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The Once and Future Church

 

Trinity was located at 520 South Main Street from 1805 to 2018. The past is a chapter that ended at the beginning of 2016 when we conducted a nine month discernment process about the future. We could no longer afford our magnificence building and if we could not be good stewards of this community asset and beautiful work of art, we looked for someone(s) who could.

We hoped that somehow an adaptive reuse could restore the building and give it a future. Since the mission of the church, any church, is not the preservation and management of a building we knew that we could not simply fill it with cash-paying events and rental relationships. One, that wouldn’t raise enough income to support an expensive building with significant deferred maintenance, but two, being a landlord and business owner is not our mission

As God and serendipity would have it, we met and formed a relationship with a developer from Toronto who had a vision of a boutique inn, small restaurant, and event center. For the past year we have been working through the legal system to make way for that project. What we did not expect when we started, was that we would be able to continue worshipping at 520 South Main Street. But that is the plan. On Sunday morning and special holidays, we will worship in the sanctuary once it is restored. It is our once and future building!

Construction will begin in  late 2018 or early 2019 and we will be out of the sanctuary for at least a year. We have already moved our offices and program space, and we are thrilled to be downtown in an exciting and magical place – Trinity Place.

TRINITY PLACE, now and in the future!

Located at the confluence of Linden and Castle Streets, right across from the Post Office, Trinity Place is “an open space for growth, wellness, healing, and the arts.”

The larger community uses it for a variety of programs, and we hold concerts, worship, and our after school tutoring program there. We have been blessed and wish to share that blessing, building a community of friendship and spiritual nurture through Trinity Place. Join us!

ALL WORSHIP & PROGRAM HAVE MOVED TO TRINITY PLACE

TRINITY PLACE
78 Castle Street in downtown Geneva.
Phone Number: 315-325-4216.
Mailing Address: PO 287, Geneva, NY 14456
Web address: Right here! www.trinitygenevany.org and on Facebook.

 

Our Vision

Our vision…a Trinity Church known in the community as a welcoming home to everyone, responding effectively to the needs of our community, in collaboration with fellow Episcopalians and other faith communities.

Our mission…to strive in our daily life and parish life to respect the dignity of every human being, and to treat each person entering our doors as if that person is Christ.

We are striving to be as open as the table Jesus hosted, in solidarity with the people of Geneva, and an accessible partner to others who share our sense of the gospel.

It also means we have opened ourselves to the future, and not only moved but adopted a new way of being church from the more traditional model. Join us at Trinity Place, 78 Castle Street in downtown Geneva, NY.

Trinity Place is a venue suitable for yoga, tai chi, intimate acoustical concerts, poetry and author readings, a temporary art gallery or installation, classes or recovery groups, and receptions and public meetings. By offering free (to non-profits) and low cost (for-profit) space to the community, Trinity Place hopes to become an open space for the community to meet and build relationships.

Trinity Place is an outreach program of Trinity Church, an open and inclusive space not requiring any religious affiliation on the part of those using it. Trinity Church moved its parish office and after-school tutoring program into an adjacent part of the building and we expect to offer musical fare and alternative inter-faith worship events at Trinity Place as well.

 

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