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 Welcome to Holy Trinity
Holy Trinity is located above beautiful Old Town Bandon, overlooking the Coquille River and ten miles of ocean. To get here, turn at the Chevron Station & True Value store off hwy 101.
Pentecost is the Birthday of the Church, when the Holy Spirit inspired and enabled the Apostles to preach courageously and with understanding.
Join us for our Parish's 125th Anniversary Mass and celebration starting at 10:30am on Sunday, May 18, the Feast of the Holy Trinity, followed by a reception in the newly carpeted hall! |
 Join us at St. John's Church, Port Orford
St. John's Church, located at 15th and Hwy 101 in Port Orford, invites you to join us for our weekly services. Sunday Mass is held at 8:30am and Wednesday Mass is at 9:00am. Rosary is said in our chapel one half hour prior to Mass. Please join us!
Upcoming Events for St. John's:
To read about what is happening at St. John's Click Here. |
 Easter Vigil Baptisms at Holy Trinity
The three youngest Hennick children are baptized at the Easter Vigil Mass at Holy Trinity!
Congratulations! |
 Easter Sunday Baptism at St. John's
Godparents Rolando Rodriguez and Nan Britton and proud grandmother Priscilla Lang watch as 4 year old Wiley Lang is annointed with holy oil by Fr. Heiko during her baptism this Easter at St. John's. Following mass, a lively celebration brunch was enjoyed by all parishioners. |
 New Carpet Going In
The Altar Society is helping to fund a new carpet throughout the Parish Hall.
Mike Hennick won the bid, and here he is with his installer, Byrell Justice, looking at how easy it will be to remove the old carpet! Not bad! |
 Living Stations March 14th
Elaine Caldwell, with friends and family, put on another great Living Stations of the Cross with our children and youth! |
 Early St. Patrick's Day WCN
We celebrated an early St. Patrick's Day, since it falls on the Monday in Holy Week.
Jim & Kathy Cowan & Bob McKemy (pictured here) cooked a delicious traditional Irish meal sponsored by Jack & Sally Reilly! |
 Bill Freck & Sharon Hennick Coordinate
Bill Freck, from First Presbyterian, is waiting with Sharon Hennick (on left) and Millie, for more parishioners to arrive for their photo shoot for the directory. Each person or family gets four free 4x6 photos! Thank you Bill! |
 Valentine Wedding (Matrimonio)
To celebrate our Valentine's Day Wednesday Community Nights (& Chineze New Year Supper) at Holy Trinity, we got to celebrate a Wedding! Jose Luis & Victoria Ramos had their 25 years of civil marriage blessed in the Church on Feb. 13th. Here are the servers, Fr. Heiko, Jose Luis, Victoria, and their Padrinos, Dr.s Rudy & Maria Trevino. Thanks to Elaine Caldwell & Laura Doffing for the decorations and the Chineze food. Thanks to Mary Keuper and Pete Paradies for sponsoring the wedding cake prepared by Rita Adams. Thanks to Mike and Sharon Hennick for coordinating the whole thing, and to all who helped! Thanks to the choir for great Spanish music! Spanish sure is Romance Language! |
 "Sweetheart Brunch" at St. John's
The gentlemen of St. John’s prepared and served a “Sweetheart Brunch” for the ladies in celebration of Valentine’s Day. The event was chaired by Phil Colozzi. The crowning touch was a long stemmed red rose for all the ladies and chocolate dipped strawberries, served here by Dusty Harrington-Collins, the new chairman of St. John's Pastoral Administrative Committee. |
 Housing for Poor Fundraiser "Gawad Kalinga"
Here is Jessa Maley, with her husband Dennis and friend Carolyn Murray at a Valentine Sweetheart Dinner Dance Fundraiser for the Filippino housing project for the poor called, "Gawad Kalinga." Fr. Heiko had a chance to build with them in the Philippines with a group led by Pia de Leon last winter. The fundraiser was held in North Bend on Saturday, Feb. 16th. It included a large buffet, nice desserts, and a presentation. |
 Gawad Kalinga Leaders
Here are some leaders of Gawad Kalinga in Oregon. (From left) Annie & Derek Maglalang, Rossana Holder, Helen Coughlin, Fr. Heiko & Rosemary are pictured here. Annie, Derek & Rossana came down from Portland. Helen is from Holy Redeemer, and coordinated the event. Gawad Kalinga set a goal to raise 700,000 homes in 7,000 communities in 7 years! They have almost met their goal, but there are still a great many poor out there! This started with a group called, "Singles for Christ" who wanted to combat the hostility between the Muslims & Catholics in Southern Philippines with charity. They built the first GK village for a Moslem community. To learn more about GK, visit www.ancopusa.org (acronym for ANswer the Cry Of the Poor). |
 Mardi Gras King & Queen
Here are Holy Trinity's crowned King & Queen of the Mardi Gras, Clayton & Jean Duval.
(they are very active, and will be married 60 years this June). Crowning them are Elaine Caldwell (mostly responsible for the decorations), and Fr. Heiko. |
 Gold Coast Chorus
The Gold Coast Chorus love to perform for our Mardi Gras at Holy Trinity.
It includes a parishioner, and the retired Presbyterian Pastor, both named John! |
 St. John's Pastoral Administrative Committee
This is the latest P.A.C. meeting, when Stephanie Brewer steps down as Chairperson, to let the former vice-chair become chair: Dusty Harrington-Collins. Phil Colozzi will be the new vice-chair. Thank you Stephanie for all your excellent work! Thanks too to Sherry Johnson for being a great secretary! |
 Cemetery Scanning & Mapping
Holy Trinity hired Mike & Matt Edwards from GPR Data LLC in Eugene to scan our old section of our Catholic cemetery, that will lead to a map of it. We have no map, and the gravediggers of old used no grid system, and some graves date back to 1846! Many of the headstones have been vandalized, and tossed over the cliff looking over the beautiful Coquille river, the lighthouse and the ocean! |
 Next Honduras Mission Trip Leaves July 13, 08
The next Honduras Mission Trip to our Sister-Parish & School Sponsorship Program, "Caminando por la Paz," leaves on July 13th, 2008. Come and visit the children you are sponsoring if you are a sponsor!
From the left in the front row are those who went last summer: Valerie & Anne Cowan & Suzie Stadelman from Star of the Sea in Brookings, and Kathy Lingle from St. John's, Vancouver. From the left in the back row are: Ellen & Tim Stadelman, Fr. Tom & Fr. Heiko. For more photos of our latest trip, click to the left. |
 Fr. Heiko soon leaves for Ecuador
When Fr. Heiko's assignment is complete at Holy Trinity (Summer 2008), his new assignment will be with the Missionary Society of St. James which serves the poor in Peru and Ecuador. He interviewed with them the week of May 21st at their beautiful and historic headquarters at St. Stephen's Church in Boston. Here is a poster summarizing their mission statement. For more information about the St. James Society visit: http://www.socstjames.com |
 We celebrate Don Fraser's 90th Birthday
Fr. Mike Walker & Fr. Heiko visited the shipwreck on the North Spit of North Bend, and ran into Connie Tyrell! This is a very interesting site to see. This unidentified shipwreck was exposed by this winter's storms for the first time since the 1940s. It is near the New Carissa shipwreck that is due to be dismantled this year (at the cost of millions of dollars). The new shipwreck will also be closed off when the snowyplover restrictions begin on March 15-Sept. 15th. |
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