Trinity’s Easter Egg Hunt takes place on Holy Saturday at 11am on Stockton Lawn is covered with colorful, candy and treat-filled eggs. Beforehand, we gather at the church entrance for a blessing. Bring your baskets and get ready to hunt for eggs. During the hunt, keep an eye peeled for the Easter Bunny, who loves to pose for photos. Come back for the Easter Vigil at 7pm or on Easter Morning to celebrate our Risen Lord!
We are seeking a group of Trinity volunteers to help pack grocery bags for Arm in Arm’s mobile pantry food truck distribution throughout Trenton. Arm in Arm, one of Trinity’s local ministry partners, delivers food to several sites in Trenton to communities where there is great need. This service day is suitable for adults and families with children 8 years and older. It is a great way for teens to get community service credits for school.
We will be working inside at their Mill One location in Hamilton and there is ample off-street parking. We will gather on the circle at Trinity Church by 9:30am and can drive down to Mill One together. If you need a ride please let us know.
Please contact Phil Unetic at phil.unetic@gmail.com or 609-844-0801 if you would like to join!
Dear Friends,
It is with fullness of heart that I write to announce that I will be retiring from Trinity Church in mid-June of this year.
It has been a great joy to have served as Associate Rector at Trinity, and I am deeply grateful to Our Lord and to you all for extending to me such kindness, support, and love throughout these six years.
Sharing and growing together in our faith in Jesus Christ through the joys and challenges of this time has been an honor for me, and is a gift I will hold in my heart and will carry forward in all my ministry to come.
Trinity is a vital and thriving church growing in meaningful and exciting ways, and it has been a privilege to serve among you in this vibrant community in Christ. I will miss all of you as I set out for a new phase in my ministry and my family’s life.
Faithfully in Christ,
The Rev. Joanne Epply-Schmidt
Associate Rector
Trinity Church
Sing aloud to God our strength;
shout for joy to the God of Jacob.
Raise a song, sound the tambourine,
the sweet lyre with the harp.
— Psalm 81:1-2
Dear Beloved of Trinity Church,
I bring you good news! Our Music Search Committee is hard at work and the process is well underway.
For nearly one hundred and ninety years, Trinity Church has been a beacon of faith, hope, and love in the very heart of Princeton. We are in an Episcopal congregation in the Diocese of New Jersey devoted to striking, spirit-filled worship in the Anglican prayer book and choral traditions, lifelong Christian formation and fellowship, and the care and comfort of those most in need in our community and in the world, always aspiring to be a visible and tangible sign of Christ’s ineffable love.
We welcome all people, regardless of gender, race, age, culture, ethnic background, sexual orientation, economic circumstance, family configuration, or difference of ability. We celebrate the worth, dignity, and gifts of every person as a child of God and invite all into the full life of the church.
I offer my sincere thanks to our team of both Trinity members and community partners who are faithfully and prayerfully dedicated to this important work.
Matthew Baglio
Carol Burden
Gabriel Crouch
Cheryl Evans
Barbara Gonzalez-Palmer
Andrea Hyde
Mark McConnell
Eric Plutz
Wesley Rowell
Iris Sikma
Trudy Sykes
Cindy Westbrook
Mike Williams
Co-Chairs: Leslie Edwards and Clancy Rowley
I bid your prayers for all involved that we will indeed be open to the Spirit’s leading, as we live into this next season of our common life together as the people of Trinity Church.
Forward in Faith!
In Christ,
The Rev. Paul Jeanes III, Rector
Dear members and friends of Trinity Church,
We are writing to provide an update from the Search Committee for the Trinity Director of Music. The Search Committee began work in December with the recruitment of members and the development of an aggressive timeline in which to complete the search. Members have worked together to draft a job description that has been carefully and thoroughly reviewed and was published this week and can be viewed on the Trinity website.
At the same time, we have developed a survey for stakeholders: congregation members, past and present choir members, and those who are deeply invested in the music program at Trinity Church Princeton. The results of the survey will guide our selection of potential candidates, inform our interview process, and be considered in the work of the music program steering committee once a candidate has been selected.
The survey has eight questions and is available online, as a PDF that can be printed and returned to the church, and in paper format, available starting Sunday, February 19 before and after all services.
It is our goal to be as open and transparent in the process as possible. If you have any questions or concerns, please feel free to contact any of the members of the search committee.
With gratitude for this opportunity,
on behalf of the Director of Music Search Committee:
Matthew Baglio, Carol Burden, Gabriel Crouch, Cheryl Evans, Barbara Gonzalez-Palmer, Andrea Hyde, Mark McConnell, Eric Plutz, Wesley Rowell, Iris Sikma, Trudy Sykes, Cindy Westbrook, and Mike Williams
The Blessing of the Plough with songs and molly dances by Handsome Molly to mark the occasion will take place on Plough Monday, January 9, 2023, 6:30pm, at the front entrance of the church.
Plough Monday is the first Monday after Epiphany. In medieval times, the ploughboys were to return to work on this day to start the new ploughing season, but the day provided one last day of festivity as the ploughboys would disguise themselves and go from house to house threatening to plough up the yard if the landowners did not provide them food and drink. Trinity Church has been marking this day for many years now. Please come.
Trenton Music Makers will give a community concert at Trinity on Monday, January 16 at 6:00pm, in honor of Martin Luther King Day and the National Day of Service.
The concert follows the growing tradition among El Sistema-inspired organizations throughout the United States, celebrating the spirit of youth empowerment and community service that the holiday encompasses. They are inviting the audience to lean into the holiday’s significance by contributing non-perishable foods, or a monetary donation, for another of Trinity's ministry partners, Arm in Arm.
Trenton Music Makers, launched in 2015, is a five-day afterschool orchestra for Trenton students in Grades 1-12, and is the sibling program of Music for the Very Young and Trenton Children’s Chorus. The orchestra includes string and percussion majors, daily orchestra rehearsal, small-group instruction, theory, improvisation and chamber music, together with academic support, hot meals, and transportation from selected schools. The Trenton Music Makers Orchestra has performed with the Princeton Symphony Orchestra, with local and regional partner organizations in Paterson, Newark, Union City and Camden, for the Greater Trenton annual awards and the Mill Hill Historic House Tour, and as onstage guests of the NJ Symphony. They are members of the El Sistema NJ Alliance, and national partners of Carnegie Hall Play USA.
