Spokeswoman Karen Neder says it's the local chapter of the TerraCycle company that accepts lights, crayons, batteries, and various kinds of packaging.
"Not everything can be recycled in our blue bins, so we take stuff that is not recyclable in your blue bins like toothpaste tubes and toothbrushes and floss containers and corks."
She sends in the waste materials then receives some money in return, raising money for the church and its programs.
Neder says members of the congregation strongly support the program.
"To spread the word about climate change, and about plastics in our oceans, and being able to re-use and reduce and then recycle those things that we can't re-use and reduce. It's become a real ministry for us."
The old lights from Christmas and other holidays are taken to Alter Metal Recycling which recovers the copper wiring. In recent years, she's taken two carloads a year of holiday lights to be recycled.
Trinity Lutheran Church, with collection bins outside, is located at 1330 13th Street in Moline.