Neighborhood Care Groups

The goal of our Neighborhood Care Groups (NCG) is to strengthen the body of Christ by drawing in, knowing and caring for each other’s spiritual and physical needs in simple and helpful ways, and by creating smaller communities within the larger congregation.

Trinity Presbyterian Church has over 500 members. Our congregation is organized into ten different geographical neighborhoods each with an elder, a deacon, and at least one NCG coordinator (from among the Women in the Church), who serve together as a leadership team for their neighborhood. These brothers and sisters in Christ volunteer to serve as "point people" for the needs in their NCGs. The NCG coordinator is often the first person to be contacted in time of need, although every member of the leadership team stands ready.

Each NCG has its own personality, according to the gifts and desires and needs of the members therein. Each NCG seeks to provide both practical ministries of compassion and opportunities for community and fellowship.

By ministering to and fellowshipping with one another in times of need and times of peace or rejoicing, we, together, are living the principles of Ephesians 2:19-22: So then you are no longer strangers and aliens, but you are fellow citizens with the saints and members of the household of God, built on the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Christ Jesus himself being the cornerstone, in whom the whole structure, being joined together, grows into a holy temple in the Lord. In him you also are being built together into a dwelling place for God by the Spirit.

Susan Hunt, WIC Consultant for the PCA, summarizes the heartbeat of the Neighborhood Care Group Ministry very well when she writes, Cultivating community means understanding that these ministries of mercy are sacred because they are kingdom activities. Our motive must be to create and cultivate a sense of family among God’s people, or these ministries will become form without substance.

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