September/October 2015
Centered in Christ - “Scripture, Tradition and Reason”
860 S. 3rd St. Lander, WY 82520
(307) 332-5977
[email protected]
http://trinity.diowy.org
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SUNDAY SERVICE
9:00 AM
SUNDAY SCHOOL
9:00 AM
Priests
Ray Price
& Terry Robeson
Deacon Linda Hudson
Ministerial Developer
Rev. Kay Flores
Parish Administrator
Dana Neil-Flint
Trinity Trivia
Rev. John Roberts
was a close
personal friend of
Chief Washakie of
the Eastern
Shoshone Tribe.
Rev. Roberts
presided over
services for Chief
Washakie’s
funeral.
Look for “Chris Cross”!
He’s hidden somewhere
in the newsletter!
The Benefits of Church
ONE of the most striking
scientific discoveries
about religion in recent
years is that going to
church weekly is good for
you. Religious attendance
boosts the immune
system and decreases
blood pressure. It may
add as much as two to
three years to your life.
The reason for this is not
entirely clear.
Social support is no doubt
part of the story. People
really do seem to look out
for one another. A study
conducted in North
Carolina found that
frequent churchgoers had
larger social networks,
with more contact with,
more affection for, and
more kinds of social
support from those people
than their unchurched
counterparts. And we
know that social support
is directly tied to better
health.
Healthy behavior is no
doubt another part.
Certainly many
churchgoers struggle
with behaviors they
would like to change, but
on average, regular
church attendees drink
less, smoke less, use fewer
recreational drugs and are
less sexually promiscuous
than others.
Any faith demands that
you experience the world
as more than just what is
material and observable.
This does not mean that
God is imaginary, but
that because God is
immaterial, those of faith
must use their
imaginations to represent
God. To know God in an
evangelical church, you
must experience what can
only be imagined as real,
and you must also
experience it as good.
I want to suggest that
this is a skill and that it
can be learned. We can
call it absorption: the
capacity to be caught up
in your imagination, in a
way you enjoy. What I
saw in church as an
anthropological observer
was that people were
encouraged to listen to
God in their minds, but
only to pay attention to
mental experiences that
were in accord with what
they took to be God’s
character, which they
took to be good. For
example, in one study,
when God was
experienced as remote or
not loving, the more
someone prayed, the more
psychiatric distress she
seemed to have; when
God was experienced as
close and intimate, the
more someone prayed, the
less ill he was.
Eventually, this may
teach us how to harness
the “placebo” effect — a
terrible word, because it
suggests an absence of
intervention rather than
the presence of a healing
mechanism that depends
neither on
pharmaceuticals nor on
surgery. We do not
understand the placebo
effect, but we know it is
real. That is, we have
increasingly better
evidence that what
anthropologists would
call “symbolic healing”
has real physical effects
on the body.
From the New York Times
T. M. Luhrmann
Trinity Episcopal Church
Phone:: 307-332– 5977
Email: [email protected]
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Looking to help our community?
Trinity Vestry
Members
Judy Sutt, Senior
Warden
332-9426
Marcy Tepper
335-9564
Kass Harrell
335-4130
Sue Butts
332-2834
Ed Newell
332-9095
Gene Dehnert
332-5965
John Rounds,
Treasurer
Are you looking
for ways to help our beautiful
Lander community? We have
the job for you! Our Trinity
Episcopal Family helps out the
local Backpack Program,
which provides food to needy
families in the community on
Friday afternoons. Trinity is
set to help fill the Backpacks
and deliver them to the schools
on Thursday, September 24 at
1:00 p.m. at the Lander Schools
district office, located at 863
Sweetwater St. Trinity will be
filling the backpacks every 7
weeks after that and we will
put those dates in the bimonthly newsletters. If you are
unable to help fill Backpacks,
you can help by donating jars of
peanut butter! The 16 oz. jars
are the best size for the bags
and you may leave these at the
church office and we will get to
them to the correct place for
filling Backpacks.
Thanks for everyone’s help
with this amazing program!
335-5607
Special blessings for all of our
September & October birthdays!
September
September
September
September
September
4 ~ Keiran Wilkerson
6 ~ Gene Dehnert
6 ~ Ed Newell
9 ~ Monica Olson
11 ~ Chuck Chidsey
October 12 ~ Jess Hinkle
October 13 ~ Nancy Arbenz
October 14 ~ Hannah Lindsey
September
September
September
September
25 ~ Addison Rounds
26 ~ Paulina Harris
29 ~ Hillary Thurston
29 ~ Terry Robeson
October 25 ~ Sue Krebs
October 28 ~ Anne Thurston
October 28 ~ Robert Silvers
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Sunday School News
Happy
beginning of
the school
year! I hope
everyone had a
wonderful
summer. Just a
few reminders
about Sunday
school for
September and
October.
year.
