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Summer Services
Summer services will begin on June 21 thru Sept 13. Service time is 9 am.
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Healing Service
Healing service is finished for the summer months and will resume on September 23th
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Boyer’s Key Tags
The Boyer’s Key Tag program has ended. A new program has been implemented. Boyer’s will ask for a cell phone to sign up. Once you complete this part, we can help set up the rest. Someone will be available every Sunday in July to help you. If you have questions, please see Carla Kauffman or Dawn Burns. Thank you for helping give back with your grocery purchases.
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Calling All Artists and Creators
Father Kurt would like to have our Stations of the Cross redone and or refreshed. If anyone with artistic and creative urges would like to participate in this project, please see Father Kurt for further details.
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Counters Needed
We currently have only 4 counters, who are also extremely involved with every committee in the church. If you can sit, count money and open envelopes, we can use you!! Please see Lea Bortner, or Bob Bednar for more details and to be placed on monthly schedule.
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Summer Reading Camp News
We’re on the countdown to Summer Reading Camp. To date, we have 22 children enrolled, ranging from kindergarten to grade 3. The children who are coming attend Schuylkill County Child Development, Pottsville and St. Clair Area School Districts, Shenandoah Valley, and Gillingham. We are looking forward to an exciting camp as we Celebrate America during our 250 th Anniversary year.
Each year, we like to include enrichment programs that give our campers learning opportunities that they may not normally have, in addition to our regular classroom reading activities. This year, on Tuesday, July 14, at 11:00, Loretta Murphey will present Songs Throughout Our History. On Wednesday and Thursday, July 15 and 16, we will be splitting our group by grades and taking one group to the Historical Society while the other group enjoys a library program at the church. Then the following day, we will switch so everyone has the opportunity to enjoy both programs. If anyone has some spare time and would like to help out with camp, we could always benefit from an additional adult to help us walk the children down to the historical society.
I would also like to thank our parishioners for their generous support of the reading camp. Your generous contributions to our Lunches for Learners and Books for Young Readers are appreciated. Those contributions, along with a late grant from the diocese, have helped us reach our fundraising goal. If you are able, please stop in to visit camp so you can see how your financial support and prayers are working in the lives of our children and families.
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Advent Project 2026
Once again, we hope to have a successful Advent Project sharing joy at Christmas time
with residents of local nursing homes. This will be our fourth year of collecting items that we take for granted, but are necessary for a better quality of life for residents in nursing homes. Last year we were fortunate to deliver 100 bags to two different institutions. We are looking for travel size products or smaller bottles of shampoo, conditioner, body lotions, hand lotions, mouthwash, bathroom wipes. Also lip balm, combs, nail files, disposable razors, travel tissues, toothpaste and toothbrushes. Please NO soaps or body wash — they will not be accepted by the nursing homes. This project will begin on October 18 and end on December 6. You can bring your offerings to the church— there will be boxes at each entrance. Thank you in advance for sharing joy and good will for those less fortunate.
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United Thank Offering
As we look forward to the longer, hopefully more relaxed summer days, let us not forget
those less fortunate than us. People in NE PA and all over the world are given hope
through the generosity of the UTO. Thank you for all you have given in the past, and
please continue to put your extra change in the little blue box or plan to give a check for
UTO Sundays — October 4 and 11. God bless you and thank you!
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Pottsville’s Downtown Safe Trick or Treat--Year #6!
Trinity will again be participating in Pottsville’s Downtown Safe Trick or Treat at the end of October. We are planning to distribute 750 bags again this year. Here’s how you can help:
1. Beginning in September, please contribute snacks or candy for the treat bags. Place your
donations on the piano in the lounge or give them to Lea or Peter Bortner.
2. Please come to a coffee hour on Sunday, October 11 and stay to help us pack the trickor-
treat bags. Many hands make light work. Last year, a team of 12 packed 600 bags in about an hour!
3. Please consider helping out the night of the distribution, which is held from 4-6 pm. The
date is not announced until mid-October. We have a great time out front, greeting the
children and their parents.
Questions? Please see Lea Bortner or call (570) 516-4726.
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Celebrating Trinity's 200th Anniversary
Notes from the History Committee
The History Committee is asking -ALL MEMBERS- whether you have been here for less than one year or more than 50- to participate in any or all of these celebration activities.
1We're Looking for Trinity Memories!
Please share photos of your family, Sunday School classes, church events, or other memories from Trinity. When submitting photos, please include:
Your name (so we can return your photo), the names of everyone pictured, and the year, or approximate year, the photo was taken.
2. Retired Practices- What practices have gone by the wayside since you have been worshipping at Trinity? Did you like the 11 pm Christmas Eve Service? Ringing the bells at Easter Vigil? We’ll compile a list of these things and share it with everyone.
Envelopes for the photos in #1 and paper with writing prompts for #2 will be available in the hallway near the lounge during the summer and at all entrances after we return to the sanctuary.
Many thanks from your History Committee- Lea Bortner and Norm Kauffman, co-chairs, Carol Field, Father Kurt Kovalovich, Peter Bortner and Jane Pritiskutch.
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Hymn Sign -200th Anniversary kick-off
On Sunday, September 20, our 200th anniversary celebration will begin with a 10:00 am Eucharist. Please note the different time. After the service, we will have a hymn sing-along with favorite hymns chosen by you and by our sister parishes.
Favorites will be compiled and sung by the congregation before a catered lunch is served in the Parish Hall. Priests and deacons who have served TEC in the past will be invited to share in this opening of year-long festivities. Come and make a joyful noise as we celebrate 200 years of worship at Trinity—1827-2027.
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Deadlines!!!!!!!!!
Please note: event notices to be included in the bulletin are due to the office by NOON on the WEDNESDAY before the Sunday they are requested to be in the bulletin.
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