Giving Tuesday - Time, Talents and Treasures
Do what you can with what you've been given where you've been given it.
Read MoreSupporting Those in Need over the Holidays
As the flurry of the holidays barrel towards, there is often a dizzying pace of all the parties and places we need to be and things we need to do. But in the midst of this, what would it look like for us to slow down and consider those around us who don't have access to these opportunities and blessings?
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Survivor Day
Along with Trellis, Forefront Church is co-sponsoring American Foundation for Suicide Prevention's Survivor Day film screening on Monday, November 14.
Survivor Day allows people affected by suicide loss to gather around the world at events in their local communities to find comfort and gain understanding. These events are free and open to the public. Snacks and refreshments will also be provided.
Our Survivor Day gathering will include a screening of “Life Journeys: Reclaiming Life after Loss,” a new AFSP-produced documentary that traces the grief and healing journey that follows a suicide loss over time. We will also provide space for breakout group discussions with pastors and mental health professionals. All those affected by suicide loss are welcome to attend.
Sign up to attend this event HERE
Listening to and Encouraging the Community
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
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.
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