About Us
We open our Bibles to learn, we open our lives to love, so that lives and legacies are transformed.
Welcome to Trinity Church!
This building was initially opened on Easter of 1966 as the Glass and Garden Community Church. 50 years later, we had the first informational meeting for Trinity Church, and our grand opening was held a few months later.
About Us
As our first home for Trinity Church, the building is a great gift from God. Pastor Mark Driscoll was considering renting a building when Pastor Jimmy Evans received a word from God that a church building off Highway 101 seating around 800 would soon be available. Nothing like that was on the market, so the Driscoll family prayed, trusting God’s provision.
Our Journey
In a miracle of God, Pastor Mark was able to secure a purchase agreement, and gifts from individuals and more than 40 churches from around the world immediately started to come in. Total strangers showed up for work parties and built relationships as the core launch team rallied to get the work done on the worn-out building that was in disrepair. They would soon also rally to purchase the building. Additionally, gifts such as curtains, furniture, and other items from dozens of churches around the valley also helped greatly.
Senior Pastor
Pastor Mark Driscoll
With Pastor Mark, it’s all about Jesus! He is a spiritual leader, prolific author, and compelling speaker, but at his core, he is a family man – a husband, father, and grandfather. Mark and his wife Grace have been married and doing vocational ministry together since 1993 and, along with their five kids, planted Trinity Church in Scottsdale, Arizona as a family ministry.
Pastor Mark, Grace, and their oldest daughter, Ashley, also started RealFaith Ministries, which contains a mountain of Bible teaching for men, women, couples, parents, pastors, leaders, Spanish speakers, and more (realfaith.com or the Real Faith app).
With a master’s degree in exegetical theology from Western Seminary in Portland, Oregon, he has spent the better part of his life teaching verse-by-verse through books of the Bible, contextualizing its timeless truths and never shying away from challenging, convicting passages that speak to the heart of current cultural dilemmas.
Together, Mark and Grace have co-authored Win Your War, Real Marriage, and Real Romance: Sex in the Song of Songs and he co-authored a father-daughter project called Pray Like Jesus with his daughter, Ashley. Pastor Mark has also written numerous other books including Spirit-Filled Jesus, Who Do You Think You Are?, Vintage Jesus, and Doctrine.
Grace Driscoll
Grace Driscoll has spent her entire life in ministry as her mom and dad planted The Trinity Church in Seattle, Washington before she was born and she grew up serving in the nursery at her father’s church. Before graduating with her bachelor’s degree in Public Relations from the Edward R. Murrow of Communications, Grace married her high school sweetheart Mark, who is her best friend.
Today, Grace is the mother of five wonderful children who all love Jesus. She has co-authored the books Real Marriage, Win Your War, and Real Romance: Sex in the Song of Songs with Mark, and together they have appeared on ABC Nightline, Loveline with Dr. Drew, and Fox and Friends, as well as The View with Barbara Walters. She has also joined her husband in answering questions at conferences around the nation and world, most often addressing issues for women related to their identity in Christ and how to be a godly woman, wife, mother, and friend.
Grace helped her husband and family plant Trinity Church in Scottsdale, Arizona, named in honor of her parents as her dad has gone home to be with the Lord. At Trinity Church, Grace leads Real Women life groups. In her free time, Grace likes finding good deals on shoes, spending time with her family, and catching up with friends.
Leadership Team
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Executive Pastor
Kerry Dodd
Kerry and his wife Julie have been happily married since 1990 and have two grown children who both love the Lord and serve at Trinity. Their family has been involved with Trinity since the beginning, and they have known the Driscoll family for many years. Originally from the Northwest, Kerry served in the US Navy and then returned to his home state to earn his degree in Business Administration, with concentrations in Accounting and Information Systems from the University of Washington. He has decades of experience working in the corporate world, as well as significant ministry experience at large churches both in Arizona and Washington. The Dodds are second-time Arizonans and are excited to be here and be a part of what God is doing at Trinity!
