16245 Nacogdoches Road, San Antonio, Texas 78247 ◊ (210) 654-3411 ◊ www.holytrinitypres.org

Dear Sisters and Brothers in Christ:

The Pastor Nominating Committee (PNC) begins their work this Thursday, August 2 when they’ll receive helpful guidance from Lou Williams, a ruling elder of University Presbyterian Church and a member of the Commission on Ministry of Mission Presbytery. Lou will represent the Commission on Ministry (COM). Lou served on and moder-ated a Pastor Nominating Committee and is trained to equip PNCs on how to successfully complete their task. She is patient, wise, gracious, diplomatic, skilled, and has a deep faith. I will meet with them, too, highlighting some important parts of their handbook from the Presbyterian Church (USA) (PCUSA), “Calling a Pastor.” Here's some information that I shared with the PNC: 1. There are far more pastors looking for a position than there are open positions. The PNC may receive two hun-dred or more Personal Information Forms (PIF) which is a narrative resume of prospective pastors. The infor-mation the prospective pastors share are answers to questions that the PCUSA has on its standardized form. Of course, it will take considerable time for our PNC to read through, pray over, and discuss all the PIFs before they decide to decline or engage in a conversation with a candidate, and possibly interview. 2. The PNC will receive PIFs through the electronic matching system of the Church Leadership Connection (CLC) which is an entity of the PCUSA. They will also receive them through self-referrals or referrals made by persons such as yourself, the General Presbyter of Mission Presbytery, other ministers and friends. 3. At one of its early meetings in the process, the PNC will elect either a moderator or co-moderators. You’ll be informed when that is done. 4. Our church will be a sought out because it has good vital signs, there are opportunities for growth in member-ship, ministries, and mission, and while there aren’t other pastors on staff, it has helpful, competent staffing in ad-ministration, office management, custodial care, and the day school. Additionally, we have almost 300 members on the roll, and currently average more than 100 in worship, and the buildings and space are beautiful and well main-tained. Plus, there’s no mortgage! Pastoral candidates will appreciate the church being in a dynamic, growing in-ternationally known city with excellent transportation systems, career opportunities for other family members, a good school district, affordable housing, and lots of recreational opportunities including spectator sports. Having the presbytery’s office in the same city is very attractive. Finally, a compensation package beyond the presbytery’s required minimum may very well be offered which is beneficial. 5. Before receiving PIFs, the PNC shall complete a Ministry Information Form (MIF) which is a narrative of the church’s vision and mission, history, hope and prospective plans for its future as it seeks a pastor with gifts and skills fitting for the church. Upon completion and after being approved by the session and the Commission on Min-istry, it’ll be electronically uploaded to the CLC’s website. Completing the MIF could take a month or longer. 6. Pray for God to reveal the candidate whom God is preparing and wants called to Holy Trinity. It’s God who pre-pares and God who calls. We can’t change that. And if you know God like I do, you know that God takes God’s good time in doing what God wants done. Darn it! Don’t we all like quick answers and fast results? So besides praying for the prospective candidate, pray for yourself and our church that anxiety will be let go, and confidence in God will spread like a fire that purifies silver, shining it as bright as a star in the night sky. Anxiety hurts the pro-cess. Expressed anxiety is contagious like a virus. It has the possibility of making the whole body, the “body of Christ” sick. It’s medicinal for the church for persons to stop saying, “Why does it take so long?” Also, to demean the process and our church at larger is inappropriate. The process is designed to acknowledge that God’s in charge! 7. The PNC will make regular, periodic reports to the congregation. I’ll keep that task before them. Please pray for the PNC. Their names are listed below and if you have questions about any of this, please speak to me. I’m counting on you to be faithful because God is always faithful to us!

With high expectations of God’s good things to come,

Pastor Vanessa The Pastor Nominating Committee Members with voice and vote: Karen Armstrong, John Durham, Nancy Ericksen, Diane McReynolds, Debbie New-lin. Alternate Members with voice only: Martha Waters and Wayne Smith.

