Trinity Profile - 2026

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Who We Are

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Worship & Music Trinity Forward - New Rector

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Ministries

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History

Parish Financials Wilmington Area Building & Grounds

Other

Who We Are Trinity Parish is much more than a single congregation. We are two locations, four services, many cultures, and two languages all combined into one welcoming parish dedicated to worshipping and serving God in an urban setting. We are connected through a love of beautiful, varied liturgy and music and through opportunities in which we minister to one another within the parish and in the greater community. Trinity is many faces, many races, many ages, and many cultures. We celebrate our diversity as a welcoming community that draws from the city and suburbs of Wilmington. This multiracial congregation embraces all people who seek the love of God regardless of ability, age, economics, ethnic background, family con guration, gender, nationality, or sexual orientation. As we look to the future, Trinity Parish expects to continue as a champion of compassionate social justice and community involvement and as a model of hospitality and diversity through our Christian faith.

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TRINITY MOVING FORWARD & NEW RECTOR

Trinity Forward - New Rector

From a strong and steady past in the city of Wilmington to a rm and broad future of opportunities, Trinity/Old Swedes Church looks ahead to live out our Christian faith. We seek to reinvigorate our outreach on social issues, to increase our time and talent contribution to the parish, to address and develop new programs involving children and young people. Our focus is to strengthen our Latino congregation’s participation in the Vestry and other ministries in the parish. The parish also seeks to develop a program that addresses the needs of young families and their children. Our new rector will help us achieve these goals and able to initiate new ones that serve the parish and community. In addition, we seek a rector who is a lively and engaging preacher, particularly one that connects the lessons and readings to contemporary issues and our lives. We welcome a rector who is alert to parishioners’ interests and motivations in the furtherance of God’s work. We appreciate and honor the di erences between our Anglo and Latino congregations, and our new rector will further encourage everyone’s continued engagement in the church, especially working together on projects that serve our members and our community. Our new rector will also continue to support service at Old Swedes and continue to facilitate the relationships with Old Swedes Foundation and the National Parks Service.

WORSHIP & MUSIC

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Worship & Music

At Trinity Church, our main location (North Adams St.), we host three services on Sunday: - 8:00 a.m. Holy Eucharist with piano in chapel/Rite II - 10:00 a.m. Holy Eucharist with pipe organ and choir in nave/Rite II - Noon/mediodía Santa Eucaristía en español en Trinity Church At our Old Swedes location, every Saturday evening: - 5:00pm – Holy Eucharist with pipe organ/Rite II Trinity Parish celebrates Holy Week with services on Palm Sunday, Maundy Thursday, Good Friday, Holy Saturday, and Easter Sunday. Trinity Parish holds special services throughout the year, including, Reyes Magos (January 6), All Saints Sunday, Dia de los Santos Difuntos (November 2), Fiesta Nuestra Señora de Guadalupe (December 12), an annual Spanish-English bilingual service bringing together all worshippers, and Los Posadas occurring throughout Advent. Also, a service for Thanksgiving Eve is held at our Old Swedes location, along with a Blue Christmas service. Multiple Christmas Eve services occur at both locations, plus a Christmas Day Eucharist. Christmas Eve includes the annual Christmas Pageant. Roles are open to interested members and include: - Chalice Bearers - Master of Ceremonies - Acolytes - Lectors/Intercessors - Ushers - Altar Guild - Flower Arrangers Guild - AV Operator

At our Trinity Church location, the 10:00 a.m. weekly service is streamed online via our Facebook and YouTube pages. Sunday School for children is held during the 10:00 a.m. and 12:00 p.m. services at Trinity Church. The Sunday School dismisses just prior to Communion, where children are returned to the nave. Our choir Director, David Simmons, leads a choir of twelve volunteer members and six paid sta singers, and they sing in the worship service from Labor Day through Trinity Sunday in June. Trinity Church has a three-manual Austin pipe organ, and Old Swedes uses a two-manual Austin pipe organ. In addition, Trinity Church uses a nine-foot Steinway Concert Grand “D” piano in the nave, one of ve pianos among the two properties. The weekly 8:00 a.m. service is piano-only and is celebrated in our chapel, adjacent to the nave. The 10:00 a.m. service includes worship with the pipe organ, piano, and the choir and is often supplemented by additional instrumentalists (brass, strings, woodwinds, percussion) for holy/festival days throughout the year. Our noon Spanish-language service is accompanied by two guitars, piano, and two paid lead singers each week. The weekly service at Old Swedes is accompanied by the pipe organ. Finally, musical accompaniment in worship services includes our handbell ensemble The Trinity Ringers, who, using a three-octave set of bells, which plays about six times annually.