Executive Director of Ministries
Nick Swetnam
Nick was born in Canada, but his family moved to Scottsdale when he was three years old, making him almost a native to Phoenix, while his wife, Melinda, grew up in Northern California and moved to Phoenix in high school. They met while Nick was working as the Associate Pastor for Melinda’s Dad at a church in Central Phoenix. After taking the risk of dating the Pastor’s daughter and his boss’s daughter, they married in 2005. They have four kids: Blake, Carter, Lizzy, and Evelyn. Nick has an extensive background working in a wide variety of churches ranging in size from a church plant all the way up to one of the largest churches in America, plus experience as a creative director and digital marketing manager working on the cutting edge of online marketing.
Executive Communications Director
Steven Beyer
Steven grew up in Northwest Louisiana surrounded by great food and great music, while his wife, Charis, grew up surrounded by the mountains of Colorado. They happened to find each other in 2016 and were married the same year. They have two beautiful daughters, Grace and Selah Joy. Steven grew up as a pastor’s kid and has been in and around ministry his entire life. He went to Southwestern University where he received a Bachelor’s Degree in Church Ministries with a specialization in Church Planting and Revitalization.
Ministry Staff
We Are Trinity
The Bible is the highest doctrinal authority for Trinity Church. The following biblical beliefs serve as our confession of faith. Other churches and ministries are welcome to also use this confession of faith if they desire.
We believe there is only one true God, who eternally exists as a Trinity of equally divine persons: Father, Son, and Holy Spirit.(1) Each member of the Trinity thinks, acts, feels, speaks, and relates, because each is a person and not an impersonal force. Each member of the Trinity is equally God, sharing all the divine attributes.(2) Because love and community flow from the Trinity to us through the Holy Spirit, we seek to live in loving community with God and others.
We believe that God reveals Himself to everyone everywhere through general revelation.(3) We believe it is only by special revelation that anyone comes to a saving knowledge of God.(4) We believe God has supremely revealed Himself through Jesus Christ, the Son of God and his incarnate Word. We believe that all of the divinely Holy Spirit inspired, inerrant, authoritative, sixty-six canonical books of the Bible reveal to us Jesus Christ.(5) Because God is a loving Father who speaks, we seek to hear from Him and test everything by the Word of God.
We believe that God created the heavens and the earth out of nothing, and lovingly prepared them as a home in which to worship and enjoy Him.(6) Everything in creation and history is dependent upon God and is only good when functioning according to his intentions. God, the author and subject of history, will bring history to an end and create a new heaven and a new earth.(7) Because God is our Creator we worship Him alone and enjoy his creation gladly.
We believe that in love God created the first human beings, Adam and Eve, as male and female, equal in dignity, value, and worth, in order to mirror and reflect God as an act of worship and obedience. We believe that human beings, as God’s sole image bearers, are under God and over lower creation, not to be pulled up like gods or pushed down like animals.(8) We believe that human life begins at conception and that an unborn baby is an image-bearer of God.(9) We believe that God created marriage solely for one man and one woman, and created sex only for married couples.(10) Because God created human life and marriage, we value the sanctity of life and godly marriage.
We believe that God created this world in a perfect state.(11) In Eden, Satan tempted Eve to mistrust God’s word, and she was deceived.(12) The sin committed by Adam, also called “original sin,” has been imputed to all human beings except Jesus Christ.(13) All human beings are sinners by both nature and choice.(14) All fallen people are by nature sinners, children of wrath, and destined to death.(15) Because we are sinners in need of a Savior and new nature, we trust in Jesus Christ alone for new and eternal life and believe in the reality of spiritual warfare with Satan and demons.
We believe that God makes and keeps his covenant promises.(16) God’s covenants reveal his loving grace and mercy, because although people deserve nothing but condemnation, God gives gracious, covenantal salvation. Because God has welcomed us into eternal covenant relationship, we seek to live in gracious loving relationship with Him and others.
We believe that the eternal Son of God and second person of the Trinity became flesh, adding humanity to his divinity, and entered into human history as the God-Man, Jesus Christ.(17) Jesus alone is one person with two natures, fully God and fully man. Jesus Christ is the Word, or Logos, of God because he is the personal, eternally existing Creator of the universe, distinct from, yet equal with the Father and Holy Spirit. Jesus Christ was miraculously conceived by the Holy Spirit and born of the Virgin Mary in Bethlehem to redeem sinful man as the only mediator between God and man.(18) We believe that Jesus Christ, during the Incarnation, laid aside the continual exercise of his divine attributes and lived his sinless life by the power of the Holy Spirit.(19) Because He is both our Savior and example, we deeply love Jesus Christ and seek to live with and like Him by the power of the Holy Spirit.
