Celebrate The Carillon Nurture The Newsletter of Trinity United Methodist Church Serve

A Message from the Pastor

"It takes a village to raise a child" is a Nigerian/African proverb which means that it takes the love and commitment of a whole community to care for and be a positive example to a child if he or she is to be raised in a good, safe and healthy environment. Trinity Church is a congregation Maybe you have heard it before. I have, and it always struck me as one of those pieces of ancient wisdom that would make a long- of The United Methodist awaited dream happen if we just knew how to really live into it. Church and is a Reconciling

Congregation. Even without any explanation, I think the proverb makes a persuasive argument; one that, I believe, extends beyond raising children in healthy environments. This proverb could also apply to WHAT’S INSIDE communities who are interested in fostering an environment where all people can live in peace and love with each other; because, after all, it takes many people to make a dream happen. I

Pastor’s Message 1 think it can apply to us, right now, as we begin to live into who and how we want to be after an awful pandemic that doesn't seem Christian Education, Music Ministries 2 to relent; but it will take each and every one of us to make it Introduction Continued, Theme & Ushers 3 happen.

Bishop Devadhar, Theme, Scholarships, etc. 4 I probably do not need to repeat what you keep hearing in the Finance Message,, Birthdays & Anniversaries 5 news, but I’ll do it anyway: our country is experiencing deep Prayers, Thanks, & Announcements 6 divisions, politically, culturally and otherwise; and just in case you

Camp 4 Everyone, Graduates, Rose Window 7 have not heard, the United Methodist Church as a whole is going through the same; but Trinity doesn’t have to. In fact, our work, as Leadership /Back Page Back 8 a congregation, should be the total opposite of that. We should do our best, every day, to intentionally create and nurture a community that cares and loves each other. Similar to one of John Wesley’s questions, “though we cannot think alike, may we not love alike? I would rephrase it a little bit and say, we may not think alike or look alike, but can we find it in our hearts to love alike?

I think that’s the place God wants to reimagine here at Trinity, a place for everyone; but it will take each and every one of us to make that dream happen. I am encouraged because Trinity has a long history of loving all of God’s children, and I believe we have it within ourselves to live into a new, more beautiful and wider dream, where no one feels left out. No one. However, as John Wesley also said, “we are on to perfection.” Some of us will need to change how we think about others and who we choose to care for. We will need to learn to hear beyond words and opinions and Trinity’s Staff Meetings Have understand one another, deeply. We will need to see the way God Changed from Tuesdays at sees us, with eyes of love. 9:30 a.m. to Wednesdays from 10:30-12 noon. Can you imagine it? A church where regardless of who you are or what you’ve been through, you will always be loved and find Please take note of the change forgiveness and love. That sounds more like heaven, but I hope we when contacting the church can start right here, right now. office. Pastor René Thank you. Christian Education/Formation & Music Ministries Announcement A Note from Christian Education & Formation

Dear Trinity family,

As I write this, Camp for Everyone hasn’t yet happened. We know it will be great, with about 25 children, youth, and adults registered. We’ve made great plans for a good safe week, mostly outdoors. By August 5 when it ends, we will have had outdoor worship with prayer stations, an art project, a scavenger hunt in Forest Park, a missions project, and a movie. Watch this space in the September Carillon for some highlights, thanks, and perhaps photos.

Before you read this our committee will have welcomed our new Director of Family Ministries and Connections, Rob Powell, to his first meeting. In the meantime, a core group of this committee has been working very hard to create a new kind of children’s ministry. L.I.G.H.T. at 9 (Learning in God’s House Together at 9:00 a.m.) will begin on September 19 with three Sundays of welcome back activities—Bible stories, friends, music, games, a puppet show, and much more for children up through sixth grade.

Upstairs, things will be different, too. Possibly grades 7-8 and grades 9-12 will meet together briefly for a video and then separate for discussion and activities. We’re not yet ready to announce the final form of that experience, but we’ll be ready to meet with our youth September 19.

We’ve missed all of you—not only children and youth, but moms and dads and grandparents. We suspect you kids have grown a lot, and we know you’ll be two grades beyond where you were in March 2020. Wow! We can’t wait!

Watch this space for the specifics of all our programs. It’s going to be exciting!

Leslie Hastings Chair, Christian Education and Formation Committee

Music Ministries Announcement Greetings, Trinity!

As we begin a new program year, the excitement among musicians of all ages is increasing each week! Trinity’s Handbell and Vocal Choirs will once again begin in September. For those who are new to Trinity or looking for a dynamic and engaging ministry, I invite you to consider joining one of Trinity’s many choirs. Joining a choir has many benefits including learning inspiring music, having fun, serving the congregation, serving God and enjoying the many social aspects throughout the year.

