FEEDING NEIGHBORS
TRINITY SUNDAY DINNER
As the weather turns colder, we will continue to serve the 75+ individuals who come to our campus each Sunday to pick up a Sunday dinner. It’s a simple and safe way to volunteer indoors or outside throughout the winter months. Click here to learn more about volunteering on your own or with a group.
Mid-North Food Pantry
The Mid-North Food Pantry’s (MNFP’s) mission is to enhance the health of our mid-north neighborhoods by providing supplemental food and basic necessities for our neighbors in need.
With gratitude and appreciation, MNFP gives a heartfelt thank you to our donors and volunteers. MNFP served more than 30,000 neighbors in 2019. In the spirit of starting a wonderful new year, we graciously ask for your continued support of our neighbors in need. Please consider donating online (by clicking the Donate button below) or mailing a check payable to the Mid-North Food Pantry at 3333 N. Meridian Street, Indianapolis, IN 46208.
Here’s what your donation will do for our neighbors:
- $30.00 provides 48 cans of tuna
- $60.00 provides 72 cans of beef stew or chili with beans
- $100.00 provides a dozen eggs for 100 families
- $250.00 provides 1000 pounds of beans — a month’s supply for the pantry
To Learn more: https://www.midnorthfoodpantry.org
SOCIAL JUSTICE & RACIAL RECONCILIATION GROUP
Martin Luther King, Jr Day
A statement from the Social Justice and Racial Reconciliation Group at Trinity
At Trinity Episcopal Church, we believe in Rev. Dr. King’s vision that racial and social equality enhances the dignity of all and encourages each person to achieve their fullest potential by participating and contributing to all aspects of life.
Since 2017, the Social Justice and Racial Reconciliation Working Group of Trinity has been committed to leading Trinity in active anti-racist work as a congregation. We pledge to continue to work with and learn from Black leaders (and leaders of all races) within our community. As a mostly white parish, we believe it is important to specifically name the ways in which we will continue to commit to anti-racist work in ourselves and our community in the days and months ahead.
In 2020 alone, these are just a few of the ways we committed to this work:
- Hosting events to increase awareness and provide education on infant and maternal mortality and racial bias within our local healthcare systems in collaboration with Raphael Health Center and IU Heath (pre-COVID)
- Hosting online discussions on COVID, race, and inequality and the impact of the pandemic on mental health care
- Becoming a funding partner of Faith in Indiana and actively supporting their Voter Engagement work in Indiana and Georgia through many hours of phone banking and in-person voter engagement at the Mid North Food Pantry and Trinity Sunday DInner
- Attending protests, marches, and press conferences when called upon, especially in collaboration with St. Paul’s Episcopal Church, Faith in Indiana, Showing Up for Racial Justice, and our local chapter of Black Lives Matter
In 2021, we commit to furthering this work with the adoption of a strategic plan that begins with listening and learning from the leaders of social services in our near north neighborhood and continues with discussions with our Vestry, clergy and fellow leaders as to what next steps Trinity can take to become more anti-racist in all aspects of our ministries.
We pledge, during these tense days in our country’s history, to continue to work toward “a substantive and positive peace, in which all people will respect the dignity and worth of human personality.” (Dr. King, 1963, “Letter From a Birmingham Jail.”).
Join Us in Our Work!
If you would like to join Trinity’s Social Justice and Racial Reconciliation Working Group, learn more about our events, or invite us to learn from your leadership or organization, please contact Chairman, Bill Coleman (link to his email [email protected])
Justice
To learn more about Trinity’s ongoing work of becoming an anti-racist church and working for racial justice within our communities, read this “Note from the Rector” on June 5, 2020.
Sign up for Trinity’s Social Justice and Racial Reconciliation Working Group’s email newsletter to get information on regular events hosted or supported by Trinity. Learn more about past justice events and resources from the group here.
Outreach
Every week the Trinity Outreach Center right here on the Trinity campus serves families in our community through Sunday Dinner, the Mid North Food Pantry, St. Nicholas Early Learning Center, and the Neighborhood Christian Legal Clinic. This fall you can connect with someone to sign up to distribute meals with Sunday Dinner and learn more about volunteering with a new expungement program at the Legal Clinic. We would love to have you join us as we serve our neighbors!
Mask Making Ministry
We’re thankful for the team of sewers here at Trinity who have already made over 200 masks for children and adults this summer. Sunday Dinner volunteers are distributing them to our neighbors in need every Sunday. Additional masks have gone to the children and staff of St. Nicholas Early Learning and other outreach partners. As fall and winter approach we want to keep sewing! Join the mask making ministry here at Trinity and put your skills to use. We can help supply you with fabric and other supplies if needed. Email ministry organizer, Cindy Strietelmeier, at [email protected]
OUTREACH MINISTRY PARTNERS
We actively collaborate with city and neighborhood organizations with ever-expanding outreach and justice advocacy ministries.
We sustain our vital partnerships while creating new initiatives that respond to critical social needs.
Horizons at St. Richard’s Episcopal School (SRES)
Horizons at SRES offers a five-week educational summer enrichment program serving low-income public school students with a broad range of academic abilities.
Mid-North Food Pantry (MNFP)
Housed in the Trinity Outreach Center, the Mid-North Food Pantry is a charitable, non-profit agency supported by several mid-north churches, which pledge monetary support and collect food to stock its shelves. Contact: Erin Vincent – [email protected]
Neighborhood Christian Legal Clinic
Housed in the Trinity Outreach Center, Neighborhood Christian Legal Clinic is a faith-based, non-profit corporation promoting justice through legal representation and legal education for our low-income neighbors as a way of demonstrating Christ’s love.
Contact:
Project Home Indy
Project Home Indy (PHI) is a comprehensive residential support program for pregnant and parenting teens – young women who with their children would otherwise be trapped in a cycle of poverty.
St. Nicholas Early Learning, Inc.
Housed in the Trinity Outreach Center, St Nicholas is a high-quality, affordable, and inclusive program for infants, toddlers, and three year old children in the Mid-North neighborhoods of Indianapolis. St. Nicholas was started by Trinity parishioners and became a 501c3 in June 2016. Contact: Dr. David Sandrick, Executive Director – [email protected]
Second Helpings
Second Helpings, Inc. accepts donated perishable and overstocked food to prepare nutritious meals for thousands of hungry children and adults every day, and distributes them free of charge through local social service agencies in Greater Indianapolis.
Trinity Haven
Trinity Haven will be Indiana’s first residential facility to focus on the needs of LGBTQ young people who are at risk for homelessness. Inspired and started by a dedicated team of Trinity parishioners, Trinity Haven is now an independent 501(C)3 organization.
Trinity has provided a combination of a gift and loan to purchase the Trinity Haven property.
Contact: Jenni White, Executive Director – [email protected]