Text Box: September, 2007 Text Box: The Episcopal Church Welcomes You! Text Box: deal with the suffering and dying when I first came to Holy Trinity … I didn’t know you all as well. Now, each one of you who suffers or is hospitalized and each death deeply affects me. I love you all and it is taking its toll. I remember one of my teachers reminding me See Rector’s Message Page 2 Text Box: Rector’s Message A summer I won’t soon forget Text Box: FROM THE SENIOR WARDEN My Church; Text Box: Dear Brothers and Sisters in Christ, This has been a summer I won’t soon forget. Most summers at Holy Trinity are predictable and pacific. This summer has been one filled with grief, sadness, and more than just a little depression for many within our parish family … and for your rector. This summer has seen many folks hospitalized for mental and physical health concerns and we have commended too many of our faith community to God, and Text Box: it has affected me. I know, and knew when I entered the priesthood that ministering to the sick and dying would be one of my roles and I had been well prepared for this in my many years as a hospital chaplain. Over the past few years I have been invited into those most holy moments when one of our own has entered the nearer presence of our Lord. This has never been easy and one might think that I would have grown accustomed to it by now. In fact, the opposite is true. It was far easier to Text Box: Former U.S. Chaplain Richard Halverson Can you imagine being asked what is your church like and what does your church do and giving the answers given above? Chaplain Halverson calls each of us to be a witness to those we meet by telling them what it See Senior Warden Page 2 Text Box: We have been the Church Gathered, We are now the Church Dispersed. Remember, wherever you go, Christ goes, whatever you do, Christ does. If someone asks what your church is like, tell them “I am Text Box: what my church is like.” If someone asks what your church does, tell them “My church does what I do.” Remember, you may well be the only authentic contact someone has with Jesus Christ because they will not come to church but you can bring the church to them.

60th Anniversary Update

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Getting to Know You

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A Little Church Humor

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News from the Dominican Republic

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Celebrations

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Vestry Update

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Music Notes

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