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Issue 726
PA R IS H NE WS L ETT ER
Children’s Garden Cover
From the Rector 2
From the Associate
Rctor 3
Music at Holy Trinity 4
St. Andrew’s Day
Service 4
Parish Register 4
Ministry Spotlights 4
Annual Church Picnic 5
Men’s Breakfast 5
Family Ministries 6
Music of the Season 6
Golf Tournament 7
A Service of Compline 8
The Giving Tree 8
The Labyrinth Walk 8
From the Shop 9
A Cabaret SOIREE! 9
Cuba Ministry 10-11
Upcoming Events 11
Volunteer Opportunities 11
Reminders 12
Inside this issue:
November / December 2019
The Reverend Canon J. Fletcher Montgomery, Rector
The Reverend Robert A. Osborne, Associate Priest
The Reverend Jeremy G. Hole, Priest Emeritus
Robert Bala, Publisher
HOLY TRINITY EPISCOPAL CHURCH
Gainesville, Florida, Sunday, September 29, 12 noon. Holy Trinity Episcopal
Church and Day School held a parish-school wide planting day for a new eco-
friendly children’s garden and play yard, which will be used to teach children
and teenagers about the importance of being good stewards of God’s creation.
The garden features predominantly na-
tive plants, butterfly host and pollina-
tor plants, biblical herbs, and two olive
trees. The play area will encourage
children to use their imagination as the
play structure, and it is covered in turf
in Episcopal Churches spear-headed by
the Dean of Virginia Theological Semi-
nary in Alexandria, Virginia (the alma
mater of Holy Trinity’s rector, The Rev.
J. Fletcher Montgomery). With nearly
7,000 Episcopal parishes nationwide,
Holy Trinity hopes to serve as a re-
source parish for other churches that
would like to embrace an eco-friendly
use of their church properties.
If you would like more information,
please call Sarah Montgomery at
352-681-7491 or email her at
Holy Trinity Episcopal Church & Day School
Eco-Friendly Children’s Garden
A Special Applause to:
Steering Committee: Riley Blitch, Judy Brashear, Ed Brewer (Chair), Jaxon
Crews (HT Family Ministries Director),
Phyllis Delaney, Ginny Maurer, Sarah
Montgomery, Ellyn Radson, Kathryn
Stephens
Greg Ahrens (for everything- time talent
and treasure!)
Josh Doby (native plant selections)
Josh Muller (soil remediation plan)
Susan Nugent (butterfly starter kits)
Donations to date were received from:
Anonymous
Ann Cawthon
Janet Eucher
Terry Fleming
Julie Garrish
Hillary Mullins Green
Carolyn Horter
Kenni James
Jamelyn Johnson
Austin & Evan Lee
Shirley Mullins
Paul Newman
Rebecca Nyros & HT Girl Scouts
Gregory Orloff
Cyndee Park
Bev Parrish
Ann Pierson
Leann & Jim Salter
St. Elizabeth’s Circle
Willa Wolcott
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From the Rector
Dear Friends at Holy Trinity,
We find ourselves in the midst of another busy fall season: Family Ministries, and
the completion of our beautiful Children’s Play / Adult Reception Garden; an
episcopal visitation with Bishop Dorsey Henderson; an All Saints’ Sunday perfor-
mance of the Mozart Requiem; the annual Bazaar and all that accompanies it; and
our anticipation of Advent and Christmas observances and celebrations. What a
blessing to belong to such a large and active parish — with lots to do, lots to give,
and lots to share.
We celebrate the end of our Stewardship Season on the 10th of November, keep-
ing in mind it’s really always Stewardship Season year-round. Thank you for
sending in your pledge card so the the Finance Committee and Vestry can make a faithful budget in the
weeks ahead — one which will enable us to follow God’s lead in the many avenues of ministries he calls us
to join and accomplish. If you have yet to make a pledge of time, talent, and treasure towards our 2020
ministries, please do so as soon as possible — and feel free to call me if you have any questions.
We have welcomed over 50 new comers and families over the past year. Some have moved their letters of
membership to Holy Trinity, some are long-term visitors, and others would like to affiliate and worship
with us, but have membership commitments elsewhere. All are welcome — and I hope longer-term mem-
bers will look around at worship and at coffee hour, identify unfamiliar faces, and go introduce yourself.
