Announcements
We welcome Luke Bultena to the pulpit. Luke is a second year seminary student and member of Trinity. Willa Lutz is providing the organ and piano music today while Carol Feather Martin is on leave. We are happy to have these two Trinity members share their gifts with us!
New Check In (Old Tear Off)
We have a new way to easily sign up for opportunities at Trinity. We have a new digital bulletin tear off. Please click here to quickly sign up for ushers, liturgist, slide runners, and more.
School Supply Drive through July 31st
Help support Mount Olivet’s Community Assistance program’s School Supply Drive (items needed: loose notebook paper (wide-rule), spiral notebooks (wide-rule), #2 pencils, rulers, composition books, blunt tip scissors, crayons, colored pencils, erasers, glue) for the children of our Community Assistance guests. Backpacks are NOT needed (Mt. O is purchasing them separately). Please drop off at Trinity by July 31st. Questions? Email Lisa Driskill at lcdriskill@yahoo.com.
Garden Plot Against Hunger
Are you interested in being part of a gardening team to create a Trinity Garden Plot Against Hunger? The food harvested from the garden will go to AFAC. We are looking for interested planners (researching how other churches manage their plots), designers of the plot, construction of the raised beds, and lastly gardeners to plant and maintain the plot. If any of these sound interesting to you, please contact Priscilla Hoffman-Stowe to get on the Plot Team. With your help, we can make it happen but we need a good number of committed people!
Take Action for Affordable Housing and Mental Health Care in Virginia
Trinity recently joined as a full member of VOICE, an interfaith network aimed at advocating and working to solve social and racial injustices. We hope you will take a moment to learn and then take action as an individual on the following two key issues that VOICE leaders have spent the last four months meeting with experts and politicians to determine best solutions and what would be possible politically. VOICE is asking for us to send emails to key figures to fully fund VOICE’s two priorities in the upcoming August special session:
- Create 10 Crisis Receiving Centers — so people with mental illness and addiction can get treatment, not jail time; click here for the Crisis Receiving Centers FAQs
- Build 6,000+ units of affordable housing– to address Virginia’s affordable housing crisis. Affordable Housing FAQs
Please go to www.trinityarlington.org/announcements to be able to use the clickable links. Please click here to easily send an email to Gov. Northam and key General Assembly leaders.
Do you need Childcare/Godly Play? Sign up by 8pm on Saturday night
We are thrilled to offer childcare on Sunday mornings again! To help plan the lessons and numbers of caregivers, please sign up no later than 8pm on Saturday night. Thank you.
Slide Help Needed in August
We need a few hands in August to run the slides. It should have the kinks worked out by August, so please click here or email the church office (communications@trinityarlington.org) if you are able to come at 9:45 to run the slides for a Sunday in August. Thanks!
Mental Health Wellness Spot
“In summer, the song sings itself” -. William Carlos Williams, poet, physician
ADHD Childcare Guide for Parents: From discipline to bedtime, practical advice for caregivers of spirited children with ADHD. (there is an $8 fee for the book, but it is highly recommended!)
Racial Justice Spot
“Human rights are human rights, not white rights.” Gloria Richardson May 6, 1922
July 15, 2021: Trinity joined VOICE last week! You can still learn about how to make a difference by giving a voice to people who have little power in our community by going to https://www.voice-iaf.org/ or watching the VOICE informational session on Trinity’s website.
Indoor Worship
We will have indoor worship every Sunday at 10am starting the 27th through September 5th.
The basics:
- Everyone will need to sign up.
- Masks: Everyone will need a mask for singing. Unvaccinated people will need to be masked at all times. Vaccinated people only need to be masked for singing.
- Half of the sanctuary will be reserved for those who need physical distancing.
- Childcare/Godly Play (with sign up) are available for children up to age 6ish. Please drop off children before worship in the nursery room (Room 1 in the preschool) or Knox Room for preschool aged children.
- Bulletins are available in the enews, the signup link, the app, and the website. We will have limited copies available for those who do not have access to a digital bulletin.
For all of the details, please click here. Questions? Please email the church office.
What about at home worship now that we are inside?
Please bear with us as we adjust to a new sound system in the sanctuary and indoor services. In July the staff will take a break from recorded video worship and offer podcast of the service instead. The past Children’s moments and Services are available online on our Youtube channel (available on Youtube or our website under “Worship). We anticipate offering a recorded worship option again.
Racial Justice Spot: Ally Training
Ally Training is being offered through the Presbytery’s partnership with Service Never Sleeps. Allyship workshops will provide helpful definitions, invitations to self-mirroring, and active ally education involving the CLAIM acronym: Care, Learn, Act, Influence, and Maintain. The workshops teach individuals about the causes of social injustice, how to be effective allies for marginalized communities, and how to actively influence and educate others. Several Trinity members, such as Dan Campbell, Donna Parry, and Pastor Judith (as well as others) have participated in past classes and have really appreciated the focused events.
When: Wednesday, September 15 from 6pm – 9pm AND Thursday, September 16 from 6pm -9pm (two part training) your registration confirms you will attend both sessions.
Where: Virtual on Zoom
Who: Members of National Capital Presbytery congregations and communities and friends of our congregations (this training is NOT open to CLERGY) Click here to register. NOTE: In order to provide this training to as many people at possible, there is a limit of 4 participants per church for the upcoming sessions. Please email the church office so we can track how many people from Trinity are attending.
Church App
If you installed the app and the worship bulletin is from last week, please go to the three left hand bars and click on it. Then you see a circle with an arrow, click on it and you can refresh so it is updated.
The church has a new app which will have the order of worship and lyrics for worship, announcements, sign ups, and give. Lastly, we can send out notifications, such as a change to worship time due to weather. We will not have the prayer concerns on the app as it is publicly available and we want to respect internet privacy. How to access it? Go to your App Store: · Search “Sharefaith App” · Install · Type in “Trinity Presbyterian Arlington” for your church. · Click Default for the Icon. Enjoy. Questions ? Communications@trinityarlington.org