We believe that Jesus Christ lived a perfectly righteous and sinless life, died in the place of sinners, fully absorbing the wrath of God, paying the just penalty for their sins and reconciling them to God.(20) As our substitute, on the cross Jesus Christ suffered and died in our place to forgive us, love us, cleanse us, and embrace us as the punishment for our sins was diverted from us to Jesus.(21) Because Jesus died for our sins we seek to humbly confess our sins to Jesus Christ and one another, put sin to death in our life, forgive one another, and happily invite others to do the same.
We believe that Jesus Christ, after dying on the cross, arose bodily from the grave on the third day, appearing to many witnesses and proving that he was physically alive.(22) Through faith we are united with the risen Christ, raised with Christ, and granted the same Holy Spirit power that raised Christ.(23) The benefits of Jesus’ resurrection include the forgiveness of sins, justification, sanctification, and ultimately glorification.(24) We believe that justification through the work of Jesus Christ is possible by grace alone, through faith alone, in Jesus Christ alone.(25) His righteousness is imparted to us at the time of saving faith, simultaneous with our justification, and brings us new life by the Holy Spirit, who regenerates us with a new nature and begins sanctifying us to become increasingly more like Jesus.(25) Because Jesus is alive forever, we confidently trust that one day we will likewise rise from our grave to live together as God’s people with Him forever.
We believe that the local church is a community of regenerated believers who confess Jesus Christ as Lord, and that the universal church is comprised of all God’s people in all times and places.(27) In obedience to Scripture, Christians organize under qualified leadership, gather regularly for preaching and worship, observe the sacraments of baptism and Communion, are unified by the Spirit in love, are corrected for holiness, and scatter to fulfill the great commandment and the great commission as missionaries to the world.(28) Because we are members of God’s universal church, we partner with other Christian local churches and ministries for Kingdom ministry and are devoted to building up our local church family.
We believe that human beings, made in the image of God the Trinity (who is Himself a worshiping community), are unceasing worshipers created to continually outpour all they are, all they do, and all they can ever become to God. Worship includes praise, proclamation, service, participation, sacrifice, and submission.(29) We believe that the corporate worship of a local church is to be God-centered.(30) We believe that the corporate church worship should include Bible preaching, the sacraments, prayer, Scripture reading, financial giving, and singing and music.(31) Because we are worshippers, we embrace all of life, including our corporate church gatherings, as an opportunity to passionately worship God in practical ways.
We believe that Christians are to be stewards who gladly acknowledge that they belong to the Lord, that everything they have belongs to the Lord, and that everything ultimately belongs to the Lord.(32) Stewards should value both work and Sabbath so that their time and energy are well managed.(33) We believe that all spiritual gifts are a special grace of the Holy Spirit, given to us at our new birth to serve the mission of Jesus, and continue to the present age.(34) Because God has been generous to us, we seek to love and serve others as generous and wise stewards for God.
We believe that God created humans with a spirit and body tightly joined together.(35) Death is not normal or natural, but an enemy, the consequence of sin.(36) Death is the tearing apart of these two intertwined parts and the cessation of life on this earth. The body goes to the grave and the spirit goes to face judgment before God.(37) Upon Jesus’ second coming, there will be a bodily resurrection for everyone, to either eternal salvation or condemnation.(38) The time between Jesus’ resurrection and our resurrection is a lengthy ministry season of love, grace, and mercy as news of the gospel goes forth, inviting sinners to repent of sin and enjoy the present and future salvation of Jesus Christ.(39) Because our eternal home is in the Kingdom of God, as we journey home our mission is to joyfully invite others to join us while we throw parties, have fun, and make friends to practice for eternity.
