Listening to and Encouraging the Community

September 21, 2016 by Zac Martin

Trellis seeks to build relationships with organizations that move towards partnerships that build and bless the community together.

This week there are a number of ways to be involved in these efforts

Community Heroes

This project, a collaboration with Nice Think, Liberty City, Trinity Grace Park Slope, Apostles Brooklyn, and Bindery NYC highlights and celebrates the lives of everyday people living and serving in overlooked and often neglected neighborhoods.

This week there are two different opportunities to see, meet and encourage the lives and efforts.

Photoville - Community Heroes

PHOTOVILLE is a FREE annual festival photo installation at Brooklyn Bridge Park. This modular venue built from re-purposed shipping containers has become the largest annual photographic event in New York City and among the most-attended photographic events nationwide welcoming over 72,000 visitors.

This year Community Heroes is featured as one of the installations! During the showing there will be opportunities to meet some of the heroes, so watch Instagram and Twitter for details.

BRIC - B-Scene Documentary Night

This documentary night provides the opportunity to view locally produced documentaries that tell unique stories rooted in culture and community. Community Heroes will be one of three projects screened followed by a forum and audience Q and A about the projects. Some of the heroes highlighted will also be at the event for a meet and greet.

Tickets are free and you get get them HERE

Building Bridges Between the Community and Law Enforcement

As the news sadly continues to remind us, the relationship between the police and the communities they serve is still very much fractured and tense. The problem continues to build as many people's understand of the issues remains superficially informed by news outlets and social media and largely separated from the people most directly affected and involved.

This forum drawing together teenagers, community activists, parents, teachers, neighborhood pastors and congregations [Bethel Baptist, Trinity Grace Parks Slope and Crown Heights, Bridge Church, Forefront Brooklyn and others] and law enforcement from around New York is an attempt to more purposefully humanize these issues by providing time and space to hear and learn from and pray for each other.

The event is free and open to all, there is limited capacity and you can get your tickets HERE

Trellis Lowdown - July v.1

July 21, 2016 by Zac Martin

It has been a rough few weeks for our country and a startling reminder of the unrest, distrust and animosity that resides and remains. One of Trellis' core values is pursuing reconciliation through building relationally based partnerships among different organizations in the city. It's through these partnerships that we can then move past stereotypes and prejudices towards understanding, listening and learning from each other.

Trellis Lowdown - June v.1

June 15, 2016 by Zac Martin

At Trellis, we come away from these meetings and moments so grateful for the many organizations around the city doing incredible work. Our hope is to continue to see, strengthen and support more of these collaborations.

Justice Briefing - June v.1

June 10, 2016 by Zac Martin

Redistribution is putting our lives, our skills, our education, and our resources to work to empower [as well as learn from and support] people in a community of need.

Trellis Lowdown - May v.2

May 25, 2016 by Zac Martin

A Borough of Churches

Part of the work that Trellis does is getting to know the great churches in Brooklyn by spending time with their leaders to hear about their passions, desires and capacities for neighborhood engagement

Recent weeks have provided a lot of opportunities to catch up with the pastors of these important and beautiful churches

Apostles Brooklyn

Planted in September 2013 by Derek Devine, this Acts 29 church has been doing amazing work in reaching and serving Fort Greene, Downtown and some of the surrounding neighborhoods. In the months ahead, Trellis looks forward to working with a deacon team coming together at Apostles to help them engage and serve with their communities.

Hope Church Brooklyn

Coming in in 2017, this church planted out of the Hope Church network is hoping to plant a congregation in Fort Greene. It was such a joy to sit down and talk with Russell Joyce about his heart and mission for the church and be able to connect him and his leadership to resources on how to get to know the beauty and needs of the neighborhood they hope to serve and bless.

The House Church Brooklyn

Also planted in 2013, Edwin Pacheco, started the House Church in Park Slope, Edwin and his team have been praying and planning towards starting a church in Red Hook, Brooklyn over the last year. Trellis has been working alongside The House Church in helping them develop relationships with organizations in Red Hook and partnering in some prayer initiatives seeking to gather multiple churches together in geographic areas to pray for neighborhoods together.

Trellis' work continues in building relationships with these churches, with the hope of many more, towards the goal of fitting them with non-profits in their neighborhoods to see their communities and organizations thrive.