Coming October 19-21

The Rummage Committee is now collecting donations. Please email us to make a reservation to drop them off at rummage@trinityprinceton.org.

When you arrive to drop off your donations, please park in the church parking lot next to Ivy Hall and we will come and retrieve them directly from your vehicle.

During these dog days of summer, start cleaning out your closets and attics. We need as many of your donations as possible to make this a great sale!

Please donate:

• Gently-worn & Clean Men’s, Women’s, and Children’s Clothing for All Seasons

• Better Ladies’ Dresses & Men’s Clothing

• Housewares (Please, No Glass Vases)

• Electronics

• Books

• Linens

• Shoes

• Jewelry (Fine & Costume)

• Vintage & Antique Items (Remember that Edison Diamond Disc Gramophone from last year?)

• Boutique Items (Crystal, China, & Art)

Please Leave at Home:

• Sporting Goods (Uniforms, sporting equipment, gym equipment, bicycles, skateboards, ice skates, kayaks, skis, etc.)

• Furniture of Any Kind

• Rugs or Other Large Floor Coverings

Many thanks to all!

Trinity Church is once again soliciting donations to our school supply drive for Homefront. This year we've set a stretch goa—100 backpacks full of supplies!

We have the backpacks, but it’s up to you to fill them. See the Amazon wish list and have your donation delivered to 'Kara's List Address' on the menu, or you can enter the church address manually: 33 Mercer St, Princeton NJ 08540.

P.S., I know you’re reading this announcement right now thinking, “This sounds great, I need to remember to do it later.” You don’t need to remember if you click the link right now!

Let’s shoot for 100! We can do it!

Along a stretch of Mercer Street in Trenton’s Mill Hill neighborhood, bright pink petunias and sweet potato vines cascade through a wrought iron fence, gently resting on a brick wall below. Above them, sunflowers, coleus, lariope, Dutch bulbs, ostrich fern, hostas, and numerous other varieties surround and intermingle with raised beds that are tended by a group of nine neighborhood residents.

This community garden, in a lot next to the nonprofit Mercer Street Friends, is especially vibrant this summer. Responsible for the flowers and the garden’s design is Ira Lackey, a Mill Hill resident and a realtor with Callaway Henderson Sotheby’s in Princeton. “He’s our fearless leader,” said Liesl Schubel, who grows vegetables and flowers in one of the beds.

The area was unkempt when Lackey first started participating in the community garden about four years ago. “I noticed that the paths were a bit overgrown,” he said. “Folks would tend their vegetables, but the common areas never really got a lot of attention. I suggested we rein them in, and got mulch to put in the aisles, to make it a cleaner-looking space.”

During the pandemic, Lackey wasn’t able to make his regular trips to his second home in North Carolina, where he has an extensive garden. “I was itching for all the gardening I did there, which was from sunup till sundown,” he said. “So I started doing the gardens in some of my [Mill Hill] neighbors’ houses, in the alleyways, and along the streets. Finally, it dawned on me that the largest area of land in Mill Hill was at Mercer Street Friends.” …

The First Peter Bible Study is now ‘soul-ly’ on Zoom Wednesdays! 😊 The next and last session is August 9 from 6–8pm.

To access this worldwide Bible study, email Bonnie Bivins at blbivins@verizon.net to get the Zoom link and study materials!

Check out the quotes, video, and other materials from the previous week’s session at the link below: