Trinity United Church

09/17/2026

We're looking for some new Choral Scholars. Please share!

07/20/2026

We are deeply grateful to Waterloo Region Community Foundation and Trinity United Church for their generous support of Community Healthcaring KW’s food and garden programs.

These programs provide neighbors with vital access to fresh, healthy food and welcoming green spaces to connect, learn, and build skills. Your generosity helps us create opportunities for community members to access healthy food, build connections, and grow healthier futures.

Thank you for partnering with us to build an equitable, well-nourished community where everyone can thrive! 🌱🍏

Waterloo Region Community Foundation Trinity United Church

07/14/2026

PLEASE RESHARE:
Forest Hill and Trinity United Churches seek a warm, collaborative, and community-minded Ordered Minister. Key responsibilities will include leading engaging worship, encouraging spiritual growth, and helping to guide two congregational stories into one shared future with grace, creativity, and trust.

Full details here:

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1eY_-A3rHw9iDuttfgrstX_II2a3U46z4uByDpoPnmDw/edit?pli=1&tab=t.0

07/21/2025

www.trinityunitedkw.ca/blog/trinity-grants-100000-through-its-partnership-with-wrcf

It has been three years since Trinity’s partnership with the Waterloo Region Community Foundation (WRCF) began, and what a wonderful partnership it has been! We have partnered in four granting cycles with WRCF and have granted $350,000 since 2022!

07/03/2025

We were blessed to be able to provide some support for agencies working in the affordable housing sector this year. Here's one of them:

As part of our mission to support Affordable Housing in Kitchener-Waterloo, we made a donation to Sanguen of · $20,000 to Sanguen Health Centre for ‘Peer Support for the Sanguen Drop in Space’. With the closure of the CTS sites (Consumption and Treatment Sites) on April 1, 2025 many in our comm...

04/08/2025

As we close season 3, we’re joined by Rev. Evan Smith. Evan shares his story of living on the streets of Toronto, the homeless community who supported them, and what it was like to watch the abandoned building you were living be torn down while your belongings were still inside. Evan also shares how the intersection of LGBTQIA+ youth and homelessness could keep rising if we don’t stand firmly against discrimination in the years ahead.

https://hubleadership.podbean.com/e/winter-is-coming-a-housing-justice-podcast-ep-27-the-intersections-of-being-lgbtq-and-living-on-the-streets-with-rev-evan-smith-with-rev-evan-smith/?token=143337abe7906c93eb412d77d4990192

04/01/2025

This week we’re joined by Brian Paul who shares the amazing work being done by his team at Supportive Housing of Waterloo (SHOW). Brian chats about the need for the federal government to help dispel myths about homelessness, and to return to being in the business of creating social housing stock to create more affordable housing across the country.

https://hubleadership.podbean.com/e/winter-is-coming-a-housing-justice-podcast-ep-26-show-the-need-for-federal-social-housing-with-brian-paul

03/25/2025

This week we break down the story of one of the shining examples of Housing Justice in KW. Former city planner Jeff Willmer shares the history of A Better Tent City, and how this self-organized tiny home community came to be as an independent and grassroots response to homelessness in the city. Jeff shares how a few ordinary citizens took an idea; some land and an unwillingness to settle for the status quo and became a model for housing justice that has already started to be replicated in other parts of the province.

https://hubleadership.podbean.com/e/winter-is-coming-a-housing-justice-podcast-ep-25-a-better-tent-city-with-jeff-willmer/?token=9a135f24356526d03212c4fa8cf6a457

03/18/2025

This week we’re joined by Jay Straus the Transitional Housing Lead at the Working Centre and Site Lead for the Tiny Home Shelter on Erb’s Road, Waterloo. Jay shares his own personal experiences of being homeless, and how he came to the be with The Working Centre. He also shares how ‘The Cabins’ transitions 20% of their residents to more permanent housing, and how they navigate conflict with neighbours and what restorative justice means in the context of the community.
https://hubleadership.podbean.com/e/winter-is-coming-a-housing-justice-podcast-ep-24-tiny-homes-relationships-restorative-justice-with-jay-straus/?token=722b66c34ad02b767b2191f4f4a13217