Winter Adult Forum Series: Facets of Faith
In January, Adult Forum will begin a series of five sessions, “Facets of Faith.” In these sessions, guest speakers will share ideas about faith in relation to different aspects of our lives. The schedule:

January 13—Faith and Politics, Susan Kay
January 20—Faith and Food, Mary Jo McMillin
January 27—Faith and Food, Liz Wilson
February 3—Faith and Violence, Rick Colby
February 10—Faith and Relationships, Mila Ganeva

Remember that Vestry decided not to have its minutes printed in the Triad, given its wide extra-parish distribution. If you would like a copy, look in the Narthex and/or the Bishop's Foyer. (Of course, if you can't get to church, just call the office to have one mailed to you.)

Reading/Discussion Schedule for 2008

• January 14, WHAT PAUL MEANT, by Gary Wills (led by Lara), also handout by Elaine Pagels (led by Françoise). We may use an additional week for these.
• February 11, REVELATIONS OF DIVINE LOVE, by Julian of Norwich (led by Ann and Frank, Sandra away). This will be in tandem with the Adult Forum on the same subject.
• March 10, READING JUDAS, by Elaine Pagels (led by Sandra?—if anyone else would like to lead this, please let me know).
• April 14, EVERYTHING BELONGS, by Richard Rohr (led by Karen)

12:00 p.m. on Wednesday, January 23, at the Oxford Presbyterian Church, at 101 N. Main Street, in Oxford. Midday Music presents a free program performed by seven guitarists from the University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music Classical Guitar Ensemble. Information: 523-6969.

The films that the Cincinnati Earth Institute is showing once a month will now also be shown in Oxford on the first Sunday of the month (except May and June) at 1:30 pm at the Campus Ministry, 16 S. Campus Ave. Discussion is optional. The events are open to the public—bring a friend or two!

The schedule:

• January 6........... Buyer Be Fair—The Promise of Product Certification
• February 3........... The Ecological Footprint Accounting for a Small Planet
• March thru June: The Sacred Balance, with David Suzuki, in 4 parts
• March 2..... Episode 1—Journey into New Worlds
• April 6..... Episode 2—The Matrix of Life
• May 18..... Episode 3—The Fire of Creation (note the different Sunday)
• June 8...........Episode 4—Coming Home (note the different Sunday

Many thanks to everyone who made our Advent and Christmas seasons full of grace and wonder, beauty, and love! A Blessed New Year to All.

Coming up:

Wednesday   January 2   Community Dinner

Sunday   January 6   Epiphany! Burning of the Greens and Potluck to follow the 10:30
      Service.

MONDAY   January 7   Vestry meeting (moved from the 1st).

Sunday   January 13   Meeting (after 10:30 service) with the rector in her office for all interested in inquirers classes/becoming a “member” of the church/confirmation,          reception, reaffirmation of your faith.

Sunday   January 20   Annual Meeting and Finger-Food Potluck after the 10:30 service.

Monday   January 21   The Oxford Martin Luther King Day March may end up at Holy
      Trinity for concluding program. If so, I need your help, so contact me if       interested.

Wednesday   January 23   Community Dinner

Please pray and work to reverse growing hunger in our state because of rising food prices and the shortfall of emergency food. The gap between need and supplies is especially acute in the regional food banks in Springfield, Fairfield, and Logan which provide USDA and discount commodities to many Episcopal pantries and meal programs.

Thank God for Episcopalians who are working resourcefully to stretch scarce resources! This month we lift up Columbus-area churches whose menus for St. John’s His Place dinners are promoting community health by serving fresh fruits and vegetables that Franklinton neighbors cannot afford. We thank God for the role of Holy Trinity parishioners in the successful launch of Oxford’s new choice pantry, and for Episcopal volunteers throughout the state who are helping eligible people get food stamps so that more of the emergency food supply can be focused on those with no other recourse. Thanks to everyone whose donations to ECSF help our congregations to sustain and expand vital hunger ministries throughout the diocese!

• Ariel Miller
  Episcopal Community Services Foundation

 

Kudos to all who have been recycling, especially those who have brought plastic bags, #1 plastic containers, batteries, and fluorescent lightbulbs to HT!

Plastic bags were shared with vendors at the Uptown Market during the summer and taken to Walmart’s recycling at other times. We’ve recycled A LOT of bags. If you go to the Oxford Kroger’s, you can now take your bags there if you want. They will take plastic grocery bags, drycleaning bags, other plastic bags, and case wrap (the sort of thing that comes shrunken around six-packs of water bottles, etc.). Of course, we’ll keep taking bags for recycling from the Narthex as well.

Keep bringing #1 plastic containers to HT, and we’ll schlep them to Ditmer for you.Remember to check for the #1 symbol on the bottom—a triangle with 1 in it. (Sometimes it is hard to see on the clear plastic.) Not all clear plastic containers are #1, and any plastics with numbers higher than #2 are not recyclable in our area.

