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2020 Trinity Goals Approved Trinity’s Charge Conference on October 13 approved the goals proposed by the church council for 2020. To refresh your memory—

1. Help raise the level of biblical literacy in the congregation by completing “The Story” program. 2. Attempt to raise the level of missional interest, participation and giving by adopting a major mission project for the year. 3. Establish a Hospitality or "Atmosphere" Task Force to reflect on how Trinity can be more effective in reaching and welcoming new people. 4. Review our Leadership Structure. 5. Review our church finances and make adjustments. 6. Publish a new church directory.

If you would like to be involved in helping our church accomplish one of these goals, call the church office, talk to Pastor Steve or to a member of the church council.

2020 Church Officers and Committees The Nominating and Leadership Development Committee still has some work to do in getting a complete roster of church officers and committee members for 2020. We would hope to have most if not all the work done by next month.

Christmas Eve Services The Worship Committee discussed Christmas Eve services during their October meeting. Several possibili-ties were considered, including Trinity’s traditional 7:00/11:00 p.m. schedule.

It was decided to try a 5:00 p.m. and a 9:00 p.m. service. The 5:00 p.m. service could work well for folks who have plans for the evening, freeing up the rest of the night for plans with family and friends. A 9:00 p.m. service would enable people to have their evening plans and top off the night with a Christmas Eve service. Hopefully we’ll be able to catch some people who wouldn’t stay up for an 11:00 p.m. service.

A Christmas tradition…

A Very Chippy Christmas December 21-22 If you like Chippy you’ll love “A Very Chippy Christmas.” What is it? You’ll get a chance to find out in December. Tentative plans are for two “Very Chippy Christmas” services—one on the evening of Saturday, December 21 and one on Sunday morning, December 22nd. The service will have a number of features that are typical of Christmas worship services but with more of a Chippy-spin. (We’re trying to see if Dale, Chippy’s brother from Minneapolis, could join us!)

Help is needed! A few items would be needed: a fake fireplace with a mantle, a living room chair that swiv-els, and a small 3-4 foot Christmas tree. We’d also need greeters, special music, readers. If you’d like to help, call Pastor Steve. The best kind of recycling…

Wanted: Laundry Soap Jugs! I’ve made a lot of laundry soap over the years and I’m afraid I’m going to get rusty If I don’t make some soon. Start saving your laundry detergent jugs! Jugs need to be 96 ounce or larger. (No milk jugs or other bottles, please.) Bring your empty jugs to church and throw them in the large plastic barrel. THANKS!

Words from our Pastor…….

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A break from “The Story”…

“Living Generously” We’re taking a bit of a side tour from our journey through the Bible. For the next five weeks we’ll be visiting the Donovan family, a suburban family living the American dream—nice house, good Christian friends, plans for the future and all that.

And then it happened. A whole new world opened up to Frank Donovan as he discovered the joy of Christian gener-osity and service.

Beginning on Sunday, October 27, during our morning worship services, we’ll be joining Frank and his family as they learn about generosity and the generous God who created and blesses us.

Lifetree Café—the next step

Lifetree Café as community outreach? We have a possible off-site location for an weekday evening session of Lifetree Café. It would be a comfortable setting for a “conversational café.” Promotional materials that can be placed in local newspapers are available from the Lifetree publisher. So why would we start a second session rather than just invite people to the one on Sunday morning?

Not everyone feels comfortable coming into a church building. But they may feel comfortable going to a neutral location where they are “welcome just as they are.” People may not be will-ing to come to church between worship services for Lifetree Café but might give it a try at a neutral location. The church needs to go out into the community rather than waiting for people

t o come inside.

So we’d like to have a two-month trial period where Lifetree Café would be offered in the evening at a local res-taurant. Participants could come early and eat first or even eat during Lifetree or they could just get a beverage or nothing at all.

