2030 VISION

WORSHIP: REVERENCE AND REJOICING THROUGH RADICAL WELCOME

Weekly and special worship services continue to be the primary reflection and experience of Trinity’s radical welcome

Through our liturgy, we combine our reverence for our rich Episcopal tradition with an expansive, modern expression of God’s love. We offer open-armed hospitality, accessible theology, creative expression, and deep connection to God and to one another Community participation is a hallmark of our worship. Members of all ages participate in worship: lighting candles, proclaiming scripture, and offering personal reflections Our teens and young adults have adopted our intercessory prayer ministry, praying with those who request it. We responded to 2020’s pandemic with a new digital expression of sharing God’s love through online worship, and that continuing ministry provides yet another loving and joyful vision of Jesus’ Way of Love.

We honor the liturgical seasons, exploring new ways to deliver the message of God’s love through prayer, ritual, and music We create our own additional texts and music as another way to welcome many. The sum of all our worship aims to offer an experience of God's unconditional love, resonating through heart, soul, mind, and body

Our willingness to, and success in, pushing the boundaries of Episcopal liturgy has drawn attention

The book we wrote about our practices -a best seller for the publisher for three years -- details how we combine emergent spiritual expression with ancient liturgy, creating worship that leaves us filled with the joy of being fully alive We are invited to present at least four times a year to dioceses across the Episcopal Church and other denominations

It is exciting to see how our worship schedule has grown over the years. Today we have many days and ways to gather as a community The 2020 pandemic pushed us from our worship comfort zone, and we have never looked back We continue to grow and expand in membership and engagement through both in-person worship and Trinity@Home We take pride in welcoming, through our doors and our digital presence, people looking for a way to follow Jesus, to proclaim the Good News, all while living into an expansive and progressive expression of Christianity

MUSIC: MAKING A JOYFUL NOISE

Music is an integral part of our worship, welcoming participation by members of all ages and levels of musical experience Opportunities include Trinity choir, Trinity’s singers, our children’s choir, our house band, Trinity bell ringers, and our ever-popular ukulele choir, with other musical groups organically forming and dissolving

Our wide musical palette creates a unique soundtrack, pushing the boundaries of traditional church music We move seamlessly from full-bodied congregational singing to an a cappella high school choir; from chamber music to opera; from traditional hymns to gospel, from contemporary praise to jazz (including popular weekly jazz vespers)

The arts are also an important part of our liturgies within our sanctuary and online. The visual arts, dance, drama, poetry, puppetry, and more invite participants to engage with worship more fully