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Presiding Bishop The Most Reverend Michael Curry at Old Swedes 325th Celebration.

MINISTRIES

Ministries

External Ministries - Ministering to One Another

At Trinity Parish we believe that we are called as a Christian community to be neighbors to those around us, in the city and beyond. We have a long history of community outreach ministries funded by our parish resources, our gift of time, and grants from various foundations. Past priests have followed their passions, and we have been active in a broad variety of organizations: - West Center City Housing Initiative in conjunction with Habitat for Humanity: a partnership with banks and developers to acquire, renovate, and sell homes to rst-time buyers in distressed neighborhoods. - Rise Against Hunger: monies were raised and meals were prepared by our youth group. -Camp Arrowhead: a Diocesan Episcopal camp in Sussex County; scholarships are provided and parish youth are given the opportunity to attend the camp. Currently, the Parish is actively involved with Friendship House in Wilmington. There are many ministries under their umbrella: - We volunteer time and treasure for both of their residential facilities, Clark House and Epiphany House, by preparing meals and taking residents on shopping trips. - Limen House is the branch treating substance addiction; we host AA and other 12-step recovery groups six days a week at our Trinity site. Trinity worked with St. Matthew’s parish (Wilmington) to found Delaware Futures, an intensive mentoring program for low-income high school students. This program was housed at our Trinity site until its success outgrew our facilities; it is in the process of relocating to a larger space.

Housed in the Christina Community Center at our Old Swedes site is a daycare and after-school care facility, Our Future Christian Childcare Center, serving children aged 1 to 12.

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Our newly formed Red Wagon Ministry identi es a monthly need of household and food items; donations are o ered in a wagon brought forth during the o ertory by our parish youth. In the month of July, we collected diapers, wipes, socks, and underwear for the Childcare Center at Old Swedes. In August, Go-Bag Donations were collected: items that consist of easy-open, edible items and drinks donated to Friendship House. During the holidays, Trinity has two Christmas trees in the lobby: One is to donate scarves and hats to those in need during the cold weather, and the other is to assist the residents at Epiphany House to buy clothes and gifts for their children.

Thanksgiving Food Drive: Parish members donate turkeys and all the xings that are then divided up to give to 10 families to help them celebrate the holiday In addition to Trinity’s charitable work, we are involved in bringing several di erent musical o erings to the wider community: Encore Creativity is a national, non-pro t choral organization that o ers +55 seniors an opportunity to socialize and learn to sing. They rehearse once a week at Trinity and o er two free concerts each year, one in December, and another in May. The Arts at Trinity is a four-concert series funded by Trinity that brings various types of the performing arts to our church. Admission to these concerts is free.

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MINISTRIES

Internal Ministries At Trinity, in addition to our work in the community, we have a variety of di erent types of parish fellowship. -We have several types of small gatherings for socialization. There is a women's group, a men's group and a group of LGBT+ members that plan a lunch, dinner or other activity for fun and conversation. There is also an opportunity each fall to sign up for a Foyer Group. These are groups of eight to ten people that are put together each year with the idea that the group will meet three to four times to share a meal. The members are mixed di erently each year so you are given the opportunity to get to know people that you might not interact with to create fellowship and new relationships. - Yearly there is a women’s retreat in Rehoboth Beach at Memorial House Link to Memorial House. The house was donated to the Episcopal Church in Delaware by Alexis Felix DuPont in 1952. It’s a sanctuary where the beauty of our faith and the wonders of nature converge, o ering respite, renewal and a space for meaningful connections. - Weekly a group of parishioners gather in the church lobby and knit. The fruits of their labors are then donated to The Seamen’s Center of Wilmington, a place where a warm welcome is extended to ease the pain of loneliness and isolation and to o er respite from the hazards of the sea. - Yearly during the summer months, the church o ers an opportunity for us to attend a Wilmington Blue Rocks game. The Blue Rocks are a liated with the Washington Nationals. They serve as the High-A minor league team for the Nationals, playing in the South Atlantic League and Mid-Atlantic League

