Mission trips have helped shape generations of students at Trinity.
Through the years, youth and students have served through choir tours, mission trips, worship leadership, Vacation Bible School, construction, community outreach, and prayer. These experiences gave students opportunities not only to serve others, but to grow in their own faith.
One reflection in the anniversary book comes from Boyd Dimmock, who wrote about the 2015 Peru mission trip in the student ministry blog, Life Honestly.
He shared that Trinity students had been involved in many opportunities in Peru. They sang, gave testimonies, performed skits, and prayed with people who had specific needs. Local church members accompanied the team and were able to invite people to join the local Christian community.
One small moment stood out: a woman they had prayed for gave the team a fresh papaya as a thank-you gift, and the students were delighted.
It is the kind of detail that makes a mission story feel real.
The work was not only about what the students did. It was also about what they witnessed. Boyd reflected that they were seeing God at work while also growing in their own spiritual lives.
That is one of the gifts of student missions. Students go to serve, but they also learn. They encounter different communities, different needs, and different expressions of faith. They practice sharing the gospel, praying with others, working as a team, and paying attention to where God is already at work.
The Peru trip was one part of a larger story. The anniversary book also records that the High School Choir took a mission tour in June 2006 to Massachusetts to work with Celebration Church, a new church in downtown Boston. Forty-eight students and nine adults helped lead Vacation Bible School, cleaned and painted the church, led worship, and performed concerts at the church and a local mall. That trip was one of nine mission tours the High School Choir had taken over seventeen years.
These stories remind us that student ministry is not only about gathering students at church. It is also about sending them to serve.
Through mission trips and music tours, Trinity students have had opportunities to worship, lead, serve, pray, and grow. Those experiences become part of the church’s story, and for many students, part of their own story of faith.
Read More in 70 Years at Trinity
This story was drawn from 70 Years at Trinity: February 5, 1956 – May 3, 2026, prepared in celebration of the seventieth anniversary of Trinity Baptist Church.
For more about student mission trips, the 2015 Peru mission trip, and the 2006 High School Choir mission tour to Massachusetts, see pages 103 and 105 of the anniversary book.
