Sunday Morning Schedule 8 am Worship 9 am Education Hour 10:15 am Worship with Choir 9 & 11:30 am Coffee Hours

TRINITY TIDINGS MARCH 2019

318 Duchesne Drive St. Charles, MO 63301 Phone: 636-949-0160

Fax: 636-949-9730 E-mail: trinityepsicopal318@yahoo.com

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Inside this Issue

Rector’s Column 1

Calendar 6

Ministry of Healing 2

Prayer Ministry & Baptism 2

Birthdays & Anniversaries 3

Births & Deaths 3

Outreach 5

Spiritual Development 4

Diocese & Vestry 5

Rector’s Column Beware the Ides of March! Whenever I see March 15 on a calendar, that’s the first thing I think of, and have done ever since I read Julius Caesar as a sophomore in high school. It turns out that our secretary, Michelle Heitman, serves her family Caesar salad every year on that day. The day before is Pi Day, 3.14, beloved of mathematicians and pie lovers everywhere! Two days later, March 17, is St. Patrick’s Day. At least in the United States it’s said that everyone is Irish on that day, mostly to wear green (or orange) and do a little carousing in the middle of Lent. The next big day in the church calendar is the Feast of St. Joseph, March 19. In South Saint Louis, people carry bread to their neighbors and give bread away. This year, Lent is late. Ash Wednesday was March 6. On Shrove Tuesday, we offered our crowd-favorite Pancake Supper, with sausage, bacon, butter, syrup, juice, coffee, and milk. In doing so, we supported the name, Mardi Gras—French for ―Fat Tuesday‖—by consum-ing fats and carbs and sweets. The point of doing this when Shrove Tuesday was invented was to get all that stuff, including eggs, out of the house in preparation for the Lenten Fast. Shrove comes from the verb, ―to shrive,‖ as in, ―shrive, shrove, shriven,‖ cleansed of our sins. When Lent began Ash Wednesday morning, there was nothing tempting left on pantry shelves. Of course, Mardi Gras became an-Epiphany-long celebration many years ago, an excuse for all sorts of excess in food, drink, and general debauchery—again, with the idea of getting all the bad behavior out of people before they had to repent in Lent. Give a hu-man being an inch—he, she, they—will take a mile! In Lent at Trinity Church, we have not so much need to grovel after over-the-top behavior as we have opportunity to grow and learn in shared and individual Lenten disciplines—worship, prayer, study, and service. We began on Shrove Tuesday while we were eating all those pancakes, by writing what we need to let go of on pieces of dried Palm Sunday fronds. At the end of the Pancake Supper, we took those palm pieces outside and burned them in a very hot, very fast fire. Palms burned in this way can be sifted to become Ash Wednesday ashes, lots of ashes, including the ones we use in worship on that day. Elsewhere in this newsletter, you will find an entire list of opportunities for worship, study, and prayer in the Season of Lent. Service opportunities continue in Laundry Love; weekly donations of boxed and canned foods placed in the Little Red Wagon; contributions to the FISH barrel of clothes, shoes, and household items; Share-A-Meal on March 30; prayer shawls and baby blankets; and the commitment to share our building with other groups almost every day: Boy Scout Troop 763 meets here on Monday nights; an Al-Anon group meets Tuesday morning and an NA group (Narcotics Anonymous) on Tuesday night. Little Hills Toastmasters also meets here Tuesday nights. On Wednesday evenings at 8 PM, an NA group meets in the Parish Hall while CODA (Codependents Anonymous) meets in the Parish Library. On Thursdays, an Al-Anon group meets in the Parish Hall. On Fridays, one AA group meets in the St. Hilda Room in the morning and a second AA group in the same room in the evening. The Montessori School meets Monday through Friday in our Parish Hall. We also continue to sponsor a Venture Scout group, Ship 5001, which meets here periodically. During Lent, we offer quarter cards for individuals to make a ―Lenten Self-Denial‖ offering, given to a charitable cause—this year, quarters intact, to Laundry Love. The Good Friday Offering goes to the work of the Episcopal Church in Jerusalem. Episcopal Relief and De-velopment (ERD) provides meditation booklets for Lent, this year, the most-appreciated ones written the past ten years. In the back of the ERD booklet are ways to support ERD’s work around the world. As a Lenten service project through Episcopal City Mission (ECM), our Middle School/High School Sunday School class are creating Easter Baskets for youth in detention. Blessings to all of us as we seek to keep a holy Lent. —TEW

BAPTISMAL ANNIVERSARIES

Betty Bowen

You mark a place in your journey of formation today. Celebrating the anniversary of Holy Baptism reminds us, challenges us, and encourages us to follow Christ Jesus. God Bless you as you celebrate your baptismal anniversary in the month of March. If you would like to add your Baptismal month, please let Betty Bowen know.

