Dear Friends,

This week, the staff at Trinity has been doing a deep dive into the coming program year (generally centered around the school year). This was a part of what we expect to become our first annual staff retreat.

We gathered at the 577 Foundation in Perrysburg for two days of praying, laughing, systems analysis, and planning, planning, planning! We did a deep dive into all sorts of things that get lost in the shuffle of day-to-day office life. Things like refining our communications systems (both internal and external), clarifying our understanding of our desired tone and voice as a communicating organization, developing a sense of our “brand”, exploring what systems in the parish were working well and what needed more direct guidance from us as a staff (and identifying which of those issues were most pressing), improving our social media presence, and of course, concentrated planning for specific events as we launch the program year this fall!

Our guiding questions throughout these exercises were: what committee is responsible, what specific staff person will offer support, what people are needed to execute an event or an idea, how does this align with our 2030 Vision, what specifically needs to be done to promote an event, and finally (and most importantly) how can we do it (whatever it is) cooler and more creatively than we’ve ever done it before?!

You should know that the staff of this church – while small, considering all that they do – is full of energy, and they are deeply committed to embodying our parish’s ideals of being a progressive, inclusive, and creative Episcopal community for downtown Toledo and all the areas and people that we serve. You should be so proud of the work that they are doing. I know I am!

Know that we are grateful for your support and eager to keep working alongside all of you as we run hard into 2025-2026!

Blessings,
Jon+