Scriptures
1 One God: see Genesis 1:1; Deuteronomy 4:35, 39; 6:4-5; 32:39; 1 Samuel 2:2; 2 Samuel 7:22; 22:32; 1 Kings 8:59-60; 2 Chronicles 15:3; Psalm 86:8-10; Isaiah 37:20; 43:10; 44:6-8; 45:5, 14, 21-22; 46:9; Jeremiah 10:10; John 5:44; 17:3; Romans 3:30; 16:27; 1 Corinthians 8:4-6; Galatians 3:20; Ephesians 4:6; 1 Thessalonians 1:9; 1 Timothy 1:17; 2:5; James 2:19; 1 John 5:20-21; Jude 1:25. Father: see John 6:27; 17:1; 1 Corinthians 8:6; 2 Corinthians 1:3; Ephesians 1:3; 1 Peter 1:3. Son: see Matthew 28:9; John 1:1-4, 14; 5:17-18; 8:58-59; 10:30-39; 12:37-41; see also Isaiah 6:9-11; 20:28-29; Matthew 26:63-65; John 5:17-23; 19:7; Romans 1:3-4; 9:5; 1 Corinthians 8:4-6; Galatians 4:4; Philippians 2:10-11; Colossians 1:16-17; 2:8-9; 1 Timothy 6:15; Titus 2:13; Hebrews 1:8; 1 John 5:20; Revelation 1:8, 17-18; 17:14; 19:16; 22:13-16. Holy Spirit: see Genesis 1:2; Psalm 104:30; Micah 3:8; Hebrews 9:14; see also Acts 1:8; Romans 15:13, 19; Isaiah 40:13-14; see also John 14:16; Acts 5:3-4; 1 Corinthians 2:10; 2 Corinthians 3:16-18.
2 Eternality: see Psalm 90:2; 93:2; 102:12; Ephesians 3:21. Omniscience: see Job 42:2; Psalm 139:1-6; 147:5, Isaiah 40:12-14; 46:10; Hebrews 4:13. Omnipotence: see Job 42:2; Psalm 147:5; Matthew 19:26; Ephesians 3:20. Omnipresence: see Deuteronomy 31:6; Psalm 139:7-12; Proverbs 15:3; Jeremiah 23:24; Colossians 1:17.
1 One God: see Genesis 1:1; Deuteronomy 4:35, 39; 6:4-5; 32:39; 1 Samuel 2:2; 2 Samuel 7:22; 22:32; 1 Kings 8:59-60; 2 Chronicles 15:3; Psalm 86:8-10; Isaiah 37:20; 43:10; 44:6-8; 45:5, 14, 21-22; 46:9; Jeremiah 10:10; John 5:44; 17:3; Romans 3:30; 16:27; 1 Corinthians 8:4-6; Galatians 3:20; Ephesians 4:6; 1 Thessalonians 1:9; 1 Timothy 1:17; 2:5; James 2:19; 1 John 5:20-21; Jude 1:25. Father: see John 6:27; 17:1; 1 Corinthians 8:6; 2 Corinthians 1:3; Ephesians 1:3; 1 Peter 1:3. Son: see Matthew 28:9; John 1:1-4, 14; 5:17-18; 8:58-59; 10:30-39; 12:37-41; see also Isaiah 6:9-11; 20:28-29; Matthew 26:63-65; John 5:17-23; 19:7; Romans 1:3-4; 9:5; 1 Corinthians 8:4-6; Galatians 4:4; Philippians 2:10-11; Colossians 1:16-17; 2:8-9; 1 Timothy 6:15; Titus 2:13; Hebrews 1:8; 1 John 5:20; Revelation 1:8, 17-18; 17:14; 19:16; 22:13-16. Holy Spirit: see Genesis 1:2; Psalm 104:30; Micah 3:8; Hebrews 9:14; see also Acts 1:8; Romans 15:13, 19; Isaiah 40:13-14; see also John 14:16; Acts 5:3-4; 1 Corinthians 2:10; 2 Corinthians 3:16-18.
2 Eternality: see Psalm 90:2; 93:2; 102:12; Ephesians 3:21. Omniscience: see Job 42:2; Psalm 139:1-6; 147:5, Isaiah 40:12-14; 46:10; Hebrews 4:13. Omnipotence: see Job 42:2; Psalm 147:5; Matthew 19:26; Ephesians 3:20. Omnipresence: see Deuteronomy 31:6; Psalm 139:7-12; Proverbs 15:3; Jeremiah 23:24; Colossians 1:17.
16 See Genesis 26:28. The covenants of Abraham: see Genesis 15:18. Moses: see Exodus 24:8; Deuteronomy 5:2. David: see 2 Chronicles 21:7; Psalm 89:3. The New Covenant: see Jeremiah 31:31; Ezekiel 37:26.
