Rummage Sale Coming in October, Donations Needed!

Coming October 19-21

The Rummage Committee is now collecting donations. Please email us to make a reservation to drop them off at rummage@trinityprinceton.org.

When you arrive to drop off your donations, please park in the church parking lot next to Ivy Hall and we will come and retrieve them directly from your vehicle.

During these dog days of summer, start cleaning out your closets and attics. We need as many of your donations as possible to make this a great sale!

Many thanks to all!

 

Please donate:

  • Gently-worn & Clean Men’s, Women’s, and Children’s Clothing for All Seasons

  • Better Ladies’ Dresses & Men’s Clothing

  • Housewares (Please, No Glass Vases)

  • Electronics

  • Books

  • Linens

  • Shoes

  • Jewelry (Fine & Costume)

  • Vintage & Antique Items (Remember that Edison Diamond Disc Gramophone from last year?)

  • Boutique Items (Crystal, China, & Art)

Please Leave at Home:

  • Sporting Goods (Uniforms, sporting equipment, gym equipment, bicycles, skateboards, ice skates, kayaks, skis, etc.)

  • Furniture of Any Kind

  • Rugs or Other Large Floor Coverings

 

Lambeth ’First Peter’ Bible Study — Week 2

“We have gone from death to life, but we are stones. Living stones are those who are not yet quarried... still being shaped by the elements, still acquiring sediment.”
“We are Living stones, the people of god, called to love one another. Worship, forgiveness, witness!”

Holiness is a wooing of a sort of Christ-like integrity that draws us into the presence and the being of God and encourages us to take others on that journey too.

Holiness is a feeling that drives us to become; this understanding that there's more to you in life; this feeling that pushes you to want to do more, to be better, to become a better version of yourself, continually.

Holiness is connected to God and to action, takes us out into the world, it does not hide us away in a holy huddle. It is relational (in scripture).

It is not about transformative piety; it is not about something we can manufacture for ourselves and make for ourselves; it is the gift of the grace of God given by God and God alone.

 
“Holiness is supremely shown in God coming close to the unholy.”
 

Holiness is not tolerance, holiness is not being driven by what I think is right and wrong, that is not holiness. Holiness is a sacred space that is embodied in us, the life of the Holy Trinity.

“Holiness is making other people uncomfortable. Holiness is relationship building and hospitality.”
“What makes one person holy and thus included is not human action it is divine grace and human response.”

Holiness is not something over which we have power and control. It is the movement of God. Jesus makes the unholy holy in every way.

The call of the Christian is to live on the very front line of holiness, so we can reach over the frontier and draw people into the love of Christ.

“‘Sinners’ became holy only because Christ is in the middle of it. Christ is the one who makes us holy.”
“How do we walk together? What do we do when we separate ourselves from the other? What are we doing to ourselves and them?”

How do we listen to each other? How do we understand ourselves and our communion as living stones God, God's holy people?

 
“Learn, listen, and evangelize!”
 

These are only a few of the quotes from 1 Peter Week 2: A Holy People following Christ.

The First Peter Bible Study is now ‘soul-ly’ on Zoom Wednesdays! 😊The next sessions are July 26 and August 2, 9 from 6–8pm.

To access this worldwide Bible study, email Bonnie Bivins at blbivins@verizon.net to get the Zoom link and study materials!

To Watch the 1 Peter 2 Video Click Here:

 
 

Ways to participate:

Come and listen to Archbishop of Canterbury Welby leading next week’s Bible text with global contextual reflections.

Week 3: Resistance and Resilience in Christ, July 26, 1 Peter 3:1-22.

UrbanPromise Summer Camp Volunteers Needed!

I am looking for a few volunteers to help set up the snacks for summer camp at Trinity Cathedral in Trenton the week of Monday, July 31 – Thursday, August 3. The children receive meals provided by Mercer Street Friends but we are asked to provide a snack before the end of the day.

It will involve maybe 2-3 people from about 1:30–3pm every afternoon. I will organize and purchase the snacks. If you are only able to help a few times that will be alright.

Please consider this outreach opportunity and contact me, Martha Lashbrook, at lashbrookmartha@gmail.com or (609) 477-6285.

