Global Mission
Mission
Statement:
Trinity's mission
statement, "To Praise God, Serve Christ, and Love One Another," applies
to all of Trinity's ministries. To accomplish this for Global Mission Ministry,
Trinity is involved in helping, proclaiming, caring and sharing in this country
and throughout all the world. Trinity lives its mission statement through the
development and implementation of global mission projects that benefit God's people
all over the world. | News
and Events:
The 2008
summer Global Mission Event will be held July 17-20 at the Univ. of Wisconsin-La
Crosse. Click here
for the GME web page.
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2007 Global
Mission Projects
1. Trinity
provided financial support of $1,000 each for four missionary families in Tanzania:
Todd and Lori Byerly, Dr. Steve and Bethany Friberg, Dr. Mark and Linda
Jacobson, and Dennis and Meredith Murnyak.
2. GMMT delivered 75 health
kits (50 assembled by an Adult Ed Class and 25 by an Intergenerational Learning
Class) plus 102 school kits (50 assembled by the Vacation Bible School and 52
by GMMT) to Lutheran World Relief along with 50 midwife kits and 50 AIDS/Hospice
kits assembled by GMMT to Global Health Ministries.
3. Three M-bags of
college textbooks donated by the Augustana Book Store and faculty were sent to
Tanzania.
4. Trinity Other projects receiving monetary gifts from
GMMT in 2007 were:
--$1,000 to Art Milton to help fund his trip to India with
a group from the Northern Illinois Synod.
--$1,000 to Northern Illinois Synod
to help with the cost of sending a sea container of medical supplies, shipped
by Global Health Ministries to Tanzania.
--$1,000 to “Operation Smile” for
surgery for Kenyan children with cleft lips and palates.
--$1,000 to MWANGAZA
in Arusha, Tanzania to aid with the purchase of secondary school textbooks.
--$1,000 to ELCA Disaster Response for the people in southern Mexico, who were
adversely affected by floods.
--$1,000 to Lutheran World Federation for providing
care for refugees around the world.
--$1,000 to Global Health Ministries for
struggling clinics in remote areas of Madagascar.
--$200 to “African Palms
USA,” an organization that gives self-help grants to meet basic needs of African
villages in exchange for palm crosses.
5. In addition to these
gifts, Trinity’s Endowment Team granted GMMT requests for $9,600 in funding for
other global mission projects.While we as Americans are increasingly recognizing
the threat of climate change, we don't always recognize the urgency of action
to combat it.
Profiles of
Supported Missions
Sites
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