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1 The Rector’s Voice 2 Choir Notes Event Reminders 3 Holy Week Schedule Treasurer's Report
5 Outreach 6 Birthdays and Anniversaries Remember In Your Prayers Lay Ministers
7 Calendar of Events
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Gone & Mostly Forgotten Sr. Warden's Report
April 2015
The Rector’s Voice The Very Rev. John H. Bonner, III
We had a timely completion to our Bible Study on Mark’s Gospel. Mark’s Gospel begins with
these words: “The beginning of the Good �ews of Jesus Christ, the Son of God.” The end of this Gospel is rather unsatisfactory because the earliest manuscripts we have date from the 4th century and both end halfway through verse 8 while what is believed to be a later addition is a summary of other Gospel endings. But the questions which surround the last words of the Gospel are still life changing/saving words. Let’s have a look.
There are many witnesses from every walk of life to the final days of Jesus’ ministry. At the center of the ‘witnesses’ are the women who in most cases would be seen as ‘worthless witnesses’ in the ancient world but who here actually affirm the validity of this story rather than call the events into question. Believers would see this detail as proof of Jesus’ Resurrection because this detail is too extraordinary not to believe. It takes a courageous writer to make this the lynchpin of witnessing just as the other Gospels do.
As our opening verse says “The beginning…” it brings alive for each of us as ‘witnesses’ today the meaning of Resurrection. What does this Resurrection of Our Lord Jesus mean to you? To me it means that my sins are forgiven and that God’s promise is secure and that with God all things are possible. It is the absolute bedrock of our faith. Many Messiahs had come and gone but only Our Lord Jesus ‘rose from the dead’. “The Beginning…” means that this story still goes on and you and I are the witnesses to its truest meaning today. Sins are still being forgiven and God’s possibilities are alive and well.
“What tasks has our risen Lord given you in order to take the gospel into the world?” For me it is to be a priest in His Church. For you is it to repent, follow in the Apostle’s teaching and fellowship, the breaking of bread and the prayers; to proclaim the Good News of God in Jesus Christ; to seek and serve Christ in all persons, loving your neighbor as yourself; and to strive for justice and peace among all people, respecting the dignity of every human being?
Each Easter we come to evaluate our ministries individually and corporately. I ask you to renew your commitment to discipleship in the Name of Jesus Christ. Resurrection is always a call to ‘new life’ and this ‘renewal’ is to carry into the world the deepest meaning of Jesus for you. The world is a broken and shattered place, but Jesus’ love and healing is alive and well through each of us. If this is to be the great truth we know it to be, then you and I must be those who carry this message of Easter to the world. God bless you in your carrying of this “Good News” and go forth proclaiming boldly.
Faithfully,
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The Church of the Holy Trinity 207 South Church Street P.O. Box 125 Hertford, NC 27944 † 252-426-5542 www.holytrinityhertford.ecdio.org
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TRINITY’S TRUMPET The Newsletter from the Church of the Holy Trinity
Hertford, North Carolina
April 2015
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Choir Notes Joan Ernst, Director
March has been a busy month for our Trinity Bells. Early in the month, the bells played at
Holiday Island to a very appreciative audience. Later, the bells shared their heavenly sound at Prime Time, a senior facility in Edenton. They will finish the month playing in our Palm Sunday service. As a new member of this group, I cannot say enough about the dedication, hard work and commitment they have and give to the outreach ministry of Holy Trinity.
In Holy Week, counting our Palm Sunday and Easter Sunday services, we will have six services. On Palm Sunday we will start at 9:45am with the prelude by Trinity Bells followed by the procession of the palms. On Monday we have our Community Service at the Methodist church at noon; Father Bonner will be the preacher and our choir will provide the music. The choir will also be singing at our traditional Maundy Thursday service at 5:30pm. On Good Friday, there will be a noon service with music - but no robed choir.
This year, for the first time in many years, we will begin our Easter celebration with the Easter Vigil service on Holy Saturday evening at 5:30pm. In many Episcopal churches, this has become the primary Easter service. We begin with the lighting of the Pascal Candle and procession into church, symbolizing rebirth at Easter, as Christ brings light back into the dark world. "Alleluia's" and Rite II will be used once more; and we will all share in the baptism of Shelton and Deborah Manley's grandchildren.
On Easter Sunday we will have our traditional Easter service beginning with our introit featuring a trumpet fanfare and our favorite Easter hymns.
