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For the last two weeks, Lynn and I have been traveling through Morocco, celebrating our 40th wedding anniversary. It’s been a great adventure (including camels!) and I greatly appreciate Trinity allowing us this time, which we’ve been planning for years.
I am away this coming Sunday. We’ll be in Philadelphia celebrating with our daughter Sarah as she completes her M.Ed at Penn! Then, I’m back.
I am grateful to all at Trinity who are covering during my absence. To Noël, Molly, Christine, Mark, Fred and Michael, thank you, and thanks to Norris and the vestry as well.
See you on Sunday, May 26!
Timothy Safford, Interim Rector
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New Building and Challenge Match Update
Members, you may have noticed the progress that has been made on the new Education and Administration Building. In the last weeks they installed the Belmont Memorial, Wifi, the kitchenette, and started to install the wood flooring. We are moving fast to a July move-in date.
Financially, it is projected that we need an additional $100k to ensure that a mortgage is not needed.
So, thank you to all those who have stepped up to help. We still have a Capital Campaign Matching Challenge to raise $75,000 by Trinity Sunday, June 15th. So far, we have gotten $35,300 in new donations in response to this challenge.
If you haven't yet contributed, please consider helping us raise the remaining funds to complete the new building. Not having a mortgage will make it easier to cover any new expenses related to maintaining and growing our programs.
Norris Commodore Elaine Burress
Senior Warden Trinity Serves
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New Construction Naming Opportunities:
Phones (4) $250 each
Room WiFi Connections (3) $300 each
Network Power Supply $400
Hall Light $900
Internet Connection $7,000
Built-in storage (3) $10,000 each
Restroom (2) $10,000 each
Landscaping and planting 20,000
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Here are a couple of real-life stories of folks in Newport whose lives have been helped by grants from Episcopal Charities (EC) to the MLK Jr. Community Center (MLKCC). They have received both annual grants and smaller grants from Charities Now! that distributes funds when and where needed. And I think Charities gave an emergency grant to MLK to replace a freezer, or other necessary equipment. All of our donations to Charities go toward the needs of the most vulnerable in our communities. There is a separate investment that is just for staff and office supplies.
I have a few monthly donations to charitable organizations. Charities get the largest monthly amount – not a huge amount, but enough to remind me of the importance of all the work of Episcopal Charities in Rhode Island. I’m happy to answer any questions or concerns you have about Charities.
Sheila is 60 years old and lives in Newport with her mother (78), and her two adult sons (43 and 33). She was employed as a caregiver but recently lost her job and cares for her sick mother. Sheila shared the following:
“I just recently became unemployed and have been utilizing the food pantry to feed my family. It's a great help struggling to pay rent and car insurance and going to the laundromat with limited income to live within your means. Your support keeps me from becoming hungry or homeless. I'm struggling, but I'm humble. Thank you again.”
Beginning in 2023, MLKCC began providing all the food for our preschool students in-house – including a hot breakfast, lunch, and two healthy snacks daily. We hired a chef and now make healthy meals provided to each child at no additional cost. 10% of our preschool children receive need-based financial assistance to attend. A new child from a low-income family joined our preschool program last October. The little boy was not an adventurous eater and often only wanted sweet treats. Once he was exposed to so many different options of healthy foods served during childcare, and witnessed other children enjoying the foods, he began to eat more. He now regularly tries a variety of new foods. His mother said, “I don’t have to worry about packing him anything, he is such a picky eater...I don’t have to do any meal prep or worry about buying him food to send him to school with.” She shared a story that she was going to make meatballs for dinner one night and the little boy said, “Mr. Richard (MLKCC Chef) makes yummy meatballs for lunch”.
-The Rev. Noël Robinson
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Rector Search Process
As you are aware, we are making progress in our search for a new Rector. The Search Team has been in conversation with several candidates. This is a very important step to ensure we select a Rector that will help Trinity achieve its future goals. One of our challenges, as stated by Rt. Rev. W. Nicholas Knisely during his visit last Sunday, is that there is a very limited number of candidates. This means the team needs to select someone that meets our needs and convince the candidate that we can meet their needs.
As a congregation, we will have a responsibility to ensure the success of the new Rector. As Rev. Tim Safford has stated, early in his career his congregations worked to ensure his success. We will need to make the same commitment to our new Rector. If our new Rector is successful in helping us live our Mission, we will be successful in helping our members and the community.
Here are some actions I think we can take to ensure the Rector’s success: (1) Have open and honest communications with the Rector and other members of the congregation; (2) Be open to change; and (3) Remember that the whole is more important than the one (for us Star Trek fans).
Our mission: We are a Christian community of faith, responding to God's call for us, engaging in the needs of our parish community and the world, and building for the future.
Norris Commodore
Senior Warden
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Memorial Service for
Mr. George Gardner Herrick
will be held this Saturday at 11:00 a.m.
at Trinity Church.
