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Linda Levy
Who’s one of the biggest lenders to small businesses in New York? The Lower East Side People’s Federal Credit Union, led by CEO Linda Levy, which received a program-related investment and a grant from the Trinity Grants Program. See story on page 18 for more about program-related investments.
Emory Edwards and Janet MacMillan Trinity parishioners Emory Edwards and Janet MacMillan visited New Orleans during the Super Bowl between the New Orleans Saints and the Indianapolis Colts. Edwards, who is president of Trinity’s Congregational Council, wrote on his perspective on New Orleans after attending the Trinity Institute conference in January via the congregational blog, From the Pews, on trinitywallstreet.org.
Canon Charles Kunene
Through a Trinity grant, Canon Charles Kunene of Swaziland has lived in Iowa for the past two years, learning about the dioceses’ mutual ministry model, where laity in small, isolated congregations share ministry responsibilities with the priest in charge. In turn, the Diocese of Iowa hopes Canon Kunene’s involvement will help improve their program for educating lay ministers.
Roz Hall
Members of Trinity’s Taskforce Against Racism, led by taskforce co-chair and parishioner Roz Hall, have conducted research into Trinity’s role in slavery, following a diocesan workshop on reparations. The Diocese of New York’s Reparations Committee collects information about the diocese’s involvement in racism. The taskforce presented initial findings on January 17, Martin Luther King, Jr. Sunday.
Richard Witt
The Rev. Richard Witt, executive director of Rural and Migrant Ministry and a 2004 Trinity Transformational Fellow, is hard at work advocating for a farm bill currently under consideration by the New York State legislature. The bill, if passed, would provide for the greatest gains in farm worker rights in New York state since the Great Depression.
Gillian Harper and Sasha Blount
The Henry Street Settlement is a social service and arts programming community center that has served New York City since 1893. Recently, the program also became a Trinity partner, having been identified by the Trinity Academy for Social Leadership (TASL) class as an organization they wanted to work with on raising the next generation of leaders in Lower Manhattan. In February 2010, Henry Street hosted a career night made possible, in part, through a Trinity Grant and Trinity volunteer support. Trinity’s volunteer efforts were organized by staff members Gillian Harper and Sasha Blount, who are also TASL participants.
Dean Wiltshire
A mission and service team made up of Trinity congregation and staff members visited New Orleans in December 2009 to set up a computer lab for All Souls’ Episcopal Church in the Lower Ninth Ward. After an earlier trip to New Orleans, Trinity staff member Dean Wiltshire encouraged an anonymous donor to provide the computers needed for the All Souls’ computer lab. In the past few years, more than 70 Trinity community members have traveled to New Orleans as part of mission and service teams.
Erin Weber-Johnson
Members of the Episcopal Service Corps (ESC) gathered in March for a meeting hosted by the Trinity Grants Program. ESC is an organization of Episcopal internship programs that provide young adults with a year of discernment and service while living in intentional community. “Having worked with a number of the programs one on one, it was rewarding to see such a wealth of gifts and talents learning from one another,” said Erin Weber-Johnson, a Grants Program partner who helped organize the ESC conference. “I was especially gladdened to see Trinity’s Congregational Leadership interact with the ESC program directors and board members and deepen our partnership. This was truly Faith in Action.”
Beverly Ffolkes-Bryant and Ali Lutz
Brooklyn public school P.S. 315, where Trinity parishioner Beverly Ffolkes-Bryant is principal, has donated more than $5,000 to Partners in Health, a not-for-profit healthcare provider in Haiti. Ffolkes-Bryant initially made the connection with the organization through fellow Trinity parishioner Ali Lutz, who is the Haiti program coordinator for Partners in Health.
Archbishop and Mrs. Bernard Ntahoturi
Bernard Ntahoturi, Archbishop of Burundi, and his wife Mathilde Nkwirikiye visited Trinity Wall Street in January 2010 for Trinity Institute, for which the Archbishop was opening preacher. They also spoke with parishioners about their important work of reconciliation in a country emerging from fifteen years of civil war, bringing Hutu and Tutsi neighbors together through a Trinity funded heifer project, working to unite
orphaned children with extended or foster= families, and educating women in rural communities about their rights to receive an education, inherit the family’s land, and resist domestic violence. Watch the Archbishop’s sermon for Trinity Institute at trinitywallstreet.org.
W. Mark Richardson
The Rev. Dr. W. Mark Richardson, Trinity Institute’s senior theological fellow, was recently named dean of the Church Divinity School of the Pacific (CDSP). Richardson, who currently serves as professor of systematic theology at the General Theological Seminary, begins his new ministry at CDSP on July 1.
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