HTB and Brussels are multi-cultural. Many - but not all - of our members are high achievers. Mobile people are often open people. People in Brussels and in HTB are probably much more sensitive than the average parish to anything patronizing or discriminatory as regards gender, nationality, race or sexual orientation. People in the HTB pews look their clergy in the eye. They do not easily accept orders from the pulpit. If they think the clergy are wrong, they tell them so. They are often accepting big changes in their professional and family lives. They may also be open to change in their Christian lives. The challenge is to help them change in the right direction.
HTB has an evangelical tradition and has close links with the Intercontinental Church Society. But we are not too interested in labels. We want to provide an environment in which people from all over the world can meet with Christ, where Christians from every tradition and background will feel fully part of our community and on which they will look back as a time and place where they grew as Christians.
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If many people at HTB regard themselves as Anglicans, many do not. Their interest is that HTB provides them with a Christian community where they can worship and learn and serve and feel at home. Our vision is to offer “Welcoming Anglicanism” as a vehicle to that end.
HTB also provides a spiritual home to a number of people in full-time Christian work. They may be trying to keep in touch with important issues addressed by the EU, or tapping EU resources for Christian relief organizations or reaching international students. We want to offer them support.
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Nigel Walker, chaplain since 1992 writes:
“What makes it different working at Holy Trinity? You do not have a parish with a clear boundary, so parish visiting is hard to organize and time consuming. But weddings and funerals play a relatively small part. If you manage your time well, you can do things that are different.
Holy Trinity contains Christians from many denominations and backgrounds. It has been a healthy sieve for my own beliefs. It has shown me the strengths of other traditions. This has re-inforced my own position and made me more accepting of where they are coming from.
After starting 2 new services, we have yet to fill the space we created in the main service.”
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