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“Don’t Forget to Say Thank You!” Luke tells a story that no other gospel writer picked up on. In Luke’s gospel account, he tells a story of Jesus making his way up to Jerusalem. As he was passing through a village, ten men with leprosy called out to him from a distance. They were required to keep their distance. In Jesus’ day, if someone con- tracted leprosy, they had to quarantine themselves while announcing to anyone who came close to them, “Unclean!” So, from a distance, these lepers called out to Jesus for help. Would he see them? Would be hear them? Would he really care about them? Jesus looked at them, and said, “Go show yourselves to the priests.” In Levitical law, a priest has the au- thority to proclaim that someone is clean or unclean. If a priest renders someone clean, they could be restored back to community life. As these men left to go see the priests, Luke records that they were all instantly healed. All of these newly healed, restored men went on their way… except for one. One man, a Samaritan- an outsider, considered to be the scum of the earth by his neighboring Jews- came back to Jesus. He hadn’t been to the priest yet. He hadn’t yet fulfilled his religious obligations. But he was loudly praising God, found Jesus, fell at his feet, and thanked him. To that, Jesus said, “Were not all ten cleansed? Where are the other nine? Has no one returned to give praise to God except this foreigner? …Rise and go; your faith has made you well” (Luke 17:11-19). But wait a minute! The man had already been healed of his leprosy. How could Jesus now say that his faith has made him well? Perhaps true wellness and healing go deeper than skin and flesh. Jesus healed his body, but this Samari- tan found an even deeper healing through his faith, worship, and thankfulness. The lesson here is simple and profound. Being thankful, expressed in our faith and our worship of God, is a powerful healer. Thankfulness heals our wounds of resentment. Thankfulness takes away the sick- ness of anxiety and worry. Thankfulness fills that constant hunger to always want more than what we already have. Thanking God through praise and worship makes us whole with peace, contentment, and joy. This Thanksgiving, I find myself most thankful to God for the wonderful relationships I have. I ’m thank- ful for my wife Blairlee and my three children. I’m thankful for the wonderful friends and colleagues who are there for me. And I’m very thankful for my Trinity church family. I am truly blessed with lots of love. I pray that we all have a blessed, fulfilling Thanksgiving season and day. Take an inventory of your blessings, and don’t forget to go straight to Jesus, praising God loudly, thanking God, and falling at the feet of our Master. May we know the deep healing of thankfulness. Yours in Christ’s Service, Pastor Chris
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“Don’t Forget to Say Thank You!”
Luke tells a story that no other gospel writer picked up on. In Luke’s gospel account, he tells a story of Jesus making his way up to Jerusalem. As he was passing through a village, ten men with leprosy called out to him from a distance. They were required to keep their distance. In Jesus’ day, if someone con-tracted leprosy, they had to quarantine themselves while announcing to anyone who came close to them, “Unclean!” So, from a distance, these lepers called out to Jesus for help. Would he see them? Would be hear them? Would he really care about them?
Jesus looked at them, and said, “Go show yourselves to the priests.” In Levitical law, a priest has the au-thority to proclaim that someone is clean or unclean. If a priest renders someone clean, they could be restored back to community life. As these men left to go see the priests, Luke records that they were all instantly healed.
All of these newly healed, restored men went on their way… except for one. One man, a Samaritan- an outsider, considered to be the scum of the earth by his neighboring Jews- came back to Jesus. He hadn’t been to the priest yet. He hadn’t yet fulfilled his religious obligations. But he was loudly praising God, found Jesus, fell at his feet, and thanked him.
To that, Jesus said, “Were not all ten cleansed? Where are the other nine? Has no one returned to give praise to God except this foreigner? …Rise and go; your faith has made you well” (Luke 17:11-19).
But wait a minute! The man had already been healed of his leprosy. How could Jesus now say that his faith has made him well?
Perhaps true wellness and healing go deeper than skin and flesh. Jesus healed his body, but this Samari-tan found an even deeper healing through his faith, worship, and thankfulness.
The lesson here is simple and profound. Being thankful, expressed in our faith and our worship of God, is a powerful healer. Thankfulness heals our wounds of resentment. Thankfulness takes away the sick-ness of anxiety and worry. Thankfulness fills that constant hunger to always want more than what we already have. Thanking God through praise and worship makes us whole with peace, contentment, and joy.
