About the Initiative
Living Generously, Loving Boldly is Trinity Lutheran Church & Schools’ Fall 2025 generosity initiative, rooted in the words of Galatians 5:6: “The only thing that counts is faith working through love.” This season invites the community to reflect on how faith comes alive in daily life—through generosity, service, and love for one another.
Throughout October, worship, reflections, and stories will explore what it means to live generously and love boldly as individuals and as a congregation. Together, we are discerning how our shared gifts can strengthen Trinity’s ministries, support the growth of the Lynnwood Neighborhood Center, and extend Christ’s healing and transforming love into the wider community.
This initiative is not about obligation but about opportunity—an opportunity to celebrate God’s abundant grace and to respond with faithful commitment. Through prayer, financial pledges, and shared action, every gift helps nurture a community where belonging, compassion, and generosity take root and flourish.
Initiative Goals
Engage fully in prayer and discernment
Inviting 100% of the Trinity community to seek God’s leading in how they will participate.
Sustain or grow financial commitments
Ensuring the resources needed for vibrant ministry in the year ahead.
Select 2026 Mission Giving Fund recipient(s)
Extending love and support beyond our walls. More information below.
Reach our 2026 Mission Budget target of $1,236,334
Representing a 5% increase over 2025 budgeted contribution income, to strengthen and expand the ministry God has entrusted to us.
Your Response
Pray for God’s guidance and blessing, and for our shared goal of 100% prayerful engagement in Living Generously, Loving Boldly.
Reflect on how God is calling you to grow in generosity this year.
Commit to a level of giving that is meaningful to you and reflects gratitude for God’s grace.
Complete a Commitment Card and bring it on Commitment Sunday, October 26.
Mission Giving Fund
We extend compassion beyond our walls through Trinity’s Mission Giving Fund, which designates 2% of our annual contribution income to support local ministry partners. In 2025, our congregation chose Cocoon House, providing shelter and support for youth experiencing homelessness, as the recipient of these gifts.
In 2026, we will again prayerfully select a Mission Giving Fund recipient (or recipients) whose work reflects God’s compassion in meaningful and transformative ways. Read more about each option, prayerfully presented by the Congregation Council, and make your voice heard on your commitment card.
The Access Project is a collaborative movement empowering youth in South Snohomish County, especially Black, Indigenous, and People of Color and underserved young people. Through mentorship, mental health support, and community programs like peer mediation, art, sports, and leadership development, The Access Project helps youth feel valued, connected, and equipped to thrive. By investing in this work, we help create safe spaces where young people can grow with confidence and hope
Commitment Card