♪♫ Alleluia! Alleluia! Alleluia! The strife is o'er, the battle done,
The victory of life is won; The song of triumph has begun. Alleluia! Alleluia! Alleluia! ♫♪
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Event Reminders The Very Rev. John H. Bonner, III
Easter Vigil
In the Christian Tradition the Service of The Great Vigil of Easter is the high point theologically of the Christian calendar. Early Catechumens studied for a year and were Baptized at this Service in order to receive their first Eucharist on Easter Morning. We are celebrating this service this year because we have two Baptisms; Noah Langston Manley & Elizabeth Faye America Sims, grandchildren of Deborah and Shelton. I ask you to come at 5:30pm on April 4th to join us in this magnificent celebration of Our Lord’s Resurrection and the joyful welcoming into the Christian fold of Noah and Elizabeth.
Inquirer's Class
Also known as “Everything you wanted to know about the Episcopal Church and were afraid to ask.” We will start this Class on Sunday, April 19th after the Sunday Service. We will go until Sunday May 17th with a Dinner at the Rectory on Wednesday, May 20th before Confirmation/Reception/Reaffirmation on Sunday, May 24th at St. Paul’s, Edenton by Bishop Skirving. This Deanery Wide Celebration has become a staple in our Deanery and it is a meaningful and important day for those seeking to join our Church. It is for those who are new to the Episcopal Church and for those who are renewing/reaffirming their journey of faith. We will use as our Text Ian Markham’s new book “Episcopal Questions, Episcopal Answers”. (Come and pick up a copy) I look forward to speaking to anyone who is interested about this exercise.
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Spring Conference
“We Started with 12: Strengthen, Empower, Sustain” is a Leadership Conference for our Diocese at Trinity Center, April 19th 4:00pm thru April 21st at Lunchtime. As the one trying to organize this work I ask for your prayers. Barbara, Laura, Kent and Lorraine will be attending from our Parish.
Holy Week Schedule
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Treasurer's Report Wes Brown, Treasurer
Total contributions were essentially on budget through the month of February. Total expenses were over budget due to some changes made against the planned budget timing. Also, just as with our homes, the January and February utilities exceeded budget and now amount to forty percent of our annual budget.
If there are any questions or concerns please contact me by email at [email protected] or by phone at 426-1244.
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2015 Operating Budget Summary February YTD View
YTD Actual
YTD Budget
YTD Per Cent
Pledges/Regular Giving $ 30,073 $ 29,282 103.0%
Other Contributions 253 333 76.0%
Total Contributions $ 30,549 $ 29,815 102.0%
Total Expenses $ 34,168 $ 29,982 114.0%
Plate Offering 223 200 112.0%
Holy Trinity
Episcopal Church 207 South Church Street
Hertford, NC 27944 � 426-5542 The Very Rev. John H. Bonner III
March 29, Palm Sunday
9:45 AM (Trinity Bells) 10:00 AM Holy Eucharist
March 30, Lenten Service followed by lunch 12:00 noon @ Hertford Methodist Church
April 2, Maundy Thursday 5:30 PM
April 3, Good Friday 12:00 Noon
April 4, Easter Vigil 5:30 PM
April 5, Easter Sunday 6:30 AM Missing Mill Park, Community Service 10:00 AM Holy Trinity, Festival Eucharist
Holy Trinity Episcopal Church
Welcomes you
April 2015
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Gone and Mostly Forgotten Raymond A. Winslow, Jr.
With April comes a number of anniversaries. Some will be remembered across the world, as
April 22 marks the centenary of the beginning of the Second Battle of Ypres, which brought the world a new horror when the Germans released chlorine gas into the faces of the unsuspecting and unprepared French.
Some will be remembered in the United States, as the one hundred fiftieth anniversary of the Civil War reaches its final year. April 9 recalls the surrender of Robert E. Lee’s Army of Northern Virginia to Ulysses S. Grant’s Army of the Potomac/Army of the James/Army of the Shenandoah at Appomattox. (The author will appreciate that the surrender of Virginia artillery sergeant James P. Atkinson that day meant he would survive to become my great-great-grandfather.) Five days later sees the solemn remembrance of the death of Abraham Lincoln. (The tracer of trivial connections will note that the president and I are seventh cousins six times removed in descent from Edward Gilman and that his assassin was killed in the same Virginia county [Caroline] in which sergeant Atkinson had been born.) On April 26 North Carolina will remember the much larger but less-known Confederate surrender of Joseph E. Johnston’s Army of Tennessee to William T. Sherman’s Military Division of the Mississippi near Durham. Both surrenders included men from Perquimans County.
