Parish Meeting on Sunday, April 23 at 9:30am in Pierce-Bishop Hall

A Note to the Parish

Dear Fellow Parishioners,

On May 11, we will celebrate the 190th anniversary of Trinity Church! So, in ten short years, we will be 200 years old as a Parish — hard to believe!

As we look toward our future, we want to be confident that we have a plan to ensure that Trinity will continue to be a vibrant, loving, and caring community for generations to come. People just like us have called Trinity their church home for 190 years.

They, prayerfully and faithfully, did what they needed to do to ensure that Trinity would be here for us, and now it is our turn and our responsibility to do the same for those who will come after us.

This means looking at all aspects of our life together: worship, learning, serving, and finances. Our financial reality is a topic that cannot be avoided and must be discussed openly and honestly. The pandemic has had a negative on the overall level of support for the church, and this is not unique to Trinity. In addition, we have lost members over the course of the past three years due to death and moving from New Jersey.

Those two factors alone account for nearly $200,000 of lost annual support. While we remain very strong financially, we have to consider different ways to support the church and our level of commitment to Trinity.

As you know, we have been seeking your thoughts and insights to cast a vision for the future of Trinity, along with the formation of a strategy and the specific steps we need to take to make our vision a reality.

To that end, Fr. Paul and I would like to invite the entire Parish to a meeting on Sunday, April 23 at 9:30am in the Pierce-Bishop Hall. I am asking for your full participation in this process as, together, we find our way forward that will ensure a strong and healthy future for Trinity Church.

David Schneider

Senior Warden