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 and Chelsea—and hope to start more as time goes on: so you can go to church close to home.
Missional communities—midweek groups of 25-40 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? Email us
- More about neighborhood churches and Sunday services
- More about missional communities
- Getting connected at Trinity Grace
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:
- City Parish Churches – Audio from Catalyst
» download « - City Parish Churches – Slides from Catalyst
» download « - More about building medium-sized missional communities and how they function in an urban setting here
- Our best description of the City Parish Model: An essay
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