This Thanksgiving, I find myself most thankful to God for the wonderful relationships I have. I’m thank-ful for my wife Blairlee and my three children. I’m thankful for the wonderful friends and colleagues who are there for me. And I’m very thankful for my Trinity church family. I am truly blessed with lots of love.
I pray that we all have a blessed, fulfilling Thanksgiving season and day. Take an inventory of your blessings, and don’t forget to go straight to Jesus, praising God loudly, thanking God, and falling at the feet of our Master. May we know the deep healing of thankfulness.
Yours in Christ’s Service,
Pastor Chris
The Trinity Lamplighter is published monthly by
Trinity United Methodist Church
1300 West Street Annapolis, MD 21401
Church Office Phone 410.268.1620
Email [email protected]
Website www.TrinityAnnapolis.org
Church Staff
Rev. Chris Owens Pastor
Blairlee Owens
Office Manager
Jane Daugherty Director of Music
Wanda Lee
Custodian
Karen Jung-Yeon Yim Organist/Accompanist
How Can We Assist You?
Prayer Chain...There is always someone who will pray for you. If you would like to place someone on the Prayer Chain, please call the church office (410-268-1620) or Cindy Sawyer at (410-757-0378) or [email protected].
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Do you like to pray, especially with others? Join Pastor Chris on Tuesday mornings at 9:30 am in the Sanctuary for a time of prayer for members of our church family and the community, and our church. Holding each other up in prayer is an essential part of our discipleship. Please come and support the life of Christ’s church.
Thank you fore the calls, cards and flowers and for coming to the celebration of Mason’s life on October 1, 2017 at Quiet Waters Park. Thanks to the ones that gave donations to the Mason Charles Shaffir Memorial Fund of the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention or the Anne Arundel County SPCA.
Thank you so much,
Charles & Norma Morris,
Greg, Kim and Kira Shaffir
Reminder:
Daylight Saving Time ends on Sunday, November 5 at 2:00 a.m.
Serving in Worship—November 2017
Thank you for serving in this important ministry in the life of the church. If you are unable to fulfill your scheduled duties, kindly switch with someone and notify the church office.
Date Greeter(s) Liturgist Usher
Captain
Acolyte
November 5 Sharon Chace & Amber Trivette Charlie Deale Jack Spencer Steven Busch
November 12 Dottie Goodman Jack Spencer Tom Myers Amber Trivette
November 19 Harry & Cindy Sawyer George Lewis Tom Myers Noah Busch
November 26 Carol Kulasik Craig Miller Bill Finagin Genevieve Robertson
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The Chancel Choir has begun rehearsing for the Christmas Cantata, to be performed on Sunday, December 24 during our morning Worship service. We welcome new singers at our Wednesday night rehearsals, starting at 7:30 pm. We promise you good music, good fun, and good fellowship! Please join us if you can. See you next Wednesday!
Please plan to come out to the church on Friday, December 1 beginning at 6:00 pm for dinner and to help decorate Trinity for Advent. We look forward to seeing you.
Bring a dish to share and join us for dinner and a presentation by our ASP Mission Team on Sunday, November 12 beginning at 5:30 pm. We will have the opportunity to hear all about the Team’s trip to the Guyan Valley in West Virginia including the projects they worked on and the people they met. Be sure to be there so you can hear all about the blessings.
Join us on Sunday, November 19 at 5:30 pm for Thanksgiving Dinner and a concert by our own CrossFire. It will be a great time of food, fellowship and music. Hope you can make it.
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On Sunday, October 15, we collected $213 for the Noisy Offering. We have fully funded Well #30. Thank you for your continued generous giving. Be sure to look at the pictures of the wells that Trinity UMC has funded up to this point. The pictures are on the wall in the hallway between the Sanctuary and Room 209. Remember to bring your coins next month so we can begin col-lecting for Well #31.
~ United Methodist Women
Please bring your completed Operation Christmas Child shoebox back to Trinity anytime before November 6. If you have an questions, please contact Nancy Busch at (410) 757-7030 or Carol Dakin at (443) 758-6235. Thanks for your faithful support of this mission.
~ Trinity United Methodist Women
Germantown Elementary needs our help. Every Thursday afternoon, we’re look-ing for someone to deliver 25 pieces of fruit to the school by 2:00 pm. We will donate a different extra item each month. The sign-up sheet is available in the church office. Please provide your name and contact information for the date(s) you will be able to deliver the items to Germantown. Thank you to those who have already signed up to donate fruit and toiletries. If you have any questions, please contact Pam Hanna at (410) 212-3669 or [email protected].
