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What we do: Trinity enthusiastically supports nine global mission organizations that reach out in a variety of ways to those in need throughout the world. The outreach includes Christian education, church development, healthcare, disaster response, aviation and technology ,orphan care, microenterprise, and community transformation. We strive to engage our congregation through periodic international mission trips, mission related presentations, and special projects such as leading a Sunday School class about global missions or sewing baby blankets for the poor in Romania. We sponsor an alternative gift and fair trade handicraft market each December and send thousands of dollars to the missions represented.

Special Relationships: In recent years, Trinity has developed special relationships with World Vision in Romania, Village Enterprise in sub-Saharan Africa, and Alongside Ministries in Albania. Since 2000, several Trinity members have gone on mission trips to see the work done by these organizations. In fall of 2012, we are planning a mission trip to Romania in partnership with World Vision to see their progress and learn more about their current needs. To participate in this trip, contact Scott McMullin at mcmullin.scott@gmail.com. Trinity also has a special relationship with Amor Ministries in Mexico. Every spring break, Trinity sends a group of 50 or more high school youth and advisors to build houses for the poor in Mexico with Amor Ministries.

How to get involved: Pray for the mission organizations Trinity supports and their staff, their volunteers, those they help, and the communities in which they work. Some organizations have specific prayer requests that are sent by email on a regular basis. “Like” the organizations we support on facebook. “Follow” them on Twitter. Read their blogs. Subscribe to their online newsletters and prayer updates. Watch their online videos. Read “what’s happening” on their websites. Buy their merchandise. Suggestions of specific ways to get involved for each organization are provided below after the descriptions of each mission organization. Some suggestions provided are sending financial donations, sponsoring a child, volunteering locally or internationally, working as a college intern, becoming a paid professional employee, making non-cash donations, fundraising, and educating others about missions. Join Our Team: Our Global Missions team coordinates Trinity’s global missions activities and ensures our support achieves maximum impact. We work closely with liaisons of our missions to understand their emerging challenges, resource and prayer needs. The Global Missions team welcomes new members. Contact Kathy Kyne at kathyk20@earthlink.net if you are interested in joining the team.

Global Mission Organizations Trinity Supports:

World Vision works with children, families, and their communities worldwide to reach their full potential by tackling the causes of poverty and injustice. Child sponsorship is a key component of their ministry and many Trinity members sponsor children in Romania. Sponsorship provides education, economic and other kinds of support to the sponsored child’s community. Trinity also supports a program called “Keep Orphans Safe from the Streets”. Many children in Romania have been abandoned by their parents and grow up in institutions that care only about physical needs not their emotional or social development. The KOS project provides orphans nearing and post age 18, the life skills and emotional support needed so they can learn to live independently. Website: worldvision.org.

How to get involved: Involve the entire family by sponsoring a child in Romania or elsewhere and enjoy exchanging letters. Send a financial donation to support the “Keep Orphans Safe” program. Designate project #D50194147 and let World Vision know you are from Trinity Presbyterian Church in San Carlos. Are you a college student? World Vision offers internships in several cities in the USA in spring and summer.

Amor aims to provide each mission team with the tools and resources that are necessary to build a home for a needy family. Amor works with local Pastors in each are served. They determine the families in need and direct where mission teams will work. Mission groups provide the housing and partner with the local Pastors as they work to love their communities every day. Amor currently works in Baja and Puerto Peñasco, Mexico. In the United States, work is at the San Carlos Apache Reservation in Arizona. In South Africa, Amor works in Delmas - which is just outside Johannesburg.

How to get involved: Join Trinity’s next spring break mission trip as a high school participant or adult advisor. Participate in the fundraising events for the trip such as the annual Mexico Garage Sale and Silent Auction. Purchase merchandise from Amor’s online store. Consider a position with Amor as an intern in areas ranging from project management to marketing.

