Let's think for a minute about where your hard-earned money goes when you put it in to the offering plate, or mail it in to the church office.
We recently had a wonderful All-Daughter banquet. Almost 320 women packed Jack's Place and had a delightful evening. It took over 40 male volunteers to set up, serve, and clean up! As one woman, not a member of our congregation said, "Our church couldn't do something like this. We just don't have the male volunteers!" Someone has to recruit all those men and organize their serving. Pastor Jeff, a paid staff person, does that. Dawn Forbes, another paid staff person, starts All-Daughter planning months before. In fact she's well into planning for Bible School, which will minister to over 350 children, using many volunteers. At that Bible School we'll have about 50 Middle School students. Unprecedented! We added a small Middle School Bible School years ago simply to "hold" the 5th and 6th graders. It has grown in to a huge, happy week called ViBE.....under the direction of paid staff person Nate Ediger and 12 volunteers.
So....the next time you give to Trinity don't simply think, "There goes my hard-earned money." Think, "I'm ministering to children, teens (from our congregation and from the community), the women of our congregation, to all of us through Mr. Marenchin's work with 13 choirs, and lots more.” Over half of your contribution goes to make sure we have staff members to organize the literally hundreds of volunteers who do ministry at Trinity.
Thank you volunteering and thank you for your giving!
In Christ,
Pastor Mitchell
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