Whom We Support
Cathedral Soup Kitchen: The Cathedral Soup Kitchen in Camden is part of Catholic Charities. Each week Trinity volunteers serve dinner to several hundred people. Trinity also offers food and financial support.
Catholic Charities Emergency Services: This group assists the needy with food, clothing, school supplies,and Christmas gifts for children. Trinity regularly supplies food and supplies for Emergency Services.
The Christian Caring Center: The Christian Caring Center in Browns Mills helps about 350 families per month with food and clothing and provides 500 to 700 lunches a week. It provides emergency services, spiritual counseling and information on jobs and available government assistance. Food and spiritual guidance are provided to a group of homelss who live in the woods. It also provides a summer camp for children as well as transportation for children to come to Sunday school.
Contact: Contact provides a 24-hour telephone hotline service to hundreds of people who call each week. Contact volunteers offer information on services needed by the homeless, the mentally ill and others in need.
Crossroads Programs: Crossroads empowers youth who are homeless, abandoned, abused, or at-risk to lead healthy, productive lives. They state: "Our expertise is in serving adolescents without familial or other support systems. What we teach this vulnerable and often overlooked population now, will impact the rest of our lives." The Agency's programs center on four primary populations: Runaway and Homeless Youth, Teen Parents, Families, and Youth transitioning from the child protective system to independent living.
Episcopal Relief and Development Fund [formerly The Presiding Bishop's Fund for World Relief]: ERD provides money, food, water and other supplies to victims of disasters in the United States and elsewhere.
Food Bank of South Jersey: The Food Bank provides food to soup kitchens and food pantries in South Jersey.
Habitat for Humanity: Burlington County Habitat purchases, renovates and builds single family housing to remedy the inadequacy of existing affordable housing in Burlington County. Families receiving the houses must work a set number of hours alongside volunteers. After moving in, the families receive one-on-one mentoring of finances and other household needs.
Interfaith Hospitality Network of Burlington County: An interfaith ministry committed to a united outreach by the religious community in Burlington County to provide shelter,meals and assistance to homeless families with children for up to seven days while they seek suitable employment and affordable housing.
Leavenhouse: A Camden organization that gives support to men who have been drug and/or alcohol dependent and now in the recovery period. It helps them get back on their feet by supplying housing, help in finding employment and counseling. In return, the residents must work on the housing unit and participate in preparing 200 to 300 weekly meals for Camden residents in need. Leavenhouse is involved in a program with Our Lady of Lourdes Medical Center's Project Hope, the primary care clinic and street outreach program for uninsured and homeless people.
MEND [Moorestown Ecumenical Neighborhood Development]: MEND renovates and maintains more than 200 low-to-moderate income rental properties in Moorestown and Burlington County.
New Visions: The New Visions family consists of Frank's Place, a day-care center for the Camden County homeless; The Good Samaritan Center, which provides emergency food and clothing to the needy in Camden County; Project Job, a community-based employment counseling and referral program; and North Camden Youth Services, which provides positive, alternative, nonviolent and creative programs for youth ages 11-18 in North Camden. Trinity routinely takes canned goods for distribution through the Good Samaritan Center and provides clothing and household goods, which are not sold at the Rummage Sale.
Project Interaction: Located at St. Paul's Episcopal Church in Camden, this project was initiated by Trinity along with several other suburban churches, to help urban churches survive transitional periods. Trinity supports Project Interaction by sending volunteers every other month to St. Paul's for a Sunday breakfast program for the hungry and homeless. St. Paul's also sponsors an after-school program, including supper, for children. We also support St. Paul's summer camp for Camden's children, Camp Faith.
Providence House: Providence House provides comprehensive domestic violence services including a 24-hour hotline, crisis counseling, and emergency housing.
Rainbow of Hope: Rainbow of Hope provides subsidized housing for homeless women with children until they become self-sufficient. For one year, six volunteers act as mentors to a family, teaching them budgeting, shopping, and other skills needed to run a household. Two groups of volunteers at Trinity have been trained in mentoring skills.
Sacred Heart School: The Sacred Heart School provides education for children of all races and ethnic backgrounds from kindergarten through eighth grade. The school doesn not receive any money from the Diocese of Camden. Trinity currently contributes toward the tuition expenses of several students.
Seamen's Church Institute: Each year this Philadelphia organization helps 50,000 foreign and American merchant seafarers staying in Philadelphia or traveling over the seas. Trinity regularly knits hats and gloves for the seamen. Trinity also supplies funds, reading material, and contributions for SCI's clothing program.
The Tender: Located in Moorestown, the facility provides day care for the elderly as well as an Alzheimer's Respite program. They also provide transporation for homebound seniors as well as other support services.
Trinity Cathedral Academy: Our church contributes funds for transportation and tuition expenses so that some of Trenton's underprivileged youth may attend this private school.
Urban Promise Children's Ministry: UrbanPromise is an internationally recognized organization which develops leadership and job skills for urban residents, primarily youth in Camden. It operates Camden Forward School, a private elementary school, and a high school for at-risk students in a home school atmosphere in East Camden. UrbanPromis also supports a wide variety of activites throughout the year, including a traveling gospel choir, after-school programs, a print shop for unemployed teens and a summer camp at Camden churches where urban children are given Bible study, craft training, recreational opportunities, and a meal. It also pays teen-agers to serve as Team Leaders and role models to tutor younger children and help run the summer camps and after-school programs. (In addition to supporting UrbanPromise's many other programs, Trinity continues to make a significant contribution toward tuition expenses for several children at Camden Forward School.)
