At Trinity, you will find many opportunities to show your love to others through activities, large and small.
Love is an action, not a sentiment. We desire to serve rather than just be served.
The Bible says that each of us has something to contribute to the others who, together, form the whole Body that we call the church (1 Corinthians 12.12). Trinity people are learning to identify needs in our community with helpful acts of love.
These include:
- painting and repair of homes need it
- distributing food from the food pantry
- traveling to areas of devastating floods and hurricanes to help people get back on their feet
- teaching children and adults
- supporting missionaries
- providing volunteers and supplies for area animal shelters
- knitting prayer shawls for those who need spiritual and physical
warmth
- helping to provide housing for the homeless
- advocating for those who cannot advocate for themselves
- visiting those who are lonely and unable to get out
- plus many other year-round and seasonal acts of service
Instead of random acts of kindness, what about regular acts of kindness?
Risk-taking mission and service
Why use the word risk-taking? Because Christ calls us to go beyond loving those who naturally love us. To get out of our comfort zone into acts of service that have a high risk of failure. To actually try to love those who are unlovable.
Jesus says, "If you love those who love you, what credit is that to you? If you do good to those who do good to you, what credit is that to you? For even sinners do the same." [Luke 6:32-33]
"The stretch of Christian discipleship is to love those for whom it is not automatic, easy, common, or accepted. to love those who do not think like us or live like us, and to express respect, compassion, and mercy for those whom we do not know and who may never be able to repay us -- this is the love Christ pulls out of us," said Robert Schnase in Five Practices of Fruitful Congregations.
What are your gifts?
Has God asked you to do some special task for someone? Perhaps you would find people at Trinity who are ready to work together to serve the larger community.
Radical Service brings people together in God’s name from diverse paths to do God’s work (Romans 12:6-8).