Trinity Weekly October 10th

Trinity Family

Growth Family Night, This Sunday, October 12th from 5:30 - 7:30

• Learn how to prepare a nutritious family meal together...on the run!

• Get ideas on how to exercise as a family....on the run!

• No time for devotions? Learn how....on the run!

All at Growth Family Night!  Trinity Fellowship Hall/Gym

Food Prep - our very own Rich Poole

Exercise - Winter Park YMCA and Emma Moser Schulte

Guest speaker - Mary Jo Hoard, Certified Social Worker, Lutheran Counseling Services

Devotions - Mary Beth Brink & Beth Schumacher

Our host for the evening - Josh Brink

Supporting FAMILY!   Engaging FAMILY!   Celebrating FAMILY!

Please RSVP so that we can adequately prepare for the food portion of the evening.  Email Josh Brink at JABrink@trinitydowntown.org or call the main office at 407-488-1919 x0.  We'll see you there!

Pick up a Missionary Prayer Card

As you go by our new missionary wall for communion!

Trinity Members, TOUCH A TRUCK is ready for your Supporting Role!

Support roles are available & necessary in all areas for all of our TLS parents, and also just ANY kind of help on the day of the event on November 15th!  We certainly need all hands on deck for this BIG fundraising event! Now is your opportunity to serve the Lord by helping out in any way that you are able.  If you are curious about how YOU can be a part of this fun day - email Jamie at ptl.tlcs@gmail.com to inquire!

Touch a Truck Can Touch Your Business

Would your small business like to have a chance to advertise to thousands of people in the Orlando area on Saturday, November 15th?

For the low cost of $100, Trinity Lutheran School is looking for Family Friendly Businesses that wish to "own" a table from 9am-1pm on Saturday, November 15th during our huge Touch-A-Truck Event. You and your sale items will be placed in the shade in the loggia near all of the action! This is a great opportunity to showcase your products! Some of the vendors we are looking for include but are not limited to:  Mary Kay Cosmetics, Thirty-One monogrammed bag collections, Stella and Dot Jewelry, and Tupperware.  The fee of $100 will go directly to our children at TLS in care of our Parent Teacher League.

Due to limited space, there is only a certain number of tables available, so please don't delay! You may contact Traci Bradley at traci.bradley@kesslercollection.com no later than Friday, October 17th to reserve your table!

Passionate About Youth Ministry?  

Would you like to be a part of growing & nurturing the faith of the young people of our Trinity pfamily?  Please consider serving in Trinity’s Youth Ministry.  Contact Pastor Jeff Moore at   jmoore@trinitydowntown.com Thank you.   Many thanks to those already volunteering to serve:   Jenn Blackwood, Tim & Deana Norris, Laura Ramiz and Rachel Schildwachter.

Middle School and High School students and parents

Please save the date to meet with Pastor Moore to discuss this year’s plans for our Youth. program. High School students and parents:  Sunday, October 12, immediately following 11am worship, in the sanctuary, for 30 minutes.  Please don’t miss this opportunity to hear about plans for this year’s Youth.

Traffic on October 26th

When you come to church on Reformation Day, October 26th, there will be a detour if you drive up Rosalind Avenue.  You’ll have to turn right on Robinson, then left on Broadway and left on Livingston to get to the parking garage.  We’ve talked with the Festival Callé Orange promoters, and they tell us the detour will be clearly marked, so you shouldn’t have trouble getting here.  Please do leave home 5 minutes early that day, though!

Great Opportunity-No Experience Necessary

Trinity needs your help as an Usher.  Please consider volunteering yourself or a loved one to serve as an Usher.  High School and College students, we'd love to hear from you.  We have openings at all services (especially 6pm and 11am). Call or text Brent Killinger at 407-953-9599 or email bkkillinger@gmail.com

OWLS (Older Wiser Lutherans)

On Wednesday, October 29th at 11:30am we’ll meet for lunch at the Best Western/Mount Vernon Inn at 110 South Orlando Ave., Winter Park, Fl, 32789.  After lunch we’ll then go to Marge's (upscale Christmas shop) on Orange Blossom Trail off of Lee Road---this will get us ready for Christmas.  If you have any questions, please contact Bob Gordon at 407-897-1418.

Compassion Gifts for Compassion Corner

The next two weekends, we will collect water bottles, disposable cups, napkins, small, travel size bottles of shampoo, body lotion, shaving cream, socks and bug repellent.  See the box in the narthex.  Thank you!  

Sunday School Offerings

We are collecting money to buy water bottles for Compassion Corner on our campus!

Just For Women Thank you

It is wonderful to hear from some of you with updated or new email addresses.  If you haven’t done so yet, please send me your preferred email address so I may include you in the emailings I periodically send to every Trinity woman.  Part of my ministry to Trinity church and school is to coordinate activities and information of specific interest to women.  You can read about Supper and a Speaker and  Lutheran Women in Mission projects in these news pages, but there is more information sent in the personal notices.  If you have NEVER received a women only email message from me (one was sent last week) and would like to, please send me your email address. - Deaconess Liz eborth@trinitydowntown.org

Confirmation Prayer Partners

We are looking for adults to be Prayer Partners for our Confirmands.   These kids need our support, prayer, and encouragement during their adolescent years, and this is a way we adults can help them. If you sign up as a prayer partner, we will give you an information sheet on one of our Confirmands.  Prayer partners will be expected to 1) Remember their Confirmand daily in prayer.  2)  Send notes and tokens of encouragement on holidays, 1st Communion, mid-monthly (by mail, or leave in narthex, or give via another adult).  Questions? or if interested, please contact the church office or Gladys Dittmer, 407-658-9815, odittmer892@cfl.rr.com ASAP.  Thank you.

