New York: A City of Neighborhoods

Trinity Grace Church is organized like New York City: by neighborhood. We believe our lives are better when we spend time in and care about where we live. That’s one reason why we have several neighborhood churches—Westside, Eastside, Brooklyn, Chelsea, East Village—and hope to start more as time goes on: so you can go to church close to home.

Missional communities—midweek groups of 15-40 people—cover even smaller areas of the city. By joining a missional community, you’ll get to meet your neighbors: the ones who go to our church, and others who don’t. Our missional communities also serve their neighborhoods, often by partnering with local organizations.

We call this neighborhood model The City Parish. Like the traditional Catholic or Episcopal church, we have many neighborhood churches that are part of a larger, unified network. The larger network is able to do things that a single neighborhood church can’t do on its own—for example, run a counseling center—and also knits each small church into a bigger, citywide movement.

Join Us

Regardless of where you live, you are welcome at any one of our weekend worship services and any one of our missional communities. Please join us!

• Any questions? Send us an email
• More about missional communities
• Get connected at Trinity Grace Church

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An In-depth Look at the City Parish Model

Are you a church planter looking for more detailed information on the city parish model? Here are some resources for you:

• The City Parish, a Catalyst 2008 talk by Jon Tyson download audio | download slides
• Read more about building medium-sized missional communities and how they function in an urban setting: download a paper from Q Ideas
• Read our best description of the City Parish Model: download paper