Ministries

Ministry Teams
Established to focus on a variety of specific areas on an on-going basis, our Ministry Teams coordinate and run these programs at Trinity:

• Quilters and Sewers      
• Teddy Bear Program     

Community Ministry

We partner with local organizations to provide time and/or resources. Our Community Ministry Coordinating Team identifies and serves as liaison with:

• Anchor House Ministries, Port Manatee
• Beth-El Farmworker Ministry
• Centerstone Bradenton
• Feeding Empty Little Tummies (F.E.L.T.)
• Parenting Matters
• Habitat for Humanity
• Just For Girls Academy
• Our Daily Bread
• Turning Points
• PACE Center for Girls
• Palms Deaf Church (PDC) -- is Trinity's newest ministry partner. This Florida-Bahamas Synod church should fill a huge need: 90% of Deaf Americans are unchurched; 800,000 Floridians are Deaf/Hard of Hearing. PDC expects to begin in-person and online worship in 2022.  Born deaf, Lori Fuller, a recent graduate of Luther Seminary, was recently approved by the Candidacy Committee of the Florida Bahamas Synod to be called as a pastor in the ELCA.
• Selah Freedom 
• Soldier Ministry -- Manasota Operation Troop Support 
• Tree of Life Preschool
• Turning Points

For Current projects, please see our NEWS page!

Annual Projects      

• Serve the Hot Meal at Our Daily Bread monthly on select Thursdays and Saturdays, including the 5th Thursday of any month.
• Collect a "Noisy Offering" to benefit Our Daily Bread - to help them provide meals and stock their pantry for their clients. The last weekend of every month we love hearing coins fill loaf pans, and also, the rustle of paper offerings too!
• Annually provide Thanksgiving Baskets to provide a traditional meal for families who might not otherwise be able to celebrate. Our partners in this annual project are Big Brothers Big Sisters, Parenting Matters, and Pace Center For Girls. In 2022 we are also supporting the hurricane devastated El Jobean community.
• Annual Diaper Drive for Healthy Start whenever the organization advises they have special need. 
• Christmas Angel Tree for families in our community served by our ministry partner Parenting Matters. 

National and Global Ministry

Our responsibilites to be good stewards of that which we are provided includes on-going support of several organizations as well as immediate response in times of crisis. We strive to raise awareness of the needs outside our community and the ways we can come together as a church family, or as individuals and families, to help and support those whose lives are challenged by lack of food, clean water, shelter, educational opportunities, and/or many other advantages we enjoy.

• Evangelical Lutheran Church in Haiti
• Lutheran Disaster Response
• Lutheran World Relief
• Good Gifts, including The Global Barnyard
• World Hunger 

 

We believe it is our obligation and privilege to serve – minister – to people wherever there is need, whether locally, nationally or globally.  To assure our ability to provide assistance, Trinity has established a Mission Endowed Fund to produce income to help us share God's love in various ministries and to address special needs inside or out of our faith community. For more information about the fund: MEF Brochure and MEF Resolution to establish. Gifts to the Fund may be made through regular offering or eGiving.