*** Urgent message from Outreach regarding help for wildfire evacuees ***
The Prairie to Pine Regional Council of Manitoba United Churches is asking all communities of faith to offer support to the many communities evacuating due to the intense wildfires. We ask that you, the members of Trinity congregation, prayerfully offer your support through financial contributions and /or donation of specific items. Your generosity at this time of desperate need will be greatly appreciated. Thank you !
Here are the ways that you can offer your much needed support:
Donations are being accepted by the Red Cross online by searching redcross.ca and following the instructions for Donate Now.
Southern Chiefs’ Organization is accepting financial donations as well as many items as follows. Cheques can be made payable to the Assembly of Manitoba Chiefs. All funds received will go directly towards supporting the urgent needs of evacuees.
Any donations of specific items (see below) or cheques can be dropped off at the church by Sunday, June 8 and will be delivered to the appropriate locations.
- Baby items: Clothes, formula, playpens, and strollers
- Blankets and sheets (sized to fit a cot)
- Clothing: Summer clothing, socks, underwear (new items only), hats
- Combs and brushes
- Colouring books and craft supplies for children
- Kleenex, toilet paper, and Wet Ones
- Pillows
- Towels and face cloths
- Toiletries: Bars of soap, deodorant, antiperspirant, lip balm, menstrual products, razors and shaving cream, shampoo, toothpaste
- Treats/snacks: Granola bars, fruit snacks, nuts, chocolate, drink boxes
- Non-perishable foods
**Note: All snacks and donated food items must be in their original packaging.
“Beyond all these things put on love, which is the perfect bond of unity.” Colossians 3:14 (NRSV)
Here is the link for Sunday, June 1, 2025 worship service: https://youtu.be/WdJuLM7HXaM
Sunday, June 8, 2025 – Worship starts at 10:45 a.m. – Anniversary Sunday. Worship service followed by a picnic. Bring your lunch. Dessert will be served.
Scripture to Ponder
Week of Union / Pentecost Sunday
June 2, 2025
Scriptures this week: Genesis 11:1-9; John 14: 8-17 (25-27)
In Genesis 11, humanity’s ambition culminates in the Tower of Babel—a monument to self-sufficiency and pride. In seeking to ascend to heaven on their own terms, the people are scattered, their unity fractured by divine judgment. Language, once a shared gift, becomes a source of division. What was lost was not simply communication, but communion.
But in John 14, Christ offers another vision. Not a unity built by human hands, but one forged by the indwelling Spirit—the Advocate who gathers what Babel scattered. This is not a tower reaching up, but a Spirit descending down, binding us not by uniformity, but in the communion of love, truth, and justice. Pentecost becomes the divine answer to Babel: a new language spoken by a new people, formed not by ambition but by grace.
Over the last century, the United Church of Canada has caught glimpses of this Pentecost movement. Through acts of inclusion, reconciliation, and justice, the Spirit has breathed through our structures and often in spite of them. We have ordained women and LGBTQ+ disciples, walked paths of apology and healing with Indigenous communities, and sought to embody a Gospel that speaks to a changing world. The Spirit has not left us—but has often led us beyond where we were willing to go.
Now, as we enter a new century, we are faced with profound questions: What does it mean to be the Church when the forms we have known—buildings, institutions, cultural privilege—are fading? What does discipleship look like in a secular, digital, and ecologically fragile age?
This is not a time to rebuild Babel.
This is a time to welcome a new Pentecost.
The Church of the future may be less about maintaining structures and more about embodying presence—Spirit-formed, decentralized, rooted in relationship and mission. It may thrive not in sanctuaries, but in networks of justice, online communities, interfaith solidarity, and climate action. The Spirit is not bound to pews and pulpits. She moves where there is hunger for truth, where there is pain in need of healing, where there is courage to live the Gospel anew.
Questions for Discernment:
Are we listening to the Spirit, or still clinging to the Babels of our own making?
How is the Spirit inviting us to risk, to reimagine, to renew?
Let us pray …
Come, Holy Spirit—
Disrupt the Babels we build in fear and pride.
Speak through our confusion with the clarity of your truth.
Teach us to listen, to love, to imagine again.
Kindle in us a fire not of ambition, but of compassion.
May your Pentecost come again—
In every language, in every place,
That we might be your Church,
For this century and the next.
Amen.
Trinity United Church 