2021 Annual Report

Rejoice Always Trinity Episcopal Church Annual Meeting Febr u ar y 6 , 2022

Trinity Annual Report for the Year 2021

Annual Meeting Agenda Gather for the Annual Meeting at 10:00AM IN CHURCH AND ON ZOOM (Livestream available on Trinity’s website) Welcome

Elect Diocesan convention: six delegates

• In-Person Welcome

Delegates: six nominees for six positions

• Zoom Welcome

• Nominees for the 2022 Diocesan lay delegates

Call to Order

• Cathy Bridge • John Bridge

Appointment of Parish Clerk

• Jeff Brinkmann

Approval of Minutes from the 2020 Annual Meeting

• Bill Coleman • Todd Relue

• Hard copy in packet for in-person; PDF’s available for livestream; a PDF link is provided in Zoom Chat

• Justice Vaughn

Elections

• Call for nominations from the floor • In-Person voting via ballots

• Appointment of Teller

• Zoom voting via poll

Elect Vestry Members, Class of 2025 Vestry: five members for three-year terms; five positions • Introduction of vestry nominees

Senior Warden’s Report Select Ministry Reports • Kate Howe & Father Adam - Trinity Service Corps

• Kelly Bentley

• Bill Coleman - Social Justice & Racial Reconciliation Working Group

• Linda Cuticchia • Hugh Resnick • Justice Vaughn

Rector’s Address

• Bob Wood

Financial Report: 2021 & 2022 Budgets

• Introduction of current vestry members • Carol DeCoursey • Shelly Furuness (Jr. Warden) • Kären Haley • Todd Relue (Sr. Warden)

Appreciation of Wardens and Outgoing Vestry Election Report Introduction and Appreciation of Staff

• Nathaniel Samba

Stewardship Report & Appreciation Video

• Lisa Adler (Clerk) • Lillian Cardwell

Hymn – Hymn 100, Praise God From Whom All Blessings Flow

• Kate Howe

Blessing & Adjournment

• Andy McConnell • Erin Vincent • Call for nominations from the floor • In-Person voting via ballots • Zoom voting via poll

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Trinity Annual Report for the Year 2021 TABLE OF CONTENTS Rector’s Address 3 Minutes of the Parish Annual Meeting for year 2021

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Senior Warden’s Report 9 Regathering Task-Force 9 Worship at Trinity 10 Baptisms & Pastoral Rites 12 Music at Trinity 12 Adult Learning & Formation 13 Families & Children 16 Youth Ministry 18 Parish Life 19 Outreach Ministries 21 Select Outreach Ministry Partners

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Pastoral Care 29 Trinity Guilds 31 St. Richard’s Episcopal School Head of School’s Report

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Chaplain’s Report 34 Who’s Who at Trinity Church

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Who’s Who at St. Richard’s Episcopal School

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Rector’s Address: the State of the Parish The Rev’d Julia E. Whitworth, Rector

Rejoice always. Pray without ceasing. Give Thanks in all circumstances.

To the Regathering Taskforce, this year comprised of David Crabb, Erik Hembre, Bob Marchesani, Jen Phelps, and Todd Relue, for their clarity and steadiness in advising me on each decision we made regarding safety measures and, especially, in-person worship. Thank you for helping me walk the line between courage and folly towards our consistent goal to create the most inclusive, most beautiful conditions for Trinity to worship in community.

When we selected our stewardship theme this year, I confess that I was looking simply for something upbeat. Something inspiring. Something that prompts us, no matter the hardship of our pandemic times, always to be grateful. As I have reviewed our last year together in light of these words, however, I’m now struck by the theme of steadfastness in Paul’s words from First Thessalonians. “Always”.. “without ceasing”... “in all circumstances”— these phrases remind me both of the constancy and steadfastness of God AND the resilience and faithfulness of you, Trinity Episcopal Church.

And I am so very grateful, indeed.

To the clergy and program team—Father Ben and Mother Erin in the first half of the year, Father Ben, Mother Megan and Father Adam in the second half, plus Michael Messina and Missy Roetter. Your imagination, collaboration, and willingness to work hard, even when demoralized, to try new ideas, and to jump into new situations and job responsibilities made this year bearable and even beautiful.

PATIENCE, PERSEVERANCE, and PIVOT I hope that you will review the pages of this year’s annual report with great care. In them you will find a multi-layered snapshot of a year marked by persistent hope and frequent discouragement, sometimes in equal measure. The year’s ever changing pandemic landscape required a fair amount of waiting for conditions to change, pushing forward with fortitude in the face of unknowns, and quick changes of direction when needed. Patience, perseverance, and pivot became some of our buzzwords for 2021.

To the ever-patient choir, who waited and waited to be allowed to sing together in this space. They rehearsed across the street in a parking garage to prepare their work. And to the Choristers who waited even longer to sing in church – rehearsing, masked and outside, for a year and a half without the gratification of singing in the church in coveted red robes.

You’ll be glad to know that I will not track through every twist and turn of 2021 in this address. It would be almost as exhausting to relive it as it was the first time around. Some broad strokes, however: We started entirely with pre-recorded videos for worship in 2021. During Lent, we tried Zoom, to bring people into the same time, if not space, and layered in small services in the Church on Wednesday afternoons and Sundays at 8:00 a.m. Holy Week found us using every space and every available technology to create imaginative options for each service while we awaited the final installation of our amazing livestream system here in the church. Who could forget walking into this beautiful space at the Vigil after sitting by the fire outdoors to tell our sacred stories. We celebrated a JOYOUS Easter under the BIG tent in the parking lot. Pentecost on the scorching soccer field and the windy playground. Our Garden service returned and flourished from May through October. And finally, finally, we were able to gather in the church in the summer, although always masked, and not always engaging in singing.

We also celebrated an amazing organ revoicing in September!

Since then our allowed numbers have gone up and down, throughout each surge, but I’m pleased to say that we have not had to cancel any services since reopening last winter.

And I’m pleased to say that I do not intend to close these doors ever again.

There are so many people to thank for their patience, perseverance and pivoting in the last year. It’s always dangerous to call out just a few. But in a year like 2021, I must.

To the patient and persevering Liturgy Leaders, especially the Altar Guild, Ushers, MC/servers, lectors, and acolytes and their leaders, for continually shifting as we recreated liturgy again and again and again. Special thanks to Kim Purucker and Jen Phelps for taking on leadership of the Altar Guild and Lectors, respectively, during such a challenging time. To Sunday School Teachers and Youth Leaders who endured month after month of zoom gatherings and outdoor classes before ever making it to their rooms. To the Pastoral Care Team and tiny Parish Life crew, who gave so much to the homebound, the grieving and the community at large.

To Diana Craesser, and all Sunday Dinner volunteers and staff, and Susan McMahon, Matt Jennings, Cathy Bridge and Kathleen Strickland, and all at the Mid North Food Pantry, for continuing to be the hands and face of Christ for so many in our community: showing up for another year of outdoor hunger relief ministries on our campus.

To the Exodus Welcome Team, who are modeling for us all an example of full-hearted Christian witness to the vulnerable.

The energy, excitement and enthusiasm of their support of not one, but two, newly arrived Afghan refugee families is nothing short of inspiring.

To Senior Warden Todd Relue, Junior Warden Shelly Furuness, and Treasurer Kay Whitaker, and all our Vestry. In a year with two major renovation projects and five major staff transitions (plus a pandemic!), you were steadfast in your support of this often frazzled rector and clear-eyed about the big picture in the face of the many many decisions and transitions that came our way.

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Rejoice always! Pray without ceasing!

Give Thanks in all circumstances!

TRANSITION, TRANSFORMATION, and NEW BEGINNINGS Transition and Transformation have been a major aspect of 2021 at Trinity.

We started the year with the news that the Rev. Jennifer Fisher, our Minister for Outreach, would be leaving Indianapolis, and Trinity, after two and a half years with us as seminarian and part-time staff. Soon thereafter Mother Erin Hougland, Associate Rector for Lifelong Formation and Congregational Vitality, discerned a call to hospitality chaplaincy. I started two searches for either lay or ordained leaders to fill these critical roles in the mission and ministry of our parish. We were beyond blessed that the Reverends Adam Pierce and Megan Miller discerned calls to move to Indianapolis and join Trinity in this exciting moment of our parish life.

Mother Megan is Associate Rector for Children and Lifelong Formation. She coordinates and/or teaches Sunday School, Children’s Liturgy of the Word, and the new middle school youth group, PRISM. She also leads our collaborative adult formation programming and Newcomers Welcome. You can often find her surrounded by hordes of adoring children.

Father Adam is Associate Rector for Outreach, Justice, and Congregational Vitality. In addition to his work with parish and community outreach leaders and on stewardship, this year Adam has been the Program Director for Trinity’s newest ministry, Trinity Service Corps—an intentional community of young adults who will live on our campus for a year of service in our midst. I am so excited for you to hear all about the amazing progress Adam and his team have made. By fall we will be welcoming up to six young adults to the program!

In the winter months we were saddened to learn of the closure of Project Home Indy, a partner institution that had provided housing for teenage moms and their babies for over ten years at 32 East 32nd, a house owned by Trinity. Unwilling to leave that house empty for long, we pivoted quickly for an immediate, mission-congruent use for it: low-cost rental housing for Americorps/Vista volunteers who have moved to Indianapolis. An idea championed by vestry member Kate Howe, providing Americorps housing allows us to have tenants in 32 E. 32nd on a year-to-year basis, and provides a small revenue stream to offset some annual ESC expenses.

In May, we rejoiced to celebrate the opening of Trinity Haven, an independent not for profit founded by Trinity to serve LGBTQ+ youth at risk of homelessness. A glorious ribbon-

cutting deserved a glorious spring day, and it got one! Our Bishop and the Mayor addressed an overjoyed crowd gathered to celebrate your vision and generosity in incubating the first dedicated residence for LGBTQ+ youth in Indiana. I’m delighted to report that the house has been filled several times over and there are 6 young people also housed through our host homes program as well. Bravo to founding Board Chair Leigh Ann Hirschman, founding Executive Director Jenni White, board members Joel Harrison and John Craun, and so many of you who served on discernment and implementation committees and supported Trinity Haven over the last four years since its inception. Bravo!

In the summer, Dr. Leslie Hosey joined our campus community as the new Head of St. Richard’s Episcopal School. It’s been a delight to welcome Dr. Hosey: she brings wisdom and warmth to her role and is a fantastic new colleague in leadership. You will have an opportunity to get to know her on February 27 at our annual Episcopal Schools Celebration, which was pushed from its traditional fall date. I do hope you can join us.

Almost as soon as we welcomed our new Trinity clergy, we began to experience upheaval in our lay staff as well. In August, we said goodbye to Trinity’s Director of Communications Tracey Lemon, when she left Trinity’s full-time staff to move to Chicago. Just last week, we welcomed longtime parishioner Leigh Anne Naas to the position. She brings decades of professional communications experience from Lilly. Also in August, we welcomed Bethany Baugh to the already open position of Executive Assistant and Special Projects. Bethany manages both my own and the parish’s calendar, as well as many details on stewardship, the parish registry, and more.

Her position began as half-time but rapidly transitioned to fulltime after Albie Marco, Director of Finance and Administration, accepted a position at Ivy Tech in October. After over 15 years on Trinity’s staff, Albie leaves a big hole, but we were delighted to welcome Molly Ellsworth earlier this month to a modified version of the position, Director of Operations.

As Director of Operations, Molly will oversee all matters pertaining to facilities, finances, human resources, information technology, and office administration. In December our Finance Assistant, Faith Hennings, gave notice, leaving Molly, Kay and me with the opportunity to assess our staff structure and budget. In the meantime, we have retained an outsourced accounting firm to handle bookkeeping and payroll on a weekly basis.

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In her role, Molly will work closely with Dirk Edwards on all facilities issues, including the ongoing renovation, the transformation if you will, of the Trinity Service Corps house (3256 East Pennsylvania St.) and the Chapel of the Holy Innocents. Our Chapel Design committee, headed by Kathy Watson, has worked hard all year to select and oversee an architect and builder, approve designs, and oversee the project budget. In the summer we held a “soft campaign” and secured over $21K in donations and pledges. Over $8,000 of that derived from an amazing bake sale conducted by our middle school kids! Their contribution will pay for amazing skylights over the altar. While the Chapel renovation has been significantly delayed by COVID and supply chain issues, we are told it should be complete in March. So exciting! The Service Corps house is looking great and running on schedule. In the spring and summer we will have a major used furnishings drive and house shower to prepare for its residents’ arrival.

Schools and an active participant at CEEP (Consortuim of Endowed Episcopal Churches). Additionally, I am committed to having my full vacation and retreat time, and insist upon that for all the clergy team as well. So after two years of going pretty much nowhere, I will be on the move quite a bit, representing Trinity in new and hopefully refreshing ways.

This year I will also be preparing for a sabbatical, likely in early 2023. I am so grateful for such a competent team of clergy colleagues that make it possible for me to widen the scope of my ministry this year.

Diminished Attendance, Diminished Voluntarism.

I recognize that almost two years of couch church makes it extra challenging to motivate on a Sunday morning, or on a Wednesday night. Add in a COVID surge or two to rattle our confidence in safety, and it’s particularly hard to get back to the habits of regular attendance some of you might have once known at Trinity. This is my deep and profound invitation to come on back to Church. Whether regularly in person or online, I believe that we are made for community, and one place where we can heal from the traumas of the last two years is together, where we can prayerfully engage the God of Life and Light even in the shadow of death. So if you are not back regularly, please consider a late New Year’s resolution—to worship, give, and serve others at Trinity.

A final note about transition. As many of you know, 2022 was marked by several funerals of longtime parishioners.

Presiding funerals is among the greatest privileges that priests undertake—they are the ultimate opportunity to proclaim our resurrection faith. Nonetheless, we all experience loss when we say goodbye to those we love, as we have this year. I give thanks for the opportunity to remember them in prayer at the Feast of All Saints.

Another area where I see the fatigue at play is in voluntarism/ ministry leadership at Trinity. While we are blessed with many returning worshippers (thank God!), we have found that many who stopped ministry service during the shutdown were loath to return to it afterwards. My colleagues tell me that this is not exclusive to Trinity. A social trauma like a pandemic often serves to reveal something already true about a system: in this case that the major bulk of ministry leadership was held by a relatively small number of folks, some of whom have retired from their roles, or even passed away.

CHALLENGES and OPPORTUNITIES As cheerleader-in-chief at Trinity, I tend to share the most upbeat bits of news I can at Annual Meeting and beyond. The Spirit is moving at Trinity, and there is so much to celebrate!

Be that as it may, I would be remiss if I didn’t speak honestly about some of the challenges I see for our parish community as we began to think about life together in a post-pandemic era, God willing. But as is usually the case, challenges also provide opportunities for growth and new directions.

We are particularly in need of new and renewed engagement in the following ministries of hospitality at Trinity:

I think one of our greatest challenges right now is fatigue.

System-wide fatigue. You are feeling it in your own personal and professional lives, and I – we here at Trinity– are as well.

