Church News
The Time & Talent Auction is returning for another year. Please join us on October 4, 2024 at 7pm for a great evening! (Donation letter now available, please contact Breanna or the church office). Volunteers needed for the Time & Talent Auction! Additional folks required for set-up of: tables, chairs, podium, auction items (Friday daytime); canteen coordinator; payment table; and three auctioneers!
Children & Youth Ministry
A weekly program for children and youth (ages 4 and older) will be offered at TMUC during the worship service. This program will include a chance for our children and youth to explore and grow in faith through story, arts, crafts, and games. Children and youth will first gather in the sanctuary and will be taken upstairs to the multi-purpose room by their leader.
A roster of volunteers to lead these programs is being created. Resources for each week will be prepared for the leaders to use.
If you would like to share your faith and spirit with our children and youth, once a month or once every couple of months, or find out more about this Sunday morning program, please speak with one of the coordinators (Gail Purcell, Karen Ilchena, Rob Reed) or contact the church office.
Welcome Henry!
We’re pleased to announce that Henry Kelsey has joined the TMUC Music Team as our accompanist. Henry has played for our congregation as a substitute, and we are now so excited to have him join us on a regular basis! Henry comes with a wealth of musical talents and we look forward to hearing more from him!
We would also like to thank Grace Lu and Amanda Lopez for sharing their musical talents and filling in and playing for us over these last few months. Thanks to our Music Director, Crystal Schau, for the extra coordination it has taken to make it all happen!
Green Weekend
On Saturday, September 21, TMUC will be hosting our annual metal drive. We’ll be collecting all types of scrap metal in the parking lot behind the church between the hours of 9 am to 3 pm. Here’s the opportunity to clear out your garage/basement/cottage. If it goes “clank” or “ping” when you hit it with a hammer, we’ll take it.
On Sunday September 22, we will be celebrating the conclusion of our Green Project. Our 10:00 service will be focussed on our care for the Earth. After the service, at 11:15 or so, we will have a tree planting ceremony in front of the CE Building, followed by light refreshments in Yale Hall.
The Building and Property Team thanks all of our community for their patience and support over the past five years. We have reduced our carbon footprint by 57% so far, and that number will improve as we reap the benefits of work that has been completed this past spring and summer.
We’re Hiring a Building Support/Custodian
Transcona Memorial United Church has created a new position and is seeking a part-time BUILDING SUPPORT / CUSTODIAN who will perform custodial and building maintenance tasks to ensure TMUC is maintained at an appropriate level of cleanliness and operation.
The responsibilities and complete work description can be found here.
This is a part-time position that would work up to 15 hours per week from September to May and up to 10 hours per week during June, July and August.
All interested candidates are asked to forward a letter of intent and full resume to transconauc@gmail.com.
Office Hours
Office hours are Tuesdays to Friday from 9:00 am – 3 :00 pm (closed from noon – 1:00 pm). Messages for Dallis Kelly, Office Admin can be left at 204-222-1331 ext 1 or email office@tmuc.ca ; messages for our Minister may be left at 204-222-1331 ext 2 or email minister@tmuc.ca Messages will be monitored and replies for non-urgent messages will be done during office hours.
Rob’s Sunday Worship Reflections are always available in print form – contact him at minister@tmuc.ca and he can email you a copy or the office can print one for you.
Livestreaming and recording of the worship service is available on TMUC’s Facebook page.
https://www.facebook.com/transconamemorialunitedchurch
Calling All Singers! – The TMUC Singers! Practices will be every Tuesday from 7-8:30 pm and we will be singing at the last service of each month and special occasions.
Hymnotic will be helping out with the hymns on the weeks when The TMUC Singers aren’t singing. If you would like to join us, we practice at 9 am Sunday for the 10 am service.
TMUC and the ENVIRONMENT
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Transcona Memorial United Church has been working to ensure that every action that we take, will be taken with consideration of that action’s impact on the environment.
We continue to strive to:
• minimize our negative environmental impact
• maximize our positive environmental impact
• advocate for positive environmental change
• continually improve our Environmental Policy
We are grateful for the ongoing support of the Building Fund, from the community and project sponsors including the Province of Manitoba’s contribution of $55,000 through its Building Sustainable Communities program and the United Church of Canada’s contribution of $30,000 through its Faithful Footprints program. We especially acknowledge the Government of Canada’s recent announcement of a federal investment of more than $480,000 to upgrade the energy efficiency of our community gathering space.