Before we make definite plans we need some church members who are interested in working with Pastor Steve. We could use one person to lead sessions every other week or so and a couple of people to welcome people and interact with guests. Anybody interested?

November 6: “Has God Left the Building? An hour of honest conversation about the church” November 13: “Zzzzz: Practical help for getting a better night’s sleep” November 20: “Make a Difference Now: Choose to be extraordinary” November 27: “A Day in the Life of the Hidden Homeless: A mother’s struggle to keep her family together”

Searching for another venue! Our goal isn’t just to offer Lifetree Café during the Sunday school time. We’d like to take it out into the community. Maybe a breakfast session at a local restaurant? An afternoon session at another location?

Some people won’t give Lifetree a try if it’s only offered in a church. But they might try it in spiritually neutral ter-ritory. Any ideas?

Help needed: Occasionally Pastor Steve is going to be unavailable to do Lifetree Café. We need to have one or two hosts who are able and willing to fill in during vacations. Any ideas? Make sure to call!

In the hospital? Don’t make the pastor play “hide and go seek” with you when you’re in the hospital. Waiting for the pastor to find you isn’t very efficient and this approach often leads to people thinking (or saying), “Why didn’t the pastor come see me when I was in the hospital?”

There is a simple SOLUTION: Make sure you let the church office know right away when somebody is admitted to or plans to be admitted to the hospital. Don’t assume that the pastor will find out on his own or that someone else has already told him. Calling the church office makes it so much easier.

Birthdays 1 Byron Held 2 Andrea Blanchard Lyle Stauffer Seth Uetz 3 Emily Dante-Hernandez Lanie Sanvig 5 Dennis Banks Carly Stevenson 6 Beau Deleeuw Katelin Fuchs 8 Kim Blunt Tammy Springer Wyatt Stevenson Sandra Woolfolk 9 Michael Western 10 Donna Crooks 11 Jackson Jensen Elaine Olson 13 Al Asleson 14 Tony Scott Jacob Vais 15 Esther Rolph Joshua Woolfolk 16 Doris Lynch Daniel Western 17 Pat Huxsol Roger Sweet 18 Dennis Rippentrop 19 Jodie Buehler Matt Kimm Alex Koehler 20 Tyler Klatt 23 Angela Eathon Darrell Parmer 25 Judy Zander 26 Don Reser 27 Jason Daniels Dennis Null Shirley Weiss 28 Cashden Parker 29 Kelvin Keifer Jeff Lokenvitz 30 Matthew Elthon Anniversaries 4 Randy & Scotti Milestone 9 Ryan & Shannon Schrader 16 James & Tammy Springer 21 Patrick & Cala McGregor 27 Becky & Kevin McEnany Walter & Sandra Woolfolk

Wishing you the Lord’s blessings on your birthday

KCHA 95.9 fm at 10:30 am

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November 2 – All Saints Sunday November 7: Guest Speaker: 7- 8pm - The Israeli – Palestinian Conflict November 24: Thanksgiving Meal ……….. at 11:15 am 9:00 am – Sunday School 10:00 am – Combined Worship November 28 and 29: Church office closed November 30: Greening of the Church - 9:00 am December 4: Chancel Choir, youth, and anyone who wishes – Caroling at 6:00 pm December 6: Christmas Parade – 6:00 pm December 7: Practice for Children’s Christmas Program 10:00 am – 11:30 am December 14: Ladies Extravaganza – 6:00 pm December 15: Children’s Christmas Program – 4:00 pm Meal after the program December 21: Very Chippy Christmas -6:30 pm December 22: Very Chippy Christmas –10:00 am Decenber 24: Church office closes at 12:00 pm Decenber 24: Christmas Eve Services - 5:00 pm and 9:00 pm Decenber 25: Church office closed December 31 - Church Office closes at 12:00 pm January 1—Church office closed