The sheer numbers of decisions we all made in the last year is enough to commend a long winter’s nap. That fatigue can result in some real concerns of which to be aware:

Sunday Dinner: We need a team of servers every week to serve our neighbors a hot to-go meal; we are in deep need of more volunteers to provide nourishment to the food insecure at the Trinity Outreach Center. Families with children are welcome!

Burn Out. Plenty of ink has been spilled about the Great Resignation and the impact of the pandemic on the workforce.

Trinity has not been immune from those forces. I am paying attention to my own fatigue, yours, and that of my Trinity and St. Richard’s Episcopal School colleagues. If we aren’t taking care of ourselves—physically, emotionally, spiritually—we cannot take good care of you, and one another. The last two years have been a grueling marathon. I am paying attention.

Trinity Hospitality: Historically at Trinity, parishioners have volunteered to provide hospitality and care for one another at receptions after funerals. We are very short of members of “Trinity Hospitality” (previously Trinity Women). Please consider participating in this important ministry, so we can be church for one another.

This year I will have the opportunity to do some extra traveling, mostly work-related: to accompany the youth on their pilgrimage to Rome, the choir on their pilgrimage to England, and to attend CREDO, a clergy-wellness retreat sponsored by the Church Pension Fund. For my growth, I will be doing all of these programs, plus my already committed governance duties as a delegate at the National General Convention, a board member of the National Association of Episcopal

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• Ushers and Altar Guilds The graciousness of our liturgical life depends upon the welcome and guidance of ushers and the careful preparation of the beautiful tools of our Sacraments—vessels, vestments, linens, and hanging— before services. The pandemic has taken a toll upon these guilds, and I heartily encourage you to consider serving.

You will grow in your connection with the liturgy and one another!

• Guild of Unexceptionable Cuisiniers Several years ago parishioners Jim Purucker and Rob McMath founded the

Guild of Unexceptionable Cuisiniers, a men’s cooking group which has catered large events for the parish. After over two years’ hiatus, we will engage in some creative thinking about big parish events for the future, and we will definitely need volunteers. Things won’t look exactly the same, but I for one am ready for some Trinity parties!

with the vestry, parishioners, and staff to begin that process.

The new vestry will continue that work in the months ahead.

From there I propose we will work on strategy in two separate, but related areas.

• Mission Strategy will look at strategic directions to live into our re-articulated and enlivened mission as a parish.

We will also seek to integrate the strategic vision of the Social Justice and Racial Reconciliation Working Group into the Mission Strategy for the whole parish. Continuing to work with Nathan Kirkpatrick, it is my plan that we will have an updated strategy plan for you by Start Up Sunday in Fall 2022.

Engagement in these important ministries has been a key part of life at Trinity. I anticipate that 2022 will be a year of great discernment for each of us individually about these and other commitments as well as for the Church corporately.

Another challenge of the last year is Evangelism. When was the last time you invited someone to Church? We’ve got a good thing going here… and Trinity remains one of the best kept secrets in Indiana. I’m excited to work with Leigh Anne Naas and the clergy team on increasing visibility for this magnificent parish, and I hope that you will help us with that. We will look at every aspect of our outward facing identity.

I am excited to announce that St. Richard’s Episcopal School and Trinity have received a grant in the amount of $341,760 from the Allen Whitehill Clowes Foundation in order to enhance our campus “street appeal” with a Peace and Reconciliation Garden at the corner of 32nd and Meridian, and a public facing outdoor learning space on Pennsylvania. Both institutions are committed to working together to develop a comprehensive signage plan as well.

MISSION, VALUES, VISION, STRATEGY: The way ahead!

You may recall that in 2020 our vestry began to roll out the first elements of a strategic plan for Trinity. Not surprisingly, that got shelved soon after COVID-19 became a reality in our lives.

As we look to the way ahead, it’s a challenge to shift from crisis response mode to strategic thinking. But that shift is upon us.

• Resource Strategy will analyze our primary resources: our properties, our partnerships, our invested assets, and our revenue sources which includes pledging, to determine needs, opportunities, and directions for the future. Our treasurer Kay Whitaker and Junior Warden Shelly Furuness have been laying the groundwork to begin a comprehensive asset management plan that includes keen attention to our campus as a resource not just for Trinity, but for the whole neighborhood.

Rejoice always! Pray without ceasing! Give Thanks in all circumstances!

The length of this report gives you a sense of the richness and complexity of 2021 at Trinity Episcopal Church, Indianapolis.

This is your amazing church, and it is God’s, of course. I give thanks for you, your steadfastness, your prayers, your abiding joy in this community of faith. Wherever we have been, God has been present with us. And God will be us in the exciting year to come.

Thanks be to God!

Before we can address strategy, however, we are overdue as a community to re-articulate our mission, vision, and values as a parish. In November consultant Nathan Kirkpatrick worked Mother Julia

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Minutes: 2021 Annual Parish Meeting Shana Stump, Clerk

Call to Order Mother Julia Whitworth called the meeting to order at 11:18 am on Zoom. Mother Julia appointed Shana Stump to serve as Clerk for the Annual Meeting.

The Approval of Meeting Minutes The minutes from the prior Annual Meeting, held on January 26, 2020, were approved as submitted. Shelly Furuness moved to approve and Kelly Bentley seconded.

Elections Mother Julia presented the teller for the Annual Meeting, Albie Marco. The teller is responsible for tallying ballots for Vestry members and Diocesan Convention delegates.

The slate of nominees for the new Vestry class was presented: Lillian Crabb, Kate Howe, Andy McConnell, Erin Vincent, and Kathy Watson. Additional nominations from the floor were requested, but none were submitted.

In order to vote in the elections, each duly enrolled member must be at least 16 years old and have been a worshipper at Trinity as well as a contributor to its support for at least one month preceding the Annual Meeting. All voting is done on the honor system by members meeting these requirements.

Mother Julia reviewed the responsibilities of Vestry. She thanked the outgoing class of 2021 and returning members of the classes of 2022 and 2023. Mother Julia announced that Todd Relue will serve as Senior Warden in the coming year.

The parish voted by Zoom poll for a slate of 5 Vestry members.

The slate of nominees to serve as Trinity’s delegates to the 184th Convention of the Episcopal Diocese of Indianapolis was presented, which included David Bacon, Cathy Bridge, Jeff Brinkmann, Sally Hardgrove, Todd Relue, and Kathy Watson.

Additional nominations from the floor were requested, but none were submitted.

Rector’s Address Mother Julia addressed the parish. The year 2020 started with big plans for Trinity. Then COVID-19 hit in March. Trinity had to remake operations, worship, and parish life. Worship transitioned online and to the outdoors. We learned that we can be flexible and adjust to change, and that we can still be part of Trinity even when we are not together in person. We missed the Eucharist, and singing, but our liturgy held up.

COVID-19 did not stop Trinity from living into its mission to serve. Our ministries and partners were resilient.

The church also remained financially stable. The Finance Committee and Legacy Fund Trustees worked together to navigate the market fluctuations in the first half of the year.

Application for a PPP loan, strategic timing, and thoughtful timing of staff replacements were responses to a possible shortfall. However, Trinity parishioners came through with generosity both in fulfilling 2020 pledges and in pledging for 2021. Mother Julia thanked Trinity parishioners for their fortitude and commitment to Trinity.

Mother Julia thanked parishioners for being committed to the safety of all in our parish as we considered regathering and then regathered. She thanked the Regathering Commission for their thoughtful work in this area. The commission received an ovation.

Mother Julia thanked the Trinity clergy and staff for their endurance, creativity, and good humor during 2020. Trinity clergy and staff went above and beyond in 2020. Trinity clergy and staff members received an ovation.

The meeting was briefly adjourned and then restarted at 11:40 a.m. to give Trinity staff the opportunity to upgrade the church’s Zoom account to accommodate all parishioners who wished to attend the annual meeting on Zoom. When the meeting restarted, Mother Julia asked again for Vestry nominations from the floor. There were no nominations.

The congregation submitted via a Zoom poll their votes for Diocesan Convention delegates.

Within the church, clergy and lay leaders showed resilience and creativity. Mother Julia thanked Sunday School teachers for supporting our children throughout the year. She commended John Bridge for publishing his history of the first 100 years of Trinity in 2020. Mother Julia recognized the continuing work of the choir under difficult circumstances. The church experimented with virtual and distanced gatherings.

Mother Julia received an ovation.

There are a lot of questions about the year ahead and what it will hold. Connection, faithfulness, leadership, and patience will still be critical. We don’t know what the year will hold, but some work is already being done. The Children’s Chapel renovation is being planned. The youth room will be remodeled. The Outreach Center elevator will finally be replaced. We plan to continue offering worship online to reach those for whom attending services in person was difficult even before COVID-19. We are looking at expanding outdoor worship. We hope to return to our strategic plan in 2021, which was paused as the church responded to the pandemic. We are considering starting an Episcopal Service Corps house.

We hope to have a parish retreat in the fall and planning pilgrimages for 2022 and 2023. We will welcome a new head of school to St. Richard’s.

In the coming year, we will take time to mourn and reconnect, and we will emerge a stronger church when we can be together again.

Senior Warden’s Reports Senior Warden Tricia McMath reported. The year started with a Vestry retreat and work on the church’s strategic plan. Todd Relue was elected Junior Warden and Shana Stump appointed Clerk. When the pandemic happened, the strategic plan was paused for COVID-19 response, which became the main work of the Vestry in 2020. McMath thanked the Vestry for remaining engaged and working together to meet the new challenges.

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The Vestry looked for ways to assist with new worship formats, and played an important consulting role. The Vestry was often amazed by the creativity and endurance of our clergy and staff. The Vestry approved the repair of the St. Edwards House exterior, renovation of the youth group, outreach grants, and an additional donation to the Mid-North Food Pantry. McMath reported that her second year of service as Senior Warden was not what she had expected but it has been an honor to serve Trinity in this way. McMath thanked the parish for its support and expressed her desire to continue to serve and support Trinity.

Mother Julia thanked McMath for her service.

Selected Ministry Updates Kathy Watson reported on the Holy Innocents Chapel Renovation. The renovation is exciting. A group has convened to work on the renovation. The team developed goals for the chapel space. For example, the team wanted to have a sacred space for children’s worship that would also be flexible enough for other use as needed. The team wants to add a window and raise the doorway to make the space more open. Updating lighting, color scheme, floors, and sound are priorities. After a screening process of architects and builders, the team has chosen Eric Rowland as architect. Rowland has extensive experience with church spaces. Rob Bennett has been selected as the builder. He is familiar with Trinity and eager to work with us. There will be a parish forum to discuss cherished memories of the space and dreams for the future. The forum will be February 14, 2021. Mother Julia thanked Watson for convening the chapel task force.

Todd Relue reported on the Episcopal Service Corps (ESC).

Relue co-chairs a team with Kate Howe exploring the possibility of an ESC chapter on our campus. Relue described the state of the 3256 House, where the ESC team would live. A team led by Leigh Ann Hirschmann and John Craun discerned uses for the house several years ago. Trinity Haven, the first idea, has moved to a new home off campus. The Episcopal Service Corps was another idea the discernment team considered. The ESC is a national organization. 8-10 young adults would live in the house and form a community there, while committing to a year of service to community partners. A team including the current head of SRES has been exploring ESC as a use of the house. Such a use would strengthen relationships with campus, community, and diocesan partners. COVID-19 led to pausing this conversation.

The Vestry has authorized further conversations about this use of the house in the coming months. Trinity will have to decide whether to apply to start a chapter by June 2021 in order to open a chapter in Fall 2022.

Financial Report: 2020 and 2021 Budgets Treasurer Keenan Buoy discussed Trinity’s 2020 financials and the 2021 budget. The Annual Meeting is an overview. As is our tradition, a deeper dive into church finances will happen at an adult forum next week. Mother Julia thanked Buoy for his service as treasurer and announced that he will be retiring. Kay Whitaker will take over as treasurer in 2021.

Buoy presented a video summary of Trinity’s 2020 finances with slides. 2020 was an unusual year due to the pandemic.

Total expenditures were just over $1.6 million. Parish pledging stayed strong throughout the year. Plate offerings were way below usual with less in person worship. The church made only 3 draws from the Legacy Fund instead of 4 because it received a PPP loan. The bulk of Trinity’s PPP loan has been approved for forgiveness.

Personnel expenses have been lower than usual. All staff were paid during the shelter in place order with the help of our PPP loan. Property and parish program expenses were below budget due to closures during the pandemic, but janitorial expenses were higher due to increased cleaning during the pandemic. The church has a surplus of about $80,000 from 2020.

Parish support continued to grow in 2020 and Buoy thanked the parish for its generosity.

The 2021 budget reflects a decrease in diocesan and national church engagement and an increase in pastoral care, property, and community engagement. The total budget is $1.74 million. The budget assumes that operations will be closer to normal around mid-year. Parish support was budgeted at 8% less than 2020 for 2021. The Legacy Fund draw will be higher than in 2020, due to the PPP loan. The property budget has been increased for our new cleaning protocols. Outreach has increased to increase rent subsidies of our partners in the Outreach Center. Pledge support shows a modest increase in amount for 2021 so far.

Wardens and Vestry Appreciation Mother Julia thanked the wardens and outgoing Vestry members. Rick Beardsley, Mary Chalmers, Linda Brown, and Ann Smith all served faithfully for three years. Mother Julia thanked Senior Warden Tricia McMath, who is also departing the Vestry. McMath served for two years, during challenging times, and provided counsel and support to the Rector and leadership in the parish.

Election Report Mother Julia reported the results of the election of the Vestry Class of 2024, which will include Lillian Crabb, Kate Howe, Andy McConnell, Erin Vincent, and Kathy Watson.

Mother Julia reported the results of the election of the Diocesan Convention delegates, which will include David Bacon, Cathy Bridge, Jeff Brinkmann, Sally Hardgrove, Todd Relue, and Kathy Watson.

Stewardship Appreciation Shana Stump and Jeff Brinkmann thanked Trinity parishioners for their generosity and drew attention to the impact their pledges had in 2020 and will have in 2021. A video was played to remember 2020 and honor the stewardship of Trinity parishioners.

Blessing & Adjournment There being no further business to be conducted, the Annual Meeting was adjourned at 12:49 am with a prayer.

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Senior Warden’s Report Todd Relue, Senior Warden

This past year brought many challenges for us all and for Trinity, but it also provided opportunities to show our resilience, resourcefulness, and commitment to each other and Trinity’s good work. The pandemic could not dampen our desire to come together, physically and virtually, for our common worship and to continue making a positive difference. We were able to return to many of our beloved traditions this year and the coming year should afford even more opportunities for us to regain a greater sense of normalcy and hope.

Trinity’s strategic plan moving forward. With all of this good work, I have never been more excited for Trinity’s bright future!

