Trinity Episcopal Church
Our Mission: to know Christ and make Him known.
About Us
Trinity is an active, friendly, growing Episcopal parish with a strong emphasis on Biblical teaching, music, children and youth, healing, outreach, and service. Our members come from Tariffville, Simsbury, Granby, East Granby, Avon, Suffield, Windsor and other surrounding towns.
The center of our parish life is our Sunday worship, and we offer three services each Sunday plus two during the week, each including careful attention to the Word of God and the celebration of Holy Communion.
We have active children and youth programs, and music is led by our three choirs: the traditional choir, the children's choir and the contemporary worship team. Various classes and bible studies meet weekly at the Trinity, and retreats on and off site are held periodically. Trinity also provides a Counseling and Spiritual Direction Center, and has an active healing ministry.
Trinity offers many opportunities for hands-on volunteering. We sponsor a medical mission in Kaduna Nigeria with our prayers, financial contributions, and yearly work trips, and thousands of people are able to receive medical care there each year. We serve lunch monthly to homeless in Bushnell Park and also prepare a dinner for a local shelter. We send teams to build houses with Habitat for Humanity and collect food for local food banks. We have an active veteran's ministry, nursing home ministry, teen ministry, and prison ministry.
Please join us in serving, in worship, or just stop by to say hello.
- Vibe
- Casual, Traditional Liturgy, Down to Earth, Spirit-filled, Friendly, Historic, Multigenerational, Young families, Lively, Neighborhood-focused
- Programs
- Community Service, Faith and Work, Addiction/Recovery, Young Adults, Youth Group, Choir, Missions, Nursery, Adult Education, Children's Ministry
- Denomination
- Episcopal
- Networks
- Size
- Medium
- Language
- English
- Founded
- 1848
Our Services
Service Times
- Sunday
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- 08:00am
- Quiet, contemplative service of Holy Communion, no music.
- 09:45am
- Family friendly service with Holy Communion and sermon, with Sunday School and Nursery. Music is provided by traditional choir, contemporary worship team and children's choir.
- 05:00pm
- Chapel service, with Holy Communion, Homily, and music provided by a member of the music team
- Wednesday
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- 07:00am
- Chapel service of Holy Communion with Homily, followed by fellowship breakfast at a local cafe.
- Thursday
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- 10:00am
- Chapel service for healing, includes Holy Communion, Homily, and healing prayers.
What to Expect
Leadership
Thomas Furrer
Father Tom spent his early adult life working in the construction business and beginning a family. Following his conversion to Christ in 1977, he felt that God was calling him to ordained ministry. He graduated from Wesleyan University in 1981 with a degree in American History and received his Master of Divinity degree from Yale Divinity School in 1986. He was ordained a Deacon in June of 1986 and a Priest in December of 1986. He has served in the Episcopal Diocese of Connecticut ever since. He has served as rector of Trinity in Tariffville since 2000. Before that, he was rector of St. Paul’s in Huntington from 1988 to 2000 and was the assistant pastor at Trinity in Tariffville from 1986 to 1988. In recent years, he has devoted much time and energy to raising support for mission projects in two African dioceses. In recognition of his efforts, he was named honorary Canon of St. Andrew’s Cathedral in Kasulu, Tanzania in 2002. In 2004, he was formally installed as statutory Canon in St. Michael’s Cathedral in Kaduna, Nigeria by Archbishop Josiah Fearon. Father Tom is President of Kateri Medical Services, a non-profit corporation which funds and facilitates basic medical care to the rural poor in Nigeria (www.katericlinic.org), recently published his first book, The Living Word of the Living God: A Beginners Guide To Reading and Understanding the Bible, with all proceeds going to support the Kateri Medical Services. He and his wife, Maryjane, have been married more than 35 years, have raised three adult daughters, and have two grandchildren. In his spare time, he enjoys reading, gardening, hiking and jogging.Location & Directions
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