Building Homes, Strengthening Communities

2008 Dates:
August 16-23, 2008 -- Intergenerational event. (Ages 10 & older)
October 4-11, 2008 -- Adult event (Ages 18 & older)

Cost is approximatley $760 per person. There are some scholarship funds available.
Reserve your place on one of these mission teams by sending a $250 deposit to Trinity Lutheran Church attn. Cliff Bronson.

August Information Link
October Information Link

Photos of where we live for the week and the work we do

For more information about these mission trips, contact Deb Johnson debj0115@comcast.net
or Cliff Bronson 425-778-2159 cliff@trinitylutheranchurch.com

How Esperanza works *

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Bellingham WA on Lake Samish
A Friday evening and Saturday Event, May 2009.
Join us Friday and Saturday or just Saturday.
All ages welcome. Sign-up starts in March 2009.
Prepare the camp for summer! Grounds and building clean-up, painting, easy odd jobs to do in a beautiful setting with others from Trinity.
Contact person - Cathy Atkins Pittenger caton4@lycos.com

Mission Statement
As servants of Christ and with the desire to lift up and empower Christians in the country of Nicaragua, Corner of Love Ministries seeks to comfort and care for God’s children, elderly, and most impoverished through on-site medical/dental clinics, service projects and other programs that benefit the needy and glorify God’s name.

February 2008 Medical Mission Report
Thank You from the Trinity Nicaragua Team for your prayers and financial support. 5000 pounds of medicine
were taken and distributed there. The stats for the trip were as follows: 1633 patients seen, 4886 patients treated, and 22,473 items were distributed by the pharmacy. The biggest change was in the dental section. They saw 176 patients, extracted 323 teeth, filled 127, sealed 13, scaled 11, and did 674 fluoride treatments. Last year they only did 17 fillings in addition to the extractions. What a change! We stayed in the new dorm without doors, windows, electricity, or hot water. The generator ran every evening. It was like camping with a roof.

Medical Mission - February, 2009
You needn't be a medical/dental professional to go, all types of jobs are available.
Cost: $650 plus airfare.
Team meetings begin in December to prepare you to serve in Nicaragua.
click here* for a list of medical/dental and other supplies needed.

www.corneroflove.org
Trinity contact people are Roy or Gabriele Raudebaugh grraudy@yahoo.com

Trinity is delivering hot meals to Tent City #3 in Seattle.
2008 Dates: We provide three to four meals each month.

Opportunities to help:
Donations for food (click here for Tent City #3 Wish List)
Join one of the 4 meal teams.
Prepare the meal (1-5 PM approximate),
Deliver the meal (5-6:30 PM approximate)

If you would like to help, contact Judy Alberts.
Trinity Contact person - Judy Alberts jjwestcoast@comcast.net

Coordinated by Questions on the Edge of Faith Group and A Servants Heart.

Walk, Run or Sleep In For the Cure.
June 21, 2008
Help raise money to fight breast cancer. Our team of 18 had a great morning in 2007.
Join us for 2008.

Join our 2008 team from Trinity.
Click the following link to register under our team name "Trinity Lutheran Lynnwood"
Team registration deadline is May 30th.
If you register online people can go to your page to pledge.

Contact person - Jo Ferrero jrferrero@hotmail.com

October 2009

Gather a group from Trinity to participate in this event or go as an individual.
Work Camp is a one-week opportunity to participate in the ongoing work of building this community. Guests and staff work side by side and no one will be required to pay. Work on a wide variety of projects is available and all skill levels are needed. Download the special work camp registration form, from the web and mail to it the Holden registrar.

For more work week information got to -
http://www.holdenvillage.org

Trinity contact people are
Cliff Bronson at cliff@trinitylutheranchurch.com or
John Hammar at john.c.hammar@boeing.com

In 2007 we helped two families get closer to their dream of reoccupying their homes and assisted with repairs to three other homes. The headlines have all but forgotten the devastating hurricane season, but the long-term recovery process along America’s Gulf Coast continues.

As of 2/22/2008 there are still over 200 families in this community who have not been able to return to their homes or need repair done to their homes following hurricane Wilma which happened in October of 2005. That's at least another 2 years of work. Hurricane Wilma was the most intense hurricane recorded in the Atlantic basin.

If you are interested in participating in a future mission trip, or being a member of the planning team,
contact Cliff Bronson at cliff@trinitylutheranchurch.com
Cost is approximately $300 per person plus airfare to West Palm Beach.
We will be serving in the town of Clewiston Florida.

Requred Forms to fill out and turn in (two for Trinity)
Forms can be filled out and printed online with the free Acrobat Reader (see link below)
Trinity Medical Form *
Trinity Liaility Form *
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Products available for purchase at Trinity on the First Sunday of each month!
(Trinity sells fair trade coffee at cost in support of the LWR Coffee Project)
Currently selling about $800 per month at Trinity.

Coffee cups are brimming over with justice in Lutheran parishes and households across the U.S. Not only have U.S. Lutherans met the 90 Ton Challenge, you far exceeded it by the purchase of more than 99 tons of fair trade coffee through the LWR Coffee Project during the yearlong campaign.
If you would like to help with the selling of coffee on the first Sunday of each month,
contact Lenore Peterson Lenpeterson185@aol.com

Keep justice pouring! Call or log on for more information:
Phone: 1-800-LWR-LWR2
Web: www.lwr.org/coffee

An initiative of the Edmonds-Lynnwood Parish
Since the Day of Pentecost, June 8, 2003, the Edmonds-Lynnwood Parish has gathered LIVING WATER offerings systematically and regularly to begin to make our contribution in addressing the world’s hunger needs. Our goal is to collect $3 per person per week to fight the pervasive hunger problem that confronts our world, dealing with immediate needs and providing lasting infrastructure. Pick up an offering box in the narthex and continue to gather your change - a special processional offering is given on the first Sunday of each month.  If you want to write a check, make the check payable to Trinity Lutheran Church and mark LIVING WATER clearly on the memo line.  Place your check in the offering Sunday or mail to Trinity. (See address below)
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ONE - The Campaign to make poverty history. - This is an initiative to alocate one percent more of the federal budget to help eliminate hunger, aids and extreem poverty. This is an initiative supported by the ELCA.

At Trinity we encourage people to sign the One Campaign declaration document. Here is a link to the ELCA site with ONE information and the opportunity to sign. http://www.elca.org/advocacy/one

WE BELIEVE that in the best American tradition of helping others help themselves, now is the time to join with other countries in a historic pact for compassion and justice to help the poorest people of the world overcome AIDS and extreme poverty.

WE RECOGNIZE that a pact including such measures as fair trade, debt relief, fighting corruption and directing additional resources for basic needs education, health, clean water, food, and care for orphans would transform the futures and hopes of an entire generation in the poorest countries, at a cost equal to just one percent more of the US budget.

WE COMMIT ourselves - one person, one voice, one vote at a time - to make a better, safer world for all.

If you would like to help make Trinity a "One" congregation please contact Cliff Bronson 425-778-2159 or cliff@trinitylutheranchurch.com

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