RACAP needs donations of basic school supplies, packed in JUMBO zip lock bags.. We hope to be able to provide each child approved for the Back-to-School Shoe program with a bag of basic school supplies. Please collect the following items and fill a bag or two as follows:

Elementary School Bags #2 pencils, Washable markers, Rulers, Crayons, Wide rule spiral notebooks, paper

and composition books, Scissors, Colored pencils, Glue sticks, and Pens. High School/Jr High School

#2 pencils, Pens, College Rule paper, Spiral notebooks and Composition books.

Joseph (Joe) Scutti joins the staff of Holy Trinity Presbyterian Church as Director of Music as of August 1st.

A graduate of Westminster Choir College in 1988, he has a Masters in Music Education from the University of

Delaware where he graduated with honors in 1996. A native of New Jersey, Joe has been living in Texas for

the past 18 years. He currently provides Music instruction at Stahl and Hardy Oaks Elementary Schools.

Joe has a diverse background as a Music Educator, teaching at all levels from elementary through high

school. His experience even included time as the Cadet Choirmaster, Adjunct Professor, and Organist at Val-

ley Forge Military Academy and College in Pennsylvania. More recently he formed and directed the Commu-

nity Choir in North East San Antonio which was invited to sing the National Anthem for the Spurs for the past

four years. He is a member of Pi Kappa Lambda National Music Honor Society was selected to receive the

Sallie Mae award for outstanding first year teachers.

He started his music education at an early age on the piano, but quickly moved to the organ which is his

instrument of choice. Through most of his adult life he has combined a career in Music Education with active

participation in providing Music in Worship. He has been Accompanist and/or Choral Director at each new

location, serving with many different denominations over the years. He says it really began one Easter Vigil

when the organist at his home church where his father served as Head of Parish Council became ill and could

not come to the service. His father simply pointed to the organ and said, “Get up there and play.” He did (he

was 10) – and he has never stopped playing. The music he provides in his work with congregations is at the

same time a personal act of devotion. We are privileged to welcome someone with the training, education,

and faith to help lead us in worship through music each Sunday.

In the spirit of community, responsibility, and commitment, we will be having one combined worship service at 10:05 am starting September 2, 2018. Sunday school will be offered from 8:55am - 9:55am. We thank God for allowing us to hear his voice through his Spirit and his people. Your HTPC Session and Worship Committee.

Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday

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EVERY TUESDAY

9:00 AM: Day School

Chapel

EVERY THURSDAY

6:00 AM Men's Emmaus Group

6:00 AM Women's Emmaus Group

9:00 AM Men's Emmaus Group 2

5:30 PM TOPS

6:30 PM Cub Scouts

9:00 AM Day School

Chapel

9:00 AM Women's

Emmaus Reunion

Group

9:30 AM Prayer

Shawl

7:00 PM Sanctuary

Choir

9:00 AM Women's

Emmaus Reunion

Group

9:30 AM Prayer

Shawl

7:00 PM Sanctuary

Choir

9:00 AM Women's

Emmaus Reunion

Group

9:30 AM Prayer

Shawl

7:00 PM Sanctuary

Choir

9:30 AM Mary

Martha Cicle

7:00 PM Book

Divas Club

7:00 PM Stephen

Ministry

9:00 AM Day School

Chapel

10:00 AM La Leche

League

8:00 AM Building

and Grounds

2:00 PM Stephen

Ministry

6:30 PM Women's

Emmaus Reunion

Group

7:00 PM Boy Scouts

7:00 PM Cancer

Patient Support

(CPS) Group

7:00 PM Fellowship

Committee Meeting

9:30 AM Bible Study

6:00 PM Finance

Meeting

7:00 PM Mission

and Outreach/

Evangelism Meeting

7:00 PM Saddle

Light Club

7:00 PM Session

Meeting

9:30 AM Piece Mak-

ers Group

10:00 AM Day

School Board Meet-

ing

9:00 AM Day

School Chapel

12:00 PM Men’s

Lunch

6:30 PM Women's

Emmaus Reunion

Group

7:00 PM Boy Scouts

9:30 AM Bible Study

7:00 PM Girl Scout

Service Unit

9:00 AM Day School

Chapel 8:00 AM Spiritual

Garden

6:30 PM Women's

Emmaus Reunion

Group

7:00 PM Boy Scouts

9:30 AM Bible Study

11:00 AM SA Button

Group

5:00 PM Texas

Children’s Choir

6:30 PM Women’s

Emmaus Reunion

Group

7:00 PM Boy Scouts

7:00 PM HTPW

Board Meeting

8:45 AM Scott

Cales’ Class

10:00 AM Wor-

ship with Com-

munion

11:30 AM

Youth and Chil-

dren Group

8:45 AM Scott

Cales’ Class

10:00 AM Wor-

ship

9:00 AM Scott

Cales’ Class

10:00 AM Wor-

ship

9:30 AM Bible Study

7:00 PM HTPW

Horizon Bible Circle

7:00 PM Worship

Committee Meeting

8:45 AM Scott

Cales’ Class

10:00 AM Wor-

ship

11:30 AM

Youth and Chil-

dren Group

9:00 AM Women's

Emmaus Reunion

Group

9:30 AM Prayer

Shawl

NEWSLETTER

DEADLINE

11:30 AM Keenagers

9:00 AM Women's

Emmaus Reunion

Group

9:30 AM Prayer

Shawl

7:00 PM Sanctuary

Choir

9:00 AM Day

School Chapel

Happy

Birthday!

Happy

Anniversary!

Philip and Iris Amon 8/3 39 years

Hiroshi and Val Ajas 8/5 46 years

Shari and Terry Hafer 8/5 18 years

Juan T. and Marjorie Loya 8/5 46 years

John and Ellen Kilian 8/11 55 years

Hattie and Albert Hockaday 8/14 58 years

John and Sam Colvin 8/17 55 years

Richard and Mary Lavender 8/19 57 years

Dennis and Bridget Revell 8/19 51 years

Mark and Terry Widmer 8/19 46 years

Irving and Ericka Jathan 8/23 36 years

Rick and Nancy Herriger 8/31 34 years

Bill Brown 8/1 Jackie Lopez 8/1 Scott Marrs 8/3 Mary Ann Evans 8/4 Marion Griffin 8/8 Joe Delpero 8/8 Vicki Watson 8/8 Robert Stein 8/9 Tom Jones 8/9 Sandy Gladson 8/9 Rick Herriger 8/11 Florence Antwi 8/11 Danielle Yano 8/12 Virginia Hopfensack 8/16 Carole King 8/17

Marcie Landry 8/19 Barbara Hoffmann 8/19 Betty Hernandez 8/19 Destiny Jones 8/20 Judd Earley 8/20 Don Cole 8/21 Cory Bios 8/21 Sandra Munoz 8/21 Laura Agee 8/22 Randy Agee 8/23 Lori Hockley 8/23 George Platt 8/25 Jessica Mascilli 8/27 Iris Amon 8/31

The next meeting of the Book Divas will be August 2, 2018 at 7:00 p.m. in the Ge-neva Room at church. The book for discussion is The Amazing Mrs. Pollifax by Dorothy Gilman. Bring a snack to share. Paper goods and beverages will be provided. The September 6, 2018 meeting of the Book Divas will discuss the book, Jane and the Unpleasantness at Scargrave Manor by Stephanie Barron. Summertime is a great time to read. For information about the Book Divas, contact Sheila Clark.

The Holly Days Arts & Crafts Fair is just around the corner – October 6, 2018. Every year the Wom-en of the church have a booth at the fair stocked with handmade items. Handmade items are need-ed for this year’s fair. We are accepting donations of handmade items for the Women’s booth. Bring your items to church between now and September 30 for the Women’s booth. You may give your craft items to Sheila Clark or Niesha Marshall. If you would like to help with the Holly Days Arts & Crafts Fair, contact Sheila Clark or Niesha Mar-shall. Committee chairmen are still needed.

At the Stated Meeting on July 24, the Session…

• began with a devotional on Galatians 5:16 - 26 and prayer, focusing on the fruit of the Spirit—love, joy, peace, forbearance, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness and self-control.

• shared stories of forgiveness, compassion, and spirit-fullness; then prayed for blessings of fruit of the spir-it on those who struggle with tenacity to overcome challenges.

• acknowledge census of 296 active members.

• planned to develop vision and mission statements from the Mission Study Report that will be used by the Pastor Nominating Committee.

• planned for a leader and date for the Session’s “more effective leading” workshop.

