This week at Holy Trinity: Saturday, 11 a.m. to 7 p.m., Manger Mania with tree-lighting, carols and free hot chocolate, at 7 p.m. in the Plaza; Sunday, Dec. 15, Mass for the Third Sunday in Advent; coffee hour to follow; Christmas memorials, Mitten Tree and Gift-Card donations due; 6 p.m., Manger Mania Candlelight Dinner (reservations required).
Sunday School/Youth Fellowship meets from 4 p.m. to 5:30 p.m. twice a month.
Activities include a children's chapel service, snacks and age-appropriate activities for those from pre-K through high school.
There will be no session Dec. 15. Instead, children and their families will join us Dec. 14 for tree-lighting and caroling.
The leaflet for Sunday's Mass is available here.
It's time to think about our financial commitment to Holy Trinity. Click here for a letter from Junior Warden Joe Sirak; here and here for our brochure "A Joyful Season of Giving;" and here for a pledge card.
Look what the soup ladies made for November! It's that old favorite hamburger barley, a hardy soup to combat the late autumn chill.
The soup is $4 a pint and $7 a quart. Payment is by cash, check or Vanco.
Order forms are always on our Soup Page.There is always plenty of soup available in our freezer. Just call the church office for details.
Our soup ministry benefits our meals for shut-ins programs.
Church events and photos are also on our Facebook page; You Tube holds all sermons since 2019.
Outdoors it was just raining rain, but inside Holy Trinity on Saturday. Sept. 28, cats and dogs reigned as Fr. Marty blessed all creatures great and small for St. Francis Day.
The role of our Prayer Chain is to regularly lift people whose health or other life struggles have been brought to our attention in prayer.
Please speak to or email Theresa Chattin at theresa15@aol.com, or call Charlotte Sink in the church office at 856-858-0491.
Boscov's Friends Helping Friends Day resulted in a donation to the church of $437. Thanks to Charlotte Sink, who coordinates the fundraising effort each October.
We will again be collecting gift cards for high school students in need. Just purchase a $25 card from Target, Walmart or other local stores. They'll be given to Collingswood Special Services for older kids who might not be receiving gifts. Leave them in the box in the back of the church.
We have begun collecting mittens, hats and gloves, which will be given to a community organizatioin for distribution.
Deadline for both is Dec. 15.
The St. Francis Garden was an idea conceived by our late rector, Fr. Mark H. Chattin, after seeing one on a visit to a parish where he had once been the rector.
For more information, here is a link to the brochure.
As part of their mission and outreach efforts, Holy Trinity and residents of Premier Cadbury of Cherry Hill are reaching out to the “Upcycling Card Program” at St. John of God Community Services in Westville.
The creative citizens in the Vocational Rehabilitation/Adult Services group at St. John of God will remove the front of each card and create a new greeting card. More than 1,700 cards have been collected.
Boxes for the cards are on tables near the tower door at Holy Trinity.
Should you have any questions about this effort, call Craig Burgess at 856-667-2003 or see him at coffee hour after Sunday Mass.
A perfect day for a used-book sale during the Collingswood Book Festival, and hundreds came to Holy Trinity Church on Saturday, Oct. 6, to shop and buy. We netted $2,195, a record for an outdoor event.
Saturday, Dec. 14, 10th Annual Manger Mania and Christmas Mart, 11 a.m. to 8 p.m., with tree-lighting at 7 p.m.
Sunday, Dec. 15, 9 a.m., Mass for the Third Sunday in Advent; coffee hour to follow.
Sunday, Dec. 15, 6 p.m., Manger Mania Candlelight Dinner.
Tuesday, Dec. 17, 7:30 p.m., Vestry.
Saturday, Dec. 21, 5:30 p.m., Evening Prayer and Conversation on the Conference Line.Sunday, Dec. 22, 9 a.m., Mass for the Fourth Sunday in Advent; coffee hour to follow.
Tuesday, Dec. 24, 5 p.m., Creche Service and Family Mass.
Tuesday, Dec. 24, 11 p.m., Festival Midnight Mass of the Nativity.
Wednesday, Dec. 25, 9 a.m., Holy Eucharist with Carols.
Please don't forget to keep up with your pledge. Bills still need to be paid. You can give electronically. Use the holiday season to help us meet our financial obligations and help us grow.
There are many Sundays available for you to remember your loved ones with flowers.
Contact Charlotte Sink at the church office. The cost is $45.
Help us close out our Manger Mania Weekend with a candlelight dinner at 6 p.m. Dec. 15.
Advance reservations are required. We are asking a $15 donation to cover the cost of a glazed-ham dinner.
Sign up at the back of the church or call or email the church office.
Holy Trinity's mission is to be a welcoming faith community that celebrates God's presence and activity through worship, education, and fellowship, and by seeking and serving Christ in all persons.
Our worship at Holy Trinity centers on weekly celebrations of the presence of Christ in the Holy Eucharist.
These are the central component of our lives in faith.
The number 856-861-3864 – PIN 924 821.
Holy Trinity Church is a parish of the Diocese of New Jersey, the second-oldest in the Episcopal Church, founded in 1785.
The Rt. Rev. Dr. Sally French, the XIII Bishop of the Diocese of New Jersey, was elected in 2023.
Trinity Episcopal Cathedral is at 801 W. State Street in Trenton.
Holy Trinity and the Diocese of New Jersey are part of the Episcopal Church, founded in 1789, and headquartered in New York. The church has 6,423 parishes in nine provinces in the United States and elsewhere.
The Most Rev. Sean Rowe is the 28th presiding bishop.
The Episcopal Church is one of 165 members of the worldwide Anglican Communion, founded in 1867 in London, England.
The communion has 85 million members within the Church of England and other national and regional churches in full communion.
The Communion comprises churches founded by the Church of England.