Serving at Trinity

Everyone has a role to play in our church family. Interested in finding your serving spot? Take a look at the options below.

During the Week Opportunities

Care and Connection

• Budget Counseling: Teach and mentor Deacon clients in the practical and biblical principles of managing personal finances.
• Care Guide Team: Become a trained volunteer who is available for those in need of someone to walk alongside them during a hard season of life.
• Celebrate Recovery Dinner Team: Help prepare, cook, serve and clean up dinner on Thursdays.
• Celebrate Recovery Drivers: Provide transportation for Celebrate Recovery participants to and from our Thursday evening meeting. Use your own vehicle or the Trinity van if approved as a qualified driver.
• Celebration Place/Childcare Leaders: Lead children from birth-5th grade through playtime and structured learning time on Thursday evenings. Training is provided.
• Deacons: Deacons are appointed by Trinity’s Council of Elders to serve the local church by helping those in need in overcoming spiritual, physical, emotional, and financial challenges. The Deacons accomplish this by utilizing Trinity ministries, social resources, and the Deacons Assistance Fund. Both men and women can serve as Deacons.
• Deacon Ministry Assistants work alongside the Deacons by assisting in identifying and meeting the needs of Deacon clients, administering the Deacon Food Pantry, and maintaining administrative records.
• The Landing Leaders: Lead students through the Celebrate Recovery materials that were written specifically for teens. Training is provided. Male leaders are especially needed.
• Marriage Enrichment Community Team: Lead or assist a marriage group and/or help plan social and serving events for this community.
• Prayer Team: Pray for individuals after Sunday Gatherings, at Prayer and Worship Nights, and throughout the week for submitted requests.
• Thrive Childcare: Care for children of moms attending Thrive, 2x month during the school year.

Go

• Gardner International Magnet School: Serve at Gardner in various one-time or ongoing opportunities.
• Treasured Sisters: Encourage and minister to trafficked and/or exploited women.
• Trinity Jail Ministry: Encourage and minister to the men and women at the Ingham County Jail. Both male and female volunteers are needed.

General

• Counting Team: Assist with counting and entering the weekly offering.
• Interior Campus Team: If you like to work with your hands and be indoors, you can help with cleaning, event set-ups, and general maintenance.
• Special Events Team: Help set-up and/or food prep for special events.

NextGen

• GO>Connect Leader: Provide overall leadership, vision and strategy for the Go>Connect community. Coaching from current leader is available.
• GO>Connect Event Planner: Coordinate fun activities, meals and outings for our community about six times per year.
• GO>Connect Administrator: Create and keep an updated database of names and information of students. Other administrative tasks like email communication could be needed.
• Hospitality Team for College Ministry: Help provide snacks for Abide small groups and occasionally help prepare meals for special celebrations.
• International Friendship Program at MSU: Coming this fall, sign up to include an international student in fun things your family does like celebrating holidays, birthdays or family outings. This opportunity is open to families and individuals, and training will be provided.
• Lead Volunteers for College Ministry: Help organize and lead Abide fellowship gatherings.
• Mentors for College Ministry: Talk life, give godly counsel and provide encouragement to college-age individuals by walking alongside them in their pursuit of God.
• TEDCenter Drop-off Time: Volunteers to welcome children and parents in the morning.
• TEDCenter Reading Time: Volunteers to read to children throughout the day.
• TEDCenter Room Assistants: Volunteers to help throughout the day in the classrooms.
• TEDCenter Break time helpers:  Volunteer comes in during nap time hours to assist the needs in the classroom with a teacher so the teachers can rotate taking lunch breaks, 12:30-2:30.

Seasonally/One-Time Opportunities

• Christ in Our Communities: Begin your own relationship or project, leading a team to Go into the local or global community with the love of Christ for people or a cause you are passionate about.
• Gardner International Magnet School: Serve at Gardner in various one-time or ongoing opportunities.
• Community Garden Team: Plant a plot in Trinity’s Community Garden and tend it throughout the growing season.
• Disc Golf Maintenance Team: The disc golf course offers many opportunities for you to serve like walking the course to ensure it is trash-free and spreading wood chips along the paths and around the baskets.
• Grounds Beauty Team: If you love to plant and tend flower gardens, this serving opportunity is for you. Our various areas around the grounds will need to be planted and then tended throughout the growing season.
• Grounds Team: If you like to work with your hands and be outdoors, you can help trim trees and shrubs, edge sidewalks, and manage weeds around the property.
• Interior Campus Team: If you like to work with your hands and be indoors, you can help with cleaning, event set-ups, and general maintenance.
• Mowing Team: We supply the equipment; you supply the time. If you want to mow the front, the side or all of it, just let us know and off you go.

As Needed

• Handyman for the Marigold House: Looking for a handyman to help with maintaince at our College-Age Ministry house on campus.
• Rides for Sunday Gathering or Events: Be on a list of people who could provide rides to and from church for widows and/or Deacon clients.
• Human Resources Team: As needed, people to inform and assist with higher level Human Resource questions. Must have a Bachelors or Masters in Human Resources. In the know of changes in codes, laws, standards, Trinity is in compliance with NLRB.

Event Specific

Good Friday Experience: A multi-sensory experience of the crucifixion, focused on Jesus’ last seven statements. This 1-hour, self-guided audio journey to the cross is open on Thursday and Friday, April 17 & 18 from 11:00am-6:00pm. There are several opportunities to serve with the Good Friday Experience:

• • Set-up Team: The set-up will take place Monday-Wednesday, April 14-16.
  • Hosts: Welcome people as they arrive for the Good Friday Experience. Help them with their audio devices and beginning their experience.
  • Station Monitors: Oversee several stations — refilling supplies and reseting the stations when needed.

 VBS and The Blast!: There are a variety of ways for adults and older students to join the fun of VBS! Volunteer as a room or relational leader, bring out your creativity as a craft helper, or run around with the kids as a recreation leader or helper. Provide snacks and kitchen support. Help with students in The Blast! or rock babies in the nursery.

Request a Serving Coach

If you’d like someone to meet with you and help you determine the best area(s) for you to serve, click the button below to contact Carolyn Kersten, Strategic Leader of Grow.