Save the Date: Turkey Trot 2022

A great way to start Thanksgiving Day!

SAVE THE DATE

November 24, 2022
at 8:30am

We are back with an in-person run this year! PLEASE RUN, VOLUNTEER, AND SPONSOR! Our in-person race permit was approved and online registration is now open for Trinity Turkey Trot. As always, we’ll run/walk Thanksgiving morning at 8:30am.

Visit the Turkey Trot website for more information and to sign up for our benefit 5K!

All proceeds benefit Outreach charities:

Arm in Arm (Crisis Ministry), Housing Initiatives of Princeton, Trenton Children’s Chorus and Urban Promise Trenton. We are also looking for race leadership volunteers. Leverage your passion for running, walking and/or project management for a great cause!

Please consider volunteering and remember to bring in canned food to donate to Arm In Arm on race day. There will be an Arm In Arm truck on hand to collect donations to their food pantries in Princeton and Trenton.

If interested in sponsorship opportunities, volunteering, or joining the Turkey Trot team, please contact Maureen Westerman at turkeytrotprinceton@gmail.com.

The Robert W. Jenson Papers

 

On October 5, the Center for Barth Studies at Princeton Theological Seminary is hosting an event to showcase The Robert W. Jenson papers. Reflections will be offered to celebrate the life and legacy of Trinity's own Robert W. Jenson, who has been called

“the greatest American theologian since Jonathan Edwards.”

The event will take place on Wednesday, October 5 from 3–5pm in the Theron Room (First Floor) of the Theodore Sedgwick Wright Library at Princeton Theological Seminary. A small reception will follow. This gathering is free and anyone can attend in-person or online. Please register in advance so the Barth Center will know how many to expect. If you plan to attend online, you should register prior to the event to receive a Zoom link on the morning of the event.

Rummage Needs You!

PLEASE CONSIDER HELPING AT

 

Volunteers are needed for all aspects of the sale!
Help as much or as little as you can!

 
 

Set-up

Monday–Wednesday,
October 10–12,
9am–2:30pm 

Help set-up tables and racks, unpack boxes, and price and place merchandise!

 
 
 

Sales

Thursday & Friday,
October 13 & 14,
1–5pm

Saturday
October 15
9am–1pm

Be part of the sale! Run the cash register or sell in a department helping customers find their special rummage treasures!

 
 
 

Clean-up

Saturday
October 15
1–4pm

Many hands lighten the load!

 
 
 

To Volunteer, please see any member of the Rummage Team or

Teenagers, we want your help!  We’ve got flexible hours and give community service hours generously.  Come join the fun! 

We cannot conduct the sale without your help! Please consider volunteering for this wonderful church community event where 100% of the proceeds fund Trinity Church’s Loving Our Neighbors efforts!

Thank you for your support of the Rummage Team!

 

Our 2022-2023 Interns

Hank Jeannel

Hello, Trinity Church!

My name is Hank, and I am an M.Div. student in my third year. I was born in Tulsa, Oklahoma to a military family and have lived in nine states between around a dozen moves. Before coming to Princeton Seminary, I had been living in New York City where I attended college. My work at the Seminary has focused on systematic theology and social ethics with an emphasis on the thought of Dietrich Bonhoeffer. I am passionate about the ways in which the gospel inaugurates a radical vision for our life together through God’s amazing grace.

I am a deep lover of film and for my first job (age 12) I worked as an extra in movie and television productions. I also love exploring new places, reading a good book all afternoon, eating great food, and talking all things Star Wars. I am looking forward to spending a wonderful year of life and ministry with all of you!

Angel Nalubega

Hi! I’m Angel Nalubega. (she/they pronouns). I’m a second-year MDiv student at Princeton Theological Seminary. I’m interested in the connections between pastoral care and church history, particularly the church’s relationship to racial justice and white supremacy in the US, and how we can take lessons from the past to inform our actions in the world. Some fun facts about me are: 1) I’m Ugandan-American, 2) I love rugby, and I used to teach middle school social studies, so chances are that if you have a historical question, I can probably answer it!

Potter McKinney

Potter McKinney is a second year MDiv student at Princeton Theological Seminary. He comes from Southwest Virginia, from out in the Appalachian Mountains, and has a BA in Religious Studies from the College of William & Mary. He enjoys studying theology and ancient/medieval history and literature. Other times, he enjoys playing or listening to music, reading, and coffee, possibly all at the same time.