Trinity, Thank you so much for the award of my scholarship. I appreciate it so much, as it helped me pay rent and buy books I needed for class. Thank you also or the Amazon gift card. I haven’t used it yet, but I will use it for school supplies and things I need for my apartment. I am currently working at Old Navy and on October 1st, I will start as the head swim coach for Black Hawk County YMCA. I’m working both places on top of going to school full time. I very much appreciate all you have given me, as well. Thank you so much, again! ~ Sydney Keifer

November 3: Alan & Cathy McGregor Family - In loving memory of Malcolm McGregor and Loren Grady

November 10: The Harvey & Maxine Riden Family In loving memory of Maxine & Harvey’s anniversary on November 11

November 17: Bert & Sandy Sheffner— In loving memory of Duane Jerdee

November 24: Janice, Nanette & Richard Gauger In loving memory of John & Arlette Gauger

In 1863, Abraham Lincoln de-

clared the last Thursday of

November to be a National

Holiday of Thanksgiving.

Wishing everyone peace, love and happiness for this new month

EDUCATION -

Next meeting 11/05/19 at 6:00 pm

Christmas Propram Dec. 15 at 4:00 pm

Looking/families to light Advent candles

Advent acticity books

EVANGELISM-

Next meeting 11/11 at 6:00 pm

Set up for Trinity Treats

Treat bags for shut-ins

Christmas float

MISSIONS

Next meeting 11//12 at 6:00 pm

Fall workday projects Oct/Nov

Dan Beane Presentation—Nov. 7

Habitat for Humanity—group project

WORSHIP-

Next meeting TBA

Thanksgiving: 1 service@ 10:00 AM

* Meal following the service

Ladies Extravaganza—Dec. 14

Children’s Christmas Concert

* Soup supper following the concert

* A Very Chippy Christmas

Christmas Eve Services: 5pm and 9pm

CHURCH COUNCIL

Next meeting on 11/19 at 7:30 pm

Charge Conference preparation

Committee reports

Budget approval

FINANCE–

Next Meeting 11/19 at 6:30 pm

2020 Budget

Payment of 2019 apportionments

Pledge campaign for 2020

HEALTH MINISTRY

Next meeting 11/17/19

SPPRC-

Next meeting 11/26 at 7:00 pm

Staff reviews and evaluations

Changing the church environment

Budget concerns

TRUSTEES–

Next meeting 11/19 at 7:00 pm

Sanctuary air conditioner

Charge Conference

North Star Insurance Policy

LAY LEADERSHIP-

Next meeting TBA

PERM ENDOWMENT-

Next meeting TBA

MEMORIAL-

Next meeting TBA

FINE ARTS COMMITTEE-

Next meeting TBA

SCHOLARSHIP–

Next meeting TBA

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TUMC GENERAL FUND SEPTEMBER, 2019

Beginning Checkbook Balance 6,285.48

Pledges Received 21,194.95

Other Receipts 7,888.12

Disbursements 32,535.03

Ending Checkbook Balance 2,833.52

UNPAID: as of 09-30-2019

Invoices -

Apportionments 39,914.28

District Askings 819.00

TOTAL UNPAID 40,733.28

“Welcome, winter. Your late dawns and chilled breath make me lazy, but I love you nonetheless.” ~ Terri Guillemets

UMW Unit Meeting—November 7 at 1:30pm Refreshments: Loyal-Unity Program: “World Thank Offering” Charity-Peace Installation of officers Vote on the budget

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Group Meetings –November 21

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MIDIS MIDIS met on October 6th and after much discussion, a unani-mous decision was made to dis-band, at this time. The contents of the treasury will be divided be-tween Our Brother’s Keeper and the food pantry.

Prayer…… Is it your steering wheel

or your spare tire?

Fall Work Day! The missions committee received three request for Fall Work Day,. Church members helped with window cleaning and raking leaves.

Habitat for Humanity begins new home construction in Garner, Iowa. We are working with Habitat for Humanity to see if we can coordinate a work day on their project.

