Grow Faith & Show Love

Recently I was prayerfully meditating on Trinity’s call to Love the Lord with all our heart, soul, and mind; and love our neighbors as ourselves. As you are probably aware, our staff and leadership team has been promoting our mission with the ministry logo that we call the TLC Cross. We’ve been busy making plans and setting goals with this ministry in mind. We want to fulfill the vision of “reaching out daily with a growing heart for heaven, home, and humanity near and far.” In order to do that, I’d like to encourage you to see the two stretching directions of the TLC Cross. We want Trinity to serve you and your family by being a wonderful place to grow faith. We want to make it a place where your personal life finds greater faith and love through the worship of our wonderful Lord and Savior. We want to support the foundation of faith for all of God’s people regardless of age or course of life. We want to come along side faith-filled parents and be a blessing to their homes. God desires our growth in faith, love and trust. 2 Peter 3:18 says, “Grow in the grace and knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. To him be glory both now and forever! Amen.
The other stretch that we want to make is to show love. We want Trinity to be a place where you can personally become involved in showing the world what it means to have the love and joy of Jesus Christ alive in your heart. We want to provide opportunities to connect to our community in meaningful ways that bless the Hudson area and those who we brush up against in everyday life. We want to be a church that shows love to people in faraway places too. That’s why we send people from our own congregation to serve as short-term missionaries to places that need compassionate Christian care. That’s why we support long-term missionaries like Pastor Jacob Gillard in Uganda. God desires that His people show love to the world, Jesus said, “Let your light shine before men, that they may see your good deeds and praise your Father in heaven. – Matthew 5:16.

God wants to teach us how to touch the world with His love and grace. May I invite you to join the mission? Trinity will work together as one family in Christ to grow faith and show love.

Mission, Vision, Values: A Statement of Purpose

Trinity Lutheran Church
Hudson, Wisconsin

Mission:
Jesus replied: “‘Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.’ This is the first and greatest commandment. And the second is like it: ‘Love your neighbor as yourself.’ All the Law and the Prophets hang on these two commandments.” – Matthew 22:37-40 (NIV)

Vision:
“Trinity is reaching out daily with a growing heart for heaven, home, and humanity near and far.”

Values:
· Missional Momentum
· Personal Transformation
· Inspirational Worship
· Foundational Faith
· Relational Connection
· Global Compassion

Statement of Purpose:
Jesus replied: “‘Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.’ This is the first and greatest commandment. And the second is like it: ‘Love your neighbor as yourself.’ All the Law and the Prophets hang on these two commandments.” – Matthew 22:37-40 (NIV) These words of our Lord Jesus, by His own admission, formulate the “Greatest Commission” and serves to inspire us as our mission. We believe that Trinity exists to love God and to be a vessel of His love to others by means of faithful Christian ministry. This mission has given birth to our congregational vision. “Trinity is reaching out daily with a growing heart for heaven, home, and humanity near and far.” Our model for ministry is the practical application of this vision, expressing itself under six core values.
· Missional Momentum
· Personal Transformation
· Inspirational Worship
· Foundational Faith
· Relational Connection
· Global Compassion

Ministry Priorities

Personal Transformation

Goal
The love of Christ compels us to be a vessel that God uses to transform lives so that we love God and others, faithfully reaching out in ministry.

Objective
Trinity Lutheran Church nurtures an environment that connects and keeps people engaged and growing in faith and service to others.
· Small Groups
· Daily Time with God
· Bible Study
· Sacraments

Inspirational Worship

Goal
The love of Christ compels us to reach up to God in relevant worship that glorifies God and invites Him to inspire a greater love for Him and others.

Objective
Trinity Lutheran Church cultivates a lifestyle of worship that focuses on prayer, praise, and thanksgiving to God.

· Prayer Ministry
· Worship Gathering
· Thanksgiving

Foundational Faith

Goal
The love of Christ compels us to plant the seed of faith, equipping the generations with a firm foundation in God’s Word and love.

Objective
Trinity Lutheran Church educates and supports individuals and families as they grow in a living, saving faith.

· Generations
· Home
· Education

Relational Connection

Goal
The love of Christ compels us to intentionally reach out to those near us through relationships that demonstrate His love and serve the needs of a broader community.

Objective
Trinity Lutheran Church pursues partnerships that facilitate hospitality, care, and evangelism.

· Evangelism
· Strong Community Relationship
· Hospitality
· Care

Global Compassion

Goal
The love of Christ compels us to reach out, with compassion, to the world to proclaim the saving Gospel and heal the broken.

Objective
Trinity Lutheran Church instills and cultivates, a passion for global ministry through communication, education, and participation.

· World-Mission Communication
· World-Mission Participation
· World-Mission Lifestyle

Missional Momentum

Goal
The love of Christ compels us to utilize and leverage all our resources to effectively move forward on a daily mission to love God and others.

Objective
Trinity Lutheran Church balances the ministries of program and provision under a single vision with an effective organizational structure for leadership and ministry.
· Vision
· Leadership
· Provisional Plan