This has also been a year of transition at Trinity in which we have said goodbye to clergy and staff including Mother Erin Hougland, the Rev’d Jennifer Fisher, Faith Hennings, Tracey Lemon, and Albie Marco. We thank them for the many gifts they shared and wish them well in their future endeavors. We welcomed Mother Megan Miller, Father Adam Pierce, Bethany Baugh, Leigh Anne Naas, and Molly Ellsworth who each bring new perspectives, ideas, and energy that can only serve to strengthen our beloved church. With these new additions joining Mother Julia, Father Ben, Dirk Edwards, Rita Earls, Dave Smith, Missy Roetter, and Dr. Michael Messina, we are blessed with incredibly capable and talented clergy and staff.

I have had the good fortune to serve with Trinity’s vestry for several years, first as Clerk and subsequently as a member.

Each year, the vestry watches the seeds planted in prior years blossom and makes new investments for the future.

This year brought a particularly bountiful harvest. Trinity Haven, fully formed as its own organization following years of incubation at Trinity, opened its doors and began providing homes for LGBTQ+ youth, offering both a beacon of hope and a model for what is possible. The revoicing of Trinity’s organ was completed, welcoming parishioners with a richer and fuller sound that mixed beautifully with renewed choral and congregational singing. The freight elevator at Trinity Outreach Center received a complete overhaul, assisting outreach partner Mid-North Food Pantry with its important, life-giving work and even inspiring poetry from at least one parishioner. And these were just a few of the highlights as Trinity’s parishioners, clergy, and staff work to lay foundations for efforts and projects every day that will help to shape the future of our church and community.

It has been a great joy to serve among such dedicated and caring vestry members, clergy, and staff, but one of the best parts of vestry membership is that it provides the opportunity to hear so much about the important work of our many wonderful parishioners who give of themselves so readily and generously in many different ways. Thank you for everything you do and for making Trinity the church we all love.

Regathering Task Force Todd Relue

This year brought the vestry many opportunities to invest in the future. The vestry approved upgrading the cameras and other technology in Trinity’s sanctuary to allow services to be live-streamed and help ensure that everyone can participate in our communal life. When Project Home Indy ceased its operations on Trinity’s campus, the vestry quickly pivoted to provide much needed affordable housing for AmeriCorps volunteers doing charitable work with nonprofit organizations throughout Indianapolis. The Vestry approved funding to supplement parishioner donations for the Children’s Chapel Project to make sure the space will continue to help shape the faith of Trinity’s youth for decades to come. The vestry provided the supplemental funding to cover any gap remaining after further fundraising efforts and were blown away by the exceptional baking talents and salesmanship of Trinity’s youth! The vestry also approved founding Trinity Service Corps, the first Episcopal Service Corps program in Indiana, which will bring together young people to engage in communal living, faith formation, and charitable work with partner nonprofit organizations. The vestry approved substantial repairs to Trinity’s property at 3256 N. Pennsylvania Street, the former St. Edward’s House, to prepare it for missional use as the home for this exciting new endeavor. The vestry began and ended its year with a renewed focus on Trinity’s mission, vision, and values as it charts

Shortly after the beginning of the pandemic in 2020, Bishop Jennifer Baskerville-Burrows directed all parishes in the diocese to convene task forces to address issues of regathering. In response, Trinity brought together a dedicated group of Trinity clergy, staff, and parishioners. Throughout 2021, the task force has continued to review expert guidance, data regarding the spread of virus, and the practices of other area churches and institutions to modify and update Trinity’s protocols to safely conduct in-person worship and other gatherings. Consistent with the task force’s guidelines and diocesan requirements, Trinity parishioners were able to meet in-person for worship for much of the year. As vaccines became more widely available, Trinity was able to move all of its inperson worship into the sanctuary this fall while continuing to share live video of services online to help ensure that everyone is able to participate. The task force continues to advise Trinity regarding its day-to-day operations and assistance of campus partners in Trinity’s Outreach Center..

Regathering Task Force members are: Mother Julia Whitworth Todd Relue David Crabb Dirk Edwards Molly Ellsworth Erik Hembre Robert Marchesani Jennifer Phelps

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Worship at Trinity

The Rev’d Julia E. Whitworth, Rector The pandemic continued to challenge our worship team to imagine new ways to create liturgy together safely. I am proud of our hard work and creativity, even as we remain exhausted by the memory of it. Yet through it all, we were reminded that God is with us wherever we are.

By the end of January, we succumbed to the cold and finally suspended all remaining outdoor services and resumed a completely pre-recorded video model for Sunday worship.

After that COVID surge abated a bit, and adult parishioners gained access to vaccines, we began slowly to layer back some in-person, and temporally bound worship for our parish community.

During Lent, we welcomed the 8am Sunday and 5:30 Wednesday Eucharists back into the Church. What a joy it was to see small groups of people back in our pews again. For our larger, 10:30 service we moved away from pre-recorded worship to Zoom, which allowed us to create a live experience and enhance parish connections. We also created Lenten bags for at-home devotions.

Holy Week 2021 challenged us to create some interesting adaptations of our regular traditions, including a live-streamed Agape Supper from the Fortune Room, a virtual vigil with the Blessed Sacrament, an outdoor Good Friday walk for families, and an in-person Easter Vigil by the Holy Fire in the garden, before proceeding to the Church for an in-person Eucharist.

Easter Sunday found our congregation gathered, at last, for two glorious services under an enormous tent, also livestreamed, in the parking lot.

For Pentecost, we had a community Eucharist on the soccer field, and the choir offered a beautiful, if windy, Evensong on the playground. Our Bishop came in June to confirm 12 confirmands in a beautiful service in the Lemler Garden. Basically, there are very few spots on our campus that haven’t enjoyed

some sort of liturgy at this point. We have an even deeper gratitude for the gardens and green spaces on Trinity’s urban campus that gave us flexibility and a fresh perspective for these various approaches to worship.

By June, we had recommenced larger in-person services in the church building—still masked, with socially distant seating, albeit refraining from congregational singing or full choir. We were able to release our registration protocols. In our decision-making, Trinity’s Regathering Taskforce continued to maintain a careful balance between the pastoral needs for increased in-person options and the concerns of the most vulnerable among us—especially the immunosuppressed and unvaccinated children. It has remained important to us to have many options for many risk tolerances. From June through October, we convened three services each Sunday, at 8am and 10:30 in the Church, and 9am in the Garden. While we continue only to administer Communion in one kind (consecrated Bread, no shared chalice), it’s been a joy to enjoy the Sacrament of Holy Eucharist, in person, together.

A very exciting change to our on-line options for worship was the installation of our new live-stream cameras in the church in the spring. I designed our four-camera system with Albie Marco and the technicians at Force Technology Solutions in Greenfield. Our cameras are low-profile, but powerful enough to rotate over 180 degrees with a powerful zoom. Controlled remotely from a console in our coat closet, the cameras have allowed us to improve on the home experience during live services considerably! We are so grateful to Albie Marco, Tracey Lemon, Ray Neufeld and Ken Feeley for operating the live-stream cameras for the Sunday 10:30 am services, as well as many weddings and funerals in the last year.

Since regathering in June, we managed to continue our 3-service schedule through October. After a Start Up Sunday

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picnic on the soccer field, we brought back our full adult choir indoors and celebrated the dedication of our newly revoiced organ. In November, we bade farewell to the outdoor service at 9am, just in time for a glorious All Saints Sunday and Bishop’s visitation. Throughout the fall, we blessed our pets, our backpacks, our beloved dead, and one another with the joy of in-person services again.

One of the most complex aspects of autumn was the appearance of new strains of the COVID-19 virus. Whether Delta or Omicron, each variant in the pandemic kept the entire worship team and Regathering Task Force continuing to assess data and make adjustments for safety. Just a few days before Christmas, we made the difficult decision to impose strict attendance limits on our Christmas services. Fortunately, because of the addition of a robust new Christmas Pageant at 3pm, over 450 worshippers were able to gather in person, accompanied by over 300 online worshippers. Amazing. Truly, God is with us wherever we are.

approach to managing the details behind so many adaptations of our norms. My clergy colleagues—Father Ben Anthony and Mother Erin Hougland earlier in the year, and Father Ben, Mother Megan Miller and Father Adam Pierce since the summer—have been remarkable collaborators and teammates in the wild work of leading worship in this incredible year.

Finally, I am VERY grateful to you for being willing to try so many new things this year (and last). While I’m not surprised by it, I’ve been delighted by your flexibility and faithfulness. My prayer for Trinity’s worship life in 2022 is that it can be more “normal,” yes—but no less creative. The Spirit is strong at Trinity, no matter where we gather. As a community of faith, not even the complexities of COVID, Year Two, has kept us from our call: To rejoice! To pray! To give thanks… together!

I am particularly grateful to Dr. Messina and the Choir, the acolyte leaders and acolytes, lectors, and the MC/servers for their continued agility in the face of so many liturgical changes. The Altar Guild, led by the amazing Kim Purucker, and the ushers, led by Eric Baiz, have been steadfast and methodical in their

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2021 Baptisms & Pastoral Rites Baptisms Jude Ackerman Maxwell Robert Haake Cameron McPherson-Stolen Kalani Anne Heller-Patton Solidaire Bessaguem Confirmations Hollis Herrington Carbrey Hugh Shepherd Clevenger Bailey Ann Roger Garverick Matthew Bryan Hume Jennifer Renee Lutes Luana Gladice Nissan Dale Edwin Potter Abigail Victoria Resnick William Sebastian Whitworth Neufeld Allan Clark Williams Sarah Elizabeth Zauber Receptions Michael Shaefer Brian Sloat Steensland Deaths Bruce Ploshay Margaret Anne Ervin Anne Pearson

Audrey Wright Sara Eiszner Peter Williams Fay Almas Robert Ferriani Elizabeth Perkins Susan Bayh Transfers Out Jan Barnaby Jerry & Deborah Butt John & Janet Craun Molly and Michael Haas Mary Ellen & Paul Hamer Jane Root Elsa Sands David & Kelly Snyder Mike Tirman Transfers In Gene, Ellen, Lilly, Walker Cone Cassie Connor Donna Ebersole Catherine Lewis Weddings Lillian Rose Crabb and Zachary Andrew Cardwell

Membership and Worship 2015

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2017

2018

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226 340 748 713

219 327 729 695

218 321 743 711

233 340 775 767

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15 3 13

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3 11 12 2

6 9 4 2

10 5 5 3

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Sunday CelebraPons Weekly CelebraPons Private Home Communions St. Richard's Services

114 84

116 29 104 90

119 15 116 102

115 66 63 99

133 70 161 114

122 33 19 23

141 35 41 74

109 72

FYI - The info below does not need to be included in the report.

St. Richard's Services includes a weekly Lower Division Chapel;

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Households ** 345 households 2020 - 6 deaths - 9 transfer outs + 4 new + 5 newcomers

Music at Trinity

Dr. Michael Messina, Director of Music projected slides of seasonal artwork from throughout the centuries.

2021 saw the reemergence of singing after prohibitions made during COVID-tide. During the first half of the year, the choir and organists continued to make videos for online worship.

The choir sang mostly outdoors (including in the parking garage on 33rd St across Meridian, and Evensong on the St Richard’s playground on May 2), and the organists recorded at other churches, since our organ remained in the shop of Quimby Pipe Organs, Warrensburg, MO. There the pipes were cleaned, and revoiced, and then reinstalled and regulated in the church between 15 Mar and 15 Jun.

Members of our choir: • Trinity Choir (*denotes staff singer): Assistant Organist: Nara Lee • Soprano: Lillian Crabb, Laura Cruise-Gibson, Erica Dollhopf, Cheryl Eiszner, Deb Havill, Charlie Hirschman, *Elisabeth Hoegberg, Jennifer Mentink, Victoria Resnick, Cindy Williams

The inaugural concert series celebrating the revoiced organ began in the fall, with Evensong sung by the choir on Sep 12, socially distanced throughout the church. This service was offered online only, as the spaced choir members occupied most of the church west of the screen. The revoiced organ was blessed and dedicated at the regular Sunday morning service (with an octet of singers) on Sep 26.

• Alto: Linda Brown, Linda Cuticchia, Grace Davis, Meg Feemster, Anne Greist, Shannie Hughes, Mary Mail, Rebecca Mattingly, Jolene Moffatt, Leigh Anne Naas, Judy Peach, *Chelsea Reynowsky, Syd Schafer

Internationally renowned organist David Higgs played a brilliant first concert on Oct 17, to a crowd of around 75 people—pretty good for a concert during the Delta variant spike! Organist Jason Roberts played a concert of organ masterworks and improvisation, and accompanied a silent film on Nov 12. The choir sang Evensong for All Saints Sunday on Nov 7 and a service of Lessons and Carols on Dec 19; by mid-October, a masked congregation was allowed to attend (and sing!) at indoor services.

• Bass: JJeff Brinkmann, *Gavin Craig, Erik Hembre, Malcolm Hembre, Soren Hembre, *Matt Hume, Jim Knowles, Kyle Myers, Chuck Schafer, Austin Smith, Allan Williams We are grateful for the expertise and support of our sectionleaders, who lead and inspire us!

The Madrigal singers welcomed the Yuletide on Dec 3 with a Concert in the Church in the presence of the Lord of the manor (Michael Moffatt), who then invited concert goers to the Great Hall for a dessert of wassail and figgy pudding.

On Dec 10 Director of Music Michael Messina played Olivier Messiaen’s monumental organ work La Nativité du Seigneur.

The concert was illustrated by parishioner Holly Day, with

• Tenor: Robert Bentley, *Zach Cardwell, David Crabb, John Eiszner, Ed Ferguson, Jerry Hall, Rick Herd, Joseph Naas, Cos Raimondi, Hugh Resnick

• Choristers: Adeline Adler-Mueller, Levin Adler-Mueller, Quincy Bacon, Clara Haley, Maxine Steensland, Minna Steensland, Grace Whitworth-Neufeld Leading the music program at Trinity continues to be an incredible blessing to me, personally; I’m grateful for everyone who makes and/or supports music here, and I’m thankful for gifted and creative colleagues. May we all continue to proclaim the presence, power, love, and beauty of God through music.

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Adult Learning & Formation The Rev’d Megan Miller

In January through May, most adult formation was held on Zoom and included Sunday adult forums, as well as contemplative prayer groups, book and Bible studies, and presentations during the week. Over the summer and with the start of the new program year in September, more activities were held in-person.

During Epiphanytide, there were three adult forums, one weekly program with a guest speaker, and a prayer practice series on Monday evenings. During Lent, Father Ben led a Lenten book study on Sunday mornings, concurrent with the adult forum led by Mother Julia and Mother Erin; Kathy Watson and Deb Cooney led contemplative prayer on Mondays.

Two small groups started up in February: Women’s Discipleship Group led by Patty Bucken and Elyse Elder and Discipleship Book Group coordinated by Shannie Hughes. Mother Erin led a My Journey small group in April and May. The Rector’s Study Group on Tuesdays (online and then hybrid) and Father Ben’s Bible Study on Monday’s (online) continued.

