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Trinity states it’s mission this way: “Our mission is to grow as a faithful community through which all people can deepen companionship with God and each other in Christ through the Spirit and participate in God’s continuing work in
the world.” It’s vision is to grow in numbers and in faith, especially with young adults and young families. It is exploring the development of a very high quality
preschool which will teach not only kindergarten readiness skills but the basic elements of the faith through story telling. This means a study to determine how to expand the
building to make this possible. The parish has many small groups in it. It takes its tradition seriously but holds things sacred with humor. Laughter
is part of its prayer.
Innovation. The parish is innovative in several ways. A new service, “contemporary contemplative” worship was added in December of 1999 on Sunday afternoons. The parish has a “wellness advocate” who visits the homebound and offers support and encouragement to the rest of us to help keep us well. Our Education and spiritual formation efforts with children is called “Godly Play” a blend of Montessori techniques and Christian story-telling. The parish church building is quite unique. The church nave is shaped like a triangle, one of the ancient symbols of the Holy Trinity.
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Trinity Parish is a merger of three congregations; St. Mark’s church, founded
3 August 1856, Christ Church, founded shortly after the Civil War; 22 December 1880, and St. Christopher’s Church, founded in the
1960s.
Pascal Blast.
Trinity keeps the primary Christian feast, Easter, in an unusual way. By ancient tradition it begins the Easter Vigil after Sundown the night before Easter with the lighting of the new fire, the blessing of the paschal
candle, the reading of the stories of our redemption from Holy Scripture, Holy Baptism of any who are ready and the renewal of baptismal vows for us all. 