Glenn has partnered with Trinity UMC’s street ministries through gifts of service and financial support for more than fifty years. Join us on June 25th for our next event together!

On Sunday June 25th Glenn will once again be serving at the Trinity Table

We need 10 volunteer to serve and food for 150 guests. Food can be dropped off at the church that Sunday by 10 in the morning. If you need to drop off items prior to Sunday they can be dropped off at 1219 Clifton Rd. The meat and beans will be heated at the church so that they can be taken hot to Trinity. Sign up here to indicate how you would like to help. Financial donations can also be sent to the church designated for Trinity Table and would be greatly appreciated to offset the cost of items that are not donated.

For questions and recipes contact Diane Bryant dianebrain@gmail.com (404-680-7849)

A Brief History of Our 50 Year Partnership with Trinity UMC:

Trinity Table was started in the 1930’s in response to people standing in long lines to receive food during the depression.

In the 1960’s Trinity shifted to serving the needs of the Capital Homes housing projects and the growing homeless population in the downtown area.

In the early 1970’s Glenn Memorial UMC along with Peachtree Road UMC stepped up to support Trinity in a show of radical love and faith. As white flight drew church attenders out of the central City of Atlanta the Trinity congregation began to shrink. This was when Civil Rights struggles were very much in the forefront in Atlanta. Church members from Glenn UMC and Peachtree Road UMC who had been supporters of and servers at Trinity Table committed to attending church at Trinity to help sustain the church.

In the 1980s Trinity opened its basement as a night shelter for men experiencing homelessness. In 1991 the men’s night shelter became Trinity House which now operates as Trinity House/Big Bethel, a program of Trinity Community Ministries

In the 1990’s Trinity was again in the forefront of expanding its ministries in respond to the needs of victims of HIV/AIDS and founded what was to become the nonprofit, The Living Room.

In the 2000’s Trinity renovated its basement to provide a shelter for homeless women, children and families who were awaiting permanent housing. Glenn provided the initial seed grant to furnish that renovation.

Trinity Table has continued to provide a hospitable hot meal and a to-go bagged meal every Sunday since its inception.

During COVID Trinity served bagged meals out of the church’s narthex in order to continue to feed the hungry who were living on the streets. Glenn provided hundreds of bagged meals.

In March 2023 the Table once again began serving sit-down hot meals.

In order to reopen Trinity UMC was faced with a new challenge. Following COVID and as a result of some church budget belt tightening the Table had to be re-envisioned. The downstairs dining room is now used as the women’s shelter and could no longer be used to serve meals. For the past number of years Sunday services at Trinity United Methodist Church has been held in their fellowship hall due to declining numbers in the congregation and maintenance of the aging sanctuary. The members of TUMC believe that the Trinity Table is a needed and important ministry in downtown Atlanta. The members of the church made the decision to move their worship service to 10AM in order to accommodate the Trinity Table ministry and have transformed the Worship Center/Fellowship Hall into the Trinity Table Dining Room every Sunday. The new space does not have a full kitchen so the volunteers use the fellowship hall’s small serving kitchen to plate the food.

In addition to serving meals every Sunday a Clothes Closet is now available that offers items of clothing, as well as other things, like hygiene kits or hats, etc.

The last Sunday of every month a mobile shower trailer comes to the church parking lot and provides showers for the guests through the nonprofit Hope Thru Soap.

Join us on Sunday June 25th as we work together at the Trinity Table!