Every summer, a team of Trinity Outreach Staff and some incredible youth volunteers facilitate Camp Trinity, a two week extravaganza bringing together K-5th grade campers from the church, neighborhood, and nearby schools.
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When Trinity Presbyterian Church was last rebuilt, we saw the community come together in support of the work
“…the neighborhood wanted a community center…a big one… to be open every night of the week. Local merchants chipped in to get a basketball court, meeting rooms, a couple of movie projectors and a stage.”
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Six weeks ago, we packed up the last box, carried out the last bookshelf and stowed the last basketball for the start of construction. Since then, we’ve seen multiple dumpsters arrive, fill up, and leave as the team from Mountain Construction has been hard at work in our space. What has been done so far? Read on to find out!
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Most of my career has been working or volunteering with community partnerships. I love a good community partnership because of all it stands for: community (relationships, grassroots, real people) and partnership (coming together, working together in service to others). A new community partnership is taking shape through the upcoming Bryant Neighborhood Center-- a mix of current and new-to-the-neighborhood programs all in one space to serve the neighbors, visitors and friends of the Bryant Neighborhood. It is all that a community partnership should stand for—connecting and serving, one relationship at a time.
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“The making of the Bryant Neighborhood Center (BNC) is the result of a vision of many individuals choosing to love a place for a long time. As we begin our marriage, and the commitment to love each other for a long time, we decided to put a fund for the BNC on our wedding registry.”
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Standing on the side lawn under a cheerful sun, over 125 people joined with Trinity Presbyterian Church on Thursday, June 6th, celebrating the groundbreaking for the Bryant Neighborhood Center, officially opening in 2020.
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The neighborhood. We all have one. For many of us, we’ve lived in a variety of neighborhoods, with all kinds of neighbors, some we know, many we don’t know. I’ve always said I like living in my neighborhood because everyone cuts their own grass and we all hang out on the street talking and sharing life.
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When Naphtali first joined the Trinity Afterschool Program, she didn’t know how to read. Within months of joining the program, “something clicked.” Now, a sixth grade student at Jason Lee, Naphtali’s Mom says she has “the world at her feet.”
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What does it mean to be committed to place? Former Trinity AmeriCorps, Skylar Cole, shares with us. “ I didn't grow up in a community with such a centralized hub for resources and relationships, but I sure want to live in one. “
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Join our celebration! We’ll gather on Thursday, June 6th, 2019.
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How are we committed to people? Read from former Trinity AmeriCorps Kyle Lee; "When I think about the impact I have made at Jason Lee Middle School, I refer back to the relationships I have formed with the middle school students.”
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What might a day in the Bryant Neighborhood Center look like? Written by Tom Llewellyn, this piece was originally shared in 2018, offering a vision of what the once distant Bryant Neighborhood Center might become.
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