2/6/22 Weekly Congregational Updates

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Dear Members and Friends of Holy Trinity,

 

Some things to share with you this week:

 

  1. Thank you for all the responses to my email requests last week, asking for additional Sunday altar flowers. All spots have been filled!

  2. And thank you so much for all the responses to my email request for a volunteer to deliver our donated food items to Good Neighbor Cupboard.  Robin Sandwick has agreed to handle this.

  3. We had so many volunteers respond, that Amy Goodson has decided to take a break from delivering our donated food items to AIM.  Pastor Stephen Roehrs has agreed to handle this.

  4. As I write these words, our 2022 Yearbook (which contains the Committee and Financial Reports for 2021, as well as the new Congregational Directory) has just finished being printed.  We thank Pat Ross and Beth Fischer for putting in many hours in getting everything printed and assembled.  You may stop by the church and pick up your family’s copy beginning today. The copies will be in the narthex.  Please be mindful that each copy has a printed name on them so that we can keep up with who has picked up their copy and who has not.  If for some reason we missed printing you a copy, there are extra copies in the back of the box.  They will also be available, of course, on Sunday.

  5. Since our Congregational Directory has been printed and sent out to you, we have discovered that several emails are in error.  Please make the following changes to your copy (copies):
  6. Our semi-annual congregational meeting will be Sunday, February 13 at 2:00 p.m.  We will be sharing the ministries we have done together in 2021 as well as hearing reports from our committees.  If you would like something to be discussed at this meeting, in addition to this, Sunday is the last day to submit requests to the church office or to our Congregational President, Amy Goodson.  Due to COVID, we will not be meeting in person but through Zoom.  Bobbi Metz will be hosting the meeting and you should have received an email invitation from her yesterday. If you did not, please let me know.

  7. Please be mindful of our Active Shooter Training for the congregation, sponsored by our Safety Team.  The Anderson County Sheriff’s Office will be conducting the training and you are encouraged to attend.  The meeting will run from 3:00-5:00 p.m. in our sanctuary.  I have been to several of these training events and have found them to be very informative.  You may recall that on January 21, a gunman held four hostages from a Jewish Temple in Texas.  They were able to escape and gave credit to the fact that they had just recently gone through Active Shooter Training in their synagogue.

  8. Jean Vinson is now at the AnMed Health Rehabilitation following surgery for a broken leg.  Please be mindful that, due to COVID restrictions, each patient is allowed only one visitor a day.  We ask you NOT to visit her, at this time, so that her husband, Bob, may be able to visit.

  9. Sunday, I will be preaching on the gospel text, Luke 5:1-11, as we hear of Jesus calling his first disciples and telling them, and us, “From now on you will be catching people.”  Questions to ponder:
    • Is it possible that God can use us as bait for the Lord? 
    • What does our life tell others about Jesus?
    • Do others see us and ask why our life is different?
    • Do others wonder why we are at peace with life, and why we are so grateful?
    • What is the biggest miracle in this story?

 

In Christ,

Pastor Fischer