Trinity Episcopal Church

Sundays at 5:00 pm

Trinity Episcopal Church supports the work of Eden House with counseling services, space for ministry, clothing, and spiritual care.

About Eden House:

Eden House is a two-year residential program for women who have been commercially and sexually exploited. Modeled after Magdalene House in Nashville, Tennessee, Eden House provides six to eight women a safe and supportive home for two years.

Through Eden House, women receive wrap-around services such as counseling, education, and job training. Since addiction is often connected with prostitution, a twelve-step program is part of the Eden House model.

The program is expected to be highly successful: two and a half years after beginning the program, 72% of the women who join Nashville’s Magdalene House are clean, sober, and no longer working in prostitution.

Thanks to considerable community support and enthusiasm, Eden House opened its doors to its first residents in fall of 2012. http://edenhousenola.org/

Parishioners of Trinity Episcopal Church help build houses with the New Orleans Area Habitat for Humanity.

About New Orleans Area Habitat for Humanity:

Since its inception, NOAHH has been working in partnership with hard-working, low-income families in New Orleans to build and finance new, safe, affordable homes. The program makes homeownership possible for families who are unable to qualify for traditional home loans but have a stable job, good or no credit, and the willingness to contribute 350 hours of sweat equity to the building of Habitat homes.

New Orleans continues to rebuild housing that was destroyed by the devastating flooding of Hurricane Katrina. NOAHH has become a beacon of hope in this rebuilding process by recruiting and deploying tens of thousands of volunteers to construct new homes in damaged, blighted neighborhoods. With the support of our volunteers, donors, and partners across the country and even the world, NOAHH’s homebuilding capacity has increased annually since 2005. New Orleans is a city with historically low rates of homeownership and high levels of poverty, yet it is a place of resiliency, hope, and cultural vibrancy.

With a spirit of renewal, NOAHH is rising to the challenges presented by a substandard housing stock and is helping many to realize their dream of homeownership.

Parishioners of Trinity Episcopal Church volunteer serving meals at Hope House. Through the annual budget and the Vincent Memorial Fund, Trinity supports Hope House's direct service ministries to the residents of the Irish Channel.

About Hope House:

Hope House mission: To be a gospel people, a visible sign of Christian community; To manifest the human concern of Jesus for all people; To live and work with the poor; To foster dignity and worth in those with whom we live and work; To help create a society in which truth and justice abide. Programs include emergency assistance, family transitional housing, after-school youth programs, GED classes, computer training.

Trinity Episcopal Church participates in Integrity New Orleans by sponsoring awareness and discussion groups for LGBT issues.

About Integrity New Orleans:

Integrity New Orleans is a chapter of Integrity USA. Integrity USA's mission is to inspire and equip the Episcopal Church, its dioceses, congregations, and members to proclaim and embody God’s all-inclusive love for LGBTQ persons and those who love them.  http://www.integrityusa.org/

Trinity Episcopal Church is a member of the Jeremiah Group. School reform, jobs and public safety are the main areas in which Trinity members have been working

About the Jeremiah Group:

The Jeremiah Ministry is an ecumenical, interracial group of twenty-five congregations, including one synagogue, in the metropolitan New Orleans area. Jeremiah is affiliated nationally with the Industrial Areas Foundation.

The goal of the Jeremiah congregations is to create a strong network of citizens committed to working together across racial, class, and denominational lines to bring about community change. Over the past several years, the Jeremiah Ministry has been working to strengthen ties among existing members, recruit new churches, and to develop its agenda for community change. http://www.jeremiahgroup.org/

Parishioners of Trinity Episcopal Church are involved in Kairos Prison Ministry.

About Kairos Prison Ministry:

Kairos is a Christian, volunteer, lay-led, ecumenical, international prison ministry in 31 states and in 8 other countries. We are called by God to visit the prisons and share the love of Christ with those impacted by incarceration. Kairos offers inmates the opportunity to receive God’s forgiveness through faith in Jesus Christ, and to grow in their faith and servanthood in a Christian community on the prison compound. http://kpmifoundation.org/index.php

Prisons we visit:

Louisiana State Penitentiary; Louisiana Correctional Institute for Women; Washington Correctional Institute

Trip destination:

Nicaragua

The Medical Mission started in 1992 when a small group of physicians, dentists, and veterinarians went to Honduras. For the past two decades, the trip has gone to Jinotega, Nicaragua and surrounding small villages. This focus and consistency has allowed for our physicians to establish consistent medical records and relationships with many families. Trinity is currently exploring the possibility of opening a rural medical clinic. The focus is on providing free medical, dental, and pharmacy services as well as immunizations and vet care to livestock and pets. A Trinity priest provides spiritual guidance to the group. The clinic handles about 2,500 - 3,000 patients annually.