- During the holiday season, some of our musical members take to Christmas caroling in the neighborhood of the church, The Trinity Vicinity. The neighborhood is named after our church and is a historic, close-knit area in downtown Wilmington known for its Victorian homes and dense urban feel. - Even though there aren't any youth worshiping at Trinity currently, there is a rich history of participation. The group focused on bringing kids together for socialization and community service. Activities included lock in's with pizza and a movie, pancake suppers, preparing a meal for Friendship House residents, baking Christmas cookies, summer camps and ski trips. For the Annual Youth Sunday Service, they served on the altar and provided the music. - Trinity’s Adult Bible Study group began meeting in 2017 and has continued except for brief hiatuses, since then. The group met in person prior to the pandemic lockdown and via Zoom since. Studies have focused on reading through and interpreting books of the Hebrew and Christian Scriptures, discussing the lectionary passages for the coming week’s services, and occasionally reading and discussing scholarly historical texts. Trinity clergy led the group until the fall of 2024; since that time, the group has followed an open-discussion model, with a convenor. Alternate models—a focus on the lectionary passages and the most recent week’s sermon, e.g.—are under consideration.

HISTORY

History

History of Trinity Old Swedes Parish, Wilmington, DE In 1638, Swedish and Finnish settlers arrived on the Kalmar Nyckel, built a forti cation on the banks of the Christina River, and claimed the area for Sweden naming it New Sweden. Between 1638 and 1698 the land the church was constructed on was used as a burial ground for the nearby Fort Christina and surrounding settlements. While the Swedish government handed over the colony to the Dutch in 1655 who subsequently surrendered to the British, the area remained a stronghold of Swedish speaking residents. The Swedish Lutheran Church sent a young missionary, Rev. Erik Bjork, to the area to build a larger church to accommodate the growing Swedish speaking congregation and in May 1698, the cornerstone for Holy Trinity Church was laid in the center of the burial grounds next to Fort Christina. It was o cially consecrated on Trinity Sunday, 1699. The burial ground houses approximately 10,000 graves and over 1,200 markers. By the end of the Revolutionary War and the establishment of the United States of America, the Church of Sweden began withdrawing from its missionary work in the new American republic. It o cially became Episcopal in 1791. Old Swedes Church, as it is known today, is the oldest church in the U.S. holding services in its original building. It was designated a National Historic Site in 1961, shortly after the creation of the National Historic Registry. In 2015, the grounds became a unit of the First State National Historic Park. More information regarding the history of Old Swedes can be found at www.oldswedes.org. With a growing population in Wilmington and the congregation, Trinity Old Swedes Parish built a new larger church at 5th and King Streets, called Trinity Chapel. From 1830 to 1842, Old Swedes was abandoned and fell into

disrepair until a group of women banded together and raised funds to renovate and re-open Old Swedes. In 1890, Trinity Episcopal moved from Trinity Chapel to its current structure located at 12th and Adams Street. It is also on the National Historic Registry. Both churches hold services regularly.

Julia Dooley describes the 325th commemorative banner she designed and made for Old Swedes: “The basic structure of the banner is inspired by the church’s stained glass windows – paintings in glass framed in rich dark tones. Colors for the banner are in keeping with the blue and gold tones that de ne all things Delaware and Wilmington’s ties to its Swedish colonial history.”

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Our rectors over the past thirty years have had signi cant impact on our parish and on the Wilmington community and the state of Delaware. For example, in 1994, the Reverend Luis Leòn invited a Latino congregation in Wilmington, whose church was closing, to worship at Trinity, and they have been part of our parish ever since; an all-Spanish service is o ered every Sunday at noon. Our next rector, the Reverend Anne Bonneman, was instrumental in founding the Interfaith Coalition of Wilmington in 2005 and the Wilmington HOPE Commission in 2006, a correctional reentry program in Wilmington and Dover. On January 1, 2012, the Reverend Patricia Downing performed the rst civil union in Delaware and subsequently the rst wedding of same-sex persons in Delaware, the eleventh state to legalize it. In 2015, the Reverend Downing worked with Delaware’s U.S. senators and congressperson to establish Old Swedes Church and burial ground as part of the First State National Historic Park, one of six historic sites in Delaware. Learn more about it here: https://www.nps.gov/frst/index.htm. Trinity/Old Swedes celebrated recently with the slogan, “Three hundred and twenty- ve years of faith in the city.” We a rm that continuously -- in respecting our past and in living up to the tenets of Christ in our present and future! Latino History In 1994, a group of about eight Spanish-speaking worshippers were attending mass at Calvary Episcopal Church at Rodney and 4th streets in Wilmington, where Father Elias Penalosa held Sunday mass. One day Father Luis Léon from Trinity Parish came to visit and o er to have them attend Trinity, as Calvary was closing. Father Elias then held mass in the Trinity chapel. After some years, Fr. Elilas left, and Father Reuben Rodriguez was a part-time associate for about 4 years. During this time, the Latino worshipping group slowly grew and grew. After Father Reuben left, Father Juan George became Associate Rector and held mass in the main church area; he retired and was replaced by the next Associate Rector, Father Charles Cowen. During the Covid epidemic, Father Charles and the previous Rector, the Reverend Patricia Downing, were in charge of the Hispanic mass, which was conducted online. O ered now every Sunday at noon, our Latino community has since been growing more and more and averages about forty attendants per service.

