Thanks to the action of our Board and to a private donation, we are testing a new series of video ads and paid promotions on Facebook that integrate with new features on our church website. These are designed to target folks in a ten mile radius of the church, which encompasses most of Winston-Salem and surrounding communities. You can see the ads by visiting our Facebook group or our You tube Channel:
(Sorry, we can’t set up a nice, easy-to-remember channel like www.youtube.com/TrinityMoravian until we have 100 subscribers – so while you’re there, please subscribe!)New spots will be added as they are launched, and portions will be featured on a website. The special funding we have will fund three months of tests, and in January the Board will review the response to (and effectiveness of) the campaign and decide how we will proceed in 2020.
The Sunnyside Halloween Trunk-or-Treat, held cooperatively with Anthony’s Plot and Central Terrace UMC, has been a very successful event the last few years, with 200+ children and their families turning out. This year, we’re going to “crank it up another notch” with Halloween games in the Reich Fellowship Hall. In keeping with our emphasis on “CONNECT!” we will have an opportunity to meet the parents, and ask them to sign up for our neighborhood events email list.
The event will be held in the Trinity parking lot on Thursday, October 31 – Halloween night. Donations of candy and school supplies are being sought; those who wish to participate are invited to come in costume and decorate their cars! For more information, speak to Josh Hall or Kyle Wilson.
We
are excited to announce that we have hired a new organist. Matthew Cates, who has played as sub for two
Sundays in July, was invited to apply for the job as permanent organist. He will be serving under the direction of
Oscar Hernandez, our Music Director.
Matthew Cates is an avid pianist, organist, and composer. Having a deep love for French Romantic and Impressionist music, he frequently performs the works of Duruflé, Franck, Litaize, Vierne, and Widor. He studies currently at the University of North Carolina School of the Arts with Dr. Timothy Olsen.
Composing frequently, he has written a number of works for
orchestra, chamber ensemble, piano, organ, and voice, among other instruments.
His works have been performed in North America and across Europe.
Matthew has studied and performed extensively in Europe as well.
He’s seen extensive venues across the United States and Europe performing at
the Washington National Cathedral, Duke University, Église de La Madeleine,
Église Saint-Eustache de Paris, St. Bernard de La Chapelle, La Cathédrale
Américaine de Paris and Notre Dame d’Auteuil, among others. He studied at
L’Académie Internationale d’Orgue in Paris, France, where his teachers included
Frédéric Blanc, Baptiste-Florian Marle-Ouvrard, François Espinasse,
François-Henri Houbart, and Andrew Dewar.
In addition to his studies in Europe he has performed the
complete works of Maurice Duruflé, and is a Maurice Duruflé scholar. Matthew
has had the opportunity to be part of chamber groups and larger orchestra
groups playing works such as his own “Chanson du Cœur”, Michael Daugherty’s
“Bells for Stokowski”,and Vivaldi’s “Gloria”, as well as the opportunity to
sing works such as Duruflé’s and Fauré’s Requiem.
He has won two superior prizes for piano performance, in the 2013, and 2014 ACSI piano competitions. His playing has been described in “The American Organist” as “technically and musically masterful. His love for the music is infectious.” (TAO July 2015). He placed 1st in the Seventh Annual UNCSA Organ Competition and Festival, and he also placed 1st, and won the prize for the interpretation of Bach in the 2018 ECU Organ Competition.
Celebrating a Community of Peace — Families are invited to come & participate in various activities that teach Moravian history!
Children’s Activities | 2:00pm Storytelling | Sugar Cake Making | History of Friedland | Prayer Walk | Mission Project | Putz Making
Lovefeast | 4:00pm Church bells and a Moravian band will call us to gather for a lively and engaging service!
Items Needed: This year, we are making goody bags for the City With Dwellings: Community First Center! The center provides a place for the homeless to go during the spring and summer when the shelters are closed. We are asking congregations during the months of July and August to collect items to go in the bags. Simply bring the items by the BCM Office before August 15 or let us know by then what you are collecting and bring the day of the festival. These bags will be packed as one of the activities and then blessed during the lovefeast and delivered the next day to the center.
It’s our annual block party for
all of our neighbors! It’s a great time to:
MEET the
neighbors;
MAKE Crafts;
COMPETE in a
Cookie Baking Contest;
LISTEN to
great Music;
DANCE!;
EAT
delicious FOOD;
PLAY
fantastic games, and
HAVE FUN!
You will have an AWESOME time! We
also give out school supplies to the *neighborhood* kids. It is time to start
looking for those school supply sales!
Donations may be brought directly
to Anthony’s Plot Community or to your local participating church. If your
church would like a donation box, please contact us by Facebook message to
Anthony’s Plot Community.
School supplies needed this year
include (*=most needed):
Pencil
pouches or boxes
3 ring
binders (1 & 3 inch)
*Erasers
(stick or caps)
Packs of
loose leaf paper (wide & college rule)
Glue sticks
(no liquid, please)
2 Pocket
folders with prongs
Spiral
notebooks
1 subject
(wide & college rule)
*3 & *5
subject (esp. college rule)
Rulers
Highlighters
Scissors
(blunt end aka “safety”)
Index Cards
Colored Pencils
(12pk) or Markers (10pk)
Packs of 10
pens
We also accept monetary donations
for shoe vouchers and other expenses. Monetary donations may be mailed/brought
directly to:
Anthony’s Plot Community – 2323
Sunnyside Ave. Winston-Salem, NC. 27127-3050
To volunteer, sign up at
https://tinyurl.com/APBlockParty2019
We need Trinity members to volunteer to staff
tables with info on LOGOS and other community-centered programs of the church!
