outreach

We’re excited to partner with Art 2 Heart, a faith-based nonprofit that supports Christian ministries and missionaries through the creative arts. Located in Hamel, MN, Art 2 Heart operates a boutique filled with handcrafted gifts, with proceeds helping fund impactful outreach efforts locally and globally. Through this partnership, we celebrate how creativity and compassion can come together to serve God’s mission. Our connection includes shared ministry through events like our AGAPE Gift Market, Creative Hearts Ministry projects, and Trinity Women Sip & Shop evenings. Together, we’re using creativity, hospitality, and generosity to serve and support God’s work in the world.

Trinity Lutheran, Calvin Presbyterian, and St. George churches of Lake Long unite to provide monthly meals for church members and the community. The meals rotate among the three churches each month.

Trinity supports IOCP in various ways throughout the year including helping monthly in the food shelf, 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.

Trinity serves at the food shelf on the first Thursday of each month, with four spots reserved for our group. Upcoming 2026 dates include September 3, October 1 and November 5.

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 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.

Bridging, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization primarily serving the Twin Cities, provides donated furniture and household goods to families and individuals transitioning out of homelessness and poverty. Bridging gives hope and a leap towards housing stability. With locations in Roseville, Bloomington and Plymouth (new in Spring 2025), Bridging is driven by volunteers and donations of basic home essential items from the community. If you are looking for a place to donate a variety of items, consider Bridging as a great place to donate and help others.

Can Do Canines transforms people's lives by creating mutually beneficial partnerships with specially trained dogs. Trinity has been partnering with Can Do Canines for several years. One of Trinity’s long-time members recently received a Can Do Canine dog and her life has been richly blessed.

A partner church for Trinity since 2022. Salem Lutheran Church is in North Minneapolis and was founded in 1895. As a partner church, we want to learn from each other and be in community together. As we continue to build relationships, opportunities include serving the community meal together, helping at the Salem Dining Hall State Fair booth, work on projects together, pray for each other and more.

The Trinity Salem Community Meal shifts take place the first, second and fourth Tuesday of each month.

Simpson helps to house, support, and advocate for people experiencing homelessness. For many years, Trinity has supported Simpson through their shelter program by serving a monthly meal. Each month on Saturdays, a Trinity group (6 max) helps cook and serve a hearty lunch to the guests 10am-1:30pm.

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 including the United States.

Twin Cities Habitat for Humanity engages a broad network of supporters and community members to create, preserve, and promote affordable homeownership across the seven-county metro area of Minneapolis and Saint Paul. As the largest affordable homeownership builder in the region and a leader within Habitat for Humanity’s global network, Twin Cities Habitat is making a lasting impact. Each year, Trinity participates in several local work days, offering hands-on opportunities to help build and support safe, stable housing for families in our community.

Bricks to Bread is a nonprofit organization that builds brick ovens for families in Central America, providing a sustainable source of income through baking. Trinity partners with Bricks to Bread by baking and selling pretzels together — including as a vendor in our Agape Gift Market — to raise funds for ovens in El Salvador and Costa Rica. Based in the Twin Cities, Bricks to Bread offers local opportunities to get involved, including baking bread in an oven modeled after those used in Central America. Trinity has partnered with Bricks to Bread since 2018.

In October 2025, a small group—including some Trinity members—traveled to Costa Rica on an exploratory oven build trip. During the trip, an oven and kitchen were completed for the women of Carpintero. The Trinity keystone is a permanent part of this oven as a reminder of our continued connection to this community. To learn more of their experience, click below for trip blog.

Six times since 2010, Trinity has hosted 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 2022 FMSC MobilePack event 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 over an additional 200,000 meals- feeding almost 1,300 kids for a whole year.

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.

Lutheran World Relief (LWR) is an organization that has been in existence for 80 years working all over the world. LWR provides aid in emergencies and helps families restore their lives. They partner with communities to build and grow rural economies. LWR breaks the cycle of poverty, so families and communities can thrive. The goal is to help people build self‐sufficiency and create new community‐owned approaches to problem‐solving that will last long after the projects end. In 2025, Trinity’s Lenten Project supported LWR. We provided 1,000 Personal Care Kits by collecting donations and assembling the kits. We were also able to provide additional funds to cover future shipping costs to areas in need. Since then, we support LWR through special offerings and sale of LWR's chocolate and coffee supporting ? across the globe.

Watch for future opportunities supporting the work of LWR.

Water Mission provides safe water, sanitation, and hygiene solutions to communities around the world. Trinity is a proud supporter of the Twin Cities Walk for Water and invites people of all ages to participate each year.

During the Walk for Water, participants carry water and walk together to experience, in a small way, the daily journey millions make to access safe water—while raising awareness and support for Water Mission’s work. In 2025, 31 Trinity walkers (ages 5-86) participated in the official Twin Cities walk or our local walk, raising $12,426 for clean water projects in Kenya and beyond.