August 9 & August 15-17 Groups

Hello Again!

This week we had two Focus Groups with some good ideas coming out of the discussions. Thanks to those attending.

Next groups are as follows.

August 9 at the Heffords, 217 Grandview St. S. Oshawa, ON L1H 7C6 at 7 PM

August 15 at Bert & Ria Martin, 11 Westmore Street, Courtice, ON L1E 2H7 at 2 PM.

August 16 at Linda Caskey, 56 Keewatin Street South, Oshawa, ON L1H 6Z1 at 2 PM

August 17 at Brian and Lori Bells 1067 Interlake Dr., Oshawa, L1K 2M5 at 7 PM.

Please take advantage of these times to interact and dialogue together. More groups happen the week of August 20th as well.

Have a Glorious Week!

July 27 & 28 Focus Group Locations

Heh Everyone,

This week's Focus Groups are as follows:

Thursday July 27 at Heather & Andy Kelly's, 2 Highgrove Court, Whitby, ON L1P 0B3 905-493-0582. 7:00 PM

Friday July 28 at Brian & Lori Bell's, 1067 Interlake Dr., Oshawa, ON L1K 2M5 289-274-5546. 7:00 PM


The agenda is simple. To gather around a sketch of the potential building and to comment, offer ideas, suggestions and generally discuss the reason for such an expansion.

Hope you can make it and if not this week then consider another date coming up in August. A previous blog gives the dates and each week we will provide the address of the group meeting.

Have a great week.

Upcoming Focus Groups

The Church Board would like to invite you to attend any one of the following Focus Groups.
These are gatherings for us to continue to interact about the potential building expansion. The agenda will include a time for comments, questions and reflections on the information given out on June 24; another look at the design idea and considerations regarding timing.

We have been pleased to receive your Feedback Surveys and you are welcome to drop yours off if you haven’t already.
There are many good comments and helpful suggestions. We look forward to a good continuing process over these next months.

No need to sign up for a Focus Group – just show up and bring along your thoughts and ideas. A couple members of the Staff and/or Board will be there facilitate discussion and take notes. The hope is to continue to discern the Lord’s leading for Trulls. Looking forward to some great discussions.

Call the church office (905-436-2300) to get the address of the Focus Group you would like to attend or find the information printed at the Welcome Center at the Church.

Day, Date, Location and Time

Thursday, July 26, Whitby 7:00 PM

Friday, July 27, Oshawa 7:00 PM

Thursday, August 9, Oshawa 7:00 PM

Wednesday, August 15, Courtice 2:00 PM - Note Time!

Thursday, August 16, Oshawa 2:00 - Note Time!

Friday, August 17, Oshawa 7:00 PM

Tuesday, August 21, Oshawa 7:00 PM

Wednesday, August 22, Bowmanville 7:00 PM

Wednesday, August 22, Newcastle 7:00 PM

Thursday, August 23, (TBD)

Church Board Follow Up - Post June 24!

On June 25th, the Church Board met to review the responses from the Town Hall Meeting and would like to offer this update. First, thank you very much for the responses we have received to date. Please feel free to send in your feedback surveys over the next week or so – if you don’t have one, more are available at the Welcome Centre. As you may have seen over 80 ‘initial responses’ were placed on the poster in the lobby - 78 were green and 4 were red. There were over 40 surveys handed in last Sunday and more have come in during the week. Already we are receiving some very helpful feedback and ideas. These dots were meant to say YES continue with the exploration of the idea – “Green” or NO we do not sense this is a good time to proceed or a good project to consider – “Red”. The dots were not meant to indicate, go ahead with the proposed design from last Sunday. If you haven’t already done so, please feel free to add your sticker to the poster as well. We are looking for more input from you over these summer months. We hope to gather together some ‘Focus Groups’, smaller gatherings, to discuss the concept and provide further interaction and ideas. Watch for details of these times to come. We also want to remind you of the upcoming prayer gatherings, specifically about the proposed idea to expand. Please plan to come to one or more of these summer evening prayer times at 7 PM – July 10 & 24 and August 14 & 28, all Tuesday evenings. More times to pray and discern the Lord’s direction will be held as we move into the fall. The Church Board is in the process of forming a Project Team, a group of gifted individuals who will handle the major dimensions of such a project should it go forward. We will be introducing this team in the near future. In the meantime a special thank you to Dennis Gunter, Jim Best and Peter Hogenbirk who have been very helpful in doing research to this point. Let us all continue to pray about this potential expansion – for clarity, discernment, guidance and unity going forward. Please be in touch with the Church Board at any time. Posted by Pastor Brian.