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BUILDINGS & GROUNDS

Buildings & Grounds

Trinity parish maintains two church complexes that are about three miles apart, both of which are listed on the National Historic Register. Worshipping in these beautiful spaces connects us with the past, present and future – or as we like to say, these spaces embody our “325+ years of faith in the city.”

Holy Trinity “Old Swedes” Church Holy Trinity “Old Swedes” Church encompasses approximately 3 acres of land on the corner of 7th and Church St. Construction on the church started in May 1698 with consecration on Trinity Sunday, 1699. It was built with local Brandywine granite (Delaware Blue Rock) and ballast from ships. It is one of only a few buildings of original Swedish Colonial architecture still standing today. The pulpit, built in 1699, is made from black walnut wood donated by the parishioners. It is the oldest pulpit in use in the United States. Buttresses on the north side were added in 1740 and on the south side to support the exterior walls which were buckling under the weight of the jerkinhead roof. The gallery was added in 1774 to accommodate the growing congregation with the staircase added to the exterior of the building. A brick bell tower with wooden belfry was added to the structure in 1803. The windows were replaced with stained glass in the late 1800s. The Bayard window on the south side is an original Louis Ti any creation. At some point in the early 1800s wooden benches replaced the original boxed seating to “modernize” the church. Those benches were removed in 1899 when the church was completely restored for its bicentennial and replica boxed seating was built bringing the church back to its original layout in 1699. The stone wall surrounding the burial ground was built in 1837 with funds left from the estate of Revolutionary War hero, Major Peter Jaquett. The burial grounds hold approximately 10,000 souls with over 1,200 stones standing. The oldest known legible stones date back to 1726. Most of the preservation and conservation work in the burial grounds is performed by the Old Swedes Foundation, a non-pro t organization founded in 1947, and is still on-going today.

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Old Parish House (Christina Community Center) (3C) This large, two-story brick Victorian building is owned by the Parish and rented to a day care center. It includes a nished basement with a limited kitchen area. Old Swedes uses a portion of the rst oor on Sundays for the parish hall (co ee hour), rest room, and nursery area, and for other specially scheduled events.

Hendrickson House This two-story Swedish Colonial house was moved to the Old Swedes complex from Crum Lynne, Pennsylvania in 1959 and carefully restored, stone by stone and timber by timber. It is now used by the Old Swedes Foundation for o ces, and it houses a small museum of Swedish Colonial history. A vault for church records is located in the basement. Old Swedes Church Park Plaza Under a Community Development Project sponsored by the Old Swedes Foundation in 1980, a rundown playground adjacent to the church was redeveloped into an attractive park. The park cost was funded from foundations, the Diocese, individuals, and industry. The park serves as a leisure area for nearby residents and contains an outdoor stage for the performing arts. Much of the construction was done by unskilled persons, many from the neighborhood, some in the process of rehabilitation. Some young people from the Parish worked along with them. A Cityside Award for the design and construction was given to Trinity Church parishioner George M. Whiteside, III, the architect and prime mover.

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BUILDINGS & GROUNDS

Beginnings of Trinity Church In 1830, with changes in population of the growing community in the area, the parish built Trinity Chapel at the corner of Fifth and King Streets, and in 1847, the present parish structure of two congregations worshiping in two churches began. The Chapel congregation eventually purchased the land at North Adams Street, where the cornerstone was laid on May 1, 1890. The new church was blessed, its rst service held on January 29, 1891, and Trinity Church was formally consecrated on May 15, 1906. Building of Trinity Church The Trinity Church complex consists of four major buildings extending for a block along Adams Street between Delaware Avenue and Eleventh Street on the western fringes of downtown Wilmington. Interstate 95, the major highway between New York and Washington, passes just west of the complex, and access ramps are located immediately adjacent to the church property. Built in 1890 and located in the heart of Wilmington, Trinity Church was designed in the English Gothic tradition by architect Theophilus P. Chandler, Jr., constructed of rough-dressed Avondale stone as is the low ornamental wall surrounding the Church. It is a traditional English Gothic structure. The soaring, peaked roof – almost 90 feet high – is supported by carved hammer beams and wooden arches, giving the appearance of a mini-cathedral. The short-cantilevered timbers, which support the wooden arches, are hand-carved angels. Completed in 1925, the tower and spire contain a memorial set of 12 bells cast of purest bell-metal bronze by the Meneely Bell Foundry of Watervliet, New York. Restored in 1974, the chimes can be played from the organ or a

