The history of Trinity Episcopal Church, in Beaver must begin with the history of Trinity Episcopal Church, Rochester, Pa. That is where our roots were and through which flowed God's gift of faith that has helped make us the church we have become and are today.

It was faith that brought Francis Reno, an itinerant preacher and his family to the frontier wilderness of western Pennsylvania in the year 1799. A Virginian, the Reverend Mr. Reno was ordained in Philadelphia and sent forth by the Bishop White Prayer Book Society. Bishop Wit was the First Pennsylvania Bishop.

It was the faith of those early settlers that kept alive the rites and usage of the traditional Episcopal service in the wilds of what was then a trail from Pittsburgh and a flat boat landing on the Ohio River. This clergyman continued his ministry until the year 1828. He was the first rector of St. Luke's Church, Georgetown. In the following twenty years there were also occasional visits from clergymen traveling out of Pittsburgh.

The charter for Trinity Church was procured and duly recorded in the Beaver County Courthouse in March, 1852. Plans for building the church were halted because subsequent surveys of Rochester established a street right of way through the property. The faith of Trinity people had been put to an early test as they continued their services in the schoolhouse for the next four years.