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Click above to view the recording of the "Hybrid" Candlelight Christmas Eve. Online: https://www.youtube.com/c/TrinityUMCMontpelier (livestream will begin at 6:45pm) During this Advent, we have been reflecting on the image of The Inn: Housing the Holy. Our Advent journey has led us to this moment when the light shining through a closed-door becomes one opened to new possibilities, new relationships. What a poignant moment for us to gather-both online and in-person-this Christmas Eve to sing carols, listen to children reading poems, hear the Good News from the Scripture and message, and light the candles of hope, peace, joy, love, and Christ together. OFFERING.
Candlelight Christmas Eve is worship. Like the magi who offered frankincense, gold, and myrrh, one of the ways to express our response to Christ’s birth in each one of us is through our financial offering. There will be Christmas envelopes included in your bulletins if you are in-person, or choose one of our online options. We will NOT be passing offering plates during the in-person service to minimize contact. There will be offering plates placed near the exits where you can leave your offerings. Give —> https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/trinityvt CANDLE LIGHTING. If you are worshipping with us online, please have a candle ready with you so that we can light the candle together. If you are joining us in-person, a candle will be provided to you as you enter the sanctuary. After singing the Silent Night, Holy Night, please DO NOT try to “blow” out the candles. This will cause everyone lowering their masks all at the same time. Instead, we will have ushers go around with candle snuffers. ABOUT THE GUEST ORGANIST. On Christmas Eve, we will be blessed by a guest organist, Christopher McWilliams. “Christopher McWilliams holds a BM Summa Cum Laude in Organ and Piano Performance and an MM With Distinction in Piano Pedagogy and Performance from Westminster Choir College of Rider University in Princeton, NJ. At WCC, he studied piano with Phyllis Lehrer and organ with Kenneth Cowan and Matthew Lewis. After graduating, he has worked primarily as a piano instructor at the Westminster Conservatory of Music from 2012 to 2020, where he taught mostly one-on-one lessons to students aged 7 to 17. He has also taught music theory to violin students at the Princeton String Academy, and he accompanied flute and violin students during recitals both in Princeton, NJ and at Weill Recital Hall in NYC. While he taught at WCM, he performed regularly in chamber music recitals with his former colleagues including Melissa Bohl, oboe, Marjorie Selden, viola, Michael Carl Green, trumpet, and Phyllis Lehrer, piano. Between 2011 and 2018, Mr. McWilliams served as organist of Princeton United Methodist Church, where he accompanied the elementary, youth and adult choirs and collaborated with solo instrumentalists. From 2014 to 2020, he also served as a weekly rehearsal accompanist for both First Dutch Neck Presbyterian Church in Princeton Junction and for the Taiwanese/American Fellowship Hall in Hillsborough, NJ. For a brief period between September and October 2019, he was an intern organist for the Abiding Presence Lutheran Church in Ewing, NJ. Since June 2020, Mr. McWilliams holds a post as Director of Music at Bethany United Church of Christ in Montpelier, VT, where his main duties include leading the adult choir in worship, playing and maintaining the organ and pianos and collaborating with other soloists. Aside from being Director of Music, he is a faculty member of the Monteverdi School of Music and holds a teaching studio both at Bethany UCC and at his residence in Barre, VT.” Just a reminder that there will be No Community Lunch on Thanksgiving Day. We will see you next Thursday, December 2nd between 11:30am and 12:00pm on our front steps. Have a week filled with gratitude!
 Reserve your meal for next week's Chicken Pie Dinner on Saturday, October 16th.
Meal includes Biscuit baked with chicken & mixed veggies. Mashed potatoes, gravy, butternut squash (made with real maple syrup) coleslaw, beet relish, cranberry sauce and choice of apple or pumpkin pie. EMAIL tumcreservation@gmail.com or CALL the reservation line at 1-802-613-3073 Phone and email are available 24/7 so don't worry about the time. Let us know:
Join us this Saturday, October 9th, for a walk on the Millstone Trails in Websterville. We will meet in the church parking lot at 1:30pm and caravan to the trailhead. (Those living closer to Websterville can meet us at the Barre Town Forest parking lot, 44 Brook St, at 2:00.) This will be an out and back adventure, under a mile each way, with foliage views and interesting granite features. There are plenty of additional trails for those who want to explore further. Please reply to chryscrane@comcast.net if you are interested in joining us so we know in which parking lot to look for you!
 This Friday and Saturday, October 8th & 9th from 9am to 2pm at Trinity United Methodist Church, 137 Main St. Montpelier. Main focus of this sale will be Winter Coats. We will have a large selection ranging from $3 to $10. We will also have other warm clothing, Halloween costumes and household items which will be by donation. Pay what you can/want or free if financially strapped.
During the winter months we will also be giving out for FREE – winter coats, hats, mittens, boots, socks and blankets every Thursday from 11:30 to noon during our Community Free Lunch which is served from the front doors of the church. If you have warm outwear that you would like to donate to this program, please bring it when you come to the sale to shop. Bring your tote bags and leave with lots of "new to you" treasures.
 To make a reservation for Sat., Nov. 7,
email: TUMCreservation@gmail.com OR call: 802 613-3073 Please leave the following information: - Your name: first and last - Your phone number - How many meals you want - The time of pickup (15-minute intervals beginning at 4:30 pm) $10/meal (a choice of apple or pumpkin pie included) Pay upon pickup (Check payable to "TUMC") |
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