This is how we build and maintain community, when we learn a name and put a face with it. This is the
joyful duty of every member, and I call us all to this ministry of hospitality and gracious welcome.
…that they may all be one. As you, Father, are in me and I am in you, may they also be in us, so that the
world may believe that you have sent me. [John 17.21]
May we be one, that the world may believe; and may God bless you all in every way.
J. Fletcher Montgomery, Rector
Parish Office Closure Dates
Nov 11 Veterans Day
Nov 28-29 Thanksgiving Day Holiday
Dec 25-26 Christmas Day Holiday
From the Associate Priest The rector of my childhood church in New England was an English clergyman. I
remember him regaling the parish with stories about a country parson tending to his
flock with great care and humility, much like the work of George Herbert (1593-
1633). The tale was chastened by the privation its characters faced during, and in the
aftermath of, WWII. The story was always capped off by a redeeming reminder in
which the Church was upheld as a repository of all that was needed for the flourish-
ing of the community. His stories spoke of a parish as a territorial designation
charged with safeguarding the welfare of its inhabitants without regard for member-
ship or belief of those it served. The parish church was the protagonist of the story,
as it was the medium that ensured that the gospel was received, preserved, and trans-
mitted with the surety of a clear conscience. Many of the references were lost on us
postindustrial folk, but the stonewalls encompassing the Church provided a ready
reminder of a time, history, and story in which we had a small part to play.
New England’s stonewalls were created as farmers tilled the soil to expose the rocky terrain beneath the sur-
face. Bringing the stones to the tree line was an annual practice that formed territorial markers, which
served to stabilize the soil and protect the farmer’s flock. Thomas Bray (1656-1730), an English clergyman
and abolitionist, once warned of the danger of having far-flung parishes disconnected from the supervision
of a bishop, as this would inevitably expose a flock to the dangers of the wilderness. My childhood priest
would tell everyone that the parishes of a diocese ought to function like stonewalls in terms of providing
stability and safety in the wilderness. He wished to encourage us to approach the shifting soils of late-
modernity with the right tools to extract the stones preventing the harvest and make use of each one to a
proper end. These stories informed our response and approach to mending the privation in our midst. If we
are to uphold the Church as a protagonist in Gainesville, we ought to delve into the history of our tale.
Each timeframe in the history of the Church upheld that the unity to which Christ calls us is a duty and
sought to be faithful to this charge. The high churchman John Henry Newman (1801-1890) was lead to ex-
press this by saying: “we do not look towards Rome believing that its communion is infallible, but that un-
ion is a duty.” Shortly thereafter, the critically orthodox churchmen Charles Gore (1853-1932) held that any
progress in theology is achieved by reverting to the “original and perfect type” of Jesus Christ. While Wil-
liam Temple (1881-1944) maintained that registering Christ’s achievement was all that was needed to ex-
hibit unity, as we become closer to Christ we will inevitably become closer to one another. Each era had
faithful men and women who sought to guide the Church to a fitting relationship with the times, while occa-
sionally leading her astray.
It is in this spirit of striving for unity that I would draw your attention to what is happening within the An-
glican Communion of Churches of which we are a part. This coming year, in August of 2020, the Lambeth
Conference will take place. This conference is a decennial assembly of bishops of the Anglican Communion
convened by the Archbishop of Canterbury. The contemporary Anglican Communion is an increasingly
comprehensive entity to the liking of some and the dismay of many. The level of comprehension we have is
derived from conflict, colonialism, and the schismatic bent of prior centuries, which betokened a move to
the haphazard union we have today. Staunch uniformity always seems to bring those who fall outside the
bounds of the normative standards to feel a sense of displacement. This staunchness has, at times, brought
people to leave Anglicanism and find their own way into new expressions of Christian faith carrying what
they perceived as useful along the way. All the while, we continue to call them home, as we are called home
to the greater unity of the one, holy, catholic, and apostolic Church.
