Pastor Steve has joined other faith community leaders around Columbus on conference call meetings with the Director of Columbus Public Health and Bishop of the Southern Ohio Synod.  While we are already doing most of what they suggested, we did pick up the idea of managing meal ministries with take-home packages for clients who arrive in stages rather than all at once.

All activities have been suspended until further notice. The timing worked out all right though as the house is basically complete. We look forward to having our home dedication day when it becomes safe to do so.  For more information, please contact Benson Ross.

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Holy Trinity’s Shrove Tuesday Pancake Supper was held Tuesday, February 25.  Thank you to our sponsors: Giant Eagle, Anthony Thomas, Carsonie’s, First Watch and Lair’s Hallmark, as well as Tim Stock and Mike Christman for donating OSU tickets for the silent auction.  Thank you to all the council members (and alumni) for prepping and serving the food. And thanks, too, to everyone that attended, ate their fill, purchased raffle tickets, bid on silent auction items, and helped raise more than $1500 for Brad Giordano who is serving as a missionary in Madagascar through the ELCA’s Young Adults in Global Mission program. You may recall Brad helping with Sunday School last year, playing guitar during the opening and substitute teaching.  For more information, go to:

https://support.elca.org/site/TR/Events/General?px=1058547&pg=personal&fr_id=1181.  Thanks again for your support!

Thank you to everyone that donated blood at the Red Cross blood drive last Saturday, February 22.  Twenty-three usable pints were collected.  From the American Red Cross and all their recipients, a heartfelt thank you!

Our habitat house is nearly complete! We have the kitchen and bath cabinetry installed, almost all of the woodwork done, and we are continuing with painting. Thursdays and Saturdays through March we will be putting on the final touches, and expect to have our dedication ceremony in April. Come on out and lend a hand!  For more information, please contact Benson Ross.

While you may know that Holy Trinity prepares and serves breakfast at First English on the fourth Sunday of the month (including this week), there are plenty of other ministry activities happening there that you might also be interested in.

On Saturday, April 4 from 9:30 am-1:00 pm (lunch included), there will be a poverty simulation workshop at First English challenging partner congregations to see how their First English neighbors live day in and day out.  Sara Neikirk obtained a grant for this project that strives to connect people across all classes, races, and genders. The program will be capped at 30 participants so if you’d like signup or to learn more about it, please contact Becky Warnement.

Holy Trinity’s Sisters of the Spirit will be compiling Easter baskets for a scavenger hunt taking place at First English this spring.  Donations of contents for Easter baskets, especially small religious-based items, are appreciated.  Contributions can be placed in the bin at the Collection & Signup Corner.  The group will then gather at the Warnements’ home to put the baskets together at a later date.  Any and all are invited to participate.

There are also several fundraising events occurring in March at First English to help offset legal costs for Miriam Vargas who continues to live in sanctuary there.  For more information, please contact Becky Warnement.

Thanks to your generosity, Holy Trinity collected more than $755 dollars to benefit the Mid-Ohio Foodbank.  The results of our unofficial contribution poll did not determine the victors on the field but in the game against hunger, we’re all on the same team!  For results-oriented fans: $58 was donated to the Cincinnati Bengals; $80 cheered for Vicar Sara’s Dallas Cowboys; $117 hoped the San Francisco 49ers would win; $198 supported the Kansas City Chiefs; and to no one’s surprise, $302 was contributed to the Cleveland Browns’ efforts.  (Perhaps Cleveland is Holy Trinity’s favorite team, not just Pastor Steve’s!) Thank you all for your generous gifts to help be game-changers in someone else’s life!