Special Holiday Opportunities
This Advent season please consider purchasing gifts for your family and friends that will continue to help causes that our church has supported in the past. Consider...
Red Bird Missions Craft Store
United Methodist Committee on Relief (UMCOR)
SERRV (Sustainable Fair Trade Crafts & Food)
Heifer International
Provides livestock to impoverished communities with the goal of creating sustainable food sources for them. Give a llama to your mama! www.heifer. org
World Vision
World Vision has a catalog with a variety of ways to give, helping to alleviate hunger worldwide. www.worldvision.org.
Trinity's Christmas Offering
This year's offering will be equally divided between the local food pantry, Habitat for Humanity (another build is scheduled for 2012 on Mason Road), and to support our sister congregation RoughSide of the Mountain church in the Navajo Nation.
Locally
- Safe Nights – provides shelter for the homeless at Trinity during the cold winter months - Mike & Suzanne Latham (
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- Project ECHO – providing meals to Calvert County’s homeless shelter - Linda Murphy (
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- Safe Harbor – shelter for abused women
- Habitat for Humanity – building homes for the needy - Julie Wilson (
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- Christmas in April – repairing homes for the needy
- American Red Cross – Every other month Trinity serves as the site for the American Red Cross’ blood drive donation. Donations take place on Sundays from 7 a.m. until 1 p.m. Your next opportunities to give are March 15 and May 17. Come early – stay late - join us for worship and fellowship and help save a life! Walk in’s are always welcome.
- Calvert County Detention Center – prison ministry
- Birthright – pregnancy care center
- Christmas Angel Tree – provide gifts to children and the needy
- Christmas Morning in DC – Trinity’s youth provide coats, blankets, sleeping bags and food to the homeless in DC Christmas morning - Carol Wunderlich
- Calvert Nursing Center
- CareNet - pregnancy care center
- Interfaith Council
- The Calvert Interfaith Council is an ecumenical affiliation of faiths working together to share information between faith communities, coordinate congregational efforts on behalf of the poor, provide better social services for those in need, and to help foster social change within the Calvert County community through gatherings and civic events.
- The CIC developed the Calvert Safe Nights Program that is helping shelter and feed the homeless over the winter months. The CIC is also very involved in Project Echo, End Hunger in Calvert, Civil Discourse for a Sustainable Calvert, , and The TurnaAbout Cafe. A more recent mandate has been the development of an environmental ministry to establish a coalition of faith communities to help restore the Patuxent River and spearheaded by Reverend Charles Harrell.
- Calvert Churches Community Food Pantry
- The Food Pantry is an ecumenical outreach ministry of an association of churches in Calvert County, of which Trinity is one. It provides food to families in the Calvert community who are in need.
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They are located in the Calvert County Industrial Park on Rt. 231 in Prince Frederick.
100 Jibsail Drive, Suite 101
Prince Frederick, Md. 20678
410.414.7474 or
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The food pantry is open Monday - Wednesday 9 a.m.- noon; other times as needed – please call to make an appointment.
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The food pantry accepts donations of non-perishable food, detergent, bath soap, toilet paper and other items are always welcome. They may be dropped off at Trinity or delivered directly to the food pantry during their hours of operation.
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Monetary donations are used to purchase perishable and other items. You may write your check to Trinity UMC, mark it “Food Pantry,” and drop it in the offering plate. Or, if you wish, you may mail your check to Calvert Churches Community Food Pantry, P. O. Box 1334, Huntingtown, MD 20639. You can also donate your old car or truck to the Food Pantry for a tax deduction to a not-for-profit corporation. You receive a break, and they receive your blessing to pass on to help those in need. Free towing is available.
Nationally
- Trinity supports Unalaska UMC in Unalaska, Alaska as well as RoughSide of the Mountain UMC in the Navajo Nation in New Mexico
- United Methodist Committee on Relief (UMCOR)
- Eagles Nest Ministries - recycles Christian educational materials and Bibles to those in need to further their Christian education
- Red Bird Mission - Changing Lives in Appalachia since 1921, mission school and many outreach programs in Kentucky Appalachian area
- 4 Corners Native American Ministry - encourages and strengthens all the ministries of the Navajo churches in the 4 Corners area of the Southwest.
- Supporting our Troops - Operation Shoebox, delivers shoebox care packages. Donations were packed and shipped to a Trinity church member stationed in Afghanistan to share with those in need of the clothing, etc. Service for Strength to God and Country - Bibles and devotionals donated to this program for distribution to the troops.
- Board of Child Care - Christmas stockings for those less fortunate
Internationally
- Trinity has a covenant relationship with Millennium RUMC in Orel, Russia
- Russia Initiative of the United Methodist Church
- Support for Mark and Shana Tant, IGO missionaries in Marostica, Italy
- Support for David and Lorie Potts, Mission Society missionaries in Karaganda, Kazakhstan
- Voice of the Martyrs, Blankets of Love and Action packs (of necessities) to Sudan
- The Least of These Ministries - Eggs for Haiti
For more information on any of these mission opportunities and how you can get involved, please call the church office at 410.535.1782 or email your interest to
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