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Members of Trinitarian Congregational Church believe in obedience to the Lord's commission to go into all the world to preach the Gospel, to baptize believers, and to care for the saints. Recognizing the limitations of single individuals, the church has pledged to do its part in fulfilling the Lord's commission through its body of believers, by corporately supporting individual missionaries and organizations through prayer, monetary and physical gifts. The missions program of TCC also seeks to encourage members to consider missions as a full time vocation by promoting short-term mission trips as a means to expose individuals to mission opportunities. Trips to Haiti and Mexico have resulted in great spiritual growth among participants and heightened missions awareness among the congregation. More trips are planned.
The church financially supports 40 missionaries or families and 12 organizations. Of these, 19 missionaries and 2 organizations serve outside our country. The missions budget is approximately 28% of total church spending.
TCC has joined with four other churches to form the Eastern Massachusetts Missions Consortium. The Consortium corporately supplies 90% of its selected missionaries' financial needs. This encourages individuals from its congregations to consider missions as a career by eliminating the need for extensive fund raising activity, an activity that many called to Christ's work feel ill equipped to perform, which delays initial deployment to the field and absorbs furlough time intended for rest and rejuvenation. Each year, one missionary from among candidates from member churches will be chosen to receive 90% support. Three more churches are being sought which will bring the total to eight. The sponsoring church will provide 20% of the need and the remaining seven churches 10% each while 10% will be raised by the missionary from family and friends in order to broaden prayer support.
TCC presently supports seven missionaries who have grown up in the church and who are now serving in various parts of the world. Its commitment to and support of missions has been and will continue to be strong.
Last Published: November 6, 2006 11:26 AM
