Nominations for Vestry

Elections for four new vestry members will be held during the Annual Meeting on November 10.  Any baptized and confirmed parishioner who has pledged is eligible for nomination.  Vestry members serve a three year term. 

If you love Trinity Church and would like to serve on its governing body, we encourage you to nominate yourself by contacting the co-chairs of the Vestry Nominating Committee, Melissa Scott (mebscott@comcast.net) and Chris Leavell (cleavell@gmail.com).  If you'd like to nominate someone other than yourself, feel free to contact Melissa and Chris with your suggestion. 

Parish Retreat

Join Kara and your friends from Trinity Church on November 22-24 for a weekend retreat at Holy Cross Monastery in West Park, NY on the banks of the Hudson River. This will be a "mostly-silent" retreat, with many opportunities to pray and worship in community with the brothers of the Order of the Holy Cross. Along with time to read, rest, or explore the beautiful monastery grounds, there will also be a Bible study led by Kara:

• Breakfast is available any time from 6:30am to 8:15am

• 7:00am - Matins

• 8:30am - The Great Silence Ends

• 9:00am - Holy Eucharist

• 10:00am - Bible study 

• 12:00pm - Diurnum (Midday Prayer)

• 12:30pm - Dinner

• 5:00pm - Vespers (Evening Prayer) - Sundays at 4:00pm

• 5:45pm - Supper

• 7:30pm - Compline (Night Prayers)
  The Great Silence begins after Compline

We will leave on Friday afternoon and return Sunday after the Eucharist. The cost for the weekend is $250, but let us know if the cost is prohibitive for you. We don't want that to be a barrier to your participation. There are 12 rooms available, and you can sign up at this Google Forms link or by emailing Kara at sladek@trinityprinceton.org. Let us know as well if you will need a ride and if you have dietary needs. 

SIGN UP LINK: https://forms.gle/xcDQPFBDwdkmHMcW6

Driveway Safety Improvements

Our driveway that connects Mercer and Stockton streets is a great convenience for parishioners and for parents of Nassau Nursery children.   It is also a safety hazard as it tempts drivers to speed through our property to save a few minutes.  In addition, some drivers have been entering from Stockton Street in violation of the driveway's one way direction.  Finally, there was no signage alerting drivers exiting onto Stockton Street that they need to stop before the sidewalk.

Recently, the Grounds committee invested $2,400 in three improvements to minimize these safety risks:

1. Installed a speed bump to slow speedsters down before they reach the Narthex area

2. Asked the Municipality of Princeton to replace one of its Do Not Enter signs at our Stockton St. exit that had become extremely faded.  They promptly made that change as well as reoriented their second Do Not Enter sign for better visibility.

3. Added two smaller "Do Not Enter" signs facing from our fence to Stockton Street to ensure that any driver turning from any direction will see that they should not enter our driveway.  

4. Installed two Stop signs just before the sidewalk at Stockton Street  and painted the words "Stop" along with a thick white line across the driveway.

In addition, our contractors fixed three potholes in the parking lot, repainted two handicapped parking spots and the crosswalk by Ivy Hall.  Special thanks to our wonderful sextons for putting up all  of our new signs!

Please help keep parishioners and children safe by entering our driveway only from Mercer Street, driving slowly over the speed bump and by making a full stop when exiting at Stockton Street.  

Lunch this Sunday

Join us for lunch on Sunday after the 10:30 service to meet our new minister of youth, Donte Milligan. Please RSVP to Fr. Paul (jeanesp@trinityprinceton.org) so we can make appropriate plans for lunch.

Newcomer Opportunities

Newcomers Forum

• Sunday, October 6   9:15 – 10:15 am  

• Pierce Hall     

The Newcomers Forum is a great way to meet vestry members, clergy and fellow newcomers while enjoying bagels and coffee.  There will be a couple of welcoming speeches but mostly this is a time to talk to new and longtime members of the parish and to meet your clergy.   Pierce Hall is the main meeting room in the parish building, which is attached to the church.  

Tea at the Rectory

• Sunday, November 10   4 -5 pm, followed by Compline in the church

• 25 Mercer St.

Father Paul Jeanes lives in the house next to the parish hall.  Join him, vestry members and fellow newcomers for refreshments and fellowship.  Then at 5 pm, feel free to join us as we walk next door to the church for the evening prayers said during Compline.

You are welcome to attend any of these events without registering but if you know in advance that you’ll attend, please do email tomascott1965@gmail.com so that we can plan accordingly.  Also email Tom with any questions you may have.  We look forward to seeing you!

Volunteer Opportunities

Parish volunteers are always needed for these two Fall events which support Trinity’s outreach programs:

• Rummage Sale - Details about rummage in the post above. We need volunteers for all aspects of the sale: set-up, sales, clean-up.  Setup occurs from October 13-17 and the sale itself is on October 18-19.  To volunteer for any of these days, please send your contact information to rummage@trinityprinceton.org .

• Thanksgiving Day Turkey Trot – This annual event is a 5k race beginning at 8 am on Thanksgiving Day.  Father Paul started it the year after he arrived at Trinity Church.  Over 2,000 runners and walkers participated in 2023 and raised over $70,000 for Trinity’s outreach programs and partners.  Trinity parishioners handle all of the functions of the race, from distributing race packets to monitoring the route.  More details will be available soon on how you can help make this year’s race a success.

Arm In Arm 50th Anniversary Celebration

Our Outreach partner, Arm In Arm, will be participating in a 50th Year Anniversary celebration and Health Fair this Saturday, September 21st at 9:30 am. It will be held at 1440 Parkside Ave, Ewing NJ (in the gym located to the right, inside of the main entrance).

They need 6 volunteers who can help prepare and serve non-perishable bags of food to the community during the event.  It will last until 3 o'clock or as long as the food lasts, but even if you can only participate for an hour or 2,  Arm In Arm can still use your help.

To volunteer please click  SIGN UP HERE or call Shariq Marshall with Arm In ARM at 609-508-7851. 

Welcome Noa and Richard!

We are delighted to have two wonderful interns, Noa Bolmenäs and Richard Pryor, III, join us for our 2023-2024 program year! Read a bit about Noa and Richard below. Please greet them warmly when you see them.

Noa: My name is Noa Bolmenäs, I am a 3rd year M.Div student at PTS. I moved to princeton in 2022, after living in beautiful Chicago since 2019. Before then I grew up in wonderful Sweden. Now, I am planning my next steps in life, as well as my marriage to my partner, Narvella. My path has led me on many fascinating adventures, but for now it is pulling me toward church and education. My main interest is the Old Testament. I have found it the most valuable conversation partner and inspiration for dealing with immigration and forced migration, which are the central issues my social work has gone toward. I am more than excited to be at Trinity for this coming year, to get to know this wonderful parish, and to worship together!

Richard: Richard Pryor, III is a Masters student at Princeton Theological Seminary in the Church History and Ecumenics Department. A graduate of the University of the South, he is also the creative editor of Earth & Altar. He is a son of Christ Church in Kent, OH, and is part of the team behind the Episcopal Chant Database and Metrical Collects. He has been a four-time Deputy or Alternate to General Convention, and most recently chaired the Consecration Planning Committee for the Transition to the 12th Bishop of Ohio. He enjoys making and listening to music, testing out new recipes, and reading long-form journalism.