Trinity Weekly

November 11, 2022

From the Properties Committee

Hello Trinity Folks,

I hope and pray you have all fared well during what is hopefully our second and final hurricane hit of the year. Trinity fared much better with Nicole than Ian; however, there is a bit of water in the church basement and we are already working on drying this up. 

There is apparently an unknown, but not overwhelming, amount of debris down on the church campus that needs to be picked up and placed in the dumpster we have placed in the courtyard from last weekends cleanup.

Please consider joining the properties on campus at 8:30am on Saturday, November 12 to help clean up. Primarily, we will be dealing with small yard debris which will need to be racked up, bagged up, totted and placed into the dumpster. We also had an overstock of debris following Ian which is sitting behind our existing dumpsters that could also be moved into the temp dumpster. 

Thank you all for whatever time and effort you can afford. 

God Bless,

Ted Lange  

Fellowship of Christian Athletes at Trinity Downtown!

Fellowship of Christian Athletes (FCA) Trinity Youth Ministry (TYM) is a new and exciting opportunity for 6^th through 8^th grade students in our local community to come together in a fun environment to build relationships with one another and with Jesus. Volunteers and participants will enjoy dinner together, followed by worship, games, and an open gym in the beautiful facilities provided by our Lord at Trinity Lutheran Church in downtown Orlando. FCA TYM will meet in Trinity’s fellowship hall and gymnasium, from 6-8 p.m. one Sunday per month.

For additional information, please see the flyer below:

FCA TYM Informational Flyer

If you would like to sign your child up for this event, please use the registration link below:

FCA TYM Registration

For more information on how to be involved, how to volunteer, or if you have any questions, please contact the church office.

Special Session of GriefShare

If you have suffered the loss of a spouse, parent, child, or close friend, the holidays are especially difficult to handle the first year, the second year, or even longer. To anyone who has suffered the loss of a loved one and is walking through this journey of grief, the weekly Tuesday afternoon GriefShare group would like to extend an invitation to their annual event entitled "Surviving the Holidays." This special session includes viewing a video entitled "Surviving the Holidays" and is an opportunity for Pastor Kallesen to be present and discuss grieving. Coffee, tea, water, and some snacks will be provided.

This special session will be held in the Fellowship Hall of Trinity Lutheran Church on Tuesday, November 15, from 1pm-3pm.

If you have additional questions or are planning to attend, please RSVP by November 8 by contacting the church office (407-488-1919 or TLC@TrinityDowntown.com).

November OWLS Meeting

The next OWLS meeting will be held on Wednesday, November 16, at 12:30pm at The Italian House on South Crystal Lake Drive. This will be a wonderful time of food and fellowship and we hope to see you there!

Please confirm your attendance no later than Monday, November 14, by contacting Audrey Gordon at 407-897-1418. If you have questions, please reach out to Audrey. 

Gary Bowles Memorial Service

You are invited to join us in celebrating the life of Gary W. Bowles. The service will be held on Thursday, November 27th, at 10am, at Orlando Lutheran Towers Chapel (300 E. Church Street, Orlando, FL 32801).

Please contact the church office with any questions or for additional information.

Thanksgiving Luncheon

Our annual Thanksgiving Luncheon will be held on Sunday, November 20th at 11:30am. Please note that we will only have one 10am service due to this event.

The luncheon will be sponsored by Darlene's group and the Fellowship/Outreach Ministry Team. Rich Poole will be providing the meat and side dishes. The congregation is asked to provide desserts:

A-G: Pies

H-O: Cakes/Cupcakes

P-Z: Cookies

Please join us for food, fun and fellowship. After lunch, we will have a taste of Family Fun Night with the main attraction of Bingo. Card games and other board games will be available as well. We will be raffling off a gift basket: "A Very Merry Disney Christmas!" So bring your dollars to play!

A free will offering will be provided to offset the operating costs and help with the Pastor's Discretionary Fund. Please direct any questions to the church office.

New Member Sunday

We are thrilled to welcome those who have recently joined our Trinity family!

If you have recently joined Trinity and would like to be included in this welcome and you have not heard from the church office, please contact TLC@TrinityDowntown.com or by calling 407-488-1919.

The welcome will be coordinated with our Thanksgiving luncheon, so please plan to stay after the service for food and fellowship!

Lake Eola Tree Lighting

The Fellowship/Outreach Ministry Team will be attending the annual Christmas Tree lighting at Lake Eola and would love for you to join us!

They will have three tents set up:

1. A hot cocoa and candy canes tent run by Lynn Hogan
2. Two craft tables run by Desiree Kallesen and Debbie Holley
3. Setup and teardown will be run by Ken Boggs

We would love for you to join us for this outreach opportunity! Please contact Tery Boggs at mammierocks@yahoo.com if you are interested in volunteering.

Christmas in the Courtyard

The Fellowship/Outreach Ministry Team will be teaming up with the CDC (Child Development Center) to host this event.

Included will be CDC children singing Christmas carols, breakfast made by Rich Poole, a visit from Santa Clause, a craft tent, and a living nativity, which may even include live animals.

