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REV. LARRY D. LAINE, PASTOR
MRS. BETHANN KRATZER, PIANIST
MRS. KAY F. MOOSCH, PARISH SECRETARY
MRS. BARBARA HALLET, TREASURER
Email: telcbangor@frontier.com
Website: www. tlcbangor.com
Facebook: www.facebook.com/tlcbangor
Pastor’s Cell Phone # 757-613-7126
Pastor Laine’s e-mail – laineparallel@gmail.com
Church Office – 610-588-2023 Fax – 610-588-8904

Christ Evangelical Lutheran: www.celcpa.org
Evangelical Lutheran Church... www.elca.org
Northeastern Pennsylvania Synod ...www.godslove.org

Sunday School Kickoff
We will kick off our Sunday School season on Sun October 25th at 0930 at Trinity! We will be doing a combined “Rally Day” with Christ Lutheran. We will hold our Sunday School weekly at Trinity. One Sunday a Month, our Sunday School and the Christ Lutheran Sunday School will get together for a fun and fellowship Sunday School event. It should be fun.
Please help spread the word. We’d love to have your children or grandchildren join us at Sunday School!

Stone Church Pastie Sale
A Pastie Sale will be held at Christ Evangelical Lutheran Church, 703 S. Delaware Dr. (Route 611), Mt. Bethel (Stone Church) on Saturday, November 14. Pasties can be picked up between 11am and 1 pm. The cost is $6.00 per beef pastie. Place your order with or without onions. Advance orders are recommended and can be placed until the November 10. To place your order or for additional information call Chrissy at 610- 588-0809

Indoor Church is Coming
Dear Members in Christ,
Life has changed for all of us in many ways during the last seven months, and the church is no exception. After several months of Zoom only services, we then were able to move into the parking lot when Northampton County moved into the green. Now, as winter approaches, we need to eventually move back into our church building.
The Worship and Music Committee has been working for the last three months to ensure that everything is done in a way that ensures everyone’s safety so that you are confident of that when we all come inside. We will be taking the following steps:

Everyone must enter the building from the door closest to the large parking lot. Your temperature will be taken every week before you enter.
Everyone must sign a waiver form the first time you attend worship inside the building. (This is being required by our insurance company.)
All services will be in the fellowship hall, with chairs distributed in such a way as to observe social distancing rules.
Masks must be worn at all times.
There will be no singing at any time, and communion will continue as we have done during our parking lot services.
The fellowship hall and hallway will be thoroughly disinfected before each week’s service by a UV sterilizing machine that we have already purchased.

We are confident that these steps will lead us to a worship service that is closer to normal.
            This has been a stressful time for everyone and we understand that some of you will not feel comfortable worshipping inside the building, but we hope that most of you will continue to come to church in person when the time comes. We will continue to have weekly services posted on Facebook and the Sunday service will continue to be live streamed.
To assist those members who wish to make their offering electronically, we have set up an online giving link from Vanco on both our web site and Facebook page for your convenience. Our October newsletter has detailed instructions on how to use their system. Feel free to call the office is you still have any questions.
            The leadership at Trinity has studied the ramifications of moving inside the building with everyone’s safety in mind. Please do not hesitate to contact anyone on Council if you have any questions. Everyone will be told when we are moving back inside, and there will be at least two weeks notice given before the move occurs. Thank you for your continued dedication to Trinity during this pandemic. Together, we will see our way through to better days.

                                                                                    Yours in Christ,
                                                                                    Trinity Church Council