Trinity by the Sea Episcopal Church

 Mark your calendar for January 18th!! We will have one service at 10 and a “Pure Potluck” lunch. It’s our annual Trinity Parish Meeting and Celebration! Included in the celebrations is the arrival of our Winter Texans and our Family Minister, Taylor Allison. 

 Some of you have commented that Taylor seems young, so why don’t we card her? I don’t mean check her ID, I mean, let’s supply her with gift cards to Target, Home Depot, or HEB so that she can  get settled in to her new apartment. Bring gift cards to the office this week, so that we can give them to her on January 18

During our Parish Meeting, Taylor will meet with children, youth, and parents, to get to know them, and plan some events for this semester. 

Our Trinity Parish Meeting and Celebration will include electing vestry members, council delegates, and a presentation from the Building and Maintenance Discernment Committee. Thank you to Glenn Kues for faithfully leading that group which we started shortly after last year’s Annual Meeting! We will elect new Vestry Members & Council Delegates.

• Vestry Nominees: Heidi Hagan, Donovan Kypke, Sue Miles; Sarah Jane Wise (for unexpired term)
• Council Delegates: Bill Strieber, Chuck Castor, Glenn Kues

A Few Items We Will Review:

• Buildings & Maintenance Discernment Committee presentation
• Howdy to our Winter Texan
• Warm Welcome to  Taylor Allison, our Family Minister 

SWEET! Dessert Exchange. We will have some time together and some break-out time by age-group to plan a few events this for this season. See y’all Sunday!

Let us pray: Almighty God, heavenly Father, you have blessed us with the

joy and care of children: Give us calm strength and patient wisdom as we bring them up, that we may teach them to love

whatever is just and true and good, following the example of our Savior Jesus Christ. Amen.

God our Father, you see your children growing up in an unsteady and confusing world: Show them that your ways give more life than the ways of the world, and that following you is better than chasing after selfish goals. Help them to take failure, not as a measure of their worth, but as a chance for a new start. Give them strength to hold their faith in you, and to keep alive their joy in your creation; through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.

BCP Prayers for Children and Young People

Let us pray: Loving God, comfort those who mourn, welcome into your loving embrace those who have died, and help us who watch and wait to known the best way to respond in loving action in the days and months to come; guide us by your Holy Spirit to shelter the homeless, lift up the broken hearted, feed those who are hungry, and to serve as Christ has served us; it is in his name we pray. Amen. In the midst of a celebratory weekend, we started hearing horrifying news from the Texas Hill Country, especially Kerr County all along the Guadalupe River. Many of us know people directly impacted: those rescued from floodwaters, those whose property was destroyed, family members still missing, and sadly, those who have died. Here are a few ways Trinity is responding: Respecting the privacy of families by allowing them to share news in their own time; please be mindful of the wishes of families at such a difficult time  This evening we will have a prayer service with songs, readings, prayers, and candle lighting. 5 pm Tomorrow at church we will take up a special collection to help the flood victims; we will work through our Episcopal network of churches to distribute funds where they are needed.You may donate online:tithely account. Select GUADALUPE RELIEF from the drop down menu.  Tomorrow After our Sunday Service we will have a meeting to begin planning the fundraiser 11ish Next week (TBD) We will have a fundraiser to support the immediate financial needs most likely Wednesday or ThursdayThank you everyone, I know we all want to be the most help we can for people we love and strangers whose pain we understand in such a difficult time. The level of pastoral need is amplified when there is such a loss of life. Let us pray and prepare to be ready when we are asked for help.

June Sundays! 

• EFM graduate Ivette Sullivan to preach June 1, 10 am 
• Pentecost Sunday, wear flame-colors! June 8
• Potluck Lunch for Trinity Sunday, June 15, 10 am 

Tuesday 8:20 

• Meditation for 20 minutes
• Led by Jenn Shafer and others (Thank you!) 
• Meditation improves the quality of your life

Small Groups (Bible Study

• Both these groups watch (homework) then discuss the Chosen series
• Thursdays at 10:30 in Port A 
• Meeting through summer

No Church on the Beach this Summer

Camps and Retreats for All age

Family Camps, Recovery, and Youth Mid-Winder Weekends, Summer Camp.  Learn more and register here:  https://www.dwtx.org/tags/camp-capers

• Community Sunrise Service 
  • 7 am in the Roberts Point Amphitheater 
  • Darwin’s Misfits (Walter, Peter, James) leading music
• Holy Eucharist
  • 9 am in the Church
  • 11 am in the Amphitheater (if the weather isn’t cooperative, we will move into the church) 
• Coming up: 
  • Kid’s Concert, April 22, 4:30

Lent

Vision Process Sundays at 10 (Sunday School)
Meditation w/instruction  Tuesdays 8:20-8:50 am
Lenten Dinners: Love Incarnate Tuesdays at 6

• This week: The Power of Love (Suzanna Reeder)
• April 1 is still open (no joke) 
• Bring your  own bowl! 

Holy Week:April 13-20

• Palm Sunday
  • 9 am at Church
  • 11 am at the Beach 
• Holy Tuesday, Labyrinth S. of pier
  • Guided at 4:30 and 6
• Maundy Thursday: April 17, 6 pm Service
• Good Friday:April 18,
  • Noon Prayers
  • 1:00 ish, Stations of the Cross

Parish Work Day

• April 12, starting at 9 am

N. Padre Group Wednesdays, 6:30
Port A Group (Bible Study) Thursday, 10:30

Spring Church on the Beach Dates
Help set up church on the beach! Check with James to find out how.

• April 6, 7 am, Michel J Ellis Beach Park Near old Holiday Inn
• April 27, 11 am, H Caldwell Pier
• May 18, 11 am, H Caldwell Pier

Youth Group (EYC) 

• after church each week
• Coming soon: Service in the Spirit

Camps and Retreats for All age

Family Camps, Recovery, and Youth Mid-Winder Weekends, Summer Camp.  Learn more and register here:  https://www.dwtx.org/tags/camp-capers

Ash Wednesday Services (3/5)
8 am, Noon, 6 pm

Meditation, Tuesday  8:20 am

Lenten Dinner, Tuesday 6 pm

Incarnate Love Teaching, Sunday 10

Christmas Eve Caroling on the Beach
December 24, 4:30 pm (S. of Caldwell Pier)

Christmas Eve Festive Eucharist
December 24, 7:00 pm

Christmas Jam and Coat Drive
St. Stephen’s Day (Boxing Day)
December 26, 11:00 am (The Gaff Bar)

1st Sunday of Christmas
December 29, 9 & 11 am