We will again host Summer Suppers at Trinity on the second Friday of each month (May–September). Next Meal: Friday, May 9. We need volunteers to provide: Potato/hashbrown casserole | Rolls | Vegetables | Salad | Fruit or Jello salad. To volunteer, please contact Kathy Moulds directly or through the church office. Monetary donations are also appreciated—give online or use the red-striped mission envelopes in the pews.
Journeys: The Road Home is a community-based nonprofit serving Chicago’s North and Northwest suburbs. Located in Palatine, the HOPE Center offers free services such as a food pantry, laundry and showers, mail and transportation assistance, and case management, including housing, job, mental health, healthcare, and legal support.
Trinity has been committed to serving the homeless for over 30 years, adapting through COVID-19 and beyond. While we no longer house guests overnight, we continue to provide support:
– During COVID, we donated funds and meals twice a month to Journey’s hotel shelter program.
– Last summer, we joined the Summer Suppers program, offering monthly meals in Trinity Hall.
– This past winter, we prepared meals monthly for guests at Journey’s Interim Housing program at the HOPE Center, feeding 40–50 guests each time.
Summer Suppers Return in May!We will again host Summer Suppers at Trinity on the second Friday of each month (May–September). Next Meal: Friday, May 9. We need volunteers to provide: Potato/hashbrown casserole | Rolls | Vegetables | Salad | Fruit or Jello salad. To volunteer, please contact Kathy Moulds directly or through the church office. Monetary donations are also appreciated—give online or use the red-striped mission envelopes in the pews.
These are many of the organizations that Outreach Missions supports throughout the year
United Methodist Committee on Relief
UMCOR provides humanitarian relief and disaster response in the United States and internationally. The money is allocated to disasters as they arise.
umcor.org
Mujila Falls Agricultural Research Center in Zambia
The Center’s main focus is addressing hunger and poverty with sustainable agriculture and leadership training. The original goals and objectives of the project were to increase protein, minerals and vitamins in the diet to reduce high infant mortality and low life expectancy of the Lunda People. It was also to help the Lunda People to increase family incomes by becoming more effective and efficient farmers. The desired long-term impact is to help to make the Lunda farmer and their families competitive in agricultural pursuits that benefit from high rainfall and abundant available land.
Tree of Life Ministry – Rosebud Reservation in S. Dakota
Their mission is part of the working hands and feet of God to the Sicangu Lakota Nation residing on the Rosebud Reservation serving the body, mind and soul. They feed, clothe, shelter and love. They demonstrate His love, power, and grace to a broken, hurting society.
treeofliferelief.org
Rev. Jane Susan Eesley – Missionary in Jerusalem
Rev. Eesley serves as advocacy coordinator of the Methodist Liaison Office in Jerusalem. She earned Master and Bachelor of Arts degrees in literature at Northwestern University in Evanston and a Master of Divinity degree at Garrett-Evangelical Theology Seminary.
jeesley@umcmission.org
Kids Above All
Kids Above All began in 1894 as the Methodist Deaconess Orphanage (later as Lake Bluff Home for Children. Today, it is a highly experienced, multidisciplinary child and family services network reaching children and families facing adversity in cook, DuPage, Kane and Lake counties. Their focus is to improve the lives of vulnerable children and their families, foster parents, and other caregivers. Programs include foster care and adoption, group homes, child care, early childhood education and parenting support, military and veteran family support, and healthy life-style information.
www.kidsaboveall.org
Food Pantries
Non-perishable food and paper goods are collected and delivered once or twice a month to the Mt. Prospect or other food pantries.
Sam Mool House (Living Water)
This outreach ministry is for Asian American women who are in crisis because they are suffering economically, emotionally and spiritually. Bible study, English language school, career training, counseling, free medical care and federal support services are offered.
Meals for the Unhoused (formerly PADS & Summer Suppers
Meals for the Unhoused provides an evening meal once a month during the PADS season for the guests at Journey’s interim housing. During the summer months, supper is provided monthly at Trinity for the unhoused and needy in the community.
The Night Ministry
This program was founded in 1976 through a collaboration of congregations to reach out a t night to the homeless and vulnerable. It has grown to provide services throughout the city in street outreach and youth housing programs. That has included an overnight shelter, opened in 2011 for temporary housing for ages 18-24 in Lakeview.
www.thenightministry.org
Food4Kids
Families in school districts 59 and 214 live adjacent to our church building and in the surrounding neighborhoods of Mount Prospect, Elk Grove Village, and Des Plaines. Families’ greatest needs are gift cards that can be purchased through the Trinity Scrip program. These cards provide a flexible means of purchasing essential items including food and personal care products.
Mi Casa Su Casa
Mi Casa Su Casa provides local families with basic household items. The families may be refugees, low-income, homeless, or some combination. School districts help with donations of clothing and food in a lot of situations, but simply cannot facilitate finding and delivering large items on a regular basis. Local families have received furniture (beds, tables/chairs, couches, dressers, etc.), cookware (pots, pans, dishes, knives, baking equipment, etc.), bedding, towels, toiletries, cleaning supplies and other essentials.
Good Samaritan Fund
Our pastor serves as trustee of this fund which supports congregants and community members in need of urgent or immediate assistance within limits. This primarily takes the form of providing gas gift cards, or gift cards for food, diapers, etc. at a Jewel / Osco or Target type store. This fund aims to provide emergency aid in a manner that fosters independence rather than dependency, which is consistent with the mission of Trinity.
Kenneth Young Q Center
The Q Center in Schaumburg is a part of the larger Kenneth Young Center (KYC) organization. The Kenneth Young Center is named after its founder, Reverend Kenneth Young. The Q Center opened on October 11, 2019. The Q Center offers counseling and medical services (STD and HIV testing and counseling) and most recently the Q Closet which allows people to come in and shop for clothes free of charge, allowing them to dress to express how they feel. It also provides a space for youth to come and do homework and connect with other youth in a safe environment.
This Mother’s Day, Trinity is partnering with Companions, Journeying Together, Inc. to provide hope and connection to incarcerated mothers in Illinois who are separated from their families. Companions has, for 35 years, been sending birthday and mother’s day cards, as well as providing blank cards for the imprisoned mothers to send to their families. Through our actions, we can remind these women that they are loved and not forgotten. Learn more about Companions, Journeying Together: https://cjtinc.org/projects.
How You Can Help:
1. Pray – Lift up these mothers in prayer as they face challenges of separation.
2. Contribute Materials Needed through March 30th (look for basket in the narthex):
✦ Stationery
Please Avoid: Plain white paper
✦ Cards (Mother’s Day, Thinking of You, Blank)
Please Avoid cards with: Glued items, glitter, stickers, crayon/marker
✦ Forever Postage Stamps
✦ Paper Lunch Bags
3. Provide a Monetary donation for delivery costs (Checks to Companions Journeying Together, Inc.)
4. Volunteer on Monday, March 31st at 5 pm in the Narthex to Assemble Mother’s Day Packets