Habitat Unity Build

Saturday, October 1, 2022, 9am at First Presbyterian Church of Hamilton

(3550 Nottingham Way, Hamiton Square)

Volunteers needed to represent Team Trinity to help construct a frame for a new home in Hightstown. We will build the frames in prescibed sections at the parking lot of First Presbyterian Church of Hamilton at 3550 Nottingham Way, Hamiton Square. This will be a fun opportunity for all faiths to come together to build a stronger community.

It starts promptly at 9am and breakfast and lunch provided.

The work day will probably wrap up around 2-3pm. All ages welcome and younger children will be given safe tasks. The basic skill of being able to use a hammer is all that is required.

For more information, please visit Habitat for Humanity’s event page or register to volunteer at GiveSmart. Feel free to contact Junior Warden Phil Unetic with any questions you may have.

Death of Queen Elizabeth II

 
 
 

Elizabeth II, Dei Gratia Britanniarum Regnorumque Suorum Ceterorum Regina, Consortionis Populorum Princeps, Fidei Defensor

Elizabeth II, by the Grace of God, of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland and of Her other Realms and Territories Queen, Head of the Commonwealth, Defender of the Faith

We join with Anglicans throughout the world, with the people of the United Kingdom and all nations of the Commonwealth, and above all with her family, in mourning the death of Queen Elizabeth II. As the Supreme Governor of the Church of England, she was the most well-known Anglican layperson in the world. Her quiet faith and her devotion to duty, from World War II until the appointment of Prime Minister Liz Truss only yesterday, stand as an example to us all.

We offer two prayers from the 1662 Book of Common Prayer, the authorized Prayer Book of the Church of England.

Almighty God, with whom do live the spirits of them that depart hence in the Lord, and with whom the souls of the faithful, after they are delivered from the burden of the flesh, are in joy and felicity: We give thee hearty thanks, for that it hath pleased thee to deliver this our sister out of the miseries of this sinful world; beseeching thee, that it may please thee, of thy gracious goodness, shortly to accomplish the number of thine elect, and to hasten thy kingdom; that we, with all those that are departed in the true faith of thy holy Name, may have our perfect consummation and bliss, both in body and soul, in thy eternal and everlasting glory; through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.

O Lord our heavenly Father, high and mighty, King of kings, Lord of lords, the only Ruler of princes, who dost from they throne behold all the dwellers upon earth; Most heartily we beseech thee with thy favour to behold King Charles; and so replenish him with the grace of thy Holy Spirit, that he may alway incline to thy will, and walk in thy way: Endue him plenteously with heavenly gifts; grant him in health and wealth long to live; strengthen him that he may vanquish and overcome all his enemies; and finally, after this life, he may attain everlasting joy and felicity; through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.

Bonnie Bivins: Connections to General Convention and Lambeth Conference

Over the past few weeks we have had a rare blessing.  While uninvited we have, perhaps because of Covid-19 or simply the expansion of modern technology, been able to watch the proceedings of both the Episcopal General Convention and the Anglican Communion Lambeth Conference.  Both are circles of our world as Episcopalians, Anglicans, and Christians that we rarely have the opportunity to observe must less participate in.  However, what happens in those meetings has bearing on our parish life. On the lighter side it gives un an opportunity to have a sense of the people guiding us.  

Off and on I watched the General Convention to observe where the Holy Spirit was guiding the Episcopal Church. Then I had the distinct blessing to observe in living color the whole (almost) Anglican Communion who came together with their differences and led by Archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby discussed their context and theology with each other in love if not agreement.  One felt the embrace of God’s love for all gathered and the strong encircling bond of the children of God from their own context greeting each other as fellow disciples.  

Unfortunately, the General Convention was mostly the business of running the Episcopal Church. The Lambeth Conference was something different with three keynote addresses, a Bible Exposition of 1 Peter led by Justin Welby, and a number of Plenary sessions that brought together the contextual experience of the breadth of the Anglican Communion.  

I saved for myself and now share with you the YouTube links, so you can watch some of these extraordinary events. Only the General Convention opening sermon from Presiding Bishop Michael Curry is included in the links. You may possibly find other sessions from the General Convention on YouTube.

The links of the Lambeth Conference are in order (i.e. top down), from the start to finish of the conference. Other news and comments from the Episcopal perspective you will find on the Episcopal News Service news@episcopalchurch.org. 

Peace,
Bonnie Bivins

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