God provides each of us with gifts to love, share and serve others. Our commitment is to build relationships and share resources to reach further than we could on our own. Trinity partners with organizations that believe in a mission and purpose based on five core values: kinship, transformative, relational, foundational, and sustainable.
From feeding our neighbors to constructing homes around the world, Trinity extends God’s love in tangible and meaningful ways. See some of the ways you can share your gifts in your neighborhood, in our city and around the world.
Trinity’s financial synod benevolence involves the support of several other organizations such as Lutheran World Relief, Lutheran Disaster Relief and ELCA Good Gifts.
Trinity’s Annual Agape Gift Market held in November is a highlight for the church and community! The market includes Artisan hand-created items, unique local vendors, holiday greens, Agape bakery items, soup & dip mixes, raffle drawing prizes and much more!
All proceeds are donated to support three mission efforts: Disaster relief, local & global missions.
Over the last several years, Trinity’s Outreach has expanded to connect, serve, and build relationships in the Long Lake community and support our Trinity family. Click on the images below to learn more about each of Trinity’s Neighborhood Outreach partners.
Interfaith Outreach – Trinity supports Interfaith Outreach in various ways throughout the year including donations for the food shelf, resale store, and annual Adopt-a-Family programing. The local service agency supports eight communities around the Long Lake area.
Orono Sparks – Orono School District provides this Community Education program to close the achievement and opportunity gap for kids in elementary and middle school who have an academic and financial need. High school youth and adults are needed as mentors.
WeCAN – WeCAN is a community nonprofit that empowers and equips individuals and families to reach stability and self-sufficiency. Located in Mound, WeCAN serves the western communities of Hennepin County. Trinity helps support WeCAN through donations to the food shelf and annual Adopt-a-Family program.
As we grow in our own faith and discover where God is calling us to follow, we look beyond our own neighborhood to serve our local cities. Click on the images below to learn more about each of Trinity’s Local Outreach partners.
Salem Lutheran Church – A new partner church for Trinity since spring 2022. Salem Lutheran Church is in North Minneapolis and was founded in 1895. Opportunities to be in community together and build relationships include community meals, helping at their State Fair booth, praying for each other and more.
Center for Leadership and Neighborhood Engagement – A new partner for Trinity since September 2021. CLNE’s vision is to help mobilize congregations and leaders as powerful neighborhood-based agents for positive social change through building relationships.
Simpson Housing Services – A monthly lunch served at the shelter is supported by Trinity.
Habitat for Humanity – Opportunities are available to help with local building in the Twin Cities area.
Can Do Canines – A new partnership for Trinity, opportunities will be provided for learning and supporting the work of Can Do Canines.
With the gifts God entrusts to us, God calls us to love and serve our brothers and sisters around the world. Click on the images below to learn more about each of Trinity’s World Outreach partners.
Seeds of Hope Sponsorship in El Salvador – In 2011, Trinity collaborated with Family of Christ Chanhassen’s sponsorship program to support students’ education in El Salvador.
Feed My Starving Children – Semi-annually in April, Trinity hosts a Feed My Starving Children mobile packing event include volunteers from the church and community helping to feed God’s children in body and spirit. Trinity’s FMSC MobilePack event hosted September 30- October 2, 2022, involved almost 1,000 volunteers from the church and community. 279,936 meals were packed during the weekend with additional funding provided by members for almost an additional 200,000 meals- feeding almost 1,300 kids for a whole year.
Opportunity International – Trinity’s new global partnership supports the community of Albornoz, a hilly region just to the south of Cartagena, Colombia. Since 1971, Opportunity has worked to create opportunities for entrepreneurs and families in Colombia- in fact, Opportunity’s very first loan was issued to a Colombian entrepreneur to grow his space and tea business. In the decades since, Opportunity’s work has expanded to reach families further down the economic ladder. Today, the families benefitting from Opportunity’s services are the ones most in need: they have faced the greatest challenges especially due to the pandemic.
Water Mission – Trinity is a sponsor of the Twin Cities Walk for Water with a group participating in the walk supporting the work of Water Mission, a Christian-based organization. Together we will
Habitat for Humanity Global Trips – Since 2011, six groups have traveled to El Salvador to help build homes as part of Thrivent Builds/Habitat for Humanity . Future trips will be planned to El Salvador and other parts of the world. Future trips will be planned to El Salvador and other parts of the world.
