2022 Annual Report

2022

ANNUAL REPORT



TABLE OF
CONTENTS

4 Vision & Values
5 Message from Lead Pastor
6 Who We Are
8 How God is Working
10 Staff & Leadership
16 Pray for What is Next

VISION

A City Transformed
Loved by God the Father
Saved by Jesus His Son
Empowered by His Spirit
Called by God to Reach Our City with His Love

VALUES

GOSPEL
a commitment to the story of Jesus as defining and ultimate

RELATIONSHIP
a commitment to love each other as Jesus loved us

OPENNESS
a commitment to pervasive transparency and candor in all we do

WORK
a commitment to put our whole selves rigorously into this effort

OUTWARD FACED
a commitment to regularly invite, pursue and welcome those who do
not yet know Jesus

FROM OUR LEAD PASTOR

Henry Blackaby, in his study Experiencing God, said, “Rather than focusing on what our church is
doing for us, we ought to be asking what God is seeking to do in our church through us… We don't
choose what we will do for God; He invites us to join Him where He wants to involve us.” In short,
Blackaby taught that we should not be merely asking God to work where we are when we can
actually identify where He is at work. Instead, we should join Him there.
God’s Word is clear that the changing of a fallen human heart is His work alone. So whenever
someone comes to Christ, God did that. And however someone is turning from a selfish way of
living toward the love of Jesus, that is God at work.
Consider a stark contrast. The most experienced researchers are seeing a clear national trend. The
younger you are, the less spiritually engaged or church-involved you are. So if you’re under 18, way
less than 10% of your peers are church-affiliated.
Yet at Trinity, we are seeing a vibrant growth precisely in this age range! Praise God, we are
seeing Him work to save and redeem scores of students at Trinity, from middle school through
college. So if the national picture is bleak, the local story is an amazing testimony that God is at
work.
So, like Henry Blackaby asked, what does it look like to join God there?
Let’s be humble: As we clarify our ministry plans for the coming year, we want to be humble and
reflective about how we live and work. God’s Word calls us give thought to our steps (Proverbs
4:26, 14:15). What is God doing? And how can we clearly discern what it would mean for us to join
Him in His good work?
The profound shifts in our surrounding culture require us to re-evaluate how we work so that we
can wisely answer with faithfulness. I do not mean changing our beliefs, mission or values. I’m only
referring to what it could mean to wisely adjust how we work out, think out, and live out our beliefs
— as a team, as a community of Grace, as God’s own family.
Relationships: Clearly, across all our ministries we need to emphasize, or even recover, Gospel-
based relationships. The smart phone and mobile technologies are revolutionizing our culture,
including how people view their spiritual formation. Increasingly spirituality is being defined, sought
and expressed primarily in terms of “content” in spite of relationship and often to the outright
denial of need for any real relationship. But we believe that God has hardwired into our design
that relationships are holy — they are incomparable. Literally no thing can replace people or supply
what they provide — in love and community.
The Rising Generation: Also, considering strategic priorities in our current vision, few concerns
matter more than the work to develop the rising generation. Psalm 145:4 says that one generation
will commend God’s works to another, and declare what He has done.
Please prayerfully survey your landscape and ask, “LORD, please help me see where You are at
work, and then give me Grace to joyfully join You there.”
Gratefully - Tim Rice
Lead Pastor & Director of Church Planting

WHO WE ARE

SAVED BY JESUS
membership

399 214 441
Covenant Children Regular Attenders
Members

492 160 attendance
(monthly average)
Sunday YouTube
Streams
Worship

EMPOWERED BY THE HOLY SPIRIT

spiritual life & discipleship

45 40 8 6

Discipleship Person of Jesus Bible Studies in Prayer
Groups Lunch Study Cohorts
Businesses

LOVED BY GOD THE FATHER

343 27 2 5 Community

People in Community Closed New
Community Groups Community Community

Groups Groups Groups

Children's 6 97 88 146
Ministry Adults
New Babies Born Kid's Worship Community Kids Serving Kids
in 2021
(Infants-Kindergarten) (1st-5th Grade)

110 19 9 Student Ministry

Middle & High Adult Core Discipleship
School Students Group Advisors Groups

Women's 111 155 100 293
Ministry Summer
Bible Studies Resource Discipleship Outreach Care
Series & Other By Grace & Connection