MINISTRY OF HEALING

When we pray for healing we are inviting God to be present in our

lives; we want to restore our relationship with God so that we have wholeness in mind, body and spirit. Healing prayer is always beneficial—and the outcome of the prayer is up to God. We have to trust that God will hear our prayer and bless us through his healing love.

Trinity Church offers a Healing Service on the second Sunday of each month, and everyone is invited to the Altar for Anointing and Prayer.

When we pray for healing, we are inviting God to be present in our lives; we want to restore our re-lationship with God so that we have wholeness in mind, body and spirit. Healing prayer is always beneficial—and the outcome of the prayer is up to God. We have to trust that God will hear our prayer and bless us through his healing love.

Trinity offers a Healing Service on the second

Sunday of each month, and everyone is invited to

the Altar for Anointing and Prayer.

~ to Ken & Georgia Braucksick and their Trivia Team for all the planning, requesting of prizes, wrapping more than 30 baskets, setting up the hall and putting on a fun night for all who attended. We give thanks to all the Vendors who will-ingly donated door prizes and items for many of the baskets

~ to all those who helped with the recent Vestry Retreat, in particular for The Rev. Al Jewson, who introduced us to the practice of Appreciative Inquiry

~ to Jay Lee, Bill Warren, Rob Ott, and David Bricker for wrestling our fallen tree into submission and dealing with the resulting logs, branches, and brush

~ to Mark Vogel for organizing the envelope-stuffing fund-raiser and to Trinity parishioners who helped make it happen

~ to the Men of Trinity who cooked and served pancakes, sausage, and bacon, set up, and cleaned up for the Shrove Tuesday Pancake Supper—Harlan Meyer, Jim Gigliotti, Bob Brown, Bill Warren, Lee Paul, Phil Jeffery, and xxxx

~ to Jan Perry for organizing the Wednesday Lenten Study— the Social Justice Bible Challenge—and for arranging Social Justice Speakers for the Lenten Sunday Forums.

Mindfulness as a Christian Practice

Here’s an update on the Mindfulness Class: Both the morn-ing and evening classes spend a significant amount of time practicing meditation in class, reflecting on Holy Scripture or on passages from Henri Nouwen’s book, The Dance of Life: Weaving Sorrows and Blessings into One Joyful Step. In addition to class time—two hours each Tuesday—members have weekly assignments for practicing mindfulness each day. Each class involves discussion about the weekly practice and invitation to share experiences of God’s presence in daily life.

Every year, on the day after Ash Wednesday, for the past 8 years, Forward Movement has offered a “light-hearted” way of observing Lent, learning about the Saints, and (yes) having fun with the other followers of the Golden Halo competition. They begin with 32 Saints, and, by daily vote, winnow that down to the “Saintly 16,” then eight, four, and then the final two. The winner of that vote gets the Golden Halo for the year. There is an updated “bracket” in the Reception Area of the church. To “get in on the fun”, go to www.lentmadness.org

March Birthdays 3/1 Regina Dowling 3/8 Laura Meyer 3/9 Amanda Blount 3/11 Kyra Barillier 3/13 Emily Briggs 3/18 Valerie Lanning, Judy Makins 3/19 Deanna Miller, Helen Becker 3/21 Melissa Setser 3/25 Connor Hebert 3/27 Patricia Lee

March Anniversaries 3/17 Carol & Lee Paul 3/19 Valerie & Dick Lanning

BIRTHDAYS AND ANNIVERSARIES PAGE 3

Charlyne Mae (Burleigh) Watts, mother of Jane Lackey, grandmother of Craig (Amy); Cindy Wasso (Brodie); and Becky Logel (Ben); great-grandmother of Alice and Emma Lackey; February 16 in St. Peters, at age 90.

