Get Involved

Volunteer Opportunities

A Place at the Table

Hot lunch ministry for our hungry neighbors. Volunteers serve once every six weeks, Sundays – 11:30 a.m.–1:15 p.m.

Bible Study Facilitators

Bible lovers who work closely with the Adult Faith Formation Mission Team to provide facilitated bible studies to Trinity members on Sunday mornings and select weekdays are always needed. Experience in group facilitation or teaching preferred.

Boar’s Head Festival

Diocesan-wide Elizabethan Christmas pageant, held at Trinity since 1961. Volunteers needed for costumed and non-costumed roles. Contact the Boar’s Head Committee at [email protected]

Events

Group activities to strengthen the cathedral community. Activities include Advent wreath-making, Mardi Gras, fall barbecue, picnics, and more.

Docents

The docent ministry leads tours on Trinity’s history, art, architecture and programming. New docents receive training materials and mentoring. Interested in a tour or becoming a docent?

GCC

GCC unites people across lines of race, class, religion and geography to promote public, private and civic sector actions to improve the quality of life of our neighborhoods. Contact: Gary Benjamin [email protected].

LGBT+ Ministries

Annual events include the Pride parade and Transgender Day of Remembrance. Members collaborate with CSU on a mentoring program for LGBTQ+ youth. Social activities, retreats and opportunities for advocacy. Contacts: Daniel McGuire [email protected]; Matthew Jaroszewicz [email protected].

Marion-Sterling

Trinity supplies tutors for struggling students (background check required) and offers drives for school supplies, food, clothing, and Christmas gifts each fall. To tutor or be a part of collection and distribution, Contact Becky Fuller sniderfuller@ sbcglobal.net.

Racial Inventory Team

The purpose of Trinity’s racial inventory is to tell the story of how, over the years, the Trinity Cathedral congregation has and has not addressed racial justice. And, because Trinity is not only a local parish but also the Cathedral of the Diocese of Ohio, the racial inventory will also examine how the Diocese has and has not addressed racial justice and how that has affected the life of the Cathedral congregation. Our goal is to do this in a way that builds community based on an honest accounting of where we have come from, where we are now, and where our current commitments may lead us. Contact Charlotte Nichols [email protected].

Urban Farm

Located at East 35th and Cedar Ave. Provides healthy, organic vegetables, fruits and herbs for the hungry people in the Central neighborhood. Meets Saturdays from 9 a.m.–noon, seasonally March- October. Contact Scott Blanchard.

Small Groups

Cathedral Circles

Cathedral Circles are are lay-led interest groups meant to create intimate fellowship opportunities through small gatherings. These groups explore a variety of topics and activities.

Worship Ministries

Each week, Trinity holds numerous services, each of which requires the time and talent of volunteers who help in many ways. This includes choir members, lectors, altar guild/sacristans, vergers, greeters, ushers, acolytes, and flower guild members.

Flower Guild

Trinity’s Flower Guild creates beautiful floral arrangements for worship and special occasions.

Altar Guild

Along with the vergers, this group ensures that the cathedral is ready for worship.

Lectors

This group reads the Scripture lessons and prayers for Sunday services, Choral Evensong and special services.

Ushers

Welcome and assist members and visitors. Ushers ensure that no one feels like a stranger at Trinity.

Acolytes

Youth and adult acolytes assist the clergy during worship services, assisting in procession, during the proclamation of the Gospel and the celebration of the sacraments.

Young people in grade 5 are invited to train as acolytes. Youth acolytes are from grades 6–12.

Vergers

Trinity’s vergers guide and oversee the lay liturgical ministers – from acolytes to sacristans – who make our worship services possible, and work to make sure our multilayered liturgies run smoothly.