Trinity Lutheran Church
Greenville SC
29601-2000
Who we are
Trinity is passionate about being a congregation that welcomes, includes, accepts, affirms, embraces, and celebrates all people. And ALL really means ALL! If you are brown, black, or white, if you are poor or rich or somewhere in between, if you are male or female, young, old, or in the middle, if you are gay, straight, bi, or trans, if you have spent time in jail or on the street, if you are struggling with addiction or mental illness, if you are married, single, or divorced, if you have children or not, you have a place in this community of faith. You matter to us! You are valued in God’s kingdom. Trinity cares about you! God adores you!
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Sunday Worship - May 1, 2022 - 10:00 am
Facebook Video: Easter Sunday Worship - April 17, 2022 - 10:00 am
Leadership
Leader Name:
Rev. Susan J. Crowell
Leader Position:
Senior Pastor
Phone:
Fax:
(864) 242-6442
Leader Email:
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Leader Bio:
The Rev. Susan J. Crowell is a graduate of both Furman University and the Lutheran Theological Southern Seminary with a B. A. in Psychology and a Master of Divinity, respectively. She is passionate about social justice and finds joy and meaning in creating safe, brave spaces of connection and belonging for all people.
Trinity’s focus on diversity, inclusion, welcome, and radical hospitality as well as the congregation’s desire to reach out in love to a broken, hurting world continue to energize, sustain, and inspire Susan’s ministry.
Susan currently serves as the Vice-President of the Novus Way Board of Trustees and is a member of the SC Synod Candidacy Committee. She enjoys travel (especially Disney World), baking bread, yoga, going for walks, the mountains, books, and spending time with her husband, Mark, and their adult daughter, Elizabeth.
Trinity’s focus on diversity, inclusion, welcome, and radical hospitality as well as the congregation’s desire to reach out in love to a broken, hurting world continue to energize, sustain, and inspire Susan’s ministry.
Susan currently serves as the Vice-President of the Novus Way Board of Trustees and is a member of the SC Synod Candidacy Committee. She enjoys travel (especially Disney World), baking bread, yoga, going for walks, the mountains, books, and spending time with her husband, Mark, and their adult daughter, Elizabeth.
Administration
Admin Name:
Kay Cook
Admin Position:
Office Manager
Phone:
Fax:
(864) 242-6442
Admin Email:
Click here to contact Kay Cook
Mailing Address
421 N Main St
Greenville, SC
29601-2000
Greenville, SC
29601-2000
Parking
Parking is provided in an upper and lower lot located between Main Street and Townes Street with entrances provided via both streets. An additional lot is situated next to the Playground with access from Townes Street.
Additional parking is available on Sunday mornings on Main Street and in the city lot located across the street from the Sanctuary, the main building featuring the iconic three sets of red doors.
Additional parking is available on Sunday mornings on Main Street and in the city lot located across the street from the Sanctuary, the main building featuring the iconic three sets of red doors.
Trinity Lutheran Church Service Times
Sunday Mornings at 10:00 am
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Dress Code
At Trinity, you will find that worshippers dress in a variety of ways. Dresses, pants, jeans, t-shirts, sports jackets, and shorts are all perfectly appropriate. Your presence is important to us. What you wear is not!
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Trinity Lutheran Church History
Until the fall of 1909 there had not been a Lutheran presence in the city of Greenville. On August 29, 1909 a handful of Greenville Lutherans met in the Masonic Hall at the southwest corner of Main and Washington streets to consider plans for organizing a Lutheran congregation. After creating an organizational charter on September 12, twenty-seven members were received into the church on Reformation Sunday of that same year.
In the spring of 1911, members of the Property Committee approved plans to purchase a lot for a future church to be constructed five blocks north of the main city square which is the current site of Trinity Lutheran Church. The Rev. C. L. Miller, Trinity’s first full-time pastor, helped lay the cornerstone of the building in March of 1914. Due to the outbreak of World War I, the building of the church had to be postponed. Members worshipped in Sunday School rooms on the property until the Nave and Chancel were completed in 1921.
In the over one hundred years since organization, Trinity has been served by eleven full-time Pastors and a number of other Associate Pastors, Associates in Ministry, parish workers, administrative staff, and other support staff.
The organizing members of Trinity Lutheran Church could not have envisioned the significant changes that have occurred in these more than one hundred years. Today’s congregation boasts over 1200 members who support an annual budget of over 1.2 million dollars. Outreach ministries, relational groups, and educational opportunities abound for Trinity members. The church campus has expanded considerably to include the purchase of the adjacent property which currently is home to a number of local ministries and human service agencies as well as Trinity’s Youth Center. But more important than budgets and buildings, ministries and membership is the obvious fact that at Trinity Lutheran Church, Greenville, SC, lives are being transformed. The power of God is at work among us enabling us to reach out to our neighbors and share the good news of God’s love and grace. These more than one hundred years of ministry serve as a powerful witness to the Greenville community that God is indeed alive at Trinity Lutheran Church. Our fervent hope and prayer is that we, the people of God at Trinity, will remain open to God’s calling and leading so that the next century of ministry will continue to bring glory to God.
In the spring of 1911, members of the Property Committee approved plans to purchase a lot for a future church to be constructed five blocks north of the main city square which is the current site of Trinity Lutheran Church. The Rev. C. L. Miller, Trinity’s first full-time pastor, helped lay the cornerstone of the building in March of 1914. Due to the outbreak of World War I, the building of the church had to be postponed. Members worshipped in Sunday School rooms on the property until the Nave and Chancel were completed in 1921.
In the over one hundred years since organization, Trinity has been served by eleven full-time Pastors and a number of other Associate Pastors, Associates in Ministry, parish workers, administrative staff, and other support staff.
Thank You
The most important prayer in the world is just two words long: "Thank you"
Trinity Lutheran Church listing was last updated on the 4th of May, 2022
