THE PROBLEM

As we grow, we face a resource problem. We spend approximately $100,000 per year on rented facilities that do not satisfy our needs. Trinity worship requires extraordinary effort to set up and tear-down. The Sixth Grade Center can realistically hold only one adult educational class at 9am. TrinityKids is limited. Post-worship fellowship is hindered by the constraints of tear down. While great for small meetings, Trinity House cannot host simultaneous discipleship classes. This resource problem distracts us from our mission.

Imagine a family with three small kids who desire Trinity to complement their discipleship of their children. They long for their children to meet with the elders and come to the table. Now, imagine that life has gotten busy for them. She’s working two jobs. He is working during the day and going to school in the evenings. They deeply desire the space to worship during the week with people who know them. They attend community group, but confess that worship requires too much of them emotionally. They have too few resources to meet their families’ needs. They don’t experience the rest they crave.

Imagine a recently divorced man who finds the worship at Trinity intriguing and life-giving. He craves fellowship. He lives in an apartment in Owasso and works in Tulsa. He is courageous to attend community groups made up mostly of married couples, and wants to learn more about Reformed theology. He listens to podcasts and his Bible app, but has never been personally discipled. He finds the limitations of discipleship opportunities frustrating, and looks forward to being discipled and learning from dedicated teachers on relevant topics.

Imagine a man who has lived in the Tulsa area his whole life. He was influential in churches but has not regularly gone to church in years. COVID was a good reason to stay home each week and now his habit of not attending church is just as well in his mind. Most people know him in town and any church he goes to immediately seems to be influenced by his presence. He tends to therefore stay away from church. He has watched Trinity from a distance and likes the vision and culture of the church but simply doesn’t want to attend a church that meets in a school gym. When the church “grows up” and gets a building he and his wife will think about coming.