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New leaves sprouting on a branch, with a sun-lit and out-of-focus Trinity Church in the background
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Five Ways Into Sunday’s Scripture: Seeing and Believing

April 6, 2023 | By Faith Formation and Education

Where will our corporate and personal observances and meditations this Holy Week take us? Will our journey continue, and will we arrive at new life with Jesus next Sunday, and then continue further?

Trinity parishioners and families walk on pilgrimage on Palm Sunday.
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Trinity Tweens Lead Palm Sunday Pilgrimage

April 4, 2023 | By Lisa Jaycox

Palm Sunday is a collision of emotions as “Hosannas” give way to “Crucify Him,” with the journey between those two extremes being the subject of many a sermon and Bible study lesson. This past Sunday, tween parishioners led us on this journey, with theatrical storytelling across seven stations, a “pilgrimage” from the church to the churchyard to Trinity Commons, and back again, bringing scenes from the Passion story to life for family and friends.

9am Holy Eucharist in Trinity Church
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3 Ways Into Sunday’s Stories for Children: Holy Week with Kids

April 1, 2023 | By Faith Formation & Education

With young children, rather than dwelling on physical suffering, death, belief, and miracles in a general way, the story of Mary, Martha, and Jesus, and their shared love for Lazarus, allows us to talk about love and loss, and “unbinding” all the things that keep us from loving as deeply and openly as these four friends.

A beam of sunlight shines through a window in the bell tower of Trinity Church Wall Street
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Holding still makes resting in God possible

March 31, 2023 | By Faith Formation and Education

Only now, in my sixth decade, do I realize that acceptance of reality as it is and acceptance of myself as I am — without resistance or critique or commentary or kvetching or ruminating — is actually a matter of choice! It’s a matter of training the mind and heart with intentionality, with acceptance, with equanimity, and with trust in God’s design.

A close-up photo of wood carved into swirls in Trinity Church
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Five Ways Into Sunday’s Scripture: The Journey of Holy Week

March 30, 2023 | By Faith Formation and Education

Where will our corporate and personal observances and meditations this Holy Week take us? Will our journey continue, and will we arrive at new life with Jesus next Sunday, and then continue further?

A child and caregiver sitting in a pew during the 9am service at Trinity Church
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3 Ways Into Sunday’s Stories for Children: Love and Loss

March 25, 2023 | By Faith Formation & Education

With young children, rather than dwelling on physical suffering, death, belief, and miracles in a general way, the story of Mary, Martha, and Jesus, and their shared love for Lazarus, allows us to talk about love and loss, and “unbinding” all the things that keep us from loving as deeply and openly as these four friends.

Stained glass with gold swirls and blue plant tendrils
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Five Ways Into Sunday’s Scripture: The Breath of God

March 23, 2023 | By Faith Formation and Education

As Christians, we affirm that death has no sting — for God is a God of life eternal. We can trust that all things, even time itself, are in God’s hands. Such an affirmation should fill us with hope in whatever valley we are facing. When we are asked in this coming Easter season, “Can these bones live?” we can answer with a resounding “Yes!”

Wayne Edwards works with children at the Blessing of the Animals, 2022
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Meet the Ministry: Wayne Edwards, Program Associate, Children & Families

March 21, 2023

Every Sunday, Trinity’s Children & Families team provides care and peer-grouped Children’s Time classes for up to 45 children, from infants and toddlers to preschoolers through 5th Graders. Working both in the nursery and classrooms and behind the scenes is Wayne Edwards (he/him), who has been assisting the Children & Families team since 2018 and joined as a full-time Program Associate in June 2020.

A Black mother wearing glasses and her hair in a black bob smiles with her two children. One child smiles and leans over with his sippy cup in hand, while the other sits in her lap with a serious expression and points to the left.
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Grantee Cohort Spotlight: Women Transitioning from Rikers

March 21, 2023

Since 2020, Trinity Church Wall Street has funded a cohort of organizations working to support women transitioning from Rikers Island. This cohort was developed to prioritize the historically unmet needs of justice-involved women in response to the New York City Council’s vote to close Rikers Island in late 2019.