During the first
few weeks of
Sunday school, we
are going to
decide on our
Service Learning
Project for the
year (how we
want to raise
money and who
A Little Bird Said… we would like to
Sunday school at
donate to) in
Overheard this
Trinity will start
summer by Delilah addition to
Sunday,
beginning to talking
Sutt, “Grandma
September 20th!
about a life of
Judy, when can I go
I hope to see
service to God and
back to my church?”
many new as
“knowing” Jesus.
well as familiar
Hope to see everyone on
faces there! We have a lot
the 20th!
of fun planned for this
Trinity Episcopal Church
Phone:: 307-332– 5977
Email: [email protected]
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Confessions from Ladies Night
THE ROUNDS FAMILY has purchased a new home next door
to Judy and Larry Sutt. Stay tuned for a Ladies Night Out
hosted by Josie and Judy at the new place!
JUDY SUTT spent some time with her good friend Ann
Fontaine and her family on the Oregon Coast this summer.
CHAR DEHNERT remembers her high school Journalist
teacher as an influential person in her life; her teacher
influenced her to pursue journalism but she ultimately went
into nursing.
WESTERN PRINTING was in Beynon St. John’s family for
nearly 50 years.
THE BACKPACK PROGRAM is in full swing, Marci, Linda, Sue
and many other volunteer for this great program. See p. 2 for
more about this program!
Get Ready
On Sunday, October 11th, Linda will
be doing a BLESSING OF THE ANIMALS
service. Bring your animals, big or
small, and please make sure they are
contained (leashes, kennels). We hope
to see all of our FURRY FAMILY
MEMBERS there!
LINDA AND HANK
BLESSING OF THE ANIMALS, 2014
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What Is Spiritual Discernment?
Spiritual discernment anything else. Yet there
is calling on the Holy are clearly skills you
Spirit to lead or give can put to use when
direction on a matter. using your gift, and you
It is how the Spirit
can become better at it
shows the church or its through training and
people what God
experience.
wants them to do and
Discernment is more
be.
than just a process.
There is discernment
Even for the most
of: gifts, spirits, actions, 'material' or 'nittyintents, the course of
gritty' matters, there is
the times we live in.
a Spirit at work
nudging us, leading us,
Discernment is more
even pulling us by the
than just a skill.
nose ring. Then again,
Discernment is a gift
from God before it is even for the most
'spiritual' matters, there
are disciplines,
methods, processes,
means, and tools which
the Spirit can work
through to help us
discern rightly.
Discernment isn't
usually a sudden zap
from beyond, but
something which
emerges from hard
work and close
attention.
Learn to discern. Yearn
to discern.
Trinity Episcopal Church
Phone:: 307-332– 5977
Email: [email protected]
Coming up
at Trinity
September
September 7 8 a.m.
Men’s Breakfast @
The Summit
September 15 10 a.m.
Lander Artist’s Guild
September 17 Ladies
Night Out - Time and
Location TBA
September 20 Sunday
School starts!
September 24 1 p.m. at
Fremont County district
office - Trinity’s turn to
fill and deliver bags for
the Backpack Program.
See p. 2 for more info
September 27 Kay Flores’
Visit to Trinity Episcopal
October
October 2-4 Episcopal
State Convention in
Evanston
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Alcoholics Anonymous - every
Tuesday at 7:00PM
Narcotics Anonymous - every
Thursday and Saturday at
7 PM
First Stop Help Center hours - Tuesday through
Thursday 11 am to 1 pm
All loose plate offerings received on the first Sunday of
the month go to the First Stop Help Center. You are
also welcome to put a check in the plate made out to
“First Stop Help Center”.
We have something for
everyone!
Worship and Communion
Fellowship
Bible Study
Sunday School
Nursery
Care and Share Food Bank
Community Outreach
First Stop Help Center
Monthly Brunch
Pastoral Care
Men’s Breakfast
Ladies Night Out
Carry-In Brunch Time!
Starting Sunday,
we will also be having
September 27, we will
Children’s Sunday! On
be starting up our
these days, the children
monthly, post-service
will join us in the
carry-in brunch and
regular church service.
Children’s Sundays! On
These services are
the last Sunday of the
designed to be “kid-
month, please bring
friendly” including kid-
your appetite along
friendly Eucharist,
with your favorite
prayers and songs. We
breakfast or lunch item
hope you can join us
to share! On the last
for these special events
Sunday of each month,
each month!