|
|
SEARCH our website
| No matter who you are, there are many ways you can support Trinity. |
|
--First, and most obviously, you can provide financial support. Shortly we will be providing the capability of making online donations, but right now you can send a check made payable to "Trinity Lime Rock" to Trinity Episcopal Church, 484 Lime Rock Road, Lakeville, CT 06039. If you prefer to help fund a particular activity here at Trinity, such as altar flowers, or altar furnishings, or our programs for young people, or our music, the Rector's Discretionary Fund, or our programs helping others in need, simply identify the way you would like your funds used on the memo line of your check, or enclose a note with your instructions. Another way to provide financial support is via the offering each Sunday morning. If you would like a box of offering envelopes, please ask Pastor Heidi. If you plan to be with us for a while, consider pledging financial support to Trinity. Even if you are a regular donor, an annual pledge of support helps Trinity plan its activities. |
|
--Second, you can support
Trinity with your special talents.
We do many things at Trinity that require the assistance of people with talents of all kinds. You may have a talent we don't know about -- let us know! Here are a few of the more obvious possibilities and whom to contact: --Can you sing or play a musical instrument? Contact Christine Gevert, our Parish Music Director --Can you design attractive flower arrangements? Contact Judy Brown, Chair of the Flower Guild. --Are you a whiz with computers? Contact Al Dorf, who oversees Trinity's computer hardware and software. --Are you a financial maven? John Lloyd, our Treasurer, is the person to talk with. --Skilled at carpentry or electricity or plumbing or painting or gardening? Judy Brown is the Buildings and Grounds Chair, and Keith Nolan is the head of the Men's Group. --The kind of person who loves to meet new people and welcome them? Speak to any Vestry member. --Great with kids? With older people? Speak a foreign language? Pastor Heidi is the person to talk with. --Knowledgeable about art? Tom Schindler is in charge of the Art Show. --Like to cook or create with food? Sue Kozlowski is our hospitality chair and would like to meet you. Alice Tweed is in charge of our bake sales, and can always use your creativity. --Like to plan events and greet the public at them? Ginny Dildine, the head of our Episcopal Church Women (ECW), is in charge of our Christmas Bazaar as well as our Memorial Day weekend tag sale. She'll help you join right in. --Know your way around the Chancel (or want to learn)? Alice Tweed is always interested in new members of our Altar Guild, and Pastor Heidi can provide information about becoming a Minister of Communion.
|
|
--Third, you can support Trinity with your time. Many things we do at Trinity require no special talents, yet are no less important than those that do. Can you pray for someone who is ill? Can you pray for our mission at Trinity Lime Rock? Can you help prepare food for our Sunday coffee hour or help clean up? Can you help out with folding the weekly bulletin? Can you provide transportation to and from church for our elderly parishioners who no longer drive, or for our friends at Trinity Glen? Help out maintaining our grounds on parish clean-up day? Make weekly deliveries of food donations to OWL's Kitchen? Assist at our ECW's annual tag sale and annual Christmas Bazaar? Do you see something that needs to be done that no one is doing? Speak to anyone on the Vestry or to Pastor Heidi. |
|
“What we get is how we make a living. What we give is how we make a life” - Winston Churchill All too often we measure our own worth – and that of others – by what income bracket we inhabit and what accomplishments our resumés list. But what do these measures really tell us? They may determine our places on the socio-economic ladder, but that’s about all. They tell us nothing about our inner lives or who we are in our uttermost depths of self. And certainly their rewards are ephemeral at best, because there is always someone with more money or a more impressive list of achievements. However, when we self-identify as children of God and brothers and sisters of all we meet, whole new worlds open up for us. We no longer have to defend our turf, and we begin to see the oneness of creation woven all around us and through us. Sooner or later, we also begin to see money in its proper perspective – as a means rather than as an end, as an instrument, rather than the finished piece. Everyone needs money in order to provide food, shelter and other necessities of life. But as we travel further in our spiritual journeys, we realize that the provision of the basics for others is more important to us than acquiring more “stuff” so that we can keep up with our neighbors. Scripture tells us that Jesus fed thousands with a few loaves of bread and a couple of fish. We can make that same kind of difference for our siblings in Christ when we share our own “loaves and fishes”. And the joy that is ours when we do so, is how we not only make a life, but how we leave a legacy for others to follow. Alexis Dorf |
| Consider a donation for Altar flowers at Trinity in thanksgiving for a memorable occasion or in memory of a loved one. Why not take this opportunity to print a convenient flower donation form. |
