About The Trinity Mission – The Trinity Mission

our Ministries

We provide support and wrap-around services to a free medical clinic in Harlingen, TX, an immigrant shelter in San Benito, TX, a children’s residential treatment facility and foster home in Ingram, TX, a private placement foster youth ranch near Leakey, TX, and a foster “age-out” facility near Mountain Home, TX.
We lead several quiet prayer retreats each year at the La Parra Oblate Center out in the Wild Horse Desert near Sarita, TX
We offer a 4x-daily prayer podcast and other print and video resources for Christian discipleship and formation
We lead several weekly and seasonal Zoom-based discipleship programs
Fr. Michael serves as the Chaplain for the US Coast Guard units in South Texas and the Border

our Founder and Director

Fr. Michael Jarrett is the founder and director of The Trinity Mission. He was ordained a priest in February 2011.

Michael spent several years on Young Life staff, several years traveling North America and the U.K as a songwriter, several years as a spiritual director for a mission team in the Mexico mission field along the Texas border, a couple years as a pastor and volunteer ER chaplain in Waco, TX, ten months doing ecology and conservation work on a children’s home in central Texas (and doing spiritual formation with some of the staff on the side), and eleven years (along with his wife, Erica) starting and running our mission on the South Texas/Mexico border (thebordermission.org) which included a support ministry to immigrant shelters, a free medical clinic, a small congregation, a priest training program, an elementary school, and serving as a chaplain for the US Coast Guard units along the border and south Texas.

Michael, Erica, and their daughter are currently living in Central Texas where they continue to lead The Trinity Mission and its various ministries (see above).

our History

2003-2007 – worked in Piedras Negras, Mexico building homes and providing strategic planning and pastoral support to the staff of CrossRoads Missions
2008-2010 – worked in Piedras Negras, Mexico providing a diabetes health educator program to train local residents to work along side American medical mission teams as diabetes counselors
2010-2013 – worked to establish an Anglican Church in Waco, TX
2012 – began a daily prayer podcast
2014 – worked with Arocha USA (Christians in Creation Care) leading a land and wildlife development project on 4000 acres of the Big Springs Ranch for Children in Leakey, TX
2015-2026 – worked along the South Texas/Mexico border primarily supporting the work of La Posada Providencia Immigrant Shelter, Isaiah 55 Mission to the Deaf, and Culture of Life Medical Ministries.
2017-2024 – established The Trinity School, a Charlotte Mason Pre-K – 6th grade school and set up an independent school board to take over leadership
2018-2025 – ran a free healthcare clinic on the border
2018-2026 – ran a “missionary curacy” program training young men for the priesthood and work in a missionary environment
2019-present – began leading Intro to Quiet Prayer silent retreats out at the La Parra Oblate Center in South Texas
2019-present – Fr. Michael has served as chaplain for the US Coast Guard in South Texas
2022-present – run our Benedictine Discipleship cohorts online
2025-present – providing support and “wrap-around” services to the 3 campuses of the Hill Country Youth Ranch

our Organizational Structure

Trinity on the Border and Trinity Mission Ministries are the names given to the various charitable activities performed by The Trinity Mission. The official IRS name given to this entity in 2004 is Ruachway (roo ahk way). We are a 501c3, non-profit in the state of Texas.

Our Board consists of members of various Christian traditions, but the mission operates in accordance with the faith and practice of historically orthodox Christianity.

Our Board of Directors

The Rev. Ben Wheeler (PCA) – Tyler, TX – Chair
Mr. Blake Yantis – San Antonio, TX – Treasurer
Fr. Michael Jarrett (ACNA) – Secretary (Ex Officio)
Mr. Dean Nester – Knoxville, TN
Mr. Brian Chilton – Austin, TX

Our By-laws can be found here.