A Reconciling United Methodist Congregation
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| Trinity Church is committed to creating a faith community in Jesus Christ,
connecting people with God's justice and love. Our ministries are enhanced and furthered by our participation
as: a Reconciling Congregation, rejoicing in the presence of persons of all sexual orientations; a Jubilee
Congregation, a movement to reduce the debt of the world's poorest nations; a Habitat for Humanity partner,
building homes in our community, and a founding member congregation of BOCA, Berkeley Organizing Congregations
for Action, a grass-roots, faith-based organizing project involving sixteen interfaith congregations in the
City of Berkeley. We are a merger of two congregations that came together in 2006, the original Trinity congregation and the Montclair UMC congregation from Oakland's Montclair discrict. In 2005 Montclair determined that they were financially unable to maintain their existing church building and began to look for another congregation to merge with. They began an active process to discern their core values and eventually chose to merge with Trinity. Out of the merger we became a much more vibrant congregation and we have never looked back since! |
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OUR MISSION As committed Christians, we follow Jesus' example to reflect God's love in the world, be peacemakers, and become stewards who care for all of creation. We strive to be agents of life in a world where the culture of death pervades. The following Companion Litany to our Social Creed sums up our mission: God in the Spirit revealed in Jesus Christ, calls us by grace to be renewed in the image of our Creator, that we may be one in divine love for the world. Today is the day God cares for the integrity of creation, wills the healing and wholeness of all life, weeps at the plunder of earth's goodness. And so shall we. Today is the day God embraces all hues of humanity, delights in diversity and difference, favors solidarity transforming strangers into friends. And so shall we. Today is the day God cries with the masses of starving people, despises growing disparity between rich and poor, demands justice for workers in the marketplace. And so shall we. Today is the day God deplores violence in our homes and streets, rebukes the world's warring madness, humbles the powerful and lifts up the lowly. And so shall we. Today is the day God calls for nations and peoples to live in peace, celebrates where justice and mercy embrace, exults when the wolf grazes with the lamb. And so shall we. Today is the day God brings good news to the poor, proclaims release to the captives, gives sight to the blind, and sets the oppressed free. And so shall we. |
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| 2362 Bancroft at Dana |
| Berkeley, California |
| Phone: 510-548-4716 |
| Fax: 510-548-4717 |