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Nov 3 All Saints Sunday
Bishop’s visit
Confirmations
Nov 10 Christophers
Nov 17 Youth Ministries
Nov 24 St. Andrew’s Day
Dec 1 HIV / AIDS
Dec 8 No Ministry Spotlight
Dec 15 Project 5000
Dec 22 Office Volunteers
Dec 29 Christmas Week
BAPTIZED
Elizabeth Aria Langan
TRANSFERRED IN
Katie McGill from St. Timothy’s in San Diago, CA
Sheridan & Jessica Rudolph II from Christ Church in
Pensacola, Fl
WENT TO BE WITH THE LORD
Alice Fairchild
Sarah Kerslake
David Colburn
Richard Williamson
Bertram Kinzey
Alicia Churchill
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St. Andrew’s Day Service
Sunday, December 1 at 5 p.m.
The twenty-fourth annual service features The Holy Trinity Choir and
John T. Lowe, Jr., presenting a service of choral evensong, complete with
bagpipes, traditional Scottish dancing, and singing.
Music at Holy Trinity & Dance Alive National Ballet
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s
REQUIEM
— A Performance of Music and Dance —
The Holy Trinity Choir, soloists, chamber orchestra, and dancers
John T. Lowe, Jr., conductor
SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 3 at 4 p.m.
presented FREE OF CHARGE, with reception following
From the Parish Register Ministry Spotlights
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The Brotherhood of St. Andrew
The Holy Trinity Church Picnic sponsored by the Brotherhood of St. Andrew was
held on September 14 at Rick Winkler’s lovely home on Lake Lilly, located between Mel-
rose and Keystone Heights. It was a beautiful afternoon to be outside and to share food, fel-
lowship and fun with our church family. It was a potluck lunch so folks brought their favor-
ite dishes and beverages. Rick made an awesome pulled pork and provided fried chicken
from one of the local establishments. There were a lot of desserts and I can attest they were great (I tried all
of them)!
Tables were set up on the lawn under the large oak trees and the breeze kept us cool and kept the bugs
away. It was a multigenerational affair ranging from Rick’s 5 month old granddaughter to some of the sen-
ior members of our congregation. Between 30 and 40 people attended.
After lunch there were pontoon boat rides around the lake and a guided tour of Tony Taylor’s home across
the lake. Rick said we had to see it because Fall had exploded inside Tony’s house with all his tasteful inte-
rior Fall decorations. We continued the cruise around the lake and learned about the area history. Thanks
again to Rick and Tony for their hospitality!
Men’s Breakfast
The Brotherhood of St. Andrew would like to invite all the men of the church to the Men’s Breakfast Saturday
November 9th at 8:30am. We will be meeting in the Page Parish Hall. Come and enjoy breakfast on us! After
breakfast and a brief bible lesson we will be discussing our Holiday Bazaar duties as we are again needed to
help our sisters in St. Elisabeth’s Circle with the Bazaar. This is our primary fundraiser for the year so please
join with us in helping make this another amazing event at Holy Trinity.
Please RSVP to Leo Dugger, 375-6889, e-mail- [email protected] or call the church office by
November 6th.
From the Director of Family Ministries
I am so excited about our new Holy Trinity Children’s Play-Garden! It is a tremen-
dous tool for ministry and especially for Holy Trinity’s Family Ministries. The gar-
den is a beautiful space that will transport children and youth out of their every-day
environment and into a fresh, pallet-cleansing, space where they can learn about the
gospel in new and engaging ways.
Our children’s ministry’s first adventure in the garden will be an exploration of the
creation account in Genesis. With the use of “Story-Makers”’ creation curriculum,
children will learn about creation through stories, crafts, and a hands-on experience
with God’s creation through the garden itself.
The garden also provides an amazing space for the Holy Trinity Youth Group. As we enter fall, some of our
youth group meetings will be moved to the garden as we make pizzas in our Youth Group’s new pizza ov-
en, sit around the fire-pit in the evenings, and maybe even get some dirt under our fingernails as we tend to
the garden as a group.
The thing that I may be most excited about, is the intergenerational aspect of this garden. This is a space
that everyone can enjoy. My prayer is that it becomes a hub for intergenerational community-building cen-
tered around the Gospel that will strengthen Holy Trinity and empower us to live in the way of Christ.
