10/25/20 Weekly Congregational Update

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Dear Members and Friends of Holy Trinity,

I usually send these updates out on Thursday but several items cannot wait until then.

  • The funeral service for Betty Vanesse will be on Thursday, October 22 at the Sosebee Funeral Home on South Main Street.  The public is invited to visit with the family from 3:00-4:00 p.m. prior to the service, and then at 4:00 p.m. I will be conducting a private service for the family only in their chapel.  This service will be Live Streamed on the Sosebee Facebook page.  If you would like to send a card to Betty’s son, his address is:  Jack Vanesse, 1817 Edgewood Avenue, Anderson, SC  29625.

  • The memorial service for John Dickson will be on Saturday, October 24 in our sanctuary at 5:00 p.m. for the family only.  However, you may visit with the family prior to the service that day from 11:00 AM – 2:00 PM outside on the portico of the Sullivan-King Funeral Home and you are invited to gather with the family at our columbarium for the inurnment service which will take place following the service around 5:50 p.m.  The memorial service will be recorded and placed on our church website and then later on the link of Sullivan-King.

  • You are reminded to wear something with the color red for this Sunday, Reformation Sunday.
  • We may not be singing hymns or processing or having a trumpet player like we do, due to COVID-19, but we will be celebrating Holy Communion.

  • Don’t forget to bring back your Time/Talent sheets filled out and your pledge cards.  These items will be blessed as part of the service Sunday.

  • Don’t forget to bring back your Trick-Or-Treat-So-Others-May-Eat bag filled with grocery items.  You may drop these off before Sunday, if you wish, by placing them in the room off the narthex, using the door code.

  • You may be wondering what we will be doing concerning Christmas Eve worship services.  To practice social distancing and to keep our numbers low, we will be offering 4 CHOICES of worship services!  11:00 AM and 3:00 PM will be a family oriented service using the ABC’s of Christmas like we did last year.  At 8:00 PM and 11:00 PM we will be offering a traditional Liturgical Christmas Eve Service.  More details will be coming but in the meantime, we are asking folks who are planning to attend to “reserve a spot” to help us keep our numbers spread out.  A member of the Church Council will be contacting each family of the congregation before Thanksgiving with the details and then they are planning to call two weeks before Christmas to get commitments to help us with our planning.

  • I need to let you know that Paul Wagner tested positive for COVID-19 Tuesday afternoon.  He served as the worship recorder this past Sunday morning at the Early Service but his exposure was limited to us – he wore a mask at all times, and kept his distance while he recorded.  I tell you this to keep you posted and as a precaution.  Paul is now in a 2 week quarantine.  On a side note, not really related to Paul’s update, I wanted you to know that the Health Ministry Team has a germicidal/virocidal fogger they use every time we have a worship service in the middle of the week.  For example, after Saturday’s funeral service in the sanctuary, the fogger will be used to clean the aerosol particles as well as the surfaces. 

 

In Christ,

Pastor Fischer