The primary goal of the A.R.T. is to continue to deepen and widen our engagement with stakeholders and parishioners through prayer, conversation and mutual learning which will aid in the incorporation of anti-racist, multicultural principles throughout all parts of Trinity Church. This is in service of supporting the work of so many ministries and the Task Force on Reparations that are working towards becoming a beloved community as well. What is unique about the ART is that our ministry was created to focus inward, to examine how Trinity functions as an institution. In current vernacular, we try to identify institutional racism and transform it at Trinity, but this cannot be accomplished in isolation; our work relies on partnerships as well as the ART focusing on internalized racism, interpersonal racism and systemic racism.  

Catie’s Closet is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization that provides clothes, toiletries, and other basic essentials to students living in poverty within their schools. Free “stores” managed by volunteers, are set up in schools, giving children direct access to everything they need to attend class confidently. 

Volunteer responsibilities are to: manage a clean and organized space; visit the closet once a week to tidy up, put away reorders and check in with school staff directly accessing the closet (counselors, school nurse);
 maintain email communication with school staff and Catie’s Closet; manage special orders for items that are not usually stocked in the closet (sneakers, baby clothes, special sizes). Special orders are placed by school staff members for current students or entire families of current students experiencing displacement. 

Boston Warm is a collaborative initiative of churches across the City of Boston. The Boston Warm day shelter at Emmanuel Church on Newbury Street provides respite, rest, and recreation, as well as a place to store belongings for people in search of jobs and housing.  Weekly, on Friday mornings at 9 am, Trinity volunteers help by preparing lunches to be delivered to the day shelter.  

Through a unique mentoring model, Partakers  supports the education and advancement of incarcerated women and men and Returning Citizens. Within this transformative experience Partakers also bridges the divide that separates people impacted by incarceration with those outside of the carceral system. Through its College Behind Bars Mentoring Program, Partakers provides vital mentoring support to incarcerated students. Partakers Mentors not only help to enhance skills critical to completing academic and degree programs, but also provide life-changing support networks while building long-term vital and trusting personal relationships.  

The Committee’s mission is to advance the efforts of Trinity Church collectively and its members personally to face the global Climate Emergency as declared by the bishops in 2021. Our work focuses on the four areas they specified, namely, to pray, learn, act, and advocate in order to “build a bold and faith-filled response to the greatest moral challenge of our time.”    

The delegate to Episcopal City Mission serves as a channel of communication between the ministry of the Episcopal City Mission (ECM) and Trinity Church,  ensures the clergy and the staff are informed of the work of ECM through printed and spoken announcements, encourages parish participation in ECM’s annual meeting, and encourages parish support of and engagement with ECM’s social/economic justice mission (hands-on as well as financial).  

The Habitat for Humanity/Trinity Builders Ministry has been in existence at Trinity since at least 2002. It was named Trinity Builders because in addition to Habitat for Humanity workdays, an earlier iteration of the ministry also participated in non-Habitat work, e.g., helping to paint the inside of the repaired home of a parishioner after substantial fire damage, working with other church groups on community restoration projects, etc. The current incarnation of this ministry was resurrected in 2016 after a hiatus of several years and has worked only with Habitat for Humanity.  Trinity partners with Habitat for Humanity We seek to continue the Trinity tradition of aiding members of the broader Boston community who are striving to provide a home and safe shelter for their families. In addition to the blessing of helping our brothers and sisters siblings in the community build their homes, it is also the opportunity for Trinity parishioners to fellowship with one another and build friendships and community.