Through Ministry and Outreach, Trinity volunteers work closely with St. Fred's Baptist Church by serving and cleaning up at their soup kitchen on Tuesdays, Thursdays, and some Saturdays. We’re also helping St. Fred's in their fundraising efforts to build the African American History Museum. And Trinity will be partnering with St. Fredericks Juneteenth celebration in Johnson Park next year, which will involve helping to organize the event, finding sponsors, and providing volunteers as needed.
We also have strong relationships with the other local churches. St. Peters Lutheran installed beehives near The Garden. We supported Hill Country United Methodist during their time of turmoil. Annually, several of the local churches gather in the park to worship as one, and the various clergy lead the service, demonstrating a cordial relationship between denominations.
In addition, the congregation is involved with Habitat for Humanity. Members of Trinity donate labor and money and they feed the crew on workdays. And when the Habitat crew was between home builds, they helped The Garden by constructing the shed, frame, and ramps. Also, they renovated a Trinity-sponsored apartment for the Highland Crisis Network, who shepherds a family in need of a home.
We are privileged to have a roomy and highly serviceable facility for meetings and social gatherings, and another way we serve the community is to make this facility available for functions. For instance, the Master Naturalists have their meetings there, as do some recovery groups. We’ve provided space for parenting classes, Tax Aid, children’s yoga, music therapy classes, medical emergency training, and CASA training. We’ve even hosted a Celtic band several times. By making our parish hall accessible in this way, people who do not attend our church come to know us and feel at home.