Alongside Ministries encourages and empowers Christian leaders and churches through an international network of prayer, partnership, and practical help. Alongside currently works in several European countries developing Christian leaders, equipping youth, training mission teams, and promoting mission vision. Under the leadership of Mark & Ruth Stoscher and a strong team of Albanian leaders, the Crossroads Christian Camp in Erseka welcomes 1,000 children and youth from all over Albania every summer. A Bible School called Udhëkryq (oo-the-krooch), which means 'crossroads' in Albanian, utilizes the same facilities in the fall, winter and spring, providing solid biblical and theological training to young leaders. Mark Stoscher grew up in Trinity and we are happy to support these wonderful programs in Albania. Website: alongside.org.

How to get involved: Alongside has a current need for additional funds to be used toward the purchase of a building to be used for the bible school and camps. Trinity recently designated a large bequest to be used toward purchasing the building but some additional funds are still needed. General donations to support the bible school, summer camps or the Stoschers are also welcome. Watch for our next mission trip and travel to Albania to see the work done by Alongside.

MAF shares the love of Jesus Christ through aviation and technology so that isolated people may be physically and spiritually transformed. MAF serves people who deal with challenges due to isolation in regions such as Africa, Asia, Eurasia, and Latin America by providing aviation, communications, and learning technology services. Their work enables over 300 organizations such as World Vision and Samaritan’s Purse to provide medical assistance, church nurture, disaster response, community development and training. John’s role is to coordinate disaster relief programs and has worked in Suriname, Madagascar, Hurricanes in Nicaragua and Haiti, flooding in Bangladesh and Papua New Guinea, Ebola outbreak in DRC/Uganda, Haiti earthquake, the famine in the Horn of Africa, and current urgent needs in S Sudan. Website: maf.org.

How to get involved: MAF welcomes financial donations for general use or for specific projects. Their online gift catalog provides an easy way to donate. MAF has many volunteer needs in their Idaho headquarters and overseas. Ministry Advocates are volunteers trained to provide group presentations at least eight times per year near where they live. MAF has many professional opportunities to serve worldwide in the areas of technology, education of missionary children, aviation, and MAF offers downloadable resources for children including videos and coloring books. They offer an aviation camp each summer in Idaho for teens 14-18 years old. Merchandise ranging from tee shirts to children’s books are available on their website.

Village Enterprise equips people living in extreme poverty with the resources to create sustainable businesses. Their focus is on the ultra-poor living in rural, sub-Saharan Africa. In 2009, the proportion of

sub-Saharan Africans living on less than US $1.25 a day was almost 50 percent, the highest of any region in the world. Furthermore, the vast majority of these people live in very rural communities. Village Enterprise plays a unique role in the fields of microenterprise and poverty reduction with a program that combines business training, seed capital and ongoing mentoring to create sustainable income-generating businesses. They also organize business owners into Business Savings Groups, which provide

essential peer/moral support and financial services to businesses as they grow. Website: villageenterprise.org

How to get involved: Village Enterprise welcomes targeted donations for business training and mentoring. They welcome volunteers, interns and consultants who contribute time and expertise to save costs in their San Carlo s office. Year long positions as "fellows" in Kenya and Uganda are available. Consider hosting a fundraising event. Watch for their next mission trip and travel to Kenya and Uganda to see the work done by Village Enterprise.

MBF supports healing ministries in more than 100 hospitals and clinics throughout the world. MBF provides crucial funds needed to give medical care to the needy. They also help fund medical mission workers and build, maintain, and operate hospitals in some of the world's most impoverished nations and communities. MBF works with U.S. partners to fill cargo containers with surplus donations of medical supplies and equipment, which are then sent to a wide variety of grateful facilities around the world. They also provide community health programs, help to train indigenous healthcare workers, and provide education programs on disease prevention and nutrition, and more. MBF is the officially validated medical mission support organization for the Presbyterian Church. Website: mbfoundation.org

How to get involved: MBF welcomes targeted donations towards a variety of program such as diseases of poverty, children’s health, hospital facilities and many more. Summer college internships are available at their Texas office in a variety of disciplines.