UPDATE ON THE ISRAELI - PALESTINIAN CONFLICT

Thursday, November 7H 7 PM – 8 PM

Trinity United Methodist Church

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Karen Cutler, RN BA Volunteer Parish Nurse Missions Corner

Egad! E-Cigarettes

While the debate continues about whether e-cigarettes help people quit smoking, or actually serve as a gateway to start smoking, or a crutch to continue, research is accumulating about the po-tential harms of these electronic devices. Though e-cigarettes don’t contain tar and many other harmful constituents of tobacco, they do emit chemicals known or suspected to be dangerous.

Lung Damage In a case study of 2,100 teenagers (11th or 12th grad-ers) in the America Journal of Respiratory and Criti-cal Care Medicine, researchers found a strong link between e-cigs use and bronchitis/other respiratory problems, after controlling for tobacco smoking. The FDA has banned sale of e-cigs to children under 18 years of age.

Damage to Guns and Other Oral Cells In a lab study in the Journal of Cellular Physiology, researchers found that half of the cells from human gums died when exposed to e-cig vapor for just 15 minutes a day for three days. Similarly, lab study in the journal of Oncotarget found that e-cigarette va-por, especially when containing flavors, produced oxidation stress, inflammation, and DNA damage in cells—effects that could lead to various oral diseas-es.

Explosions Injuries from exploding e-cigarettes appear to be on the rise, according to the research letter in the New England Journal of Medicine. Often, serious, the in-juries include flame and chemical burns along with damage from flying debris. The main culprits are overheated batteries that rupture and burst into flames or explode, damaging hands, face, thigh, or groin ar-ea. In most cases, e-cigs explode while in use, but some times when they are in pockets.

Dan Beane of Garwin, Iowa will share his observations from his recent time in Occupied Palestine/Israel. He and his group met with Palestinian leaders and Israelis to hear their interpre-tation of the conflict, the current situation and hopes for the future of Palestinians and Israelis . He observed the struggles of Palestinians living under the Israeli occupation for over 50 years and the increasing illegal Israeli settlements in the West Bank. . He also observed that the Israeli’s live with fears of attacks and suicide bombings from Palestinians. He was host-ed in numerous Palestinian homes and visited many Biblical sites. This program is free and open to the public.

We’ve begun preparing for Christmas. It feels a little early to be writing about and even actively preparing for December 25

th (Heather is a huge fan of keeping the holidays in order and cele-

brating them in that order) but what is more exciting than God becoming human and walking among humans? Be sure to attend our Christmas Program on Dec 15

th at 4 pm.

Want to become an acolyte? Contact Heather. Training will occur after the Christmas Program Practice on Dec 7th.

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Nov. 1-2 – Ingathering Lock In (Cedar Falls; $15), depart 5:30 pm and return early Saturday afternoon 10 – 5/6 Grade join the children singing during 9 am worship 13 – No School (Professional Learning) 18 – Decorate Festival of Trees Tree @ Otto’s Oasis, 4 pm 21-24 – Heather in Tampa, FL for a Conference 24 – 9 am Sunday School, 10 am Traditional Worship, Thanksgiving Dinner post worship 27 – No Youth (Thanksgiving Week)

Every Sunday at the church: 10:15-11:00 am – Sunday School Every Wednesday at the church: 6:30-7:30 – Middle School UMYF

“Maybe not feeling ready is a sign that you are ready.

God uses people who depend on Him, instead of themselves.”

~Dale Hudson

Did you know that this is the 5th time Heather has been asked to present at the National Youth

Worker Conference in mid-November? She will lead two workshops that are part of their Youth Ministry 101 series.

Our Youth Group received a $2,500 grant from the Northeast District Askings Grant fund to support our Youth Mission Trip in 2020.

Parents Group’s current study is called The Marriage You've Always Wanted by Dr. Gary Chapman. Dr. Chapman is also the author of The 5 Love Languages. This will be a study you won’t want to miss!

Happy Thanksgiving!