10 Trinity Sq
Toronto, ON
M5G 1B1
416-598-4521
416-598-1432 (fax)
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weekly services
Sun. 10:30 am, 2:00pm;
Wed. 12:15 pm

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parish staff

Holy Trinity Staff

Dianne Mesh, Priest-in-charge

The Rev'd Dianne Mesh was born and raised in a small fishing village on the east coast of Newfoundland. She received a Bachelor of Arts (Education) from Memorial University of Newfoundland, a Master in Education (Counseling) from the University of Western Ontario and a Masters in Divinity from Trinity College, University of Toronto. She was ordained in the Diocese of Toronto in 1996.

Before coming to Holy Trinity as interim priest in charge, she served in three parishes: Assistant Curate at the Church of the Redeemer (Toronto), Priest in Charge in the Parish of Orillia South and Associate Priest at Christ Church Deer Park (Toronto). A graduate of the Toronto School of Theology Jubilee Program in Spiritual Direction, Dianne has a keen interest in helping others to grow spiritually. She is currently pursuing her interest in pastoral care for the dying and the bereaved with a special interest in how these issues affect the lives of children. Dianne is an active person who enjoys the outdoors, especially cross-country skiing and long walks. She is also an avid knitter and lover of novels, especially a good mystery.

Junior Harbans, Senior Caretaker and Verger

Junior Harbans is our Senior Caretaker and Verger. He has a strong commitment to offer radical hospitality to those who enter the church during our open hours (daily from 11-3). He has a strong commitment to social justice. Junior is responsible for cleaning, property management and security. He supervises and arranges the schedule of the Sextons (Part time care-taking staff). Junior is also a story-teller, wire-sculptor and drummer.

Margot Linken, Parish Administrator

Margot Linken is our parish administrator. She knows a lot about the history of Holy Trinity and the way things work on a day to day basis. She greets and helps direct visitors who come into our parish building (#10 behind the church) daily, offering hospitality on behalf of the community. She oversees the bookeeping, schedules the care-taking staff and the use of parish facilities and relates to our tenants. She also has responsibility in the areas of property and office management, personnel, accounting and finance. She works closely with the Incumbent, Wardens, Property Elder, Treasurer, Assistant Treasurer, Envelope Secretary and Committee Chairs. Margot is an avid reader, walker and animal lover.

Becca Whitla, Music Director

As Holy Trinity's Music Coordinator, Becca leads the community's music making by playing the organ, piano, trumpet, kanjira and by singing. She also leads the spirited Holy Trinity Seasonal Choir. Becca believes that music is a critical, vibrant and healing part of the life of any community: she thinks that everyone's voice deserves to be heard! Becca is also co-founder and co-director of the Echo Women's Choir, a community choir dedicated to building a strong, varied and vibrant culture: Echo can be heard on their 10th anniversary CD "Gonna Sing and Shout". She was the founding leader of the H.E.R.E. Local 75 Choir. She worked with dub poet and musician Michael St. George and the choir to record the choir's CD, I Still Have Joy. Becca sang and travelled with Georgian folk choir Darbazi and women's quartet Aisi. She is co-founder of Worldsongs Vocal Camp. In the past she has taught with Village Harmony in Vermont and Yeoman's Fund of New Hampshire. She was a key organizer for the tour of South Africa's Polokwane Choral Society in June 2004. She sat on the Music Committee of the Toronto Arts Council from 2005-2007.

Among other milestones in her past, Becca studied at the Royal Conservatory (ARCT, 1986) York University (BFA, 1990), with the Royal Canadian College of Organists (CRRCO 2002). She won the Kathleen Williams scholarship from the RCCO in 1998 and was Music Coach and Consultant for Theatre Gargantua who were awarded a Dora for music in 1997 while she worked with them. In 1998 she released a CD with her husband, Alan Gasser (tenor), Parlour Songs & Heart Songs, recorded in the church.