Holy Trinity Church

Mission

We see serving the needs of others as both an obligation and a privilege of church membership. The Mission Committee of the PCC has the responsibility of considering the needs to which we should give priority at any one time, keeping the congregation informed about them (using a visiting speaker where possible), and organising our response:

• Each year we allocate a fixed proportion of our regular income from the planned giving of the congregation to a range of charitable causes - local, national and international: in 2010 £4500 was allocated on this basis.  In recent years, £2000 of the allocated sum has been used to support projects undertaken by our Link Parish in South Africa, the Church of the Reconciliation in the township of Manenberg, Capetown: click on "Our Links" for details. 
• We supplement this sum each year with regular Appeals for particular purposes at Lent, Harvest and Advent. The 2011 Lent Appeal, supplemented from the planned giving allocation, allowed us to donate £1000 each to Greentop Circus (an arts education charity) and Mind the Gap - Africa (caring for children in Zimbabwe).  The Harvest Appeal has traditionally been for goods, especially foodstuffs, rather than cash, to support the Sheffield Cathedral Archer Project, which works with the most marginalised and destitute people in the city centre.  In 2011, we also supported TWAM (Tools with a Mission).  The Advent Appeal regularly supports The Children’s Society.
• We provide church members with opportunities and encouragement to respond also to major natural disasters and emergencies.
• Church members take responsibility each year for house-to-house collections in the area, and sometimes in the local supermarkets, in support of Christian Aid Week.
• A Traidcraft Stall in the church hall every six weeks or so, after Sunday morning worship, is now well established and increasingly well supported.