A4 THE LAKEVILLE JOURNAL, Thursday, June 16, 2016 Salisbury

SATURDAY, JUNE 18 10 AM to 3 PM

Trinity Church Lime Rock

Artisans Exhibit and Sale

Tables - Rustic and Craftsman Wooden bowls and cutting boards

Wooden Baskets Pottery Jewelry

Woolen Handbags

Trinity Church 484 Lime Rock Rd.

Lakeville, CT 860-435-2627 www.trinitylimerock.org

SUNDAY, JUNE 19 12 NOON to 3 PM

Bake sale on Saturday only

PAINT RECYCLINGMADE easy

www.paintcare.org

(855) 724-6809

TO FIND OTHER DROP-OFF LOCATIONS:

All PaintCare sites accept up to 5 gallons per visit (some take more). Please call ahead to confirm business hours and ask if they can accept the type and amount of paint you would like to recycle. Sites do not accept: aerosols (spray paint) or leaking, unlabeled and empty containers.

Do you know where to recycle your paint?

C A LINDELL TRUE VALUE HARDWARE & LUMBER

59 Church Street Canaan, CT 06018(860) 824-5443

There are more than 140 PaintCare sites in Connecticut where households and businesses can recycle unwanted paint, stain and varnish for free all year-round, including these sites in your area:

ED HERRINGTONS11 Farnum Road

Lakeville, CT 06039(860) 435-2561

Breezy day for Big Rig at HCCC

SALISBURY — Zoë Sayler was poised at the wheel of a tractor.

“Ready, set, go!”She gripped the wheel and

concentrated on the imaginary race.

She won.This occurred at the Big Rig,

an annual fundraiser for the Housatonic Child Care Center on Salmon Kill Road.

Bear Bryant, executive direc-tor at Camp Sloane YMCA, was relaxing next to his 1952 Jeep, watching children clambering in and out of a school bus — and testing the horn. (It worked.)

Camp Sloane Program Di-rector Shea Donovan was seated

at a table, trying to keep the brochures from flying away on the windy day.

Griffin Tomaino, a sixth-grad-er at Salisbury Central School, said he has been studying magic for five years.

He performed a complex card trick with confidence.

A few yards away, Lakeville Journal Publisher and Editor in Chief Janet Manko carefully applied paint to a somewhat wiggly youngster’s face.

And Resident State Trooper Chris Sorrell showed off the in-terior of his cruiser — bristling with electronic gadgets — to interested visitors.

— Patrick L. Sullivan

PHOTO BY MADDY LONGWELL

Lori Carlson and her granddaughter, Ivy Ohmen, enjoyed the garden behind Housatonic Child Care Center at the Big Rig event on June 12.

PHOTO BY PATRICK L. SULLIVAN

Zoë Sayler raced a tractor at the Big Rig on a windy Sunday afternoon, June 12.

Poetry reading by Brash June 18

LAKEVILLE — Edward Brash will read from his new book of poetry, “Love In The Age Of Photochemical Reproduction,” at Johnnycake Books in Salisbury on Saturday, June 18, at a reception, open to the public, that begins at 5 p.m. A softcover edition of the book, signed by the poet, will be available for purchase. Brash is a resident of Lakeville. For more information, go to www.johnny-cakebooks.com.

PHOTO BY PATRICK L. SULLIVAN

Janet Manko, publisher and editor-in-chief of The Lakeville Journal, painted a youngster’s face at the Big Rig fundraiser for the Housatonic Child Care Center on Sunday, June 12.

By Gabe Lefferts

SALISBURY — When dis-cussing New England’s small-town churches, the focus fre-quently turns to their historic value. They’re often seen as a beautiful tradition, a reminder of a rich American past. But that leaves something out: the present.

Congregations are embracing modern faith and making efforts to adapt the church to contem-porary times in a variety of ways.

At St. John’s Episcopal Church,the Rev. David Sellery has partnered with local public broadcasting contributor Mi-chael Flint to “tech” the church, so to speak, with a live video stream of the church’s nave, operating 24/7.

The new operation, intro-duced mid-spring, combines church function with modern technology in an effort to reach new, wider audiences — as well as aging audiences unable to attend Sunday morning services.

Sellery spoke to the role of the church in a time of change.

“Our world, social dynamics, technology, media, culture and even organized religion as we

have known them are all in flux. But the love of Christ does not change.”

He added that, “Our own post-literate times pose a com-pletely different set of dynamics. The danger for us lies in becom-ing jaded by the familiarity of our Sunday morning experi-ence. Even when delivered by a stem-winding preacher, the Sunday sermon from the pulpit is launched into a totally trans-formed world.”

This is not the first time that Sellery has explored ways to ad-vance church outreach through technology. He currently runs a website, www.davidsellery.org, through which he runs a blog, posts podcasts (Fr. Sellery Presents This Week’s Focus) and refers readers to his Twitter (@Fr-Sellery) and Facebook accounts.

Sellery and Flint were con-nected through filming a weekly message from Sellery that is aired on public access CATV6 and WHDD-Robin Hood radio.

The live video, accessed on the front page of the church’s web-site (www.stjohnssalisbury.org), is geared toward those whom Sellery refers to as “homebound” parishioners of the church —

particularly residents of places such as Noble Horizons and Geer Village.

The videos feature Sunday services and musical events and the warmly illuminated church hall with the echoes of prayer during the night for anyone in search of the church’s atmo-spheric comfort.

In an interview on June 6, Sell-ery said the stream had already reached around one thousand views in its first few weeks of service.

Sellery addressed two con-trasting obstacles that arose for the project: How to maintain “the fabric and quality of a historic worship space” and the need for high-speed internet to maintain a stable live feed.

For a minimal cost, Flint was able to install a wireless system with two remote-controlled Pan-Tilt-Zoom (PTZ) cameras. By using business class internet speeds, the feed, according to Flint, has been “flawless.”

The church has also used the strong internet platform to pro-vide another means of outreach: open café hours at the church on Mondays from 9 to 11:30 a.m., with coffee from Irving Farm

Coffee Roasters, baked goods and more.

Such services are intended to reach younger demographics in the area — and anyone in need of free Wi-Fi on a morning when the neighboring library and Sweet William’s Bakery are both closed.

For Flint (who does not regu-larly attend the church’s services but was baptized at St. John’s years ago), the outreach projects bring a sense of freshness to the church halls.

“You’re creating experiences is what you’re doing here.”

St. John’s gets a technological upgrade