Parish Stewardship Grant – Most Holy Trinity Parish
Most Holy Trinity parish is a community built on volunteer power. This multi-lingual, vibrant community has nine masses each weekend in four languages. They serve more than 300 families and 200 homeless each week through their food distribution and rental assistance program. Their catechism classes serve about 350 students with 100 teachers in Vietnamese and 150 students with 40 teachers in Spanish. Support from parishioners was integral to the recent renovation of the church, and every month a crew of dedicated volunteers beautifies the space.
Volunteers are the backbone of all these activities, and more. A culture of stewardship is central to parish life at MHT. In the Foundation’s 2022 Spring Grant Cycle, the parish received a grant in the Parish Stewardship category for their programs which engage and thank parish volunteers. The parish offers a welcome program, community building activities, engagement training and more for volunteers. The parish hopes that through these activities, parishioners will embrace the obligation to be good stewards to the community and actively engage in keeping the spirit of stewardship and gratitude alive in the parish.
“For us at MHT, a heart full of gratitude is a noble and beautiful heart, for it is modeled after God’s own heart,” said Fr. Duc Vu, Pastor at Most Holy Trinity Parish. “Our stewardship program is less about managing our resources and more about giving from our own life, even sometimes giving out of our own poverty, as Jesus emptied himself to the point of death for our salvation.”