Robert Vernon Grisham, long-time parishioner, January 28 in Maryland Heights, at age 89

For the Baptism of Cassandra Danielle Leitch, daughter of Tara and Jeff Leitch; baby sister of Gwenevere. Her Godfather, John Leitch, is also her grandfather, at the Annual Parish

Meeting, January 27

For the Birth of Grayson William Waaso, son of Cindy Lackey Waaso and Brodie Waaso, grandson of Rick and Jane Lackey,

February 25

“Have a Birthday or Anniversary to add to our list in the Tidings? Please let Michelle Heitman know first and last names, Month, Day and Year. Call the Church Office at 636-949-0160. We will only make public the month and day. The year is to update Parish Records. Thank you.”

St. Patrick's Day Potluck

and Auction

This Sunday AT

NOON!!

For the potluck bring

corn beef & cabbage, meat

of choice, sides & deserts.

Bring your green and /or

Irish articles for the

blind auction wrapped in

green paper or gift bag.

Auctioneer will be our own

Asset Mapping? What’s That?

On March 31 after the 10:15 am service, we invite you to come find out! We’ll have lunch—always a good thing to do—and meet The Rev. Maria Evans, M.D. That’s right. She’s a doctor (a pathologist) and an Episcopal priest! She’s also a trained Interim Minister who completed 18 months March 10 at Church of the Good Shepherd (GOGS) in Town and Country—one year as Interim Pastor, followed by six months as Interim Associate both for GOGS and St. Luke’s Church in Manchester.

Asset Mapping is a visual, active way to extend into the congregation what we began as a Vestry at our recent retreat. As we noted at the Annual Parish Meeting, we need to implement a long-range planning process with as much input as possible form everyone at Trinity Church. Asset Mapping helps us see what it is we do well, what we m ight want to augment, what we can celebrate and build upon as we move forward.

Look UP in the Reception Area!

In the past couple of weeks, we have added

another feature to our slide show presen-

tation in the reception area.

NOW, in addition to the information that

plays on Sundays, there is a special slide

show that “loops” during the weekdays! The

new slide show gives information about the

many groups who meet at Trinity Church,

as well as informing them about activities

and opportunities for worship, community,

and service with Trinity Church. We invite

them to share in Christ’s ministry with us.

2019 Lent at Trinity Church

Lenten Worship

Wednesdays

Mar 6 Ash Wednesday Services, Noon & 6:30 pm Liturgy w/Imposition of Ashes; Eucharist Mar 13 – Apr 10 Penitential Order & Holy Eucharist 6:30 pm

Sundays Lent 1 - Lent 5 Mar 10 – Apr 7 Penitential Order & Holy Eucharist 8 & 10:15a

Sunday Apr 14 Palm Sunday Holy Eucharist 8 & 10:15 am; Palm Liturgy, Passion in Luke, both services Lenten Cantata w/Luke’s Passion, 10:15 am

Holy Tuesday, Apr 16 Tenebrae, a service of shadows, 7 pm

Maundy Thursday, Apr 18 Agape Meal w/John 17 at 6 pm Worship & Stripping of the Altar, 7:15 pm Keeping Watch, 9:30 pm Thu—11:30 am Fri

Good Friday, Apr 19 Keeping Watch continues to 11:45 am Noon: Liturgy; Reserved Sacrament; Silence 7 PM Music & Meditations on Stations of Cross

Special Lenten Events and Programs

Tue Mar 5 Shrove Tuesday Pancake Supper 5 – 7 PM; Burning Palms, 7 PM

Sun Mar 10 Lent 1: Lenten Fair for Everyone Noon – 2 pm, Food Provided

Sun Mar 17 Lent 2: St. Pat’s Potluck & Auction, Noon

Sun Mar 24 Lent 3: The Way of Love, Lunch/Video/Talk Noon-2 pm, Food Provided

Sun Mar 31 Lent 4: Asset Mapping for Long-Range Plans Noon - 2pm, Food Provided

Education/Formation Classes

Wednesday AM Bible Study, 10-11:15 am, St. Hilda Room Mar 6 – Apr 17 Social Justice Bible Challenge, prayer & study

Sunday School, 9-10 am, St. Francis & St. Agnes Rms & Library

Sunday Forum, 9-10 am, St. Hilda Room Mar 3 & Apr 7 Dr. James Hood Mysteries of the Bible Mar 10—Apr 14 Guest Speakers on Social Justice Issues

Tuesdays, Mindfulness Class, Parish Library Feb 19 –Apr 8, 9:30 –11:30 am & Feb 26—Apr 8 & Apr 23, 6:30 – 8:30 pm

Fridays, Spiritual Reading Group, x-x, St. Hilda Room

Personal Lenten Devotional Materials

The Way of Love: Practices for a Jesus-Centered Life (pamphlets)

