phone Linda Church (5234356) or Judy Shaw (523-3493). Proceeds from these cards support the Holy Trinity food outreach projects of the Community Dinner, Serve City dinner and the Community Food Pantry. Cards are available from Linda, Judy, or in the church office.

KEEP UP WITH MEDICAL MISSIONARIES in the Dominican Republic, Drs. Michael and Anita Dohn. To be good stewards of their resources they will send you their newsletters online. Check out their website -” http://dohnfamily.org - and send them your e-mail so they can send you their news.

HOLY TRINITY PANTRY: As always, your generosity has helped enormously as we keep the pantry stocked for the community dmners. We are in special need of laundry detergent, baby products including wipes, shampoo, body wash, and diapers in sizes 2, 3, and 4, and cleaning supplies such as Pine Glo. No time to shop? Give us some cash or a check and we’ll do it for you. (Wooden boxes for contributions are in the Narthex.) Thanks, Geoff and Judith

HOLY TRINITY RECYCLES: Containers for recycling: (1) Plastic bags; (2) batteries; (3) # 1 clear plastic containers (look for the” triangle with 1 on the bottom and on any detached lids); (4) fluorescent (not incandescent) bulbs are now located in the Bishop’s Foyer. Please remember that all recyclables that Rumpke takes (paper, cardboard, #1 and #2 plastic bottles, glass bottles andjars) can be placed in the kitchen & Old Rectory recycling bins.

MEDICINE BOTTLES AND ART CATALYSTS: A separate container in the Bishop’s Foyer (the largest) is for medicine bottles and craftcataIysts. Mary Fahnestock-Thomas collects medicine bottles for use by clinics in needy areas as well as anything for early childhood schools in Oxford that could stimulate young minds in arts and crafts: bottle and jar lids, buttons; paper towel and toilet tissue rolls; reusable plastic containers and small bottles; fabric, ribbon and yarn scraps; spools; .basicaIly anything that can be reused creatively.

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TODAY

Sunday Eucharist Rite I, 8am, Chapel of St. Bede
Adult Forum, 9:15 am, Undercroft: “Stories of Freedom Summer 1964″
Sunday Eucharist Rite II with music, 10:30 am, Nave
Catechesis of the Good Shepherd, 10:30 am, Atrium
Sunday School, 10:30 am, Old Rectory Classroom
AA, 7:00 pm, Old Rectory

WEEK OF October 18-24, 2009
Bible Study, Tuesday 10:00 a.m., Old Rectory
Prayer Group, Tuesday 11:00 am, Old Rectory
AA, Tuesday 7:00 p.m., Lower Level
Choir rehearsal, Thursday 7:30-8:30 pm, Lower Level
Rector’s day off, Friday

CONGRATULATIONS to
Al and Ruth Lindsey, proud grandparents of Amelia Lindsey Hunter, born October 14^th.  Amelia is the daughter of Kent and Elizabeth Hunter.

CONGRATULATIONS to

our Miami students for raising $200+ for the CROP WALK on October 3^rd. Special thanks to Jessica Toglia who walked the talk.

Did you know you can buy the following from the Talent Sale? …

• Bulgarian coffee cake
• Pot roast with veggies
• Pumpkin cake
• and more!

Check out your Talent Sale Catalogue!

Stewardship of the gift of Holy Trinity – In the Sunday School room of the Old Rectory is a poster about stewardship:  “In the church, we use the word stewardship to talk about how we care for God’s gifts.”  As we individually try to be good stewards of God’s gifts, let us also remember how our efforts are multiplied through the collected good stewardship of treasure, time, and talent represented in the offerings of the bread and wine for our Eucharistic Thanksgiving.

UTO Fall Ingathering is today! Forget your envelope?  There is another one in your bulletin. Put it in the offering plate, or drop it off this week or mail in a check.  Where does the money go?  It is deposited into an interest-bearing account from which only grant money, no expenses, is deducted. From that account, grants are made to projects that have been carefully assessed.   In 2008 grants totaled $2,401,907; however, $7,923,979 in applications were reviewed.  There is still much unmet need.  There’s no doubt today’s donations will be matched with a deserving project!

PRAYER CIRCLE this week:  Becky Lukens; Rosamond Mandell; Gary and Eula Martin; Lila Mason; Warren and Bonnie Mason; Hayden and Cynthia May; George and Barbara McCabe; Kathy McCabe and Stephanie; Bill and Barbara McKinstry; Hilda McLaughlin; Mike and Cathy McVey, Sam and Nora.