Like interesting details? Want to stump your friends?
Try our Trinity Trivia Quiz - Here's a sample of trivia used at our congregational retreat and some special events in 2008:
1. When did members of our congregation first meet? Bonus question: What was this congregation called then? Second Bonus question: Where did the congregation build their first church?
2. In what year was the Trinity built at Shaughnessy St & Prairie Ave? Bonus: Where was the church located before then?
3. In what year was the last major addition built? (Now our Office and Thrift Shop).
4. In what year did St. Catherines of Alexandria Anglican Church begin to share space with us? Bonus question: Why did they need space?
5. In what year did the SHARE/Port Coquitlam Food Bank begin at Trinity? Bonus question: How many Port Coquitlam families does it presently serve?
6. When did the Extreme Weather Mat Program begin at Trinity? Bonus question: What are the basic criteria for declaring the weather “extreme”, and causing our facility to be open?
7. Last winter the Extreme Weather Mat Program was open for 16 nights – for 20 people this room was their bedroom. They logged 161 over-night visits. One third were women. How many people were turned away in 2008 because we were full?
8. How long has Kiddies Korner Parent Participation Pre-School been operating at Trinity?
9. How many years has Stewart House existed? Bonus question: What made this complex so unusual when it was first proposed to those at BC Social Housing?
10. When did our website - www.ucpoco.ca - go live? Bonus question: Name the three most visited pages of our site in September 2008.
11. In what year did our Thrift Shop begin? Bonus question: How often was it open?
12. Another name for our Pastoral Care group could be “Church Family Care” group. Name ten distinctly separate things that this group does?
13. What modern convenience was added when our kitchen was last renovated?
ANSWERS BELOW:
1. The congregation first met in 1904. Bonus: The congregation name was Presbyterian Congregation of Westminster Junction. Second Bonus: about 1908, they built a church on Dewdney Trunk Road.
2. This building was built in 1966; Bonus: Before that it was at Shaughnessy St. & Whyte Ave (until about ten years ago it was the Scotia Bank; now it is Papa John’s Pizza.)
3. Our last major addition was built in 1996.
4. St. Catherines joined us in 1999; Bonus: Their church building was not built on solid ground. It was condemned and torn down.
5. The Food Bank began here in April 2003; Bonus: Today it serves more than 260 families each month.
6. The Extreme Weather Mat Program began at Trinity in the winter of 2006/2007; Bonus: The decision to open is made each day and criteria are minus 4 degrees Celsius, or similar conditions.
7. Since January 2008, 26 people were turned away when the maximum of 20 people was reached. One night a man had a heart attack and was sent to hospital because he was here – with people – instead of in his usual residence - a lean to by the river - where he surely would have died alone.
8. KKP has been at Trinity for over forty years.
9. There is a bit of debate on this point. In May 2008 Stewart House reported that it had existed for 13 years. Other claim it is 14 years. What was unusual about the proposal was: It sought to combine Social Housing with Seniors Housing in the same complex. It had never been done before.
10. Our website – ucpoco.ca - went live in May 2007. In September, the three most visited pages were Location, Service Times, Food Bank
11. Our Thrift Shop began in 1965! Back then they were open once a month
12. The Pastoral Care ministry looks after our "Church Family" in many ways: Healing hands; prayer circle; greeters on Sundays; newcomers gathering; co-ordination of Wedding, Baptism and Funerals; Seniors; visiting those in hospital or housebound; children’s nursery on Sunday.
13. The commercial dishwasher.
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