Trinity Times - March 2025
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Interfaith Prayer Service

Please join the wider Rochester faith community to pray for our neighbors at an interfaith prayer service for asylum seekers, immigrants, refugees, and migrants. Co-sponsored by GRCC Faith in Action, Greater Harvest Church, and RocACTS, it will provide an opportunity to stand in solidarity with those whose lives and paths here have become immeasurably harder with current political decisions.

This prayer service is being held at Greater Harvest Church, 121 Driving Park Ave in Rochester on Tuesday, March 18 at 7:00 pm. Among religious leaders from Jewish, Muslim, and Christian faiths, we will hear Rev. Sebrone O. Johnson, pastor of Greater Harvest Church, Rev. Dr. Timothy J. Johnson, ordained minister and professor emeritus in social work from Roberts Wesleyan University, Rev. Michael Yousef, pastor of El Shaddai Church, and Pastor Wanda Wilson, Community Organizer/Director of RocACTS, and more.

African Dinner Fundraiser

Pastor Cheryl Frank, Greece Baptist Church

On Saturday, March 29 from 5-6:30pm at Greece Baptist Church Fellowship Hall (door #4), our RocUbuntu Ecumenical Churches will be hosting a delicious African Dinner to raise funds for three new refugee families settling in Rochester. Funds raised will be used for initial three months housing and utilities to welcome these families to their new homes in the Rochester area.

An assortment of dishes will be served, including ubugari (white corn flour), rice, potatoes, plantain, beef, chicken, beans, isombe (casava leaves), cabbage, drinks and desserts. Vegan and vegetarian options available.

The suggested donation is $20 per plate. Please come and invite your friends who are concerned about federal funding cuts to refugee settlement and who want to make a difference.

The dinner will be served dine-in or takeout. Please RSVP to Brandon at the Greece Baptist Church Office: 225-6160 or office@greecebaptistchurch.org.

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We gratefully acknowledge with respect the Seneca Nation of the Haudenosaunee Confederacy, whose ancestral lands the Town of Greece and the City of Rochester now occupy. We encourage every member of our community to learn about the indigenous communities who make their home here today and to work for indigenous rights and justice.


Trinity Episcopal Church is committed to being an open and affirming church that welcomes LGBTQIA+ people into full participation in the life and leadership of our congregation. We recognize the unique blessings and gifts that the LGBTQIA+ community bring to the Church, and we acknowledge that our spiritual lives are more full, more vibrant, and more whole when all are included at the table, in service, and in leadership.

We recognize that LGBTQIA+ people have historically been excluded from full participation in Christian communities. This exclusion has caused demonstrative harm. Therefore, we are intentional in our invitation and welcome to this marginalized group. We seek to restore justice, learn from our past and those we have historically ostracized, and heal God’s beloved community.