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Trinity Parish
Episcopal Church

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MISSION & OUTREACH - A LAY-DRIVEN MINISTRY

LOVE. GROW. SERVE.

Local Partners

Regional Partners

Global Partners 

The Environment

Local Partners

wethersfield social services

2025

LENTEN COLLECTION UPDATE

 $232 food/Non-SNAP items and $350 in gift cards.  

Thank you everyone!


St. Pauls's lutheran church Food Pantry

The Food Pantry services 50+ families weekly and is partially subsidized by Foodshare, with the remaining needs being met by local donations and partnerships with area churches and supermarkets 

2024

Outreach Fund Donation

$500 - June - in support of their weekly food distribution

Advent Food Pantry Collection 

 Trinity collected 146 cans and packages which included many 12-48 count boxes of ramen, putting the grand total of items well over 200!  

hawks helper weekend backpack program

hawks helper weekend backpack program

Charles Wright Elementary School has a weekend meal program for students and their families to provide food for days that school is not in session. Trinity has provided a room in the Parish Hall for the school to store the collected food items and to prepare the weekend distribution. 

2024

 June 16 - August 25 Summer Snack Collection 

230+ snack bags of chips and cookies, 40+ cans of vegetables, 50+ cans and snack packs of fruit.

Over 325 items collected

December donation - $500 for storage

Keane Foundation

hawks helper weekend backpack program

The purpose of the Keane Foundation is to provide a safe and fun environment where youth come together to participate in athletic, academic, and social programs with the support and guidance of caring adults. 

Trinity supports the Keane on Kids After School Enrichment Programs, which are held at 5 Elementary Schools and the Middle School.  Students can choose from a variety of enrichment activities, to learn a new skill or to advance their knowledge of a particular area, like Chess, Cooking, Fashion Design, Athletics, Science/Stem, Financial Resilience and more

2024

Trinity donated $500 to support this program

Because we care

This ministry sends cards & provides meals for parishioners in need.  Contact Barbara Cosgrove (arnoldcosgrove@gmail.com) to become part of this ministry or to request cards or meals for a parishioner. 

Sean's closet

Sean's Closet partners with Wethersfield Social Services to collect clothing and household goods for those in need.

Currently collecting winter clothes & coats

Contact Connie Harasymiw at connie1411@aol.com,

May 2024

Carload of baby clothes from a donation to Sean's Closet and the Wethersfield Mom's Club was delivered to Friendship House


friends & Needles

friends & Needles

friends & Needles

Meets Thursdays in the Seabury Room

1:00-3:00

 The group knits prayer shawls, and hats for premature infants in the NICU as well as blankets, scarves and other assorted items. 

It's a time to share books and puzzles and conversation. Contact Connie Harasymiw (connie1411@aol.com) for more information.


2024 - 16 Prayer Squares donated as part of Middlesex Hospice fleece blankets donation

Regional Partners

HANDS ON HARTFORD: Community Dinners

HANDS ON HARTFORD: Community Dinners

Community Dinners

2025 Dates:

 Mar. 24, July 28, Sept. 22, Nov. 24

Trinity partners with Hands On Hartford to prepare and serve 80-100 community meals for the needy 5-6 times each year.  For more information on donating food items or serving at the dinners contact Warren or Lynda Blessing at ctvalleywc@yahoo.com

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Jan. 27 - served 70+ meals with seconds

March 24 - served 85 meals


Disabled American Veterans

HANDS ON HARTFORD: Community Dinners

Stop & Shop Gift Cards

May 12-June 16

 36 cards with a value of $960

Purse ministry

The parish purse ministry fills purses/bags with toiletries and other items that are distributed to people who are experiencing homelessness or transitioning from a shelter to living on their own.  

Contact Sue Rafala for more information.

 skraf622@gmail.com 

2024

 16 purses distributed to the VA Hospital 

35 purses & 50 care packages distributed to St. Vincent DePaul in Middletown 


2024 Regional Partners

Middlesex Health’s Hospice Program (2024)


2023 - Donations & Activities

American Friends of the Episcopal Diocese of Jerusalem - $1000

Camp Washington - $800 donation

Malta House of Care - $500

Sandy Hook Promise - $500

Alzheimer's Assoc. - $500



Church by the Pond/Lunch in the Park

Middlesex Health’s Hospice Program (2024)

Middlesex Health’s Hospice Program (2024)

This ministry features an outdoor church service in Bushnell Park followed by food distribution on Saturdays.  A team from Trinity provides bagged lunches 4 to 5 Saturdays per year 

Noon: sandwich-making in parish hall. 

2 pm: Holy Eucharist service in Bushnell Park

Followed by: lunch distribution


2024 

$600 - M&O Fund to subsidize cost of lunches

Oct., 5, 2024

41 lunches served

May 4, 2024 

45 lunches served

  April 7, 2024                                                                           34 lunches served


Middlesex Health’s Hospice Program (2024)

Middlesex Health’s Hospice Program (2024)

Middlesex Health’s Hospice Program (2024)

January 2024

 On behalf of the Middlesex Health’s Hospice Program, we cannot thank you enough to all who participated in making blankets and donating baking goods. Also, we wish to thank  Friends and Needles’ for their donation of  prayer squares.  We could not carry out this mission without your support and ongoing commitment to serve.

In total we are donating 17 blankets, 42 baking goods, and 16 prayer squares.

We are grateful and humbled by your generosity.

Friendship Service Center New Britain (2024)

Friendship Service Center New Britain (2024)

Friendship Service Center New Britain (2024)

 The agency provides a continuum of services for men, women and children who are at risk or experiencing homelessness in Central Connecticut. Services range from an emergency shelter to transitional living programs, supportive housing options, and... also offers lunch to the community each day in the Tomasso Family Community Kitchen. 

