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Hope With Sudan Community Garage Sale

Saturday, August 14, 8 am-3 pm
at St. Mark's Episcopal Church
1957 Pruneridge Avenue
Santa Clara, CA 95050-6515

Hope with Sudan will use the St. Mark's parking lot as it's "garage" for the Santa Clara Community-Wide Garage Sale on August 14th. This will be Hope with Sudan's (HWS)  first Community Wide Fund Raiser and we hope you can help us make this outreach event a success.  Come by to browse, and let your friends and family know we are here.

How else can you help us to share the mission to educate and build the next generation of leaders for The Sudan?
-- We are seeking donations of "good stuff" to sell. But please no junk, be selective, remember that anything we don't sell we need to dispose of at the end of the day.  Donations may be brought to St. Mark's beginning Thursday, August 12th and must be marked with the donor's name. ***We will offer tax donation slips for all goods donated for sale by HWS***
-- Volunteer to help staff a Hope with Sudan information table on August 14th
-- Sign up to help staff the Hope with Sudan "garage"

This community-facing activity will spotlight Hope with Sudan and the Episcopal Church in the world in a positive light. A number of Sudanese have been members at Trinity for years, and donations to HWS do much to help them and their families. It offers a great opportunity for us as Episcopalians to reach out and become more well known to our neighbors.  Come join in the activity!!

Hope with Sudan contacts:
Bol Deng, Program Manager
info@hopewithsudan.org

Barbara Rice, Board Member
b-rice@accesscom.com
408.296.4949

Jerry Drino, Executive Director
JDrino@HopeWithSudan.org
(408) 251-2059

Trinity Inaugurates Second Feeding Program

Trinity Cathedral has recently expanded its outreach ministries by doubling its feeding program.  In addition to the monthly meal for the homeless in downtown San Jose (which has been running for more than 15 years), Trintiy volunteers now cooking and serving meals at the San Jose Family Shelter.  Following is a report on the first meal.

We had a great turnout to kickoff our new effort to eradicate hunger in our city by cooking and serving lunch at San Jose Family Shelter on the 16th of January. Twenty four individuals helped either wash, prepare, and/or serve meals to families living at this shelter.

First let me thank Sara Calkins for the outstanding p.r. effort she waged in the monthly parish newsletter.  Thank you to Erin McCauley who did the shopping, Bill and Rafael who donate oranges from their tree. Thank you to Daphne Pigott who did much for the washing and cleaning. Thank you to Ben White for collecting the French bread and sweets from Lucky's market.

Since this was my first time to coordinate an effort such as this I was very glad that many of the "usual suspects" turned up to help. Roger Lobbes, all three Fongs, Ben White, Susan Parks, David Anthony, Ira Cohen, Jose Barroso, Erin McCauley and her friend Mary Kelly. Matt Bigler brought his father John who was in town on a visit. John McCurry brought Annette Brennan and her daughter Christine. Kathy Goldbach, Renee Palmonari, Karl Inderbitzin, and Gerald Li who brought his daughter Merissa. Barbara Robinson and her husband joined us for the first time and did a great job frying meat and assisting in the preparation of the sauce. Ben Brookshire, Kimberly, Michelle, and Alan Fong joined us at the shelter to help serve.

We put the new large cooking pot to good use . Karen purchased a large container with lid for mixing, transporting, and serving the salad. She also got some pastry brushes to aid in the preparation of the garlic French bread and two new cutting boards.

I hope that I have not forgotten anyone who contributed to making this outreach activity a great success. If I have, please forgive me. The congregation as a whole is to be thanked for supporting this activity with a budget to purchase food and drink.

We had a great time of fellowship so I hope that you will consider joining us next month on the third Saturday at 9:45 a.m. in the Parish Kitchen.

Karen Kieffer Gillette

Companion Diocese Service

Read Tim Roberts' Living Church article about the September 20th Companion Diocese service, and see photos of the event in our Gallery.

Thank you

The following local businesses support Trinity, and they all look forward to serving Trinity parishioners.  Please mention that you're from Trinity Cathedral:

Willow Tree Coffees, 1541 Casa De Ponselle, San Jose , CA for donating their wonderful coffees to enhance our coffee hours.

Rex Cleaners, 60 Race Street , San Jose CA , for providing special cleaning services for vestments at no charge.

Jewels and Diamonds, 642 Blossom Hill Road , San Jose , CA for repairing our silver flagon at no charge.

Off-Price Carpet Outlet, 1020 W. San Carlos, San Jose, CA for donating carpet for the Archive room stairs.

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