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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
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Global
Mission Sunday was a Success
Trinity members made
Global Mission Sunday a success. The special offering received for
Trinity’s global mission projects was $5,223.00. This is the 3rd highest amount received
for the Global Mission Sunday offerings held during the last nine years
and is $900 more than was contributed last year. Along with some Endowment
grants, this amount, together with the anticipated offering from
“Try-A-Tithe Sunday” on October 3, will enable Trinity to carry out
the global mission projects planned and committed to for 2010.
We thank God that
through the guidance of the Holy Spirit the congregation supported
Trinity’s global mission program in a manner pleasing to Him and to our
members.
Global Mission Ministry Team
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Global
Mission Projects from the recent past:
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. Trinity's Global Mission
Ministry Team (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. 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
One of Trinity’s more inspiring and fruitful global
mission projects is sponsorship of three missionary families in Tanzania under
the ELCA Missionary Sponsorship Program, and in addition, individual support for
a volunteer missionary in Tanzania. In
2009, Trinity provided annual financial support of $1,000 for each of these
missionaries.
| Todd & Lori
Byerly | Dr. Mark & Linda
Jacobson |  |
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| Todd and Lori
served as missionaries for four years, a year and a half at Tumaini
University in Iringa in Central Tanzania and two and a half years in the
Pare Diocese in northeast Tanzania. As
volunteer missionaries they received their support from Southeastern Iowa
Synod (SEIS) as well as from St. Paul’s Lutheran Church in Davenport
(their home church) through which Trinity makes its annual contribution.
During the summer of 2008 Lori returned to the States and obtained
employment with the American Rental Association in Moline where she had
worked previously. Todd, having
a strong commitment to remain an ELCA missionary and whose skills as an
electrician have proven to be invaluable in Tanzania, returned to his
missionary position. St.
Paul’s and SEIS continue to support Todd, as does Trinity with a $1,000
annual gift
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The Jacobsons have been medical
missionaries in Tanzania since 1985. Mark
shares his time between directing Selian Hospital that he founded, community
health outreach and a major campaign to battle AIDS.
In addition, he was the driving force for the building of a second hospital
located within the city of Arusha, to which Trinity gave a sizeable donation
through the Forrest A. Reid estate plus other gifts for equipment and
supplies. The Arusha hospital
was completed and began serving patients last January.
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| More
about the Byerly Mission | More
about the Jacobson Mission |
| Dr. Steve & Bethany Friberg | Randy
& Carol Stubbs |  |
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As a pediatrician, Dr. Friberg was called by the Diocese in the Northern
Arusha Region to coordinate the renovation and reactivation of fourteen
rural dispensaries (medical clinics) in the Maasai area of Tanzania.
In addition to its annual gift of $1,000 through the ELCA Missionary
Sponsorship Program, Trinity has given donations to several projects
involving Dr. Friberg’s dispensaries and the Maasai living in proximity to
them.
More
about the Friberg Mission
| Randy and Carol along with their
children Megan, Marissa, and Nathan are living in Usa River, Tanzania where
they are both serving in the Music Department of Makumira University, a
university/seminary of the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Tanzania.
They are serving full time under letter of agreement with the ELCA
for four years, beginning July 1, 2007
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