Church In The World

Trinity’s Church in the World Ministry helps identify possible avenues for service and support. We inform and recruit Trinity members and encourage their personal involvement and we decide how to direct the congregation’s financial support among many potential organizations and ministries.  We welcome all those interested in joining the committee to assist in this important mission. Please contact Suzanne Alfaro.

Trinity’s outreach ministries reach out to those in need, and use our congregation’s varied talents and resources to help our community.  We use our minds and voices to tutor students; we use our hands to crack eggs, assemble baloney sandwiches and hammer nails; we use our feet to walk for the homeless and hungry; we use our eyes to guide a paintbrush; we use our driving skills to deliver meals; and we use our money to send our hearts where we sometimes cannot go.

Trinity also supports development of new churches and ministries.  Trinity offers financial support and our facilities to develop new congregations, and Trinity partners with churches in other countries, exchanging ideas and resources, and enriching church communities immeasurably.

On-going Local Service Opportunities:

SANDWICHES FOR THE NEEDY
Offers Trinity families an opportunity to make sandwiches for the hungry. These sandwiches are delivered to the Arlington Street People’s Assistance Network.  Last year about 20 Trinity members participated.  Contact:Romana Campos

BARRETT SCHOOL PARTNERSHIP
Provides Trinity members with opportunities to tutor children, furnish needed school supplies, and coats, hats, and mittens in wintertime. Trinity also supports Barrett’s 4-H Club and peer mediation program. Members may help in special programs such as rocket making, hiking, or cooking. Last year Trinity provided financial support, helped Barrett families and held a coat drive.  Contact: Liz Fried

FISH (For Immediate Sympathetic Help)
Provides rides to those needing assistance. Volunteers serve as drivers, bringing clients to medical and other appointments.  Trinity is responsible for providing rides on the Monday, Wednesday and Friday of every fifth week.  Last year about 18 Trinity members served as drivers.  Contact:  Leslie Campbell

SOME (So Others Might Eat)                       
Feeds hearty breakfasts to more than 300 homeless men and women each morning in DC. Trinity provides the grits, juice, and eggs once a month, plus a small staff of members to cook and serve it. Five Trinity volunteers work from 6:30-8:00 a.m. the third Monday of each month.  Contact: Fred Feurken.

OPPORTUNITIES OUTSIDE OUR COMMUNITY

MISSION TRIPS                                       
Offers Trinity members of all ages the chance to work together up to a week on a project assisting a community away from our area.  We conduct two trips every year.  Each year, middle schoolers travel to a domestic site. Intergenerational groups alternate domestic and international mission trips. 

In 2005, close to 20 adults and youth spent a week working in West Virginia rebuilding homes damaged by recent floods. In 2004 a group traveled to the Pacific coast of Guatemala and helped a community in building a church, improving their irrigation system and teaching children.

Over the past decade, Trinity has provided hands-on help to people in locations as diverse as South Carolina, Jamaica, Mexico, Arizona, Vermont, Guatemala, Puerto Rico and West Virginia.  Trinity youth and adults have repaired homes, renovated churches, painted a seminary, built sidewalks and refurbished a drug rehab center.  They have also developed lasting bonds with those served as well as with each other.  Contact:Pam Michell or Matt Walker.

ANNUAL OUTREACH

SOUPER BOWL SUNDAY
The entire congregation comes together to collect cans of soup and cash on Super Bowl Sunday for the hungry.  The cans and donations are then delivered to AFAC for distribution.  Contact: Fred Jones

CHRISTMAS IN APRIL
Gives skilled and unskilled Trinity members the opportunity to work together one day a year fixing up a local home of an elderly or disabled person. Skills needed include painting, yard work, caulking, plumbing, trash removal, plastering, electrical work, etc. Always the fourth Sunday in April, with 20-30 Trinity members participating.  Contact: Tim McDonald.

HELP THE HOMELESS WALKATHON  
Offers opportunity each November for Trinity volunteers to walk on the Mall for the homeless.  Pledges are extended for each mile walked. Proceeds go to area efforts to help homeless people.  Contact:  Pam Michell

CROP WALK
Held in early October each year, this walkathon raises money to fight local, national and worldwide hunger. One quarter of the proceeds go to the Arlington Food Assistance Center (AFAC).   Contact:  Fred Jones

ALTERNATIVE CHRISTMAS MART
Raises money each November for local and international service organizations.  Held in the narthex of the church, with gift cards and crafts available and revenues helping those in need.  Contact: Jocelyn Hunn

CHRISTMAS ANGEL TREE       
Trinity members donate gifts to needy families, often in conjunction with our Barrett School partnership.  Contact: Liz Fried or Suzanne Alfaro

OTHER WAYS TO SERVE

·         Help with committee communications and publicity, including presenting a Moment for Mission.

·         Correspond with missionaries supported by Trinity.

·         Make financial contributions to programs and organizations supported by Trinity.

·         Let Trinity encourage and support service ministries in which you are involved.

·         Join our committee (meets 1^st  Tuesday  each month, 7:45 p.m.).

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