The Trinity Window – April 2019 Trinity Evangelical Lutheran Church

292 Orange St. New Haven, CT. 06510 Phone: 203.787.6521 – Fax: 203.776.7915

www.TrinityLutheranNH.org – office@TrinityLutheranNH.org

From the Pastor

Almighty God, you sent your Son, our Savior Jesus Christ, to take our flesh upon him and to suffer death on the cross. Grant that we may share in his obedience to your will and in the glorious victory of his resurrection; through your Son, Jesus Christ our Lord, who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God, now and forever.

--Prayer of the Day for Palm/Passion Sunday.

Holy Week Services

Palm Sunday / Sunday of the Passion

April 14th, 10:15 am Procession of the Palms, St. Luke's

Passion

Maundy Thursday

April 18th, 7:30 pm Holy Communion, Individual

Absolution, Stripping of the Altar

Good Friday April 19th, 7:30 pm

St. John's Passion, Solemn Reproaches of the Cross

Easter Sunday

April 21st

The Resurrection of our Lord

10:15 am Festival Service of Holy Communion

Movie Night On Hold

Everyone is welcome to join us. The movies are shown in Emma’s Place (in the church basement) the 2nd Friday of every month. The next movie night date has not been set, the floor still needs to be

done. Please join us when the room is completed! We will provide snacks, juice and coffee during intermission. Mark your calendars for the 2nd Friday of every month at 6:30 p.m.

Pat Sundermann

Sanctuary Eternal Light Burns to the glory of God In Memory of Erik Minkkinen Mar 10th In Honor of Finley Setaro Mar 3rd Fred Sundermann Mar 24th

Altar Flowers Given to the glory of God… In Memory of all the Faithful Departed In Honor of

Men’s Breakfast Group The Men’s Breakfast Group will meet on Saturday, April 6th at 9:00 a.m. at Bob Child’s home. Please RSVP to Pastor Mills and come for the hot breakfast, devotions, and fellowship.

Oremus

“Let us pray” This month we prayed for the following members and friends of Trinity who were sick and/or hospitalized: Louise Bahner, Joe Fox, Robert Child, Kevin Hadlock, Luke Thompson Jr., Pamela Simone, Rev. J. Roderick Rinell, Kathy & Dan Breeding, Richard DiMaio, John Radziunas, Chris Doran, Frank Wright, Olga Peterson, Janet Brophy, Abner Oaks, Esther Goffinet, Tracy Eason, Martin Goh, Carlene Lee, Janet Herrington, Susan Ward, Beth Doran, Daniel Mazzabufi, Jakob Smith, Beth Neumeyer, Judy Bellin, Kelly Weaver, Charles LeGrand, Sr., all those who serve in the armed forces especially: Daniel Burk, Christopher Bushy and Tameka Lloyd. And those who mourn Gerry Caruso.

Upcoming Events Here is a preliminary listing for the events we have for this month. Please mark your calendars in advance so you can save the dates. April 2nd 4:30pm Confirmation Class 4th 7:00pm Lenten Vespers 6th 9:00am Men’s Breakfast 8th 5:00pm Family Fellowship 11th 2:45pm Mary Wade 11th 7:00pm Lenten Vespers 14th 10:15am Palm/Passion Sunday 14th After Worship Bake Sale 18th 7:30pm Maundy Thursday 19th 7:30pm Good Friday 21st 9:30am Egg Hunt 21st 10:15am Easter Sunday 28th After Worship BP Screen Trinity Window Articles Trinity Window articles for the next issue are due by the 15th of every month. It is important that you get your articles in on time and think ahead for the next month. Please email articles to: Office@TrinityLutheranNH.org. Articles must be submitted in WORD or PDF format.

Monthly B.P. Screening Debbie Nicolson, R.N. has scheduled to do her next blood pressure screening on Sunday, April 28th, mark your calendar! Debbie will do the screenings in the Church office after worship.

Operation Christmas Child

The spirit sends us forth to serve, we go in Jesus name to bring glad tidings to the poor, God's favor to proclaim. W.O.V. #723 Greeting to one and all. Looks like warmer days are just around the corner. The annual Palm Sunday bake sale will be held on Sunday April 14th after Church in the parlor. Proceeds will go toward shipping costs for the shoe boxes. We always have wide variety of goodies to choose from. Donations of bake goods will be greatly appreciated. Looking forward to seeing you at the bake sale. A reminder the O.C.C. Collection box ! is located and waiting in the narthex for your donations. Thanks to those who have left items so far. Please remember O.C.C. when you are out and about shopping. Yours for the children Barbara Mourer OCC Chair and Relay Coordinator

