Our
U.C.W. members participate
in community projects and provide outreach
services at home and abroad. We host
dinners and luncheons and we get involved
in other Church and community related
events. From inception, the women of
the Trinity United Church have striven
to uphold the U.C.W. purpose.
To
unite all women of the congregation
for the total mission of the Church
and to provide a medium through
which they may express their loyalty
to Jesus Christ in Christian Witness,
Study, Fellowship and Service.
History
of the Hastings U.C.W.
Ladies
Aid was an early women's
group of the Methodist Church and these
women worked to make improvements around
the Church. In 1930, when they became
part of the Peterborough Presbytery,
this group was renamed the Women's
Association.
Many of their projects
remain with us today. Their most cherished
contribution being The Good Shepherd Window
in the nave of our Church.
The Women's Missionary
Society was active from 1889
- 1961. One missionary from the Hastings
congregation served in China and three
women from this group served from the
1890s to 1901 with the Methodist Indian
School for Girls, Haiti Indians at Lax-kw'alaams
(la-kwa-lahms),
which is the native name of Port Simpson
British Columbia (formerly Fort Simpson).
These two groups,
the Women's Association and the Women's
Missionary Society became the United
Church Women in 1962 and have remained
active to this day.
