OUR MISSION
Our mission statement is based on John 15:5: "I am the vine, you are the branches. Those who abide in me, and I in them bear much fruit, because apart from me you can do nothing."
Our Mission is to worship and serve Jesus Christ by proclaiming his Gospel to all persons.
As servants of Christ, we will always be a community of love, hope, service and reconciliation.
WHAT WE DO
We at Trinity participate in mission work that benefits those both inside and outside of our local community. There are also many opportunities to be involved within our church family, including ushering, greeting, hosting coffee fellowship, volunteering in the children's ministry, joining a committee, and participating in groups. There is a place for everyone at Trinity.
The Presbyterian Church operates democratically where representatives of the whole govern every part of the church, and decisions are founded on the example of the apostles and the practice of the early church. Our Session is made up of elected elders. At Trinity, each member of Session serves on one or two committees that maintain church functions. We also have a board of elected Deacons who aid in the care of our congregational needs.
OUR HISTORY
Trinity has a long history in Uniontown. It is not known when a congregation began meeting together, but the first pastor was invited to serve as Stated Supply in 1817 and installed as the pastor of First Presbyterian Church in 1819. The congregation built the present church building and dedicated it on March 8, 1896. The sanctuary's original grandeur reflected the opulence of the Gilded Age. The most beloved and outstanding feature of the building is the beautiful stained glass windows attributed to the Tiffany Glass and Decorating Company of New York. The window designs were taken from art master works by celebrated artists.
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WHAT OUR PASTOR BELIEVES
I Believe:
1) God is revealed in Scripture through many images, including the loving care of a Father and the tender compassion of a Mother, and as Shepherd, King, Rock, Refuge, Light, and Life, which are among the many faithful ways Scripture speaks of God. God’s faithful love seeks and rescues, calling God’s Church to follow in grace, hope, and new life.
2) That all God’s work in creation, redemption, and renewal is the united work of the triune God, Father, Son, and Holy Spirit, three persons in one, united in love and purpose, whose saving mission is the rescue and reconciliation of the world.
3) Out of God’s boundless grace for a broken world, Jesus Christ, the eternal Son of God, entered human life, fully God and fully human, to walk among us in humble service and reveal God’s mercy, compassion, and saving love.
4) Through Christ’s life, teaching, suffering, death on the cross, and victorious resurrection, God reaches out to rescue people from sin and death and draw them back into a loving relationship with God and with one another.
5) Humanity, though created in God’s image, is wounded by sin, which separates people from God and from one another, and that God, in mercy and love, meets them with grace to find them, forgive them, and make them new.
6) Salvation is the free and unearned gift of God’s rescuing grace, received through faith, through which people are forgiven, renewed, and called into a life of grateful obedience and discipleship in Christ.
7) The Holy Spirit, who moves through the world and the Church to awaken faith, open hearts to God’s Word, comfort the weary, and lead people to live as signs of God’s healing and grace.
8) Scripture is inspired by the Holy Spirit, bears faithful witness to Jesus Christ, and that through its words God continues to speak with truth, hope, and saving love.
9) The Church as the body of Christ in the world, is called to worship God, share God’s good news, care for one another, and live out God’s love in the world.
10) Christ leads the Church, and that through the Holy Spirit, the Church is renewed and guided to reflect God’s saving love in the world.
11) God watches over all creation, working through history and human lives to bring healing, hope, and new life.
12) Jesus Christ gave the Church two sacraments, Baptism and the Lord’s Supper, as gifts of grace through which God claims and cares for God’s people.
13) That in Baptism, people are welcomed into God’s family and marked by God’s grace as belonging to Christ and to the Church.
14) Through the Lord’s Supper, people are strengthened by Christ’s presence and sent out to share God’s love and mercy in the world.
15) The return of Christ and the resurrection of the dead, trusting that in God’s promise, those whom God rescues will be raised to new life and welcomed into God’s lasting love and glory.