Watch a vidio of a townhall meeting with Bishop Hanson
Bishop Hanson recently conducted a webcast interactive townhall meeting on Dec. 6, 2009. You can watch and listen as he answers many questions from ELCA members across the country, via e-mail, twitter, facebook, chat room, ect.. Just click on the link below, then click the "Watch Vidio" button.
www.elca.org/townhall
Mitten Tree
What an overwhelming response to our Mitten Tree project—we were blessed by a record number of contributions of hand made, knitted and crocheted items as well as purchased products. These will be distributed to persons in need during this winter season. We will continue to receive your donation of these items for the balance of the winter.
Again, thanks for your “Random Acts of Kindness” in making “Outreach a Way of Life” at Holy Trinity!
Christmas Concert
Mark you calendar now to attend our 2010 Christmas concert! If you’re wondering why, just ask an attendee of this year’s event—an overwhelmingly awesome performance by Holy Trinity members augmented by guest performers. A total of nearly 40 members were involved in the presentation to an audience of over 150 members and guests
A special thanks to Betsy Nonnenmacher, who organized and directed the process to its fantastic conclusion. Likewise, kudos to Nancy Heaney for her design and preparation of the attractive programs, and to Elaine and Kathy Ludeman for preparing the refreshments following the musical.
Our 2010 objective for this “Bring-A-Friend” event is to fill the church—simply, if each attendee of this year’s event brings one guest (or member), we achieve our objective! Please help us continue to make “Outreach a Way of Life” at Holy Trinity.
Thank you to Suzanne Wagner, Roselyn Retzke and Julie Thomas for taking on the “Hanging of the Greens” the last several years. This has been a Herculean effort on their part and we thank them for adding such beauty and splendor to this Christmas season
Another couple of accolades I want to give are for the “Welcome Christmas” Concert and the Children’s Christmas Pageant. The Christmas Concert was really very inspirational and moving and I think we should be proud to have and enjoy this much talent right here at Holy Trinity. God is truly good! Our thanks to Betsy Nonnenmacher, who just joined Holy Trinity as Music Director, who coordinated the performers and the program on very short notice. We are very blessed to have such an accomplished musician as Betsy here at Holy Trinity. The Christmas Pageant was, as always, adorable and meaningful as the greatest story ever was told once again. Many thanks to all the children and teachers who worked so hard to present their rendition of the birth of Baby Jesus, especially Karen Shanahan who put in many hours to make this a meaningful event. The pageant was well attended and everyone enjoyed the delicious potluck afterward.
COUNCIL OFFICERS SELECTED
At the December 14th Council meeting, the following officers were elected:
President - Renee Andrews
Vice President - Jennifer Beck
Secretary - Janice Fisher
Let us encourage and pray for these leaders and the other members of Church Council that God grant them wisdom, discernment and leadership for the coming year. We wish to thank them all for their willingness to serve.
Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ
It is already the ending of January and we are proceeding into February. In just a few days we will be beginning Lent, the season of growing and making our faith stronger. I always thought Lent was a “supposed to “ thing, that I had to go to church extra, that I had to give up things, that it was all about what I was supposed to do. Apparently many other people thought the same because church was always full (400+). In fact we had to get to church about 20-30 minutes early to get a seat.
