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Helpful Information
Nursery Should you desire, or should you need to leave with a small child, a staffed nursery is provided behind the kitchen, at the rear of the building and up the stairs. An infant changing/nursing room is also located up the stairs across from the chapel, before the kitchen. An usher will be happy to meet and accompany you.
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In Thanksgiving and Memory
WORSHIP SCHEDULE: We hold one Sunday service held at 10:00 a.m.
Interested in becoming a CHALICE BEARER? Or how about a WORSHIP HOSPITALITY MINISTER? We need folks to help make and keep Holy Trinity a warm and friendly place.
Sunday School: Below is the Sunday School schedule for children grades 4 and up for April through June:
5/20 - none
5/27 - none (Memorial Day)
6/3 - speaker/visit to another faith's place of worship
6/10 - make father's day gifts
6/17 - Father's day brunch
Forteniters Dinner: Thanks to all who helped make the Forteniters Dinner on May 10th a great success! The food was delicious and plentiful; and was much appreciated by the almost 70 people attending the dinner. The dinner could not have taken place without the help of those who prepared food, came to St. Patricks to serve the dinner and clean-up, and those who helped to pay for the food with their generous donations. Special thanks to Tom OLeary, who single-handedly prepared and cooked all of the meatloaf and pasta!
Remember our Food Basket: According to the University of Pennsylvania's Center for High Impact Philanthropy, one of the biggest things we can to do make a difference is to provide emergency food for hungry families. Please remember to bring canned goods and packaged foods for our Community Housing Food basket, which is in the narthex. You can make a difference!
Social Media: Holy Trinity has entered the realm of social media and you are invited to come along. Our facebook page: http://www.facebook.com/home.php#!/pages/Holy-Trinity-Lansdale/175112122530994 is a place where anyone who "likes" the page can add updates, photos, links, and videos. I am the admin, but we are the group. It is a place to celebrate our church in a public way. This is an easy way to spread our love of Holy Trinity by posting something new or by just leaving comments to items you see on the page. If you do this, then all your friends will see what we are about.
I love flickr. It is a place to share the visual beauty of our lives. The church is an important part of what I find beautiful so I have created a flickr group dedicated to just our church. Anyone who is a member of flickr can add photos to the group: http://www.flickr.com/groups/holytrinitylansdale/ . I will periodically add photos to it and I will also look to see if anyone has posted photos of our church on their personal photostream (I invited someone to add two photos this morning and he accepted) .
If you have any questions, feel free to talk to me over a cup of coffee or contact me at wstratz@gmail.com
Wayne Stratz
A Brief History of The Church of the Holy Trinity: Pat Brownback has written a brief history of the Church (see below). We are incorporating this information into our Worship Booklets as well.
January 5, 1885: The first service is held in Freeds Hall, Main Street, Lansdale, conducted by a deacon from The Church of the Messiah, Gwynedd.
1890: The present church building is erected at Fourth and Broad Streets, built by Philadelphia architect, Samuel Milligan, using plans adapted by Mr. Weems, an English architect from St. Giles, the parish of Stoke Poges. St. Giles was built in 1222 and is the final resting place of the Penn family, founders of Pennsylvania. St. Giles was made famous by Thomas Greys Elegy Written in a Country Church Yard.
1903: The rectory is constructed.
1930: The parish hall (St. Margarets Hall) is built.
1946: Holy Trinity is granted parish status by the Diocese of Pennsylvania.
1957: The parish house is enlarged and an educational wing is added.
1965: The church building is extended and the altar is moved away from the wall, enabling the celebrant to face the congregation during the Eucharist. The linear communion rail becomes semi-circular and the choir is moved to behind the altar. A modern stained glass window depicting a descending dove is installed behind the baptismal font. The dark wood in the nave is replaced by light wood. In recent years, chairs have replaced the pews.
1990: The former Guild Room, located between the narthex and St. Margarets Hall is transformed into a chapel. Later in the 1990s two new stained glass windows are added to the nave and the rose window is replaced.
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Worship
The sermon on May 20th will be by our Inter-Faith Minister, Rev. Dr. Deborah Darlington. Text: Acts 1:15-17, 21-26; Psalm 1; I John 5:9-13 and John 17:6-19.
Next week:
The sermon on May 27th will be by our supply priest, Rev. Dr. Richard Ditterline. Text: Acts 2:1-21; Psalm 104:25-35, 37; Romans 8:22-27 and John 15:26-27; 16:4-15.
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