Dear Parishioners of Holy Trinity,

As many of you know, Holy Trinity is in the process of evaluating our physical space and particularly how we might use those resources as we live into Vision 2020. Our evaluation includes Trinity Place-but also includes all our spaces currently in use, buildings as well as open areas and parking.

The Facilities Planning Committee, which is charged with carrying out this evaluation, would like your insight, your input, and your help with its planning. We are seeking responses to a question which appears below. Before you answer, it would be helpful to review the Vision 2020 document (copies are available online). We hope the individual items in the Vision spark your thinking-but we also hope its essential dynamics are apparent.

The Vision calls us to:

1. Grow

2. Get younger and more diverse .

3. Get more involvement by church members , as well as develop a more intense commitment within our ministries as they exist .

4. Get more involved in the community .

5. Grow within the Episcopal tradition and within the familiar sense of community at Holy Trinity .

You may read the entire Vison 2020 Document here >>

The Vision is both tangible and flexible in defining "growth," since the Vision calls us not to change the character of Holy Trinity so much as fulfill it. We are striving, according to the Vision document, for an " average Sunday attendance of 300 that meets across three services"-or about 65-90 more people than we currently attract over two Sunday services; we are also striving, as you see, to develop our youth programs and especially our Canterbury ministry.

Please note that this question is not a Vision question-those have been asked and answered and incorporated into the Vision 2020 document-but a strategic action question. It asks how me might best achieve what we have committed ourselves to achieving.

Please respond prayerfully to this question: How can our parish use our space to grow Holy Trinity?

Please send your input to the e-mail address below, or drop it off at the church office with Mary Jeffers.

Thank you for all you do at Holy Trinity, and for helping us as we seek a future together.

The Facilities Planning Committee

Tommye Hurst, Phil Maiberger, Paul Anderson, Rachel Rowe, Isabel Candela, Mary Jeffers, Byron Harder, and David Johnstone; Ex-Officio: John Neiman and Ed Hamilton (Junior Warden)

facilitiesplanning@holytrinityclemson.org

 

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