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Vacation Bible School

Vacation Bible School for 2008 is coming up quickly.  The dates are June 16-20, from 8:30 to 12:00. The theme for this year is “The Rainforest Adventure”, and will be a program of faith-filled fun. Rainforest Adventure invites kids to share the good news of Jesus’ love for us by being his disciples. If you are between the ages of 3 and 18 jump in! We’ll have lots of fun sharing God’s Love with every one.

For more information contact Gary Hull at 408-394-8743. Cost is $25 per child and $50 per family.

After hour care is available by request and must be arranged at least 2 weeks prior to the start of VBS.

Trinity Summer Concerts

This summer, Trinity folk will meet on selected Thursday evenings for a potluck summer great music as we enjoy "Music in the Other Park" in St. James Park, across from the church.  Click here for more information.

Lunch for People who are Homeless

The May lunch was prepared and served by 12 volunteers and enjoyed by about 90 lunchers at Cecil White Center.  As with each of our visits, residents from nearby Julian St Inn joined the clients of Cecil White Center for lunch.  Our offering this month of pasta with chicken and julienne-cut spinach, spicy garlic bread, and green salad, along with milk, ice cream sundaes, and a selection of cakes, was most appreciated.

Thank you to Leslie Barr for planning the meal and many thanks to Marge Lobbes for doing all the shopping.  We were fortunate this month to have returning volunteer, Shelley Kesselman who enlisted a new volunteer, her husband Jeff!  While Marge and Shelley, along with Joyce Baker cut up the chicken, Jeff worked with Rick Hawes  and friends of the parish Susan Parks and Ben White slicing and dicing the veggies and lettuce for our salad.  Meanwhile, Young Min Seo, cut up two large bags of spinach for the main dish.

Not to waste valuable help, Jeff was also drafted to work on the spicy garlic bread team.  With Karen Gillette lavishly brushing and scooping garlic butter, prepared by no other than Shelley, onto the French bread, meticulously halved by Jeff, friend of the parish Ira Cohen, applied the final cuts for perfectly sized pieces of garlic bread.

Many thanks to Roger Lobbes as well as Susan and Shelley for slaving over the hot stove sautéing all of the chicken and bringing to boil the big pots of water for the pasta.  Susan and Shelley were our quality control supervisors, making sure the food was not only pleasing to the eye but also had the right snap on the taste buds.

Thanks to Rita Welsh for doing a wonderful job slicing and arranging the cakes.  With Roger organizing the servers, all went smoothly.  Another set of thanks goes to Ira and Ben for enthusiastically volunteering to scoop out, from buckets of extremely hard frozen ice cream, 90 sundaes!

Thanks again to Lucky supermarket, at the corner of Saratoga Ave. and Pruneridge Ave. in Santa Clara, and managers, Andrew and Greg, and bakers, Bertha, Ernie, Amina, and Sandy for their continuing support.  They donated loaves of French bread for our garlic bread along with several cakes and other baked goods. The staff at Cecil White was very happy to receive the extra bread, as their pantry was extremely bare and the supplies were much appreciated.  Many thanks, again, to Ben White, for arranging and delivering Lucky’s donation.

The next lunch will be held on Saturday, June 7th, 2008.  At least 10 volunteers are needed for this local mission activity so if your schedule allows please consider coming and helping.  We meet to prepare lunch at 10:15 am in the kitchen of the Parish Hall.  No experience is required, just a desire to help those less fortunate than ourselves.  There is a sign-up sheet on the bulletin board in the Parish Hall.  If you have any questions, please ask any of the volunteers or Fr. Bird.

BACH Concert

Bay Area Classical Harmonies (BACH), a Trinity favorite, will perform a concert at the Cathedral on June 8th at 5:00 p.m. to celebrate Trinity Sunday. Among the works on the program are Vivaldi's Gloria and Bach's Concerto in d minor for Harpsichord and Orchestra.

This concert is underwritten, in part, by the Harold R. Hayes Fund.

Second Thursdays

On the second Thursday evening of each month, all manner of Trinity folk meet at O'Flaherty's Irish Pub in San Jose for food, drink, and conversation. Check out some photos of the fun here.  Need a formal invitation?  Here it is!

Cinemamas

Trinity women hit the town for a movie on the first Sunday of the month. See our flier to join the mailing list and get in on the action!

Kids get into the act at Bay Area Shakespeare Camp

Bay Area Shakespeare Camp provides a complete theatrical experience --from auditions to casting to rehearsal and performance! Designed for ages 7-13 the program is suited for young actors new to the stage, as well as experienced performers. Camp meets June 16-27, Monday - Friday from 9:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m. with optional aftercare available until 5:30 p.m.

Campers are with their own age group and participate in fun daily workshops where they learn about: vocal projection and movement, acting and improvisation, stage combat, and set and costume design--all under the umbrella of one the greatest playwrights of all time, William Shakespeare! On the final day of camp all participants star in a production of a mini-Shakespeare play, for an audience of family and friends. Everybody is invited to the celebratory cast party that follows the show.

Counselors are young and energetic actors, directors, and designers that have been specially trained by the San Francisco Shakespeare Festival for the Bay Area Shakespeare Camp. This is the first session offered at Trinity Cathedral, but is the 15th season of Shakespeare Camps! About two thirds of campers enrolled at other locations are repeats from prior seasons and we take this as our strongest endorsement that Shakespeare Camp is engaging as well as enriching. But don’t take our word for it – find out for yourself why we say “All the word’s a stage and ev’ry youth a player... at Bay Area Shakespeare Camp!” For more information call 800-978-PLAY or visit www.sfshakes.org

Come Sing With US!

Have you been enjoying the great music of the season? Our Choir makes it fantastic, and we're inviting YOU to join us! Choir rehearsal continues each Wednesday at 7 p.m. Come join us! For information on joining our remarkable group of singers, contact Michael Burroughs at michael.trinity@gmail.com.

Thank you

Please take a moment to thank these helpful donors:

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.

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