{"id":9562,"date":"2024-08-28T16:01:31","date_gmt":"2024-08-28T20:01:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/trinitylutherancs.com\/?page_id=9562"},"modified":"2025-02-27T17:07:30","modified_gmt":"2025-02-27T22:07:30","slug":"taskforce-on-new-ministries","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/trinitylutherancs.com\/?page_id=9562","title":{"rendered":"Taskforce on New Ministries"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #008000; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 24px;\"><b>Taskforce on New Ministries:<\/b><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The <em>Taskforce on New Ministries<\/em> was initially known as the <em>Taskforce on Aging.<\/em>\u00a0 The taskforce held its initial meeting on May 22, 2024, after a series of workshop meetings which were conducted by Pastor Brad Hales. The workshops were attended by several members of Trinity on April 19-21, 2024.\u00a0 Many of the persons in attendance eventually have come together to form the <em>Taskforce\u00a0on New Ministries.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Pastor Hales currently serves Reformation Lutheran Church in Culpeper, Virginia. For several years Pastor Hales has focused his ministry on the aging population both within congregations of the North American Lutheran Church as well as the dramatically aging population within our nation. He has conducted workshops nation-wide, both with individual congregations as well as with clusters of congregational within a broader region.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Pastor Hales visited Trinity on behalf of the North American Lutheran Church with the agenda of exploring new avenues of ministry that would especially focus on the aging population within our congregation and community. At its second meeting the taskforce saw the need to expand its scope of ministry planning and accordingly renamed itself the <em>Taskforce on New Ministries.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The <em>Taskforce on New Ministries <\/em>has already begun to aggressively explore new possibilities to serve our congregation and community.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\"><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\">Learn more about the work of the taskforce by reviewing the minutes of its recent meetings, its program information fliers, as well as various other resources:<\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><div class=\"zilla-one-third\"><\/p>\n<h1 style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #339966; font-family: 'arial black', sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\">Minutes of Recent Meetings<\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/h1>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #993300;\"><a style=\"color: #993300;\" href=\"http:\/\/trinitylutherancs.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024-08-27-Taskforce-on-New-Ministries-Meeting-Minutes.pdf\"><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">August 27, 2024 Meeting<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #993300;\"><a style=\"color: #993300;\" href=\"http:\/\/trinitylutherancs.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024-07-17-Taskforce-on-New-Ministries-Meeting-Minutes.pdf\"><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 18.6667px;\">July 17, 2024 Meeting<\/span><\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #993300;\"><a style=\"color: #993300;\" href=\"http:\/\/trinitylutherancs.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024-06-05-Taskforce-on-New-Ministries-Meeting-Minutes.pdf\"><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 18.6667px;\">June 5, 2024 Meeting<\/span><\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #993300;\"><a style=\"color: #993300;\" href=\"http:\/\/trinitylutherancs.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024-05-22-Taskforce-on-Aging-Meeting-Minutes.pdf\"><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 18.6667px;\">May 22, 2024 Meeting<\/span><\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\"><\/div><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><div class=\"zilla-one-third\"><\/p>\n<h1 style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #339966; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\">Current Program Information<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/h1>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline; color: #993300; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><a style=\"color: #993300;\" href=\"http:\/\/trinitylutherancs.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025-03-01-Fun-for-Seniors-events-2025-March-April-May.pdf\">March, April, and May\u00a0 2025 <strong>&#8220;Fun for Seniors&#8221; <\/strong><em><strong>Events Calendar <\/strong><span style=\"font-size: 10pt;\">(updated <\/span><\/em><\/a><em><span style=\"font-size: 10pt;\">02\/27\/2025<\/span><\/em><span style=\"font-size: 10pt;\"><em>)<\/em><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><\/div><\/p>\n<div class=\"zilla-one-third zilla-column-last\"><\/p>\n<h1 style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #008000;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\"><strong><span style=\"text-align: center; text-transform: none; text-indent: 0px; letter-spacing: normal; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; word-spacing: 0px; white-space: normal; orphans: 2; float: none; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: #ffffff; display: inline !important;\">Other Resources<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/h1>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #993300;\"><a style=\"color: #993300;\" href=\"http:\/\/trinitylutherancs.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/HALES-Aging-Min.-Opportunities.pdf\"><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Aging Ministries Opportunities<\/span><\/a><\/span>\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 <span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 <em><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\">(resource from Pr. Brad Hales)<\/span><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #993300;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\"><a style=\"color: #993300;\" href=\"https:\/\/thenalc.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/Graying-in-Grace.pdf\"><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\">Graying in Grace: Becoming Mature Disciples of Jesus Christ<\/span><\/a> <\/span>\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 <span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">\u00a0 \u00a0 <\/span><\/span><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\">(resource from Pr. Brad Hales)\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 (Adult Sunday School Resource: Fall 2024)<\/span><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><\/div><div class=\"clear\"><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Taskforce on New Ministries: The Taskforce on New Ministries was initially known as the Taskforce on Aging.\u00a0 The taskforce held its initial meeting on May 22, 2024, after a series of workshop meetings which were conducted by Pastor Brad Hales. 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