Outreach

Creation Care Network

The Creation Care Network is a network of Trinity folks who work together to focus themselves and the congregation on matters of stewardship of the earth.

Elijah's Pantry & Greater Chicago Food Depository

The first Sunday of every month at Trinity is anti-hunger Sunday, a good day to bring non-perishable food and household items for Elijah's Pantry at St. Luke's Lutheran Church in Logan Square. Offerings for the ELCA World Hunger Appeal are also collected. Anti-hunger offerings are welcome anytime, but they are emphasized on the first Sunday of each month.

Foods Resource Bank

Foods Resource Bank (FRB) is a relatively new "Christian Response to World Hunger;" a non-government humanitarian organization committed providing food security in the developing world through sustainable small-scale agricultural production, and it does so in a unique way. The Food Resource Bank facilitates sustainable food production in impoverished areas worldwide. 100 percent of funds raised are used to develop irrigation and other resources required to help those in need help themselves through sustainable food production. The funds are raised by selling crops produced through a unique collaboration between city and country churches.
 

Habitat for Humanity

Habitat for Humanity International is a nonprofit, ecumenical Christian housing ministry. HFHI seeks to eliminate poverty housing and homelessness from the world and to make decent shelter a matter of conscience and action.

Trinity participates in HFH builds on two or three dates per year between the months of May and October. Projects are typically located on Chicago's south side. No experience is necssary and participants must be at least 16 years old.

Interested in helping build the home of someone's dreams? Click the link below and drop us a note so that we can contact you when our next build opportunity comes up.

Holy Family Ministries

For years, Trinity has partnered with Holy Family Ministries in support of Holy Family Lutheran School on Chicago's West Side, and of Holy Family Lutheran Church in Chicago's inner-city community known as Cabrini-Green. Trinity was one of five suburban congregations providing seed money so that Holy Family Lutheran Church could start the school as an outreach to inner-city families in 1985. Today the school is thriving, still offering a private school education in a nurturing Christian environment. Its alumni attend or attended selective college-prep high schools. Most are college graduates.

Infant Welfare Society of Evanston

The Infant Welfare Society of Evanston, Inc is committed to the care and early education of infants and toddlers and to supporting their families’ efforts to be self sufficient providers and effective

Interfaith Action of Evanston & Soup Kitchen

Trinity Lutheran Church is part of Interfaith Action of Evanston, a non-profit organization whose mission is to bring together communities of faith and spirit to serve people who are hungry and homeless and to express shared values through action and interfaith dialogue.

Interfaith Action hosts soup kitchens, prepares and distributes sack lunches, staffs warming centers, and runs a hospitality center for the homeless where guests can receive job counseling, make phone calls, and use the faciliites for personal grooming.

Mall-ternative

Trinity's alternative gift-giving fair, the Mall-ternative, is held every fall in our church Gathering Space. This year Mall-ternative is Sunday November 22nd between services.  Here is your opportunity to find Christmas gifts that reflect the true spirit of the season. Catalogs from several of our mission partners are available between services. Members of the Social Concerns Committee will help you select and order gifts to give in the name of those special people on your list.

North Shore Crop Walk

HELD EVERY YEAR IN OCTOBER

Each fall Trinity participates in the Church World Service CROP Hunger Walk at the North Shore site in nearby Wilmette, IL.

Seventy-five percent of CROP Walk proceeds go to address national and world hunger and disaster needs through Church World Service. The remaining 25% of our Walk proceeds stays in our own local area, divided equally among five neighboring soup kitchens and emergency food pantries (Soup at Six, EEAC Hospitality Center, Hilda's Place, Leah Segal Food Pantry, and Good News Community Kitchen)

Social Concerns

Ever think about putting your faith into action just a little bit more than you are presently doing? You know there's more than enough need in the world, and you could make a difference with your faith just about anywhere, near or far! Or perhaps you really would just like to learn more about the organizations and ministries Trinity supports.

Trinity Quilters

Volunteers at Lutheran churches across the country work every year to aid Lutheran World Relief projects. For over twenty-five years, the Friends of Lutheran World Relief have "gathered in" all Lutheran World Relief parish projects in the greater Chicago area, collecting quilts such as those made by our Trinity Quilters, as well as school kits, sewing kits, health kits, soap and clothing brought in by volunteers from area churches.

Ulster Project International

Ulster Project International takes place during the month of July. Twelve teens from Northern Ireland are matched with twelve teens from America. Our goal is to teach the Protestant and Catholic teens from Northern Ireland about acceptance, tolerance, and diversity. There are many retreats, service projects, and field trips that require a commitment from the host families and, of course your teen.