separate console, electrically connected with the bells in the tower. The Austin organ, opus #1619, was erected in 1928 and renovated in 1975 with more than 700 new pipes, a new console, an entire re-actioning, and numerous innovations. The stained-glass window in the sanctuary and the ve windows in the north and south transepts were made in the Ti any Studios in New York and date from 1890 to 1900. The Ti any windows depict scenes from the Gospels of Matthew and Luke. In 1955, the Chapel of the Trans guration, designed by parishioners Victorine and Samuel Homsey, was added to the back side of the church, adding 60 seats to the church's overall capacity. The neighborhood immediately adjacent to the church contains a mix of new high-rise o ce and apartment buildings and turn-of-the-century city row houses, many of which have been restored or renovated. Notwithstanding this evidence of prosperity, pockets of poverty exist within a stone's throw of the church. Trinity’s Gateway Campaign in 2009 provided funds for installing air conditioning in the church, as well as an access ramp from handicap parking at the north end of the lot. This ramp leads to a walk along the side of the church to the two entrance doors and also to the Parish Hall second oor. The fund also supported improvements in the acoustics of the church.

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Parish Hall and Parish O ces A three-story stone structure, the parish house is connected to the church and chapel by several doors on two di erent levels. An elevator, accessible from the street, provides access to the rst and second oors for persons unable to use the stairs. The rst oor (slightly below ground level) contains a dining hall, which is used for large meetings, including those of outreach programs, as well as other community and diocesan activities. A fully-equipped kitchen, capable of serving several hundred persons, adjoins the dining hall. The second oor contains a large reception area or lobby, the church o ce, and various private o ces, including those of the rector and associate rector. The lobby also houses a nursery and the Parish o ce. Old Rectory The residence originally built for the rector has not been used for that purpose since the early 1930s. (Currently, it is being used by our interim rector.) As a result of renovations over the years, the old rectory is essentially a part of the parish house now. Its rst two oors are used as the main Sunday School facility. A nursery is located on the rst oor. An apartment is provided on the third oor. 1104 North Adams Street Once a residence, this three-story building is the oldest in the Trinity complex, dating from about 1900. It is connected to the old rectory by a second- oor bridge, built in the 1930s when the older building was used as an annex for the Sunday School. The building is in transition from being used by Delaware Futures, as they have outgrown the space; we

are now in negotiations for a new tenant. Trinity Auxiliary Parking Lot

In 1998, Trinity purchased the parking lot at 704 W. 11th Street, between North Adams Street and Delaware Avenue. This lot is used by parishioners for Sunday church parking and parking outside of business hours, when needed. During the week, the lot is leased to Colonial Parking.

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WILMINGTON AREA

Wilmington Area

Wilmington, Delaware is a city of about 73,176 residents, centrally located in New Castle County, Delaware’s most northern and most populated of its three counties, at about 588,093 people. The state of Delaware has 1.052M residents. The Wilmington area o ers a wide array of sites and activities for people of all ages. Situated on the Christina River, Wilmington o ers a wealth of activities within twenty- ve miles of the city, from world-class museums such as Winterthur Museum and Gardens and Longwood Gardens, both former duPont estates, Revolutionary War battle elds, the First State National Historic Park, and Historic New Castle, an eighteenth century town on the Delaware River, which has homes of several signers of the Declaration of Independence and was the location of the Continental Congress meetings before they met in Philadelphia. WalletHub ranked Delaware's public schools 12th overall, but rst in safety. This ranking considered factors like the number of students bringing weapons to school, school shootings, and disciplinary incidents, according to The News Journal (Delawareonline.com); WalletHub's ranking also considered quality, where Delaware ranked 30th. Parents with school-aged children will bene t from the A-rated per Niche.com, Brandywine and Red Clay School Districts, along with a multitude of nationally recognized private schools in New Castle County, such as St. Andrews School in Middletown, where the 1989 movie, Dead Poets Society, was lmed. Every month, the city hosts events that bring thousands of visitors to the area, such as the Wilmington Flower Market, the Cli ord Brown Jazz Festival, and the Brandywine Festival of the Arts. We celebrate our cultural diversity with the Holy Trinity Greek Festival, St. Anthony’s Italian Festival, the Bob Marley Festival (Bob Marley lived and worked in Wilmington), the Hispanic Festival, the German

