News & Announcements

Keep up to date with news and events happening at Plymouth-Trinity! For upcoming church and community events, please see the Calendar.

The explorations we are most afraid of....

Black History Month is about the history of all of us.

That was brought home to me loud and clear when I read Paul Douglas Walfall’s blog about the role of United Church ministers in supporting the Ku Klux Klan in the prairies in the 1920s.

Read more in this month’s Notes from Nora.

A United Church survey on being intercultural

Can you spare a few minutes for an important new survey from the United Church?

We want to know how the church is doing at becoming intercultural. We are hoping for input from all the varied voices that make up our church. Reflect on your experience of church, good and bad, and offer suggestions for the future. The survey is open to anyone who is a part of a United Church congregation or community of faith.

Join us for Mardi Gras pancakes!

Join us March 5th for a Mardi Gras Pancake celebration that will benefit our regional United Church Camp, United Spirit Camp Esprit Uni.

We will serve pancakes, sausages, fruit and maple syrup. Plus homemade apple sauce, coffee/tea/juice. 4 to 6 p.m. The cost is $10, students and kids 6-plus, $8.

United Spirit camp offers programming for kids and youth aged 8-17. Kids from all over Quebec and Ontario attend this camp, and enjoy a week of affordable and welcoming programming.

The mission of United Spirit is "TO CREATE A SPACE WHERE THE SPIRIT CAN ACT". Help us get more kids to camp! Our theme this year is "Radical Welcome".

The locale is Plymouth-Trinity United Church, at 380 Dufferin (corner Terrill) in Sherbrooke, free parking in the back. Please RSVP to our pancake supper by calling 819-346-6373 or email VisioningDay@Gmail.com .

The pancake supper will be followed by a brief Ash Wednesday service for those interested.

Kairos Canada's urgent action request

Kairos Canada is calling for letters, telephone calls and emails of support for Bill C-262, the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples Act. The Act is currently stuck in Senate.

“If passed into law, this Bill will provide a more equitable framework for justice and reconciliation between Indigenous and non-Indigenous people by ensuring that Canada’s laws are in alignment with the UN Declaration.”

You’ll find more information here!

A youth forum!

The next Youth Forum has been scheduled for April 12 to 14 in Magog.

For more info, talk to Shanna Bernier. Or check us out on Facebook!

A new structure for the United Church

The new organizational structure of The United Church of Canada became official on January 1.

Find out more about the new changes, including names of the regional councils, on the United Church website, here.

But here are some basics: "Conseil régional Nakonha:ka Regional Council" is the new region 13 of The United Church of Canada. It comprises most of the province of Quebec. Nakonha:ka is a Mohawk word meaning “Eastern Gate”.

In our new structure, communities of faith (congregations and other mission units) belong to Regions which replace Presbyteries and Conferences.

Additionally, The Manual of The United Church of Canada, 2019 edition, is now available online. It went into effect January 1, 2019. Take a look and download your copy, via this link

On attending a showing of SLĀV

Our minister Samuel, along with Florence, Malekesa, Ésaïe, Armel and Hubert, contributed to the French-language United Church online magazine Aujourd’hui Credo, on the musical production SLĀV, which was performed here in Sherbrooke last month.

The thoughtful package can be found directly at this link.

New Regional Council newsletter, Nouvelles Nakonha:ka News.

There’s a new local United Church weekly to be published every Friday! It will include important area information, news and events of interest.

You’ll find a copy posted on the bulletin board in the Plymouth-Trinity Hall (under a new blue banner, for easy visibility).

And you can request an esubscription by sending email to Judy Coffin, at JCoffin at united-church.ca .

You’ll also find our region on Facebook at Conseil regional Nakonha:ka Regional Council (formerly 13) at this link on Facebook and on Twitter @Nakonhaka_uccan .

Keep in touch! Use Facebook, email... and check us out here regularly!

Plymouth-Trinity wants you... to keep in touch! Want to stay in the loop? Let us count the ways.

First, this website. The Calendar is updated weekly, and our News section features new content weekly, as well. Our Sunday Bulletins, which include at least a couple of pages of announcements and notices of upcoming events, can be found every Friday in the Bulletin section!

We have a Facebook page (find us at here , and you can tag us @PlymTrin.

Our email is PlymouthTrinityChurch@gmail.com, and the office secretary is at 819-346-6373.

Children at P-T

Join us at Plymouth-Trinity for a family-friendly worship experience. We have a children's corner in the sanctuary with craft supplies and helpful volunteers. Some Sundays there is also a 30-minute children's programme during worship-time for kids of all ages.

French Worship Services

French worship services are offered on Sunday at 1:00 p.m. in the chapel. Please enter by the door in the rear parking lot!

Items and belongings

In order to reduce clutter and confusion in the building and to ensure your belongings are returned to you (or at least are safe) please label all items you bring to church.

Lost and found: Have you misplaced something in the church? A Lost & Found box can be found in the church hall, right next to the elevator.

Next Sunday

February 24, 2019

7th after Epiphany

Genesis 45:3-11, 15
Psalm 37:1-11, 39-40
1 Corinthians 15:35-38, 42-50
Luke 6:27-38

Worship:
1:00 PM (French)
10:30 AM (English)

News & Events

Join us for Mardi Gras pancakes!

A youth forum!

The next Youth Forum has been scheduled for April 12 to 14 in Magog.

For more info, talk to Shanna Bernier. Or check us out on Facebook!