Trisha Molina Email & Phone Number

*Assist Church Plant Pastor (husband) with launching church plant initiatives including outreach and selecting or designing bible studies for various age groups but especially for students. Write and design monthly email newsletter for approx. 200 subscribers and counting. Meet with current and potential donors. Write and update the church plant vision manual (potential partners from Texas visited us inspired by the vision manual). *Prayer drive or walk the streets of the Town of Guadalupe. Launched a new youth ministry in the Town of Guadalupe. Invite new youth to participate in weekly bible studies and activities. Maintain relations with a group of youth who come from very broken homes, face mental health issues, malnutrition, low reading levels, drop out of high school.*Mentored student and stood with her in the baptism tank. Helped present her to the congregation while the church plant pastor baptized her.*Maintain relationships with young moms that I minister to from different backgrounds. Frequently open our home to them and their families for fellowship and mentoring. This supports our church plant vision that includes reaching multicultural groups from the various nearby communities.*Maintain relationship with our church sponsor and the congregation. Maintain relationships with many supporters who attend First Baptist Church of Tempe. Plan and update informational table hosted in the FBC hallway. Invited to teach a women’s bible study at FBC.

*Researched innovative dropout prevention strategies. Assessed high school districts across Arizona. Composed business plan based on findings. Awarded ASU Entrepreneurship Advantage grant. *Launched college readiness program at South Mountain High School. Prepared materials for student workshops. Designed and launched website.*Selected to participate in www.seedspot.org and awarded a team of ASU W.P. Carey students for business model generation.*2024 Update: Invited to participate in ASU Venture Devils Entrepreneurship Program. This program provides connections to mentors and resources and is self-paced with opportunities to compete for funding. The long-term goal is online curriculum development.

*Served as a Bible teacher and followed through with both individual and group youth discipleship. Managed youth department. Planned monthly Youth Sunday mornings including planning the entire service by making worship selections, coordinating sermon speakers, prayers, ushers, etc. Invited by the executive pastor to share a message during a Youth Sunday service. Coordinated fundraising activities and wrote donation letters to local businesses. Hosted many fundraisers to ensure each student, many from low-income backgrounds, were able to travel to and attend FUGE camp in Glorieta, NM each summer. Responded to requests for youth records. Attended annual training conferences such as the Arizona Christian Equipping Conference. Maintained youth calendar; scheduled weekly evening meetings. Selected volunteers and program evaluation tools. Updated congregation through verbal announcements. Taught VBS classes to 5th graders and high schoolers for several years. Attended women’s workshops hosted by the Southern Baptist Convention when they hosted in the state of Arizona. Directed occasional performing arts initiatives. Maintained relationships with parents, church elders, leaders and visitors. *This ministry was located in the heart of urban South Phoenix. Worked with a variety of students including those from families struggling to remain a family unit (which also included a few students surrounded by gang activity) and foster students. Worked with a student with disabilities and worked to ensure the environment was inclusive for him in order for him to be able to participate in bible studies and activities. Occasionally helped families coordinate fundraising activities for funerals and ministered to their families. *Served as youth president for several years (as a high school/college student) with increasing responsibilities and assisted the executive pastor with teaching his VBS class for a few years before being invited to serve in this Youth Director Role.

* Focused on advancing women’s entrepreneurial success. Conducted presentations across ASU Campuses on entrepreneurship topics and to recruit women students to apply to entrepreneurship programs. *Coordinated SparXX Dinners (an entrepreneurship mentorship program for women) including marketing, preparing students to pitch a venture idea at one of the various Dinners, scheduling business mentors, coordinating dinner hosts across the Phoenix Metropolitan Valley and completing pre- and post-event surveys. *Provided course support as a Teaching Assistant for the Women in Entrepreneurship class held at the Tempe Campus. *Counseled and encouraged women students who had interests in leadership, business creation, social enterprise, and/or entrepreneurship, while focused on recruiting and retaining women in ASU’s entrepreneurship programs. Provided guidance on entrepreneurship pathways at the university, including degree programs, certificates, courses, accelerators, seed funding competitions, and more. *Executed strategies related to goals for women student engagement in entrepreneurship programs, including hosting events, reaching out to students, and mentoring students who had entrepreneurship interests. Programmed event to honor local women in business. Worked in a fast paced environment and got to experience being a part of ASU’s hub for Innovation while the University has been repeatedly ranked the #1 University in American for Innovation.

*Managed volunteers including processing volunteer applications, interviewing volunteers, scheduling and assigning volunteer tasks. Coordinated Club to College workshops for 6th-12th students. Managed college student interns for the Club to College higher education preparation program. Acquired donations for finals study nights. Tutored K-12 students.

Phoenix, Arizona

*Composed volunteer recruitment presentation through Prezi software. Developed volunteer training manual. Strategically created committee roles and responsibilities for the Social Media committee. Researched social events programming.

*Mentored youth and helped several earn scholarships to attend college. Several of these students had stories similar to this: assisted student known for having the most behavioral issues by helping him to turn his life around by guiding him to join a youth group, attend college and he became a luxury car mechanic and then he moved out of the projects. *Promoted Be Great Graduate values. Created college readiness activities and career action planning. Assisted with the facilitation of Diploma to Degrees sessions. Completed data reporting surveys and attendance tracking in Microsoft Excel. Co-managed the Teen Center.

Masters In Biblical Studies

Go Certificate In Ministry To Women

The GO Certificate in Ministry to Women is an online, self-paced certificate designed to train women to make disciples.

Master'S Degree, Masters In Educational Leadership And Church Planting Certificate

Completed studies in Educational Leadership and traveled to San Francisco to complete a Church Planting course which included touring.

Bachelor, Interdisciplinary Studies: Nonprofit Leadership & Management & Dance

Activities and Societies: ASU S.T.E.P. Multicultural Honor Society: Programming Director (2008-2010); Membership Director (2007-2008); ASU.