Inforrmation below from pcusa.org

In Somalia, a child is dying every six minutes. Drought is devastating communities throughout the Horn of Africa,leaving more than 13.3 million people in crisis.

Tens of thousands of people, including 30,000 children, have died. About 13 million people living across Ethiopia, Somalia, Kenya, and Djibouti are still in critical need of assistance.This includes thousands of Somali refugees living in the Dadaab refugee camp and Kenyan farmers who lost all their livestock to disease and starvation.

Thanks to your prayers and generous gifts to One Great Hour of Sharing and special designated giving, PDA was able to immediately respond, providing emergency food, water, and other resources to famine/drought-stricken families in East Africa. But additional help is needed.

Your gift of compassion will help with ongoing immediate needs and with long term initiatives that PDA is supporting to help people in the region recover from failed crops, soaring food prices, and the massive loss of livestock needed for survival.

•$10 can help feed a child under the age of 5 one daily nutritious meal for a month.
•$30 can help provide one displaced family with a month’s worth of relief food.
•$120 can help provide clean water for three months to communities recovering
from drought.
•$500 can help provide seeds, tools, and fertilizers so local farmers can replant.

Presbytery of Des Moines

Presbytery Newsletter
The Wider Circle

Presbyterians Today Magazine

Calvin Community

Our Sister Parish
El Salvador Mission

Joining Hands
Egypt Mission

Presbyterian Disaster Assistance

The next newsletter deadline is February 15. In our continuing efforts to save on costs, the Trinity News will now only be printed once a month. Articles will be due in the church office on the third Wednesday of the month by 10:00 am. You may also e-mail submissions to triityupc@dwx.com.

Please join us for our High School Youth Worktrip Pancake Breakfast on January 29 at 8:30 am. We will also be doing our Rent-A-Kid silent auction. Please come ready to bid on a well needed activity/chore to be done! Questions- please contact Nick or Becca VanDam (515)689-5923.

The High School Youth Group needs a couple more adults to travel with us to Mabank, Texas June 16-23 for a week of God's work with fellowship, possible hard work and time spent with our amazing youth! Please contact Nick or Becca VanDam with questions or if interested (515)689-5923.

Comforters - Please come and help us make comforters on Tuesdays at 1:00 pm in the church basement.

TEST (Trinity’s El Salvador Team) - TEST is always looking for new members. We are meeting regularly to plan El Salvador Sunday for February 26. We are also meeting to form a new Trinity delegation for June. If you are interested in joining this delegation, please find one of us and let us know. We’d love to have you join our group! You can join the TEST group, whether or not you wish to travel with us. You only need to have an interest in our sister community in El Salvador and an interest in learning more about the mission that the Des Moines Presbytery has there. Our next meeting is Sunday, February 5 at Noon in the Fellowship Hall. Delegation date is late June (exact date to be determined soon). Travel commitment deadline is April 15. There is a scholarship fund started for those who would like to travel. If you have an interest in the El Salvador mission, but don't think you can travel, and would like to help someone go with the Trinity delegation, you can write a check with “ES Scholarship” on the memo line. Margaret Blair, Denise Core, Betty Dyer, Maurice Dyer, Rev. Dave Endriss, Blair Lawson, Larry Lepper, Mary MacKenzie, Dru McLuen, Pat Wilson

Annual Congregational Meeting will be held Sunday, January 29, following worship. In an effort to save on costs, the Annual Report will not be mailed out this year; it will be sent by email (you may also click on the link below). If you choose not to print it, printed copies will be available at the church office and in the atrium following worship.

Follow this link to read the current Trinity News. Click below to read past issues.

Church Location:

200 South Howard
Indianola, IA 50125

Phone: 515-961-6231
Fax: 515-961-6232
e-mail: trinityupc@dwx.com

Rev. David Endriss, Pastor
Wendy Dowell, Church Secretary

Office Location:

106 E. 2nd Avenue
Just to the southeast of the church across the parking lot, north door.

For two years now, our Presbytery’s Older Adult Ministry Task Force has asked sessions to submit nominations of an older adult for this award that recognizes mature, service-minded and Christian modeling of faith. DeVerne Dixon was nominated and honored with others at the November Presbytery meeting in Oskaloosa. Loree Strupe from Allerton was the winner, but all had remarkable contributions to their faith communities. Congratulations DeVerne!