Lenten Meditations Episcopal Relief & Development (booklet)

Forward Day by Day (booklet)

The Upper Room (booklet) The Way of the Cross (Stations of the Cross booklet)

Prayers for Social Justice (Anglican Rosary booklet & rosary) Join the Journey through Lent 2019 (calendar with actions & coloring)

Lenten Self-Denial Quarter Cards (quarters to go to Laundry Love)

Spiritual Development

Our Congregational “Lenten Read”

The Power of Love By The Most Rev. Michael Curry Presiding Bishop of The Episcopal Church

Love is the only way. Those who follow, follow in unconditional, unselfish love – the kind of love that can change the world. The book holds sermons, reflections and wisdom to uplift and inspire you, touching on love, commitment and social justice.

The Power of Love is available on-line Amazon, $13; Barnes and Noble $13.65 The ook is also available at local bookstores Please sign-up on the clipboard in Reception Area or e-mail Jan Peery, janpeery1@att.net, if you are reading the book.

Discuss the Book. View a Michael Curry Video. Eat Lunch.

Sunday, March 24, Noon—2 pm, Parish Hall

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Mar 17 Major Ron Key, Salvation Army Homelessness in St. Charles—What’s Being Done? The Salvation Army provides social, spiritual and emotional assistance for men and women who have lost their ability to cope with their present situation and provide for themselves.

Mar 24 Linda Buchman, Child Care Center The Child Care Center: Who We Are and What We Do Our speaker will discuss the Child Care Center, which serves children who have experienced sexual and/or physical abuse or who have witnessed violence. Their primary goal is to ensure that children who have been abused experience no further victimization.

Mar 31 Sr Esther Hogan, Sisters of the Most Precious Blood

Human Trafficking: A Modern Day Slavery How can we prevent and fight human trafficking? Sister Ellen is part of a group in St. Charles County who are working hard to end human trafficking. Learn how you can help.

Apr 7 Dr. Jim Hood, Member of Trinity Church Mysteries of the Bible 2 Dr. Hood continues an exploration of places and events in Holy Scripture—he began with the Garden of Eden, Noah’s Ark, and the Exodus. What’s next? We shall see!

Apr 14 Officer, City of St. Charles Police Department The Police Department will provide an update on steps being taken in St. Charles County to address social justice issues we have been discussing, as well as other concerns.

318 S. Duchesne Drive St. Charles, MO 63301 Phone: 636-949-0160

Fax: 636-949-9730 trinityepsicopal318@yahoo.com

www.trinity-stcharles.org

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Outreach

Our Military Needs You!

Patriot Packages will be sending care packages every month for the rest of the year. Please place donations in the labeled bin in the Reception Area. It’s important to donate the articles and sizes on the list. Thank you for your help. If you have any questions, contact Liz Meyer at 636-928-8695.

Laundry Love Laundry Love meets at the laundromat, washing and drying clothes for people in need. We provide soap, bleach, dryer sheets, and cash to operate washers and driers. Trinity Church in St. Charles and Church of the Transfiguration, Lake St. Louis share this ministry to the homeless and people without the means to wash and dry their clothes at home. We meet once a

month at three sites—St. Charles, O’Fallon, and Wentzville.

Sometimes we provide food; often, prayers; always, friendly faces and helping hands! Take an opportunity to join Bill Cramer, Warlene Reed, and a member of the Church of the Transfigura-tion at Starcrest Laundry on Zumbehl Road in St. Charles. You

can help! Next Laundry Love Date: April 3

Starcrest Laundry 1st Tuesday each Month 5-8 pm.

For happenings in Diocese of Missouri follow link below www.diocesemo.org

Keep Bringing Cans & Boxes!

Although we no longer participate in the Shop and Share program, we ARE still collecting food donations for FISH in our “little red wagon”.

Invite Welcome Connect: A Brief Report ―Wow! What a great Leadership Conference!‖ That was the consensus of seven people from Trinity Church who attended Invite Welcome Connect at Grace Church in Kirkwood on Saturday, Mar 2. In a series of engaging presentations and exercises, more than 120 people from 29 congregations around our diocese immersed themselves in evangelism, faith-storytelling, and possibilities for inclusion of those who come through our doors in every community. Most of us discovered that we are pretty good at Welcome and not so hot at Invite or Connect. To Invite is to be an evangelist; to Connect is to provide a clear path to inclusion, membership in the life and work of a church as disciples of Jesus Christ. To Invite is to risk being perceived as an odd duck—someone who goes to church. To Connect is to step out of the center of action to make room for the stranger, to share our space and our life in Christ. We might even need to move down in the pew! To learn more, see Jackie Halter, Jane Culligan, Lucinda Dennis-Itoka, Phil Jeffery, Harlan Meyer, Michelle Heitman, or Tamsen Whistler. What’s your special gift— Invite or Welcome or Connect?

