MISSION STATEMENT
To proclaim, teach and live the inerrant Word of God. To minister within the congregation to the strengthening of personal faith and commitment, knowledge of the Scriptures and Christian love and family values. To minister in the community through personal sharing and services dedicated to drawing people to Jesus Christ. To support Christian Missions throughout the world. Adopted 1989
Our Vision
A church where all are seeking to possess the heart, mind, hands and feet of Christ.
"Now you are the body of Christ" 1 Corintians 12:27
Our Mission
Loving, growing, serving and reaching...together
WE'RE IN THIS TOGETHER....
Heart - "Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind...and...love your neighbor as yourself" Matthew 22:37,39
Mind - "But grow in the grace and knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ" 2 Peter 3:18
Hands - "Now that I, your Lord and Teacher, have washed your feet, you should wash one another's feet. I have set you an example that you should do as I have done for you." John 13:14-15
Feet-"How beautiful are the feet of those who bring good news" Romans 10:15
DOCTRINAL STATEMENT
The Scriptures
We believe in the verbal inspiration and authority of all the sixty-six books of the Old and New Testaments as the divinely inspired Word of God and submit to them as the only infallible authoirty in all matters of faith and practice.
The Trinity
We believe in one unique, divine essence which is called and is truly God, eternally existing in three persons, Father, Son, and Holy Spirit, identical in nature, equal in power and glory, and having precisely the same divine attributes and perfection. We believe in one creator and preserver of all things visible and invisible.
God the Father
We believe that God the Father is the first person of the Holy Trinity. He creates and preserves all things as an act of grace and pure divine goodness.
The Lord Jesus Christ
We believe that the Lord Jesus Christ, the eternal Son of God and second person of the Trinity, became truly and fully man, without ceasing to be God, having been conceived of the Holy Spirit and born of the Virgin Mary, in order that He might reveal God and redeem sinful humanity.
We believe that the Lord Jesus Christ accomplishd our redemption through His true death on the cross, and that our redemption is made available to us by His bodily resurrection from the dead.
We believe that the Lord Jesus Christ is now in heaven, exalted at the right hand of God the Father where He fulfills the Ministry of Intercession for all believers.
We believe in the bodily return of our Lord, Jesus Christ to judge the living and the dead.
The Holy Spirit
We believe that the Holy Spirit is the third person of the blessed Trinity who dwells in all believers, calls humanity through the Gospel, enlightens with His gifts, and santifies the whole church on earth, and preserves it in union with Jesus Christ in the one true faith.
Creation and The Fall
We believe that God created the universe as described in Genesis chapter one. We believe that humanity was created in the image and likeness of God, but through Adam's sin became alienated from God, acquired a sinful nature, and came under the Law and the penalty of death.
Salvation
We believe that salvation is the gift of God offered to man by Grace and received not by works but by personal faith in the Lord Jesus Christ, and that this faith is manifested in works pleasing to God.
Sacraments
We believe that the Sacrament of Baptism, when administered according to the command of Christ to infants and adults, is a means of Grace by which God offers His Grace and the forgiveness of sins.
We believe that the Sacrament of the Lord's Supper is a means of Grace and offers communicants in, with, and under bread and wine, the true body and the blood of Jesus Christ, and that all who receive the Sacrament in true faith share in the forgiveness of sins procured by Christ's sacrifice.
Eternity
We believe that the condition and retribution of the lost and the salvation and blessedness of the saved are conscious and everlasting.
A BRIEF HISTORY OF TRINITY LUTHERAN CHURCH
Our Beginning...
In the 1960's the American Missions Committee of the South Pacific District of the American Lutheran Church (ALC) purchased land in the Nohl Ranch area for a mission congregation. The first two buildings consisted of a chapel and a wing for office and education use. Chaplain Willard L. Conradson, coming off active duty with the U.S. Air Force, was extended a Letter of Call to come and organize the new congregation. On January 27, 1966, a formal Organizational Meeting was held and Trinity Lutheran Church became an actual organization and corporation with 76 baptized members.
Our Ministry Grows...
A Christian Day School was started in 1971 with 31 students and Mrs. Joan Beck as principal. A new education wing was built with six modern classrooms. Renovation on the Library building and the remodeling of the original Church Wing into new offices were also completed in 1986. The capacity of the Chrisitian Day School was increased to 215 students.
Our Faithfulness to God's Word Continues...
In 1978, Pomeroy J. Moore, a layman of the Congregation was called by God to attend Faith Evangelical Lutheran Seminary, Tacoma, Washington, to prepare for full-time ministry. Pastor Conradson, who was retiring from the ALC pastoral ministry, installed him as pastor of the congregation. In 1985, the church voted unaminously to withdraw its membership in the ALC because of theological liberalism and the synod's abandonment of the doctrine of Biblical inerrancy. James Elmore, also a graduate of Faith Evangelical Lutheran Seminary who served his internship at Trinity in 1984-85, was Called and installed as Associate Pastor of Trinity Lutheran Church in November 1986. In June 2002, a pastoral transition took place - Pastor Elmore became Senior Pastor and Pastor Moore became Associate Pastor.
Our Vision Remembers Our Past and Looks to the Future...
A new sanctuary and offices were constructed in 1992 and dedicated on January 23, 1993. Planning for a new fellowship hall and new classrooms and offices for the school was begun. In March 2004, Trinity launched, in partnership with INJOY Stewardship Services, its 3-year "For Us and Generations to Come" stewardship campaign. $1,003,000 was pledged at our Celebration Service on June 6. Construction is planned to be completed by Fall 2006.
THE CONSERVATIVE LUTHERAN ASSOCIATION
The Conservative Lutheran Association (CLA) was formed in 1980 by Lutherans Alert National (LAN); an organization founded in 1965 by a group of pastors and lay people who were concerned about trends in the American Lutheran Church and other synods which were contrary to the historical beliefs and confessions of Lutheranism. Their purpose was to affirm the inerrancy of Holy Scripture and to warn the Church-at-large of deviations within the various Lutheran bodies. A seminary was founded in 1969, known as Faith Evangelical Lutheran Seminary, Tacoma, Washington.
The CLA is not a synod having hierarchical authority, but an association of churches holding to a common statement of faith and acceptance of the confessions of the Lutheran Church. The CLA provides participating congregations with those critical resources, expertise, leadership fellowship and other assistance to advance the ministry of the congregation and to collectively accomplish certain ministries not possible to do by a single congregation.
