Jazz Missa Brevis at Trinity - 28 May

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Cystic Fibrosis Walk on May 20, 2023  

Hello all! Kate and Drew Smith’s Cystic Fibrosis walk will be held at a new location: the Riverfront Park, Glastonbury, on Saturday, May 20th, 10 am.

Our granddaughter Sarah was born 13 years ago with Cystic Fibrosis and is doing quite well. She has started taking the new drug Trikafta and has grown several inches. She is now taller than her mother!

Team Strolling for Sarah does its annual walk, about 3 miles or one hour, to support the Great Strides program which raises research dollars for this genetic lung and digestion disease. The new drug Trikafta treats some of the causes for her illness and not just the symptoms.

If you cannot walk we hope you will support us at our website or mail us at :

106 Vista Way Bloomfield, CT 06002.

Visit our website : http://bndfr.com/2bsbd for more information. Any questions? My email is: Kate48smith@comcast.net  or call 860-519-1591.

Thanks so much, Kate and Drew Smith

Challenging and sometimes disastrous weather events all across the country have been dominating the news. Many people think that these events are at least partly the result of global warming. To make matters worse, the people most seriously affected by damage to our environment are those who live in the poorest communities, where residents have the fewest resources to mitigate the effects. Locally, some Hartford residents have suffered flooded basements several times in the past year, while the closed trash recycling plant in the South End is now sitting on land that is dangerously polluted and therefore unable to be used.

It is easy to feel overwhelmed and hopeless about our environmental troubles.

This Sunday, May 21, we will welcome Letitia Colon de Mejias, an expert on the environment, and on environmental justice. She is the founder and president of Green Eco Warriors, a program of youth education on environmental conservation. She is also the CEO of Energy Efficiencies Solutions, and serves on both local and national task forces on environmental concerns. Letitia Colon de Mejias is a powerful speaker, and she comes with information on the scope of the problems we face and, more importantly, ideas about how we can address the issues.

Please plan to join us in the Library following the 10 a.m. Eucharist.

On Sunday, May 21, Trinity's choirs will be singing the Jazz Missa Brevis at

Emanuel Lutheran Church and will be back on Sunday, May 28 to sing the Missa Brevis at Trinity.

The Annual Meeting of the Parish of Trinity Church will take place on Trinity Sunday, June 4, both in-person AND via Zoom, right after that day’s 10:00 a.m. worship service (the only service on the 4^th). The business to be transacted at this year’s meeting will include the election of Vestry officers, at-large Vestry members, a delegate and an alternate delegate to Convention, and the 2023-2024 Nominating Committee. Members in good standing 16 years of age or older may vote. 

Hellen Strassner, a former member of our parish, departed from this life on Tuesday, May 9, 2023.

We extend sympathy to the Strassner family and pray for the repose of Hellen's soul, now in the nearer presence of our Lord.

A memorial service for Hellen will be held at Trinity at a future time to be determined.

Interment will follow in the church's Memorial Garden.

If you or a loved one is graduating high school, college or graduate school in either May or June, please contact the office by June 1, so you can be recognized on Youth Sunday, June 11, 2023! Provide your full name, the name of your school and the degree you will be receiving.

Rev. D and Kristen have recently bought a house in West Hartford and they took a few minutes to update their contact information in the Church’s Realm Database. Even if you haven’t moved and your phone number hasn’t changed for thirty years, please take a moment to ensure that the Church has your correct information by filling out the database update form. The yellow sheets are for adult information and the green sheets are for information about dependent children and are found at either entrance to the church. If you are new to Trinity and would like to be added to the Database, please also fill out a form. Even if you do not wish to sign up to use Realm, please fill out the form and opt-in to be included in the directory. Printed directories are no longer available and so Realm is the best way to be able to stay in touch with each other! Forms can be returned to a box labeled “Return Realm Forms” found on the nametag table in Goodwin Hall.

The Daughters of the King are hosting their annual Quiet Day

on Saturday, June 3, 2023 from 8:30 a.m. to 2 p.m.

The theme of the event is "Come to the Table".  Please join us for a spirit-filled day of worship, prayer, reflections and Holy Eucharist. 

Registration will be $15.00/person. Hot beverages and lunch will be provided.

For more information, please contact Nora Brown at 860-836-2730 or

Jennie Dixon at 860-655-8429.

Trinity's refugee resettlement team is looking for the following used but serviceable items for the Dadwall family:

If you have any of these items to donate, please contact Drew Smith at ktadsmith@comcast.net or 860-519-1591. Thank you very much for whatever you can contribute.

Anne Rapkin,

for the Refugee Resettlement Team

Trinity's book group closes out the program year on Friday, June 9th, with a discussion of A Wrinkle in Time by Madeline L'Engle. All are welcome to attend and enjoy refreshments and conversation about this classic, imaginative novel. Jack and Penny Pearson will host the meeting, which goes from 7:00 to 9:00 pm. (pennypearson@comcast.net)

Should you like a name added to the Prayer List, please contact Barbara in 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.

As we pray for Jacqui, we also ask that you prayerfully consider being screened as a potential kidney donor. For more information about living organ donation and to sign up to be screened, please visit nkr.org/SBB483. Please encourage your friends and family to consider donor screening.

To hear Jacqui talk about her illness and need for a transplant, watch this clip that has aired on local news.

Find upcoming events HERE .

All announcements should be submitted to Barbara Roos 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.