Worship Service Times and Message from the Wardens

The Worship Team has made the following arrangements for November and December:

• Sunday, November 27 - 9:30am Rite II Eucharist (The Rev. Jere Berger)

• Sunday, December 4 – 9:30am Rite I Eucharist (The Rev. Ran Chase)

• Sunday, December 11 – 9:30am Rite II Eucharist (The Rev. Ran Chase)

• Sunday, December 18 – 9:30am Rite I Eucharist (The Rev. Angie Emerson)

• Saturday, December 24 – 7:00pm Christmas Eve Rite II Eucharist (The Rev. Angie Emerson)

• Sunday, December 25 – 9:30am Christmas Eucharist (The Rev. Angie Emerson)

Message from Wardens

Following the Bishop’s meeting it became apparent that we could improve our communications with the congregation. This message is the first of our regular communications with you that will be in each edition of LOGOS. Very little occurs within the Vestry that is confidential, and copies of the minutes of our meetings will continue to be kept by Wendy, so please check those minutes or ask a vestry member if you have any questions. The only items that are confidential deal with contract negotiations, personnel matters, pastoral care issues or items of a personal nature about anyone connected with Trinity.

First we want to let you know that our final meeting for putting together our transformation plan with Larry Jensen and Tom Huebner will be November 17 at 5:00p.m. Anyone who wants to know more about the plan and what we are doing is invited to attend. Part of the plan is a new model of operating that is modeled after the recommendations found in Robinson’s book entitled “Changing the Conversation”. The vestry and congregation will be playing a very active role in what happens at Trinity as we move forward. We expect that our operational teams that we have set up will play a major role in what happens at Trinity.

These teams will be overseen by the vestry with participation by our next priest.

Two of our most critical teams are “worship” and “lay pastoral care”. These teams will play major roles during our transition time. The worship team is already actively involved in finding and scheduling our supply priests for Sunday service. The team has recommended that we, at least temporarily, have just one service at 9:30 to make the process easier and keep all of us together and aware of what is going on. Members of the vestry will be keeping you informed at announcement time during the services as well as through LOGOS. We ask you to give us input about this preliminary plan of one service and encourage you to pass on your comments to Jim Cassarino, who is the leader of this team, or to a member of the Vestry. We also greatly appreciate the work of our lay pastoral care team and their leader, Winnie Grace, in this very importance ministry.

The vestry will be meeting with the Bishop and Lynn Bates, Canon to the Ordinary, November 20th to talk about our future.

The vestry will be presenting the Bishop and Lynn with our plan and all of the criteria that we have put together regarding what we are looking for in our next priest so that we can begin a search process. We will soon be putting together a search committee; anyone who is interested in participating should submit their names to one of the two senior wardens – Marc Brierre or Aaron Tinsman. We are expecting a small committee of about five people with one person from the vestry leading the committee, so not very one who wants to will be able to participate. But, we will be keeping everyone well informed about the process and our thoughts. We want to let everyone know that we have put together our information based upon much work striving to get input from all of our members of the congregation and synthesizing that material. Even our plan of having the vestry focus on our operations while having a separate search committee has been in response to input from members of the congregation. After we meet with the Bishop and Lynn all of the material that we provide them will be available through Wendy. If you want to offer other input, please feel free to do so.

Vestry meetings are open to everyone unless we have something that will require executive session. We will have a brief period during the meeting to listen to members and anyone may remain with us while we deal with the issues of Trinity. Our next vestry meeting is November 10 at 6:30.