Doers Meeting at Trinity United Church

Monday May 11, 2026 6:30 pm

Ice cream with fruit and sauce, tea and decaf coffee along with chat and social

Welcome by Peggy with prayer and a land acknowledgement

Governance team update Judy Johnson

• Annual reports were due last week
• Stove has been worked on again. A grease box is to be installed
• There are plans for a library outreach van at the food bank in the parking lot May 27 and June 17
• A new photocopier in Trinity office is less expensive and does all that is needed.
• A financial statement will be in the annual report.
• There will be an Affirming Ministry vote at the AGM on May 31
• Governance is asking that Doers meet a little more often than every other month.
• Governance recognizes that during the week many people are in our building and are possible resources that Trinity can tap into such as Astro Tots day care, Wooden Cross Korean Church.

Stewardship: Joy Galea

• May is Pre Authorized Remittance month. Joy reminds us to help others know what PAR is and why we have it.
• “We Live in Abundance” a piece of music that a few learned while at a gospel signing workshop with Marcus Mosley wraps up what Joy wanted to pinpoint here in North America.

General Items:

Peggy:

• Maintenance on stove done again.
• Locks on garbage cage changed (new keys available)

Syd:

• Our pest advisor, James, has added an ant poison to the black box traps for mice. The pest problem is much less currently (normal with the warmer weather).
• Outside lights have been looked at by Sean of Northside Electrical Services. Sean will replace the lights on either side of the large cross on the building facing Shaughnessy. Most of the photocells that control the lights coming on and going off on the outside building and parking lot are not working. The pole lights are a mystery. Sean is working on where the power should be coming from then will problem solve how to get our parking lot in light again. He suggests another half day to diagnose and plan.

7:30 pm Interest groups dispersed: United Church Women, Worship and Music, Pastoral Care and Property.

Pastoral Care: Betty reported 3 attended

• Discussed having a family contact name and number for our senior members
• Celebrating that people appreciate the cards sent out monthly

Property: Sherie reported 3 attended

• May 23 Outside/Inside cleanup. 9:30 am – 12 noon (contact will be made with Wooden Cross and Astro Tots daycare through their liasons)
• Hedges: $2500 confirmed at Governance to cover cost of trimming hedge.
• Curb repair person to be contacted (John Patko?)
• Moveable wall in daycare still in need of repair.
• Trinity meadow was cut 1x. and trimmed a couple times around the perimeter and along walks.

Worship and Music: Beth Anderson reported 3 attended

• Ladner UC has asked for choir robes. Trinity thinks it is time to let ours go
• Plans need to be made for updating Trinity emergency evacuation procedure for Sunday services. The interest group Needs help with this process, Please!
• A very big thank you to Goomtie Raghoobarsingh’s donation of 40 copies of the new hymn book “Then Let Us Sing” in memory of her late husband, Bobby.
• It has been moved and seconded that Trinity approve the request for Rev. Dr. Bill S. Kervin of Toronto, ON, to use Trinity’s marriage register to solemnize the marriage of Gaelen Roy Huestis and Kirsten Lindsay Smith on October 3, 2026 in Langley, B.C.. It has been approved and agreed upon by the Governance Team.

United Church Women: Joy Galea

• UCW meets every 2^nd Tuesday of a month
• Thrift celebrated the $4,167.55 last month and $300.80 from donations delivered to Big Brothers.
• Pads “regular/medium” are to be collected and given to the food bank in response to “Period Poverty”. Please bring to UCW monthly meetings.
• June meeting will be an outing to Rocky Point ice cream. (no meetings in July or August).
• Three Trinity members in hospital, Dawn Carman, Jenny Brahney and Dave Squires.

Closing: Syd thanked all for attending and read poem “Living Water, Source of Life” 645 VU