There were two adult confirmation classes and one youth confirmation class in 2021. The Lectionary Bible Study resumed meeting on Sundays after the 8:00am worship service in September. The Women’s Reading Group was a new group started by Catherine Lewis; it meets the second Monday of the month and is open to all who identify as a woman. A class for Newcomers was led by Father Adam in-person in October. Details on these events and more follow.

Sunday Adult Forums

• October 17: Trinity Service Corps • Presentation on Trinity’s newest ministry on campus and the local branch of the Episcopal Service Corps. Led by Father Adam.

• January 17: The Heart of God: the Art of God. The Rev. Dr. Mark Bozzuti-Jones presented on how iconography changes our understanding of the image of God in the world.

• November 14: Strategy & Mission with The Rev’d Dr. Nathan Kirkpatrick. Conversation on Trinity’s strategy and mission with church consultant Nathan Kirkpatrick.

• February 14: Holy Innocents Chapel Renovation • Stories and memories of the Holy Innocents Chapel with the Holy Innocents Chapel Renovation Team and newly hired architect Eric Rowland of Rowland Architects.

• November 21: Mary: Prophet and Mother of God • Father Ben led an examination of texts and images of the Blessed Virgin Mary as prophet and mother in preparation for the Advent season.

• April 18: Episcopal Service Corps Discernment • Conversation with Trinity’s ESC Discernment Team and ESC alumni to bring an intentional community for young adults to Trinity, specifically the house at 3256 North Pennsylvania (formerly St. Edward’s House).

• May 16: Town Hall Meeting with Mother Julia • Conversation with Mother Julia; where we’ve been, where we’re going. New hires and new directions in an unfolding hybrid world.

• December 5: The Right Rev’d Jennifer BaskervilleBurrows • Adult forum with the bishop during her visitation to Trinity.

Adult Formation Small Groups

• September 26: Meet Mother Megan, Associate Rector for Children and Lifelong Formation • Conversation with The Rev’d Megan Miller who brings over a decade of teaching and formation experience, in both schools and churches to Trinity.

• September 19: Meet Father Adam, Associate Rector for Outreach, Justice and Congregational Development • Conversation with The Rev’d Adam Pierce who has experience working in a complex church system and brings skills in strategic planning, community organizing, Christian formation rooted in racial healing, and building sustainable support for ongoing ministries.

• Tuesday, January 19: Christian Witness in Times of Division (Zoom) Discussion with Father James Harlan, Rector of the Church of Bethesda-by-the-Sea, Palm Beach, and Mother Julia Whitworth on the eve of the inauguration.

• Monday Evenings (January 25 - February 15): Epiphany Prayer Practice Series (Zoom) Led by Cos Raimondi, MBSR (Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction) instructor in the Indianapolis area and also a member of Trinity’s choir • Sundays in Lent: Lenten Book Study, Thy Will Be Done (Zoom) A Lenten study of the Lord’s Prayer led by Father Ben • Monday Evenings (February 22 - March 22): Lenten Contemplative Prayer Series (Zoom) Led by parishioners Kathy Watson and Deb Cooney.

• October 10: Courageous Conversation on Giving • Pledge Campaign Kick-off Conversation on faithful giving at Trinity.

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• 2nd Monday of the Month: Women’s Discipleship Group (Zoom) Small group began meeting in February led by Patty Bucken and Elyse Elder.

September 2020-June 2021 Class: Michael Kohtz, Richard Hughes-Year 4, Martha Weissert, Rob Weissert-year 3, Bryan Furuness , Shelly Furuness-Year 1. All sessions were held via Zoom.

• Tuesdays at 3:00PM: Discipleship Book Group Small group began meeting in February.

September 2021-June 2022: Class: Martha Weissert, Rob Weissert-year 4, Bryan Furuness, Shelly Furuness, Marybeth Riner-year 2. Socially distanced inperson meetings.

• Tuesdays at 7:00PM (April 13 - May4): My Journey Group: Spiritual Story-telling (Zoom): Led by Mother Erin. Participants explored and told stories about their walk with God and faith.

It is our hope to be able to present Certificates of Completion to the 2020, ‘21, and ‘22 graduates: Ginny Cotrell, Lydia Batton, Kyle Meyers, Mile Kohtz, Richard Hughes, Martha and Rob Weissert at a Sunday service in the Spring /Summer of 2022.

• Lectionary Bible Study after the 8:00am service: The Lectionary Bible Study met in-person starting in September in the Parish Office Library. Each week it is led by the preacher. Average Sunday attendance for this group is four.

New seminars form in September. We will meet every Tuesday, ending the first week in June, with a two week break for Christmas and New Year. We start at 6:00 p.m. and end at 8:00p.m. Mentors who facilitate the group are Sara Bean and Jim Knowles. For more information or to register for class , please contactSara Bean (beansara5@gmail.com).

Confirmation Classes Two adult confirmation classes and one youth confirmation class were offered in 2021.

• During Lent (Tuesdays at 7:00pm): Five sessions that covered the following topics: history, theology, worship, spirituality and mission of the Episcopal Church. Four adults were confirmed on June 1: Jennifer Renee Lutes, Sarah Elizabeth Zauber, Matthew Bryan Hume, and Luana Gladice Nissan.

• November & December: Episcopal Beliefs & Practices The course was planned as four sessions, though the group met three times, and it covered the following topics: Episcopal history and theology, the Book of Common Prayer, and the sacraments. One adult, Michael Schaefer, was received into the Episcopal Church during the Bishop’s visit on December 5.

• The youth confirmation class met five times from January through May on Sundays at 11:30am. The following topics were covered: irreverent saints and heretics, sacraments, theology, and confirmation. The youth mentors were Mike Tirman, Cathy Bridge, Missy Roetter, Nick Fennig, Cathy Bridge, and Mary Mail. Seven youth were confirmed: Hugh Shepherd Clevenger, Dale Edwin Potter, Bailey Ann Rager Garverick, Abigail Victoria Resnick, William Sebastian Whitworth Neufeld, Hollis Herrington Carbrey, and Allan Clark Williams.

Newcomers The Rev’d Adam Pierce Over the course of four Wednesday evenings in October, I led a newcomer course to welcome people interested in membership to Trinity Episcopal Church. Our group was small but dedicated.

We spent our time together exploring what people were looking for. In other words, why a Church? The common answer was a sense of community and a place to find support.

The remaining three sessions focused on different areas of our lives together at Trinity and the various ways we find ourselves participating in the life of this community. We explored questions around worship, stewardship, and service through the many ministry opportunities found here.

I am grateful for the dedication of this group and give thanks for these families finding a sense of community here at Trinity.

Education for Ministry(EfM) Sara Bean, Administrative Mentor Education for Ministry is a unique four-year distance learning certificate program in theological education for lay persons offered through the distance learning program of the University of the South School of Theology.

Based on small group study and practice, this program is designed to facilitate persons in their discovery and nurture of their call to Christian Service. The depth of Christian tradition is brought into study and conversation through the exploration of Hebrew Scripture, New Testament, Church History, Theology, Worship, and Reflection.

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Families, Children & Youth

Women’s Reading Group Catherine Lewis

The Rev’d Megan Miller

During a Wednesday night service in July, Father Ben gave a homily about the concept of Turning – turning back, during troubled times, to bring back what was good and positive for you in your past. This message spoke to me, a new parishioner, who had been wondering if there was a place for an evening Women’s Reading Group at Trinity.

January through May, family events were held either on Zoom or outside. During July and August, a craft related to a lectionary Bible story was available at both coffee hours. In September, Sunday School and Children’s Groups - including two new groups for 3rd and 4th grade and 5th and 6th graders - met outside on the St. Richard’s playground and field.

In September, the answer was a huge yes as 18 women gathered in the Lemler Garden to begin monthly discussions centered around a common book. The group is supportive, and our conversations have helped each of us think more deeply, question our assumptions, and seek to be more compassionate versions of ourselves.

In November, Sunday School and Children’s Groups moved indoors into their classrooms. In December, Children’s Liturgy of the Word returned during the 10:30am worship service and the Nursery re-opened.

Below is a list of highlights from each month in 2021.

As a former librarian, I love to read reviews and select book titles for the group along with other and members. Shannie Hughes suggested Zorrie, a sweet story set in Indiana, in rural areas some of the book club members know well. Sara Bean recommended The Island of Sea Women which introduced us to a unique society of Korean women we would never have known about. Sara Konrath shared that the author of our first book, Somebody’s Daughter will be speaking in Indianapolis this spring, so we’re going together to hear author Ashley Ford on April 22.

• January 6: Epiphany Bonfire • February 8: Mardi Gras Party on Zoom • March 13: Holy Hike at 100 Acres Sculpture Park • April 23: Outdoor Movie in collaboration with St. Richard’s; and April 25: Pizza on the Playground.

• May 15: Family Hike at Eagle Creek; May 16: Youth Sunday • June 20: Mother Megan’s first Sunday • July 11: Father Adam’s first Sunday; July 25: Popcorn & Popsicles on the Playground

We usually have about 10 women attend our monthly meeting. Attendance has ranged from 14 to 3. We met 4 times in 2021 - September (14 people), October (3 people - fell on the evening of a storm and power outage), November (10 people), and December (9 people).

• August 8: Backpack Blessing; August 29: Children’s Chapel Bake Sale #1 • September 12: Children’s Chapel Bake Sale #2 and Ministries Fair; September 26: PRISM met at Marott Park; Children & Family Newsletter launched in Septetmber

If you’d like to join us or learn more about the book club, text Catherine at 317-839-0608. All women of the church are welcome to join anytime their schedule allows; join us even if you haven’t finished the book!

• October 3: Pet Blessings on October 3; October 22 - 24: Trinity Fall Weekend at Waycross • November 28: Intergenerational Advent Activities and Mary & Joseph embarked on their Journey (from house to house) • December 12: St. Nicholas Shoppe; December 19: Intergenerational Service Project; December 24: Christmas Pageant Summer Crafts for Children in the Garden Every Sunday in July and August, a craft was offered during both coffee hours in the Lemler Garden. The craft was related to one of the lectionary readings heard during church that day.

Crafts included Holy Watercolor paintings, God Boxes, working with clay, forming bread dough, Kindness Rocks, and making colorful cards.

Children’s Liturgy of the Word Children’s Liturgy of the Word (CLOW) returned in December during the 10:30am worship service. During the Gospel Procession, children followed the priest leading CLOW out to the Fortune Room (since the Children’s Chapel was under construction) and returned at the Peace. A new format was established: 1. Story, 2. Game (related to the story), 3. Creed (in children’s words with hand/body motions), and 4. Prayer.

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Sunday School January through May, Sunday School was held on Zoom from 9:30-10:30am. Children met in three sections: Pre-K through 3rd grade, 4th & 5th grade, and 6th & 7th grade. The Sunday School Teachers were Kim McPherson, Terry Langdon, David Bacon, Ann Perry, Ruth Simmons, Patty Bucken, Dave Smith, AmySue Bacon, Catey Hale, and Matt Bucken.

When Sunday School started up again in September, it was held outdoors on the St. Richard’s playground and field. While outside, we told stories based on the lectionary. We moved indoors in November, and created two classrooms: one for Pre-K and J-K called Sunday School (curriculum created by Mother Megan) and another room for Kindergarten, 1st, and 2nd graders (Godly Play).

Since moving indoors, on average there have been nine children in Sunday School (across both rooms). The Sunday School Teachers are Amy Jay, Bob Wood, Kim McPherson, Terry Langdon, Ellen Cone, Gene Cone, and Taylor Kirklin. The parent helpers were Amber Lehmann, Sarah Nabinger, Kären Haley, Vivian Kirklin, and Liz Zauber.

In August we created a Sunday School Registration Form to update and maintain our rosters. The number of children on each grade’s roster include: JK: 5; Pre-K: 7; Kindergarten: 7; 1st grade: 4; and 2nd grade: 4.

Children’s Groups (G34 & PRISM) PRISM began as an idea discussed over pizza with 5th and 6th graders and their parents on July 28. (The name was proposed by Owen Smith; it symbolizes how divine light shines differently through all of us - like the rainbow of colors that shine through a prism.)

PRISM had its first official gathering on September 26 at Marrott Park and then started meeting regularly after the 10:30am worship service (about 11:45am to 12:30pm) on Sundays outside on the St. Richard’s playground and field in October and then moved indoors to the downstairs PRISM room in November. The PRISM leaders are Matt Bucken, Catey Hale, Tom Dawson, and Ann Smith. There are 14 children in this group, with an average weekly attendance of nine.

G34, which stands for Group 34, is for 3rd and 4th graders.

Although this cohort started the program year meeting as part of Sunday School before the 10:30am worship service, in October we created a new group just for them. G34 now meets after the 10:30am worship service, which works better for choristers and acolytes. G34 leaders are Lisa Adler, David Bacon, Patty Bucken, Ann Perry, and Ruth Simmons. There are eight children in this group, with an average weekly attendance of four.

Christmas Pageant We edited the script created by Mother Julia and the 5th and 6th graders in 2020 to create a shorter script for use in-person during the 3:00pm worship service on Christmas Eve. Lillian Crabb created the costumes. Mother Julia was the Director and led the rehearsals, which started in November.

Meghan McConnell was the pageant initiator and facilitator extraordinaire. Mother Megan helped recruit and coordinate children, youth, and parent involvement. Following are the number of participants: 35 children, 5 youth, and about 10 adult/parent volunteers.

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Nursery Patty Gotway, Nursery Coordinator Nursery care is available as part of our welcome to our youngest members and their families. The Nursery offers a place where infants and young children can experience the love and care of this community, and it offers parents an opportunity to give their full attention to worship and other church activities.

The Nursery was reopened in December 2021. Tia Goodloe Gibson and Alison Boerger have both returned to staff the nursery. We are grateful to have these two with such professional qualifications (both hold Masters degrees) to provide expert care for our young clients. Our long time and much-valued staff member Libby Wright, has decided not to return on a regular basis, but she may pop in to lend a hand sometime. We all look forward to having a regular presence again in the future.

Youth Ministry

Missy Roetter, Youth Coordinator The youth groups showed resiliency during another pandemic year and were quick to meet on Zoom on Sunday mornings throughout the Spring.

The most unfortunate result of the pandemic was the need to postpone the Assisi/Rome Pilgrimage until June 2022.

Gratefully, we were able to move our reservations without any penalties. Now the pilgrims are spending their time preparing for the June 2022 trip.

The new furniture for the J2A/Pilgrim youth room arrived in 2021. We started a new Rite-13 group #14 this Fall. The leaders are Brian Steensland and Marlene Marchesani. Both Rite-13 and J2A kicked off their fall season with the annual Bradford Woods retreat. Team building and “get to know you” challenges were the focus of the weekend. The J2A group was not successful in building a “seaworthy” raft. But everyone came home tired and relieved that we were back to some normality.

This year’s cookie bake was a great success. The teens sold over $11,000 worth of boxes and tubs of dough. Thank you to all those who purchased and supported the teens.

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Parish Life

Missy Roetter, Parish Life Coordinator 2021 began with the Burning of the Greens at the First annual Epiphany Bonfire on the south lot. It was the first time in several months that parishioners gathered together, in-person, outside with masks on.

there to showcase their groups and answer questions for those interested in learning more. The start-up Sunday included a yummy pitch-in picnic with Trinity providing the fried chicken.

