Holy Trinitywill be providing a meal for the families at the YWCA Family Center on Saturday, October 6.  We will be serving hamburgers and hot dogs.  You may help by serving food or by making a donation for purchasing the food.  If you make a monetary donation, please make checks payable to Holy Trinity and mark the check or envelope for the Y-Center.  If you are interested in serving, please arrive at the Y-Center (900 Harvey Court, Columbus, 43219) by 5:00 pm.  Any questions, please contact Chris Pryor.

The Knitting for the Needy group is now meeting quarterly in the church library on the second Saturday of the month at 9:30 am.  In December, the group will meet again to put together the Hat and Mitten Tree.  Please join us!

Holy Trinity’s Beacons will be packing Lutheran World Relief items on Wednesday, October 3 to be sent on their way to the Maryland warehouse for this coming year’s distributions.  All bars of soap, blankets and kits need to be at church by Sunday, September 30.  Many thanks in advance for everyone’s participation.

The annual Beacons Bazaar will be held in Grace Hall on Sunday, October 28.  The monetary donations from this event help keep us in supplies over the next year. Plan for Christmas, Secret Pal or small item gifting for the year ahead from the items offered.  Hope to see you there!

Holy Trinity’s Endowment Committee is excited to announce that we have approximately $17,000 available to disperse for the 2019 funding cycle.  This amount doubles last year’s allocation as well as the amount applied to repayment of the organ loan.  Once again, the funds will be awarded across our three designated constituencies:

1. Community Outreach efforts
2. ELCA activities within synods, seminaries, colleges, or local social service agencies
3. Holy Trinity program enrichment, ministry support, or capital improvements

Application materials are available at the information center, and are due back by Monday, October 8.  If you know of an entity that might be interested in submitting an application, please inform whomever might be responsible for completing the forms. Our goal would contemplate making the number of grants that would allow each to be of measurable impact.  Thank you for your interest and help.  If you have any questions, please contact Endowment Committee chair Paula Fenner.

Our expanded supper ministry continues every Thursday from 5:30-7:30 pm.  Everyone’s invited to attend as we share food, fellowship and resources for Jesus to engage us through focus Bible passages for the fall Pentecost season.  Ten different households will provide supper for ten consecutive Thursdays sharing the recipe for the centerpiece dish being prepared.  Come before choir rehearsal, Bible study, or just come enjoy the fellowship!

The LSS Auxiliary will meet Saturday, September 22 at 11:30 am at Hope Lutheran Church, 820 Lilley Avenue, Columbus, OH 43205.  Collection of the items for Baby Bags continues.  Please place your contributions in the LSS Auxiliary container located under the Signup table in the Gathering place. Please join us on September 22!

Last week we put the roof trusses on.  Now we will start working inside and on siding.  There is a Women Build Day on Saturday, October 6.  Come out and enjoy the camaraderie while helping a good cause.  In related news, Habitat is planning to build a new Restore at Sawmill and 161.  Please contact Benson Ross for more information.

The Lutheran Men in Mission are hosting a volunteer day at Lutheran Memorial Camp, 2790 State Route 61, Fulton, OH 43321 on Saturday, September 29. Volunteers are asked to meet at the main lodge by 8:00 am.  Breakfast will be served at 8:30 am and lunch at 12:30 pm.  Work assignments will be handed out after breakfast.  Volunteers may stay as long as their time allows. Due to the food being prepared, an RSVP is required by Tuesday, September 25 to David Drumm at dadrumm@yahoo.com.

Jenna Poling, a member of Holy Trinity and senior at Upper Arlington High School, recently called upon her prior service at the YWCA-Family Center as inspiration for her high school Capstone Project. The Southern Ohio Synod office was so inspired by Jenna’s idea that they wrote a story about it in the Synod’s newsletter.  To read the complete story, please click https://associationdatabase.com/aws/SOS/pt/sd/news_article/183645/_PARENT/layout_details/false

Last week we benefitted from beautiful weather, and got lots of work done!  We put the stairs up to the second floor, finished building the second floor deck, and then moved on to building the second floor exterior walls.  This week we will continue with building the second floor inside and outside walls.  Contact Benson Ross to learn how you can help.  Please join us if you can…Thank you!