Could you partner with us financially?

Partnership can take all kinds of different forms – as Christians we all want to consider how we can best use all that God has given us, for the advance of the gospel. This includes our time, energy, gifts, resources, and our money.

Christian financial giving is different to charitable giving. The word Paul uses in Philippians 4:15 is partnership: “And you Philippians yourselves know that in the beginning of the gospel, when I left Macedonia, no church entered into partnership with me in giving and receiving, except you only.”

At Trinity Church Bristol, we hope to reach the city with the gospel of Christ. We do have expenses, however:

• Carl and Tom are partly paid for by external sources, but this cannot be sustained forever
• Our two venues (Elmgrove on Sunday, Subud Hall Tuesday nights for FOCUS and Christianity Explored) cost around £100 each per meeting.
• Student ministry – Students tend to have lower income and therefore give less financially. But not only do they serve our church family with their time and energy and in other ways, students also have a great opportunity to grow in their faith at University, and to make Jesus known among their coursemates. We love to invest in them at FOCUS, student suppers and weekends away.
• Bibles
• Publicity of many kinds including: song sheets, flyers, worksheets, notice boards and so on.
• Occasional weekend away trips and events such as Christmas Carols or Chinese New Year
• Donations to Herald to support their evangelism in various cities in England and Wales
• Food and refreshments etc.

Where your money goes

Future Financial Goals

Self-sufficiency – we would love to reach the stage where we are no longer dependant on start up money and one off donations from outside the church family for our regular costs. In addition to this, there are a number of longer term areas of growth that we would like to work towards:

Staff – we would love to be able to pay our staff (Carl – our pastor is not paid by Trinity) and Tom (our full-time worker). Longer term, it would be wonderful to employ more staff as the church grows, to enable existing ministry to be carried out more efficiently (perhaps with some admin support, a women’s worker) or to reach different groups of people more effectively (for example, by employing an international students worker, or a youth and families worker).

AMiE – Trinity Church is part of an organisation called AMiE (Anglican Mission in England), which provides oversight and support for Anglican churches who for whatever reason exist outside of the Church of England. As part of our partnership with them, we would like to give between 2-5% of our income to help them support struggling churches and to establish new ones.

Planting – local churches are vital in God’s plan to advance the gospel, and Bristol needs many, many more! Long term, we would love to be able to plant a new congregation elsewhere in Bristol to enable more people to hear about the Lord Jesus.