Dear Trinity Church and friends,
Grace and Peace and Easter greetings! I hope this message finds you well.
As previewed and promised at this year’s Annual Parish Meeting, today we announce the leaders of Trinity’s upcoming anniversary celebrations, when we will mark 150 years since the consecration of the marvelous structures we occupy today. With just less than two years until that glad anniversary date (February 9, 2027), we have been building the team that will shepherd our efforts to commemorate Trinity’s history and to lead visioning for the next 150 years of our common life.
Trinity’s 150th Committee will be chaired by the outstanding team of Izzy Allen, Laurie Buchta, Jeannette Fiala, Chris Parris, and Chris Allen (Senior Warden, ex officio). They will partner with a collective of stellar, seasoned leaders serving on the 150th Honorary Cabinet, convened by Louise Burnham Packard and Barbara Dortch-Okara (Junior Warden). These leaders and their committees will be supported by a staff team comprising Paige Fisher, Rob Hess, Lonsdale Koester, Sandy Marxen, Alison Poor, Cynthia Staples, and me. Full Cabinet and Committee memberships will be announced early this fall.
Significantly, 150 years ago this week our forebearers laid Trinity’s cornerstone. That cornerstone established a fixed-point fortifying Trinity’s structure for generations to come. Likewise, these leaders we announce today will engage a broad range of parishioners, neighbors, and friends near and far. Collectively, all of us together will form the cornerstone of a renewing season, one engaging not only Trinity’s past, but enlivening Trinity’s next 150 years of loving God and one another, our city and the whole world.
Please join me in prayers of thanksgiving for these extraordinary parishioners and their leadership, and for all the good work to come.
With high hopes,
The Rev. Morgan S. Allen
Rector
Newspaper clipping about the laying of Trinity Church cornerstone, 1875, from a scrapbook kept by Robert Treat Paine, chairman of Trinity’s building committee. Image courtesy of Trinity’s archives.