The Church Board will be meeting
for a special planning retreat on Saturday, August 10 from 10 am until 3
pm. They will begin with a session with
Laura Watson from the Moravian Ministries Foundation to discuss stewardship
programs. They will then have a
discussion of a book they have all read, led by Jonathan Sidden. The book, Connect! by Don Corder,
outlines practical steps that have been used in many churches to connect to
people in the community that are seeking a place to serve and connect in
community, and effectively invite them and integrate them in the church
community. The afternoon session will
focus on specifics of adapting Corder’s ideas to our specific circumstances,
identifying areas that we need to refine and organize, and shaping our plan for
intentional outreach.
We invite all lay leaders of the congregation to read Connect! as well. It is available on Amazon as a Kindle e-book, as a hardback, and on Audible as an audio book. There is a loan copy in the church office that members may check out after all Board members have finished reading.
Mr. Dennis Keith Stanfield, 63,
of Winston-Salem, died Wednesday, July 18, 2019, at Trellis Supportive Care,
after a lengthy battle with ALS (Lou Gehrig’s Disease). He was born in
Winston-Salem on October 14, 1955 to the late Charlotte Snider Stanfield and
Elbert Graham Stanfield, Sr. Mr. Stanfield was a graduate of Parkland Senior
High School (class of 1974) and went on to earn undergraduate degrees from Wake
Forest University and High Point University, as well as a Masters in Business
Administration from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He spent a
varied career of thirty-five years working in the areas of Information
Technology, Real Estate, and Finance. Employers of note include Sara Lee
Corporation, Lowe’s Companies, Wake Forest University, and most recently, The
Moravian Church in America, Southern Province, where he served as Provincial
Treasurer. Mr. Stanfield was a licensed Certified Public Accountant and Real
Estate Broker. Dennis was a lifelong member of Trinity Moravian Church, where
he taught Sunday School, served on both the Board of Elders and Board of
Trustees, played softball for decades, ushered, served at Lovefeasts, and
played in the band. Music was his first love, and he recorded a number of
contemporary Christian and country songs, many of which were performed in
church. Dennis especially loved sports and being active outdoors. He loved
nature, and especially the splendor of the North Carolina mountains. Preceding
him in death are his parents and his two beloved dogs. Surviving are a brother,
Elbert Graham (Gray) Stanfield, Jr. and wife Vicki, and his long-time
girlfriend, Cindy Reavis of Kernersville. He is also survived by a nephew and
niece, a number of cousins and friends, and many Moravian Brothers and Sisters
in Christ. A celebration of his life was held on Sunday, July 21, 2019, at
Trinity Moravian Church, with the Rev. Bill McElveen, the Rev. Russell
Williams, and the Rt. Rev. Graham Rights officiating. Interment was at Salem
Moravian Graveyard, with the Rev. Ginny Tobiassen officiating. Memorials may be
made in his honor to Trinity Moravian Church, 220 East Sprague Street,
Winston-Salem, NC 27127, or to Trellis Supportive Care, 101 Hospice Lane,
Winston-Salem, NC 27103. Online condolences may be made at www.Hayworth-Miller.com.
Check out our new Trinity Moravian website, which should go live around March 1. The new layout is “responsive,” which means it is designed to display well on a mobile device such as a tablet or phone — over half the views of web sites now are on a mobile device. Our old web site, designed for the 2012 Centennial, displayed well on a computer screen but was very difficult to navigate by phone.
In addition to the change in layout, there are important changes to content as well.
The new trinitymoravian.org will have most of the articles from this monthly newsletter available online, and we have improved the calendar to include a lot of the information you need—where meetings are, which volunteers are scheduled, etc. We will have easy access to our live webcast — and archived webcasts
If you use a Google Calendar on your phone (most of us do!), you will be able to click on event on the church calendar and add it as an event to your personal calendar.
We plan to include a number of short videos of members talking about Trinity, as well.
Have you ever realized right when the offering was announced that you forgot your checkbook — and all you have in your wallet is a wrinkled dollar bill, some lint, and a CVS receipt? You meant to donate, but now you’ll have to remember to go home and mail in a check. Now you will be able to make your donation for the Sunday offering with a credit or debit card as well! We will have a tablet with a card swipe unit set up at the rear of the sanctuary — just insert your card, type in the amount you want to donate, and it’s done! You get an emailed receipt, and a card to place in the offering plate indicating that you gave electronically. The secure card swipe system is powered by PayPal, and takes swiped cards and chip cards as well. It’s easy and quick! This same system will be available for donations at congregational lunches and other events, as well. Be sure to try it out!
We are also in the process of setting up “text-to-give” options, which allow cell phone users to make donations by sending a text to a particular number. This option should be available by the end of the month.
