Pastor Steve Trader Trinity Community Church TrinitychurchDE.com

Pastor in Hockessin Delaware. grew up in a CHristian family. Parents were Church planters. From a Baptist perspective. He became a christ follower at 15 and messed around then fully committed at 21 to Christ. Worked 24 years as a Pharmacy. His major is in business management. THen went to wideners to night school. He pushes his staff to get their masters and pays for it. became a drafts men for an engineer corporation. He was a supervisor and directed 82 people with 6 other directors for purchasing and funny thing he had to buy fruit and vegetables. The monkeys he bought for did not like giants bananas and had to but them organic bananas. He spent 100 million year in business advertising. He surrounds himself with better people then he is in the business world and the Church. He always felt comfortable with better qualified people because he was sin Gods will. He is accountable with his good friends and pastors when traveling for a long period of time when on business trips.HR part cannot always tell people the truth in reorganization of a company out sourcing. Dealing with people having there jobs is hard. Its hard to tell people when there job is about to be taken away from them. Letting people go or firing someone is hard to do if they do not fit the organization then its hard. He was very involved with the Church. He was on the board, treasurer, interim pastor for a very good reason. He did everything. He wanted to get a master degree from AGTS. He jumped in Berea n school of ministry. God is working in his heart and his job was getting better and his call was growing stronger and stronger  while things were getting better. The difference is what you are good at and what you are called to do. SO he took the right steps to make sure he doing what God called him to do. He gave up a lot of stuff. Saturday July 2005 he saw a path way to get out and start the Church. He got 4 or 5 couples and fasted and sought Gods face and they are part of the core group they have now that started the church. His wife is a trooper and it takes both a husband a and wife to do ministry. He thought about planting a church in a suburb area.  So he thought about stating the church where he lived. Where he decided , a place where he has credibility to build a church. He is in the DNA. One thing that he they thought was what to name his Church, which is called Trinity. The area has money and deeply catholic. Trinity was one of his last names he thought about. The name is Trinity is one word that people from all denominations agreed with. 7 families went with him to start the church solid people youth workers, children workers and board members. It has a better  chance of survival when people are committed. You should not fail when people are solid and the pastor has to be a harder worker to smarter. You cannot spend enough time what  church should look like and practiced for three months how to be smart. Takes better Be our guest book about first impressions. First impressions is important about being friendly. Every weekend they go through training with core team and trouble shooting. Outreach and disciple programs. 30 people left a pretty good size position to grow. There pressure to grow. Stay away from going up to peoples doors to put hangers on there doors. radio doesn't work. Made it so comfortable to people to come and friendly for people to come. They brought friends for a free meal on Sunday night. Their budget has to be good for hospitality. If someone came twice they took people out to dinner. They made it a big deal with people to eat with people to hang out with people every week. His kids are amazing !! Twice a month they have a time of fellowship and discipleship grew out of it. and kids connects small groups grew out of it. They have a lot a signs around and the website has to be good. Signs word of mouth. People come because people brought them. They have a visitor cards they have three or four small groups for both men and women. People in the area have money and they buy prescription drugs. His wife and he have a marriage small groups. Strategic couple they think about it. How do you preach to them? He tries to use life situation in relevancy and issues to talk to him. Teach things explain in ways they understand. He doesn't try to make people feel guilty that are catholic. They would do communion on the side for former catholics. He uses videos , movie clips, altar calls bow your head so they have to remind the people of the vision of why they are the church and why they are who they are. You have to know who you are and be that. The Well , a place where Trinity can have its foot print during the week. The use it as a coffee house and a produce market. You have to have a wife that will help people feel welcomed and help have energy to make people feel comfortable. When they turned the key to give to missions God has honored that so much. What is the biggest surprise to you? He can go back to work and people will be like you are done with mid life crisis. Ministry is one the hardest things he has done in his life, then starting this Church. Its the difference of what you are called to be and what a job is. You never feel off/his feeling.He is learning to build different boundaries.He loves his two daughters and wife is such a great pastors wife. She has her identity outside the church.He was an amazing man to listen to.