Loved to Love Outreach

A New Chapter Begins! - https://mailchi.mp/trinityfamilyonline/a-new-chapter-begins

📢 Save the Date: April 22 📅

Hey everyone!

Exciting news is on the horizon and we can hardly contain our excitement! 🎉

Mark your calendars for April 22 📅 because Loved to Love Church and Outreach has something life-changing to share with you all! ❤️

As the saying goes, "Man Plans, and God Laughs." 🤷‍♂️ Well, let's just say, we had a whole bunch of plans for what the future of our combined ministries would look like going forward and God stopped us, stepped in, and changed them into something truly extraordinary! 😄

Trust us, you won't want to miss this announcement! 🤫

A God-given dream written in a journal almost 19 years ago is about to, through faith, dedication, and your unwavering support, become a beautiful reality. 🏠✨

So, stay tuned for updates and get ready to join us on April 22, in-person or online, as we unveil the next chapter of ministry at Loved to Love Church and Outreach! ❤️

A Prayer for National Coming Out Day

No matter if you are conservative, liberal, or somewhere in the middle in your beliefs about the LGBTQ+ community, we believe the following is a prayer we can, and should, all join together and pray today.

Gracious God, on this day many will choose to be honest with themselves and with those around them as many of us have before them. Many will find understanding but, as You know, many will find rejection from their families, their friends, and, sadly, their religious communities. Be with these especially, O God, for these will need to be reminded of your love for them today and for many days to come. In their grief Lord, help us, your Church, their brothers and sisters, to gather around them and lift them up with prayer, authentic community, and a whole lot of love. In your mercy, O God, hear our prayer. In Jesus name, the name that is above all names, we pray. Amen.

The Lord is near to the brokenhearted
And saves those who are crushed in spirit.
Psalm 34:18 (NASB)

As we stated in Monday’s e-Newsletter, we would like to invite you to join all of us here at Loved to Love in praying as the Church of the Nazarene’s General Assembly will likely take up resolutions today that will directly affect the ministry of Loved to Love Outreach and Loved to Love Church of the Nazarene.

A Note from the Heart - https://mailchi.mp/trinityfamilyonline/a-note-from-the-heart

We hope this message finds you well and filled with as much joy as we have experienced over the past five days as we have slowly rolled out the announcement, we finally get to share with you today!

Today, June 5, 2023, we are thrilled to announce the biggest change to ever happen in the almost eighteen years of the combined ministry of Love Wins.:LGBT. Trinity Family Midtown Church of the Nazarene, and the Loved to Love Resourcing Conference.

With that said, drumroll please…

We are overjoyed to announce that as of June 1, 2023, Love Wins.:LGBT, Trinity Family Midtown Church of the Nazarene, and the Loved to Love Conference are now…

Loved to Love: Church ∙ Outreach ∙ Conference

Here is why we are making this change and what this change means to our combined ministry…

After much prayer, reflection, research and consultation, we believe that the names Love Wins.:LGBT and Trinity Family Midtown Church of the Nazarene have served their purpose so as we move into a new era of ministry, we believe now is the time for a new identity that better reflects our core values and mission to make Christlike disciples in the LGBTQ+ community, equip Wesleyan-Holiness Churches to make Christlike disciples in the LGBTQ+ community, and explains our primary focus of doing such work in our Midtown, Kansas City location as we seek to make Christlike disciples there.

We believe the name Loved to Love helps us to further embody and explain our commitment to the Scriptural call to love as Christ has loved us (1 John 4:19) while also underscoring both the connectedness and individuality of all three vital aspects of our work.

Although all three ministries combined will have one singular group name each ministry also now has its own logo and ministry fund meaning those who contribute regularly to our work can rest assured that their dedicated contribution goes to the specific work they intend it to go to.

As a result of all the changes we have mentioned so far Love Wins.:LGBT will now be known as Loved to Love Outreach and will use purple heavily in its branding and related content.

Trinity Family Midtown Church of the Nazarene will now be known as Loved to Love Church of the Nazarene and will use red heavily in its branding and related content.

The Loved to Love Resourcing Conference will keep its name but gets a new logo and will use green heavily in its branding and related content.

The overall entity logo will combine all three colors in its branding and related content.

A full presentation on these new logos and why the colors red, purple, and green were chosen will come within the next two weeks we share more updates on the effects of our new identity and how it will all work. (Yes, during General Assembly. You have to have something to read in the down time during all the activities, right? 😉)

We understand that change can bring questions, and we aim to address them thoroughly during this roll out.

At the end of the next two weeks of explanatory updates we will provide a summary to ensure everyone is up to date.

Please note that the complete transition to our new name will take some time. We estimate that the full transition will be completed by July 1st as the various things required to make such a complete transition takes differing times.

Finally, we want to emphasize that no matter our name, one thing will remain constant: our unwavering belief that Love. Always. Wins.

Thank you for your unwavering support and participation in our ministry. Together, let us embrace this exciting chapter and work hand in hand to create a world filled with brand new Christlike disciples!

Oh, and remember…

Love. Always. Wins.

The Leadership Teams of
Loved to Love: Church ∙ Outreach ∙ Conference

We are thrilled to share some incredible news with you today, inspired by Isaiah 43:19: "See, I am doing a new thing! Now it springs up; do you not perceive it? I am making a way in the wilderness and streams in the wasteland." God is indeed doing a new thing in our midst!

We are delighted to announce the launch of a “new thing” in the life of Love Wins: LGBT, Trinity Family Midtown Church of the Nazarene, and the Loved to Love Resourcing Conference. Starting June 1st, we embark on a journey that we believe to be God’s will for all three of these important ministries.

It’s our hope that this “new thing” shows gives clarity to the work we do boy focusing on centeredness, calling, competency, and charitability.

We recognize that change can be both exhilarating and challenging, and we seek God's guidance and wisdom every step of the way.

Your prayers have always been a vital source of strength and encouragement and so, during this time, we humbly ask for your prayers and continued support as we approach the launch day of this exciting “new thing.”

You may have noticed that our voices have been quieter over the past nine months, but please know that our silence does not signify the completion of our work. On the contrary, it signifies a period of intentional reflection and preparation. We wanted to ensure that our next chapter is written with all the necessary tools, rooted in love, and equipped to foster clarity and rootedness in the Gospel.

Once again, we express our heartfelt gratitude for your continued support, love, and prayers. Your presence and encouragement have been instrumental in our past endeavors, and we trust that they will be equally significant as we embrace this new and exciting “thing.”

See you June 1st

Oh, and remember…
Love. Always. Wins.

With love and anticipation,
The leadership teams of…
Trinity Family Midtown Church of the Nazarene
Love Wins.:LGBT
and the Loved to Love Resourcing Conference

Loved to Love Outreach updated their phone number.