Mary Wade Service Join us in our outreach to The Mary Wade Home, 118 Clinton Avenue, New Haven. Come help sing, assist in worship and/or visit with the residents! The service will be held on Thursday, April 11th at 2:45 p.m. Interfaith Volunteer Caregivers 30 Gillies Road, Hamden, CT 06517 203-230-8994; www.carenewhaven.org 34 YEARS AS THE GOOD NEIGHBOR

Are you looking for a new volunteer opportunity? Can you drive an elderly person to a doctor’s appointment? Visit with an elder from time to time? Please consider joining our team and discover how your small acts of kindness can make a huge difference in the life of an elder in our community. Since 1983, Interfaith Volunteer Care Givers (IVCG) has assisted seniors in the Greater New Haven area by fostering independent living and reducing isolation. We train and insure volunteers from area faith communities and civic organizations to offer free neighborly services with compassion and love. To find out more, please check out our new website: www.carenewhaven.org Volunteer Orientation &Training At

The Connecticut Hospice, Inc. The Connecticut Hospice, Inc. (inpatient and homecare). is sponsoring volunteer orientation and training this fall. If you or someone you know is looking for an opportunity to serve others in your community, we would like to hear from you. Our patients and families are in need of your care and support. As a volunteer, you can fill your hours (weekdays/evenings or weekends) by assisting in a clerical capacity or offering direct patient/family contact as a friendly visitor, provide pastoral care or bereavement services, help in arts, massage therapy, pet therapy, hairdresser/barber or provide transportation. For more information, please contact Joan Cullen at 203-315-7510 or jcullen@hospice.com.

Lenten Vespers Please join us for Lenten Vespers at Trinity. Lenten Vespers will be held on consecutive Thursday nights at 7:00 p.m. April 4 and 11. Palm Sunday Bake Sale After worship on Palm Sunday the annual Bake Sale will take place in the parlor. Please stop in to buy some goodies and baked donations are always appreciated. Sunday School & Adult Bible Study There will be no Sunday School or Adult Bible Study on Easter Sunday, April 21.

Easter Egg Hunt The annual Easter Egg Hunt will take place at 9:30 a.m. Easter Sunday morning. If you would like to donate candy to fill the plastic eggs with it would be greatly appreciated. Candy can be donated up to Palm Sunday, April 14th.

Trinity Lutheran Monthly Family Fellowship Night *New* Spring Semester 2019 First Mondays Chick-Fil-A Restaurant 560 Universal Drive North Haven 5:00 p.m. to 7:00 p.m. **All welcome! Children welcome! We will meet at the restaurant for an informal time to relax/socialize/visit. Arrive and stay as you can: see you there! April 8 May 6 menu at: https://www.chick-fil-a.com/ More information/questions: brian.peterson@yale.edu

Easter Lily Order Form Orders are now being taken for Easter Lilies ($12.00 each plant) to decorate our sanctuary on Easter Sunday. You may place your order by completing the form provided and returning it, along with payment to the church office. You can mail it or put it directly into the offering plate by Friday April 12th.

Seafarers International House

Dear Friends of Seafarers, Well, I finally did it. I picked up a Captain and crew this afternoon to go shopping. In the course of conversation, I learned that their ship had come here from Come By Chance Canada. I have heard the name of this place many times but I only really pretended to know where it was. I knew it was somewhere in Canada but that’s all so this time I decided to look it up. Come By Chance, and I could see why you would only come by chance, is a town on the isthmus of the Avalon Peninsula in Newfoundland and Labrador. It is an area of 15 sq. miles has a population of 228 and 95 dwellings. It has Newfoundland’s only oil refinery and that is why the ships go there. The Captain described it as a God forsaken place in the middle of no where that is freezing cold. This ship was delivering low Sulphur diesel fuel from there to New Haven. His ship had been trading for months near Nigeria where the weather was very hot. He did not like the cold in Canada. However, what was important, was that the crew was finally able to go to shore for a few hours as they had had no shore leave in 4 months. The ship is often described to me in situations like this as a prison so even a few hours out is like heaven especially when the last stop on the way back is to Dunkin Donuts. I received another call from a ship agent in Baltimore asking if I could visit his ship arriving in New Haven. He knew that the crew would love to go to shore. Before I could even make a ship visit, I had a call from the terminal that crew were already waiting at the gate to go out, how soon could I get there. I learned that this ship was in New Haven for repairs. Crossing the Atlantic, they had come through 4 bad storms, with 112 mph wind and 4 meter waves. The crew had been afraid for their lives. In addition to other things, the storms had destroyed their radar and satellite communications. This was a small project ship, a cable laying ship that had loaded cable in Portsmouth NH and after making repairs here would sail through the Panama Canal and over to Japan, a trip of 40 days. The ship would then begin to lay an internet cable under the floor of the Pacific Ocean from Japan to California.

