02/16/2026
UCW Tribute to Wendy Taylor
I know Wendy firstly as a valued member of our Choir, where she helps to brighten our Sunday morning practices. Many years ago, she was a member of the junior choir, here at Trinity, under the direction of Faye Hansen. The sale of her amazing greeting cards has contributed greatly to our funds, helping us
to continue to support those in our community and beyond. During COVID, a difficult time for fundraising, Wendy tried to accommodate selling the cards online – by topic, combination, formats.
Wendy joined the Harmony group during the last couple of years and is known for her enthusiastic participation, whatever the topic of the month might be. She recently helped organize our Spring and Christmas lunches and loves to inject fun into activities.
It is a privilege to honour Wendy with her Life Membership Pin.
(submitted by Kathy Burchill)
Lorna Marchuk, 2025 UCW Life Member Recipient
Lorna’s enthusiasm and love for her family, especially her grandchildren, is unparalleled. She has shown the same care and support during her career as an OT while working with people with health challenges. Lorna is still in touch with some of her clients even today. Her friends describe her as being very caring and loving … of being a friend that you can always count on in time of need …and very good at keeping confidences.
Lorna shows the same care and support for her church family. She was raised in the United Church and her Mom was very active in the UCW … and while in Abbotsford, she has supported the work and life of Gladwin Heights and of TMUC … and of the wider church community. She regularly attends ecumenical church events much like the World Religion Conference held recently at TMUC.
The mission of the UCW is to express our loyalty and devotion to Jesus Christ in Christian witness, study, fellowship and service and Lorna exemplifies this. She is a member of the Friendship Unit and serves on the TMUC UCW Executive as the representative to the Fraser Area UCW Executive. Lorna is a Member at Large on the TMUC Board and serves on the coffee committee. A very important role for her is as a member of the Pastoral Care Committee. She assists June with noting the prayers of the congregation and following up with hospital visits and with greeting cards. At her hospital visits, she will read from the bible and assist with prayers and make sure that anyone needing a ride for a hospital visit will have one. When Regina Dalton was in Hospice, Lorna spent a great deal of time with her. She was a tremendous comfort to Regina in her last days.
We are incredibly thankful to have Lorna as a part of the UCW, and her passion for helping those in need is inspiring. We congratulate her on becoming a Life member and wish her success in all her future endeavours of witness, study, fellowship and service.
(Provided by Marcia Foreman)
Tribute for Alison Donnelly, 2026 UCW LIfe Member
Alison has been involved in helping create the UCW page as an avenue to share the activities of UCW since 2020, or suggest ways to involve members. She has been a Fellowship Coffee Team member for many years. She spearheaded the last 4 Cookie Walks that were just before and after COVID.
Considering she works full time, UCW is appreciative of her contributions and generosity including wonderful peanut butter sandwich cookies for our bake sales.
