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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: Sunday School for children in grades 4th and up will be held at 10:00 am on the first and third Sunday of the month in the downstairs Sunday School classroom.
The Sunday School kids are learning about other religions over the next 4 months. We will have speakers come to discuss Islam, Judaism, Buddhism and Hinduism. In addition, we will be going to worship and/or visit their houses of worship. Here is our tentative schedule for the next few weeks:
Jan 29th - Carol Meyers will be joining us for a special Sunday School session during service for a discussion of Judaism.
Feb 3rd - Friday night service at Beth'Or Temple. We will meet at church at 6:15 and carpool over.
Feb 5th - NO SUNDAY SCHOOL
Feb 12th - Valentine's Day brunch - we will be helping out.
Feb 19th - NO SUNDAY SCHOOL
In March we will be discussing Hinduism. Once I get the schedule, I will pass that on to everyone. All ages are welcome at any of these events...If you have any questions, please let me know.
Staci Klemmer
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!
2012 Pledges: It is time for Holy Trinity to assemble our 2012 budget. In order to accomplish this, we need members to fill out a 2012 pledge card. These cards will be available in the Narthex beginning Christmas Eve. Please take a card, complete it and return it in the offering plate. Thank you.
2011 Giving Statements: The Giving Statements for the year of 2011 were mailed on January 17th. These statements can be used for income tax purposes. If there are any questions, please contact Pat in the Church Office at holy.trinity3@verizon.net or 215-855-4431.
Broad Street Churches Lenten Services: Lent begins soon and, with it, our Ecumenical Lenten Series conducted in collaboration with the First Baptist Church of Lansdale and Lansdale United Methodist church. Please mark your calendars now so that Holy Trinity can be a strong partner in supporting and hosting these services. I look forward to seeing you all there!
The United Methodist church is across Broad Street from us at 300 N. Broad and the First Baptist church is at Broad and 7th Streets. All service times are 7PM and dress is informal. Refreshments are served after each service by the hosting church.
Feb. 29 Holy Trinity
March 7 Baptist
March 14 Methodist
March 21 Holy Trinity
March 28 Baptist
(There will be an Ash Wednesday service at the Methodist church but, as in the past, Holy Trinity will celebrate Ash Wednesday in its own tradition.)
Deborah Darlington
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 January 29th will be by our supply priest, Rev. Dr. Richard Ditterline. Text: Deuteronomy 18:15-20; Psalm 111;
I Corinthians 8:1-13 and Mark 1:21-28.
Next week:
The sermon on February 5th will be by our supply priest, Rev. Dr. Richard Ditterline. Text: Isaiah 40:21-31; Psalm 147:1-12, 21c;
I Corinthians 9:16-23 and Mark 1:29-39.
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