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Faith Education Celebration and All Church Picnic

Mark your calendars! The Faith Education Celebration and All Church Potluck Picnic will be Sunday, June 2nd after second service.  This is always a great event!  Last names beginning with A-L can bring sides and salads; M-z bring desserts.  Fried Chicken will be provided!

We Continue To Pray For...

• The Family of Wilson, 20 year old NTHS alum recently killed by a car in Denver
• Longtime member Bob, who together with his wife June, is at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, MN

Annual Conference

This year's Annual Conference is June 5th - 8th.  Trinity is helping assemble Health/Hygiene Kits to bring to those experiencing natural disasters.  Contact the Church office if you can help.

TCNS Sponsoring Benefit for Wilmette Food Pantry

Trinity Church Nursery School is sponsoring a concert to benefit the Wilmette Food Pantry.  On Wednesday, May 29th at 4:15, The Sharp Cookies will get kids of all ages singing and dancing and grooving!  Admission is free with a donation to the Wilmette Food Pantry.  All are welcome!  Contact Sue at sue@trinitywilmette.org for more information.

"42" - The Jackie Robinson Story

Baseball season is here and "42" is something we can all cheer about - even CUBS fans!  Yes, the next movie group meeting is June 9th at 7pm at the Reed's home, 254 Ingram in Northfield.  Please call Beth Reed at 847/441-6442 if you can attend and tell her what dessert you can bring!

Communion Day Bread Bakers Needed

We have been making and selling "tea breads" on Communion Sundays to raise money for our Hunger Ministries - our own Wilmette Food Pantry, A Just Harvest, and the Senegal Children's Feeding Program.  We need bakers!  If you can bake banana, pumpkin or any other tea bread and would like to contribute to this ministry, please contact Carol Meynen at cmeynen@comcast.net.

Disciple Bible Study

Disciple Bible Study will begin in late August.  Do you feel a thirst to read Scripture and explore the basis of Christian faith in a weekly discussion format?  If so, consider Disciple Bible Study, a United Methodist program of convenant group study, planned for Tuesday evenings from late August to late May.  To learn more, contact Tom Board at teb@alumni.northwestern.edu for more information.

Garden Angel Needed

The Oval Garden in front of the Sanctuary needs an Angel!  Partially planted with hardy perennials, it needs a loving hand to augment its beauty with colorful annuals or perennials and periodic grooming to provide a welcome to those who attend or merely walk past Trinity.  An initial commitment of an hour plus a weekly 15 minute period to weed and water would be all that is needed.  If you can provide this minimal care, please contact Carol Meynen at cmeynen@comcast.net.  Thank you for considering.

GODSPELL June 14th

Special Theater Event at Trinity UMC in Mount Prospect.  This is the 30th anniversary of the great musical.  Trinity East meets Trinity West - all ages are welcome!

Ice Cream Social - Thursday, July 11th

Get ready to tap your toes to the music of the Wilmette Community Band while enjoying some ice cream and homemade treats at Trinity's annual Community Ice Cream Social which will be held on the lawn from 6:30 - 8:30pm.  Mark your calendars!  It is a tasty evening!

Vacation Bible School - July 14 - 18

Fun Fair Everywhere is the theme for this summer's VBS.  This year VBS will be hosted by First Presbyterian Wilmette.  Children from all over the North Shore participate.  Your help is needed!  Please contact Catherine in the office for more info. 

Fall Benefit Dinner- Save the Date

Mark your calendars!  The Fall Benefit will be held November 16, 2013 at the Kenilworth Club.  We'll enjoy good company, food and entertainment while we celebrate four esteemed members of our Trinity Family:  Ruth Hanna, Marielou Nash and Claire and Don Prince!

Piano for Sale

If you are interested in purchasing the piano on the 2nd Floor Landing, it is available for $200.  Contact Carol Callahan for more information, 256-7243.

The 2013 Altar Flower Calendar

The 2013 Altar Flower Donation calendar is now available in the Parish House Lobby.  Thank you in advance for participating in this important ministry.

Children and Youth Faith Information

For all inquires and questions, contact cath@trinitywilmette.org Childcare available all morning in Room 105, near Parish House Lobby.

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Paper Crane Corner

 

Folding and unfolding is a way of praying. Would you like to know more about origami, a Japanese art? Trinity will be folding paper cranes to decorate the sanctuary in the near future. Come, now is the time to fold as our faith stories are told...living the Gospel one peace crane at a time. Donations of Origami paper are welcome especially sizes of 5x5 or larger.

A message from Pastor Brett Todd

The story is told of three prospectors who found a rich vein of gold in California during the gold rush days.

They realized what a great discovery they had and decided, "We’ve have a really good thing going here as long as no one else finds out about it." So they each took a vow to keep it secret.

Then they headed for town to file their claims and get the equipment necessary to mine the gold. True to their vows, they didn’t say a word to anybody. They filed their claim, bought the equipment, and headed back to their mine. But when they did, a crowd of people followed them.

And the reason was because the expression on their faces had given them away. Their faces were aglow in anticipation of the wealth that soon would be theirs. People knew that they must have found something very special. So a crowd followed them out of town.

The word Advent comes from the Latin word “adventus”, meaning coming. For Christians, Advent has a dual meaning. It reminds us of God’s love coming to us in the Christ child, Jesus, the baby lying in a manger, and it also reminds us that Christ promised to come again in all his glory, to take his beloved children unto himself.

For us then, Advent and Christmas is a time of great anticipation and yes, excitement. And yet, there is also an aura, not luminous but animus feeling of dread: Am I ready to meet God, face to face? Am I ready to stand before God’s throne and will I hear God say, “Well done, thou good and faithful servant”? Certainly we are sinners saved by grace, but have we done all that we could have done to be faithful to the Christ child who gave his life for us?

As a believer in the Christ, I want to do all that I can do, not to earn my salvation, but to be faithful to God. This Christmas season, let’s be faithful, and let’s have an expression on our faces that tells the whole world that this Christ child is in our hearts. And maybe, just maybe, the crowds will follow us because they know we have the “Good News.”

May Advent be in your heart.

Blessings, 


Pastor Brett