In February the church came together to support MId-North food pantry for the Souper Bowl of Caring.

We celebrated the Feast of St Francis with a pet blessing on Sunday, October 3. The pets were blessed inside the sanctuary and outside in the Lelmer Garden.

The Parish Life Committee (Marlene Marchesani, Patty Gotway, Scott Whitaker, James Cramer, Tricia McMath, and Missy Roetter) delivered Lenton bags to members of Trinity’s senior community. These bags contained a beautiful flowering plant, Lenten readings, an activity book, and a blessed wooden cross.

At the end of October, Trinity hosted their fall retreat at Waycross Camp in Brown County. Over 60 parishioners attended this weekend of fun, prayer, and community. The highlight of the weekend was the Trinity Trivia contest on Saturday night.

For the start of Pentecost, Trinity celebrated outside on St. Richard’s soccer field followed by a picnic.

During the summer months, we hosted Wednesday night light bites and beverages once a month in the Lemler Garden.

We kicked off the Fall season with our annual ministries fair on the St. Richard’s playground. All of the different ministries were

During Advent the parish life committee delivered Advent bags to Trinity seniors consisting of beautiful red poinsettias, advent reading materials, bags of cookies, and scented lip balm.

The greening of the church was very successful this year. We even had a family all the way from Ecuador assist in decorating the sanctuary with beautiful greens.

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Outreach Ministries The Rev’d Adam Pierce

2021 brought both change and new opportunities to our outreach ministries. The lived experience of nearly a year in a pandemic saw many of these ministries continuing to adapt and evolve. For instance, Sunday Dinner, which paused its sit down, family-style meal service, continued in 2021 with a pared down corps of lay ministry leaders and staff serving a hot, to-go meal every Sunday. The pause in normal operations invited an opportunity to enter into conversation around the future of this ministry and how it might continue to evolve on the other side of the pandemic; you can read more about these insights in the Sunday Dinner report.

In May of 2021, The Rev. Erin Hougland, after discerning a call away from parish ministry, ended her service at Trinity.

In July 2021 I began my ministry as Associate for Outreach, Justice, and Congregational Development. Since arriving I have prioritized meeting with ministry leaders to learn of the service they are engaged in and the ways they encounter God in their ministry. I have also sought to enter into relationships with leaders in Trinity’s surrounding neighborhood. I can share two insights from these experiences: First, many know of the great work Trinity does in the community through existing relationships, and second, God is ever present and active all around our city.

I have learned in my brief time here that Trinity, in large part due to the relationships already developed and nurtured over the years, is not afraid to respond to new opportunities.

I have seen this especially with the gathering of parishioners and St. Richard’s staff and families to care for Afghan Refugees and provide material support for those at Camp Atterbury as well as the re-gathering of the Trinity Welcome Team through the Exodus Refugee Ministry. Partnerships have also made it possible to undertake and develop Trinity Service Corps, which hopes to welcome its first cohort in August 2022.

As you read the reports that follow you’ll see many familiar ministries and ministry partners. I hope you will join me in giving thanks for the dedication, care, and expression of God’s call these ministries provide to our neighbors and those who serve with them. You will also see questions being raised around these ministries; both in terms of what new things are on the horizon and the ways in which the care we show our neighbors moves beyond meeting needs alone and begins to address underlying causes of poverty and injustice.

Trinity Service Corps: In 2021, Trinity was approved by The Episcopal Church to host a new Episcopal Service Corps (ESC) program, Trinity Service Corps. ESC is a year of service for young people ages 21-32 who live in an intentional community and work in local organizations to promote justice, while deepening their faith and discerning their vocation.

An advisory committee has been working to prepare the 3256 House to serve as a home for Trinity Service Corps, recruiting host organizations and service corps members, and developing the program. Trinity Service Corps will host its inaugural cohort of fellows starting in August 2022. Advisory committee members include: Lisa Adler, John Brady (St. Richard’s), Shelly Furuness, Kate Howe, Andy McConnell, Luana Nissan, Jen Phelps, Todd Relue, Father Adam, and Mother Julia.

Outreach Partners’ (Breakfast): Before Covid, the Outreach Advisory Committee hosted a quarterly lunch at Trinity, providing an opportunity for clergy and lay leaders to meet with partner organizations to share updates and discuss collaborations. These lunches were paused in 2020 but we were able to host an Outreach Partners’ Breakfast in the Lemler Garden in early October. In the interim between the last partner brunch and the 2021 brunch a number of outreach partner organizations took on new leadership, and this was the first opportunity that many had to meet one another in person. This event was well-attended and has already led some of our partners to initiate projects that we anticipate will bear fruit in 2022 and beyond.

Outreach grants: Outreach grants are typically designated in late fall, but the Committee chose to open its grants process earlier in 2021 to provide assistance to organizations needing extra funding for COVID response or those with budget shortfalls due to the economic crisis. In previous years, applicants were asked to identify a particular project that grant funds would be used for, but the requirements were loosened this year to allow organizations to request funds for whatever they needed most.

The Grants Committee (David Bacon, Kate Howe, Matthew Hume, Rev. Adam Pierce, and Terry Langdon) reviewed applications and recommended the following grants, approved by the Vestry and distributed in early December.

• Dove Recovery House: $2,500 • Exodus Refugee Immigration: $3,500

Outreach Advisory Committee

• Indiana Justice Project: $1,000

David Bacon & Kate Howe

• Mid-North Food Pantry: $3,500

The Outreach Advisory Committee is responsible for planning and oversight of church outreach activities in collaboration with clergy and staff. We were pleased to welcome the Rev’d Adam Pierce as the new Associate Rector for Outreach, Justice, and Congregational Development this summer. Father Adam is helping us revitalize and rethink our outreach activities.

David Bacon succeeded Rick Beardsley as new co-chair.

• Shortridge High School: $3,500 Collaboration with the Social Justice and Racial Reconciliation Working Group: The Outreach Advisory Committee and Social Justice and Racial Reconciliation (SJRR) Working Group began discussing ways to collaborate in 2020. These conversations continued in 2021, and we plan to engage more deeply in 2022.

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Trinity Outreach Center: The Outreach Committee continues to serve a supervisory role in making sure that the buildings and grounds of the Trinity Outreach Center remain in good working condition, in service of both the missions of the church and the tenants of the building. The most significant improvement to the building in 2021 was the replacement of the 60-year-old freight elevator in the rear of the building. Used primarily by the tenants in the basement, Mid-North Food Pantry, the Outreach committee is grateful to the Vestry for making the investment to replace it and help keep the Pantry operational during a crucial time for the neighborhood.

Committee members: David Bacon(Co-chair), Diana Creaser, Nedra Feeley, Kate Howe (Co-chair), Susan McMahon, Adam Mueller, Jane Stephenson, and Erin Vincent.

those that provided these cards but many thanks to all who contributed. We are happy to say that Dayspring has been able to re-open and families are moving back into the shelter and we are once again able to prep and serve meals to the residents. We had a full house at our last dinner in December and everyone ate their fill of Little Ceasar’s pizza and salad! Ice cream bars and sandwiches were distributed for dessert. Our next dinner will be on February 19, 2022.

Many thanks to those who have helped keep this ministry going. Humble apologies if I have left anyone out! Volunteers in 2021: John and Cathy Bridge, Bill Coleman, Mary DeVoe, Ginny Cottrell and family, Jan and Jim Gould, Karen E King, George Plews, and Peter Whitten.

Dayspring Dinners Jan Gould, Coordinator Dinners at Dayspring, one of our longest standing Outreach service projects at Trinity, has been serving dinners to the residents of the Dayspring Homeless Shelter for over 17 years. Volunteers plan, prepare, and serve meals on the third Sunday every other month. We usually feed 35 to 45 residents, many of whom are children. Each family has an assigned table in the dining room and social distancing is maintained while allowing families to dine together.

The meals usually consist of a hot entree, salad or vegetable, fresh fruit, potato or pasta dish, beverage, and dessert. Food is arranged on trays in the kitchen and an adult member of each family comes to pick up the trays. Each table has its own basket of condiments, salad dressing, and margarine.

Volunteers provide various items for the meals and reimbursement is available from the Outreach budget, but often these are donated. Some favorite meals are Fried chicken dinners, chili suppers, and pizza or taco night. Once the meals have been served, the volunteer team begins the clean-up process, which is usually a two-hour shift from food prep to clean up. We are always looking for people to add to our team. If you would be interested in volunteering, please email Jan Gould at jang1136@aol.com. We are a small but mighty group and love to have newcomers!

The pandemic of 2020/2021 brought new challenges to Dayspring and to our ministry. Families could not safely distance themselves in the Dayspring Shelter and volunteers were not allowed in the building to prep or serve food. Ten Dayspring families were moved to Extended Stay Suites where they could have their own sleeping and dining facilities and where they were able to purchase and prepare their own food.

Our volunteers were at a loss as to how we could continue to support Dayspring. Hats off to the wonderful Dayspring staff for finding a way to continue to help families and keep them safe. We were told that it would be of great help to collect and donate Walmart gift cards so that families could shop for their own meals. A quick email and post on Facebook brought on a flood of gift cards which were then given to the staff to distribute to the families. I can’t begin to name all of

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Exodus Immigration Welcome Team Cathy Bridge, Coordinator Following the United States’ military withdrawal from Afghanistan on August 15, 2021, Taliban fighters seized control of Kabul as the Afghan government collapsed. This triggered a staggering humanitarian crisis resulting in the need to immediately evacuate over 120,000 people from the country. In September 2021, Trinity contacted Exodus Refugee Immigration, Inc. to discuss the possibility of collaborating with Exodus in its efforts to resettle refugees from Afghanistan in the Indianapolis area. Exodus is a cooperating ministry of the Episcopal Diocese of Indianapolis. In 2016, Trinity formed a Welcome Team under the auspices of Exodus and the team assisted in resettling several families from Africa, including a family of six from the Central African Republic.

In the Fall, we began organizing the team and working to comply with Exodus’ training and compliance requirements which were much more rigorous than we had experienced in our prior resettlement efforts. It is important to keep in mind that Exodus resettled more refugees this fall than it typically does in an entire year. By November, we were ready to be matched with a family, and the team began preliminary preparations to collect clothing, furniture, and other items that would be needed to set up the family’s apartment.

On December 14, 2021, Exodus notified the team that they should be prepared to receive a family on December 16.

Fortunately, the team is a talented, resourceful, and energetic group and they sprang into action immediately. Within 48 hours, they had managed to furnish and clean the apartment, stock the pantry, and provide other needed items. On December 16, the team welcomed a family of 7 (soon to be 8) at the Indianapolis International Airport. Thereafter, we met a family of 6 from Afghanistan living next door to our family and began providing assistance to them as well.

Shortly after the family arrived, the team introduced them to the Mid-North Food Pantry which enthusiastically stocked the family with enough food for a one-to-two-week period, including the halal-certified meat they require. A group of Trinity parishioners are enthusiastically knitting hats and mittens for both families. The team is also continuing to work on determining the family’s clothing needs and sizes.

Of course, the Omicron surge has affected our efforts, as Exodus has understandably requested that the team avoid in person interactions with the family as much as reasonably possible. It has been challenging since the family does not yet have internet access. Our introductory meeting with Exodus and the family took place via conference call which allowed for only limited participation by the team. Hopefully, as Omicron declines and the family acquires internet access, we will be able to be in more regular communication with them.

The assistance of an interpreter will be necessary in many instances.

Now the team’s focus is beginning to shift to the family’s longer-term needs: creating a budget and setting up a bank account; cultural orientation; ESL and school tutoring; identifying skills and employment opportunities; providing transportation to appointments; and enrollment in an English language program.

If any Trinity parishioner would like to join this team as we continue to assist the family in their transition to a new life in the U.S., please contact Cathy Bridge for details about how to get involved.

Members: Cathy Bridge, Deb Cooney, Diana Creasser, Catey Hale, Cindy Hancock, Peter Hansen, Shannie Hughes, Sharon Lemler, Chris Plews, George Plews, Matthew Plews, Jody Root, Elsa Sands, Mike Schaefer, Katie Simmons, Ann Smith, Dave Smith, and Jane Stephenson.

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Social Justice & Racial Reconciliation

Trinity Sunday Dinner

Bill Coleman, Chair

Diana Creasser, Chair

2021 was a busy year for the Social Justice and Racial Reconciliation Working Group. During the early months of 2021 we engaged in discussions about our role in the Trinity Family.

These discussions resulted in the development of a threeyear Strategic Plan based on our Guiding Principles and the “Becoming a Beloved Community” program adopted by the national church. We were inspired by the charge from Bishop Curry to “Love our Neighbor.” In a strong show of support, the Trinity Vestry approved the Plan by unanimous resolution at its April meeting.

The Sunday Dinner, in collaboration with Second Helpings, has continued to offer a warm meal to our neighbors, as well as other donated items every week during 2021, except the Fourth of July. We have continued the “to go” bagged meal, which was adopted when the pandemic began and also still maintain strict COVID precautions.

The following are additional Working Group’s activities and events for 2021: Get Out The Vote Campaign. In late December 2020 we responded to a special request from Faith in Indiana sent to representatives who had participated on the 2020 election Faith Voter teams. They were requesting assistance in getting out the vote for the 2021 Georgia senatorial special election.

While our efforts did not include the Faith Voter teams, we participated in the phone bank to encourage voters in lowincome zip codes to vote.

Current practice involves staff doing the actual meal preparation and set-up. Three to four volunteers are needed to serve the food into containers and prepare the meal bags. These are then delivered to the TOC lobby and handed to each guest who comes to the door but not inside the building. While we continue to feed and engage with the people who come, all volunteers agree that we miss the deeper fellowship of our previous buffet and seated meal.

Father Adam Pierce joined the clergy of Trinity Church in July and immediately became involved with the Sunday Dinner.

Diana Creasser continues to manage the overall logistics of the ministry along with a strong staff team. Sheila Adkins works as the kitchen manager and cook, Maria Williams, operations and meal delivery and Greg Booker, meal delivery and facility support. The staff are integral to the smooth weekly meal.

Meeting with Indianapolis Mayor’s Staff. On March 19, we participated in a meeting with Mayor Hogsett’s staff arranged

by Faith in Indiana. A joint team from All Saints Episcopal and Trinity presented issues on Covid response, gun violence reduction, and immigration issues. Our input along with that of others resulted in the implementation of a $150 million three-year plan to reduce gun violence in Indianapolis.

Sacred Ground Grant Application. Members expended significant effort to prepare an application for a Sacred Ground grant through the national church. While our application was not approved, the process allowed us to hone in on objectives for the coming years.

Sacred Ground. During the fall we sponsored 10 weekly sessions focused on the Sacred Ground film and reading program that explores the use of discriminatory practices against minority races through chapters of America’s history of race and racism, while weaving in threads of family story, economic class, and political and regional identity.

