2024 Budget Spending

Grateful for our Past, looking ahead to our future.

2024 has been a year of digging deeper in our commitment to live deeply into the prophet Micah’s calling “to do justice, to love mercy, and to walk humbly with our God.”

The season at Trinity Presbyterian Church when we turn our attention to stewardship, to generosity, to taking care of God’s gifts all around us, near and far. 

The word “steward” comes from two ancient roots: stig, or “path, hall, part of a house,” and weard, or “guardian, person who watches over.” A steward is someone who protects a path, who watches over a house, who takes care of a treasure.

The inspiring good news is that you and I were born to be “stewards” in this ancient sense. To protect and care for a path, a house, a treasure – and not just our individual home or church, but also the wider community we all share, love, and serve. God’s path, God’s house, the bright and beautiful temple of creation, full of God’s amazing creatures, great and small.

That’s the mission each of us is born for. And that’s the mission Trinity is born for, too. To embody and proclaim our values: to connect our community to God through love and service. To make our extraordinary ministries possible: from serving the food insecure through Caring Cupboard to raising up youth in our Children’s and Youth Programming; from stewarding the land with Earth Care to helping our neighbors with ministries like MHAM and Repair Cafe. To care for our corner of creation, loving God and neighbor at every turn.

The season of stewardship, in other words, is a season of continuing to become the people God created us to be. Protecting the path of love and justice. Watching over creation’s house of healing and hospitality. Taking care of all God’s creatures, great and small.

Want to learn more? Check out our Narrative Budget for 2024, which goes into greater detail about the various ways in which Trinity has sought to be faithful with your generosity. What is truly amazing is that the budget only captures a fraction of the mission and ministry we put out in the world— there are so many ways in which your donations towards Caring Cupboard, Disaster Relief and more have really pushed our congregation to live our our mission faithfully this year, and we hope for years to come!.