Trinity to Launch Fundraising to Save Church Point
Posted for Trinity Episcopal Church
Community Builder
Trinity Episcopal Church at Church Point, within Historic St. Mary’s City, is a place steeped in history on the banks of the St. Mary’s River. So when erosion threatened the parish, a fundraising campaign was launched.
Father John Ball, rector at Trinity Episcopal Church, contemplates the chapel’s new meditation labyrinth.
To keep what’s left of the point, the State of Maryland has come up with some money to help stabilize Church Point; but the church needs to find more than $47,000 to match the funds and make the restoration happen.
The parish is preparing to embark on a community-wide fund-raising effort.
Trinity Episcopal Church embarked last year on a transformational landscaping project, adding the “Angelic Gardens,” a memorial garden with columbarium in front of the church; a meditation labyrinth; and an event patio with columbarium.
The effort was designed and overseen by the church’s rector, Father John Ball, whose passion for gardening and landscape design is second only to his calling as a priest.
There is a practical reason, Trinity is running out of places to bury people. The church’s existing columbarium, a collection of square, bronze-covered niches for storing cremation remains, has only two spaces left. The church is also running out of graveyard space, as tombs have pushed to the boundaries of Church Point.