We are looking forward to an exciting 2022. Anyone interested in joining the Working Group please contact Rev’d Adam Pierce apierce@trinitychurchindy.org, or Bill Coleman billcoleman@aol.com, Members: Amy Sue Bacon, David Bacon, Bill Coleman (Chair), Linda Cuticchia, Nedra Feeley, Laura Cruise Gibson, Dick Hughes, Jane Stephenson, Cindy Strietelmeier, and Bob Wood.

The biggest challenge this year has been engaging enough consistent volunteers to work each week. Mother Julia, Father Adam and Diana Creasser hosted two parish-wide forums on October 10th and 20th to discern ongoing parish support of the Sunday Dinner ministry. Seventy- two parishioners, who had previously been involved with the Sunday Dinner were asked to join in conversation and address three questions: What drew you to the Sunday Dinner? What concerns do you have about this ministry? What are your thoughts on changes moving forward?

Thirty-eight people participated with those individuals pretty evenly divided between in person and zoom. Responses were favorable for continuing the dinner but many mentioned expanding it to be more holistic and not just focused on food.

People miss engaging with our guests but emphasized the lost camaraderie with fellow team mates. There was a clear message that they want teams to be reformed and a schedule published. The electronic sign-up system is not preferable.

Teams and a schedule for each team to work every eight weeks is nearly complete. A comprehensive needs assessment and visioning will be conducted some time in 2022.

Guests: 43 average/week 2,340/ calendar year • Black 1581 or 83% • White 197 or 10% • Other 108 or 7% • Children 113 or 6% Meals served: 65/week 3,380/ calendar year At the beginning of the pandemic, Second Helpings and the ISDH approved giving out meals to people who were not physically present. Many guests take more than one meal for family members at home or others in need.

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Select Outreach Ministry Partners Bread for the World Cathy Bridge & Kate Howe, Coordinators Bread for the World is a collective Christian voice urging our decision-makers to end hunger at home and abroad.

Together with nearly 50 Indiana congregations and despite the ongoing pandemic, Trinity participated in Bread for the World’s 2021 Offering of Letters (and emails) to our members of Congress. These congregations reported sending 1,660 letters and emails, including 62 letters and emails sent by Trinity parishioners. Congress responded with expanded SNAP, Pandemic-EBT, Child Tax Credit and Earned income Tax Credits which together helped keep hunger at bay.

A new Bread for the World group has formed to enhance advocacy efforts in Congressional District 7 in which Trinity is located. The initial project involves seeking support of pastors in the District for passage of the very important Global Malnutrition Prevention and Treatment Act of 2021. The Act would authorize targeted programs to prevent and treat malnutrition around the world. Towards that end, pastors will be asked to sign onto letters to Senator Young thanking him for being a co-sponsor of this legislation and urging Senator Braun to become a co-sponsor.

We encourage Trinity parishioners to get in touch with Kate Howe or Cathy Bridge if they are interested in greater involvement with Bread for the World, in addition to our Annual Offering of Letters.

Horizons @ St. Richard’s AmySue Bacon, Executive Director Horizons at St. Richard’s Episcopal School (Horizons at SRES) is a transformative six-week, tuition-free summer program serving 150 Pre-K through eighth grade children from underresourced families. 98% of Horizons at SRES students identify as BIPOC. All Horizons’ students qualify for free/reduced lunch.

Students, parents, and staff were thrilled to have an inperson 2021 Horizons summer after experiencing virtual programming the previous summer due to the COVID-19 pandemic. With strict COVID protocols in place this summer, Horizons students arrived at the St. Richard’s campus each morning ready to engage in joyful learning experiences. We are grateful Horizons had no reported cases of COVID during the entire six weeks of programming.

counseling sessions and benefited from whole class socialemotional skill building lessons. Students also had the opportunity to grow as artists, dancers, and poets during enrichment classes. We wrapped up the summer with a powerful closing ceremony showcasing students’ learning and talents.

Horizons makes a commitment to supporting our students and families beyond summer. In 2021, Horizons’ students benefited from the generosity of Trinity parishioners’ through the annual Giving Tree. Sponsored by Trinity parishioners and SRES families, Horizons students received gifts for the holidays. Horizons also brought back our traditional holiday celebration for families to gather in fellowship in December.

Looking ahead to 2022, Horizons is adding new year-round programming for families. Super Saturday monthly events begin in January. These once a month sessions will offer academic and enrichment opportunities for both students and caregivers. Afterschool year-round tutoring is slated to begin in spring of 2022. This programming will target reading growth and help students remain at or above grade level. These new initiatives are possible due to grants targeting learning loss being awarded to Horizons in 2021.

Horizons staff grew to include an advancement manager and outreach coordinator in the past year. These new positions will ensure current high-quality programming remains and new programming is equally strong. Additionally, Horizons at SRES’s Board of Directors began strategic planning at the end of 2021 and will complete the process prior to summer 2022. This work will drive Horizons at SRES’s future steps. The Horizons advisory board includes Trinity Episcopal Church parishioners Jenn Dawson and Bob Marchesani. Horizons’ Executive Director is AmySue Bacon.

Horizons is grateful for Trinity’s support through sponsorship of Trivia Night and use of its facilities for programming and special events. We look forward to continued partnership in the year ahead!

The Mid-North Food Pantry (MNFP) Kathleen Strickland, Board President The Mid-North Food Pantry has had another busy year.

Some highlights:

Classrooms began days with morning meetings focused on building relationships and social-emotional learning. Horizons students spent time each day developing reading, math, and writing skills under the guidance of licensed teachers.

Through our partnership with the JCC, Horizons students took swim lessons and played in the water three times per week. Additionally, each grade level participated in one field trip each week. With Indiana Wesleyan’s Graduate School of Counseling, Horizons students had access to individual

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• In 2021, the Pantry served 8,122 households, 24,990 family members, 9,873 children, 1,503 veterans and 284 people experiencing homelessness. The Pantry received 84,918 donated pounds of food, with Whole Foods and Second Helpings being our primary donors. The Pantry currently has approximately 42 volunteers and paid staff.

• Trinity members Cathy Bridge, Timothy Dorsey, Nikeesha Pittman, and Kathleen Strickland serve on the Pantry Board of Directors.

St. Nicholas Early Learning, Inc.

• Kathleen also serves as President and Cathy serves as Chair of the Operations Committee.

• We have been blessed with dedicated volunteers throughout another challenging year. Trinity members Susan McMahon and Pantry Manager Matthew Jennings once again went above and beyond to keep the pantry running smoothly and safely throughout 2021. Trinity members Michael Arnold, Diane Beardsley, Rick Beardsley, Cathy Bridge, Lisa Buoy, Tim Dorsey, Nancy Farrar, John Farrar, Jan Kempf, Jim Knowles, Ross McKenna, Michael Nichols, Nikeesha Pittman, David Bacon, Quincey Bacon, and Erin Vincent–along with their families–regularly volunteered their time.

• Under leadership from Vicky Prusinski, our garden expanded to more than double the growing space enjoyed in previous summers. Carter ProBuild provided a very generous in-kind donation that enabled us to build six new, raised cedar beds, and Vicky and her volunteers planted and harvested vegetables from early summer into the fall. Throughout the growing season neighbors were offered a variety of fresh produce, including tomatoes, collards, kale, okra, green beans, squash, radishes, cucumbers, and several different kinds of herbs.

• Fresh Thyme Market donated overage from their inventory, primarily baked dessert items and specialty breads, both of which are popular with our shoppers.

• Board member Roberta Rowland organized a mobile Covid vaccine/testing clinic in the Outreach Center parking lot in September. The Indiana State Department of Health, Trinity, and the Pantry sponsored the event.

Kathleen Hugus, Executive Director St. Nicholas Early Learning, Inc (SNEL), located on the first floor of the Trinity Outreach Center, offers safe, welcoming, and high-quality childcare. Despite pandemic challenges, SNEL is going strong. In December, SNEL offered a fond farewell to Jill Brooks and warmly welcomed Kay Hugus as the center’s next Executive Director. Kay took over the leadership on December 1, 2021, and hit the ground running.

Kay shares, “These past two months have gone by so fast, and yet, I feel like I have been here forever. The center is a true gem and a blessing to this community. I am especially struck by the partnership SNEL has with Trinity. SNEL staff are true educators that dedicate themselves to making a warm, nurturing environment for these little ones in spite of the social restrictions and protocols.Because our students are too young to be vaccinated, SNEL’s highest priority is to keep all healthy and safe. We are successfully meeting that goal - our closures have been limited to a few rooms with only two positive cases. Another bragging point I can share is no cases of COVID infection can be traced from being exposed at SNEL. I credit this to our amazing staff diligently cleaning and sanitizing.”

SNEL continues to utilize its tuition assistance fund to support its mission of providing high-quality childcare for families of diverse socio-economic and racial backgrounds. In 2021, 14 students, which accounted for 27 percent of enrolled students, received some amount of tuition assistance and/or funding from CCDF. Current enrollment for SNEL stands at 52 children with three spots being filled in early 2022.

SNEL held one virtual fundraising event, The Walk for Dreams, and participated in Giving Tuesday in 2021, which outperformed previous fundraising metrics for each respective event. Both events enabled us to grow our tuition-assistance fund and help low and middle-income families in need of high-quality childcare.

• Grocery store chain ALDI began providing the Pantry with frozen meat each week. Their donations of lamb and fish appeal to our Muslim neighbors, including the Trinitysponsored refugees from Afghanistan.

• Trinity awarded a substantial grant in November to kick off our new produce project, enabling the Pantry to offer a large increase in our selection of fresh and frozen fruits and vegetables, the most requested category of foods for residents of our Center Township neighborhoods.

• Finally, in June, the freight elevator in the Outreach Center was replaced by Trinity. With our outdoor pantry operations continuing year-round, having a reliable freight elevator is key to streamline service to our neighbors. The Pantry volunteers, staff, and Board are grateful for this upgrade, which was completed on time and has enabled volunteers and staff to move large quantities of food between the basement and the parking lot. Thank you, Trinity!

2022 looks bright and promising! The SNEL Board is currently engaged in strategic planning to set a path for future growth.

Trinity parishioners serving on the SNEL Board of Directors include Katherine Anthony and AmySue Bacon. Additionally, the center is in the process of upgrading communication tools to better engage parents and the outside community. We also look forward to the pandemic easing, so we can allow parents into the center to see our good work with their children. We hope to host several parent events and would extend the invitation to anyone in the community that would like to come see all the incredible things happening on our part of the Trinity Campus.

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Trinity Haven Jenni White, Founding Executive Director Trinity Haven, Indiana’s first and only home for LGBTQ youth/ young adults at risk for homelessness, was incubated and launched at Trinity Church; although it is now an independent 501(c)(3) with a gorgeous home a few blocks off the church campus, the two organizations will always have a connection that is more meaningful than words can describe.

2021 was an absolutely thrilling year for Trinity Haven. After years of planning and preparation, unexpected delays and a global pandemic, we celebrated our grand opening on April 30, 2021, with a ribbon cutting ceremony on our front lawn.

Guests from far and wide gathered together, for many – for the first time since the pandemic began – seated in chairs carefully placed six feet apart, to celebrate the opening of not one, but two housing programs! Our Transitional Living Program provides safe, affirming, shared housing for up to nine LGBTQ youth ages 18-21 (and those ages 16 and 17 with parental consent and DCS approval) for up to two years; and our Host Homes Program, which provides safe, temporary housing for up to six months in the home of a member of our community, for youth/young adults ages 16-24. The goal of host homes is to provide safe housing where the young person has time to repair their relationships with self-identified family or make decisions about other housing options with the support of our Youth Engagement Specialist. We are always looking for hosts (both respite and longer-term), so if this interests you, please let us know!

Another exciting project that involved members of Trinity Church was also part of a young man’s Eagle Scout project: Malcolm Hembre, son of Kate Howe and Erik Hembre, raised funds to purchase materials and then built a storage shed which allows us to store lawn, yard and snow removal equipment securely. And many members of Trinity Church provided an amazing Christmas dinner for our residents, including four baked chickens, mashed potatoes, all the trimmings, several pies…and a fabulous disco ball ornament from Mother Julia: it was a glorious first Christmas at Trinity Haven!

And finally, we also celebrated each other at our very first major fundraising event, the Homecoming Bash! Here we raised over $17,000 for our Resilience Fund, which will allow us to assist graduates of our program when they need a bit of financial assistance to stay on track. Car breaks down and needs fixed? We can help! Unexpected expense that would bust your budget? We can help! We are excited to see this fund grow and to be able to help our residents even after they move out of our programs.

We hope you will sign up for our e-Newsletter, which you can subscribe to from our website, so you can stay tuned on all the incredible things Trinity Haven is doing. We hope you will continue to follow our progress, and we thank you for your continued support of Trinity Haven and LGBTQ youth/young adults experiencing housing instability.

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Trinity Service Corps The Rev’d Adam Pierce, Program Director After several intentional years of discernment around the use of the 3256 House (on Pennsylvania Ave) on Trinity’s campus, a dedicated group of Trinity parishioners led by Mother Julia concluded that an Episcopal Service Corps program was the direction God was calling Trinity to pursue. The Episcopal Service Corps is a network of young adults ages 21-32 serving through locally organized intentional communities that are dedicated to serving others in solidarity, promoting justice, deepening spiritual awareness, discerning vocation, and living in community. The program lasts roughly 10 to 11 months, during which time corps members commit to a household Rule of Life, regular spiritual direction, discernment and community practices, as well as volunteer service in the local community. Trinity Service Corps plans to welcome its first group of 6 corps members in August 2022.

Since accepting the role of Program Director for Trinity Service Corps in September 2021, I have worked closely with our Advisory Board of Trinity Parishioners to get this program off the ground. Thanks to Tracey Lemon, we have a website where

potential applicants can learn more about us. The Advisory Board is assisting me in recruiting partner agencies to provide full-time volunteer opportunities for our corps members.

Some interested partners are Trinity Haven, St. Richards’s Episcopal School, Bread for the World, Indiana Justice Project, Mid-North Food Pantry Inc., Indiana Youth Group, Christ Church Cathedral, and Horizon’s at St. Richard’s. We are also overseeing the renovations that are currently underway to the 3256 House, and I cannot wait to see the finished product. I have begun interviewing applicants for the inaugural program year and I am exceedingly grateful for these young adults who are choosing to take a year to discern their future within the context of an intentional community.

I want to thank our advisory board members, Todd Relue, Kate Howe, Andy McConnell, Jen Phelps, Lisa Adler, Luana Nissan, Shelly Furuness, John Brady, and Mother Julia for their commitment to seeing this program come together. A special thanks to EriK Hembre for his knowledgeable assistance with oversight of the renovation process.

To learn more visit: trinityservicecorps.org

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Pastoral Care Ministries The Rev’d Dr. Benjamin Anthony, Associate Rector

Pastoral care takes many forms. At the heart of it is a direct interaction between people, often the one-on-one interaction between individuals. This interpersonal interaction creates the space where pastoral care is needed and delivered. The threat of COVID-19 and the protocols adopted to slow its spread continue to negatively impact the interpersonal interactions critical to pastoral care. But the wide availability of effective COVID vaccines and the durable faith of Trinity parishioners has sustained and developed life-sustaining forms of pastoral care.

