Outreach & Public Witness

This team stewards TAPC’s financial mission giving in the community and helps foster relationships with non-profit partners who are impacting poverty in Durham as an extension of our mission. Your help is welcome and needed!
Questions? Contact Pastor Emily Wilkes at ewilkes@trinityave.org

This group aims to help members connect their faith with civic engagement and community organizing. They encourage members to grow in faith through practices of advocacy, solidarity, and public witness, fostering the entanglement of the congregation within the broader social fabric of the community. 
Questions? Contact Pastor Emily Wilkes at ewilkes@trinityave.org

The emergency assistance ministry offers encouragement, referrals to community resources, and limited financial assistance for rent and utilities up to $250 per household per calendar year to people who face financial insecurity in Durham. 
For more info: Grace Wakeman at gwakeman@trinityave.org 

Through the Religious Coalition for a Nonviolent Durham, Reconciliation and Reentry Faith Teams form a Circle of Support for persons returning to society after incarceration. Faith teams gather to build friendships, accompany those navigating the multi-agency web of services to grow in social, circumstantial, vocational, and financial sustainability, and learn how to develop mutual relationships through storytelling, fellowship, and boundary-setting. 
Questions? Jim Petrea at jimpetrea48@gmail.com

Through the Religious Coalition for a Nonviolent Durham, and in an effort to reduce traditional court cases and produce better outcomes, Restorative Justice circles meet with the person who has been charged with causing harm as well as the people that have been impacted by the harm to achieve a repair agreement. The Circle facilitation ensures that all impacted are heard without judgment as they work through the harming event and the ensuing pain to reach the best possible way to move forward and begin the work of mutual healing.
Questions? Jim Petrea at jimpetrea48@gmail.com

Our local community organizing entity, Durham CAN (Congregations Associations and Neighborhoods), creates a vehicle for ordinary people to have a powerful voice in community decisions that affect their lives through principles of faith-based community organizing. Durham CAN is nonpartisan, and works with action teams on specific public-impact and policy issues including affordable housing, living wages, and gun violence. TAPC is a CAN member institution. Our Core Team organizes and strengthens our ability to support the justice work in our community by participating in the relational meetings, conducting research, disseminating important updates, organizing turnout for public actions, and building an institutional culture of trust through our own relational practices as a church.
Questions? Matt Smith at hellomattsmith@gmail.com

Located on the corner of the parking lot and Gregson Street as well as in the narthex closet, these tiny pantries provide support to passers-by as well as those who come to the church door.
Questions? Grace Wakeman at gwakeman@trinityave.org

TAPC partners with The Gathering Church to host Monday Night Dinners for Reality Ministries once per month. Our friends at The Gathering Church do the grocery shopping and the cooking, and TAPC decorates the space, serves the meal, and cleans up. If you would like to be part of an evening filled with laughter and love, please reach out! 

• 6 - 7pm Serve the meal
• 7 - 8pm Clean up 

Questions? Jenni Albright at jalbright@trinityave.org

TAPC is a supporter, both financially and through volunteers, of the Emanuel Food Pantry.  Their mission is to provide fresh, nutritious food to families facing food insecurity, with a particular focus on underserved communities. EFP serves 600+ families per week providing each family with a box of fresh fruit and vegetables plus a bag of staples. By providing healthy food, we are addressing the multiple detrimental effects of food insecurity, enhancing personal dignity, and improving health outcomes.
To learn more about volunteering, visit Emanuel Food Pantry’s Volunteer Page at emanuelfoodpantry.org/volunteer
Questions? Mary Gunderson at marycgunderson@gmail.com

TAPC serves an evening meal at Urban Ministries Durham to all folks in need of a warm meal on the fourth Thursday of every month. All are welcome to volunteer to serve! 
Questions?  Randy Ray at rray117560@aol.com