1c. Counselling Services

In an effort to serve the families of Sunset Park, our church opens its doors for counseling. This ministry will be held by very qualified and certified counselors, to work with adults, youngsters and children. The service will be provided in English and in Spanish and by appointment only. The cost of each session will be according to the affordability of the client. The schedule will be Mondays and Wednesdays from 4 to 6 p.m

1d. Trinity Is a Sanctuary Congregation

A Sanctuary Congregation offers ""sanctuary"" to one immigrant with U.S. citizen children who is facing deportation under the current unjust immigration practices. A Sanctuary Congregation engages in education and reflection on immigration issues, provides practlcal and moral support to "its" immigrant family and cooperates with the New Sanctuary Movement in media and advocacy campaigns for specific legislative goals.

In the 1980s Sanctuary Movement, giving sanctuary meant housing a refugee in the church. Today, giving sanctuary may not require housing (though it could, depending on the person's circumstances.) Today it means, at a minimum, a commitment to provide moral and spiritual support and advocacy for the immigrant and his/her family, trying to prevent their deportation and to work toward enacting more equitable laws.

All faiths speak of hospitality, and the equality of all human beings in the eyes of God. Jewish and Christian Scripture specifically talks about how we are to behave towards those living in our land whether or not they have "legal" status. For example, Leviticus 19:33‑34a (NRSV) reads.# ""When a stranger resides with you in your land, you shall not oppress the alien, The, stranger who resides with you shall be to you as the citizen among you. "" Similarly, radical hospitality is a mandate for Muslims; Qur'an 76.8‑9. Christians follow a Jesus who commanded his followers to care for the last, the least,, and the lost ‑ among whom, today, immigrants are surely included.

A Sanctuary Congregation acts as a prophetic public witness to these faith principles. It acts so as to call public attention to the contradictions and moral injustices of the. current immigration system, while working to support legislation that would change unjust laws.

Current immigration laws require deportation of any immigrant who ever committed a crime, even if the immigrant has a cc‑green card," and even if the immigrant has already served a sentence for that crime and been returned to the community,

These laws make deportation automatic, without allowing a judge any discretion to deal with an individual"s circumstances ‑ including the fact that the immigrant may have a family here, even when the family includes children who are U.S. citizens.

These laws are retroactive, reaching back to deport immigrants for youthful indiscretions or one‑time offenses that happened long ago, despite a multi‑year history of good behavior another factor judges are not now allowed to consider.

2.b Sister Churches

3a. Sponsored Missionary

3b. Missionaries

To China

Dr. Nathanael & Helen Fedde

Rev. Herbert ∓ Edna Loddigs

Sister Birgitha Nilssen

Martha Kullberg

To Japan

Dr Olaf & Eleanor Hansen

To Sudan

Sister Olette Berentsen

Ruth Christiansen

Sister Anna Olsen

To Tanganyika

Elizabeth Arnesesns

Martha Pedersen

To India

Dr. William & Jeanne Scott

To Cameroon, Liberia, India, Costa Rica & Columbia

Dr. Irving & Alma Olsen

To Ethiopia

Dr. Martha Maakestad

Lutheran World Foundation

Terri Speirs