MINISTRIES: Outreach - Activities
An important part of Trinity’s financial outreach is toward the Millennium Development Goal to eliminate poverty worldwide, met in part through contributions to the Episcopal Relief and Development Program. Another substantial amount of Trinity’s financial contributions normally goes to local community needs, with an emphasis on the Campaign to End Childhood Hunger, such as the Shelburne Food Shelf.
Some outreach activities are supported primarily through financial contributions determined by the Outreach Committee. Others receive support directly from parishioners’ volunteer actions and financial and non-financial contributions. Some are supported both financially and through non-financial support. Examples of current ministries, where volunteer help or contributions are needed, include:
 | Events sponsored by the Outreach and Family Activities Subcommittee of Children and Youth Ministry, such as Soup-er Bowl Sunday CANstruction Challenge (canned food collection), COTS (Committee on Temporary Shelter) Walk, Halloween candy distribution, and the Heifer Project
| | Camp Agape for children of the incarcerated
| | Giving Tree through which Trinity parishioners purchase Christmas gifts for needy children residing in local communities
| | Joint Urban Ministry (JUMP) food bags which are collected at Trinity once a year food for this Burlington area ministry
| | Respite House Vermont for the terminally ill
| | Ronald McDonald House where casseroles cooked in the church kitchen are provided for out of town families with a child in an area hospital
| | Salvation Army dinners which Trinity cooks and serves once per month
| | SCHIP, the Shelburne-Charlotte-Hinesburg Interfaith Project’s resale shop, raising money to meet community needs
| | Senior Luncheons served once monthly except in summer to 80 local seniors
| | Shelburne Food Shelf collecting and distributing food and aid to local families and individuals in need
| | United Thank Offering reflecting a response to blessing and used by he Episcopal Church for relief ministries |
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