Lambeth ’First Peter’ Bible Study — Week 1

The First Peter Bible Study is now ‘soul-ly’ on Zoom Wednesdays! 😊The next sessions are July 19, 26 and August 2, 9 from 6–8pm.

To access this worldwide Bible study, email Bonnie Bivins at blbivins@verizon.net to get the Zoom link and study materials!

If you missed Week 1: Called into Hope and Holiness in Christ (July 12th) 1 Peter 1:1-25, or were not able to attend Wednesday evening, the Week 1 video can be watched here:

 
 

The Week 1 First Peter Bible Study material is below:

Participants from Week 1 found this one-to-one Bible study reflection very insightful!

Ways to participate:

  • Come Wednesdays from 6–8pm and participate LIVE.

  • View the current week’s video and come Wednesday at 7pm to reflect on the questions LIVE.

  • View the previous week’s video and find a friend, family member, or Trinity Church member to pair with, and discuss the study material.

Quotes from Called to Hope & Holiness in Christ:

From Archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby:

“Hope is not what we have, it’s what God has for us…”
“Peter goes back and echoes Leviticus. He calls us to holiness to imitate God in God’s self-sacrificial movement towards us in Jesus Christ…”
“Why 1 Peter, Lambeth 1 Peter, at this time? Because we need each other. We aren’t perfect but we are called to walk together, to witness together, and to listen together in Christ…”
“The death and resurrection of Jesus is the foundation of the living hope. There’s no other means of getting that hope. It is the way in which we are able to stand firm against all that brings death in individual lives, in communities, in the world. ”
“Our hope is living and alive, not stagnant and stale.”

Come and listen to Archbishop of Canterbury Welby leading next week’s Bible text with global contextual reflections.

Week 2: A Holy People following Christ, July 19, 1 Peter 2:1-25.

The Week 2 Bible study reflects on Living Stones, Honorable Conduct, and Suffering for Doing What is Right.

Toxic-Free Grounds

Our lawn and gardens are free of toxic chemicals and herbicides.  Several years ago, the Grounds committee made the decision to stop using toxic materials on our property in order to protect the children who play on it and in order to be good environmental stewards.  One manifestation of this policy occurs each spring when our sextons put Corn Gluten Meal on Trinity’s grounds instead of commercial weed and feed products.  According to Iowa State University, “During the past ten years, Corn Gluten Meal has gained national attention as being the first effective organic herbicide.”  

Announcing Trinity’s Next Director of Music

 

Dear Good People of Trinity Church,

After a thoughtful, faithful, and extensive search process, it is my honor and pleasure to announce that Dr. Margaret (Meg) Harper has accepted the call to serve as our Director of Music.

Dr. Harper currently serves as Associate Director of Music and Organist at St. Michael and All Angels Episcopal Church in Dallas, TX, where she has helped to rebuild the music program into a thriving ministry, including a wide range of choirs. During her tenure, she has overseen the restoration of Saint Michael’s chorister program and developed several new initiatives. These include a Royal School of Church Music (RSCM) summer chorister camp that recruits from across the country, as well as a music appreciation curriculum for adults that has garnered thousands of online participants.

Before moving to Texas, Meg worked as Director of Music and Liturgy at St. John’s Episcopal Church in Portsmouth, NH, one of the most active Episcopal parishes in northern New England. During her time there, she built a choir school for at-risk youth from the community.

I offer my sincere thanks to our Search Committee for their tireless and faithful work. They were exemplary in their discernment process, opening themselves fully to the movement of the Holy Spirit to find the right person for our beloved music program. (Matthew Baglio, Carol Burden, Gabriel Crouch, Cheryl Evans, Barbara Gonzalez-Palmer, Andrea Hyde, Mark McConnell, Eric Plutz, Wesley Rowell, Iris Sikma, Trudy Sykes, Cindy Westbrook, and Mike Williams. Co-Chairs: Clancy Rowley and Leslie Edwards)

Please join me in welcoming Meg and her husband, Michael, to Princeton and to Trinity. They will be transitioning here in early August.

Finally, I would like to offer my sincere thanks to Connor Fluharty, our Interim Director of Music. Connor served Trinity Church with great integrity, professionalism, and care during a most difficult season in the life of our parish. I hope you will join me in expressing our profound gratitude for his ministry.

