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Who We Are

…inspired by Christ
…to love and serve with all people
…in restoring all of creation
…to God’s loving embrace.

We are two congregations - Trinity Lutheran Church (ELCA) and McMinnville United Methodist Church - with deep roots in service to our community. We began to explore our common convictions and our overlapping mission to the community and discovered that we could better serve our community by working together. God has blessed our cooperation with a new sense of inspiration and power, and so we have covenanted to share together in all aspects of Christian community and mission while valuing and retaining the particular strengths of our Methodist and Lutheran roots. Since 2005 we have worked in covenant as the McMinnville Cooperative Ministries, one people of two valued traditions.

Yeah, but what do we DO about it?

Our mission to our community includes support through volunteers and funding of: Habitat for Humanity, Cook Elementary School, Trinity Learning Center preschool and daycare, annual Mexico Mission Trip, 12 Step Programs including AA, NA and Al Anon, St. Barnabas Soup Kitchen, Yes! Logos Youth Program, the Community Compassion fund, local food banks… and more.

What do we teach and believe?

Are we charismatic or dogmatic? Liberal or Conservative? Evangelical or Fundamentalist? Traditional or Contemporary?

If you are searching for a church, you might be asking questions like these. Some of them have easy answers but others are less clear. McMinnville Cooperative Ministries doesn’t fit some of the categories that people sometimes put churches in. That is not because we don’t have a clear mission, vision and values. Rather it is because many of the categories represent old arguments and issues that don’t seem very important to us anymore, which raises a whole new set of questions and issues!

Here are some things that will help you begin to understand McMinnville Cooperative Ministries.


A ministry of United Methodist Church McMinnville United Methodist Church and
Evangelical Lutheran Church of America
Trinity Lutheran Church.