In 2011, a group of friends and family members from various churches were on a theological journey that raised questions about what it looks like to be faithful to God and to his mission in our time and place. We began to see that our society was secularizing fast and that many churches were not speaking with the theological and biblical depth, fidelity, or clarity people needed, nor were they forming Christians with the maturity to love and witness to their neighbors faithfully. So we began to consider together how we might learn to be a church of faithful witnesses and maturing Christians.

On Easter Sunday of 2012, Trinity Church began meeting together for worship, community, and mission. The church gathered for worship in an attic, a BBQ restaurant, and then in the evenings at a couple of different churches. We met in homes across the city for meals, prayer, and study, and we welcomed in other friends and neighbors to find refuge from their chaotic and weary lives. 

After a few years of searching for the right denominational home, Trinity Church pursued partnership with the Presbyterian Church in America and was adopted into the Piedmont Triad Presbytery in 2016.

Since its beginning, by God’s grace and power at work in us, Trinity has seen much fruit through the ordinary ministry of the Word, prayer, and the sacraments of baptism and the Lord’s Table. Our rich and intimate community has ministered to one another and our community through baptisms, marriages, giving financial assistance and counseling to those in debt, supporting adoptions, fostering children, showing hospitality, supporting missionaries and campus ministries, and much more. We look forward to seeing this work furthered as our roots in the northwest part of Winston-Salem have been deepened with the purchase of a church home on Shattalon Drive.

As we look to the future, our prayer is that we would continue, with greater clarity and maturity, to live out our mission to find life together in the depths of the Triune God. We want to be faithful in our rapidly secularizing context by embodying Apostolic faith, formation, and practice as we live as an intimate but hospitable community committed to the work of healing the broken and helping the widow and orphan as we proclaim the gospel and demonstrate the kingdom of Jesus Christ.