Coming Events and Announcements

at Holy Trinity Episcopal Church, Collingswood, New Jersey

OPPORTUNITIES FOR THE WEEK

• VESTRY MEETING

Thursday, July 29 at 7:30 - Theresa's house in Collingswood. Spouses and partners invited.

• FOOD PANTRY DONATION OF THE MONTH

Help your neighbors! The Mission Possible committee is collecting items for the Collingswood Food Pantry - each month there will be a different theme. The donation for July is pasta and sauces. Leave donations in the tower. At the end of the month, everything will be delivered to the Food Pantry for distribution to those who are in need.

(If you bought donations for earlier months, but forgot to bring them in, we'll deliver that too!)

• GRANDMA'S ATTIC ITEMS NEEDED

Wow! Grandma's Attic just about sold out on May Fair day. Your donations are needed to restock the "attic" for our next opening on October 2, 2010 - Book Festival Day. Suggested donations include jewelry, books, glassware, handbags, and household items in good condition. Please label your donation "Grandma's Attic" and drop it off to church before Wednesday, September 22. Thank you!

• BACK TO SCHOOL PACK A SACK

It's time once again to help local children in need by supporting IHOC's annual backpack drive. Simply buy a child-size backpack and fill it with back-to-school items such as pens, pencils, notebook paper, ruler, folders, or any type of item you think that a child could use. Along with the school supplies, we also ask that you include a package of child-size underwear or socks in the backpack.

All the backpacks will be delivered to various homeless shelters in the area. Please leave all backpacks and school supplies in the tower by August 16. Cash gifts will also be accepted and will be used toward the purchase of additional school supplies. For more information, please contact Deb Dambly.

• MEMORIAL PAVERS FOR TRINITY PLAZA

Order to be placed in late July.

If you still haven't placed your order for engraved memorial paving stones for the area around the labyrinth, now is the time to do so. Pavers can be engraved with up to 3 lines of text (14 characters each) and are available for a donation of $100. To place your order, please complete an order form and return it to the church office along with a check made out to Holy Trinity by Monday, July 19. If you have any questions, please call the church office at 856-858-0491.

• SURFING THE NET WITH GOODSEARCH

Every penny counts...

Did you know that by using GoodSearch every time you surf the Internet you could be raising money for Holy Trinity? GoodSearch is a search engine (like Google) for nonprofits that donates money to the specified organization each time someone uses its site.

All you do is go to www.goodsearch.com and select "Holy Trinity Episcopal Church (Collingswood, NJ)" from the dropdown on the opening page. Then search the net as usual. Donations will automatically be sent to us a couple of times a year. Similarly, if you shop on the web, you can go to www.goodshop.com then make purchases at your usual stores like Amazon or Best Buy and additional donations will come our way.

• COMING THIS FALL...

• Sept. 12 - Return to Regular Worship Schedule
• Sept. 15 - Wednesday Morning Healing Service resumes (10:00)
• Sept. 22 - Parish Family Spaghetti Dinner (5:30)
• Sept. 25 - St. Francis Day Blessing of Animals (10:30 a.m.)
• Oct. 1-3 - Fran McKendrie Weekend
• Oct. 2 - Collingswood Book Fair
• Nov. 13 - Annual Fall Dinner Event

CHRISTMAS IS COMING AGAIN...

...and the Seamen's Church Institute still needs gifts to give!

Will you help to knit hats and scarves for sailors who are far from their homes and families? We are continuing this project for the Seamen's Church Institute this year. If you want to help, but don't know what to knit - we have patterns! If you want to help, but don't know how to knit - we'll teach you (and have some fun with it)! Items should be made of yarn that can be machine washed and dried, in "menswear" colors. See Sharon Wolfgang for more information.

We need the finished items by the end of October, so the Seamen's Church Institute can distribute them as part of their Ditty Bag program to merchant marine sailors coming into Philadelphia (more information about the ditty bags later in the year!)

• CIRCLE OF HOPE - NEW CHURCH BORROWS SPACE FROM HOLY TRINITY

Beginning in June, Holy Trinity began hosting the Circle of Hope Church as part of a six-month facility use agreement. Circle of Hope is a young congregation which hopes one day to have a worship center of its own. In return for a monthly donation, Circle of Hope will use our parish hall on Sunday afternoons and evenings for its praise and worship services. Additionally, members of C of H have offered to donate their time, energy, and muscle and assist us with some building maintenance projects! Welcome Circle of Hope!