Local Outreach partners 2025-2026
Trinity Outreach Groups
Because We Care - Barbara Cosgrove continues her mission to support parishioners in need through: Meals, Phone calls/emails, Cards for all occasions, Cards & calls to shut-ins
Please contact her with your needs & information.
Friends & Needles - This group of 12 to 15 ladies continue to meet on Thursday afternoons at church to knit prayer shawls, baptism blankets and other items for donations. It is also a group that has many excellent knitters who are will to share their skills and expertise to help beginning knitters.
Come join us…Connie Harasymiw.
Sean's Closet - We continue to build the distribution network for clothing and home goods items. We are currently operating ONLY through referrals from Wethersfield Social Services and the Wethersfield School System…Connie Harasymiw.
Wethersfield Social/Youth/Senior Services
Trinity's support for the Wethersfield Social/Youth/Senior Services:
Wethersfield Food Bank - Lenten Food Drive – (Vickie Crafa) –2025: 232 items (SNAP & NON-SNAP items) + $350 in gift cards
Wethersfield Food Bank - Holiday Food Drive – (Vickie Crafa) – 2025: 285+ items + $645 gift cards
Wethersfield Social Services - Backpack Fund - 2025: $500 (Vickie Crafa) for back-to-school supplies
Wethersfield Social Services - Fuel Bank- 2025: $1500 (Vickie Crafa)
Charles Wright Elementary School Hawk Helpers
Trinity provides space for the collection, storage and refrigeration of food items. School volunteers meet weekly to prepare food packages for distribution to school families facing food insufficiencies. Visit them on Facebook.
2025 - $370 from now defunct Purse Ministry
2025 - 700+ snack items and provided a cooler for perishables - summer collection. (Connie Harasymiw)
2025 - Advent collection for specific non-snap items = 120+ items (many with individual items packaged as one) (Connie Harasymiw)
St. Pauls' Lutheran Church Food Pantry
The Food Pantry services well over 50 families weekly and is partially subsidized by Foodshare, with the remaining needs being met by local donations and partnerships with area supermarkets. The needs continue to grow, and they have turned to area churches to help fill the gap. It is open every Thursday from 10am-1pm.
2025 - $250 (JoAnn Formica)
Mission & Outreach Fund Local Donations
Keane on Kids After School Enrichment Programs - The Richard M. Keane Foundation offers enrichment programs to all students in the five elementary schools in the town of Wethersfield through the Keane Kids After School Enrichment Program, Keane Hands-on Learning Program, and the Keane 9/11 Sports Center Programs.
2025 - $500 (Donna Brown)
Detective Robert (Bobby) Garten Memorial Fund - to support causes that were important to Bobby who
attended Trinity where he served as an acolyte and was involved in the youth group.
2025 - $500 (Joan Joseph & Ann Marie Stavola)
Regional OUTREACH PARTNERS 2025-2026
Hands on Hartford Community Dinners
Trinity continues its support of the Community Dinners sponsored by HOH on Bartholomew Street in Hartford by providing meals several times each year. Parishioners contribute food and beverages necessary for our team to prepare and serve the community meals. Our dinners are on Monday evenings and involve about two hours’ worth of time (4:45 to 6:45). For more information on donating food items or serving at the dinners contact Warren or Lynda Blessing at ctvalleywc@yahoo.com.
2026 Schedule:
January 26
July 27
September 28
November 23
The Salvation Army Bloom Initiative: Anti-Human Trafficking Org.
The Salvation Army Bloom Initiative helps young women survive human trafficking.
2025 - 20 coats & 15 blankets collected with one week's notice through the Hanmer School Coat & Blanket Drive (Joan & Ann Marie)
Misson & Outreach Funds Regional Donations
Camp Washington - to support ECCT summer camp opportunities for children.
2025 - $800 (Corinne Helfant)
Malta House of Care - Medical Clinic that provides high-quality, free primary health care to uninsured adults in Greater Hartford
2025 - $500 (Vickie Crafa)
Alzheimer’s Association, Conn. Chapter
2025 - $500 (Rose Reilly)
The Diaper Bank - The Diaper Bank - organization provides diapers, formula, period & Incontinence products & more across Ct.
2025 - $500 (Joan Joseph)
South Park Inn – to support this Hartford shelter.
2025 - $500 (Vickie Crafa)
St. Mark’s Episc. Church, Los Angeles, CA. - in Feb. 2025 for wildfire relief
2025 - $800 (Joan & Ann Marie)
Friendship Service Center - New Britain
Friendship Service Center makes love visible through compassionate, person-centered services for those at risk of or experiencing homelessness. Friendship Service Center, Inc. envisions a Greater New Britain community where everyone has a safe, affordable home and episodes of hunger and homelessness are brief and non-recurring.
2025 - 450 toiletry items collected (Joan & Ann Marie)
Citizens of the World - The Issa Family
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.
We welcomed Omar, Khadija, and their 3 teenage sons - Rafi, Rayan and Rayd. In 1983, 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.”
2025 $500 (Carol Jones) - sent to our Syrian family to provide support in their struggle to make a life in America amidst the immigration hurdles of 2025.
global outreach partners 2025-2026-2026
Africa Education Partnership (AEP) - Nigerian Scholarships
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: 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. The money raised will go through Africa Education Partnership to be sent directly to Bishop Markus Dogo in the Kafanchan diocese in northern Nigeria.
$300 tuition includes: uniforms, books, teacher salaries, 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
2025 - $6000 for 20 scholarships - $2120 was raised through a Dually Noted concert with $3880 through congregation donations (Don Ghostlaw. Cheryl Chadsey)
St. Vincent's Center for Children with Disabilities
Trinity continues its support of St. Vincent's, which is committed 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.
2025 - $3000 (Connie Harasymiw) was given as part of a $15,000 Sustainable Grant awarded by the diocese for a new well. This project which was delayed last year due to unrest in Haiti was finally sent this December.
Copprome Orphanage - Honduras
Ginger Smith makes twice yearly visits to provide supplemental care to this orphanage. Trinity helps her mission through twice yearly Soup to Go Sundays as well as any emergency support.
2025 - $1850 Soup to Go sales in October and March to subsidize Ginger’s trips to Honduras.
2025 - $1500 was raised ($475 from M&O fund and $1025 through congregation donations) to aid during a food crisis.
Misson & Outreach Funds Global Donations
Kateri Medical Mission - 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.
2025 - $500 (Joan Joseph)
American Friends of the Episcopal Diocese of Jerusalem -
whose mission is the transforming [of] lives of the vulnerable & displaced in the Middle East. In May,
2025 - $1000 - (Gordon & Rebecca Scruton) in September
2025 -$3255 ($2255 from the Congregation + $1000 from Trinity) - the Good Friday Offering for Ahli Hospital in Gaza City through AFEDJ
The Peace School through Action International Ministries - to support the opening of this school in Egypt for Gaza child refugees.
2025 - $750+ (Rebecca Scruton)