Peace,
Jaxon Crews
Director of Family Ministries
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The American Guild of Organists
MUSIC OF THE SEASON
12:15-12:45 p.m.
Tuesday, December 3—Holy Trinity Episcopal Church
with John Lowe at the Visser-Rowland Organ
Tuesday, December 10—First Presbyterian Church
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Holy Trinity Episcopal School
3rd Annual Golf Tournament
Holy Trinity Episcopal School held it's third annual golf tournament on Friday, September 27. 75 golfers
participated in the tournament along with numerous supporters who attended the luncheon at Haile Plantation
Golf and Country Club. This fundraiser was their most successful yet, helping to earn the school $8500 dol-
lars to go towards school improvements and student scholarships.
A big THANK YOU to their sponsors:
Gold Sponsors
Moody, Salzman, Lash, &
Locigno Attorneys at Law
Holy Trinity Episcopal
Church
G. W. Robinson Homes
Adam Lee Law
Blu Dove Designs
Campus Realty
J.E. Decker
Construction Group
Silver Sponsors
The Growl Towel
The Handyman For You
Chrislyn Customworks
and The Petzold Family
Bronze Sponsors
Ahren's Complete
Lawn Care
The Barbara Hall Family
Tower Hill Insurance
Godwin Green Roofing
AC Hotels
Holy Trinity School Board
of Directors
and Allen Law Firm
Food and
Drink Sponsor
First Magnitude Brewery
Lee Mullally and his friend Tony
Randazzo on their way to their
first hole
Golfers with one of their gifts from
Growl Towel, one of the Silver Spon-
sors of the tournament.
Father Fletcher Montegomery, his
wife Sarah, and School Board
Parent Representative Dominic
Locigno before the start of the
tournament.
School Board Representatives,
friends, and family members of the
school enjoying the luncheon at
Haile Plantation Golf and Country
Club at the 3rd Annual Golf Tour-
nament.
Church Parishioners and
parents of the school Jeremy
and Renee Dickens enjoying
a break between holes.
The Giving Tree for the Holidays This year again the Board of Trustees of the Holy Trinity Episcopal School will coordinate the Giving Tree
for children for the Holidays.
Once again, Holy Trinity will brighten the Holidays of many youngsters and families by purchasing items
for them for Christmas.
We will be assisting children from our own church family, our Holy Trinity Episcopal School of Gaines-
ville, Inc., HIV/Aids children and families from Peaceful Paths.
The trees will be up in the back of the church and in Page Parish Hall beginning November 3rd through No-
vember 17th. Select an ornament and record your name next to the child’s number you selected. Do your
shopping and return your gifts along with the ornament in a large holiday bag to the church office by No-
vember 24th. On December 8th, watch the children from our church carry the bags to the altar to be
blessed before they are delivered to the families on December 9th.
Last year, thanks to the generosity of parishioners, we were able to help over 125 children. We are hoping
with your help to do the same again this year. Help us brighten the holiday for so many children that
wouldn’t otherwise have those special surprises.
A Service of
COMPLINE
Sunday, November 17 at six o’clock in the evening
sung by the Gentlemen of the Choir
The Office of Compline (Night Prayer) is the final service of the day, placing its em-
phasis on spiritual peace. The half-hour liturgy consists of plainsong chant and an-
thems, sung by candlelight, presented by members of the Holy Trinity Choir. If you
have not experienced this beautiful and peaceful service, plan to attend and invite some
friends.
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The Labyrinth Walk The Holy Trinity Labyrinth Guild is pleased to announce that our Labyrinth
will be available to walk the Dec.6, 2019 4-8pm. We invite everyone to come
and walk with us on the first Friday of the Advent season. The labyrinth will
be staged in the Page Parish Hall for your use as a walking meditation, a place
of prayer, to focus your thoughts and feelings, to find answers or just unwind
from the busyness of life.
Please join us! Questions? Call Leo Dugger 375-6889
From the Shop: Where Shopping Is a Pleasure
The Holiday Bazaar
Friday, November 22 7p.m.—9p.m. (Grand Opening)
Saturday, November 23 9a.m.—3p.m
Sunday, November 24 9a.m.—2p.m.