There are also anniversaries pertinent to Holy Trinity. (Dare I say they will be remembered only by those who read this article.) April 23 (1848) was the date the parish held its first service and April 27 (1851) the day the church building was consecrated. Even less the subject of recall is April 16 (1851), when the Church of St. Barnabas was consecrated.
St. Barnabas is part of our church history that would be totally forgotten if there were no local historian in the congregation. The little church was of equal age with Holy Trinity and stood on the edge of Stockton plantation south of the village of Woodville. It served the parishioners in the Durants Neck vicinity for whom the trip to Hertford was quite an undertaking. It eventually dwindled away in the early 1880s and the last anyone heard of it was when bootleggers removed the remains of the building to stoke their fires.
In the end what is remembered depends on who there is to remember. What we did not personally witness and to which we feel no connection is forgotten. Memory is also generational. When I was a child there were still survivors of the Civil War among us, while my parents and grandparents lived through World War I. To my niece and nephews, however, those were only subjects in their history books. What survives are the anniversaries of significant events in our lives and those bits of history that attract our attention. � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � �
Sr. Warden's Report Barbara Kehayes, Sr. Warden
In March one of the responsibilities of the Vestry is to turn its attention to the Skinner Scholarship Trust. The Thomas Gregory Skinner Memorial Trust was established in 1955 by the Skinner family. The trust has very definite requirements and is a unique fund that is still supported by Skinner family members both in their presence at the scholarship presentations here at Holy Trinity and by continued donations.
Virginia Johnson and her Skinner Scholarship committee soon will be interviewing possible recipients and distributing over $10,000 in scholarships to Perquimans related students. A conversation at lunch this week brought home to me how far reaching this program is when one of the ladies there stated that she had once received a Skinner Scholarship. It reminded me that my own daughter had benefited also some 30 years ago. I wonder just how many young people of Holy Trinity and Hertford have been blessed over 60 years by the Skinner's foresight and generosity. � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � �
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Outreach Dan Westra, Chairman
Thank you for your support for the Millennium Development Goals throughout the Lenten season. The big white bucket in the Parish House still has more room in it!
During April, we have two special loose plate offerings. The first will be on Good Friday and is designated for the Episcopal Church in Jerusalem. Here are some thoughts from our Presiding Bishop:
“The Episcopal Church has been in partnership with the Diocese of Jerusalem for a very long time,” Presiding Bishop Katharine Jefferts Schori writes in the annual Good Friday letter to all congregations asking them to consider assistance for Jerusalem and the Middle East.
“The offering we collect on Good Friday carries on the ministry of Jesus of Nazareth, through support for the many ministries of healing, feeding, and teaching among the dioceses of the Province,” the Presiding Bishop writes.
Funds collected from the Good Friday Offering are gathered and distributed to the Province of Jerusalem and the Middle East, which includes the Dioceses of Jerusalem and Cyprus and the Gulf, all members of the Anglican Communion.
“May our offering this year strengthen the bonds among all God’s people, and bless each one with concrete and eternal signs of more abundant life,” she concludes.
The second designated loose plate offering will be on Sunday, April 12th and will be directed to the Episcopal Foundation of The Diocese of East Carolina. To keep you better informed about the causes we support, here is some information about the Foundation as described in the mandate of the organization.
This foundation was formed by the Diocese of East Carolina for the purpose of holding, managing and investing property of the Diocese of East Carolina, either temporarily, for a specified or indefinite time, or permanently, and the purpose of providing (1) funds, the income from which is to be used for the promotion of new work in the Diocese of East Carolina and for the development of the religious, educational and charitable work of the Protestant Episcopal Church in the Diocese of East Carolina, (2) funds to be used for making loans to parishes, missions, diocesan institutions and church organizations for capital improvements and (3) funds for capital grants to parishes, missions, diocesan institutions and church organizations for capital improvement.
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Have a Blessed Easter!!
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Birthdays and Anniversaries Birthdays
Martha Borders ............................ 04/06 Bill Horton .......................... 04/16
Bobby Dougherty......................... 04/09 Regan Westra ...................... 04/18
Ed Muzzulin ................................. 04/10 Barbara Pivinski.................. 04/20
John Sabo ..................................... 04/11 Anne McMullan.................. 04/23
Billy Rowell ................................. 04/12
Anniversaries
Tony & Barbara Pivinski ................ 04/22 Ed & Annette Mueller ........ 04/27
Robert Earl& Chris Lane ................ 04/26
The deadline for the May 2015 newsletter is April 19, 2015
Remember in your prayers Pray for Healing and Comfort: Charlie Griffin, Judy Andrade, Jewel Aull, Gene Cummings, Marge Ambrose, Betsy Trapp, The Rev. Nils Blatz, Laura Powell.
