“As everything is building up around us downtown, we want to be part of it,” Schaefer says. It starts with reaching out to their immediate neighbors-both old and new-in the downtown area, asking them what they are thinking, wanting, and needing as the city grows. While the Summit City has long been called the “City of Churches,” the staff at Trinity English is rethinking what this means by taking a different approach to community engagement, Schaefer says. Today, she is carving out a niche role for herself as the church’s first Community Development Manager, a job designed to use church resources, volunteers, and services to benefit their neighbors of all religious backgrounds in downtown Fort Wayne. “They wanted the perspective of someone on the outside.” “The staff at Trinity English didn’t want someone who was already involved in the church,” Schaefer says. It turns out, these qualifications made her the perfect candidate for the position. But she didn’t attend church services at Trinity English, and she’s not Lutheran. When Sara Schaefer first heard about a job opening at Trinity English Lutheran Church last fall, she didn’t know what to think about it.Īs a former TV news personality in town, she was looking for a way to stay invested in her community and meet people around the city.
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