Worship With Us at Trinity Church

Sunday, 17 November

The Twenty-Sixth Sunday after Pentecost

10:00 AM

Holy Eucharist Rite II in the Church

and live-streamed via YouTube

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Trinity's Sunday Guest Presider / Preacher

The Rev. Cecil Tengatenga

Trinity's 2024 Giving Tree Arrives - 17 November 

Adult Forum: 2024 General Convention - 17 November

Plimpton House Open House - 17 November

Choir School Newsletter

Join Our Choir! You’re Invited!

Vestry Meeting - 19 November

Advent 2024 at Trinity Church

Open Position at Trinity

Grounds Work Days

Trinity GHIAA News

Trinity Book Group - 22 November

Advent Quiet Day - 7 December

Prayer List Requests

Calendar

News from the Diocese



During this time at Trinity we will be blessed to welcome visiting priests as presiders and preachers for our Sunday services. In order for you to get to know a bit about them before they arrive on Sunday, please take the time to read their biographies.

Please Welcome The Rev. Cecil Tengatenga

Trinity is delighted to welcome The Rev. Tengatenga as Sunday’s presider and preacher.

Rev. Cecil Tengatenga is a trained educator with over a decade of teaching in public schools and running public health program for local and federal government. Rev. Tengatenga is also a health systems scientist whose research and pastoral clinical work focuses on addressing the complex implementation of health programs across multiple systems and providing bioethical consultation on health equity matters. Cecil is a cradle Episcopalian raised in the Anglican Church in Malawi and Zimbabwe. Cecil trained for ministry at Yale Divinity School and was ordained for the priesthood in January 2024. Rev. Tengatenga lives in New Haven with their partner Lindsey, daughters Sekai and Shamiso, and pets.

Trinity's 2024 Giving Tree Arrives 11/17

This Advent, we are continuing Trinity's tradition of a Giving Tree - a tree set up in the Sanctuary with tags that list wishes from Hartford children via the Adopt-A-Social Worker program of Covenant to Care. 

Our tree will be up on Sunday, 11/17, with tags for each of the children. Parishioners who wish to participate may chose a tag on this or a subsequent Sunday, purchase the item and place the gift around the baptismal font by Sunday 12/8, when they will be blessed. We are committed to these children, and it is important that gifts be returned by this date so that they may be distributed. 

With only 3 weeks to shop for and return the gifts, our elves will by busy! Please mark your calendars and plan to join in this festive event.

Questions? Please contact Penny Pearson. 

SAVE THE DATE: NOVEMBER 17,2024

Adult Forum

2024 GENERAL CONVENTION: An Update

The Episcopal Church in the USA held its triennial General Convention this summer in Louisville, Kentucky. One order of business was the election of a new Presiding Bishop. But the election was not the only item on the agenda. Two Trinity members, Marsha Adell and Elizabeth Rousseau, attended the convention as delegates.

Please join us on Sunday, November 17 following the 10 o’clock service to hear what happened at the convention. Marsha and Elizabeth will share their impressions of the events and the people who make things happen in The Episcopal Church.

Plimpton House Open House: November 17

NINA invites you to attend an open house at the Linus B. Plimpton House at

847 Asylum Avenue. You'll have a rare opportunity to wander about a house that was initially constructed in the 1860s and then expanded dramatically by Linus Plimpton in the 1880s. NINA has rehabilitated the house as an owner-occupied three-family home, and it features historic woodwork and stained glass windows, a fully modern kitchen, and the "Billiard Room," which has a stunning fireplace and a vaulted ceiling. The house will be open this morning, November 17, after the 10:00 service and will stay open until 1:00 PM. We hope you’ll come by to visit!

Join Our Choir! You’re Invited!

We know you’ve heard it before, but we want to remind you: Everyone is welcome to join our choir! Whether you’re a seasoned singer or just love to make a joyful noise, there’s a place for you here.

Why Join?

• Share your love of music
• Build friendships within our church community
• Enrich our worship experience together

When: Rehearsals every Thursday, 7:00 -8:30 p.m.

Where: The Choir Room 

Don’t miss out on this wonderful opportunity to connect and contribute! If you have any questions or want to learn more, feel free to reach out to the Director of Music, Markus Centola, email: mcentola@trinityhartford.org.

Vestry Meeting Tuesday,

November 19 at 7:00 PM on Zoom

Vestry meetings are open to any member of the parish. Members of the parish are especially invited to bring concerns and feedback to the Vestry during the “Feedback from Congregation” section of the meeting which begins at about 7:20/7:30. (The first 15-20 minutes of the meeting are a time of reflection and connection).

