Mission & Outreach

Trinitarian Congregational Church is deeply engaged in social action, mission, and outreach. Both collectively and as individuals, our congregation displays a passion for community outreach that infuses the church with a spirit of caring and commitment.

Annually, a portion of the church’s operating budget goes directly to mission projects. The exceptional generosity of the congregation benefits over 50 different organizations, from local agencies and various Boston social service groups, to national and world community organizations, including the UCC and Church World Service efforts.  We also recognize an organization during Lent and Advent to be recipients of our special annual Easter and Christmas Offerings.  This year, at Easter in 2002, we donated our largest collection ever to benefit Ukranians, both stranded and struggling in Ukraine, and those displaced and seeking new lives as refugees in other countries.

In addition, hands-on projects for helping others are an integral exercise of our faith. Our members are organizers and participants in the annual CropWalk, raising money for local food banks and community suppers. We have a strong connection to the Concord Prison Ministry, the Alternatives to Violence effort and the Domestic Violence Abuse Prevention program.  We have parishioners who have helped prepare and clean donated cars with local Second Chance Cars.  Many TriCon folks work at the pantry for Open Table in Maynard, MA, and we often have food collections for Open Table ongoing for parishioners to donate canned and staple items.  Gaining Ground in Concord, a local organization that grows farm-fresh food to be given to area food banks, often hosts TriCon volunteers in their fields.  Our knitting group, loving called the KnitWits, knit and collect handmade hats, scarves, balaclavas, and other warm items to be given to the seafarers in Boston on merchant ships through the Boston Seaman’s Friend Society.  We have as a staff, and with the Social Action committee, traveled into Jamaica Plain to work volunteer shifts with Community Servings, an organization that makes and delivers medically tailored meals to chronically ill, and often food-insecure, folks struggling with illnesses and getting the proper nutrition for their own health, and the healthy sustaining of their families.  In response to the US’s withdrawal from Afghanistan that lead to unprecedented refugees seeking safety and livelihood, we created our TriCon Afghan Welcome Team, which has partnered with the International Institute of New England (IINE).  With IINE, we have arranged furniture pick up from our parishioners home and delivery to Household Goods in Acton, MA, which directly went to relocated and rehomed Afghans in Lowell.  We collect gently used clothing and new backpacks for the children living at the House of Hope shelter in Lowell, MA.