19 See Matthew 3:16; 4:1-10; Mark 2:1-7; Luke 4:1-2, 14-21; 10:21; Hebrews 4:14-16.
22 See Isaiah 53:8-12; Matthew 12:38-40; 27:57-60; 28:9; Mark 8:31; 9:31; 10:33-34; Luke 24:36-43; John 2:18-22; 19:34-35; 20:17, 20-28; 21:7, 12; Acts 1:3; 1 Corinthians 15:3-6.
23 See Romans 6:5; 1 Corinthians 6:14; 2 Corinthians 5:15; Colossians 2:12; 3:1.
24 See 1 Corinthians 15:3-58; Romans 4:25; 1 Corinthians 15:20, respectively.
27 See Acts 2:36-41; Matthew 16:18, respectively.
28 Believers organize under qualified leadership, gather for preaching, and observe baptism and Communion: Acts 2:42. Gather for worship: Matthew 2:11; 4:9; 8:2; 28:9; Acts 2:47; Romans 1:9; 12:1; Revelation 7:15; 19:10. Are unified by the Spirit: Ephesians 4:4. Are disciplined for holiness: Proverbs 19:11; Matthew 18:15-22; Acts 20:25–31; Romans 13:1-7; 1 Corinthians 5:1-13; 6:1-8; 2 Corinthians 2:5-11; 11:3-4, 13-15; Galatians 1:6-9; 5:7-15; 6:1-5; Philippians 3:2-3; Colossians 3:16; 1 Thessalonians 5:12-13; 2 Thessalonians 3:6, 11, 14-15; 1 Timothy 1:4-7, 18-20; 4:1-8; 5:19-21; 2 Timothy 2:14-26; 4:1-5; Titus 3:10-11; Hebrews 10:24-25; 13:17; James 3:1; 1 John 2:19; 3 John 1:9-10. Fulfill the Great Commandment: Matthew 5:43-45; 6:24; 22:39; Luke 6:32; 10:30-37; Romans 13:9-10; Galatians 5:14; Ephesians 5:25; 6:1-4; 1 Timothy 5:17; Titus 2:4; Hebrews 13:2, 17; James 2:8; 1 John 3:14. Fulfill the Great Commission: Matt. 28; Acts 1:8; 2:47; Acts 13:43; 17:4, 17; 18:4; 19:4, 26; 26:1–28; 28:23–24; 2 Cor. 5:11, 20; Col. 1:28–29. Act as missionaries for God’s glory and their joy: Acts 2:41-47.
29 See Hebrews 13:15-17.
30 See Matthew 4:8-10.
31 See Matthew 28:19; 1 Corinthians 11:17-34; 2 Corinthians 8–9; Colossians 3:16; 1 Timothy 2:1; 4:13; 2 Timothy 4:2.
23 See Romans 6:5; 1 Corinthians 6:14; 2 Corinthians 5:15; Colossians 2:12; 3:1.
24 See 1 Corinthians 15:3-58; Romans 4:25; 1 Corinthians 15:20, respectively.
35 See Genesis 2:7.
36 See Genesis 2:17; Romans 5:12.
37 See Ecclesiastes 3:20-21; 12:7; Psalm 104:29; 146:4; Hebrews 9:27; James 2:26.
38 See Daniel 12:2; Matthew 25:46; John 14:3.
39 See John 14:3; Acts 17:30-31.
3 Creation: see Psalm 8:3-4; 19:1, 4; 139:13-16; Romans 1:19-20. Common grace: see Exodus 31:2-11; 35:30-35; Psalm 65:9; 104:14; Matthew 5:45; Acts 14:17. Conscience: see Romans 2:14-15.
4 See Acts 10:1-7; Romans 2:7, 10; 10:15-18.
5 Jesus is God’s final Word to us: see John 1:1; Hebrews 1:1-2. The Bible is divinely inspired: see 1 Corinthians 2:13; 2 Timothy 3:16; 2 Peter 1:20-21. Inerrant: see Numbers 23:19; 2 Samuel 7:28; Psalm 12:6; 19:7; 119:140, 160; Proverbs 30:5-6; Isaiah 55:11; John 17:17; Titus 1:2; Hebrews 4:12; 6:18. Authoritative and written: see Matthew 4:4; 5:18; 1 John 1:1-3. Reveals Jesus Christ: see John 1:1. The entire Bible reveals Jesus Christ: see Matthew 5:17; Luke 24:27; Romans 15:3-4; 2 Timothy 3:15.
