July 9, 2020
Dear friends and neighbors,
We write to you to share some very exciting news. After significant time spent in discernment and prayer, we decided to sell our building, and have partnered with an incredible organization that will allow the space to flourish and support the neighborhood into the future.
Our Trinity family has been through some significant changes over the last several years, and over the last few months, it has become more clear that God is moving among us in new ways. So, rather than continue doing things the way we always had, we listened and observed and let God’s Spirit lead us. This wasn’t always easy. This building has been our home for many years. While it’s not the only physical space Trinity Church has occupied, it is the only one that the majority of our church family has known. Letting go of our ownership of this place comes with grief, but it has become clear that we are being led to embrace the knowledge that the Church is not a building. And while the pandemic has brought us all additional challenges, it also further confirmed what we already knew. The Church is the people that gather, the community that serves, the family that shares the love of Christ. Trinity will continue as such a church, and embrace the path ahead of us while continuing to be open to the new ways we can love our community.
Once the decision to sell the building was made, we had another decision to make, who should we sell the building to? Our hope for the space was to find a buyer that would be able to invest in the property and create something that mirrored the vision we have as members of the Broad Ripple community. This neighborhood is special, and we want to continue to serve it, even though we won’t have ownership of space. Working with a broker that has lived and worked his entire life in this neighborhood, we have sold the property to COhatch, an organization that we believe is exactly what is meant for 6151 Central Avenue. We are also excited that Trinity Church will continue to meet in the building, without ownership.
In the midst of these transitions for our church family, we invite you to join us in our excitement and prayers as we move toward what God is shaping us to be. In the winter of 2018/2019, we published our new mission statement: Trinity is fostering a haven of belonging where wanderers and wonderers gather to discover and embody the love of Jesus in the world. We are truly wandering and wondering together through these changes, but we do so without fear, knowing that Christ is a part of this journey. The changes coming for us only expand our opportunities to experience God and create a space where everyone is known, cared for, loved, and belongs.
The Trinity Leadership Team