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Updated Monday, February 13, 2006 12:01 PM

Welcome to Trinity Episcopal Church and to our website. If this electronic visit to Trinity is your first visit, we are very glad to have you. If you know Trinity already, we are glad to have you back. Trinity is an active and vital parish of almost three hundred members covering all ages.

Along with our rich spiritual worship, Trinity offered many opportunities to grow in the Christian faith and live and to seek and serve Christ in all persons. Our worship ministries include a fine choir which is open to all; readers, Eucharistic Ministers, acolytes (altar servers of all ages) and more. Our Educational Ministries reach children from nursery age up, and adults of all ages. We offer programs on Sunday mornings weekly through the school year. In the summer and throughout the balance of the year special education opportunities are offer at various times during the week. Our outreach ministries include a Food Pantry, and involvement in work ranging from the American Red Cross, the Good Samaritan Clinic, and so much more.

The staff and people of Trinity offer you a rich welcome. If you would like to know more about Trinity please feel free to leave us a message through the "Guest book" section of the website or contact us directly.

What follows next is a short history of Trinity Church.

Blessings, peace & welcome,|
The People of Trinity Church

A Short History of Trinity Church

Trinity, Parkersburg, dates from 1843 when the Reverend Thomas Smith arrived in Parkersburg. According to local records Trinity, it would seem, was the third church to be founded in this community.

The cornerstone for the first building was laid on July 11, 1846, but the Reverend Mr. Smith did not live to see the building completed. He died April 4, 1847 and is buried in the foundation of the original building. The original church building was completed in May of 1850.

Under the leadership of the Reverend Dr. William Hyland the church built a handsome rectory which still stands at the corner of 5th and Juliana and now serves as offices for the parish and other community ministries. During the last years of Fr. Hyland's ministry the original building was torn down and a larger building begun. That building, the present structure, was completed and consecrated on May 4, 1879 during the rector ship of the Reverend Robert A. Gibson.

For more than 150 years the Good News of God in Christ has been shared by the clergy and people of Trinity Episcopal Church. It stands as a witness to the healing and life-giving power of Christ's love to the business and governmental communities in which it stands, and to the individuals and families who have found an active and growing spiritual relationship with God as they call Trinity, 'home.'

Please feel free to join us and call it your home, too.