BAKE SALE, BRUNCH, SILENT AUCTION Join Us December 8th Please share your favorite cookie or treat for the bake sale.  If you have something to donate for the silent auction –please call Jane Price at 425- 5587.  If you are able to bring items Friday, December 6, we will be setting up that morning.  Thank you! CIRCLE MEETINGS Social Ministries – WELCA Christian Concerns will meet Wednesday December 4th at 10AM at Trinity No Circle Meetings in December, we will attend the WELCA 3 Rivers Cluster meeting at 11AM on Thursday December 12th, at Trinity.  ‘Anniversary of Women Called to the Ministry’ with speaker Reverend Jillian Ross of Stella Lutheran.  Lunch will be served afterwards.  Please RSVP with Grace Kennedy to let her know how many will be coming. WELCA THANKOFFERING Thank you to all the women who helped with the service.  And thank you to the congregation for giving to the WELCA Thankoffering. ANNUAL REPORTS: Annual reports are due by Monday, January 6.  Please e-mail to tlclview@cni.net by this date. FAMILY PROMISE Thank you Trinity sisters and brothers, for all the ways you have helped host our guest Family Promise children and parents! SPECIAL THANK YOUS Dear Trinity Lutheran Church, We here at ESS are greatly appreciative of your contribution to the shelter.  Your donation will help serve those affected by domestic violence.  Thank you for your thoughtfulness and support.                         Sincerely, Emergency Support Shelter Dear Trinity Lutheran Church Members, Thank you, once again, for your generous donation of clothes and school supplies.  We appreciate all you do for our school!  A special thank you to Carol for purchasing everything and delivering it to St. Helens School! Many thanks & blessings! Sincerely,  Cynthia Hanson (St. Helens School Liaison) SOCIAL MINISTRIES/WELCA CHRISTIAN CONCERNS Thanks to all who have donated to our food donations so far, we delivered it just before Thanksgiving.  We will continue to collect food items through the end of December.  Your generosity is helping many people receive necessities they cannot get for themselves.  We wish you all a very Merry Christmas & Happy New Year.      -Social Ministries THE GIFT OF SIGHT Laura Mahnke just keeps on giving!  Following her passing on October 26th, Hal received a phone call from Sightlife, the Lions Northwest Eye Bank, out of Seattle, having learned from the Cowlitz County Coroner’s office that she was an organ donor as designated on her driver’s license.  The caller wanted to know if Hal would be willing to allow Laura’s corneas to be harvested for possible implantation.  He enthusiastically agreed.  He received a thank you letter and certificate from Sightlife the second week of November informing him that her corneas were able to be used and were implanted in a 39 year old woman and an 81 year old woman, providing them the gift of sight!  How special is that?! ANGEL TREE A  Program of Prison Fellowship We were given 30 children from Angel Tree Prison Ministry.  These are children of incarcerated parents who live in Cowlitz County.  We only have two churches that are helping this year.  The other churches that have helped in the past feel that they cannot do it this year.  Faith Lutheran and Trinity Lutheran are the two churches purchasing gifts this year.  Please purchase a gift of no more than $25 , wrap, and bring the gift and the angel tag back by December 15.  If you took an angel please remember to write your name and the child’s name on the paper provided next to the tree so we know who got what child.  Thank you.  If you have any questions please contact Mary Kennedy at 562-7644