Serving Globally
“For God so loved the world…” - John 3:16
- American Friends of the Episcopal Diocese of Jerusalem (AFEDJ)
- Kateri Medical Services
- Refugee Resettlement
- Five Talents
American Friends of the Episcopal Diocese of Jerusalem (AFEDJ)
Trinity Church has been supporting the work of AFEDJ (The American Friends of the Episcopal Diocese of Jerusalem) for the past 15 years. We have given both personal and parish donations at Christmas and Easter to schools, hospitals and day camps at the Diocese’s request.
Most recently, for the past 8 years, we have supported the Ahli Hospital in Gaza. However, with the conflict between Hamas and the State of Israel, the parish donations have gone to the area of greatest need. AFEDJ’s work in the Palestinian territories has always been to promote peace and to recognize the skills and needs of all ethnic groups.
Contact: Kate Smith (kate48smith@comcast.net)
Kateri Medical Services
Trinity has supported the vital ministry of the Kateri Medical Services, a ministry founded by a priest in our Diocese, which provides non-sectarian, essential medical services to rural communities in the Anglican diocese of Kaduna, Nigeria. Everyone is invited to participate in missions to Kateri, whether by accompanying the medical staff and other volunteers or sponsoring an individual who wishes to do so. Our Outreach ministry has provided a scholarship for this, and an annual grant in support of new clinics. A group of volunteers completed a Trinity Church Cookbook in 2019, with recipes representing the many regional and national backgrounds of the church's parishioners. All proceeds from the sale of the cookbook and contributions go to Kateri Medical Services.
Refugee Resettlement
Trinity Church's Refugee Resettlement Committee, with our partners in several other faith communities, works to resettle refugee families in the Hartford area. We have worked side-by-side with Integrated Refugee & Immigrant Services (IRIS) here in Connecticut. IRIS helps newcomers with services and support critical to their transition to self-sufficiency and to making local communities across this country their home. In addition, the local sponsors of these families organize and provide support with the many day-to-day settlement activities, including school enrollment, medical care, jobs and and transportation. In the past few years we have worked with one family from Syria and two from Afghanistan. Plans have been
underway to sponsor additional members of our Syrian family.
We welcome everyone who is interested to join the Committee in these life-saving, and extremely rewarding, efforts.
Five Talents
Trinity's relationship with Five Talents, the microenterprise program of the Anglican Communion, is led by a parishioner who has been directly involved with the organization since it started in 2000. It was founded out of the 1998 Lambeth Conference and works through the staff of the local Anglican Church, currently in eight countries. Through its program, members, mostly women, learn to read, write, do basic math, save money and start small businesses. Where needed, the programs can offer additional literacy and agriculture training plus trauma healing and peace building. The savings groups that are formed lend what they save to each other. These groups have multiplied so much that they have provided over a half million dollars in loans to develop members’ small businesses which provide jobs and opportunities impacting over 1 million people worldwide.
Trinity Outreach has supported its work in Bolivia, Rwanda and South Sudan and has sponsored requests for significant donations from our diocese’s Sustainable Development Grant fund.
Contact: Everett Post (eeverettp@gmail.com)