Trinity Episcopal Church
651 Pequot Avenue
Southport, CT 06890
(203) 255-0454

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We hope you enjoy our website and find it a great resource! Please let us know if there is other information you would like to find on the site. On this page there will be current information about Trinity that is not covered on the Events page. Come back often. Please check the Volunteer Opportunities page for new ways to help out at Trinity and in the community. 


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On Sunday, August 5 we welcomed Iain Quinn as our new Director of Music. Iain arrived August 1 and is looking forward to meeting all of the Trinity parishioners. Please introduce yourself to him!! For an audition for our choirs, please call him through the church office or email Iain at This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it .

 

 

 

 

 

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Want to know how our staff spends the summer days? Refurbishing the office corridor! With donated paint and a lot of elbow grease, the corridor is all spruced up for the start of the new church year! Come visit and be sure to tell them how much we appreciate their efforts! 

 

 

 

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photos by Rev. Dawn Stegelmann


Haitian Educational Initiatives has a whole new Look! Haitian Educational Initiatives, Inc. (HEI) is a non-profit organization committed to supporting Haitian-led initiatives that enable Haitian children to attend public or private school by providing funds for school fees, uniforms, learning materials and related necessities, as well as academic support through enrichment and after-school homework tutoring. Support also involves a weekly feeding and the distribution of food kits for children’s families during periods of drought or flooding in addition to job training. For more information and to see their new web site, go here!

 

Kids4Peace in Brattleboro, Vt has completed a very succesful second season and the participants have returned to their homes. 

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Trinity just won a $10,000 grant from the Connecticut Trust for Historic Preservation. Hurray for our architectural marvel & American Masterpiece -- our beautiful wooden church is one of the most important surviving examples of the Carpenter Gothic style in the nation.


TRINITY BOOK GROUP 2011-2012 First Wednesday each month, 6 to 8 PM in the Parish Library—Come at 6 PM with a brown bag dinner  - book discussion begins promptly at 6:30 PM. The group will reconvene in September, so watch for the syllabus that will be posted here. 


Ministry of Twelve: The September Captain is Jean Whitney, 203-259-6389 or This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it

 

Trinity Handymen: a group of men and women to assist Church members who are less able physically or financially to address home maintenance needs and to help with small Church building and grounds projects. Call the Handymen Hotline at 203-494-3954 and leave a message and your phone number.

 

Be a Trinity Office Volunteer! Schedules are always shifting and we will always  welcome new members to our Volunteer crew. Please Email: This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it or speak to Chair of Volunteers: Dana Silzer (203-371-7035) if you’d like an easy way to feel needed, loved, useful and appreciated, and are able to give even a few hours.

 

For gifts, books, and all things Episcopalian, go to the National Cathedral Online Store on our Links of Interest page.

 

Mercy Learning Center need tutors in English as a Second Language and Math. This is a wonderfully run organization and a very rewarding volunteer opportunity. Their motto is Educate a Woman, Educate a Family. Go here to learn more about Mercy Learning. To volunteer, Call Diane Holmes at 203-334-6699.


Please remember to bring donations for St. Luke's Food Pantry and leave them in the grocery cart in the stairwell by the red doors. We also still and always need toiletries, paper goods, and diapers in the baskets in the narthex for the Center for Women and Families.  

 

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