Current Ministry Groups
HOUSE CHURCHES AND MARKS GROUPS
2026-27 Groups are listed below!
To learn more about our ministry groups, click here.
House Churches incorporate Nurture (Study), Worship, and Fellowship alongside their Mission Focus. House Churches covenant together for one year, and each year re-evaluate the call. The House Church completes a covenant, which can be downloaded here.
Sanctuary - Ministers to our immigrant neighbors. Sanctuary advocates for immigrants and those who are disenfranchised. The HC supports a family, which includes a child with a disability, from Honduras. The four marks of the church are central to the group’s life together.
Contact Alex McLeod for more information and meeting dates.
Marks Groups incorporate one or more of the four marks (nurture, worship, fellowship, and mission), but have a less formal structure. Some are on-going while others may be short-term.
Reaching Out - Honors the four marks of the church at each meeting. We support other house churches and marks groups in their identified missions, reach out in love to church members, and respond to community needs, as we are able. Contact Judy LePera for more information and meeting dates.
Centering Space - Provides offerings of Contemplation, Action, Renewal, and Expression to nurture the inward/outward journey for individuals and for the wider community through acts of hospitality: the creation of free space where the stranger can enter and become a friend instead of an enemy; not to change people, but to offer them space where change can take place Centering Space typically meets on the 3rd Tuesday of each month. Contact Teresa Harris or Mary Lou McMillin.
Clothes Closet - Provides clothes to those in need. The Marks Group strives to meet the real needs beyond just the need for clothes of our neighbors in the Harrisonburg, Rockingham County area. The Clothes Closet is open Wednesday evenings. Contact Kathy Gillette.
Hearts and Hands - Sharing prayer shawls, scarves, lap robes, stoles, and “shoo” boxes with persons of all ages, at Trinity and with the wider community, even across the world. Meetings are on the 3rd Monday of each month by Zoom. Contact Linda Bradley for the Zoom Link.
Backpack Program - The Backpack Marks Group helps families of food insecure students at Keister and Bluestone Elementary Schools. We pack the bags at 9 am on Thursdays at Keister. Volunteers are also needed to deliver food bags to homes on Friday afternoons. See the church calendar for a link to sign up, or contact Virginia Healy for more information
Care Portal - Care Portal is connecting technology that drives action for children and families in crisis. We connect people who can help with people who need help. Right now, in real-time. More information on Care Portal can be found here. For more information on how to get involved with Care Portal with Trinity, contact Virginia Healy
VANITA - is a volunteer and non-profit Harrisonburg area network of people and organizations to provide our immigrant neighbors transportation to and from required legal check-ins, court appearances, medical appointments and accompaniments. It is a ministry of Trinity Presbyterian Church along with members of other faith communities and area volunteers. It will receive immigrant transportation referrals through responsible area organizations (New Bridges immigration lawyer, Harrisonburg Schools, Skyline Literacy, COSPU and Church World Service). It will recruit, train and coordinate volunteer drivers to address the transportation needs to and from the required appointment as best it can. It will not charge for this transportation service, and will notify the immigrant riders that in receiving this free service, he/she waives all present or future liabilities which may be incurred by accepting this free service. It will receive tax deductible financial donations for this service from the community and from immigrant riders which could be used for gas and other related expenses at https://www.trinitypresbyterianharrisonburg.org/give-online.
VANITA driver applications and more information are available at the church office or by contacting andysale25@gmail.com.
Nabarangpur Mercy House - Trinity has a five-year relationship with Haresh and Hamitha Nag, going back to the time of the pandemic when the church moved quickly to provide online worship services. According to Haresh, they happened upon us in the dark days of COVID. Feeling a sense of community and encouragement, moved by sermons they found “powerful, profound and most importantly so personal,” they now consider Trinity their “home church.” From Southern Odisha, India, they join in our worship, which, says Haresh “speaks directly to our hearts, helping us navigate life’s challenges with a renewed perspective.” The Nabarangpur Mercy House, took in its first ten children in spring of 2025, and are now preparing for 20! Currently, the Mercy House is primarily funded by gifts from Trinity Presbyterian, its annual budget, mission endowment, and several individual members of the congregation.
For more information, reach out to Mark Facknitz.
Valley Interfaith Action - Valley Interfaith Action is a broad-based, non-partisan, multi-issue volunteer leader-led power organization made up of dues-paying member institutions in Harrisonburg and Rockingham County. Our member groups include faith-based congregations, immigrant, neighborhood, and other associations. We bring together leaders and their institutions across the lines that often divide us — political, rural-urban, race, faith, to take action on our common interests and improve the lives of families in our community. Learn more about VIA here.
Interested in participating? Visit this Google Form and let us know!