Holiday shopping doesn’t have to mean wandering through crowds in a depart-
ment store searching for that perfect gift or that once in a lifetime bargain. No!
Trade it in for an evening with the familiar faces of friends. A room dressed in
holiday lights and filled with the sounds of Christmas. It’s our annual celebration,
a gala that’s become a city event. An old fashioned bazaar where everyone enjoys
a glass of wine and culinary delights. Where you can explore a maze, a gallery of
gifts. Meticulously decorated trees, handmade jewelry, gingerbread and candies, a
table full of cheap antiques and bric-a-brac, hand painted baubles, one of a kind
wreaths, nativities, Santas galore, dolls and doll houses, Raggedy Ann and Andy, Ellie Blair paintings, and
just about everything you can imagine or want. It’s truly a shopper’s delight.
The gift you buy will be the gift that keeps on giving. All the proceeds go to the less fortunate.
See you there and thank you for your support.
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A Cabaret SOIREE!
This season's Cabaret SOIREE! hosted 200 guests in the Parish
Hall. Live entertainment by John Lowe and friends started the
afternoon off, followed by dinner (Pearl BBQ from Micanopy),
then more entertainment. This annual event was presented free of
charge, with donations accepted to cover the cost of food.
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2019 Fall—Keeping Up With a Busy Cuba Ministry A Gainesville Area Dinner Meeting on August 12 at Marilyn’s home turned out
to be a clergy boost and blessing for our Cuba Companionship Ministry in both
cluster areas of north central Florida and the central Ciego area of Cuba. We were
pleased to host the following Episcopal priests in the Gainesville area whose churches partner with a Cuban church in the central area of Cuba: The Rev. Diane
Reeves of St. Andrews-Interlachen/Santa Maria-Perea; The Rev. Les Singleton of
Church of the Mediator-Micanopy/San Lucas-Ciego de Avila; and of course, our clergy from Holy Trinity, The Reverends Robert Osborne and Fletcher Montgom-
ery with Sarah were there to share our Cuba ministry concerns.
At the dinner meeting, we also celebrated the 98th birthday of Cuban-born MIT-engineer Manuel Cadenas, father of
our ministry volunteer Hilda Miller, who brought the birthday cupcakes and donated several new copies of her fa-
ther’s book “Memories of a Journey through Time” for donation proceeds to go to the Cuba Ministry.
Will Irby of St. Alban’s-Chiefland could not make it to our August 12
meeting, but did announce and invite us to their August 25 Sunday service
when Cuban priests Cristina Alvarez and Adreano Fuentes would be celebrat-
ing the Eucharist at St. Alban’s. Adreano and his wife Yuly reside in Morón, Ciego de Avila, Cuba, where he is the resident intern for Santísima Trinidad,
45 minutes from our own San Juan Bautista. Ben and Dot Hill and Marilyn
Peterson visited with them at St. Alban’s and look forward to continued rela-
tionship building with them on the HT trip to Cuba in December.
September 22: The HT Spotlight shined upon the Cuba Companionship
Ministry this year in a special way. We featured a book
signing by the author Manuel Cadenas, who graciously donated $123 from the Sunday sales of his book to the Holy Trinity Cuba Ministry. We set the coffee hour tables with guava puff pas-
tries and other taste treats and gained a few new volunteers to the Ministry. And then we were
pleasantly surprised with a meet-and-greet visit from the Rt. Rev. Dr. Griselda Delgado, Bishop
of Cuba, who was just returning from her first meeting with the Episcopal House of Bishops in Minneapolis while on her way home to Havana. MANY THANKS AND KUDOS to Joyce Lot-
tinville and Julie Lunardo for delivering the Spotlight tributes to our ministry from the Lectern
at the 8:00 AM and 10:30 AM services, respectively, and to Gam, Carlos, Julie, Leilani, Clau-
dia, and Lourdes for their interpreting talents in making the Bishop feel right at home.
