316 East 88th Street, New York, NY 10128, United States Weekly Average Sunday Attendance (ASA) 165 Number of Weekend Worship Services 3 Number of Weekday Worship Services 0 Number of Other per Month Worship Services Current Annual Compensation $115159 Cash Stipend Housing / Rectory Detail Utilities $46546 $13964 SECA reimbursement $2620 Compensation Available for New Position $74449 Housing Available for 6 Pension Plan We're in compliance with CPF requirements. Healthcare Options Dental Housing Equity Allowance in Full family budget Annual Equity Amount $698 Vacation Weeks Vacation Weeks Details Continuing Education Weeks Continuing Education Weeks One month, including 5 Other Details Sundays (standard) Continuing Education Funding in budget up to/including $500/year Sabbatical Provision Travel/Auto Account Other Professional Account We are calling a Rector. Compensation negotiable, based on experience and diocesan guidelines.
In October 2014, two events showed the vibrancy of HT: the Blessing of the Animals on St. Francis Sunday drew large crowds of pet lovers; a newcomers brunch in the rectory welcomed 19 new people who had been coming to HT over the past three months. Increasing the attendance is a key goal in the financial health of HT and it was great to have the efforts so visible. The Sunday School is in the early stages of revival with one wonderful teacher and up to six children. How are your preparing yourselves for the Church of the future? We are dealing with the future by dealing with today s reality. For many years we ran the Thrift Shop, which produced income but required heavily used space and tightly scheduled sextons work, as well as ever-growing storage needs that posed a fire hazard. The vestry closed the Thrift Shop, dealt with the remains and communicated carefully and often with the community. Freeing up time and space will allow for a substantial rental opportunity once the space is made compliant with the fire code and renovated. Because of a contracting and changing donor base, we are focusing on parish growth and support. Vital, energetic leader. Warm pastoral presence. Excellent administrator with determination and follow-through. Joyful person with a sense of humor.
The 8:00 a.m. service lasts approximately 45 minutes and is unaccompanied by music. Wafers are used at communion, and the altar preparations are traditional. One person serves as lector and leads the prayers of the people. There is one member of the altar guild and one usher. The 10:30 a.m. service lasts approximately one hour and fifteen minutes accompanied by a choir and organist. The altar party consists of the clergy, MC, sub-deacon, two acolytes and a crucifer. Each reading is assigned a lector. There are two members of the altar guild and four ushers. Bread for communion is provided by the bread guild. Sunday school operates in the chapel from before the first hymn until the exchanging of the peace when children rejoin the congregation. The 6:00 p.m. service lasts approximately one hour with music provided by church members playing guitar, drums, and other folk instruments. The service takes place in Draesel Hall or, in good weather, in the garden. The altar supplies are left by the altar guild in the sacristy to be retrieved by the sexton. Communion bread is provided by the bread guild. There is a pot luck dinner on the first Sunday of each month. How do you practice incorporating others in ministry? There are many ministries at Holy Trinity and strong lay leadership and involvement. To support worship, we have the Altar Guild, the Holy Trinity Choir with paid and unpaid singers, the Lay Readers, the Altar party of emcee, lectors, subdeacons and acolytes, and the Ushers. In recent years, there was the Music and Liturgy Committee, the Prayer Team for individual prayer at the 10:30 service, and the Lay Eucharistic Visitors. For formation, we have Adult Christian Education with year-round programming and Cursillo. For parish life, we have committees for the Annual Giving Campaign, the garden, investments, the Property Preservation Trust, MayFair (annual fundraiser), Newcomers, Peace and Justice Restorative Community, Love Task Force on Non-Violent Living, Special Events, Trefoil Society for planned giving, Triangle Theater, Thanksgiving Dinner, Holy Trinity Neighborhood Center with the Neighborhood Supper, Senior Lunch, and Men s Shelter. As a worshipping community, how do you care for your spiritual, emotional and physical well-being? Let s start with the buildings and grounds, which attract passers-by on the street as they look through the fence into the beautifully maintained garden and lawn or come into the church itself. These are sources of deep pleasure for us all. This history of Holy Trinity is one of outreach to the neighborhood. Those roots go back to the beginning and continue with active ministries for HT and supported by the Holy Trinity Neighborhood Center: the Saturday Night Supper attracts over 100 people each week; the Shelter provides beds for 12 homeless men every night; the Senior Lunch on Tuesday provides lunch and fellowship to seniors at HT and welcomes others. The Peace and Restorative Justice Community focuses our attention on a greener world and takes an active role in the annual LGBT Pride March. The LOVE Task Force involves HT and other churches in non-violent living, describes itself as a caring community standing together to promote peace and healing justice. Having fun is a big part of HT. We attend productions of Triangle Theater, concerts in the church, work on the MayFair, the annual fund-raising street fair on 88th Street. We celebrate everything possible.