If you live in an area without Rumpke recycling, let Susan Kay know, and she’ll tell you what you can recycle in Oxford with her help.

Not surprisingly, Social Justice hasn’t been entrusted with very many fluorescent bulbs for safe disposal yet, but even they do wear out. So remember that you can dispose of them safely through HT when yours give up the ghost.

Think of all the ways you can recycle those grocery bags, by the way. Reline your trash cans with them, save smaller ones for your favorite dog owner for clean up, stash them until summer for your favorite vendors at the market. The more we can keep out of the landfill, trees, and bushes, the better; and the longer we can prolong their use before they go to the landfill, the better! Or avoid them all together—buy cloth, or “just say no thanks” to the constant offers of plastic bags.

Again, thanks for saving God’s earth one small bit at a time.

• Susan Kay

Anonymous gift to pay for laptops and computers for the Benefit Bank.

From Margaret Shawver Baker, a gift to Holy Trinity in memory of her mother, Leona H. Shawver.

From John Blocher, a gift to the organ fund of Holy Trinity in honor Frank Jordan for his service to the Church, the Oxford Choral Ensemble, the University, and the community of Oxford at large.

From Jan Logan Massey and Todd Rutherford Logan, a bequest to Holy Trinity from the estate of their mother Alice R. Logan.

From Jean Lutz, a memorial for her cousin Suan Louise Woodward.

FEB. 1–3, 2008

Once a year in mid-winter parishioners and friends have the opportunity to spend a weekend in silence with others from Holy T at a community of Episcopal sisters, The Convent of the Transfiguration, near Tri-County. The Guest House Beth-Anna has once again been reserved for our use. The suggested time for the retreat begins Friday at Evensong, 5 p.m. followed by supper and ends after breakfast about 9 a.m. on Sunday. Three meals are served Saturday. A later departure on Sunday is also possible. Accommodations are available for men and women. The suggested donation is $30.00 per night for lodging and meals.

BETHANNA RETREAT HOUSE
Community of the Transfiguration
Convent of the Transfiguration
495 Albion Ave.
Cincinnati, OH 45246-4604
Tel: (513) 771-5291
Superior: Sister Ann Margaret, CT

To secure a place for the 2008 retreat, please contact Kathleen Carels at 523-8614. In order for the kitchen staff and sisters to prepare for our stay please let me know by Sunday Jan. 27th of your intention to join us.

Episcopal Retirement Homes’s Parish Health Ministry, in partnership with the Parish Nurse/Health Ministries Task force of the Diocese of Southern Ohio, will hold its 2008 Refresh Your Soul conference on Friday, Feb. 29, and Saturday, March 1, at the Crowne Plaza Hotel in Cincinnati (5901 Pfeiffer Road). This year’s theme is “A Rule of Life When Life Changes the Rules.”

The weekend of renewal will include a keynote presentation by the Rev. Margaret Guenther, M.Div., Ph.D., who is a well-known speaker and the author of numerous books related to spiritual direction and prayer. The former director of the Center for Christian Spirituality at the General Theological Seminary in New York, some of her titles include

• At Home in the World: A Rule of Life for the Rest of Us
• Holy Listening: The Art of Spiritual Direction
• The Practice of Prayer
• Toward Holy Ground: Spiritual Directions for the Second Half of Life and
• Notes from a Sojourner

1 Oliver Mogga
6 Geoffrey Blackwell
12 Cindy Stahr
14 Barbara McKinstry
16 Cheryl Heckler
18 Frank Jordan, Nora McVey
22 Anne Lodge, Mathias Thesz (2007)
24 Jack Greer

29 Dick and Ginger Smith

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The Rev. Karen Burnard, Rector
Susan Kay, Senior Warden
Karl Schilling, Junior Warden
Frank Jordan, Organist
Wiliam Bausano, Choir Director
Steve Elliott, Treasurer
Ruth Lindsey, Clerk of the Vestry

Jackie Engelhard, Parish Secretary (htoffice-AT-woh.rr.com)

Vestry:

Al Lindsey
Gary Martin
Lila Mason
Mike McVey
Neil Poppendeck
Judy Shaw
Rob Thomas
Diana Uhlman
Eleanore Vail

Newly elected: Barbara Hamilton, Glenn Julian, and Oliver Mogga

Robert Benson, Acolyte Coordinator
Frank Jordan, Organist
William Bausano, Choir Director
Steven Elliott, Treasurer
Jackie Engelhard, Parish Secretary

--, Christian Education Director

Pre-school (ages 3-6) Church School:
Barbara Hamilton, Anita Atkinson

Elementary (age 7-8th Grade):
Susan Fortney Harlan, Parker Moore, Kathy McCabe, Mila Ganeva

High School Youth Group:
tba

Panama Experience:
Anita Atkinson

Mary Fahnestock-Thomas, editor
(comments and corrections welcome at 513-523-6235, at the Church office and thomasrj-at-muohio.edu [address altered to foil spammers)

Deadline for February 2008: January 20