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Altar Flowers
The Altar Flowers will be given on May 18th
to the glory of God and in loving memory
of George Gardner Herrick
by his family.
and
In grateful thanksgiving for the
24th Wedding Anniversary of Rob and Laurel Howe,
Married at Trinity on May 18, 2001
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Tower Lighting
The Tower will be lit on May 18, 2025
in thanksgiving for the
24th Wedding Anniversary of Rob and Laurel Howe.
The Tower will be lit on May 19, 2025
to the glory of God and in loving memory
of Brian O'Malley
by Cynthia O'Malley
| | PLEASE NOTE CHANGE OF DATE | | Trinity Church Reading Group: The next meeting will be May 19, 2025 at 5PM. This group will be reading “The Secret War of Julia Child", a novel, by Diana R. Chambers. It will be an interesting follow-up and comparison to "A Woman of No Importance”, by Sonia Purnell. Please contact Anne Glenn if you are interested. Click on her name to write an email. | | |
Community Meal Needs Volunteers
Would you like to see an amazing Newport community service? Do you want an opportunity to work with fun good-hearted people and go home knowing you made a difference in a person’s day? Please consider volunteering at the Community Meals, the 1st, 4th and 5th Monday of the month. You can sign up here: Community Meal Calendar Sign Up.
- D'arcy Carr.
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SAVE THE DATES!
May 31st - Campus Gardening & Cleanup Day, 9-12 PM
June 6th - The Newcomers’ Welcome Party
June 8th - Pentecost and Baptisms
June 15th -Trinity Sunday
June 21st- Trinity Strawberry Festival. Please lend a helping hand to cut berries, work a shift on event day, and invite your family and friends to come! Thank you, co-chairs: Phoebe Livingston, Cissie Ferzoco and Ellen Patterson
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How to get involved
A/V Technician: Would you like to learn more about Audio Visual (A/V) Technology. It's not hard and Trinity has great A/V teachers. Please reach out to Norris Commodore to learn more.
Parish Administration Assistance: Please contact the Parish Administrator if you can spare an hour or two during that week. Click here to go to Signup.com.
Mens Bible Study: Meets weekly on Wednesdays, 12:00-1:00PM via Zoom. If interested in joining, please contact john_gilmartin@mac.com.
Choir Practices: If interested, please contact the Michael at michaelbahmann@yahoo.com or Fred at fred_jodry@brown.edu.
Prayer Shawl Group (PSG) This Group meets the second and fourth Thursday of each month, 1-3PM in the Hawes Room. The group creates Prayer Shawls, Baptismal Blankets and fellowship. All knitting and crochet talent welcomed.
Trinity Loves and Cares (TLC): If you would like to learn about pastoral care and helping others in our parish, please contact Pam Alexander. Sometime a phone call or card can keep us all connected.
*Should you have any questions, contact the Parish Administrator, Molly Chamberlain. 401-846-0660
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May Birthdays
Give thanks this month for the birthdays of Michael de Pinho, Oliver Lopez, Dorcas Taylor, Bradford Beebe, Anne Glenn, Bp. Jim Jelinek, Emily Skeehan, George Brainerd, Kathy Knudsen, Nell Soper, Cheryl Hatch, Kay Winston, D’Arcy Carr, Michael Bowley, Erin Myers, Michael Bahmann, Oren Baker, Anne Livingston, and Alan Bernard.
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Trinity Loves and Cares
Trinity Loves and Cares is a ministry of pastoral care of praying for and providing support to members of Trinity Church for April 2025, the TLC coordinator is Kay Winston. Click on his name and you can write him an email.
Message from TLC: "Sharing from your heart reaches someone else's heart"
-Unknown.
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The Trinity Altar Society is happy to assist you in providing flowers as a beautiful symbol of what we offer to God in our worship. Whether to honor a loved one’s memory, to celebrate a special occasion, or simply in thanksgiving, it only takes a phone call or an e-mail to Chris Pimentel, cap5182@cox.net
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Tower Lighting
The historic spire of Trinity Church is lit nightly. When you contribute to the cost of lighting, you may memorialize a person who has passed or give thanks for an event, like an anniversary or birthday. The traditional offering is $50, but please give as the Spirit moves! Contact Molly Chamberlain, Parishadmin@trinitynewport.org to make arrangements.
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Worship Participants
Preacher: The Rev. Mark J.K. Robinson
Celebrant: The Rev. Noël Robinson
Assisting: Deacon Christine Cassels.
Co-Music Director & Organist: L. Fred Jodry.
Trinity Choir
Acolyte & Crucifer: 8:00AM Larry Pulice; 10:00AM Bob Smith.
Lector & Intercessor: 8:00AM Wayne Porter; 10:00AM Norey Cullen.
Ushers: Richard Alexander, Karina Valencia and Turner Scott
Altar Society: Miriam Smith, Bev Lobecker, Debbie Bartlett,
Nancy Ryan and Donna Ellis
A/V: Norris Commodore
Sunday School: Melissa Moniz and Dolores Bauer
Coffee Hour: Andrea Dwyer
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Trinity Church
1 Queen Anne Sq.
Newport, RI 02840
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