Trinity Outreach Ministries
Trinity’s Outreach Ministries are pathways for parishioners to translate hearts of worship into hands of service by building relationships with our neighbors in need and by partnering with them to create a healthy, just, peaceful and sustainable neighborhood and world.
The Outreach Commission, which meets monthly, oversees all Outreach activities. Our current mission priorities are food security, housing, and neighborhood companionship in Northwest Portland and community development in Honduras. Contacts: Charyl Cathey or Priscilla Cowell, Outreach Commission Co-chairs. Other Outreach Commission Members include: Preston Holt (Northwest Portland Ministries), Fred Jeibmann (Food Pantry), Marilynn Gordon (Honduran Scholarships), Chris Hardman (Thanksgiving Dinner, Honduran Mission Trip), Mark Reber (SeniorConnect), Ginny Utti (Transition Projects Dinners), Katherine Novy (Trinity Inspirational Endowment), Dottie Thompson (Trinity Place Adult Day Care), Nick Corbin (Advocacy), Lisa Shaw and Greg Harris
Coming Up
Sunday, August 27, after the 10 am service, Trinity. Senior Connect Food Box Deliveries. Contact Mark Reber for more information.
Monday, September 6 - Ice Cream Social at Williams Plaza, Contact Preston Holt
Monday, September 6 - NO TPI DINNER PREP TODAY!!!
Sunday, September 12 - See the Possibilities, Embrace the Opportunities in Outreach at The Commons after the 8 and 10 AM services in Kempton Hall
Tuesday, September 14 - Outreach Commission Meeting at 7 PM in Morrison Room
Saturday, September 18 - Downtown Compassion Clinic at Memorial Coliseum from 9 AM to 3 PM
Saturday, September 18 - Neil Young Harvest Eucharist to benefit Food Ministries at Trinity, 6 PM
Thursday, September 23 - Transition Projects Dinner Prep and Serving, 5 PM, Trinity Kitchen, Contact Buzz Braley
Sunday, September 26 - SeniorConnect Food Box delivery after 10 AM service in Kempton Hall, Contact Mark Reber
Monday October 4 - Transition Projects Dinner Prep and Serving, 5 PM, Trinity Kitchen, Contact Ginny Utti
Tuesday, October 12 - Outreach Commission Meeting, 7 PM, Morrison Room
Thursday, October 23 - Transition Projects Dinner Prep and Serving, 5 PM, Trinity Kitchen, Contact Buzz Braley
Sunday, October 31 - Halloween Party at Williams Plaza, Contact Preston Holt
Trinity Place Adult Day Care meets each Wednesday and Friday from noon to 4 p.m. in the Morrison Room. Contact Dottie Thompson
Food Pantry open Monday through Friday from 11 AM – 1 PM, Saturday from 10 AM to Noon
Hot lunch served each Wednesday from 11 AM to 1 PM
What's New...
Volunteers Needed for Downtown Compassion Clinic
Saturday, September 18, 9 a.m. to 3 p.m., Memorial Coliseum
The Downtown Compassion clinic relies on the generosity of volunteers and have volunteer opportunities for the following: Medical-Medical Doctors (need 5 more), NP or RN (need 25 more), and EMT’s (need 5 more). Dental-Dentists (need 5 more), Dental Assistants and Hygenists. To volunteer, please go to www.downtowncompassion.org.
Trinity Parishioners Replace Preston Holt on Trinity Partner Boards
Preston Holt has recently retired from the Board of Northwest Portland Pilot Project after serving for 18 years. He is being replaced by Joe Ceniceros, a retired Multnomah County Circuit Court judge. Preston has also retired from the board of Northwest Portland Ministries, on which he served for 25 years. His replacement is Fred Jeibmann, who is coordinator of the Trinity Pantry and has extensive experience with the NWPM food ministries.
Trinity is very grateful to Preston for his combined 43 years of service on these boards. Trinity has worked closely with both organizations on providing housing assistance through NWPP and the SeniorConnect program, and providing transportation, food assistance, and other services through NWPM. Our neighbors in NW Portland and surrounding areas have benefited greatly from the work of Preston Holt and other Trinity volunteers and board members.
Transition Projects Dinners Increased in Summer Months
The Transition Project Dinners Ministry prepares dinner in the Trinity kitchen the first Monday and fourth Thursday evenings of each month for men in transition housing who are leaving the street and for women in a transition shelter who are leaving the street or abusive relationships. The cooks also serve the dinner at the men’s shelter and receive a round of applause from the appreciative diners. Ginny Utti and Buzz Braley have lead this ministry for many years and have had the help of many volunteers from Trinity and other groups. This summer, because of increased need, Ginny Utti secured funding from local merchants to provide four extra Transition Projects dinners. This long-time partnership will continue when Transition Projects moves into its new building on NW Broadway. To volunteer contact Ginny Utti or Buzz Braley
Summer Parties for Residents of Williams Plaza High-Rise
The Outreach Adopt-a-High-Rise Ministry helped with two parties for residents this summer. In June the residents organized a dinner party with the food supplied by the Preston Holt and the Trinity ministry. Preston and 6 Trinity volunteers hosted 60 residents of Williams Plaza at a 4th of July barbeque. To volunteer to help with future parties contact Preston Holt.