2019 Vestry Retreat

Your Vestry held its Retreat on Feb 16 from 8 am to 4 pm. We had scheduled to begin the Retreat with three hours Friday evening, March 15, including dinner, at the home of Phil and Paula Jeffery. We were to review biographical statements we’d all written, and hear a presentation by The Rev. Rich Tudor, having to do with congregational size and usual ways different sizes of congregations tend to organize for ministry. Nasty weather prevented that part of the Retreat, but every

member of the Vestry was present at Church the next day!

Our retreat leader was The Rev. Al Jewson, one-time member of Trinity Church in St. Charles, former Roman Catholic priest, and long-time Episcopal cleric. He served in the Diocese of West MO, retiring to our part of the state several years ago. He led us in a process called, “Appreciative Inquiry,” designed to help us in formulating a long-range plan. Appreciative Inquiry takes a focus on what is, and invites us to answer such questions as, “When is a time you felt the most xx in

your time at Trinity Church?”

Personal stories are a big piece of the process, as is active listening. The idea is to identify core values, core strengths, so that we can move from A — where we

are now—to B, where we want to go, building on a good foundation.

Sun Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri Sat 24 25 26 27 28 1 2

3 Last Epiphany 8 & 10:15 am Holy Eucharist 9-10 am Ed Hour

4 5 8:15 am Staff Mgt 9:30-11:30 am AND 6:30—8:30pm Library Mindfulness Class

6 Ash Wednesday 10 am Bible Study Noon & 6:30 pm Holy Eucharist

7 6 pm Bell Practice

8 12:30 Dream group

9 8:30 am ROMEO JJ’s on Duchesne

10 Lent 1 8 & 10:15 am Holy Eucharist 9-10 am Ed Hour Noon—2pm Lenten Fair

11 12 8:15 am Staff Mgt 9:30-11:30 am AND 6:30—8:30 pm Library Mindfulness Class

13 10 am Bible Study 6:30 pm Eucharist 7:15 pm Choir

14 6 pm Bell Practice 6:30 pm VESTRY

15 16 10 am Decorate for St. Patrick’s Party Parish Hall

17 Lent 2 8 & 10:15 am Holy Eucharist 9-10 am Ed Hour Noon –2pm PH St. Patrick’s Day Potluck & Auction Parish Hall

18 19 8:15 am Staff Mtg 9:30-11:30 am AND 6:30—8:30 pm Library Mindfulness Class

20 10 am Bible Study 6:30 pm Eucharist 7:15 pm Choir

21 6 pm Bell Practice

22 12:30 Dream group

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24 Lent 3 8 & 10:15 am Holy Eucharist 9-10 am Ed Hour Noon—2pm PH The Way of Love Lunch, Video, Talk Food Provided

25 26 8:15 am Staff Mtg 9:30-11:30am AND 6:30—8:30pm Library Mindfulness Class

27 10 am Bible Study 6:30 pm Eucharist 7:15 pm Choir

28 6 pm Bell Practice

29 30 8:30 am—4:30 pm Mindfulness Retreat Par. H. & St. Hilda 10 am—3 pm Acolyte Festival SM&SG/Clayton

31 Lent 4 8 & 10:15 am Holy Eucharist 9-10 am Ed Hour Noon—2pm PH Asset Mapping for Long-Range Plans Food Provided

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Mon 7:15 pm Boy Scout Troop 763, Parish Hall (PH)

Tue 9:30 am Al-Anon Go with God, St. Hilda Room (SHR)

Tue 7:15 pm Little Hills Toastmasters, St. Hilda Room (SHR)

Tue 7:30 pm NA We-Care, Parish Hall (PH)

Wed 8 pm NA Nitty-Gritty, Parish Hall (PH)

Wed 8 pm CODA, Library (L)

Thu 7 pm Al-Anon Climbing Higher, Parish Hall (PH)

Fri 10:30 am AA Group 228, St. Hilda Room (SHR)

Fri 6 pm AA Living on Higher Ground, St. Hilda Room (SHR)

MARCH 2019