Trinity at 150: Feeding the Hungry
During the month of November, we are highlighting Trinity's outreach ministries throughout its 150 years. This week we focus on "feeding" ministries. We kicked off the week with Kitty Jo Reynolds of Foodshare, who showed a brief DVD about the Foodshare program in the Hartford area and then expanded upon that in her presentation. (Someone asked her a question about how cash that is donated to Foodshare is spent -- she is going to get me the answer and I will post it in this space.) Among its myriad activities in our region, the Foodshare truck comes to Trinity one day per week (on Wednesday or Thursday, depending upon the week) under the auspices of the Salvation Army Senior Center.
Trinity is the original home of the Loaves and Fishes Ministries, which outgrew our space and now resides at Immanuel Congregational Church on Woodland Street. A faithful crew led by Hyacinth Miller still prepares the luncheon served at Loaves and Fishes on the third Wednesday of each month. In addition Trinity supports them with a monthly cash contribution as well.
Our Light and Peace program, which serves children in the Asylum Hill neighborhood on Monday evenings during the school year, started as a combination feeding, spiritual enrichment and craft program when there were not other evening feeding programs in Asylum Hill. In the past couple of years, the Boys and Girls Club has begun to serve dinner to its young clients who are still there at dinner time. Rather than have two competing programs, we are presently in conversation with officials at the Boys and Girls Club about how we might combine forces to offer the richest and most effective programming to the neighborhood young people.
Trinity also collects food each week which is donated to the Space for Grace Food Pantry at Grace Episcopal Church on New Park Avenue -- during the month of November we are trying to collect 150 packages of pasta for the Pantry (pasta being in apparently short supply the Foodshare). The church also participates in the Episcopal Diocese's "Feeding in the Park" program, in which on the third Saturday every other month, a team of faithful servants shops for and builds 160 bagged lunches, each with two sandwiches, some fresh fruit, cookies, chips and a drink. This ministry is coordinated by our diocesan deacons, and led at Trinity by our own Deacon Pat Jackson. Every once in a while we are able to add in something extra -- last month it was tubes of toothpaste donated by our friends at Glastonbury Dental Associates.
In honor of our recently deceased parishioner Todd White, planning is currently underway for a dinner for homeless persons on Friday evenings, as there is not currently functioning program like this in the Asylum Hill neighborhood. We hope to start up this ministry under the leadership of Todd's widow, Trudi White, in the next month or so.
We are blessed to have so many committed parishioners who carry out these ministries in love and devotion. They indeed are Christ's hands and feet in the community -- may they be richly blessed. If you would like to participate in any of these ministries, please call Pam Haddad at the Trinity Church office and she will put you in touch with one of the leaders of that ministry.
Have a blessed day. Your brother in Christ, Don+
Trinity is the original home of the Loaves and Fishes Ministries, which outgrew our space and now resides at Immanuel Congregational Church on Woodland Street. A faithful crew led by Hyacinth Miller still prepares the luncheon served at Loaves and Fishes on the third Wednesday of each month. In addition Trinity supports them with a monthly cash contribution as well.
Our Light and Peace program, which serves children in the Asylum Hill neighborhood on Monday evenings during the school year, started as a combination feeding, spiritual enrichment and craft program when there were not other evening feeding programs in Asylum Hill. In the past couple of years, the Boys and Girls Club has begun to serve dinner to its young clients who are still there at dinner time. Rather than have two competing programs, we are presently in conversation with officials at the Boys and Girls Club about how we might combine forces to offer the richest and most effective programming to the neighborhood young people.
Trinity also collects food each week which is donated to the Space for Grace Food Pantry at Grace Episcopal Church on New Park Avenue -- during the month of November we are trying to collect 150 packages of pasta for the Pantry (pasta being in apparently short supply the Foodshare). The church also participates in the Episcopal Diocese's "Feeding in the Park" program, in which on the third Saturday every other month, a team of faithful servants shops for and builds 160 bagged lunches, each with two sandwiches, some fresh fruit, cookies, chips and a drink. This ministry is coordinated by our diocesan deacons, and led at Trinity by our own Deacon Pat Jackson. Every once in a while we are able to add in something extra -- last month it was tubes of toothpaste donated by our friends at Glastonbury Dental Associates.
In honor of our recently deceased parishioner Todd White, planning is currently underway for a dinner for homeless persons on Friday evenings, as there is not currently functioning program like this in the Asylum Hill neighborhood. We hope to start up this ministry under the leadership of Todd's widow, Trudi White, in the next month or so.
We are blessed to have so many committed parishioners who carry out these ministries in love and devotion. They indeed are Christ's hands and feet in the community -- may they be richly blessed. If you would like to participate in any of these ministries, please call Pam Haddad at the Trinity Church office and she will put you in touch with one of the leaders of that ministry.
Have a blessed day. Your brother in Christ, Don+
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