TRUSTEE BOARD

The trustee board consists of l2 members appointed by the congregation at the annual meetings. Each year four new members are appointed to the board and serve for a term of three years. The board looks after the financial affairs of the Church.

WOMAN'S FOREIGN MISSIONARY SOCIETY

WMS later AMS

The motto: The World For Christ. Founded in I887 with Mrs. D. Sutherland as the first president.

It was auxiliary to the Presbyterial of P.E.l. and had a membership of 32 in I897. Meetings were held monthly, during which letters from Missionaries were read and discussed. The money contributed by the Society is raised by annual fees, collection at meetings, and special public meetings. It is forwarded to the Foreign Mission Board of the Presbyterial Church of the Eastern Section at Halifax, where it is sent to such places as: Mission Stations of the church at New Hebrides (former name of Vanuatu SW of Fiji), Trinidad, Demerara, and Korea.

THE MESSAGE, a missionary booklet, published in Truro, is subscribed to by members of the Society and others, to a total of forty-two subscribers.

The first Presbyterian Women's Missionary Society in Canada was formed in I825 in Princeton. It was originally known as "The-‘ Presbyterian Female Society for the Propagation of the Gospel and Other Religious Purposes."

WOMEN'S AUXILIARY Formed in I946 when the Ladies Aid Society and the Ladies

Guild joined with the Manse Club. In I956 it was noted the Womens Auxiliary raised the sum of

$36,000 over the last ten years. Almost without exception, mention is made year after year of the "considerable donation" made by the

Auxiliary to the needs of the Church.

Y. L. B. AND WILLING WORKERS

On Feb 29, l9l6 they were joined as one, called the Willing Workers. The Workers sent plants to the sick of the congregation, and prepared boxes of clothing and candy for the Protestant Orphanage in Mt. Herbert.

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