Pray for our Armed Forces: Alex Baker
Pray for the Departed
Lay Ministers
April Acolyte Eucharistic Minister Lector
Prayer Leader Usher
Offering Counters
Coffee
Host/Hostess
Altar
Flowers
5 Billy Rowell
Kathie Columbus
Dave Smith
Erie Haste
Bob & Nancy Dougherty
Carlton Davenport Carl Jonson
Cam Rivard
Easter Lilies
12 Robert Earl Lane
David Smith
Barbara Ward
Bill Horton
Dave Smith Edison Ward
John Sabo Billy Rowell
Susan Romney
Easter Lilies
19 Will Skinner
Debbie Bonner
Betty Lane Winslow
Frank Jaklic
Marc & Cam Rivard
Proctor & Nancy Baker
Sybil Skinner
Robert Earl & Christ Lane
26 Ed
Mueller Wes Brown
Jean Batson
Harry McCoy
Sandy & Bobbi Stevenson
Norm & Annette Young
Pat Smith
Glenn & Brenda White
Team 1 Team 2 Team 3 Team 4 Team 5 Team 6 Team 7
Mettha Davenport Cherry Powell Sandra Sperry
Barbara Brown Susie Romney Nancy Young
Deborah Manley Carole Medford Peggy West
Mary Alice Brinn Nancy Dougherty Anne Lankford
Nancy Gruner Trish Ludwig
Courtney Ritzmann
Norma McMullan Pat Smith Ann Mariani
Jean Batson Kathie Columbus Alice Cummings
2015 Altar Guild Teams (See Calendar on next page for assignment)
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April 2015 This Month’s Schedule of Events
CHT = Church of the Holy Trinity d PH = Parish House d HUMC = Hertford United Methodist Church
Sun Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri Sat
OFFICE HOURS
8:30a—12:00n Mon–Thu, & Sat
24 hours a day, 7 days a week by appointment
Rector:
426-3914 Home 426-5542 Church 495-5174 Cell Do not hesitate to call Fr. Bonner at home when need arises!
1 12:00n, HUMC Lenten Service Rev. Greg Clark
Luncheon
4:30p, CHT Adult Choir Practice
2 Maundy Thursday
12:00n, HUMC Lenten Service Rev. Jane Leechford
Luncheon
5:30p, CHT Maundy Liturgy
3 Good Friday 12:00n, CHT Good Friday Liturgy 7:00p, PH AA
4 Holy Saturday 10:00a, CHT Altar Guild Team # 3
5:30p, CHT Easter Vigil
5 Easter Day 9:00a, CHT Adult Choir Practice
9:10a, PH Sunday School
10:00a, CHT Holy Eucharist
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7 7:00a, Rotary Club
8 4:30p, CHT Adult Choir Practice
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10 Fr. Bonner’s Day Off
7:00p, PH AA
11 10:00a, CHT Altar Guild Team # 4
3:00p, PH Helping Hands
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9:00a, CHT Adult Choir Practice
9:10a, PH Sunday School
10:00a, CHT Holy Eucharist
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14 7:00a, Rotary Club
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4:30p, CHT Adult Choir Practice
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17 Fr. Bonner’s Day Off
7:00p, PH AA
18 10:00a, CHT Altar Guild Team # 5
3:00p, PH Helping Hands
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9:00a, CHT Adult Choir Practice
9:10a, PH Sunday School
10:00a, CHT Holy Eucharist
20 2:30p, PH Vestry Meeting
21 7:00a, Rotary Club
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4:30p, CHT Adult Choir Practice
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24 Fr. Bonner’s Day Off
10:00a, PH Trinity Bells Practice
7:00p, PH AA
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10:00a, CHT Altar Guild Team # 6
3:00p, PH Helping Hands
26 Palm Sunday 9:00a, CHT Adult Choir Practice
9:10a, PH Sunday School
10:00a, CHT Holy Eucharist
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28 7:00a, Rotary Club
29 4:30p, CHT Adult Choir Practice
30 Please check the
Master Calendar on the Office wall in the Parish House for any changes.
Holy Week