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Interested in learning to make beautiful stained glass projects? If so, come to the Youth Room at our new day and time, every Monday from 9:00 a.m.—12:00 p.m. (new time starting November 6 to design and make a beautiful work of art. No previous experience required.
Would you like to learn how to knit? Interested in making a sweater for a child in need? Join our Crafts for Christ group that meets on the 2nd and 4th Wednesday of each month from 1:00 pm—3:00 pm in Room 209.
Every second Saturday of the month at 7:00 pm , come to Room 209 for a fun-filled evening of fellowship and dominoes. Hope to see you there.
Guidelines for Submitting Bulletin Announcements and Bulletin Inserts
Make sure that events are booked on the church calendar before submitting the announcement. This helps to prevent date conflicts and ensures that all meetings and events are on our church calendar.
Submit your announcements (or changes to running announcements), in writing or by e-mail, to the Church Office no later than noon on Wednesday of each week. Accepting announcements via phone or in person may cause miscommunication of your information.
Limit your bulletin announcement to 2 lines maximum. The Church Office reserves the right to edit your announcement for length and content, if necessary. If you want more information shared about your event, it can be displayed in the display cases in the hallway outside the Church Of-fice.
Bulletin announcements will generally run for three weeks and should be published three weeks in advance of your event to ensure maximum exposure to the congregation.
Committee meeting announcements will be run the week before the scheduled meeting. Other in-formation that needs to be communicated before the meeting should be sent to Committee mem-bers directly.
All Bulletin inserts should be a half page. Bulletin inserts will run for three weeks, with one of those weeks being in color, if necessary.
Bulletin inserts will only be printed in-house if they are directly related to an event at Trinity.
We hope these guidelines will help plan advertising for scheduled meetings and events and help us to be good stewards of the times, talents and resources of Trinity UMC.
Please note: If your birthday or anniversary is in
November and is not listed, please let the office
know so we can update our database. Thank you.
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November 7—Pam Hanna
November 10—Charles Matthews
November 14—Grace Owens
November 16—Janie Daugherty
November 17—Shirley Simi
November 20—Louis Lemond
November 22—Tom Myers
November 24—Barbara Inman
November 25—Dottie Goodman
November 16—Thomas & Denise Lorenzen
The Women’s Bible Study meets every other Friday at 9:30 am in Room 209. We are currently studying the book of John. Check the church calendar for which Friday’s we are meeting in October.
Join Pastor Chris on Wednesday mornings at 10 AM or Wednesday evenings at 7 PM through the end of January for a study of the book of Genesis. Sign-up sheets are in the office. No study books are required-just your Bible. All are welcome!
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Order deadline is Friday, December 15 !
Please join with other members of the congregation in beautifying the Sanctuary with Poin-settias. The flowers will adorn the chancel on Sunday, December 24 and Monday, December 25. If you would like to purchase a poinsettia in memory or in honor of someone, please fill out the form below and enclose a check for $10.00. You may put it in the offering plate or drop it off at the Church Office. Extra forms are available in the church office. Poinsettias may be picked up beginning after the Christmas Eve evening services.
Please pick up your poinsettia on Monday, December 25 immediately following the 10:30 am Service, Wednesday, December 27 from 10:00 am—2:00 pm, or on Sunday, December 31 from 9:00 am—12:00 pm.
Plants - $10.00 each: Red Total Number of plants _________
Total amount of check $_________
Please make checks payable to TRINITY UNITED METHODIST CHURCH.
Your Name _____________________________Phone No. ______________________________
In Honor of _______________________________________________________________________
In Memory of_____________________________________________________________________
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Upcoming Church Events
Sunday, November 5—All Saints Sunday; Communion Sunday, Daylight Saving Time Ends
Monday, November 6—Winter Relief Intake Begins (Monday-Friday)
Tuesday, November 7—City of Annapolis General Election
Saturday, November 11—Veteran’s Day
Sunday, November 12—Church Dinner & ASP Mission Team Presentation
Sunday, November 19—Thanksgiving Dinner & CrossFire concert
Monday, November 20—December Lamplighter deadline
Thursday, November 23—Thanksgiving Day—Church Office Closed
Friday, December 1—Dinner and Decorate the Church for Advent
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