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Open Hearts. Open Minds. Open Doors. No Exceptions.


Sunday, November 25, 2018
 

Please join us for our second week in this special series on grace. How do we live with a grateful heart, especially in these tumultuous times?

 

Sermon: “A Grateful Heart” by Sid Hall



Sunday Schedule 

 

9:00 am - Imprints: Contemplative celebration
10:00 am - Adult Sunday School classes & Children's Community Hour
11:00 am - Weave: Blended Celebration

 

Readings

2 Corinthians 4:7-8, 15-17 (NRSV)

M. J. Ryan, A Grateful Heart (1994), pp. 1-2
 


Children's Worship
 
This sermon series the children will be discussing gratitude.  

November 18th - The children discussed the many families in our life in particular our Trinity family and God's family.  We talked about people who may not have a family to celebrate Thanksgiving with this week and the children made Thanksgiving placemats that were donated to Meals on Wheels.

November 25th - The children will be talking about what they are grateful for and creating a gratitude journal to use at home.  

 

Special Offering


Ridgetop Elementary School Emergency Fund


Your generosity provided 10 families with a Thanksgiving meal, and will provide Christmas gifts for the 20 children who are members of these families. This offering will continue through December 9th. Thank you again for your continued support of these families and our partnership with Ridgetop.

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Updated Trinity Events
* Please note date changes *
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Workday/Advent Decoration


 Sun, November 25, 12:30pm – 2:30pm
Pizza lunch included! Help with building maintenance or decorate the sanctuary with greenery for Advent.

Lunch and Childcare Provided !
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Advent Family Workshop

 Sat, December 1, 10am – 12pm

Create a service and kindness centered advent calendar and decorate cookies to be given to the homeless this Christmas season. For families of all ages!

*Full Description and Signup Below*
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Church Conference - Mon, December 3, 7pm – 9pm
In the Sanctuary/Community Hall  of Trinity Church of Austin
All are welcome, this conference will include the five other progressive congregations of the UMC in Austin. The service will include worship and a time for connections over snacks provided by the Leadership Team.
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Poinsettias - delivery December 6 - order below!
Pick up on Christmas Eve
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Hanukkah Sabbath Meal - Fri, December 7, 7pm – 10pm
Hosted by Jewish Voice for Peace, If Not Now, and Trinity
All are Welcome!
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Christmas Banquet - Sat, December 15, 6pm – 8pm

*This Date Has Changed*

 

Join your Trinity friends for a potluck banquet, music,
and an appearance by Santa.

Signup sheets available at Sunday services

We will need table hosts (decorate a table and bring a main dish)
Help decorating the Community Hall for the Banquet
Help Setting up/cleanup of  the Community Hall
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Longest Night - Fri, December 21, 6:30pm – 7:30pm
A Special service Led by Associate Pastor Mark Moore 
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Christmas Eve Services - Mon, December 24, 5:30pm & 7:30pm

Join us for Carols and Candlelight
Nursery Care will be Provided
Activity bags will be available for older children


 

Poinsettia Order 2018



Each year Trinity decorates the sanctuary with poinsettias in honor and memory of loved ones. These are yours to take home and enjoy after Christmas Eve Services. Poinsettias are from Down Home Ranch in Elgin Texas a non-profit providing support, education and Jobs for people with  intellectual disabilities. Your purchase helps support this vital mission.  Poinsettias are 15.00 each and can be paid through PayPal or a check made out to Trinity (Poinsettia in memo line).


Click here to order
 

Trinity Family Advent Workshop - with frosting! 



Saturday, December 1st, 10:00am

This year families will create a calendar that will provide opportunities for intentionality and thoughtfulness during this Advent season.  Together families will pick service and kindness related activities that will fit their family's schedules, ages, and needs. Projects could be holding the door for someone, picking a toy to donate to a toy drive, writing a letter to a loved one, or helping clean up trash in the neighborhood.  Trinity will provide TONS of project ideas and your family will choose the 25 projects that work best for your family and make an advent chain to use at home.  

Trinity will also provide the December 1st advent activity for your family!  After you create your family advent chain, come help decorate Christmas Cookies for the homeless.  We will have cookies, frosting, and sprinkles for your family to decorate cookies. 

Click here to RSVP


 
Social Justice Sunday School

This week we will be welcoming a very special guest from the Austin Sanctuary Network

You Do Not Want to miss This !


We meet Sundays at 10am in the social justice class room
at the end of the hall next to the community hall.

 

Diaper Drive

The Trinity United Methodist Women are sponsoring a baby diaper and baby wipes drive to benefit Hope Food Pantry.  Many of the Pantry’s clients are parents with infants or young toddlers, or grandparents who are raising grandchildren or providing daytime childcare for their grandchildren.  Providing these families with diapers and baby wipes is an important part of the service that Hope Food Pantry offers.  The Pantry relies solely on donations of these items in order to have a supply available for distribution.  Diaper sizes needed are from newborn to size 5, BUT PARTICULARLY sizes 4 and 5 because they are the most requested sizes.  You can bring your donated diapers and wipes beginning November 11 through November 25 and place them in the designated bin in the narthex.  Thank you for helping with this important assistance to the families served by Hope Food Pantry.

 

 Austin Sanctuary Network
 
Trinity's Social Justice class will host speakers from the Austin Sanctuary Network (ASN) this Sunday, November 25, at 10 AM.
 
ASN needs volunteers for its Accompaniment Program, a process of going with immigrants to San Antonio for transportation and/or emotional support while they endure ankle monitor check-ins at for-profit, prison industry sites and ICE court events.  The presence of privileged allies is extremely helpful. Contact Peggy (morton.peg@gmail.com) to participate.
 
For an up-close look at what it is like for immigrants from Central America who go to extraordinary lengths to try to reach the U.S., Trinity's own Bryan Mealer recently published this story:  https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/nov/19/americas-border-wars-my-week-in-a-land-of-trauma.

 


Stewardship Update

We want to thank all those who have turned in a pledge card for 2018. If you plan to pledge but haven't turned in a pledge card, you may find them at the side doors of the sanctuary or in the office. You may also pledge online or mail a card to:


Trinity Church of Austin
4001 Speedway
Austin Texas 78751

 

Thank You from SAFE Alliance

We received a thank you note from the SAFE Alliance for our donation. They write that thanks to Trinity, SAFE is able to continue their work to provide housing, healing, and support to children, adults and families of all backgrounds who are looking for help when dealing with issues of abuse.
 
 
Prayer Requests

Please hold all these in our community in your prayers.


Marge Philbrook
 
Kathleen Strong
 
Barbara Lightheart




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