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
Community Dinners
2025 Dates:
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
May 26 - Our team of volunteers helped to serve over 300 meals to people from the local community on this Memorial Day tradition.! Thanks to Warren for organizing our participation and to our team: Kathy, Melissa, Marilyn, Sarah, Paul, Aversa and Carol.
Disabled American Veterans
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.
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.”
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)
Africa Education Partnership (AEP)
(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
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.
Nigerian Scholarships Program
Trinity's annual Nigerian scholarship program is now in full swing following the Dually Noted concert kickoff Saturday, May 17, 2025.
While any amount can be donated, it takes $300 to put a child through school for the year. If you don’t wish to fully sponsor a child, you can go in with others to jointly sponsor.
$300 puts a child through school for the year, which includes:
- uniforms
- books
- teacher salaries
- small portion for building maintenance
Everyone who sponsors a child will
- receive a photo of that child
- receive their report cards
- have the opportunity to correspond with your sponsored child if you wish
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The money raised will go through Africa Education Partnership to be sent directly to Bishop Markus Dogo in the Kafanchan diocese in northern Nigeria.
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.