Senior
Wa r d e n s R e p o r t
Dear fellow parishioners,
collaboration with the Tree of Life as well as maintenance of Keith Looking back on the past fifteen House and the long awaited return months that I have served as your of the Thrift Shop. Not to mention Senior Warden it is almost amazing a wildly successful winter auction to contemplate Trinity’s journey. to support outreach. What a long, strange trip this has been (and continues to be !). Of course we are not yet where we Whiplash inducing at the least. The wish to be – we miss the in person winter of 2020 saw us huddled in version of the Healing Ministry, we the courtyard swathed in puffy miss worshiping and singing and coats and mittens but taking communion at the rail, but determinedly present on Sunday we will get there. What we do mornings. This winter we have have is a lively congregation that been gratefully inside our will not be stopped. We have a wonderful sanctuary. We sing wonderful vestry and beyond, a through our masks, but we sing group of dedicated volunteers loud and strong. The year has who continue to show up to presented challenges galore but arrange flowers, cook meals, the church community has met usher, read, set the altar, stuff them with creativity and good envelopes, teach Sunday school, humor and a renewed energy and train acolytes, be willing to run for commitment. Hooray for us ! vestry and contribute their time, talent and treasure to the mission Among the highlights that spring and existence of Trinity , to mind: the wonderful increase in Upperville. Sometimes we have attendance at services and the had to be pretty nimble and appearance of delightful children extremely flexible but the spirit populating church school and, was willing and we got it done. My recently, the cadre of acolytes; hat is off to the community at welcoming Richard Jones as large. director of Operations and Communications; The successful Speaking of the congregation, I want to acknowledge the search for a manager for our wonderful response to our Endowment Fund ( with many stewardship campaign this year. thanks to our long serving We are truly blessed by the Endowment Committee); a generosity of our community and purposeful focus on local outreach which brought us into 14
“The winter of 2020 saw us huddled in the courtyard swathed in puffy coats and mittens but determinedly present on Sunday mornings. This winter we have been gratefully inside our wonderful sanctuary.”
