Fair Welcomes Community Partners, Highlights Service Opportunities

Trinity hosted the Community Partnerships’ Service Fair on October 1 to connect students with opportunities to serve in the city and Chicagoland area. Hosted by Tabitha Matthews, coordinator for Community Services and Pre-College Programs, the fair welcomed some of Trinity’s many community partners.

“This fair is extremely important to Trinity and our community and allows students, staff and faculty to respond out of their ‘love for God and neighbor’ and address a community needs,” Matthews said.

“As active stakeholders in Trinity’s mission, we want to encourage more students to move out of their comfort zone, embrace, and take advantage of those experiences outside of the classroom. We want students to thrive and flourish in their academic and spiritual journey.”

We want students to thrive and flourish in
their academic and spiritual journey.
Tabitha Matthews

Partnering organizations represented included:

Breakthrough Ministries

By The Hand Club for Kids

Circle Urban Ministries

Cru Inner City/Agape Center

Faith and Action

Lake Katherine

Love Inc.

Palos Heights Christian Reformed Church

Pui Tak Center

Restoration Ministries South Suburban PADS

Roseland Christian Ministries

Urban Youth Outreach

Young Life

These organizations offer a variety of resources to people in the city and suburbs including homeless shelters and intervention, food pantries and services, thrift stores, clothing drives, after school programs and tutoring, apprenticeship programs, youth development, neighborhood transformation, and wildlife preservation.

Trinity seeks to create a learning culture which includes service-learning, and Matthews said, “We felt by having all of our partners here, it would help fulfill that need, as well as increase the visibility of resources that our department has to offer.”