Outreach Partnerships
Food for the Poor
Holy Trinity is pleased to support the Clean Water Project in Haiti in cooperation with Food for the Poor, a global relief organization. Thanks to this exciting initiative, 55,000 - 75,000 people in Cap-Haitien and Port au Prince have clean drinking water now. (Formerly, they relied on rainwater collected in open ditches near sewage.)
A similar project for 13 wells in Port de Paix is under construction, scheduled for completion this spring. Funding from Holy Trinity will provide thousands of people, including many children, with clean water. The vestry has committed over $7000 from the parish Clean Water Fund for this purpose. (One well costs $4,075.) Additionally, parishioners have given over $30,000 and $1,000 has been designated from the parish funds for Millinium Development Goals by the Youth Council, following a vestry request that young people determine where a portion of the funds should go.
Honduras Outreach
Holy Trinity partners with Los Hornos, a village in Honduras. Honduras Outreach is a non-profit, non-denominational, organization based in Decatur. Each year parishioners visit and work with Hondurans on building projects, and help fund medical and educational services. Currently in a partnership with Los Hornos, Holy Trinity provided financing for a gravitational village water system completed in 2005. It supplies clean fresh water and eliminated the villagers' reliance on a drought-prone creek they formerly shared with their livestock. Trips to Honduras are usually in July and September.
Holy Trinity enjoys a relationship with Saint Anna's Episcopal Church in New Orleans, which has offered our HTP youth group hospitality and spiritual retreat on its "urban adventures." In the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, Holy Trinity continues to offer financial assistance to this Ninth-Ward parish which lost many parishioners and whose neighborhood remains to be rebuilt.
Emmaus House
The mission of Emmaus House is to provide hope and hospitality to our neighbors in Peoplestown and beyond. Through a variety of programs for children, adults and seniors, we strive to be the love of Christ incarnate in our immediate community and to form relationships that embody the reconciling love of God. An integral part of our vocation is also to provide a setting in which members of God's household in the Diocese of Atlanta and beyond can share ministry experiences that broaden their understanding of the gospel call to "strive for justice and peace among all people."
Jerusalem House
Jerusalem House provides over 50% of Atlanta, Georgia's permanent housing designated for homeless persons living with HIV/AIDS.
Teleios Foundation Babushka Program
Holy Trinity Parish supports Alexandra Petrovna Byelavskaya, a 78-year-old scientist living in St. Petersburg Russia, through the Teleios Foundation's Babushka Program . Elderly women are the poorest segment of the population in Russia and double digit inflation year after year has rendered savings and pensions inadequate. The support Ms. Byelavskaya receives provides basic food, medicine, medical support and the services of a social worker.
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