I just couldn’t believe it and so every chance I got, every time crew went out shopping, I asked them a million questions, like, you know, how big is the cable, how do you get it way down deep and bury it under the ocean floor, how much cable do you have on board, how long will it take, is this really for internet, really, really? The huge tanker I described before had a length of 183 meters with a crew of only 16. The cable ship with a length of only 105 meters had a crew of 51. The ship crew were all Filipinos (30) and the cable layers (21) were almost all from the UK. This later crew spent most of their time exploring New Haven and its night life. The Filipino crew shopped and shopped until I almost dropped, but it would be a long, long time until they would be able to walk on land again. I learn something new every day, what fun. Ruth Setaro, Chaplain

Trinity Lutheran Church 292 Orange Street, New Haven, CT 06510 Phone: (203) 787-6521 Fax:(203) 776-7915

Email: Office@TrinityLutheranNH.org

Sun Mon Tues Wed Thurs Fri Sat 1

2 Confirmation Class 4:30-6:30 7:30 12 Step

3

4 Downtown Bible Study 6:00 Lenten Vespers 7:00 Choir Rehearsal 7:30

5

6 Men’s Breakfast Group 9:00 7:00 NA

7 Lent 5 8:45 Sunday School 9:00 Adult Bible Study 10:15 Worship 7:00 NA

8 Family Fellowship Night 5:00-7:00 AA 8:00

9 7:30 12 Step

10

11 Mary Wade 2:45 Downtown Bible Study 6:00 Lenten Vespers 7:00 Choir Rehearsal 7:30

12 13 7:00 NA

14 Palm/Passion Sunday 8:45 Sunday School 9:00 Adult Bible Study 10:15 Worship After Worship Bake Sale 7:00 NA

15 AA 8:00

16 7:30 12 Step

17

18 Maundy Thursday 7:30

19 Good Friday 7:30

20 7:00 NA

21 Easter Sunday 9:30 Easter Egg Hunt 10:15 Worship 7:00 NA

22 AA 8:00

23 7:30 12 Step

24

25 Downtown Bible Study 6:00 Choir Rehearsal 7:00

26

27 7:00 NA

28 Easter 2 8:45 Sunday School 9:00 Adult Bible Study 10:15 Worship After Worship BP Screen 7:00 NA

29

AA 8:00

30 7:30 12 Step

April 2019

APRIL CELEBRATIONS AND ANNIVERSARIES

BIRTHDAYS

Apr 2nd Kaileen Langlois Apr 3rd Colbi Auman Apr 3rd Denver Lamont Apr 4th Dawn Mankowski Apr 7th Carol Lee Robinson Apr 8th Claire Prud’homme Apr 12th Ebony Latimer Apr 13th Cynthia Olson Apr 14th Jonathan Auman Apr 15th Patrick Morris Apr 18th Clifford Scherb Apr 19th Volkan Cakal Apr 21st Marion Fox Apr 28th Kai Langlois

BAPTISMAL ANNIVERSARIES

Apr 2nd Kent Golden Apr 11th Tai’asia Hutchinson Apr 11th Camaje Moore Apr 11th Kenneth Sturdivant Apr 30th Jason Auman

WEDDING

ANNIVERSARIES

Pat & Fred Sundermann Apr 29th

April 2019 Altar Guild – Deborah Hart & Marlene Warsawski

ASSISTING MINISTERS DATE COMMUNION

ASSISTANT LECTORS ACOLYTE – CRUCIFER

USHERS GREETER DEACON

APR 7 Deborah Hart Vern Beaudoin

Brian Peterson (C) Rachel Handy (A) Emma Brophy

Team 3 – V. Beaudoin, A. Handy

Pat Sundermann

Marlene Warsawski

APR 14 Marlene Warsawski

Carol Lee Robinson Alex Smith

(C) Rachel Handy (A) Alyssa Handy

Team 1 – J. Johnston, R. Parks, C. L. Robinson, L. Thompson

Barbara Mourer

Deborah Hart

APR 21 Brian Peterson Alyssa Handy

Deborah Hart

(C) Patrick Morris (A) Ryan Morris

Special Team – M. Hayes, T. Hayes, K. Morris, S. Prud’homme

Pat Sundermann

Fred Sundermann

APR 28 Alex Smith

Fred Sundermann Siyoung Yu

(C) Alyssa Handy (A)C Prud‘homme

Team 2– M. Hayes, T. Hayes, D. Nicolson, S. Prud’homme

Annie Wright

Jeremiah Johnston

(C)

(A)

MONEY COUNTERS 1ST SUNDAY 2ND SUNDAY 3RD SUNDAY 4TH SUNDAY 5TH SUNDAY FRED SUNDERMANN SIYOUNG YU

DEBORAH NICOLSON CAROL LEE ROBINSON

PAT SUNDERMANN FRED SUNDERMANN

CAROL LEE ROBINSON PAT SUNDERMANN

PAT SUNDERMANN FRED SUNDERMANN

APR 7 APR 14 APR 21 APR 28 FLOWERS

(Charge for flowers is $30 per vase, 2 vases per week) 1.No Flowers Lent 2.No Flowers Lent

1. No Flowers Lent 2. No Flowers Lent

1. Easter Lilies 2. Easter Lilies

1. 2.