Winter 2025

 450+ toiletry items collected and delivered 

Citizens of the World (2023)

Friendship Service Center New Britain (2024)

Friendship Service Center New Britain (2024)

 Refugee Resettlement 

Trinity formed a coalition with three local churches and IRIS to sponsor a Syrian family. The family arrived in Connecticut September of 2023 and is currently self-sufficient with minimal support from COTW.

 Please welcome Omar, Khadija, and their 3 teenage sons - Rafi, Rayan and Rayd.

 Nine years ago, they escaped war-torn Syria and moved to Turkey. While there, they registered as refugees and waited seven years before being allowed to enter the United States.

 In September of 1992, COTW volunteers met them at the airport and helped them settle into their new life in Connecticut.

“Starting over is not easy but when people appear on your way to stand by your side, people whose hearts are filled with humanity and love for others even without personal knowledge of them, this is something that proves their nobility and generosity and moral character. Thank you for being there in our first steps to build our new life. Thank you for your support. For me and my family, I will not forget what you have done for us and I wish, in my name and in the name of every member of my family, that you will always be a source of happiness and inspiration for everyone. With my sincere respect and appreciation to everyone, I am Khadija Suliman.”

Photo gallery - local & regional partners - Past & Present

Refugee Resettlement - In 2023 Trinity formed a coalition with three local churches and IRIS to sponsor a Syrian family. The family arrived in Connecticut September of 2023 and is currently (2024) self-sufficient.

    global partners

    Copprome orphanage, honduras

    SOUP TO GO

    Ginger Smith raises funds by making and selling soups, jams, relishes and more to benefit the Copprome Orphanage in Honduras. She travels to Honduras twice a year to provide food, friendship and gifts for the children. For more information about Soup-To-Go or the Copprome Orphanage, contact Ginger at ginger43@cox.net, 

    Your support for these children is greatly appreciated  

    2025

    Soup-To-Go 

    March 2 - $1100

    2024 

    Soup-T0-Go - $1845

    M&O Fund - $300 for additional services for children

    St. Vincent’s Center for Children With Disabilities, Haiti

    The mission of St. Vincent's is to provide special education opportunities and life skills training to children with disabilities in Haiti.  Located in Port-Au-Prince, the school serves deaf, blind and physically challenged students  

    UPDATE

                           St. Vincent’s Center for Children with Disabilities, Haiti, was mostly destroyed and its equipment stolen during the recent civil unrest. Thanks to outside support, they have now constructed several small buildings that are equipped to serve as treatment centers. “The Dioceses of Connecticut (spurred by Trinity Parish in Wethersfield), New Hampshire, and North Dakota contributed extra-budgetary funds to purchase medical equipment.” (From their Spring Newsletter).  

    APRIL 2025 UPDATE

    St. Vincent's wants us to know that our gifts make a very real difference.  Trinity's donation, last fall, paired with the grant from the Diocese of Connecticut, provided much needed durable medical equipment for the medical center at St. Vincent's School. 

    St. Vincent's can once again make and fit leg braces!  They pioneered the clubfoot torquing in the country and may be the only place in Haiti now where braces are made and fitted.  

    global partners Africa

    Kateri Medical Services

    Africa Education Partnership (AEP)

    Kateri Medical Services

     (KMS) Kateri Medical Services was founded by our former pastor, Rev. Thomas Furrer, in 2003 to bring “simple, decent and affordable medical care to the rural and urban poor” in Nigeria. Our parishioners help support KMS which currently operates six clinics.


     2024

    $600 donated from M&O fund

    Scholarships

    Africa Education Partnership (AEP)

    Kateri Medical Services

    Scholarships for Students in Diocese of Kafanchan We sponsor scholarships for 60 needy students in five different diocesan schools. A $300 scholarship pays for tuition, books uniforms and meals for one year.

    Click here for a short documentary video, on our Mission & Outreach page, from Bishop Dogo about the Anglican schools in Nigeria.

    2024

    $5400 for 18 scholarships raised


    Africa Education Partnership (AEP)

    Africa Education Partnership (AEP)

    Africa Education Partnership (AEP)

     AEP was founded by two of our church members to build schools in Nigeria. They have built or refurbished six schools which serve hundreds of students.


    2024 update

    Trinty donated $800 to support this program.

    photo gallery -global partners

    Copprome Orphanage

      Photo Gallery - global PARTNERS - AFRICA

      2018 visit from Bishop Dogo (Bishop of Kafanchan, Nigeria) and his wife, Nana

        videos -global PARTNERS - AFRICA

        Message from Bishop Dogo, Kafanchan, Nigeria to Trinity: 

        This is a short documentary on the schools at today. There are students on your scholarship in all the schools. The schools have moved far better than what it use to be.
        God bless you

                                                                                                                      August 2023

        The environment

        Some Simple Ways to Care for God's Creation

        INVITATION

          Browse these online suggestions prayerfully. Don’t be overwhelmed...Simply look for one or two things that you can actually do to make a positive difference. Give thanks for God’s magnificent gift of Creation every day and explore little ways God might call you to pray, learn and act to sustain God’s Creation for future generations. 

        EPISCOPAL CHURCH LINKS

        Creation Care - The Episcopal Church
        Creation Care - Episcopal Diocese of Massachusetts

        INTERNET SEARCH: Creation Care

        WEBSITE
        10 Things You Can Do To Help Save The Earth




        tree planting

        April 2024 

        In celebration of Arbor Day, and with the help of Brian, Town Tree Manager, and his assistant Will, Trinity has planted a European Hornbeam tree in front of the church. Donations to Trinity (with Arbor Day on the memo line) are currently being accepted to help fund this project. 

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