Members who choose to do so are welcome to come only to the beginning of the meeting to share concerns or are welcome to stay for the entire meeting. Please note that if there are conversations that are confidential in nature, visitors to the meeting will be asked to excuse themselves for that portion and then will be invited back in. If you are interested in attending, please email wardens @ trinityhartford.org for the Zoom link. 

Advent 2024 at Trinity Church

The Flower Guild of Trinity Church invites you to share in preparing our sacred space for the Season of Advent. Advent is a period of four Sundays preceding Christmas, this year beginning on December 1st.

As in the past, we will decorate the windowsills of the nave with manger scenes (also called creches or nativities.) Many such nativities have been donated over the years but there is always room for more. If you would like to give or loan a creche this Advent, please bring it in to church on Sunday in November or December. We especially enjoy nativities reflecting a diversity of traditions and ethnicities, and in various styles of artistry.

Manger scenes will remain on display through the Christmas season and will be removed after Epiphany. 

Through the Advent season our Advent wreath will be lit each Sunday, and greenery and candles will begin to fill our space and our entryways. The church’s large nativity will be placed in the baptistry. After the 10 AM service on Sunday, December 22, there will be a Hanging of the Greens, where volunteers are invited to help change the hangings on the altar and in the nave from Advent blue to Christmas white and red. We’ll arrange poinsettias and other Christmas flowers that day, hang wreathes and garlands, and generally prepare the space for Christmas Eve, when we will celebrate with one service at 7:30 PM. 

Your help in making all these things happen will be much appreciated.

Position Open at Trinity Episcopal

Trinity Episcopal Church is looking to fill an anticipated opening for a Part-time Parish Administrator. Spread the word if you know someone that might be interested in applying for the position. The job requirements and application materials can be found on the ECCT website: https://www.episcopalct.org/open-positions/parish-job-listings/

Grounds Work Days

The fall season is upon us and soon it will be time for the grounds to be prepared for winter. To accomplish this task the grounds team is planning to schedule three work days on Saturday October 26th, Saturday November 23 and Saturday December 14 starting at 9:00 am. There is plenty of work to be done tidying up the parking lot and various beds in the Memorial Garden, The Close and along Sigourney Street before the big oak trees start to drop their leaves towards the end of the year. Please consider lending a hand on one or more of these days so that as much work can be finished this year and the grounds are in good shape for winter. For more information, please contact Peter Green (860-922-1830). Thank you!

Trinity GHIAA News: I’LL BE THERE! WILL YOU?

GHIAA Power Summit: 2025 Campaign Launch

11/21/24         6:30 – 8:30PM

Weaver High School, 415 Granby St., Hartford

• Join Trinity Church delegates gathering with 52 diverse faith institutions throughout Greater Hartford organizing together for justice!

Please speak to Cathy Rowe or Martha Freimuth if you have any questions.

Trinity Book Group

Trinity's Book Group will meet next on Friday, Nov. 22nd, 7:00-8:30 pm, to discuss the book Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teachings of Plants, by Robin Wall Kimmerer. As a botanist, Kimmerer has been trained to ask questions of nature with the tools of science. As a member of the Citizen Potawatomi Nation, she embraces the notion that plants and animals are our oldest teachers. - All are invited to attend this and any Book Group meetings, whether for one time or many. The Nov. 22nd meeting will be at the home of Linda and Mark MacGougan in West Hartford; please let them know if you plan to attend at macgougans@gmail.com. Hope to see you there!

Advent Quiet Day: Saturday, December 7, 2024

The Companions of the Holy Cross invite you to a Quiet Day at St. Albans Church in Simsbury, on December 7, from 10 to 2. Lunch is included. Our Quiet Day will be led by The Rev. John Van Siclen, Chaplain to the Hartford Chapter.

Our vocation statement is: Companions are a community of women, Christ’s disciples, called by God to a life of prayer, transformation, and reconciliation within ourselves, within our Companionship , within our faith communities, and within the whole of creation.

Please contact Kate Smith: Kate48smith@comcast.net

Prayer List

Should you like a name added to the Prayer List, please contact the office at office at Trinityhartford.org or 860-527-8133 ext. 204.

Please note that unless the office is otherwise notified, the name will be on the list for 4 weeks and then removed.

News from the Diocese

Click the link below to read up on what's going on in the Episcopal Church in Connecticut.

ECCT Newsletter - November 6, 2024

eVoice Deadline

All announcements should be submitted to the office at office@trinityhartford.org by Wednesday 9am for publication that week. Announcements that are submitted late will be held until the following week’s edition.