On Sunday, June 4, we will recognize all of our congregation’s graduates.
If you want your graduating child or grandchild, whether high school or college seniors, graduate or post-graduate students, to be in the booklet, please email Adam Bond a picture, their full name, the high school or college from which they are graduating, their degree if applicable, and a short summary of future plans.
All information must be in by Sunday, May 28 to be included in the booklet.
For the next three weeks, Trinity Church will host a special Adult Forum series on Science & Faith with the Rev. Dr. Andrew Davison of Cambridge University and the Center of Theological Inquiry.
Dr. Davison has been the Starbridge Associate Professor in Theology and Natural Sciences at Cambridge since 2014. Before he moved into theology he was a scientist, and he holds undergraduate degrees and doctorates in both natural science and theology. Before his current appointment, Andrew taught Christian doctrine at Oxford and Cambridge. He is a fellow of Corpus Christi College, where is he also Dean of Chapel, having been ordained in 2003.
From 2015-21 held the position of Canon Philospher at St Albans Cathedral, the first such position in the Church of England. Since 2021, he has been Canon Emeritus. He has been a fellow of Corpus Christi College since 2014, and Dean of Chapel since 2019. He is news editor for the journal Theology and Science, and editor of the Cambridge University Press series Cambridge Elements in Christianity and Science. He is a regular contributor to Church Times and the Times Literary Supplement.
Don’t miss this extraordinary opportunity!
The forum will be available on Zoom at the usual link:
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This is always a special day for our parish and a beautiful time in the garden. Please feel free to extend this invitation to anyone who you feel would like to attend.
We hope you can join us on May 7.
Creator of all, we pray to you for all those whom we love but see no longer. Grant to them eternal rest. Let light perpetual shine upon them. May their souls and the souls of all the departed, through the mercy of God, rest in peace. Amen.
“In the course of their Christian development, those baptized at an early age are expected, when they are ready and have been duly prepared, to make a mature public affirmation of their faith and commitment to the responsibilities of their Baptism and to receive the laying on of hands by the bishop. Those baptized as adults, unless baptized with laying on of hands by a bishop, are also expected to make a public affirmation of their faith and commitment to the responsibilities of their Baptism in the presence of a bishop and to receive the laying on of hands.” — The Book of Common Prayer, p. 412
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.
Senior Warden
Trinity will be holding an agape meal, a time of fellowship and celebration, in Pierce-Bishop Hall following the 7pm Easter Vigil on Holy Saturday, April 6.
The agape meal is a tradition that dates back to the early church. Our feast will be a time to break bread in community, to reflect on the joy of Easter, the sacrificial and triumphal love of Jesus, and to strengthen the bonds among us, especially after the darkness of the preceding days.
We will need some volunteers to help set up and clean up, before and after the event. Please email Carol Thomas at carolbrooksthomas@gmail.com for more information and to sign up to help.
Under the direction of Dr. David A. McConnell, our upcoming concert features songs of love, romance, and the promise of spring from a range of modern composers including Sting, Dolly Parton, and Carly Simon. In this concert, VCNJ also concludes their rendition of Folk Songs of the Four Seasons by Ralph Vaughn Williams with the spring and summer sections of the work.
The texts speak of sky, fields, stars, meadows, birds, rivers, light, merriment, spring, and love.
Rob Long, a singer with the chorale, finds the music in the concert to be
“[B]oth uplifting and sometimes unexpected. Like when a friend gives you a great hug that you didn’t know you needed.”
For additional information, questions, or concerns please email this event’s coordinator Linda Silber at lindafsilber@gmail.com.
