We host three monthly mobile food pantries per month: one on the first Thursday at Celebration United Methodist Church(drive up), the second Thursday of every month in the Majestic Oaks Apartment complex (walk up), and the third Wednesday at our NW campus(drive up; use west entrance closest to 43rd Ave). All are at 10:30 AM, although we recommend arriving early since it’s first come, first served. This ongoing mission provides fresh meat, produce, and bakery items to families in need. Please contact Kelly if you’d like to volunteer.

Our Early Response Team (ERT) is a team of trained Servant Volunteers by the United Methodist Committee on Relief (UMCOR).

ERT's help with specific needs after a disaster: cleaning out flood-damaged homes, removing debris, placing tarps on homes, and other tasks, while providing a caring Christian presence. Participants learn the basics of disaster response, including how to stabilize and secure homes safely, and how to work effectively with survivors and others on the response team. For more information on how to get involved, contact Kelly Ping.

Read a first-hand account of the impact of the Early Response Team from Servant Volunteer Andy Adkins.

Every month we are collecting supplies and items needed by an organization in our community to help others.

You can find this month's information in the Tuesday Word and on the bins themselves.

We respectfully ask that you only donate the items that we are specifically collecting.

Want to help families in our community? Trinity is working with Partnership for Strong Families with a site called CarePortal to help notify community members who may be able to assist those in need (for example: a washing machine or bike for transportation). When you sign up, you are simply opting in to get email notifications of a true need that has been determined by an agency case manager. There is no obligation. Here is a short video explaining how CarePortal works. If you'd like to sign up to receive CarePortal notifications about needs in our community, please sign up here.

Bags of Grace is our tangible ministry of love to make a small difference to homeless folks in our community. Specifically, it is a bag of toiletries and other basic necessities to keep in your car and hand out as you see fit. These bags are available in the Education Building lobby.

Food4Kids is a non-profit in Gainesville, FL whose mission is to identify chronically hungry children throughout the community and provide them with food and vital resources on a regular basis.

We support this organization by delivering food to area Elementary schools and food sorting events and opportunities.

Throughout the year we support four schools in Alachua County (PACE Center for Girls, Stepping Stones Preschool, Talbot Elementary, and Rawlings Elementary) with expressions of gratitude for teachers and staff in the form of school supplies, gift cards, notes of encouragement, and more.

We’re always looking for folks to be our school liaison, to help coordinate back-to-school notecards, or drop goodies off to teachers and staff.

The food drive has begun! Help us feed 1200+ families. Please place donations in a blue bin in the Ed. Bldg. or narthex by Nov 16. We need: corn, green beans, cranberry sauce, mac and cheese, stuffing, instant potatoes, gravy, brownie mix, and $15 grocery gift cards.

Tote-A-Turkey: In addition to non-perishable food, we also need frozen turkeys. We will accept turkeys from Nov 14-19 and they can be placed in the coolers next to the refrigerated trailer by the kitchen loop.

Important Note: Every family that receives a Thanksgiving basket is referred by a different local community agency in Gainesville, Florida. While Trinity collects the food donations, we do not participate in the referral process and do not decide who receives a basket. If you are in need of a Thanksgiving basket and are receiving services from a local agency, please contact that agency to see if they are a part of the Thanksgiving Basket program.