Missions Committee

Who are we?

Trinity Heights UMC Mission Work Group is a collection of individuals committed to transformative community and global service projects. We identify at least one project per month to focus our time, talents and monies collected from our congregation.

We loosely meet once monthly (currently on the 2nd Monday at 10 am at Bethel College Coffee Shop) to plan future events and to bring additional opportunities forward for consideration.

In the past year we have participated in “Laundry of Love”, financial support for Camp Horizon, participation in our Newton Community Thanksgiving event, cooked dinner and baked desserts for Circles of Hope, provided snack packs for children weekly at the Summer Educational Activities for Kids program, held churchwide food drive for Harvest of Love and provided support for New Hope, Safe Hope and Ember Hope.

October Work Group Report:

Teacher supplies of expo markers, Kleenex, sticky post-it notes were collected for gifting to HS teachers; approximately $450 value. Thank You congregation!! New Hope is in need of reorganization/remodeling of the donated clothing storage room. Missions is waiting for an estimate on needed building supplies. THUMC will be participating in the Community Thanksgiving again. Sign-up lists will soon be available with volunteer opportunities. We are responsible for cooking twelve 20# turkeys. Cooking will be done on 11/24, picking on 11/25. See Shari Kaiser for details. Circle of Hope meal is being provided 11/4.

-Shari Kaiser, Allen Wedel, Harlan and Judy Rittgers, Cynthia Wyss, and Jodie Thach

Current Events:

Laundry of Love- Don’t forget to put your quarters in the jar on the Welcome Center.

Blessing Box- Donate any non-perishable food or household products for those in the community to use.

New Hope- Reorganization and remodeling their donated clothing storage room.

Community Thanksgiving- Cooking turkeys and serving the meal.