The Chancel Choir is a singing choir of adults and high school aged youth who rehearse once a week and provide music leadership for all Worship Services. The Choristers are a singing choir of children in grades 2-8 who rehearse once a week and sing at special services. The Chamberettes are a singing choir of young women in grades 7-12 who rehearse once a week and sing at special services. Trinity also has two Handbell choirs including Trinity Handbells and Youth Handbells (grades 7-12). The Jubilee Singers is a training choir ages 4 to grade 1 which will begin after the Boar’s Head Festival.

For more information or to join one of our choirs, please contact Michael Carney at [email protected] or by calling the Church Office x210. I look forward to meeting new members and welcoming current members back to our choirs! Michael Carney

2 Bishop Devadhar, Worship Theme, Scholarships, Pictures

Trinity Welcomes Bishop Devadhar

On Sunday, August 22, 2021, Bishop Devadhar Surdarshana, Episcopal Leaders for the New England Conference will be preaching at Trinity during our worship service. Bishop Devadhar was assigned to the New England Conference in 2012, after serving 8 years as the episcopal leader of the New Jersey Annual Conference. “He enjoys spending time with his family. His wife, Prema, is his partner in ministry, and they are blessed with OUR TRANSFORMATION THEME a daughter Trina and three granddaughters. Bishop Devadhar enjoys reading and listening to devotional music. His key philosophies are to love For this year’s theme of “Transformation,” we’re everyone, that every human being is a child of looking for your stories. If you have a story, a God, enjoy God’s creation and make use of it thought, a dance, or an image you want to share, responsibly.” We are happy to have Bishop please send it to [email protected] or Devadhar share God’s word. We hope Trinity will get it to Vera or Nicole Baker or the church office by August 22. It can be written or drawn, video or offer him a warm Trinity welcome. audiotaped. We’ll compile them all in a video to ______share on Trinity Sunday. Tell us what “transformation” means to you!

Also, be on the lookout for a butterfly in the mail! We’re sending butterfly cut-outs and asking you to color them in or write, draw, or collage on them and get them to Vera or Nicole. They will be displayed in the sanctuary on Trinity Sunday. Want to create several or didn’t get the mailing? There will be more available in the back of the Scholarship Committee News sanctuary.

Thank you! The Scholarship Committee is happy to announce and congratulates Trinity’s recipients for this The Worship Committee year’s Fisher/Shadbegian/Chi Memorial Scholarship and Hays Fine Arts Scholarship:

Anna-Lee Thomson

Alex Adamo Leah Rosenman

We are proud of you and wish the best. Pictures of the Recent Celebrations at Trinity

Becky and Pastor Erin’s celebration pictures can Jean Chisholm be found on the website trinityspringfield.org under the Connect tab. There are also links to Steve Hays additional photos on the Trinity Photo Blog. Check back soon for pictures of this week’s Delight Prentice softball games. As we get back to our new Rev. Rene Perez normal, we will post pictures of Trinity events whenever possible.

3 Finance Committee Message, Birthdays & Anniversaries

A Note from the Finance Committee Birthdays, Wedding Anniversaries (Italics), Staff - (S) Thanks to all of you who have been using electronic giving, either through deductions from your bank account or by using your credit card. Electronic giving provides a source of regular cash flow, assisting Trinity with budgeting and smoothing out seasonal variation in pledge income.

This regularity of income comes with a cost, however.

Our electronic giving vendor, Vanco, charges Trinity between 5 and 7% for each transaction that they process. For the first six months of 2021, transactions charges amounted to approximately $1100.

For those who have committed to electronic giving, PERSONAL INFORMATION we’d like you to consider increasing your pledge by a small amount, say 5%. This will help offset the transaction charges we incur from Vanco. Many of you have done this already, and for this we thank you. If you haven’t done it so far, please consider helping in this way. This expense reduction will assist funding opportunities for TUMC’s mission work in our community. Thanks for your consideration.

Trinity’s Stewardship and Finance Committee

Please Join us in Celebrating This 75 & Every 5 Years Thereafter, or Over 100 Milestone Birthdays in August.

PERSONAL INFORMATION

Milestone Anniversaries 5 years & Every 5 years.