We are in need of the following volunteers for the living nativity:

• Mary
• Joseph
• Wise men (3)
• Shepherds (3)
• Baby Jesus

Please contact Terry Boggs at mammierocks@yahoo.com if you are interested in volunteering.

Trinity Shares Christmas

"Trinity Shares Christmas" is our annual Christmas outreach in partnership with Prison Fellowship Ministries, providing Christmas toys and food for children who have an incarcerated parent. An Angel Tree with tags will be up in the narthex beginning this weekend. Simply take a tag, purchase what is on the tag, and return the gift to Trinity unwrapped by December 4th. Gifts should be returned to

the box in the Narthex during worship or to the front office during the week. Please make sure to attach the tag or a note to the gift so we know to which family to give the gift.

An online option also exists for choosing tags so those worshiping from home can easily participate. Please use the following link to choose a tag online:

https://bit.ly/TrinityGives2022

Each gift should be no more than $25. If you are unable to shop but want to donate funds, please contact Alina directly to arrange that. Volunteers will then collect and deliver these Christmas blessings to local families. We are so grateful for your participation to reach out to these wonderful kids on behalf of their incarcerated parents. 

If you would like to volunteer to call families, sort, or deliver gifts, we need your help! Please reach out to Alina Davis at alinad@bellsouth.net or 407-247-9703 to volunteer or ask questions. 

Operation Christmas Child

It's that time of year again! Trinity Downtown and the families of the CDC are invited to pack a shoebox for the Samaritan's Purse Operation Christmas Child ministry. Operation Christmas Child delivers the good news of Jesus Christ to children in need around the world through gift-filled shoeboxes. Each box packed full of quality toys, school supplies, and personal care items becomes a tangible expression of God's immense love for the child.

You can pack a shoebox of your own or pick up a free shoebox from the narthex or CDC front desk while supplies last. Make sure to take a brochure which includes suggestions on what to pack as well as a shipping label. Most importantly, please pray for the Operation Christmas Child ministry and the child who will receive the shoebox you lovingly pack.

Please return packed and labeled shoeboxes to the collection boxes at the CDC or Trinity Church narthex no later than Sunday, November 13. Packed shoeboxes may also be dropped off between November 14-21 at the Church on the Drive at 1914 Edgewater Drive in Orlando.

Visit the link below for additional information or to find additional shoebox drop-off locations:

https://www.samaritanspurse.org/what-we-do/operation-christmas-child/

Please direct any questions to the OCC project leader, Lynn Hogan at lynnhogan@eearthlink.net

IMPACKS

"Impacks" (ie: backpacks making an impact) is a project putting together backpacks with a few personal items for children who are living in transition between foster homes or homeless shelter living. It ensures that each child has something of his/her very own to hold what little belongings he/she may have to carry from location to location. On any night there can be over 100 children sleeping at the Coalition for Homeless alone. It changes nightly. We have been told several times that our backpacks and gifts would be the only items these children would receive for Christmas.

This project is created and organized by Ashely Marshall of our CDC family. The CDC family of Trinity has been participating in IMPACKS for a several years now, and we are jumping on board to support this very real need in our community, to send a little extra love to children in need. Our church family goal this year is to provide and fill 30 backpacks for Elementary age children. The backpacks will be delivered in December so these children will have something for Christmas. The deadline to bring completed backpacks to the Narthex is November 27, 2022, but feel free to start bringing them in any time after November 5, 2022.

For these backpacks, please bring Elementary Age appropriate themed backpacks with a pack each of appropriate size socks and underwear, a toothbrush and toothpaste, an appropriate book, and one toy for an elementary school age child.

Please contact the church office with questions by emailing TLC@TrinityDowntown.com or by calling 407-488-1919.

Adult Sunday School Class

Pastor Doug is leading a study for middle schoolers, high schoolers, and adults entitled "I Don't Have Enough Faith to be an Atheist" based on the book by Frank Tureck and Norman Geisler by the same title. 

If you want to follow along in the book or the study guide, we recommend purchasing your book ASAP. 

Study Notes

Adult Sunday School Class

Rocky Smothers is leading a study on the Major Festivals. Contact the church office with any questions.

NOVEMBER SERVING SCHEDULE

The serving schedule for November has been updated:

Adult Sunday School, Children's Sunday School, MS/HS Sunday School

• Adult Sunday School: the I Don't Have Enough Faith to be an Atheist study meets in Loggia 2, and Major Festivals meets in in Loggia 3.
• Children's Sunday School for children 4 years through 5th grade will utilize Answers Bible Curriculum published by Answers in Genesis. To learn more about this curriculum, visit the Answers in Genesis website.
• Serving this year:
• PreK-4 and Kindergarten with Mrs. JoAnne Gusewelle and Miss Kristin Gusewelle
• 1st-2nd grades with Mrs. Desiree Kallesen
• 3rd through 5th grades with Mrs. Gail Wilkosz.
• All classes meet on the first floor of Heritage Hall.
• MS and HS Youth Bible Study are invited to join Pastor Doug's Sunday School class entitled "I Don't Have Enough Faith to be an Atheist" beginning September 18. Reach out to the church office with any questions.
• Confirmation has begun! You can find more details on the registration link below:
• Confirmation Registration

Monthly Trinity Calendars

A limited number of copies of the monthly Trinity calendar can be accessed in the narthex beginning this week or viewed below. Contact the church office with any questions.