Each Fall Trinity Episcopal Church's Direct Service Ministry Committee organizes a school supply drive to support New Orleans schools whose student population lives below the poverty line.

Trinity Counseling and Training Center (TCTC) provides low-cost mental health services to the New Orleans community and training to students of local graduate programs. Counseling Services are offered to individuals, couples, families, and children. Reasonable fees are based on a sliding scale. Fee subsidies are available for those in need. No one is denied care based on inability to pay. Our therapists are trained in trauma and grief counseling. Since its founding in 1986 as a ministry of Trinity Episcopal Church, Trinity Counseling and Training Center’s mission has been to provide high-quality counseling services to its clients through the donated services of mental health professionals. Historically, TCTC has been one of only two mental health facilities in New Orleans that has offered counseling services on a sliding scale basis, thereby making counseling services available to all. Annually, the Center’s staff sees more than 500 clients.

The Trinity Educational Enrichment Program (TEEP) is one of Trinity's longest-running ministries. TEEP students, ages nine to twelve, are chosen based on recommendations from school teachers and principals as well as interviews with their parents. The children are prospective fifth and sixth-grade students from New Orleans school.

Classes are lead daily in Art, Music, Language Arts, and Science & Math. Each morning begins with breakfast and a morning assembly at which songs are sung and the TEEP core values are reviewed- Respect, Responsibility, Reciprocity, Restraint, and Redemption.

Afternoon activities include recreation, games, career awareness, swimming lessons, and field trips. The six-week programs also includes Saturday picnics and end-of-camp picnic at the Solomon Episcopal Conference Center.

In the past three decades, more than 2000 students from predominantly African American schools have attended TEEP. The purpose is to instill a love for learning and to provide a space for personal growth. Classes are led by four core teachers, an art instructor, assistant director, and coach. Many TEEP students come back to volunteer in the program. Alvin Edinburgh has led as director of the camp since its beginning in 1967.  In 1995 TEEP received one of the four Metropolitan Area Committee awards for "What's Working in New Orleans."

Hours of operation:

8:00am -3:00pm - usually in June/July

Contact person:

Alvin Edinburgh (504) 427-5266

Serving Grades: Pre-K - 8th

Trinity is a co-educational, Prekindergarten through Eighth Grade school of 384 students. The campus is located in the Garden District of New Orleans, encompassing four city-blocks in a residential neighborhood offering a pleasant and stimulating learning environment for its students and faculty. For more information: http://edola.episcopalassetmap.org/ch/trinity-episcopal-school

The Trinity’s Loaves and Fishes is a mobile feeding program operating six days a week, taking meals to the homeless, to not-for-profits that work with the poor, as well as to those who are rebuilding their lives and homes in New Orleans and the volunteers helping them to do so. We feed over 2000 people monthly with the truck traveling throughout the New Orleans area. More than 300 volunteers make this mission possible. The Trinity Loaves and Fishes ministry strives to provide a high-quality, healthy meal. It is also intentional about providing choices for the homeless to make their meal. Each person can choose between a peanut butter and jelly sandwich or a ham sandwich with their choice of snack and dessert.

Hours of operation:

9:30am - Noon

Contact person:a

The Rev'd Mitch Smith

The Vincent Memorial Legacy fund was created in 1978 to support not only Trinity's own community outreach programs but to provide grants to organizations making a difference in the broader community. Each year the VML endowment contributes over $300,000 to outreach and community organizations. Funds have supported programs such as afterschool and early learning programs, summer programs for children, neighborhood revitalization programs, and workforce development programs.

Focus of trip:

Building / Housing

Each summer the youth and young adults of Trinity participate in a mission trip to support Episcopal Relief and Development ministries. Past trips have included rebuilding homes in Texas and Alabama after natural disasters.

Following the storms of 2005 Trinity Church began a program for mission in New Orleans. We help residents/organizations and provide them with volunteers from visiting mission groups. Service opportunities include St. Paul's Homecoming Center, Trinity Loaves and Fishes, Kingsley  House, TEEP, and hands-on home restoration and repair projects. Trinity Church provides volunteer housing for visiting groups.“Molly’s House” as we call it has 11 bunk beds split between two dormitories. It will comfortably accommodate 10 men and 12 women. Each dorm room is equipped with a bathroom and two showers. There is also a large state of the art kitchen, dining room, laundry room and several nice porches for lounging. Molly’s House is secure and handicapped accessible! Molly’s House is located at 2123 Coliseum Street in the Lower Garden District. It is located in the heart of Trinity's property. Contact person: Matt Holt (504) 522-0276 mholt@trinitynola.com