Global Outreach

Global Outreach

Vision.  Passion.  Transformation.

And he said to them, “Go into all the world and proclaim the gospel to the whole creation.".       
Mark 15:16

At Trinity our vision is to be so gripped with a passion for The Great Commission that it transforms the church to transform the world.

Trinity Global Outreach Committee

The Trinity Global Outreach Committee exists to help folks at Trinity to become more involved in global outreach!  We seek to support our denominational global partners and their work well, using financial means, prayer, and many kinds of encouragement.  Some of our members have been more personally involved by joining short- and long-term efforts in places as far away as Kenya, Peru, Bulgaria, and Cambodia.  Trinity folk have also been active with Mercy Ships, Ridge Haven Camp, and at the Crow Creek Reservation at Ft. Thompson, South Dakota.


We offer a special event every fall, inviting one or more of our supported workers to come and tell us what the Lord is doing in their ministries.


We invite you to join us at one of our monthly Committee Meetings, usually held the second Sunday of the month after the (first) worship service. (Check the church calendar.) 

Read about some of our supported outreach partners below....


Anselm House - University of Minnesota - St. Paul Campus

The Lord has been so good to the Anselm House and community. Despite the global and local challenges and the accompanying economic uncertainty (which has affected us all, of course), God has made himself known to the Anselm House team as a God of comfort, encouragement, and provision. We’re praying with you that we’d not miss the spiritual opportunities afforded by this difficult pandemic. By way of update, I’ll just mention a few of the ways the Lord has been at work building his kingdom among us. First, we were well prepared to quickly move programming partly or entirely online in March. Students and faculty were especially appreciative of the ways we personalized our interaction with them during the shutdown, prioritizing one-on-one calls and meetings. Second, the Lord has kept our funding largely in place, including a pledged major gift for our planned Minneapolis expansion. We’re so grateful not to have had to lay off staff (though several staff members reduced their hours for their own reasons). Third, our ministry with UMN faculty has received a major boost in the hiring of an associate director for “university engagement” one year ago. Dr. Travis Pickell works closely with Andrew and me in this critically important domain. Just this week we sponsored an all-day (hybrid) faculty seminar where we were able to lead 20 or so UMN faculty through a close reading of texts by William James and St. Augustine. Finally, as you can imagine Covid-19 makes student outreach challenging, but our creative team has already reached out to literally hundreds of new students this summer as we prepare for an academic year like no other.  Support Anselm House here.

Josh & Katie Charette - Mission to North America, Great Plains Gathering, Billings, Montana

Josh Charette is one of very few Native American pastors in the PCA. He and Katie have been in the process of planting Great Plains Gathering (GPG), a church plant in the PCA that is intentional about gathering Native American people, since 2011. GPG is a unique church plant that is very reflective of Billings Native people. There is a diversity of tribes and ethnicities that make up its membership. Josh and Katie’s children (Alex, Aidan and Ella) are all instrumental in the planting process. The heart of Great Plains Gathering has been making disciples of all nations. GPG is a hopeful community environment that continues to see amazing transformation in the lives of our families. Please continue to pray for GPG, that God would use the Charette family to reach more Native people in Billings. Pray also that the church would continue to grow in its trust of Christ even in unpredictable times. Pray for the kids and teens of GPG, that they would know they are loved by Christ and grow in their faith.

Support the Charettes here.

Crow Creek Cemetery Project - Ft. Thompson, South Dakota

Since 2008 teams from Trinity have made multiple trips each year to the Crow Creek Reservation on the banks of the Missouri River to serve, at the tribe’s request, in cleaning, mowing, maintaining, and repairing work at four historic tribal cemeteries, working with members of the community there. Through the years, friendships have been made and trust built.

The committee met in early spring to begin preparations for 2020 trips and then Covid happened and the Reservation was closed. We have not taken any trips this year and the October monument repair trip is contingent on Covid. Two of our contacts on the Res have coordinated the mowing. We sent some financial support to two of our contacts. A committee member coordinated and sent 50 pandemic masks out there, donated by members of our congregation. We will plan on somehow doing our December trip, where annually we provide and make 500 fruit and treat bags to be distributed throughout the reservation for Christmas.

Prayer Needs: healing for tribal members who have Covid, that the Lord would bring the pandemic to an end soon, and for His guidance of the committee as we move forward after the retirement/resignation of some key members.

