All people are welcome to join us in the sanctuary for worship and communion services and share warm, good-natured fellowship with our members in the gathering area before and after services. Trinity also enjoys an inspirational music ministry.

We share a strong sense of family and a commitment towards oneness of focus - sharing responsibilities with great strength and faith. Compassion, generosity and self sacrifice are mutual traits that unite us in reaching out to those less fortunate in our community.

Our members come from various walks of life and vocations. They share their talents and skills within our church and our community.

TRINITY UCC STAFF

Interim Pastor: Rev. Kenneth Heasley
Interim Pastor: Rev. George Heberling
Christian Education Director: Ann Walsh
Senior Choir Director: John McKay
Organist: Jane Eiker
Asst. Organist: Audrey Blackstone
Nursery Attendant: Roberta Weiant
Bookkeeper: Mary Harman
Secretary: Cally Kruger
Sexton: William Hartlaub
Housekeeper: Lisa Reinoehl

To know more about church staff, please click HERE

CHRISTIAN EDUCATION
Under the leadership of our Christian Education Director, Ann Walsh, our Church School meets each Sunday September through May at 9:15 am. Classes are provided for nursery through adult. In addition to Sunday mornings, an on-going study group also meets on Monday evenings from 6:00 until 7:30; this group usually bases their studies on books by contemporary writers.

MUSIC MINISTRY
Trinity currently has a Senior Choir under the direction of John McKay. The Senior Choir sings three Sundays a month from September through June at our 10:30 service. During July and August various member and guest soloists provide us with special musical selections. Since 1995 Trinity has been using The New Century Hymnal, the official hymnal of our United Church of Christ. This hymnal provides us with exciting and liturgically based hymns.

      Historic Church Walking Tours - Trinity UCC is part of an eight- church
      tour in Gettysburg that runs every Wednesday during the summer months - an
      interdenominational effort held by people of faith to showcase the important role
      that the churches played before and after the Civil War. Our church is one of four
      surviving churches that were built prior to the Civil War. For more information, click here.

THE TRINITY BELL TOWER

Trinity United Church of Christ, a beautiful, Civil War era church is marked by the Historical Society within the historic district of Gettysburg, Pennsylvania. Various religious denominations have called this church home since the turn of the 19th century.

The most notable feature of the church is its massive bell tower crowned on all four corners by four white, pointy caps. The tower has three distinct levels, the bottom two have gothic type windows in pairs on the two outer sides facing the streets. They are of stained glass. The second floor windows are larger than the third floor window. The second floor has windows all around while the bottom floor only has windows on the two sides facing the intersection. In the actual bell housing area are great big open views, rectangular oblong and curved at the top. The entire thing is of brick. The tower is at the front left corner, right at the intersection of E. High Street and South Stratton Street.

A large marble date stone a foot off the ground along the sidewalk was implanted in 1990 to celebrate the 200 year anniversary celebration of the formation of the church. This stone reads 1790 – 1990 and is in the front along Stratton Street way to the right at the end of the structure. The congregation’s bicentennial celebration was observed in 1990.

The rest of the church is of brick as well. It was remodeled in 1892 with the addition of a vestibule, tower, and stained glass windows. In that same year, its name was changed to Trinity Reformed Church.

Like all large buildings, Trinity served as a hospital during the battle. A red flag was hung from the cupola to let fighting forces know it should not be attacked. Wounded soldiers of both armies were treated here. In 1918 it served as a “Y” hut for the soldiers of Camp Colt during World War I. There is also an old metal plaque on the building which reads Civil War Building 1863.

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