1. 2.

ETERNAL CANDLE (Charge for the Eternal Candle is $5)

Sundermann Edgerton Sundermann

Join us in Our Outreach to

The Mary Wade Home

118 Clinton Ave, New Haven

Trinity will be providing Worship with Holy Communion to Mary Wade Residents

Service: Thursday, April 11

2:45 p.m.

Come help sing, assist in worship, and/or visit the residents!

Contact Pastor Mills for more information.

SUNDAY SCHOOL BAKE SALE to BENEFIT REACH DALIT

MARCH 17, 2019 – PROFITS $456 !!!

BRIAN PETERSON – MISSION TRIP TO EL SALVADOR

MARCH 2019

Easter Lily Order Form

Orders are now being taken for Easter Lilies ($12.00 each plant) to decorate our sanctuary on

Easter Sunday. You may place your order by completing this form and returning it, along with

payment to the church office. You can mail it or put it directly into the offering plate by Friday

April 12th. Please print clearly! Make sure to fill in memory of or honor of! (Please note that

only one family name per plant; i.e.: John and Mary Smith, could be 1 plant, but John and Mary

Smith & Jim Jones would be 2 plants.

In Honor or

In Memory of Name: Given by:

Number of Plants: ___________ Amount Paid: $___________

ELCA World Hunger Donations

Donations to the ELCA World Hunger Fund may be given instead of or in addition to lilies.

In Honor or

In Memory of Name: Given by:

Bringing Hope To Children In India

The task at hand: Can 1 (one!) Bake Sale raise enough money so that 50 (fifty!) children in South India can each have a pair of new flip flops? The cost of the shoes is $225, that’s $4.50 per pair.

The short answer is: “Yes +”

The longer answer: There were not so many people around today. It

didn’t look good. However in the end people gave above and beyond of the cost of cookies.

Why? The time was right to back the efforts of our youth: Supporting kids in India. Kids helping kids without a chance of a return, nothing, zero, zilch. That is powerful. At the end we counted the money: $456 was in the till. Not 50 but 50 + 50 = 100 children will have new flip flops this year. “Shoes aren't worn indoors for cleanliness but they're stored

on a rack by the bathroom. In India lots of people don't have

flush toilets but have a squat toilet instead. They don't use

toilet paper either because it's expensive so they use water

instead. The bathrooms get very wet at the nursery and as a

hygiene measure; the children must wear their chappels in the

bathrooms. “

We are thankful!

REACH DALIT, INC. - 84 South Orchard Street, Wallingford, CT 06492, USA

reachdalit@gmail.com – www.reachdalit.org – (203) 284 8858

For financial support: Use Vanco Payment Solutions for monthly donations, PayPal or an old fashioned paper check.

THANK YOU!!!

The Power of Cookies

AGAPE CHURCH FOR THE HOMELESS 17TH ANNIVERSARY WORSHIP CELEBRATION

It has often been said that the worst kind of pain and suffering is that of

loneliness and isolation. Though there may be pain, frustration, and

mortality in homelessness, for 17 years Agape Church for the Homeless

has sought to serve and love our homeless brothers and sisters in their

times of pain. There have been both times of happiness, gratitude, and

good fortune in our journey as well as times of hardship and difficulty.

We humbly ask for your attendance, encouragement, prayers and

support at the upcoming celebration of our 17 years of service. May

there be great joy and thanks by sharing the blessings we have each

received in America to our less fortunate brothers and sisters. May we

all become devout and blessed Christians.

*Dinner will be served after the program

SUNDAY MAY 05, 2019 5:00PM Sponsoring Organizations

Chart Wells, Quinnipiac University Conn Korean Presbyterian Church

Dr. Kevin Im Eastern Korean Pres Women NY

Elijah Men’s Choir NY First Korean Presbyterian Church of

Hartford Glory Gift & Variety MA

Greenwich Korean Church High Ridge Methodist Church

JJ Martin Group NJ Korean Presbyterian Church of MN

Mid-K Beauty Supplies National Korean Presbyterian Women

NY New England Grace Church

Roslyn Korean Methodist Church NY Satin Mill NY

Seoul BBQ & Sushi The Council of Korean Church CT The End of the Earth Church NJ

The Korean Church of Queens NY United Technologies Charity Trust

Travelers Cyber Grants MA

AGAPE CHURCH AT TRINITY LUTHERAN CHURCH

292 Orange Street New Haven, CT 06510

For Inquiries: Siyoung Yu

203-393-1791 / 203-305-3910