LUNCH and a Speaker

Trinity’s quarterly Supper and a Speaker events is taking on a new theme this Fall.  On SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 8, we share LUNCH and a Speaker!  The luncheon actually starts with a light breakfast (hold on!  I’m not trying to confuse you) at 8:30 a.m. followed by a worship service and Bible study.  The active and spirited women from seven churches east of Orlando gather that morning for LWML unity.  However, if your schedule crunches your time so a four hour escape is difficult, come and share a delightful lunch and interesting speaker at 11:30 a.m. An $8.00 charge covers your meal and our guest speaker from House of Hope.  Sarah Trollinger founded the nationally recognized House of Hope for hurting teens right here in Orlando in 1980.  We are pleased to welcome Karla Mathis, Executive Director of House of Hope, who will share this ministry of love and restoration. But there is more!  During the lunch you will enjoy a "Purse Auction."  Designer, and other new or gently used purses have been donated to raise funds for three mission projects.  The fun part is what is inside those purses: A SECRET SURPRISE.  You will bid on the purse and find a valuable gift inside!  Contact MaryLou Evanchyk 407-275-8096.

Growing Together Through Prayer

Will you pray for our school?  www.momsinprayer.org. Receive a short prayer every day.

Music

Choirs New members are welcome!  

6:30 Hand bells in the Balcony

7:30 parish choir in the church basement.  

The full Parish Choir will be singing at 11:00 services this year, with soloists or small groups at the 8:00.  If you are a consistently  8:00  or 11:00 person and want to lead God’s people in worship, please contact lmoore@trinitydowntown.org  We are especially looking for men to be the support root system for our music’s growing tree!

Cherub Choir

For all Trinity 4 year olds, K and 1st grade!

Mondays, 4:00 - 4:30 in the church basement music room.  

Joyful Noise 2nd grade - 8th small groups and soloists Wednesdays, 5:15 - 6:00 lmoore@trinitydowntown

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Youth News

Trinity Middle School and High School students and parents

Please save the date to meet with Pastor Moore to discuss this year’s plans for our Youth. program. Middle School students and parents:  Sunday, October 5, immediately following 11am worship, in the Sanctuary for 30 minutes.  High School students and parents:  Sunday, October 12, immediately following 11am worship, in the sanctuary, for 30 minutes.

Please don’t miss this opportunity to hear about plans for this year’s Youth.

Confirmation Classes

Confirmation instruction for all grade levels (6th, 7th and 8th) is held on Sunday mornings at 9:30am on the second floor of the school building.   Thank you to our many volunteer instructors:  Jenn Blackwood, Tim & Deana Norris, Laura Ramiz and Rachel Schildwachter.

Middle School Youth Gathering

November 7-9, 2014 - Lake Yale Baptist Convention Center

This year all the churches in both Florida & Georgia will attend and Bill Yonker will be our speaker.  The Living Stones will be returning as our Gathering band. The registration fee remains at $140.

-  Who can register?

The Gathering specifically targets middle school youth. To register, a youth must be in 6th, 7th, or 8th grade during the 2014-2015 school year. Non-LCMS youth are certainly welcome to attend also!

-  What is a Junior Guide?

A junior guide is a high school youth who shows leadership skills and would be a tremendous asset to any youth director taking his/her youth group. Two junior guides are allowed for each church. They will be given specific responsibilities and opportunities for leadership training.

-  Adult/Participant Ratio

For safety we require that each church provide 1 adult leader for every 6 attendees under the age of 18.

The event cost covers all program and administrative costs, two nights lodging, four meals, and a t-shirt for each participant. Keep your eye out for more information – coming soon!!

Please contact Lori Zavitz at 407-718-6184 or at lorizavitz@hotmail.com if you would like to attend.

High School Youth Gathering--Save the Date

What: 2015 FG District High School Gathering

When: March 13-15, 2015

Where: Westin, Lake Mary, FL (Orlando Area)

Theme: "Wildfire!" - That should sound familiar as it is the theme for this year's Middle School Gathering as well.  We love the continuity that it will provide across the Youth Ministry spectrum in the District.

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Trinity Events

Growth Family Night #2

Sunday, October 12th

Growth Family Night #3

Wednesday, November 12th

Touch-A-Truck

Saturday, November 15th.  We need volunteers!

Middle School Youth Gathering

Nov 7-9

Redeeming Life Outreach Ministries Dinner

Friday, November 14th.  Save the date!

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TLS News

What a Wonderful World!

At the Orlando Philharmonic Orchestra Youth Concert Series on Wednesday, the entire audience joined in song while the Orchestra played What a Wonderful World, composed by George David Weiss and popularized by Louis Armstrong.  The lyrics capture the spirit of the concert, as well as our students’ enjoyment and courteous behavior on the walk to, at, and on the way back from the concert:

I see trees of green, red roses, too,              The colors of the rainbow, so pretty in the sky,

I see them bloom, for me and you               Are also on the faces of people going by

And I think to myself                                      I see friends shaking hands, sayin', "How do you do?"

What a wonderful world.                              They're really sayin', "I love you."

I see skies of blue, and clouds of white,        I hear babies cryin'. I watch them grow.

The bright blessed day,                                    They'll learn much more than I'll ever know

 the dark sacred night                                       And I think to myself

And I think to myself                                        What a wonderful world

What a wonderful world.                                  Yes, I think to myself

                                                                               What a wonderful world

Indeed, we all experienced a beautifully sunny day accented with clouds of white, gardens blooming along the way, so many happy faces, time spent with friends away from school, and a concert of this caliber which surely widened the horizons of learning and appreciation for students, parent chaperones, and teachers alike.

Take a moment as you read these words and think of the daily beauty God creates in your world!

--Submitted by TLS Principal, Dr. Kevin Brockberg

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Attendance & Giving