Holy Trinity’s Mission Travelers to Cuba: We are thrilled to reveal that Coordinator Marilyn Peterson will soon
be escorting return travelers Ben Hill and Kim Ahrens to Cuba and will introduce Kim’s brother Scot Iseman and
our recently ordained and newlywed priests Robert Osborne and Caroline Miller to the Cuban Companionship ad-
venture. Thank you, Holy Trinity, for making this exquisite wedding gift-trip possible: American clergy meeting and worshipping with Cuban clergy in the mingle of their respective parishioners, Florida-Cuban Companionship at its
highest level, Hallelujah! And, get this, Rev. Caroline (Grace EC, Ocala) speaks Spanish!
And we welcome another honor in our religious visa group: Mr. Sean O’Donnell, a Skinner organ repair specialist of
international repute, will fly with us on December 3 from Tampa and stay in Havana to repair the Episcopal Cathe-dral’s 1928 Skinner Organ, that has remained silent and song-less since 1991. We will all spend the first few days in
Havana, Matanzas and perhaps Varadero and then will work our way toward Florencia to install the water purification
system at the Episcopal Church of San Juan Bautista. We plan to worship together with the Episcopal congregations
in both Florencia and Perea and fly home from Santa Clara on Monday, December 9, 2019.
The travel group will need additional used suitcases that can carry up to 50 lbs. of goods and that can be left in Cuba.
Besides the water purification system equipment and filters, we plan to bring to San Juan Bautista and/or to the Dio-
cese of Cuba other charitable items: Choir robes, Spanish Prayer Books, Bibles, perhaps another inflatable bed or
two, led light bulbs, packages of La Llave coffee for hand-out gifts to the Cubans, etc. We will send out a congrega-
tional eblast “call-to-y’all” for help in donating some extra suitcases for this trip. (Continues on page 11)
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Upcoming Events for Family Ministries
Pies for Pilgrims – The Holy Trinity Youth Group will be making Thanksgiving pies this year as a way to sup-
port their 2020 mission. Starting on November 3rd, Holy Trinity Youth will be taking orders for pies to be ready for
pick-up on November 27th. For more information, contact Jaxon Crews at [email protected]
Bazaar Luncheon – November 23rd, 2019 – The Holy Trinity Youth Group is hosting a luncheon as a fundrais-
er for their 2020 mission. Lunch will be served from 11:30am – 1:30pm in the parish library on Saturday, Novem-
ber 23rd. The price is $10 and includes an entrée, side, dessert, and a beverage.
Advent for All – December 1st, 2019 – Friends of all ages are invited join us on December 1st during coffee hour following the 10:30am service for a time of Advent-themed crafting. We will be making Advent wreaths with fresh
greenery along with some other crafts. We will also be selling raffle tickets for an Advent devotional book (the win-
ner will be drawn the following week while St. Nicholas Visits)
Children’s Chapel (for the whole family) – On December 8th at 10:30am, parents are invited to join their chil-
dren (grades Pre-Kindergarten – 5th) for a time of singing, praying, and story-telling as well as a visit from St.
Nicholas! Chapel will be dismissed and we will all gather back in the sanctuary before communion. After the
10:30am service we will gather in the Children’s Play-Garden for Advent treats and ornament-making!
Save the Date
December 15th, 2019 – Christmas Sock Stuffing
December 24th, 2019 – Christmas Pageant
Volunteer Opportunity Come join the Altar Guild. Come fill the vessels we have used since 1838. Come be a part of setting up
the Eucharist for all of us. Come and see why we do the things we do. Come and see how we do the
things we do. For more information, please contact Vandy Thorpe at 332-2060 or [email protected].
(Continued from page 10)
We will send out a congregational eblast “call-to-y’all” for help in donat-ing some extra suitcases for this trip. Cuba does not celebrate a holiday
such as our American Thanksgiving Day. The Episcopal Church in Cuba,
however, knows about and admires this special day in our country of giv-ing thanks to God for the plenty
of harvest and blessings. With
great gratitude in their hearts, the
Rev. Yohanes Cobiellas with his wife Mariela and children Yo-
hanes Jr. and Daniela; the Rev.