Lay Eucharistic Visitors (LEVs) The Guild of the Holy Cross is a long standing ministry of Trinity Episcopal Church. A Lay Eucharistic Visitor or “LEV” is a person licensed by the bishop, upon the recommendation of the Rector, and approval of the Vestry to take the consecrated elements, the Bread and Wine of Holy Communion to members of the congregation who, by reason of illness or infirmity are unable to be present at the Celebration of Holy Eucharist on Sunday or other Principal Celebrations. LEVs also assist with other activities. Listed below are ministry highlights: • Made 41 Private Home Communion visits with 50+ people receiving communion.

• Supported 9 Eucharistic celebrations offered onsite to the residents at Marquette Manor and Robin Run with 80+ people receiving communion.

• Karen E. King (co-leader), Scott Whitaker (co-leader), Mary Chalmers, Brocky Brown, Carol DeCoursey, Ross McKenna, James Cramer.

Holy Eucharist at Robin Run Village and Marquette Manor In August and September Trinity began a ministry of onsite celebrations of Holy Eucharist at Robin Run Village (the 2nd Wednesday of every month) and Marquette Manor (the 4th

Thursday of every month). Missy Roetter has been the linchpin to the organization of this ministry, working closely with the community activities directors at both facilities to establish a schedule of regular celebrations of the Eucharist for Trinity’s members who reside at these two communities.

These onsite, in-person gatherings have been deeply joyful moments of sacramental refreshment, prayer, and fellowship. Through these gatherings we have sustained our connection with longtime Trinity members in these residential communities: Neil and Angie Wylde, Sally Morton, Becky and Larry Peyton, Dottie Tolhurst, Mary Beaty, Elizabeth Perkins, Fay Almas, to name a few.

Pastoral care was also delivered to our members during 2021 through the delivery of material tokens of care and affection. The Parish Life Committee’s delivery of Poinsettias and an Advent care package was a tangible expression of prayer and love for the members of our community whose age makes them especially vulnerable to the threat of COVID-19.

Meal trains were organized for those moving through seasons of grief, new life, and medical hardship. You are invited to request this service should you face a life situation that can be made more bearable with the delivery of provided meals.

If you have a need for meal support, or know someone who might, please contact the office or email Father Ben (banthony@trinitychurchindy.org) with details so we can set that up for you.

Small groups that continued to meet through Zoom and in-person when COVID numbers and the prevailing protocols permitted it, were critical sites of pastoral care. Groups such as the Monday Bible Study, the Rector’s Study Group on Tuesdays, the Trinity Caregivers group on the third Thursday of each month, the twice-monthly Men’s Group have all continued to meet on Zoom and in-person.

The most important precursor to and benefit of the delivery of pastoral care is a relationship and these small groups and Eucharistic ministries enable the formation of relationships and durable bonds of affection.

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Trinity Comforters Patty Gotway, Trinity Comforters Coordinator Trinity Knitters have not met during 2021. We hope to resume social meetings when safe.

We have encouraged individuals to knit items for our newest refugee family and several have suppled hats and scarves for them. We still have yarn available for anyone wishing to make items for donation. We can always find homes for hats and scarves and small baby blankets.

Trinity Caregivers’ Support Group Peter Sehlinger, Chair The Trinity Caregivers’ Group began meeting in the summer of 2014 and is composed of individuals who are caregivers for relatives and friends suffering from Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s, strokes, and other debilitating medical problems. The group meets on the third Thursday of the month at 3:30 p.m. We meet via Zoom.

The caregivers are joined by two resource persons who have been caregivers and by the Rev’d James Knowles, the group’s chaplain. We share experiences and offer support to fellow caregivers, as well offering suggestions and providing information on available resources. All conversations remain strictly confidential. Caregivers at Trinity and elsewhere are invited to attend our meetings.

Trinity Men’s Breakfast Peter Sehlinger, Chair After meeting via Zoom because of the pandemic, the Trinity Men’s Group began meeting again for breakfast at 9:00 a.m.on the first and third Wednesdays of each month at the Lincoln Square Pancake House, 2330 North Meridian. We celebrated our fourth anniversary in January. We offer an opportunity for attendees to share experiences and get better acquainted.

While largely social in nature, at each meeting Ross McKenna reads a short scriptural passage and a commentary from the tract Forward Day by Day, which are followed by discussion. All men at Trinity are encouraged and welcome to join us.

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Trinity Guilds

McMath, Dana Newell, Kim Purucker, Missy Roetter, Katherine Smith, Kay Whitaker and Nancy Wright.

Acolyte Guild

At the January meeting, the following officers were elected:

Lisa Adler, Kate Howe, Christy Jacobi, and Todd Relue Trinity acolytes were able to begin serving again in 2021, starting with Holy Week in late March and early April. The Acolyte Guild was also excited to welcome and train ten new acolytes In August of 2021. This brings the Acolyte Guild back to 36 members, serving as they feel comfortable. We would like to recognize the acolytes who have served in 2021.

Gold Crosses (have served 100 or more services) Malcolm Hembre, Joseph Naas

Chalice Guild The Chalice Guild stopped ministry after March 2020, once church services started following Covid guidelines for communion. All members are eager to return when it is safe to do so!

Silver Crosses (have served 60 or more services) Eli Bucken, Madison Gonzalez, Caroline Johnson, Evie Relue, Liam Whitworth-Neufeld, Allan Williams

Jeannice Shobe, Leader (8AM)

Bronze Crosses (have served 30 or more services) Adeline Adler Mueller, Dieudonne Djarabe, Vanessa Djouma, Erika Heller, Soren Hembre, Noah Lee, Vera McConnell, Giscard Medjeham, Sarah Jane Strickland, Keagan Williams Continuing Acolytes Henry Bucken, Mason Lee, Lucy Phelps Kelleher, Sage Phelps Kelleher, Wynn Potter, Edward Relue, Ivey Strickland, Kally Vincent Newly Trained Acolytes Levin Adler Mueller, Quincy Bacon, Kevin Dawson, Kennedy Knick, Caroline Smith, Owen Smith, Maxine Steensland, Minna Steensland, Austin Vincent, Grace Whitworth-Neufeld Acolytes who Graduated in 2021: Andy Jacobi (Rose-Hulman), Kyle Lee (gap year), Ian Miller (Purdue), Alex Ngaba (Wabash), Abby Smith (Georgetown)

The Chalice Bearers for 8 a.m. are a small but mighty team. Our regular participants are Michael Cuticchia, Finis Tatum and me.

Jeff Martin, Leader (10:30AM) 10am Chalice Bearers: Lisa Adler, Theresa Arness, Eric Baiz, Kelly Bentley, Brock Brown, Jerry Butt, Mary Chalmers, Deb Cooney, Ellen Crabb, Bonnie Frye, Jim Gould, Sally Hardgrove, Lynette Herd, Dick Hughes, Watta Johnson-Massaley, Russ Lawson, Sandra Malcom, Jeff Martin, Samuel Massaley, Susan McMahon, Alex Ngaba, Jen Phelps, Winter Snow, Jane Stephenson, Kathleen Strickland, Kathy Watson, Kay Whitaker, Eric Williams, and Neil Wylde.

Garden Guild Sharon Lemler, Leader Another year has come and gone, and our beautiful gardens have helped untold numbers of souls to rest, pray, relax, study, find hope, breathe, and enjoy God’s creation. What a gift to have these gardens on our campus.

Altar Guild Kim Purucker, President The Altar Guild is responsible for the preparation of the altar for various sacraments as the Rector directs. This includes every service held in the church and outdoors. The Altar Guild cares for all communion linens, communion vessels and clergy vestments, as well as all flowers within the sanctuary, and provides assistance to the clergy as needed.

The Altar Guild meets 3 times a year – January, May and September to schedule volunteers for services. We work in teams, with each team being responsible for one scheduled weekend per month, in addition to occasional services during the week. We welcome new members as openings occur. New members complete a period of training and working with a seasoned member prior to becoming a regular part of a team.

The Altar Guild was thrilled to be back to almost full speed at Christmas. We welcomed several new members this past year.

There are currently 19 active members in the Altar Guild: Kelly Bentley, Patty Bennett, Linda Brown, James Cramer, Betsy Cronin, Catey Hale, Joel Harrison, Lynnette Herd, Margi Jahns, Mary Maher, Sandra Malcom, Marian McConnell, Tricia

• Kim Purucker – President • Nancy Wright – Vice President • Catey Hale – Secretary • Linda Brown – Treasurer Anyone interested in serving on the Altar Guild, please contact Kim Purucker, kspurucker99@gmail.com or 317/697-5151.

This past year we had very limited times for gardening (Thank you, Covid-19), and yet excellent work was done by volunteers and also our professional helper, Chris Turner and his crew.

In June, Trinity/St. Richards hosted the Indianapolis Garden Club and friends, on its annual garden tour. Literally hundreds of garden-lovers ooohed and ahhhhed their way around both gardens, exclaiming on their beauty, peacefulness, and “hidden locations” right in the midst of the city and all in the rain!

We thank God for these spaces, for all our volunteers, and for the gradual lessening of the severity of Covid-19. May 2022 bring many happy days of gardening, for many happy Garden guild members!

Greeter’s Guild Tom Greist, Leader The Greeter’s Guild is blessed with many wonderful Greeters: Lisa Adler and Adam Mueller, Amy Sue and David Bacon, Maren and Bobby Bell, Patty and Richard Bennett, Mary and John Challman, Betty Elliot, Shelly and Bryan Furuness, Sally Hardgrove and Ron Newlin, Lynette and Rick Herd, Gayle and David Holtman, Christy and Jim Jacobi, Erin Kilbride-Vincent

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and Abby Vincent, Trish and Rob McMath, Brittany and Brad Knick, Kim and Jim Purucker, Ann and Dave Smith, and Iris and Colin Terry.

Hopefully, we will all be greeting again sometime later in 2022, Covid willing!

Saint Stephen’s Guild Jennifer Phelps, Leader St. Stephen’s Guild/Trinity Lectors participate in the liturgy on a rotating basis by reading scriptural lessons and prayers.

Almost 40 parishioners participate on a quarterly rotation for regular Sunday morning services, as well as Evensongs, and other special services, such as Lessons & Carols and The Great Easter Vigil.

This year, the Guild was delighted to resume in-person services. A highlight for the Guild was the Fourth of July service. Modeled upon our Advent Lessons & Carols, readings reflecting on our union were interspersed with patriotic hymns and invoked deep reflection on the history and future of this nation under God. The Guild would like to thank Hugh Resnick for his years of service leading the Guild. His efforts to keep the Lectors involved and to run tech support for how to email large video files were so appreciated by the Guild and parish during those long months we worshiped solely online.

Thank you to all the Members of the St. Stephens Guild for your faithful service. We are overjoyed to welcome new members this past year and look forward to including more in the rota in the year ahead. Please let any of us know if you’d like to be a part of this ministry.

2021 Members: AmySue Bacon, David Bacon, John Bridge, Jerry Butt, Mary Chalmers, James Cramer, John Craun, Holly Day, Cheryl Eizner, John Eizner, Gary Haley, Tim Haley, Joel Harrison, Erik Hembre, Charlie Hirschman, Leigh Ann Hirschman, Gayle Holtman, Shannie Hughes, Karen King, Jim Knowles, Russ Lawson, Catherine Lewis, Mary Mail, Robert Marchesani, Watta Massaley, Jeannie Mayhue, Andy McConnell, Mary Miller, Leigh Anne Naas, Jennifer Phelps, Christine Plews, George Plews, Hugh Resnick, Victoria Resnick, Steven Stolen, Shana Stump, Amy Tompkins, Eric Williams, Robert Wilson, Elizabeth Zauber.

Structure: The Head Usher is Eric Baiz (ebaiz@talktotucker. com 317-626-6364). The 10:30 Service is divided into 8 teams of 5 people with the first person listed being the Captain, and a Reserve Team of some former ushers. The 9:00 Service is mostly in the Lemler Garden during clement weather, so only one usher is needed to hand out programs. The 8:00 Service is comprised of people who attend that service. The Ushers’ Guild reports to the Clergy and Ministers of Ceremony, but in reality, we seamlessly interface with all the Worship guilds: choir, altar, children’s ministries, acolytes, maintenance staff, and police/security team.

New ushers are most welcome to join anytime during the year by contacting the Head Usher.

In 2021 the following personnel changes occurred: Ross McKenna moved from Captain of Team 4 to 8:00 Service, Jeff Martin resigned from Captain of Team 8 to move to Pacific Northwest, Mike Tirman resigned from Team 2 to move to Chicago, Tery Snoeberger left Team 7 to Team 9 The Reserves, Katie Simmons promoted to Captain of Team 4, Nancy Ferriani retired from Team 8, Todd Relue moved from Team 1 to Team 9 The Reserves.

Team 1: George (Corky) Plews, John Bridge, Tom Greist, Cathy Bridge Team 2: Eric Baiz, Peter Whitten, Greg Turner, Adam Mueller Team 3: Ron Newlin, Susan McMahon, Richard Bennett, Samuel Massaley, Watta Johnson Massaley Team 4: Katie Simmons Jay Simmons, Jonathan Onuorah, Steven Stolen Team 5: Doug Hale, Nathaniel Samba, Clara Jammy-Samba, Saa Samba, Winter Snow Team 6: Pat Garten, Jim Purucker, Tim Root, Fred Roetter Team 7: Abby Vincent, Mike Arnold, Mike Kohtz, Ken Feeley Team 8: Hope Oaks, Dick Hughes, Tony Harvey Team 9-The Reserves: Erick Ponader, Rebecca Mattingly, Jane Stephenson, David Holtman, Casey Cronin, Tim Koponen, David Crabb, Matthew Marchasani, John Craun, Tery Snoeberger, Todd Relue 8:00 AM Ushers: Finis Tatum, Jeannice H. Shobe, Mike Cuticchia, Ross McKenna.

Ushers Guild Eric Baiz, Leader Principal Activities: The Ushers’ Guild is responsible for the logistics of getting people to and from their pews. The ushers are responsible for collecting the offering, releasing people for commu­nion, and cleaning up after the services. Ushers serve at special services: funerals, confirmations, and nonSunday services. Functions include handing out Orders of Service, selecting Oblation Bearers, assisting in emergencies, managing chairs & doors & wheelchairs & the flow of people dur­ing services. All this is done in a manner that is friendly, subtle, respectful, and dignified. The ushers are helpful in greeting and welcoming visitors.

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St. Richard’s Episcopal School Dr. Leslie Hosey, Head of School

It has been a gift and blessing to serve as Head of School at St. Richard’s Episcopal School. Despite the ongoing pandemic and surges in variants, we have been largely successful in maintaining our in-person program. During this transition in leadership, I have appreciated the opportunity to reflect on our shared history and to more fully articulate the important role Episcopal values have in the life of the school. I am so grateful for the wise and supportive counsel of our Chaplain, Fr. Ben, and for our students to have the opportunity to learn and grow in the sacred spaces at Trinity Episcopal Church, with Mother Julia presiding as Rector.

