Welcome

Holy Trinity is a “Church without Walls.”

Our “doors” are open. Our hearts are open, too. If you’ve been thinking, praying, searching and hoping for a place to belong you are Welcome!

Since the summer of 2021 our congregation has met twice a month in person at the Sunnyside Senior Center. During COVID we began a conference call worship service that has continued every week.

Holy Trinity Episcopal Church is a Christian community that has been serving in the Sunnyside area since 1901. Now as we live into the new reality of our life together without walls, we are seeking to follow God into this new open future.

Mission

Holy Trinity is a church without walls, learning to live into new ways of gathering as faithful community.

In 2023 we entered into a formal partnership with two other Episcopal Congregations in the Yakima Valley, St. Matthew’s in Prosser and St. Michael’s in Yakima to share ministry and pastoral leadership

Our Shared Mission with our Partner Congregations:

We are a partnership of faith communities committed to listen well to our landscape and the diversity of people with whom we share this space, as we follow the Spirit who transforms us all, who invites us all, into new community.

Services

2nd and 4th Sundays we meet in person for Holy Eucharist at 12 pm noon at the Sunnyside Senior Center, 1400 Federal Way

Our Conference Call evening prayer meets Sundays at 7 pm. For more information accessing the conference call please contact us.

With our partner congregations we participate in a variety of shared worship and formation activites. Follow us on Facebook to keep updated.

Clergy and Staff

The Rev. David Hacker

Vicar, Partnership Between Holy Trinity, Sunnyside, St. Matthew’s, Prosser and St. Michael’s, Yakima

Can be reached at

St. Michael’s Mission

509-453-4881

stmichaelsyak@gmail.com

Our Ministries Include

Our ministries include:

  • In person worship at Sunnyside Senior Center 2nd and 4th Sundays at noon
  • Conference Call Worship, 7 pm on Sundays
  • Art Church with St. Matthew’s on the 1st, 3rd and 5th Sundays at noon
  • Bible Studies and Prayer groups
  • Special events and joint projects throughout the year in collaboration with our Partner Congregations

 

What Episcopalians Believe

Our Beliefs We believe in a loving God – Creator, Redeemer, and Sustainer – who created the universe, who through Jesus Christ redeems us from sin and death, and who sustains us through love and grace. We promise to follow Jesus Christ as our Savior and Lord. We believe the mission of our church is the restoration of all people to unity with God and each other in Christ.

The cornerstones of our faith are scripture, tradition, reason, and experience.

Scripture

Scripture is the word of God contained in the Hebrew (“Old”) and Christian (“New”) Testaments of the Bible. The Hebrew Testament recounts the story of God’s love for the world from Creation until the time of Jesus. The Christian Testament contains Jesus’ teachings, the accounts of his life as told by his followers, and the beginning of the early Christian church. Scripture is the ground of our faith and is read in public worship services and daily devotions. We are not biblical “literalists.” That is, we study scripture in the context of history, and seek to interpret God’s word in scripture for our own day. We have a willingness to live with diverse and changing interpretations of scripture, rather than attributing scripture with infallible certainty and binding prescriptions for all time and circumstance.

Experience

We experience God’s love and our spiritual journey in the context of community – both within the church and in the world-at-large. Our daily living experience also shapes our questions, and nurtures our quest for a closer relationship with God and Jesus Christ.

Tradition

Tradition is the embodiment of our experience as Christians throughout the centuries, shaped by the Bible, historic creeds, sacraments, and the ministry carried out by Christ’s disciples. Tradition is expressed with many voices, including worship styles, languages, cultures, architecture, and music. Our tradition encourages this diversity. We seek to value each person’s life and story, and invite each person to share in our Christian community.

Reason 

We believe that our God-given ability to think critically and take responsibility for our actions is a vital part of our Christian faith. Reason, as a complement to scripture and tradition, leads us to seek answers to our own questions. Human reason is set in the context of our relationship with God, and God’s call to us to live full and healthy lives.