Deacon Yannel Valdivia; and the Rt. Rev. Dr. Griselda Delgado, Bishop of Cuba, and her extended family in Cuba, Bolivia, and America send their
wishes and prayers for the best of God’s blessings to America the Beautiful,
to the Episcopal Diocese of Florida, and with special hugs, to Holy Trinity
of Gainesville on this Thanksgiving Holiday 2019.
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Phone: 352-372-4721
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Thursday, November 7 at noon
Reminders for November / December 2019 Nov 1 Confirmation Practice / Dinner 5:00 p.m. Parish Hall
Nov 2 Concert Rehearsal 1:00 p.m. Church
Nov 2 Brotherhood of St. Andrew’s Football Fundraiser 3:00 p.m. Parish Hall
Nov 3 Bishop’s Annual Visit / Confirmations 10:30 a.m. Church
Nov 3 HIV / AIDS Committee Meeting 12:00 p.m. Lillycrop
Nov 3 Cuba Committee Meeting 12:15 p.m. Library
Nov 3-17 The Giving Tree—Ornaments Available Parish Hall
Nov 3 Pies For Pilgrims—Ordering Begins Lillycrop Room
Nov 3 All Saints’ Concert with DANCE ALIVE 4:00 p.m. Church
Nov 9 Brotherhood of St. Andrew’s Men’s Breakfast 8:30 a.m. Library
Nov 10 Outreach Committee Meeting 12:00 p.m. Room 216
Nov 13 Vestry Executive Meeting 4:30 p.m. Room 216
Nov 17 Family Ministry Meeting 8:30 a.m. Room 211
Nov 17 Love Out Loud 12:00 p.m. Library
Nov 17 A Service of Compline 6:00 p.m. Church
Nov 18 Holy Trinity Book Club 4:00 p.m. Room 216
Nov 19 Vestry Meeting 6:00 p.m. Room 119
Nov 21 Baking Party 5:30 p.m. Kitchen
Nov 22 Holiday Bazaar Grand Opening 7:00 p.m. Parish Hall
Nov 23-24 Holiday Bazaar 9:00 a.m. Parish Hall
Nov 23 Bazaar Luncheon 11:30 a.m. Library
Nov 26 HTES Board Meeting 6:00 p.m. Library
Nov 26 YP Adult Team Meeting 6:30 p.m. Lillycrop Room
Nov 27 Pies for Pilgrims—Pick up orders 10:00 a.m. Kitchen
Nov 28 Thanksgiving Day Service 11:00 a.m. Church
Nov 28 Thanksgiving Day Feast 12:00 p.m. Parish Hall
Dec 1 Advent for All 11:30 a.m. Parish Hall
Dec 1 St. Andrew’s Day Service 5:00 p.m. Church
Dec 3 AGO Music of the Season Concert 12:15 p.m. Church
Dec 6 Labyrinth Walk 5:00 p.m. Parish Hall
Dec 7 Gainesville Youth Chorus 5:00 p.m. Church
Dec 8 Children’s Chapel (for the entire family) 10:30 a.m. Chapel
Dec 8 Outreach Committee Meeting 12:00 p.m. Room 216
Dec 11 Vestry Executive Meeting 4:30 p.m. Room 216
Dec 12 School’s Christmas Dinner 6:00 p.m. Parish Hall
Dec 15 Family Ministry Meeting 8:30 a.m. Room 211
Dec 15 Love Out Loud 12:00 p.m. Library
Dec 16 Holy Trinity Book Club 4:00 p.m. Room 216
Dec 17 Vestry Meeting 6:00 p.m. Room 119
Dec 24 Christmas Holiday - Parish Office Closure Begins 12:00 p.m.
Dec 24 Christmas Pageant and Holy Communion 4:00 p.m. Church
Dec 24 HTES Board Meeting 6:00 p.m. Library
Dec 24 YP Adult Team Meeting 6:30 p.m. Lillycrop Room
Dec 24 Music Before the Liturgy 7:30 p.m. Church
Dec 24 Christmas Eve Liturgy 8:00 p.m. Church
Dec 24 Music Before the Liturgy 10:30 p.m. Church
Dec 24 Christmas Eve Liturgy 11:00 p.m. Church
Dec 25 Christmas Day Service 10:00 a.m. Church
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