Our goals:

  • To continue our Crow Creek cemetery restoration project as a long-term effort of reconciliation, restoration, and redemption with the Dakota Sioux people.
  • To build upon our beginning to assist with home repairs and construction that was started in 2018 and 2019.
  • To continue and to grow relationships that have been established with the Crow Creek people.
  • To provide a means for young people in our congregation to experience short-term global outreach work.
  • To purposely plan to worship with the Crow Creek people on the Sundays we are there. 
  • To do what we can to facilitate finding a Native American pastor for the Conkicakse Presbyterian parish.
  • And through all of this, to share the Gospel.

Find more information about the Crow Creek ministry here.

Brandon & Erin Haan - Reformed University Fellowship-U. of Minnesota-TC

RUF is a ministry that reaches students for Christ and equips students for service. We work alongside students to help them grow in their faith, deepen their understanding of the gospel, and show the love of Jesus to the college campus. We emphasize the truth found in Scripture, Christian community, the work of the Holy Spirit in the lives of believers, and outreach to the lost on campus.

RUF believes that as students grow in their faith, we will see the work of the Holy Spirit in the lives of students and of the ministry in numerous ways: growth in grace, evangelism and outreach, missions and service, and students having a biblical life/worldview. We desire to minister to students to equip them for life-long service to God, and to work toward the building up of the church. 

Support the Haans here.

Tim & Kristy Holliday - Mission to the World, Northern Mexico Team

We serve as part of the staff at Isaiah 55 Ministries in Reynosa, Mexico. Isaiah 55 Ministries includes both a school for deaf students, preschool through adult vocational training, and neighborhood outreach ministries in Reynosa, Mexico. Tim helps to maintain both the school and office information systems and other electronic and technological systems. Kristy serves as the administrator for the ministry community center, “Larry’s House.” 

Both of us support the team in its desire to reach the residents, especially the children and youth of the neighborhood where the I55 office and our home is located. Both of us work closely with neighborhood kids on a daily basis through outreach and mentorship activities. We both support the work of our teammate and local pastor, Mario Xoca, in activities towards planting a church in our Aquiles Serdán neighborhood of Reynosa. This year has given us new opportunities to walk alongside our neighbors in discipleship relationships.

Although because of Covid restrictions this year we have had to suspend short-term team activities, we normally would also work alongside short-term teams serving the ministry. Generally, we are available to support Isaiah 55 ministries in any way that is necessary. Our long-term goal is to continue to reach the deaf and marginalized of Reynosa with the Gospel, and specifically to plant a church in the Reynosa neighborhood where we serve.

You can find Kristy's blog musings here and their website here.  

Support the Holliday's here.

Trevin & Ruthie Hoot - MTW, Bulgaria

Trevin, Ruthie, and their daughter, Noa, serve with MTW in Sofia, Bulgaria. Their team has worked in Sofia for more than twenty years doing church- planting, English clubs, book translations, theological training, and ministry to sex-trafficked women. Trevin is serving as an elder of their most recent Church plant, Nov Zhivot (New Life) in the Mladost 1 district of Sofia. Trevin’s work includes moderating the session, preaching regularly in Bulgarian, working to raise up new leaders within the church, and exercising pastoral care. His goal is for the church to be mature enough that missionaries are no longer needed there and for an entirely Bulgarian session to continue the work. Until then he and the other elders will be witnessing faithfully in Mladost and preparing to plant new churches throughout Sofia.  

In addition to working with the church, Trevin and Ruthie study Bulgarian and practice hospitality for people within the church and to their neighbors. Their vision is to use their home as a tool to share the gospel by making good food, showing practical kindness, and sharing the gospel with anyone who will listen. Their daughter, Noa, was born in Sofia in July 2019, with Frank joining the family in March 2021.

Support the Hoots' here.

Katie Jacobson - MTW Cambodia

God has given Katie Jacobson, Trinity's newest global partner, a passion for missions since she was thirteen.

In the fall of 2020, God directed her path to Trinity and has used her presence with us to make clear his call to Cambodia with MTW. Her extensive application, interviews, and orientation with MTW are all complete and she has received her official invitation to join the Cambodia team. 

