church notes
Youth Mission Trip to Baltimore
Trinity’s youth mission team came back from Baltimore with a renewed sense of God’s call and greater energy to serve our own community in positive ways. They stayed at The Center, located in Baltimore’s historic district. The Center pairs mission teams and with local...
Trinity’s Friendship Garden: Growing a Spirit of Giving
It’s that time of year again! Tomatoes, turnips, and potatoes in our Friendship Garden are growing week by week with an abundance of sun and rain. Our Trinity volunteers tend the garden, weed, and in the coming weeks will start delivering fresh produce to Friendship...
Reflections on Room in the Inn
One of the core missions of Trinity is to serve our homeless neighbors and support housing efforts in Charlotte. Partnering with the Urban Ministry Center's Room in the Inn program is one way to bring about positive change. Trinity is committed to being a host site...
Book-a-palooza Success at Nations Ford Elementary
Hundreds of students enjoyed shopping for books during Book-a-palooza at Nations Ford Elementary School in March. Trinity Presbyterian sponsored the book drive through Read Charlotte to help improve childhood literacy. Students chose funny books, adventure books, the...
Growing Together. Welcoming All.
Trinity's mission statement, adopted by session in 2014, seeks to answer some core questions that any church should address: Who is Trinity now, and what are we becoming? What is unique about our community of faith? What words and images best describe our past,...
2019 Elders-Elect
We are very excited about Trinity’s newest class of elders-elect: Eric Banks, Mike Campbell, Eric McGovern, Jeremy Mobley, Henry Pickett and Fran Worthington. This year’s candidates add to our existing Session to provide a nice balance of age, experience, gender and...
Stewardship Recollections
Good morning. I am Kathleen Schneider and it is my privilege to share my thoughts with you about this entity called Trinity. My faith journey began here at Trinity Presbyterian Church on a beautiful Sunday morning in June of 1985. My family and I had just moved to...
Intro and Chapter 1 on The Opportunity Task Force report on Charlotte-Mecklenburg (Warren Henry)
Since this is the first mini-blog, it is so difficult not to try to explain how this task force got started in these crazy times, or to explain all of the work so far and the roadmap presented to address intergenerational poverty in Charlotte, or to explain what our...
Moment For Mission – NationsFord Elementary
Hunger, education, and homelessness. These three areas are the focus of our mission and outreach here at Trinity. Recently you heard Warren Henry and Carol Sugg speak about hunger in Charlotte and our partnership with Friendship Trays and the Friendship Garden...
Trinity’s Singles in Action
Trinity's Singles meet several times each year for fellowship, fun and food. Previously the group met at the home of Lucinda Maples for a Tex-Mex party. Their most recent gathering was the second annual lobster feast, hosted by Hayden McMahon at his home. Figuring out...
Trinity’s Friendship Garden
Good morning. I am Carol Sugg and I’d like to talk a few minutes about Trinity’s Friendship Garden. Trinity has had a garden almost 7 years. Our garden benefits the Friendship Trays organization which is Charlotte’s equivalent to Meals on Wheels. Trinity’s was the...
The Worshipping Journey of Holy Week
This week, Trinity will observe two special services that will be both meaningful and important for us as a congregation to observe. Christian churches tend to celebrate Christmas much more than we do Easter, but Easter is the reason we celebrate the resurrection...