This year we will celebrate the well deserved retirement of Cheryl Eiszner, a long time Trinity member and a St. Richard’s faculty member. In addition, we were proud to support the successful Trivia Night Fundraiser for Horizons at St. Richard’s.

Next year, we look forward to welcoming an inaugural membersof the Trinity Service Corp at our school. Finally, real world service projects, such as the donation of air purifiers to partners such as Trinity Haven and the Mid North Food Pantry, allow our students to see themselves as having meaning and purpose in their school program. We are grateful for these partnership opportunities and our relationship with Trinity!

While COVID-19 remains a significant factor in managing our school program, we are also beginning our school reaccreditation process. For a new school leader, this process is timely, as we are called to examine and reaffirm our mission.

Together, our governance structures will explore our history and the state of our school and commit to practices that will grow and sustain our school. Earlier this school year, we held a faculty retreat to begin the process of affirming our mission and values. The Rt. Rev’d Bishop Jennifer BaskervilleBurrows and Fr. Ben provided foundational knowledge about the Episcopal church, and beautifully articulated the values present within our school program. Faculty left the retreat with new knowledge, energized, and validated for the work they perform daily. Consistent with our five pillars, we continue to meet the academic, social-emotional, and spiritual needs of our students, resulting in a superior and enduring school experience.

My best wishes to Trinity Episcopal Church, Leslie Anita Hosey, Ph.D. Head of School, St. Richard’s Episcopal School

The last few years have been challenging for all independent schools. Due to the brilliance and extraordinary care within our community, we are finding our way to financial strength, more stable enrollment, and building structures to ensure the future of our school. While personnel had been pared back due to budgetary constraints, we are rebuilding our advancement team to provide creative and innovative strategies to increase enrollment, grow our endowment, and spread the good news about the value of a St. Richard’s education. We have lost touch with a large number of alumni, and we will begin rebuilding our database to reconnect all that have been positively impacted by St. Richard’s. Despite some challenging years, our future is bright, and we are so grateful for the strength found in our shared history.

The mission of St. Richard’s, an independent Episcopal day school, is to instill knowledge and values for a lifetime through the implementation of Five Pillars for Success: Faith, Classic Curriculum, Leadership, Civic Responsibility, and Global Readiness.

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Chaplain’s Report

The Rev’d Dr. Benjamin Anthony, Chaplain COVID-related protocols and the expansion of the COVID vaccine program have allowed a measure of normalcy to return to school life. The school year began on-time and inperson and has largely remained that way, save for occasional recourse to remote instruction to curb community spread of the virus in the school.

We also began the school year with the fresh perspective and leadership of St. Richard’s new Head of School, Dr. Leslie Hosey. We celebrated and memorialized the advent of her leadership on October 14 All School Chapel with a liturgy for the Installation of a New Head of School. Bishop Jennifer Baskerville-Burrows presided, and Mother Julia Whitworth and Mr. Gil Voy, president of the Board of Trustees, presented Dr. Hosey as the school’s next Head.

learning that makes good on St. Richard’s offer of “Knowledge and Values for a Lifetime.”

Katie Elder and Cheryl Eiszner continue to provide excellent divinity instruction to the students across the three divisions (Early Childhood, Lower Division, and Middle Division).

Mrs. Eiszner has continue to flourish in her work as Godly Play instructor, and Mrs. Elder has exercised considerable and thoughtful initiative in her role(s) as chaplain to Early Childhood students and divinity instructor to Lower and Middle Division students. They have elevated the quality of religious instruction and the communication of Episcopal values through their shared and individual work.

The conclusion of the 2021-2022 school year will bring with it Mrs. Eiszner’s retirement from teaching. The very definition of irreplaceable and beloved. We wish Cheryl and John the best as they begin this new chapter of their lives.

Chapel and community events have resumed at St. Richard’s, often as in-person gatherings with occasional pivots to hybrid and online/remote formats. The installation of the livestream camera system in Trinity has made remote attendance a visually and acoustically richer experience for all students and teachers when they “attend” chapel remotely. Lessons & Carols also returned as a ticketed, in-person event, with services offered on December 15-17 to allow for half-capacity attendance in the Church.

Collaboration with Dean Wilmara Manuel has strengthened the kind of learning experiences that happen in chapel. First, this collaboration has led to creation of a schoolwide Virtues of the Month program. Once a month a new virtue–resilience, kindness, thankfulness, creativity, to name a few–provides a focal point that integrates classroom instruction, socialemotional learning, library and other forms of supplemental reading, Chapel and Advisory programs. Second, the addition of a monthly Middle Division Chapel has given the Chapel program the added reach of a space shaped by and for middle school students. Finally, collaboration with Dean Manuel on an integrated Chapel-Assembly program allows for these two schoolwide programs to build upon and reinforce the kind of

As Chaplain, my primary role is to supervise and enact the chapel and divinity program at St. Richard’s. Increasingly, my work is the ongoing project of cultivating at the school an environment consistent with Episcopal values. My work as part of the school’s Leadership Team and Diversity Committee are venues where those values are integrated into and reinforced in the life of the school. In November, Bishop Jennifer Baskerville-Burrows, Dean Wilmara Manuel, and I led a retreat for the St. Richard’s faculty that provided an overview of the theology and values of the Episcopal Church and the expression of those in the history and life of St. Richard’s Episcopal School.

2021 was a year marked by the same disruption, upheaval, and loss of the preceding year. But it was also a year marked by the waxing hope offered in the form of student-eligibility for effective COVID vaccines; the promise of clear direction and sustained flourishing under the leadership of a new Head of School; the familiar prayers and hymns of school chapel echoing in the church; and the sight of students and parents in-person and on-campus.

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Who’s Who at Trinity Church TRINITY CLERGY The Rev’d Julia Whitworth, Rector The Rev’d Dr. Benjamin J. Anthony, Associate Rector for Pastoral Care and Chaplain to St. Richard’s School The Rev’d Megan Miller, Associate Rector for Children and Lifelong Formation The Rev’d Adam Pierce, Associate Rector for Outreach, Justice and Congregational Development Affiliated Clergy (non-stipendiary) The Reverend Gordon Chastain The Reverend Bob Dekker The Reverend Nancy Ferriani The Reverend James Knowles The Reverend Dr. James Lemler The Reverend Mary Mail The Reverend Jean Smith The Reverend Mark Streitemeier The Reverend Mollie Williams TRINITY STAFF Bethany Baugh, Executive Assistant and Special Projects Rita Earls, Housekeeping Dirk Edwards, Director of Facilities Molly Ellsworth, Director of Director of Operations Nara Lee, Assistant Organist Tracey Lemon, Comuncation Consultant Dr. Michael Messina, Director of Music Leigh Anne Naas, Director of Communications Missy Roetter, Youth and Parish LIfe Coordinator David Smith, Maintenance Technician SECURITY TEAM Eric Snow Jon Haynes Mark Rutter Martin Koeller Scott Ferrer Bill Pang VESTRY Bobby Bell, 2022 Deb Cooney, 2022 Marlene Marchesani, 2022 Bill Mirola, 2022 Shana Stump, 2022 Carol Decoursey, 2023 Shelly Furuness, Junior Warden, 2023 Kären Haley, 2023 Todd Relue, Senior Warden, 2023 Nathaniel Samba, 2023 Lisa Adler, Clerk, 2024 Lillian Crabb, 2024 Kate Howe, 2024 Andy McConnell, 2024 Erin Vincent, 2024 Kay Whitaker, Treasurer to the Vestry

TRUSTEES, TRINITY EPISCOPAL CHURCH LEGACY FUND Patty Gotway Joel Harrison Erik Hembre John Hirschman, President Christy Jacobi Gavin Stephens, Secretary Kay Whitaker, Treasurer to the Vestry, ex-officio The Rev’d Julia Whitworth, ex-officio CHAIRS OF TRINITY MINISTRIES Adult Learning & Formation, Mother Megan Miller Caregivers’ Support Group, Peter Sehlinger Children’s Chapel Renovation, Kathy Watson Children’s Groups - G34 & PRISM, Mother Megan Miller Choir Board, Dr. Michael Messina Choir & Choristers, Dr. Michael Messina Columbarium, Chris Plews & Mike Cuticchia Comforters & Knitters, Patty Gotway Community Outreach Grants, Kate Howe Dayspring Dinners, Jan Gould Discipleship Book Group, Shannie Hughes Education for Ministry, Sara Bean Epiphany Prayer Practices (Jan - Feb 2021), Cos Raimondi Exodus Immigration Welcoming Team, Cathy Bridge & Dave Smith Children & Families, Mother Megan Miller Finance Committee, Kay Whittaker Joint Properties Committee, Erik Hembre Landscape Committee, Noelle King Lay Eucharistic Visitors (LEV), Father Benjamin Anthony & Carol DeCoursey Lectionary Bible Study, Father Benjamin Anthoony Legacy Fund Trustees, David Hirschman Contemplative Prayer, Deb Cooney & Kathy Watson Monday Bible Study, Father Benjamin Anthony Newcomer Classes, Clergy Nominating Committee, Todd Relue Nursery, Patty Gotway Office Volunteers, Sandra Orr Malcom & Becky Peyton Outreach Advisory Committee, David Bacon & Kate Howe Outreach Ministry, Father Adam Pierce Parish Life Committee, Missy Roetter &, Marlene Marchesani Pastoral Care Committee, Benjamin Anthony & Carol DeCoursey Regathering Taskforce, Todd Relue Social Justice and Reconciliation Working Group, Bill Coleman Stewardship, Jeff Brinkmann Sunday Counters, Catey Hale Sunday School, Mother Megan Miller Tree of Life Planned Giving, Ann Smith Trinity Men’s Breakfast, Peter Sehlinger & Ed Stephenson Trinity Planned Giving, Ann Harris Smith Trinity Properties, Shelly Furuness Trinity Small Groups, Mother Megan Miller

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Trinity Sunday Dinner, Diana Creasser Trinity Youth, Missy Roetter Tuesday Study Group, Mother Julia Whitworth Waycross Bucks, Christy Jacobi Women’s Discipleship Group, Patty Bucken & Elyce Elder Women’s Reading Group, Katherine Lewis Worship Committee, Mother Julia Whitworth CHAIRS OF TRINITY GUILDS Acolyte Guild, Lisa Adler, Kate Howe, Christy Jacobi, & Todd Relue Altar Guild, Kim Purucker Garden Guild, Sharon Lemler Greeter’s Guild, Tom Greist Madrigal Guild, Christy Jacobi St. Stephen’s Guild (Lectors) - Jen Phelps Ushers Guild, Eric Baiz OUTREACH MINISTRY PARTNERS Bread for the World, Cathy Bridge & Kate Howe Faith in Indiana, Linda Cuticchia, Trinity Liaison Habitat for Humanity, Erik Hembre, Trinity Liaison Horizons @ St. Richard’s, Amysue Bacon, ED Mid-North Food Pantry, Cathy Bridge & Kathleen Strickland, BOT Neighborhood Christian Legal Clinic, Amy Adair Horton, ED Second Helpings, Patty Corellini, Dir. of Agency Relations St. Nicholas Early Learning, Inc, Kathleen Hugus, ED Trinity Haven, Jenni White, ED Trinity Service Corps, Father Adam Pierce , Program Director

Who’s Who at St. Richard’s Episcopal School ST. RICHARD’S BOARD OF TRUSTEES EXECUTIVE CMTE Mr. Gilbert T. Voy, President Mr. Ron Bockstahler, Vice President Mrs. Cindy Cho, Secretary Mr. Mark B. Gramelspacher, Treasurer Mrs. Rosalia Morquecho, Past President Dr. Jennifer A. Thorington Springer, Executive Committee at Large Representative Dr. Leslie Hosey, St. Richard’s Head of School The Rev. Julia E. Whitworth, Trinity Episcopal Church Rector BOARD MEMBERS Mrs. Kimberly J. Bacon Gray Mrs. Elizabeth C. Bearby Dr. Nneka T. Breaux Mr. Nick Colby Mr. Thomas Dawson Ms. Adriana U. Keramida-Strahl Dr. Marlene Marchesani Mr. Andrew F. Morrison Mrs. Leigh Anne Naas

Mrs. Wendy Ponader Mr. Jim Purucker The Rev. C. Davies Reed The Rt. Rev’d Baskerville-Burrows, Bishop of Indianapolis Episcopal Church Diocese NON-VOTING BOARD MEMBERS Dr. Leslie Hosey, Head of School Mrs. Doris Pryor, President of the Parent Organization Mr. Ryan Brunkhurst, Faculty Representative Mrs. Kären Haley, Trinity Vestry Representative Mr. Joseph Tucker Edmonds, Horizons Representative FOUNDATION BOARD Executive Committee: President: Mr. Dan Strahl Vice President: Mr. Andrew F. Morrison Secretary: Dr. Molly Garau Treasureer: Mrs. Anne E. Sellers At-Large: Dr. Marlene S. Marchesani Board Members: Mrs. Mary F. Burger Mrs. Melinda W. Fisher Dr. Thomas H. Greist (Emeritus) The Rev. Dr. James B. Lemler Mrs. Christine C. Plews Mrs. Catherine H. Plump Mr. Erick D. Ponader Mr. Frederick A. Roetter Mr. D. Zachary Schalk Ex-officio members: Mr. Gilbert T. Voy, Board of Trustees President Dr. Leslie Hosey, Head of School Mr. William M. Williams, Director of Development ST. RICHARD’S ADMINISTRATIVE STAFF Dr. Leslie Hosey, Head of School John Brady, Head of Middle Division Cherie Bowen, Head of Early Childhood & Lower Divisions Linda Chestnut, Financial Officer Wilmara Manuel, Dean of Student Life and Inclusion Will Williams, Director of Development & Major Gifts The Rev’d Dr. Benjamin Anthony, Chaplain Nikeesha Pittman, Director of Extended Day & Summer Camp Programs AmySue Bacon, Executive Director of Horizons at St. Richard’s Katie Krevda, Director of Information Technology Debi Schilling, Healthcare Support Officer Chris Smith, School Resource Officer Zach Sigafoes, Administrative Support April Thomas, Director of Student Information Systems and Sr. Staff Accountant

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Trinity Annual Report for the Year 2021

Almighty God, you sent your Son Jesus Christ to reconcile the world to yourself: We praise and bless you for those whom you have sent in the power of the Spirit to preach the Gospel to all nations. We thank you that in all parts of the earth a community of love has been gathered together by their prayers and labors, and that in every place your servants call upon your Name; for the kingdom and the power and the glory are yours for ever. Amen.

Collect for the Mission of the Church

Many thanks to those who contributed images to this Annual Report including: Eric Baiz, Ashley Caveda, Meghan McConnell, Tracey Lemon, Missy Roetter, Kati Q Photography, and others.

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