6 God the Father’s role in Creation: see Genesis 1:1; Psalm 33:6, 9; Hebrews 11:3. God the Son’s role in Creation: see John 1:1-3; 1 Corinthians 8:6; Colossians 1:13-16. God the Holy Spirit’s role in Creation: see Genesis 1:2; Job. 33:4; Psalm 104:30. The earth was created out of nothing: see Hebrews 11:3. The earth was lovingly created: see Genesis 1:3, 6, 9, 11, 14, 20, 24, 26. The earth is a good gift to humanity: see Genesis 1:4, 10, 12, 18, 21, 25, 31. The earth is a home in which people can worship and enjoy God: see Psalm 19:1-2; Isaiah 43:7; Jeremiah 10:12; Revelation 4:11.
7 See Isaiah 65:17; 2 Peter 3:13; Revelation 21:1.
2 See John 8:42-47; 2 Corinthians 11:3; 1 Timothy 2:14.
13 See Romans 5:19.
14 See Psalm 51:5; 58:3; Isaiah 53:6; 64:6; Romans 3:23; 1 John 1:8.
15 See Romans 5:12, 19; Ephesians 2:3; 1 Corinthians 15:21-22, respectively.
17 See Matthew 1:18-25; Luke 1:30-38.
18 See Isaiah 7:14; Micah 5:2; Matthew 1:18-23; 1 Timothy 2:5.
20 See Isaiah 53:5, 12; Romans 3:23-25; 4:25; 5:8; 2 Corinthians 5:21; Galatians 3:13; Hebrews 4:15; 1 Peter 3:18; 1 John 2:2.
21 Jesus substituted Himself for sinners: See Isaiah 53:6; John 1:29; 3:16-17; 2 Corinthians 5:14-15; 1 Timothy 2:1-6; 4:10; Titus 2:11; Hebrews 2:9; 2 Peter 3:9; 1 John 2:2; 4:14; Revelation 5:9. Sins were propitiated: See Romans 3:23-25; Hebrews 2:17; 1 John 2:2; 4:10. Jesus accomplished this by giving his blood: See Isaiah 59:2; Hosea 5:6; John 3:16; 15:13; Romans 5:8; 1 Timothy 1:15-16; Titus 3:4-5; 1 John 4:9-10.
25 See Acts 13:38; Romans 4:3-5; 5:1, 16-17; Titus 3:7.
26 See 2 Corinthians 5:21.
32 See Haggai 2:8; Malachi 3:8; Romans 1:6; 1 Corinthians 4:7; Ephesians 2:10.
33 See Genesis 2:2, 15; Exodus 20:8-11; Proverbs 18:9; 21:25; Ecclesiastes 3:22; 1 Corinthians 15:10; Colossians 3:23-24; 2 Thessalonians 3:10.
34 See Romans 12:6-8; 1 Corinthians 12:8-10, 28-30; Ephesians 4:11; 1 Peter 4:11.
Frequently Asked Questions
We know that visiting a new church can be scary sometimes, and you probably have a ton of questions before you even step foot through its doors. We totally get it. That’s why we put together a list of some of our more frequently asked questions!
Like most families, our church family has people who are formal and people who are informal. Whether you are wearing a suit or dress, or flip flops and shorts, you will find lots of people dressed just like you.
We generally start with a few worship songs, encouraging our Church family to engage in joyful worship. We then have a Bible-based sermon, followed by a few more songs. During this time, we encourage people to respond to the sermon through prayer, worship, giving, and taking part in communion at the back of the room.
The Trinity Church band brings music that is encouraging and energetic, upbeat, and uplifting!
Trinity Kids meets during each service for ages 5 months to 5th grade. Trinity Kids learn about Jesus in interactive, fun and age-appropriate ways using a Bible-based curriculum called The Gospel Project. This curriculum walks kids through the entire Bible as one big story over the course of 3 years, showing how it all points to Jesus! Parents are also welcome to have their children in the church service.