Voice of the Martyrs helps persecuted Christians by providing medical support, clothing, food, bibles and other forms of aide to those persecuted and to their families. VOM helps Christians who are or have been persecuted for their involvement in spreading the gospel of Jesus Christ. VOM loves Christians who are willing to invite their fellow men, even their persecutors, to Jesus Christ through faithful deeds of love in a hostile environment. VOM encourages Christians by giving their testimony a voice informing Christians in the USA to know how to help. Website: persecution.com

How to get involved: VOM welcomes financial donations and also donations of items such as cars, boats, cell phones and more. Create “action packs” of zip air sealed donations of items such as clothing or bath products . Write letters to imprisoned Christians. VOM needs volunteers to make the parachutes from a downloadable pattern that are filled with bibles and are then dropped into the jungles of Colombia for the rebels to find. Collect blankets for VOM’s “blanket and bible” outreach in Sudan. VOM also has volunteer positions ranging from occasional to 3-12 month internships in a variety of areas at the Oklahoma headquarters. Housing is available for volunteers that work at least 5 hours per day.

Partners International builds the Church, transforms communities, and empowers women and children. They partner with local Christians who have a visionary passion to share God's love with their own people. Their partners are part of the communities they serve, they know the needs, and they know what works and what doesn’t. Through them, Partners International has transformed communities by digging wells, providing micro-enterprise loans, shipping medicine, and running schools. Trinity supports two specific programs:

•Africa Inland Church in Sudan which provides women’s vocational training, education for children, water projects such as wells for schools and relief for Darfur.

•America Latina Ministries and Schools which run schools providing a strong Christian foundation Guatemala City and Chimaltenango, Guatemala.

Website: partnersintl.org

How to get involved: Partners welcomes donations to its general “Global Partnership Fund” or to individual projects. Volunteers and interns are needed in their Spokane office in a variety of diciplines. Child sponsorships are available in several locations including opportunities to sponsor the children of church planers.

New Hope equips the Church in Eastern Europe through partnerships by providing training, resources, and encouragement to win the next generation for Christ. New Hope focuses on three areas:

1.building bridges by working collaboratively with the Church in Eastern Europe.

2.mobilizing churches to share the love of Christ in their neighborhoods, cities and nations.

3.winning the next generation by nurturing them spiritually, and guiding them as reach and teach others.

Trinity supports a program in Ukraine that helps Christian parents adopt and raise children from institutions. New Hope assists in the preparation of documents, adoption and care of orphans, visits, counseling and assistance after the settlement of the child, and a support group for adoptive families. Website: newhopeinternational.org

How to get involved: New Hope welcomes donations to its orphan outreach and medical relief fund. It also offers child sponsorships for orphans.

GAIA provides basic health services, targeting prevention and support in communities affected by HIV, AIDS, TB and malaria in Africa. GAIA works in Malawi which is the epicenter of the global HIV/AIDS epidemic where 51,000 people die of AIDS-related illnesses each year and over 650,000 children have been orphaned because of the disease. GAIA strengthens healthcare institutions, improves healthcare services, and works closely with communities to empower local people, particularly women, in the struggle against HIV. Trinity supports the Orphan Care program which supports vulnerable orphans and their overburdened family members, making it possible for grandparents, aunts and uncles to care for them. This program is keeping families intact, preventing neglect and halting the growth of more orphan-headed households. Website: thegaia.org.

How to get involved:

GAIA welcomes targeted donations to support orphan children’s education; nursing education scholarships; and malaria nets to protect sleeping children. Organize a fundraising event using an array of online tools provided on GAIA’s website or start a GAIA club at your school.

Global AIDS Interfaith Alliance (GAIA) is organizing a mission trip to Malawi July 24-July 31 and interested Trinity members are welcome to participate. Itinerary will include observing Mobile Heath Clinics, visit to orphanage, meeting with GAIA Nursing Scholars, visit with village chiefs and more. Lodging will be excellent and itinerary will be very organized. Hofer-Fhram Mission Scholarship Fund is available for those needing financial assistance. Contact Kathy Kyne at kathyk20@earthlink.net for more information and click on the flyer link above.