4 Donations, Farewells, & Opportunities Saying Farewell… Parkside Pantry Sunday, July 26, we said farewell to the Weir family Currently, we are who went back to England. Paul, Evelyn, Henry and accepting nonperishable Oliver have been an integral part of the Trinity family food items because we do since 2016. They will be missed as they start this new not yet have a refrigerator, adventure in their lives. We hope and wish them well freezer. We are in need of and many blessings. Please keep them in your peanut butter, pasta prayers. sauce, and toilet paper. Items can be left in the bin at the back of the sanctuary during worship on We also thank God for Kerry and Katie Teague who Sundays. We are exploring partnerships with area moved to Delaware in June. They had been active businesses and organizations, including the Western members of Trinity since the fall of 2007 and will Mass Food Bank. A monthly food pantry might be definitely be missed. Kerry was a part of the Pastor’s too much for Trinity alone as a permanent Assistant Team and was very active in welcoming new project. The Ad Council is being informed about our members and preparing the packets for new process and will play a decisive role in making members. He also was a member of the Publicity and decisions about any changes to the current Communications Committee and prepared the structure. planning calendar for the Administrative Council for a number of years. Kerry is very tall and took pride in If you are interested in helping and/or in learning holding the cross up high during the singing of “Lift more, you could come see the Parkside Pantry in High the Cross” on Easter Sundays. Kerry’s love of action on August 25. You could speak with Morgan music and talents as a DJ were utilized in providing Bengel, Ginny Blake, Ginger Elliott, or Nancy music for March Madness and many of the Trinity Moriarty to let us know your thoughts. You could Sunday Block Parties. Katie sang in the choir and was volunteer to run a food drive at your place of a church school teacher. She also served on the Staff business or social organization, and we will supply Parish Relations Committee for a number of years. flyers, boxes, and arrange for pickup if needed. Together they will be remembered as part of the Finally, we welcome your prayers as we consider almost unbeatable Trivia Night Team of “Wing and A Prayer”, taking home the Mr. Potato Head Trophy for what God is calling us to do to address the issue of several years before finally losing a couple years ago. food insecurity in our neighborhood.

We appreciate your ongoing support and generosity! Women’s Book Club

Thank you! A Gentleman in Moscow by best- selling author Amor Towles will be the subject of the next Women’s Book Club meeting on Tuesday, August 24 at 7 p.m. via Zoom.

In 1922, Count Alexander Rostov is deemed an unrepentant aristocrat by a Bolshevik tribunal, and is sentenced to house arrest in the Metropol, a grand

hotel across the street from the Kremlin. Rostov, an The Mobile Food Bank is Collecting Tote Bags indomitable man of erudition and wit, has never

worked a day in his life, and must now live in an attic Starting in July on the first distribution Wednesday, room while some of the most tumultuous decades in July 7, The Mobile Food Bank is going back to Pre- Russian history are unfolding outside the hotel’s COVID practices with walk-up pick-up instead of doors. Unexpectedly, his reduced circumstances drive-up. The Mobile Food Bank of Western MA will provide him entry into a much larger world of no longer be providing bags or boxes for our emotional discovery. (Amazon.com) recipients. Trinity volunteers are asking for durable tote bags donations if you have any or wish to Everyone is welcome to join us for the discussion. All purchase some for this purpose. You can place them the books we discuss are recommendations from in the Mobile Food Bank box in the sanctuary which members of the group. If you would like to join us or is different from the New Parkside Pantry box. We if you have a book to recommend, please contact thank you for your continued support and Jane Schneeloch to be sure you get the link. generosity.

5 Prayers & Thanks, Sympathies, & Altar Flowers

Please Pray For Our Members & Friends: In Sympathy

Marilyn A, James B (Bridget’s brother), David Condolences to the family and friends of longtime Trinity C, Margaret (Peg) C, Dominick E, Heather F-B member, Jack Clark who passed away, Wednesday, June (Bridget's cousin), Donell J (Gina’s son), Annie 30. Please keep the family in your prayers during this K, Cristopher L, Katherine L, Ann M (friend of difficult time. Ginny Y), Judy K, Jimmy N (Wendy R's brother), Erin O, Jackie O, Sue P, Daryl P, Claire (L) P, Larry R, Catherine Ann R, Ann B R, We offer our sympathy to Faye Chorpenning and family, Beverly R (Joanne B’s mother), Ron S (Beryl N's upon the death of her husband, Trinity's former pastor, brother), Jean S, Nancy S, Margaret S (friend of Rev. Lloyd E. Chorpenning, Jr. He passed away on Jacki B), Madeline S (David S & Monica A’s Saturday, July 3, 2021 at home, surrounded by his family. granddaughter), Lynn T, Gary T, Mary (T) G Please keep the family in your prayers during this difficult (Nate T’s sister & Camille’s sister-in-law), time. You are welcome to send a card to his wife: Mrs. Alison W, our service men, women and their Faye Chorpenning. loved ones.

