Santa Clara County CA Archives Church Records.....Parochial Organizations, Trinity Church, San Jose, CA
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Parochial Organizations

TRINITY SUNDAY SCHOOL

  Facts of interest in connection with the Sunday School of Trinity Parish have
been related in the "Parish History." At the time of the re-organization of the
Guild in 1899, the Sunday School came under the direction of one of the chapters
of the Guild. During the year 1903, the Sunday School Chapter established a fund
for enlarging and improving the Sunday School rooms. The sum required for this
purpose is fast being realized.

  Mr. Julius B. Anderson has been Superintendent of the Sunday School since 1885.

TRINITY PARISH GUILD

  Trinity Parish Guild was organized by the women of the parish in September,
1899. Before this time, the work that is now carried on by this Guild was
divided among a number of smaller organizations. These organizations combined
under one general head and resolved themselves into Chapters of Trinity Parish
Guild.

  The Chapters are eight in number and are designated as follows: Chancel
Chapter, Choir Chapter, Sunday School Chapter, Visiting Chapter, Charity
Chapter, Entertainment Chapter, Decoration Chapter and Church Chapter. A
chairman for each Chapter is elected at the Annual Meeting of the Guild. The
general duties of each Chapter can be readily discerned from the name of the
Chapter.

  All members of Trinity Church, and all persons interested in the work and well
being of the Parish, are eligible to membership. Persons may become members by
signing the constitution and by-laws, and by paying a fee of twenty-five cents.
The dues are ten cents per month. Every member must be an active member of at
least one of the Chapters.

  Monthly meetings are held on the first Thursday of each month, at two o'clock
in the afternoon, in the Parish House.

  In April, 1900, the Guild was legally incorporated with the direct intent that
it might secure the lot adjoining the church property on St. John Street. The
lot was purchased for twenty-eight hundred dollars, and up to Easter, 1903, all
but five hundred and fifty dollars of this sum had been paid.

  In December, 1901, the Guild was relieved by the vestry from the
responsibility of paying the organist's salary and other expenses connected with
the music of the church. This responsibility had been borne for years by the
Guild known as St. Cecilia's Guild-finally resolved into a Chapter of Trinity
Parish Guild.

  The general objects of Trinity Parish Guild are: "to aid the rector in church
work, to provide for needful expenses of the parish, and to foster a spirit of
Christian fellowship."

  The words "Christian fellowship," spoken in this connection, will call to the
minds of many, two members of the Guild, the motive of whose lives was "to
foster a spirit of Christian fellowship," Ella Woart Hawley and Mary Mizner
Plate. Though they have been sadly missed in the church life to which they gave
so much, the best that they gave is still with us-examples of true Christian
living. May the same spirit that ruled their lives guide Trinity Parish Guild
into ways of truest and highest service.

THE WOMAN'S AUXILIARY

  In March, 1898, through the earnest effort of Mary Mizner Plate, a branch of
the Woman's Auxiliary was established in the parish. In memory of the devotion
of their leader, the members of the Auxiliary subscribed a definite monthly sum
to be paid into a fund for building a church in the town of Lindsay, Tulare
County, California.

  The regular work of the Auxiliary is being carried on under able supervision.

  A branch of the Junior Auxiliary was established in April, 1898.

THE TWENTY MINUTE WORKERS

  A Circle of Twenty Minute Workers was organized in 1899. Members pledge
themselves to give a definite amount of time and work to further the interests
of the parish. No dues are required. Half of the funds of the Circle have been
regularly given toward paying for the lot on St. John Street. Various sums have
been paid for current expenses of the parish. The annual income of the Circle
has reached as high as $500. At Easter, 1903, there was a membership of sixty.

  It is earnestly hoped that such organizations as Trinity Brotherhood, The
League of St. John, and the Junior Auxiliary, will again become active in the
life of the parish.


Additional Comments:
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TRINITY CHURCH
San Jose California
Advent, 1860, to Easter, 1903

PUBLISHED BY TRINITY PARISH GUILD,
SAN JOSE, CALIFORNIA, 1903


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