Submit your prayer requests by emailing them to TLC@TrinityDowntown.com.

All prayers are kept on the list for a period of three weeks, so please resubmit long term prayer needs regularly.

Those Fighting Cancer 

Sandy A., Mike R., Rev. Robert Besalski, Danny B., Linda B., Hank S., Penn M., Nancy K., Jay Z., Trevor S., Bob K., David K., Kim, Paul, JoAnn, Corrie H., Donald, Carolyn, Jim C., Diane R., Sigmond, Gary L., Preston, David V., JoAnn and Allan, Lisa and Victor, Michael S., Jenny M., Jerry K., Barbara R., Jackie R., Kimberly P., Mary, Doug H., Paul W., Jamie J., Eva S., Rebecca M.

Health Concerns 

Hazel, Chuck, John L., Karen E., Lisa B., Gladys D., Jason and Sarah and baby David

Surgery and Recovery/Recently Hospitalized

Skip, Michelle, Leon D.

Other Needs

• Everyone in Florida affected by Hurricane Ian and Hurricane Nicole
• LCC K-9 Comfort Dogs who are traveling to provide comfort to those affected by Hurricane Ian
• Sara
• Parker and Laura
• Aggie and family

Peace and Comfort

• For the Howard family
• For the McQuown familiy
• For the Heideman family
• For the Fabry family
• For Donna at the passing of her father
• For the family and friends of John Huckeba
• For the family and friends of Ron Logan
• For Diane at the loss of her mother
• For the family and friends of James Hallenbech
• For the family and friends of Jim Falvo
• For the Talno and Wunderlich families
• For the O'Donnell family
• For the Sharma family
• For the family and friends of Tim Schupann
• For the family and friends of Fran Lee
• For Adriunns at the loss of her friend
• For the family and friends of Rower
• For the family and friends of Ann Christianson
• For the family and friends of Clifford Sweatt
• For the family and friends of Joyce Saeger
• For the family and friends of Tom Grether
• For the family and friends of Gary Bowles
• For the family and friends of Anita Porter
• For the family and friends of Charles
• For the family and friends of Genie Shelton
• For Aunt Patty at the loss of her son
• For the family and friends of Dougie Hartwell

Confidential Prayers

For those prayers that have been shared in confidence, you know the details, Lord. We lift them up to you.

Our Trinity Missionaries

• Wasmund Family in East Asia
• Trump Family in Kenya
• Clausing Family in Tanzania
• Lehman Family in Puerto Rico

Thanksgiving

• Blessings on all those celebrating birthdays and anniversaries!
• Thanks and praise for those whose health has improved.
• Thanks and praise for those who have returned safely from travels.
• Thank you for those who have graciously donated to the ministries of Trinity!
• Thank you for a successful Elderfest!

For Our Communities - For Our Nation - For Our World

We pray for our nation, for our nation's leaders, for its people, and for our future together as one nation, under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all! We pray that we may all be a reflection of Christ's love, sharing grace and mercy, living in peace with one another. Reach out, listen, connect, and have those hard conversations. Love is first. Love wins.

Additional Prayers

• For world, state, and local leaders in making safe decisions about COVID
• For all those caring for aging and/or ill family members in need
• Prayers for our CDC staff & families, Trinity membership and all Trinity staff & leaders
• For all those struggling with mental health issues
• For all those troubled by depression and broken relationships
• For all those unable to attend church
• For all those serving in our military
• For the current war in Ukraine
• For those who have lost homes due to storms and for those who are homeless

The St. Luke's Concert Series

To view ONLINE concerts, visit St Luke's website for links. Links to watch live.

2022 Stetson Christmas Candlelight Concerts

The 2022 Stetson Christmas Candlelight Concerts will be held November 30-December 3. This is a wonderful concert featuring hundreds of musicians in choirs and orchestra, pipe organ and brass performing beautiful holiday music. The audience is surrounded by singers in historic Lee Chapel sharing beloved Christmas Carols, concluding with Silent Night in candlelight. The concerts will be held in charming DeLand, Florida on Stetson’s beautiful campus (November 30-December 2) and in downtown Orlando (December 3) at the stunning First United Methodist Church-Orlando. The Stetson Online Box Office website offers ticket information:

STETSON SCHOOL OF MUSIC ONLINE TICKET BOX OFFICE:

https://www.tickettailor.com/events/stetsonuniversityschoolofmusic

For additional inquiries and questions, contact Christina Pyburn at 386-822-8926 or cpyburn@stetson.edu. 

Attendance & Giving

November 5 Sat. in person: 41

November 5 online: 7

November 6 Sun. 9am: 48

November 6 Sun. 11:15am: 36

November 6 online: 20