We send our sympathy to David Snyder & Monica Ardolino upon the death of their mother & mother-in-law,

Anna-Mae Snyder on Monday, July 26. Ann-Mae was 102

years old. Please keep the family in your prayers during this difficult time.

Altar Flowers

Thank You Note If you have previously been scheduled for altar flowers pre-COVID the price from our florist has increased from Dear Trinity members and Staff, $29.00 to $40.00. If you do not wish to Just wanted to thank everyone for their prayers keep your date, please notify the office and birthday wishes this past month. My health issues have been complicated due to the as soon as possible. If you are keeping pandemic and many medical procedures. your date, please send in your payment made out to Trinity UMC, and in the I offer my prayers and hope for healing to other Trinity members with health issues, too. memo section write altar flowers and the date you have already reserved by September 1. Once the deadline has I feel so blessed to be 84 years old and have a passed, I will let you know of future available flower new great granddaughter too. dates. As of right now these are the dates available: August 1, 22, or 29, on a first come first serve basis. If Love and hugs to all. you would like any of the dates please email me at [email protected] Larry Ratte Thank you.

6 Block Party, Rose Window, Confirmation Class, & A Christian Concert

Confirmation Class Orientation - October 3

TRINITY’S BLOCK PARTY IS BACK! After worship, on October 3, students and parents Just a reminder, as the summer months fly by, that are invited to attend an orientation meeting to talk September is just around the corner - and with it, about confirmation class; and whether or not they would like to participate in this year’s class. this year’s Trinity Sunday & Block Party celebration.

Mark your calendars for Sunday, September 12th, 12:00pm - 2:30pm, when we gather together on the front lawn for food, fellowship, and fun. There will be music, games for the children (and the young at heart), delicious food, and a drawing every half-hour for a free pie.

If you are interested in helping out in any capacity, please stop by the Connection Point table out on the lawn after worship (or in Asbury Hall in case of Contemporary Christian Artists " Maverick rain) - or feel free to contact Wendy Regan (We look City Music" Will Host a Concert in Boston forward to spending some “quality time” with one another and with our Forest Park neighbors. Maverick City Music is a group of talented Christian

praise musicians. The group was founded to give musicians of color more opportunity outside of the Membership & Evangelism Committee mainstream to spread their message. It has since become a group of ethnically diverse young adults who sing with passion, heart, and amazing talent. Examples include Great Is Your Faithfulness, Old Church Basement, Such an Awesome God, and Shall Not Want. You can find many of their performances on YouTube. On Friday, October 29, Maverick City Music will be performing at TD Garden in Boston. The ticket prices range from $50

to $200 plus tax and booking fees. We would love to get a group from Trinity together to go. For more information, please contact Christine Thibodeau. August Rose Window

August 4- In loving memory of Pauline, from Judy and Paula. “Quote”

August 10—In loving memory of David Coffin, from his mom, Barbara. “Music can heal the wounds that medicine

cannot touch.” ~Debasish Mridha August 30– Anonymous

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TRINITY STAFF E-MAIL Pastor: Rev. René Perez (x205) pastorrene@trinityspringfield. org Director of Music Ministries: Michael Carney (x210) [email protected] Church Administrator: Jeff Bennett (x202) [email protected] Director of Family Ministries and Connections: Rob Powell (x201) [email protected] Administrative Assistant: Doreen B. Bessey (x204) doreen@trinityspringfield. org Head Sexton: Carlos Manning (x207) sextons@trinityspringfield. org 413-777-5460 TNSK Assistant Director: Tara Adam [email protected]

2021 Leadership Team Administrative Council Chair: Steve Sheffield [email protected] Altar Guild Coordinator: Chad & Phyllis Thompson [email protected] Adult Education Coordinator: Erica Weida [email protected] Board of Trustees Chair: Charles H. Gray [email protected] Board of Trustees Treasurer: Erica Weida [email protected] Christian Education & Formation Chair: Leslie Hastings [email protected] TNSK Advisory Board Chair: Camille Twining [email protected] The UMW President: Lisa Foster [email protected] Investment Committee Chair: Doug Jangraw [email protected] Lay Leader: Lisa Bakowski [email protected] Membership & Evangelism Chair: Steve Chisholm [email protected] Mission Chair: Diane Mackie [email protected] Publicity/Communications Chairs: Jim & Clara Lee Sharrard [email protected] Staff-Parish Relations Chair: Nate Olin [email protected] Stewardship & Finance Chair: Chad Thompson [email protected] Worship Committee Chairs: Vera Baker & Nicole Baker [email protected] 8