Winter Meditation Group meetings at 6pm will be on Zoom starting this week, in an effort to avoid any weather interference.



Annual Meeting & Reports

The annual meeting of the Trinity Church corporation will be held on Sunday, February 2^nd. There will be one service at 9:00 am followed by the annual meeting and brunch.

Reports

Committee chairs have been notified your reports are due to the parish office by January 16. Parish office email is office@trinitycranston.org. Some are already in, and hopefully, everyone will meet the deadline. If you are having difficulty or have any questions, please speak with me. Thank you all for all your hard work.

Margaret Thomas

Senior Warden



Stewardship Question

During our stewardship campaign the team decided to ask the congregation to share their questions about “how the money we give is used to support the mission of the church here at Trinity, and beyond its walls.”

We got one question – and it was a good one. “Is all our social outreach made possible from donations? Or is some from the budget? For example, homeless bags, food/ grocery cards, all donated?”

While there is a line in the budget for non-operational revenue for Social Outreach it is a pass-through line, a place to record donations before spending for Trinity’s various outreach endeavors. In other words, all of our social outreach depends on donations. Each of us has a passion for some kind of outreach and this allows us to contribute according to that passion. 

One other fund depends solely on congregational donations: the Rector’s Discretionary Fund. This fund is used by the priest-in-charge to help fund basic human needs requests like food, clothing, and shelter. Donations made to the priest-in-charge on behalf of members of the parish for weddings, funerals, and baptisms go into this fund. In the past, the loose offering at the 8 am Sunday service was also deposited into this fund. As of February, in response to the vestry decision to encourage participation by the whole parish, all loose offerings (bills and coins) at both services the first Sunday of every month will be designated to the RDF. This is yet another way we can all work together to help our neighbors in need.