Ministry Expands beyond Trinity House Café to Offer Parents Vision, Tools and Support
December 4, 2019
New Ministry Platform
Trinity House Community—a Catholic 501(c)(3) ministry with a mission “to inspire families to make home a little taste of heaven for the renewal of faith and culture” and which founded and oversees Trinity House Café + Market in Leesburg, Va.—today launched www.trinityhousecommunity.org as a tool to inspire and equip parents and families in their sacred calling.
“Families are hungry for a renewed vision for their homes,” said Co-Founder and Co-Director Soren Johnson, “a practical roadmap for family life, and encouragement to face the cultural headwinds. If Pope St. John Paul II was right—that “the history of mankind passes by way of the family”—then we need to return to the home and family life as the way forward.”
“Our new website offers parents a menu of options,” said Ever Johnson, Co-Founder and Co-Director, “from workshops and livestreams to a weekly e-letter, blog, free downloads, and resources. Eighteen years into marriage, as parents of five children, we are now offering what we wish we had when we first set out on the adventure of family life.”
“At a time when families across our nation are struggling to translate Christian faith into the daily life of the home, Trinity House Community is stepping forward with practical tools to lead families to a new level of faith and confidence,” said Ron Riggins, a member of the ministry’s board of directors, and chairman of the National Service Committee of the Catholic Charismatic Renewal in the U.S.
Expanded Ministry to Families, 2019
Confronted with what they saw as a correlation between impersonal lifestyles, dying faith, and a toxic culture, Soren and Ever set out to expand the Trinity House Community ministry to offer families a vision for personal lifestyles, enlivened faith, and healthy culture. The ministry focuses on the idea of a “Trinity House,” a home in which the family is dedicated to living together with God and learning his other-centered way of life. Beginning in the fall of 2019, the ministry began to implement this vision through the launch of:
- Heaven in Your Home workshops for parents to inspire them to build their own Trinity House and lead their families to a new level of faith and confidence;
- opportunities for Consecration of the Home and Family to the Holy Trinity;
- digital tools to encourage and equip families, including the website, weekly e-letter, blog, and social media;
- parish-based Chapters to encourage families to continue building up their Trinity Houses and sharing this way of life with other families;
- efforts to cultivate future Trinity House Cafes, to more widely share the ministry’s vision for the Christian household—grounded in a life of faith in a God who lives for others, welcoming people with attentive listening and good food, working together to care for one another, and sharing a rich family culture with family, friends, and neighbors.
“Trinity House Community,” said a father who participated in the ministry’s Heaven in Your Home workshop, “is a tremendous testimony to the incredible love and mercy our God has for us, and the importance of looking to the relationship in the Trinity as an example of how to thrive together as families in faith.”
At the ministry’s first Heaven in Your Home workshop on Oct. 5th at St. John the Apostle in Leesburg, 55 people participated. Trinity House Community led 85 men, women and children in a subsequent consecration to the Holy Trinity on Nov. 9th, followed by the ministry’s official launch of its first Trinity House Community Chapter.
In 2020, Trinity House Community plans to serve 2,500 parents through workshops and livestreams, talks and retreats; launch five new Trinity House Community Chapters; expand the café ministry’s Christian-living products with a focus on helping families observe the liturgical year; and cultivate prospective leaders for future Trinity House Cafés.
Trinity House Café, 2014-Present
In 2014, Trinity House Community founded Trinity House Café, a counter-service café with full espresso bar located in historic Leesburg at the corner of Church and Market Streets. The award-winning café marked its 5th anniversary on October 1, 2019, serving over 25,000 guests annually. A copy of the Trinity icon—also called “The Hospitality of Abraham and Sarah”—hangs in the café’s dining room to indicate its mission of hospitality. The café ministry has been widely featured in Catholic and secular media outlets.
“Trinity House Café is an exciting and encouraging model of the local Church going on the offense, in an unassuming yet effective and attractive way,” said George Weigel, Distinguished Senior Fellow and William E. Simon Chair in Catholic Studies at the Ethics and Public Policy Center.
“Trinity House demonstrates the power of hospitality in the public square, a ministry of presence, of sharing a meal with people,” said Jennifer Fulwiler, best-selling author and Sirius XM radio host.
“To me, Trinity House delivers rest, renewal, community, peace, restoration, relationship, and you happen to serve coffee,” said Grafton de Butts, Vice President of Membership and Government Affairs for the Loudoun County Chamber of Commerce.
More information is available at www.trinityhousecommunity.org and www.trinityhousecafe.com
For Immediate Release
Contact: Amy Fagerli, Director of Communications
afagerli@trinityhousecommunity.org, 703-403-3716
