Sunday, September 11
Guest Preacher: The Reverend Fred Burnham
Rev. Burnham is the former Director of Trinity Institute, Trinity Church Wall Street. When planes crashed into the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001, the Rev. Dr. Fred Burnham, as Director of the Institute, was hosting the Most Rev. Dr. Rowan Williams, then the Archbishop of Wales, at Trinity Church, just one block south of Ground Zero. Both Burnham and Bishop Williams, the future Archbishop of Canterbury, thought they were going to die many times that fateful morning. Burnham threw himself into the recovery effort, becoming a night supervisor at the relief ministry for emergency workers that emerged at St. Paul's, a chapel of Trinity Church directly across the street from the World Trade Center site.