• voted to hire Joseph M Scutti as our new Music Director beginning August 1.

• approved the MOE proposal to request the congregation to donate school supplies to RACAP during the month of August.

• heard a report on the congregational input regarding worship time and voted to consolidate Sunday morn-ing services into one service at 10:05 am beginning September 2 (Sunday School times TBA later).

• heard that the Ministry Planning Calendar developed at the July 8 Special meeting is now part of the multi-year church calendar accessible on the church website.

• approved a request from Diakonia Emmaus for HTPC to host the Emmaus gathering on January 19.

• reflected on fruits of the Spirit witnessed at the meeting.

We will have ONE worship service each Sun-

day for summer time. We will start our worship

service at 10:00 am. We will keep this sched-

ule through August 26, 2018.

Join us for our next meeting on August

23, 2018 at the Golden Corral on Pat

Booker Road. Newly elect elder, Carlos

Baladez, will be our guest speak-

er. Carlos will share his faith journey

plus some other information. Becom-

ing a Presbyterian can be a journey in

an of itself – he is sure to make you

smile.

The next men’s lunch will be August 20, 2018. We will meet at the church around noon to

figure out where we will dine. Join us, all men are welcomed!

Join us for the next Ladies Who Lunch! Monday, August

13th, 11:30am, at Sea Is-land located at 8223 Agora

Pkwy, Live Oak, TX RSVP to:

mehaffeyk@holytrinitypres.org

So goes that “perfect country western song”! But it’s not a great way for a

church to operate if it wants to be warm and welcoming! We need to call

each other by name, new members would like to know our names, Pastor

Vanessa would really like to know everyone’s name, we’ll soon have a new

Music Director who would like to know folks than regular choir members,

and we’re on our way to finding a new pastor who will certainly want to

get to know all of us.

“But I introduce myself!” Well, yes, we all do. But there are 100 or so of

us in worship every Sunday, it’s not always the same group each week, and expecting anyone to remember

those random introductions isn’t really realistic. So what to do? We have two projects to help us all get to

know each other.

First, get your photo taken or approve re-using the most recent one

we have in a new photo directory.

Second, find and wear your name tag – or order one!

These are small things for each of us to do, but they represent kind-

ness toward Pastor Vanessa, newer members and our coming Music

Director and Pastor.

The August Stated Session Meeting has been rescheduled to August

21, 2018 at 7:00 pm instead of August 28, 2018.

Class of 2019 Class of 2020 Class of 2021

Randy Agee Scott Cales Carlos Baladez

Jean DeKunder John Herman Karen DeMore

Linda Koehler Makenna Maloy Teri Heinzmann

Andi Matt Philip McReynolds

Moderator: Pastor Vanessa Potter

Clerk of Session: Sally Lewis

Treasurer: Joy Reiner

Trustees: John Durham, Marion

Griffin, Randy Schavrien

Session’s Committees for 2018-2019:

Finance and Stewardship: Randy Agee, chair

Christian Education: Makenna Maloy, chair

Congregational Care and Fellowship: Phil

McReynolds and Karen DeMore-two chairs, one

for CC and one for Fellowship

Worship: Carlos Baladez, chair

Personnel: Jean Dekunder, chair, and Andi Matt

Day School Team Liaison: Terri Heinzmann

Buildings and Grounds: John Herman, chair

Mission, Outreach and Evangelism: Linda

Koehler, chair, and Scott Cales

Holy Trinity Presbyterian

Church

16245 Nacogdoches Road

San Antonio, TX 78247

210-654-3411

church@holytrinitypres.org

www.holytrinitypres.org

Church Staff

Vanessa Potter - Transitional Minister

George Platt - Church Administrator

Kayla Hix - Administrative Assistant

Office Hours

Monday - Thursday 9 am - 4 pm

Friday - 9 am - 12:00 noon

Holy Trinity Presbyterian

Church Day School

210-599-7640

HTPDS39@yahoo.com

Dorothy Colts-Tegg

Director

Keep Vanessa Potter in your prayers as she prepares for

foot surgery on Thursday, August 23. For the four weeks

following surgery, she’ll be off from work, using her vaca-

tion time. We’ll have guest preachers during this time.

More information will be available as the surgery date

approaches.