Saengerbund Delaware, and the Sankta Lucia at our very own Old Swedes Church. Wilmington boasts restaurants of a variety of ethnic cuisines as well as mom and pop style diners, several of which were featured on the Food Network show, Diners, Drive-Ins, and Dives. Wilmington’s central location o ers a variety of two-hour regional trips: the beaches in Sussex County, New York City, the Pocono Mountains in Pennsylvania, and Washington, D.C.. Philadelphia is about thirty miles north of Wilmington. Check out this link to learn more about Wilmington DE https://www.visitwilmingtonde.com/ As the city boasts in its slogan, “Wilmington – in the middle of it all.”

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PARISH FINANCIALS

Parish Financials

2026 (PROJECTED)

2023

2024

2025

Average Sunday Attendance In Person Baptisms, Con rmations, Marriages Funerals

135 (13 Online)

N/A

127 (No Online Data)

139 (No Online Data)

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17

N/A

6

7

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Plate, Pledge, Contributions Grants Income Endowment Draw Annual Budget (expense) Pledge Units

$367,899.00

$331,508.00

$404,710.00

$310.098.00

$77,600.00 5.1%

$74,047.00 6.4%

$82,833.33 5.2%

$15,000 7.0%

$1,127,627.00

$1,154,812.00

$1,030,830.00

$1,279,470.00

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82

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Endowment Redraw Explanation

The current vestry has followed a tradition of limiting our endowment draw to no more than 5% of the three year running average of the endowment.

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Explanation of Grants

Grant

Amount

Note

Year

2022

ERTC Grant

$31,466.70

Government Employee Retention Grant (COVID related)

2022

Diocese of Delaware

$56,108.04

Hispanic Ministry Support

2023

Jessie Ball duPont

$32,000.00

Giving Tuesday Matching Grant - Lightful

2023

Trustees of the Diocese

$5,000.00

Grant for Henderson House Air Handler

2023

Diocese of Delaware

$45,833.33

Hispanic Ministry Support

2024

Trustees of the Diocese

$5,000.00

Grant for Old Swedes Boiler

Matching Gift Program (online donations up to $500 in Nov/Dec 2023)

2024

Jessie Ball duPont

$14,600.00

2024

Diocese of Delaware

$58,000.00

Hispanic Ministry Support

2025

Jessie Ball duPont

$8,046.00

Matching Gift Program (Lightful's Bridge 2024)

2025

Jessie Ball duPont

$10,000.00

Matching Gift Program - Digital Fundraising

2025

Diocese of Delaware

$58,000.00

Hispanic Ministry Support

2026

Diocese of Delaware

$52,000.00

Hispanic Ministry Support (expected)

Jessie Ball duPont Fund Support The Jessie Ball duPont Fund is a charitable foundation established in 1970 following the passing of Jessie Ball duPont. The Fund is dedicated to supporting organizations that Mrs. Ball duPont herself contributed to during the period from 1960 to 1964. Among these select bene ciaries is Trinity Episcopal Parish, which has enjoyed ongoing support from the Fund.

Participation in the Lightful Matching Gift Program Trinity Episcopal Parish has been privileged to participate in the Fund’s Lightful Matching Gift program for several years. This initiative takes place annually, beginning on Giving Tuesday and continuing through the end of the year. The program o ers a matching gift for online donations, with the speci c matching amount and related limitations subject to change each year. Despite these yearly variations, the parish remains deeply grateful for the opportunity to be included in the program and for the continued generosity of the Jessie Ball duPont Fund

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Other

Diocese The Episcopal Church in Delaware is one diocese that encompasses the entire state. For more information, visit https://delaware.church/. Past Rectors - Reverend Luis Leon - 1987-1994

- Reverend Anne Bonnyman 1995-2006 - Reverend Patricia Downing 2007-2025 Live Streamed Services

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Address - Trinity Church: 1108 N Adams St, Wilmington, DE 19801 - Old Swedes: 606 N Church St, Wilmington, DE 19801 Photo Credits - Building Photo - Brian M. Kutner, Millville, NJ

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In September of 2025 a group of parishioners walked the Camino de Santiago Pilgrimage together.

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