How do you engage in pastoral care for those beyond your worshipping community? We have a Senior Lunch every Tuesday to which the wider community is invited. We with volunteers from St. Joseph s Roman Catholic Church prepare and serve 350 Thanksgiving dinners to shut-ins, including pies made by the students of the Chapin and Brearly schools. The Peace and Restorative Justice Community and the LOVE Task Force reaches out to the wider community, as does the Men s Shelter. Holy Trinity has a long history of being involved in its community and the Diocese of New York. The Holy Trinity Neighborhood Center is renowned for its outreach programs and Triangle Theatre is the only theatre in Yorkville. Members of our Peace and Restorative Justice Community have been involved in environmental issues on a diocesan level and helped with the diocesan resolution to divest from fossil fuels. The Vestry passed a resolution in support of this year s People s Climate March; we were the first parish in the Diocese of New York to do so. Our clergy and laity helped to establish and lead the Diocesan Domestic Violence Task Force. Members of Holy Trinity are members of and have chaired Diocesan commissions and committees. Holy Trinity embraces our mission partners in other parts of the Anglican Communion, with these Diocesan initiatives headed for years by one of our parishioners. Some of our parishioners are actively involved at the United Nations and have served on the Advisory Council of the Anglican Communion Office at the United Nations. For the past two years Holy Trinity has offered two acclaimed panels during the UN Commission on the Status of Women, on gender-based violence and human trafficking. In the last five years there has been a contraction leading to the need to focus on our fiscal and emotional well-being and future. Hard decisions and serious attention and follow-through have led us to greater financial stability. Repairs to the plant have and are taking place. The congregation is growing and there is a spirit of hope.
What is your practice of stewardship and how does it shape the life of your worshipping community? HT's practice of stewardship follows the usual pattern for an Episcopal parish. There is a fall pledge drive, with events, speakers at the services, a pledge mailing, and follow up calls from Vestry members. CHT is somewhat famous for its 'In-Gathering Sunday,' usually held the Sunday before Thanksgiving, when each individual parishioner brings forward their pledge card during the services as part of the liturgy's Offertory. We celebrate that day with a special coffee hour pot-luck called our International Brunch; when parishioners bring a dish that reflects their ethnic heritage or their favorite cuisine. The pot-luck brunch celebrates the diversity of gifts we all bring to our parish. In recent years, we've added online pledging to our Stewardship campaign, and nearly one-third of our pledging households pay their pledges online. In the past, as is not uncommon on the Upper East Side, receptions were held by and for the parish's most significant pledgers. During the interim period, a single Thank You reception is held in the rectory in early December for all pledgers. The shape of our community is reflected in our celebration of the diversity of gifts that each of us brings to our common life. The closing of the Thrift Shop posed many hurdles and hard decisions that had to be made and carried out amidst a fiercely devoted group who volunteered. Through steadfast resolve, the gym was cleared and needed storage space and sextons time were freed. Good and frequent communications made all the difference. What is your experience leading/addressing change in the church? When has it gone well? When has it gone poorly? And what did you learn? A decade ago we had 15 full and part-time staff members, today we have 6. The challenge has been to re-administer tasks and process, as well as amend expectations. Strong laity involvement and vestry participation have helped fill the gaps and kept things running as smoothly as possible.
Prior Incumbents Name Position Title Date Begun Date Ended The Rev. Mark R. Collins Interim 2012-09 Name Position Title Date Begun Date Ended The Rev. Michael A. Phillips Rector / Vicar / Priest-in-Charge 2005-02 2012-06 Name Position Title Date Begun Date Ended The Rt. Rev. Andrew St. John Interim 2002-01 2005-01 Church School Number of Teachers/Leaders for Children School Number of Students for Children School 1 6 Number of Teachers/Leaders for Teen/Young Adults School 0 Number of Students for Teen/Young Adults School 0 1 Number of Teachers/Leaders for Adults School Number of Students for Adults School 25 Day School Number of Students for Day School Number of Teachers for Day School Day School
Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org) Worshipping Community Web site: www.holytrinity-nyc.org Media Links: Facebook.com/groups/holy.trinity.nyc Facebook.com/groups/542527365780003 Online References: www.holytrinity-nyc.org/sermons > http://youtu.be/8wofqljbrfs English Provide Worship or Classes in: English References Bishop: The Rt. Rev. Andrew M. L. Dietsche Diocesan Transition Minister The Rev. Canon Deborah G. Tammearu Current Warden/Board Chair Jean Geater 212.316.7413, bpdietsche@dioceseny.org 212.316.7421, dtammearu@dioceseny.org 212.410.0775, geaterjj@aol.com Previous Warden/Board Chair Steve Knight 347.835.2616, steventrox@yahoo.com Search Chair Alden Prouty and Dudley Stone Parish/Institution The Rev. Mark R. Collins Co-Chairs - Alden Prouty, 212.348.2143, alden.prouty@gmail.com. Dudley Stone, 212.289.8369, dstone141@verizon.net. 212.289.4100, Ext. 204, mark.collins@holytrinity-nyc.org. Local Community Leader Nick Viest 917.656.1300, nviest@cng-inc.com.