Fellowship Hour
Thank you to Oliver Walker for hosting our Fellowship Hour today.
If you enjoy spending some time with friends and having something to enjoy together, then sign up on the sheet in the Church Hall! Fellowship Hour does not need to be elaborate or complex. You can certainly share the day with friends or family to help out. Fellowship Hour is important to extend the fellowship of the Liturgy into the rest of our lives.
If you would like to put on a coffee hour (for example, for a memorial) but you are unable to do so, please talk to Presbytera, and we will help you put together a simple Coffee Hour. There are many empty spots till the end of the year. Please check out the schedule and sign up for a Fellowship Hour!
Can You Help with a Strategic Plan for our Parish?
A lot of work and thought has been put into the strategic plan that we launched last Sunday, together with help from Alex Cooley and Bill Marianes. The plan itself will be implemented in stages over the course of 3 years. What we need is YOUR help! There are a lot of things to do, and everyone can do something. Your Strategic Plan packet has a form for volunteering for either the Religious Education (at all levels) and Spiritual Engagement or the Stewardship and Ministry Engagement Groups. There will be a short zoom meeting soon to start our work.
Can You Help Feed the Hungry?
Once a month the Philoptochos has been sponsoring a beautiful sandwich ministry which serves McKenna house. Your generous offerings for partaking in a usually sumptuous coffee hour helps to fund this ministry (just consider how much you would be spending at a restaurant for everything you eat at coffee hour and contribute something similar!)
We are also now providing sandwiches and other treats for the Coalition against Homelessness at least twice a month. We will hand out bags with a sandwich, a (hopefully) homemade cookie or other treat, a fruit and whatever else we decide. We need to make 30 bags. One round should cost around $50. Many thanks to everyone who has already generously funded a round of sandwiches or who have baked some great treats for the bags! If you want to help by baking a treat at home, come and assemble the bags, or sponsor a round (whole or in part), please talk to Presbytera. Next assembly Tuesday, July 9, 9:30 am. Thank you for your generosity towards those who have nothing!
Men Can Cook Too: Holy Trinity Concord Cookbook, dedicated to the men of the Community.
We would like this to be not only a great cookbook, but also a way to remember members of our Parish.
Gentlemen, we are looking for your recipes! Of course women can and should also send in recipes. Recipes should be dedicated to men (e.g. something your husband, dad, etc. likes or liked to cook or eat). Ideally the recipe should be accompanied by a few words and/or photo (e.g. this is my husband‘s favorite Lenten dish. Every birthday my dad wanted to eat this cake. My papou always had these koulourakia for breakfast, etc.). Recipes should reflect the diversity of our community. We are not looking exclusively for Greek recipes. If you are interested in being part of the Cookbook Committee to work on some aspect of it, please see Presbytera.
Please send any type of recipe ( and as many as you want ) to Jill Argyrople at [email protected].