Trainings Groups

HOW GOD IS WORKING

Stateside Missions . . . . . . . . . . . $257,380

$66,000 $10,660 $5,000 $4,510 $2,000

Campus Outreach Mission to North Made for Dominion Covenant College Heart for
America Winter Haven
$65,340 $4,920 $4,100
$6,500 $1,640
Renew Polk Presbyterian Church Covenant
Fellowship of in America Theological Seminary Discipleship
$43,560 Christian Athletes Ministries
$4,800 $3,600
Florida Church $6,000 $1,640
Planting Network Dave Hawes Southland Student
Southwest Presbytery (Navigators) Camps Ridge Haven
$12,000
$5,500 $4,510 $3,600 $1,500
Samson House
University Pres Reformed University RTS Scholarship Southeastern
Church Tampa Fellowship University

World Missions . . . . . . . . $68,100

$8,400 $5,000 $3,500 $2,900

seeJesus UK Vision Trip Knowltons (Scotland) Nathaniel Adawonu
(Africa)
$6,500 $4,100 $3,500
$2,900
Lamb (Third Mill) Carters (Japan) Robbie Sweet
(Scotland) Scruggs (UK)
$6,500 $4,100
$3,500 $2,000
Etiene (Haiti) Cobb (France)
Gordons (Panama) Deborah Ramirez
$6,200 $3,500
$3,500 $2,000
Mission to the World Savants
Peter Dishman Colin Millar
(Columbia)

City Mercy . . . . Trinity Mercy . . .
$73,560 $50,285

$24,000 $10,800 $39,185 $1,200

Parker Street A Woman's Choice Individuals Meals
Ministries
$8,400 $7,500 $2,400
$2,400
Gospel Inc Workdays Outreach
Compassion
$6,360
$8,400
VISTE
Lighthouse
$4,800
$8,400
One More Chid
Salvation Army



TRINITY STAFF

Tim Rice TimO Strawbridge David Springer

Lead Pastor Director of Director of
& Director of Spiritual Life Campus Outreach
Church Planting

Brown Peterson Julz Zagra Bud Daniel

Pastor of Students Female Discipleship Male Discipleship
& Young Adults Coordinator Coordinator

Callie Sandman Krissa Valentine Jason Jacobs

Director of Children's Ministry Director of Worship
Children's Ministry Administrative
Assistant

TRINITY STAFF

Jarrod Hurd JoAnn Johnson Frank McCaulley

Worship Director of Director of
Administrative Lead Women's Ministry Operations

Ashley Moats Tucker O'Brien Andrea O'Brien

Ministry Resource Interim Front Desk Bookkeeper
& Communications Assistant

Coordinator

Theresa Riggs

Spiritual Life
Administrative

Assistant

ELDERS

TEACHING Shepherding oversight
Clark Buurma
Jerri Gable Holland Henderson Shawn Jones
Jason Jacobs Timo Strawbridge Scott McBride
Brown Peterson
Matt Tucker Frank McCaulley
Tim Rice Justin Wilson Dwight Smith
John Tucker

deacons

Braxton Bone
Robbie Davis
Andrew Eisner
Bruce Gaynair
Jeff Sandman
Adam Spafford
James Spence, Chair







PRAY FOR WHAT IS NEXT

Our search for a Director of Community Groups.
Pray that Shawn Jones and the hiring team are fruitful in finding the
right person for this critical position.

Our continued search for a Church Planting Apprentice.
Pray that God would provide workers for the harvest.

Our investment in Students, Campus Outreach and Women.
All of these are about our future. Pray for conversions, growth in our
discipleship groups and changed lives.

Capacity and Community.
Pray for opportunities to invite - both to corporate worship as we
return to two services January 22 and to community groups. Pray for
new leaders/community groups to make room for those waiting to
join one.

Leadership
Please pray for our elders as they adjust to a new structure of
shepherding teaching and oversight. Ask the Spirit to help them to be
faithful and fruitful in the areas of their gifting and responsibility

CONTACT US

301 N Florida Ave
Lakeland, FL 33801
trinitylakeland.org
[email protected]