Now in the process of raising prayer and financial support, Katie continues Bible training and intensive MTW coaching, while also working full time as a nurse at Mayo Clinic. She made her field visit to Cambodia in January 2022.  She is hoping and praying to be on the field by fall of 2022, in accord with MTW's new goal of getting global partners to the field ten months after orientation. 

Support Katie here.

Brennan & Becca McCafferty - MTW Cambodia

Because we just recently arrived in Cambodia, our ministry looks a bit different now than it will in a few years. Right now, our ministry in Cambodia is language and culture learning. Both Becca and I are in full-time language school at Gateway 2 Khmer, which is a Cambodian language school in Phnom Penh. We’ll focus on language and cultural acquisition for the next year before engaging in other ministry activities. We believe that the better we are able to learn the language now, the more effective we will be as missionaries down the road. 

Once our full-time language studies are done (sometime in 2022), we will start slowly participating in other ministry activities. I hope to be engaged in theological education and pastoral training as well as discipleship of young men. In addition to her ministry in the home, my wife hopes to be involved in hospitality, discipleship of young women, and also some aid with some of the medical work that is going on at Family Clinic.

Support the McCaffertys here.

Hugh & Martine Wessel- MTW Marseille, France

Our ministry can be summarized as: 

  •  Mentoring students and pastors
  •  Visiting pastors to encourage
  •  Serving on boards 
  •  Teaching street evangelism
  •  Teaching cross cultural missions

In November 2019, the French denomination asked me to continue to visit pastors across the country to encourage and mentor. The seminary asked that I continue as chaplain. Thankful for this. We continue to pray for increased enrollment at the John Calvin Seminary and are thankful that we’ll have 8 or more mature first year students. The denomination named me to be part of an ad-hoc committee to help the seminary think through its vision, mission and goals. I continue to serve on boards: “AIM” Assisting Indigenous Ministries and “Faculté Jean Calvin”.

As with everyone else, we have adapted to the sanitary crisis: “Zoom”, preaching from my office, prayer meetings via telephone conference, etc. While all this is better than nothing, it is very tiring and unsatisfying not to have physical contact. 

Support the Wessels here.

Dan & Becky Young - MTW Northern Mexico Team

We, Dan and Becky Young, are part of the Center for Church Planting (CPI) Team of MTW in northern Mexico. Our work is on the US/Mexico border, based in McAllen, TX. The team is dedicated to church planting in major cities in northern Mexico where there is no Presbyterian witness. But we are work in border cities. Dan coaches and encourages church planters and pastors. The team wants to see gospel-centered churches planted but also encourage gospel renewal in existing churches. To accomplish that, CPI uses assessment centers to find and assess potential church planters and wives for church planting, training courses such as the Incubator to help them walk through the process of planting a church, and coaching to encourage church planters as they work. The team also holds an annual retreat for church planters and their wives. As a couple Dan and Becky have been involved in assessments, and in particular church plants, supporting the church planters. And Dan has taught in the Incubator and is coaching a couple of church planters. We also have participated in ministries of different churches on the border and mercy ministries as well. Dan preaches when invited and helps with pulpit supply for a couple of PCA churches on the border. We have been involved with church plant Valle del Rey in the McAllen area, and are in the process of transitioning to help a new church plant, The Crossing, part of South Texas Presbytery, and encouraged by the CPI. Dan also teaches Bible in a new online seminary for the Mexican Presbytery of Tamaulipas. Becky is an artist, doing watercolor and other media. She is involved with the MAKE Collective, an association of creatives in MTW, spread around the world. She paints and has exhibited in the Rio Grande Valley, has relationships with several artists, and prays for a growing awareness of the importance of creatives in the life of a church and church plant. A dream on her heart is to see a center for creatives to grow up with the new church plant in our area, and to be able to encourage creatives in church plants in Latin America, through an invitation to be involved with the Alianza for church planting in Latin America.

Support the Youngs here.

Short-Term Outreach Trip in Your Future??

The Trinity Global Outreach Committee would love to hear about your plans as soon as possible! Please contact Chairman Randy Kinnick or Secretary Arlene Compton for information on how the committee can advise and help you.  The committee also needs advance applications in order to wisely distribute support from our short-term budget.  Here is our short-term service application.

MTW (and other) Global Outreach Stories

Denominational & Other Global Outreach Resources

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