Thank you all for your prayerful support during this time of uncertainty and difficulty. I am so incredibly grateful for how we, the people of Trinity, have lived through these past two years. Now, we turn our hearts and souls to the future, as together we sing a new and glorious song.

Forward in faith!

Peace and Blessings,

 

The Rev. Paul Jeanes III, Rector

 
 
 

Dear Trinity Princeton,

I am absolutely thrilled to join you this fall and take on leadership of Trinity’s music program. The discernment process surrounding this position was an incredibly thorough and affirming experience. At each step of the way, my conviction grew that this parish, this job, and these choirs are the perfect fit for me and for my family. It is clear to me that the members of the Trinity choirs and congregation are strongly committed to this church, to making extraordinary music, and to building meaningful community. I am grateful to Paul, Clancy, Leslie, the entire search committee, and the church staff for welcoming me and making this move possible. I am excited to see what we will accomplish together, in service of the Princeton community and of God!

I look forward to joining you in mid-August. I will bring with me my husband Michael, our dog Tabitha, and our cat Attila the Hungry. I love to garden, so you can expect to see plants popping up all over the music building and around my apartment. My husband and I love to be in nature, as does Tabitha the dog. We are looking forward to exploring the parks and woods around Princeton. Both Michael and I are excited to meet you all!

All the best,

Meg

 
 

Margaret “Meg” Harper has been hailed by The Diapason magazine for her “impeccable” playing and by the Boston Musical Intelligencer for “outstandingly lively, punchy” performances. Croatian newspaper Glas Slavonije writes, “The freezing cold of a January evening dominated the cathedral in Djakovo, but it could not diminish the richness and warmth of sound brought out of the cathedral organ by Margaret Harper.”

For the last five years, Meg has served as Associate Director of Music and Organist at Saint Michael and All Angels in Dallas, TX, one of the largest Episcopal churches in the nation. At Saint Michael, her primary task was to create a new chorister program in the model of the Royal School of Church Music - America. Along with the church’s staff of three organists and four choir directors, she has helped to dramatically develop the church’s music department. At Saint Michael, Meg also expanded the church’s concert series and created a music appreciation curriculum for members of the parish who wanted to learn more about sacred music.

Before moving to Dallas, Meg served as Director of Music and Liturgy at St. John’s Episcopal Church in Portsmouth, NH. While at St. John’s, Meg founded an after-school program for at risk youth called the Choir School at St. John’s. Within its first few years, the choir school had reached its capacity with a waiting list, and had already gained several accolades, including an invitation to sing and premiere a newly commissioned work at the prestigious Newburyport Chamber Music Festival. The Choir School at St. John’s continues today, and remains a transformative organization in the Seacoast region of New Hampshire. At St. John’s, Meg also doubled the size of the adult choir, including recruiting volunteer singers from as far away as an hour’s drive.

For the 2022-2023 academic year, Meg was Visting Lecturer of Organ at Baylor University in Waco. She has previously taught organ, harpsichord, and keyboard skills at the University of Southern Maine and the Eastman School of Music. Meg holds a DMA and a Performer’s Certificate from the Eastman School of Music. She has a passion for new music, and has presented premiere performances of new works by composers including Cecilia McDowall, George Baker, Philip Moore, Todd Wilson, and many others. She serves in leadership roles for the Association of Anglican Musicians, the Royal School of Church Music - America, and the American Guild of Organists. Margaret performs and tours as an organist, harpsichordist, and conductor, and is on the roster of the Concert Artist Cooperative.

Introducing Summer Intern Emmanuel Moreland

My name is Emmanuel Moreland. I am a second year M.Div. student at Princeton Theological Seminary. I was born and raised in Atlanta, Georgia. Before Seminary I worked as a campus minister at Georgia Southern University which I graduated from with a BA in Philosophy and Religious Studies and a minor in Sociology.  I have a particular love for the Old Testament, and I have dedicated a lot of my time at Seminary to studying it.

Outside of school I enjoy fishing and playing board games with friends, listening to music, reading sci-fi and fantasy, and writing within the same genres.

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