Mission Core
If you haven’t checked a calendar, either your desktop (cluttered) or your refrigerator door (also cluttered) you may not notice that 2022 is here. That said, I want to share the good news of our Trinity outreach programs during 2021.
With December 2021almost gone, both our calendar year (ending) and church year (beginning) it is with a quiet joy that I report that, despite the ongoing whipsaw effect of our pandemic-driven activities, our Mission Core teams have accomplished each of our declared projects.
Not only did each project meet our expectations, in most instances we exceeded them!
River Day had thirty-five participants, five more than the thirty. for which we had planned! The upshot of that being that we accomplished more than Camilla, Peter and our Love of Creation team set as our goal.
The Diaper Drive, spearheaded by both Love of Children and Love of Neighbor resulted in a record number of donations that filled our means of transportation to overflowing!
And, just a few weeks ago, our gifts for the children of Casa Central set yet another new level of love expressed as it was necessary to transport them not in my sedan (as last year) but in Todd’s big SUV.
There is one more amazing action to report. In late October, our Conference Minister, Rev. Molly Carlson put forth a challenge to all 240 of our
congregations. She set $100,000 as our goal for a donation to the Reduce Medical Debt Fund. With Council approval, we set a Trinity goal of $1000. Two of our three Love teams had sufficient remaining (budgeted) funds to create a $500 foundation on which to build with individual gifts. When the campaign ended on December 10th, Trinity had raised and sent to the Conference, a check for $1045. Based on RMDF’s formula, the Conference raised a total of $24,352, thus reducing medical debt by $2,435,200. Of that amount, our contribution reduced medical debts by a fantastic $104,500.
For those needs that are best served by monetary gifts, all three of our Love teams thought their budgets well-distributed. However, as of this past week we learned that, due to a just-received donation, two of our teams must revisit their donations and make some last minute distributions.
What a remarkable way to close out 2021 and prepare to greet the opportunities for expressing our love and compassion in 2022.
Together, we are serving Christ,
Roger