How Are Trinity Outreach Ministries Supported?
Have you wondered how contributions to Trinity Outreach are used? You may know that contributions of food or money to the Pantry provide a bag of groceries to people at our cathedral door 6 days a week as well as the home-cooked community hot lunches on Wednesdays for up to 240 guests.
What about contributions to General Outreach? These help provide the funds to cook and serve dinner twice a month to about 130 men and women who are in transition from life on the street or from abusive relationships, and food for 6 holiday dinners a year at Williams Plaza, our adopted high-rise for physically and mentally disabled neighbors. General Outreach contributions also contribute to our large Thanksgiving and Easter community dinners and make up a substantial contribution to the Northwest Portland Ministries Food Bank, which provides free shopping for food insecure people in northwest Portland.
Oregon may be the hungriest state in the nation. All of the contributions to Pantry and to General Outreach currently go into feeding programs. Our other Outreach Ministries: SeniorConnect (which provides housing assistance, food boxes, and free prescription eyeglasses to seniors), Honduras mission trip and high school scholarships, Trinity Place Adult Day Care, weekend food Backpacks for Kids, and Sisters of the Road Tickets are supported by endowment or separate fund-raising. In 2010 the Outreach budget received $6,585 of our total budget of $59,870 from Cathedral Operating Funds.
POWERFUL TOOLS FOR CAREGIVERS CLASS
Beginning Wednesday evening, September 23, Trinity will offer a 6-week class on Powerful Tools for Caregivers, an award-winning program developed by Legacy Caregiver Services, part of Legacy Health, a Portland non-profit healthcare organization. The class will be held at Trinity from 7- 8:30 p.m.
Research studies find high rates of depression and anxiety among caregivers and increased vulnerability to health problems. Caregivers often feel they have restricted personal and social activities and have no control over events. This feeling of powerlessness can have a significant negative impact on caregivers' physical and emotional health.
In the six weekly classes, caregivers will develop a wealth of self-care tools to: reduce personal stress; change negative self-talk; communicate their needs to family members and healthcare/service providers; communicate more effectively in challenging situations; recognize the messages in their emotions; deal with difficult feelings; and make tough decisions regarding placement, driving issues, and finances.
For more information about the class, contact Priscilla Cowell.
MEN'S AA WEEKLY GROUP MEETING
5:30 p.m. to 6:30 p.m.
Mackenzie library/sitting room at William Temple House (2023 NW Hoyt St., Portland)
Our hope is to make AA more accessible by offering a "beginners" group for folks who want to explore what AA is about. Anyone and everyone is welcome. While we want our Counseling and Social Services clients to know about this AA meeting and to feel welcome to attend, the meeting is open to anyone who can get to the meeting.
The group is "seeded" by a half dozen "old hands" at AA who will start this group as a service project.
As you probably know, there is no charge/fee for AA meetings, although there will be a container to collect voluntary contributions of $1.00 for basic materials and supplies.
Since its founding in 1935, AA has helped millions of people work the Twelve Steps and live clean and sober lives.
Please note that AA meetings are run in accordance with the AA fellowship in keeping with the Twelve Traditions.
PLANT A ROW FOR THE FOOD PANTRY!
If you have a garden, please help by planting extra this season and by donating your harvest to Trinity's Food Pantry. Every Wednesday, the pantry serves lunch, and we'd like to offer more fresh fruits and vegetables. The produce will benefit guests' health and will help reduce pantry costs. We will gladly accept all fruits and vegetables. If you have questions, contact Heidi Rose at 503-281-7599.
TRINITY APRONS: Show your Trinity Spirit and Support our Food Ministries! Beautiful “Trinity Red” aprons with the Trinity logo only or with the logo and Food Ministries are available now for $25. All proceeds support the food pantry ministries. Contact Outreach@trinity-episcopal.org
Coming Up
Advocacy Action
We offer here simple actions we can take which help us to live out our Baptismal Covenant.
Continuing our theme of reducing hunger, we suggest that you join with Bread for the World in their 2010 Offering of Letters. Sample letters – and other resources – can be found at www.bread.org/OL2010. Please look at the Outreach bulletin board for more information.
Links
Pathways to Service
Follow this link to see all the ways you can serve.
Pathways to Giving
Follow this link to discover ways to support the Outreach program.