Holy Trinity Episcopal Church Oxford
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Holy Trinity Episcopal Church is a welcoming congregation offering spiritual sanctuary to all persons. We recognize each individual as a unique child of God. We commit ourselves to making justice and inclusivity a reality in this congregation and the world.
Holy Trinity is a community of people who see God in every person. This idea is more than a nice platitude. It is about the incarnation of God's son Christ in the human body of Jesus of Nazareth, a man who lived on this planet like all of us. Yet by coming into the physical world, Christ brought the greatest power in the world to us and shared it with us: his redeeming love.
At Holy Trinity we believe that God’s love is present and alive in all of us, if only we would look inside ourselves and inside of those we encounter. We celebrate the coming of Christ into the world every year at Christmas; and we celebrate it every time we consume the bread and wine at communion, that nourishes us spiritually with the life-giving body and blood of Christ.
This is so important to us that we intend to live the message of God’s present love every moment of our lives together. We want to share it with all and to help heal a broken world by reaching out to the community inside and outside the Church. To this end, we have committed ourselves to a broad mission.
OUR MISSION AND VISION
At Holy Trinity Episcopal Church, we worship, learn, and serve
- to celebrate God's blessings and see God in all people,
- to deepen our understanding of a complex and conflicted world
- to strive for mercy and justice, inclusiveness, and peace, in connection with community and campus.
MUSIC AT HOLY TRINITY
Holy Trinity has a long history of excellent music. The current music program enjoys the leadership of Phillip Roberts along with numerous other musicians in the parish. The location of Holy Trinity in Oxford, the home of Miami University of Ohio, gives it access to many professional instrumentalists and vocal performers.
Music is central to our life and mission in weekly services, special services, and occasional public performances. Members of our congregation, choir, and visitors worship, learn, and serve through their involvement in a variety of music styles. Music connects us to God, enhances the written word, unites people, empowers action, and brings joy. We celebrate God’s gift of music through:
- Choral and congregational singing that is supported by both organ and piano
- Performances of solo organ repertoire including prelude, postlude, offertory music
- Performances of vocal and instrumental soloists in collaboration with organ and piano
- Occasional university and community musical performances in our facility
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Ministries
HOLY TRINITY CAMPUS OUTREACH AND MINISTRY
The Holy Trinity Campus Outreach and Ministry supports students in their quest to explore their faith, the church, and their commitment to local and global ministry. Holy Trinity seeks to be a place where students can wrestle with complex questions that arise in a conflicted and difficult world about faith, calling, and service. We seek to help students explore and experience the life and work of the church by participating in beneficial service experiences and by recognizing personal as well as social transformation.
Our Campus Ministry addresses and affirms the whole person: body, mind, and soul. It seeks and affirms radical inclusivity that embraces all socio-economic, ethnic, cultural, racial, and sexual identities. It seeks to build and affirm the church in all its expressions: denominationally, socio-economically, geographically, and theologically.
Through a grant from the Diocese, HTCOM is able to fund four choral scholars in the Chancel Choir as part of a larger student arts program that includes jazz concerts on the Terrace of the Community Wing (in fair weather) and chamber music concerts in the nave in colder weather. Exhibitions of student art are planned for the corridor of the Community Wing.
LAY EUCHARISTIC VISITOR MINISTRY
We regard Holy Trinity Episcopal Church as a community of God's love. As a manisfestation of that love, our Rector has trained a group of volunteer Lay Eucharistic Ministers, who are dispatched at the close of each Sunday's service to visit those parishioners who are ill or home-bound and to take Eucharist with them.
CHILDREN AND YOUTH MINISTRIES
The Children's Word takes place during the 10:30 AM service. Although children are welcome to participate fully in any service at Holy Trinity, we offer the Children's Word to those who are ages 5-12.
Those children who wish to participate are led to the classroom in the Community Wing at the time of the sermon. Trained adults present the Word of God using the Godly Play curriculum to the children in an imaginative way designed to engage and enhance their appreciation of the Bible.
The children re-enter the church just as the members of the congregation exchange the peace and together they share in the Eucharistic feast.
We also offer childcare for infants through toddlers up to four years of age during the 10:30 service. There is no planned curriculum, just lots of fun and free play.
OUTREACH
Outreach is a historical and ongoing commitment at Holy Trinity. Outreach oversees the relief of the material needs of people who are in want, as part of the spiritual mission of all Christians and their church communities. Such needs include food, shelter, and mental and physical health care, identified locally, regionally, nationally, and internationally. Outreach raises and distributes funding; and works to help conceive and implement projects in which parishioners may participate actively through contributions of time, talent, and money.
COMMUNITY DINNERS
On the fourth Wednesday of every month Holy Trinity hosts a dinner for all people in the greater Oxford area to enjoy a home cooked meal and fellowship. We also stock a non-food pantry with personal care and household cleaning supplies that cannot be purchased with SNAP benefits. Holy Trinity parishioners, joined by members of Miami Greek organizations, volunteer to coordinate and host each dinner, including preparing, setting up, bringing sides dishes, helping with the pantry, cleaning up, but also enjoying the dinner with those who have come to break bread together.
SERVE CITY
On the second Tuesday of each month, one or more members of Holy Trinity prepare a meal and take it to Serve City, a homeless shelter in nearby Hamilton, Ohio, and help serve the meal. Volunteers prepare a hot meal, help transport it, and serve it along with desserts dropped off at the church in advance.
OXFORD COMMUNITY CHOICE PANTRY
Non-perishable food and personal and houshold care items may be brought to Holy Trinity on Sunday morning - to be delivered to the Oxford Community Choice Pantry on Monday. Volunteer may also help as shopping assistants, receiptionists, in stocking or delivering food to homebound Oxford Community Choice Pantry clients.
Sacred Ground Race Dialogue Circles
Sacred Ground is dialogue series on race, grounded in faith. Small groups are invited to walk through chapters of America’s history of race, racism, and whiteness while weaving in threads of family story, economic class, and political and regional identity. The 10-part series is built around a powerful online curriculum of documentary films and readings that focus on Indigenous, Black, Latino, and Asian/Pacific American histories as they intersect with European American histories.
Sacred Ground is a resource coming out of Becoming Beloved Community, The Episcopal Church’s long-term commitment to racial healing, reconciliation, and justice in our personal lives, our ministries, and our society. This series is especially designed to help white people talk with other white people, while being open to all racial/ethnic groups. Participants are invited to peel away the layers that have contributed to the challenges and divides of the present day – all while grounded in our call to faith, hope and love.
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25 E Walnut St
Oxford, OH 45056-1892
United States
